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Camelia la Texana
Par Diego Ramón Bravo. 2014
"This is a novel inspired by the main character in a well-known ballad by Los Tigres del Norte, a famous…
norteño band from Sinaloa, Mexico, which also inspired a TV series on the Telemundo network. It follows Camelia and her lover, Emilio, as they make enemies in the dark world of drug trafficking." -- Provided by NLSLa sed
Par Marina Yuszczuk. 2021
Ecos
Par Danielle Steel. 2011
"In 1915 Beata Wittgenstein, eldest daughter of an affluent German Jewish family, runs off to Switzerland to marry Antoine de…
Vallerand, a young French Catholic officer. But her newfound happiness and the future of her children are threatened by war." -- 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 NLS33 D.C: una novela (A.D #02)
Par Ted Dekker. 2016
"Maviah, a slave in Arabia, meets the prophet Yeshua and takes his teachings to heart. She gathers a large following…
of fellow outcasts and travels around Arabia, spreading what she learned from Yeshua. When what she has built is threatened, she goes to find him." -- Provided by NLS30 D.C: una novela (A.D #01)
Par Ted Dekker. 2015
"Maviah, daughter of a Bedouin sheik, is sent home from Egypt in disgrace when she becomes pregnant. After raiders kill…
her son and capture her father, she travels to seek an audience with King Herod. On her travels, she meets a man called Yeshua." -- Provided by NLSLa tierra maldita
Par Juan Francisco Ferrándiz. 2018
"In the 9th century, Barcelona was on the farthest edge of the Holy Roman Empire. The neglected town of 1500…
inhabitants had become an abandoned land, razed by savage hordes and subject to tyranny by corrupt nobles who exploited its citizens. To this cursed land arrives the young bishop Frodoí. Recently named to the post by the Frankish king, his destiny is closer to a punishment than an honor, but something inside him-innate rebellion or ambition-leads him to accept the challenge and make the journey along with a retinue of colonists seeking new opportunities in the far-off frontier." -- Provided by the publisherEsmirna en llamas
Par Homero Aridjis. 2013
"The narrative takes place in Smyrna, the birthplace of Nicias, a former Greek army captain, where he returns after a…
long period of combat. The sadness in the air is the product of the inevitable Greek defeat and the constant memories from before the war. However, even under the constant threat of the Turks, Nicias undertakes the search for love, embodied in the figure of Eurydice, the beloved young woman he abandoned when he enlisted in the army. It is this quest that restores harmony to the spirit and body of Nicias. The reader of Smyrna in Flames will discover that the brutal and bloodthirsty events typical of a wartime conflict are masterfully cushioned by Aridjis' poetic language." -- Translation provided by NLSSangre de Emanuel
Par Ted Dekker. 2011
"This story is for everyone--but not everyone is for this story. It is a dangerous tale of times past. A…
love story full of deep seduction. A story of terrible longing and bold sacrifice. Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what it should flee. Forgetting it once had a truer lover. With a kiss, evil will ravage body, soul, and mind. Yet there remains hope, because the heart knows no bounds. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow. Because the battle for the heart is always violently opposed. For those desperate to drink deep from this fountain of life, enter. But remember, not everyone is for this story." -- GoodreadsEl primer latido de Australia
Par José Vicente Alfaro. 2022
"Australia was born as a penal colony. At the end of the 18th century the English prisons were full to…
overflowing, and, after the recent American Revolution, the government needed to find a new place to deport its convicted criminals. So they chose a remote coast on the other side of the world, whose land Captain Cook had claimed for the British Crown a short time before, and where there was absolutely nothing. At the same time, the Australian Aborigines will suddenly see their survival endangered by the arrival of the white man, witnessing with horror the occupation of their ancestral lands." -- Translation provided by NLS¿En quién piensas cuando haces el amor? (Vintage español)
Par Homero Aridjis. 2011
"In these pages the author places himself after the end of the millennium and, with an apocalyptic tone, prophesies the…
evils that will befall a mythical Moctezuma city, a future metaphor for today's Mexico City, scene of frequent ecological disasters and capital of the end of the era of the Fifth Sun. Above the catastrophes and the difficulty of living in a city of such magnitude, the characters wander with their own burden of love and heartbreak, as happens to Luis Antonio with his sister-in-law María, identical twin of Rosalba, his deceased wife. Yo Sánchez uses theater as a lighting technique and is linked to the family of the protagonists. This is a dizzying play, loaded with irony and black humor, that carries the questioning of the human being in the megalopolis." -- Translation provided by NLSEl espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia
Par Patricio Pron. 2011
"A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say good-bye to his dying father. In his…
parents' house, he finds a cache of documents--articles, maps, photographs--and unwittingly begins to unearth his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man. Suddenly he comes face-to-face with the ghosts of Argentina's dark political past and with the long-hidden memories of his family's underground resistance against an oppressive military regime. As the fragments of the narrator's investigation fall into place--revealing not only a part of his father's life he had tried to forget but also the legacy of an entire generation--|My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain| tells a completely original story of family and remembrance. It is an audacious accomplishment by an internationally acclaimed voice poised to garner equal acclaim in America." -- GoodreadsNosotros caminamos en sueños
Par Patricio Pron. 2014
