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Par Marina Yuszczuk. 2021
Proyecto Silverview
Par John Le Carré. 2022
"Julian Lawndsley has left a high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small…
English seaside town. A few months later, he is approached by a Polish émigré with dangerous knowledge of Julian's family. Julian is soon approached by a spy chief." -- Provided by NLSLa mujer de la escalera (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Policiaca #398)
Par Pedro A González Moreno. 2018
"A suicide and a mysterious murder serve as the starting point for this story in which two recent university graduates…
face a mission that will change their lives forever: to locate some ancient medieval theater books. Thus begins a thrilling search in which the characters will end up finding themselves and their own destiny, outlining at the same time the portrait of a bridge generation that struggled to find its own space in the Spain of the late seventies and early eighties. A gripping story of intrigue, of ambitions and grudges, of love and heartbreak, of frustrations and desires, where the murkiest and the noblest feelings intermingle and clash dramatically, always against the backdrop of the theatrical world, that metaliterary space in which, as in a game of mirrors, not everything is what it seems...." Translation provided by NLSLa librería del Señor Livingstone
Par Mónica Gutiérrez. 2020
"Agnes Martí is a young archaeologist from Barcelona who decides to move to London in search of a job opportunity.…
After several weeks without success, a sudden rainfall surprises her while she is taking a walk and she enters Moonlight Book. By chance, its owner, Edward Livingstone, is looking for an assistant and offers her the job. The young woman accepts and little by little she discovers the charm of this small bookstore. Until one day, when one of her most precious and oldest books disappears and police inspector John Lockewood enters the scene to take charge of the investigation and turn Agnes's life upside down." -- Translation provided by NLSCiudad de hueso (Saga de Cazadores de sombras #01)
Par Cassandra Clare. 2013
"Fifteen-year-old Clary witnesses Jace, Alec, and Isabelle attacking a punk rocker in a Manhattan nightclub. She discovers that the three…
teens are Shadowhunters, warriors who kill demons. After her mother disappears, Shadowhunters take Clary in, and she learns her family history." -- Provided by NLSCiudad de ceniza (Saga de Cazadores de sombras #02)
Par Cassandra Clare. 2013
"Clary and the Shadowhunters, from City of Bones, are wary of Jace, Clary's newfound brother, who is tempted by his…
father Valentine to join him in evil. When Downworlder children--werewolves, vampires, and faeries--are murdered, suspicion falls on Jace." -- Provided by NLSCiudad de cristal (Saga de Cazadores de sombras #03)
Par Cassandra Clare. 2013
"Searching for a counterspell to save her mother, Shadowhunter Clary, from City of Ashes, sneaks into the City of Glass…
against Jace's protests. Both Clary and Jace end up in a battle and struggle with their feelings for each other." -- Provided by NLSSudor
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2016
"Wildly piercing and corrosively funny, Sudor (Sweat) is an editor's raw look at the absurd and oftentimes dysfunctional inner workings…
of the literary world. When his run-of-the-mill existence is suddenly turned upside down by the arrival of a famous author and his spoiled, defiant son, Alf, a junior editor at a large publishing house, embarks on a whirlwind three days that will change his life forever. Taking a page from Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Sweat is a piercing look at the mad circus that are author book tours-lavish parties, larger-than-life expectations, explosive egos and a whole industry that subsists on catering to the intellectual elite. The author of Bad Vibes, a novel that pulverized every boundary of the post-Pinochet era, plunges readers head first into the gay underworld where feelings are relegated to a second tier in favor of a series of ephemeral and extreme sexual encounters courtesy of Grindr, the popular app that Alf, the novel's protagonist, uses just as often as his authors use him. Meanwhile Santiago, the city where it all unfolds, emerges as a rare and alluring presence. A masterfully crafted and electrifying novel, Sudor confirms Fuguet as one of the most relevant voices in Latin America today." -- Provided by the publisherLa noche caníbal (Letras mexicanas)
Par Luis Jorge Boone. 2011
"This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by…
their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their lives forcing them to reveal the hidden boundaries of human nature. These stories inhabit the limits between reality and madness, between ordinary occurrences and unexpected coincidences. It is at these crossroads where the world becomes most unsettling and we are forced to evaluate our perceptions. Paranoia, lack of faith, obsession, panic, and psychosis are some of the forces that control the destinies of these protagonists. Luis Jorge Boone's cleanly-architectured prose conjures the great voices of Latin American short fiction and delivers them with a 21st century sensibility. This is a collection full of striking philosophical observations, brilliant twists, and disquieting images." -- Amazon.comEn un instante: el amor lo cambia todo
Par Ted Dekker. 2008