"A stupid war, an invisible enemy, confused governors, a battlefield, the Falkland Islands, and a narrator that unveils the truths…
and lies behind all this with freshness and irony. «Do not judge the war in terms of beauty. In fact, it is like people: it has to be beautiful inside, because it is too ugly on the outside». A bomb remains in mid air and resists falling. Exhausted and hungry soldiers look up and they wonder if all wars are like that. They do not know who the enemy is or where he is, but they keep walking in dreams, like sleepwalkers, fighting for a piece of land that does not belong to anyone, defending a country that floats on a subsoil of misery and corruption. There is nothing normal or predictable in |We Walk in Dreams|, the edited and extended version of the novel where Patricio Pron told «not what really happened or could have happened, but what happened indeed, although only in the childish imagination» of the author, who was six years old when the war between Argentina and Great Britain started. |We Walk in Dreams| talks about that confrontation, but the true theme of this comic novel is what happens when people kill on behalf of nationalism, what happens when common sense leaves room for cowardice and stupidity disguised as patriotism. Pron's view is a satire of all wars, a story simultaneously inhabited by the spirits of Samuel Beckett, César Aira, Martin Amis and Fogwill that only take the reader as prisoner." -- Provided by publisherSara
Par Sergio Ramírez. 2015
"A biblical story, that of Sarah and Abraham, told from her perspective: the woman behind the patriarch. Sara is a…
well-documented, credible novel, written with humor and inventiveness, presenting the human side of biblical characters. Sara is the narration of a pilgrimage through hostile kingdoms and inhospitable lands, while complying with the arbitrary indications transmitted to Abraham by Iahweh or "the Magician," a multiform being who does not seem to like laughter. While camped in the vicinity of the Salt Lake, near Sodom and Gomorrah, three young men appear before the couple to announce that the infertile and elderly Sarah will give birth to a son who will make Abraham the offspring of countless generations. Although generation after generation believed this to be a story starring men, it is Sarah, with her irony, humor, incredulity, tenacity, and ability to question divine designs, who endows it with authenticity." -- Translation provided by NLSCauterio
Par Lucía Lijtmaer. 2022
"It is the summer of 2014. A young woman who has just been abandoned by her partner flees from Barcelona…
to Madrid with a secret and the conviction that the apocalypse is approaching. Four centuries earlier, another woman, Deborah Moody--who went down in history as "the most dangerous woman in the world"--is forced to emigrate to the North American colonies carrying another, very different secret. What do these two women have in common? Why have they decided to walk away from what they know and start anew?" -- Translation provided by NLSEl próximo año en la Habana
Par Chanel Cleeton. 2020
"When her grandmother Elisa Perez dies, Marisol Ferrera--who grew up on Elisa's romanticized tales of Cuba--travels to Havana to learn…
more. Meanwhile, in 1958, nineteen-year-old Elisa has lived a sheltered life, but she falls in love with a passionate revolutionary. And as Marisol discovers these family secrets, she, too, falls in love." -- Provided by NLSLos dos lados (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Serie policiaca #493)
Par Teresa Cardona. 2022
"The granite floor burns and only the chirping of cicadas disturbs the peaceful and familiar summer of San Lorenzo de…
El Escorial. Its inhabitants, accustomed to the harshness of the mountains, complain about the heat wave, sheltering in the shade of the ancient walls of the monastery. The heat, however, has not accelerated the death of the man who, handcuffed in the cool boiler room of a Herrerian house among the pines of Mount Abantos, appears to have died from dehydration, with his eyes fixed on a bottle of water hanging from the ceiling at eye level. Lieutenant Karen Blecker, recently arrived in Spain after spending most of her career working for Europol, and a certain Master Sergeant Cano will begin to clarify the identity of the victim, whom no one in the area seems to know. But as the investigation progresses, the obvious parallels to a crime committed two decades earlier will also force them to dig into the painful years of terrorism and the sharp edges that the truth always presents when examined from both sides...." -- Translation provided by NLSZoya
Par Danielle Steel. 2011
"Orphaned as a result of the Russian Revolution, the aristocratic Zoya escapes to Paris in l9l7. There she meets and…
marries American major Andrews, and they move to America. Left a widow with two small children during the 1929 stock market crash, Zoya struggles to cope with economic changes, World War II, and the l970s." -- Provided by NLSLo demás es aire (Biblioteca breve (Barcelona, Spain))
Par Juan Gómez Bárcena. 2022
"Toñanes is the small village in Cantabria where Emilio and Mercedes have just bought a second home. They have savings,…
two girls, and a baby on the way, and a little house near the sea seems like a good idea. They do not yet know that the pregnancy will be so complicated that they will have to decide whether they want to go ahead with the pregnancy; that they will doubt until the last moment whether or not their child will be able to run through that garden. It is spring 1984 and there are six months to go before the due date. But it is also 1633 and it is winter and Juan and Juliana have just lost their third baby, and it is 1946 and Luis and Teresa are dancing at the procession, and it is 1753 and Francisca is learning to write in secret and it is 1937 and the whole town is hiding in the same cave and it is the Cretaceous and an ammonite has to die so that in 1995 a child can find it. It all happens in the same place at the same time, in that village that has only thirty-four houses, one church, and no bar." -- Translation provided by NLSLos 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 NLS