"A Saudi Arabian princess flees a painful forced marriage for the promise of America, and teams up with graduate student…
Seth, who possesses the ability to see multiple possible futures, in a dangerous struggle for power." -- Amazon.comTaína: una novela
Par Ernesto Quiñonez. 2019
"When Julio, a teenager living in Spanish Harlem, hears that Taina, a pregnant fifteen-year-old from his high school claims to…
be a virgin, he decides to believe her. Julio has a history of strange visions and his blind and unrequited love for Taina will unleash a whirlpool of emotions that will bring him to question his hard-working Puerto Rican mother and his communist Ecuadorian father, his beliefs and even the building blocks of modern science (after seeing the conception of Taina's baby as a revolution in nature). After meeting Taína's uncle, "El Vejigante", an ex-con with a dark past, he accepts his proposal to support her during her pregnancy and becomes entangled in a web of crime that, while taking him closer to Taína, ultimately reveals a family secret that will not leave him unscathed." -- GoodreadsLa casa: la única manera de salir está dentro
Par Frank E Peretti. 2010
"Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker -- two of the most acclaimed writers of supernatural thrillers -- have joined forces for…
the first time to craft a story unlike any you've ever read. Enter House -- where you'll find yourself thrown into a killer's deadly game in which the only way to win is to lose...and the only way out is in. The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman-or worse-could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn." -- GoodreadsLos chicos fantasmas
Par Jewell Parker Rhodes. 2022
"While playing with a toy gun, twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a white police officer. He observes the aftermath of…
his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys, including historical figure Emmett Till." -- Provided by NLSLa montaña de las mariposas
Par Homero Aridjis. 2011
"The discovery of the poetic vocation joins the astonishment of a child before the spectacle of the arrival of the…
Monarch butterflies to his village, in Michoacán. An autobiographical memoir of childhood and youth, where Aridjis narrates his progressive awakening to nature, poetry, and eroticism, symbolized in the beauty and fragility of the butterfly." -- Translation provided by NLSLa ciudad de los libros prohibidos
Par Maribel Carvajal. 2016
"The City of Forbidden Books immerses the reader in an agile and entertaining reading through dizzying plots and an exquisite…
historical setting. A surprising literary debut that is hard to put down. Year 68 of our era: the peaceful Hispanic colony of Augusta Emerita is involved in surprising events that will test the faith and courage of its inhabitants. The City of Forbidden Books weaves a labyrinth of intrigues in which the characters will lose their souls in order to be reborn free and recover their ideals. In the pages of this book we witness the virulence of some deaths that will eventually bring to light some prophetic books that pursue powerful imperial groups willing to do anything to prevent their dissemination. The plot serves the author to show us the portrait of a fascinating society with its cults, its laws, its gods, its leisure or its image. A great love story, which runs through the novel, makes us reflect on the value of friendship, loyalty and duty." -- Translation provided by NLSBienvenido al Campamento de las Serpientes (Goosebumps HorrorLand. Spanish #09)
Par R. L Stine. 2013
Las calles del Parque del Pánico (Goosebumps HorrorLand. Spanish #12)
Par R. L Stine. 2014
"After a group of kids survive HorrorLand, they become trapped in Panic Park. They must each confront their greatest fears…
and make unlikely alliances in order to survive." -- Provided by NLSEscape de HorrorLandia (Goosebumps HorrorLand. Spanish #11)
Par R. L Stine. 2014
El libro de la fiebre (Libros del tiempo (Madrid, Spain) #329)
Par Carmen Martín Gaite. 2016
"In 1949, Carmen Martín Gaite suffered an episode of very high fevers that introduced her into a labyrinth of delirium…
and dreamlike images. Out of that experience came |The Fever Book|, a poetic, surrealist text, in which she tried to rescue the fleeting visions she had had. Her enthusiasm for publishing what she had written turned into disillusionment when she realized that the people around her did not value her work positively, and the text remained unpublished almost in its entirety, kept in the "writer's workshop," as an example of fantastic writing in its infancy. In 2007, after Martín Gaite's death, this first essay of hers was published, in which we can glimpse many of the themes that the author from Salamanca developed in her later work: the symbolism of objects and places, the blurred boundaries between dream and reality, the construction of the self through memory, the reflection on writing.... All these motifs refer us to her narrative world, and allow the unconditional reader to peek into the beginnings of one of the great authors of the Spanish twentieth century." -- Translation provided by NLS; Spanish LanguageWayward witch (Brooklyn Brujas series. Spanish #03)
Par Zoraida Córdova. 2021
"Before she can return home to help heal her broken family, teenaged Rose Mortiz must come to terms with her…
new powers and work with others to save the magical land of Adas." -- Provided by NLS