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Rocanrol (Archipiélago Caribe #12)
Par Marcial Gala. 2019
"The characters, immersed in the maelstrom of Cuba in the second half of the 20th century, feel that history is…
a skin that overlaps their own epidermis. Will rock be an effective way of not losing one's own essence? How to find oneself? The death of a soldier in the middle of training, letters from Che that save a young girl from returning to prison, a farewell speech by Fidel Castro communicating the end of the Argentine guerrilla fighter in Bolivia? Rock and Roll also tells the story of those who are nobody, pushed by the winds of change. Rock is both initiation and the promise of an illusory paradise that makes you believe that everything happens to the rhythm of this forbidden and desired music." -- Provided by NLSLecciones de química (Narrativa (Salamandra (Firm)))
Par Bonnie Garmus. 2023
"In the early 1960s, chemist Elizabeth Zott has a lot of challenges as the only woman on her team at…
Hastings Research Institute. She falls for colleague Calvin Evans, but the double standards of the day eventually have her looking for a new chapter outside academia, hosting a television cooking show." -- Provided by NLSHistoria de una trenza (Narrativa (Editorial Lumen))
Par Anne Tyler. 2022
"The Garrett family falls apart over the decades. Beginning in 1959, Mercy would rather be creating art than keeping house…
for her husband, Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is intent on escaping his family's orbit, for reasons none of them understands." -- Provided by NLSColombian psycho
Par Santiago Gamboa. 2021
"Some human bones are unexpectedly discovered in the mountains of La Calera, east of Bogota. It's prosecutor Edilson Jutsiñamuy's mission…
to find their owner, hand in hand with agent Laiseca and the rest of his team. Julieta Lezama, his journalist friend, will join the investigation to unravel a chain of atrocious crimes that will lead her to get to know the writer Santiago Gamboa and his work, where she will find a fundamental key to understand the mystery of that disturbing discovery. The shrewd and intuitive Jutsiñamuy and the intrepid but troubled Lezama return in a dizzying story full of unique characters, including an indigenous professor who practices polyamory and an enigmatic Argentinean mercenary. Colombian Psycho is a fascinating plot of mirrors between reality and fiction, but also within the author's own fictions, who stakes his life on this disturbing X-ray of national reality." -- Translation provided by NLSMissing
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2016
"For years Alberto Fuguet listened to vague or elusive stories about the whereabouts of his uncle Carlos, who one day…
just disappeared from the family circle. With the vague hint that he might be lost in the United States, the nephew, now a renowned writer, began an investigation in which he mixed facts and imaginings, intuitions and memories. |Missing|, the book that records everything, is not so much a thriller, since the uncle soon appears and his voice takes over the novel, but a captivating autobiographical inquiry and an exploration into the human will to disappear, into the drifts of failure. A journey down the unpaved roads of the American dream. This edition includes an afterword recounting the behind-the-scenes of the novel and some journalistic farce surrounding its appearance." -- Translation provided by NLSSoy una tonta por quererte
Par Camila Sosa Villada. 2022
"In the midst of the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a…
smokehouse in Harlem, a Latina transvestite gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex and get what they deserve in return. Nuns, grandmothers, children and dogs are never what they seem. The nine stories that make up this book are inhabited by quirky, deeply human characters who confront an ominous reality in ways as strange as they are themselves." -- Translation provided by NLSAzucre: una epopeya
Par Bibiana Candia. 2022
"Galicia, 1853. The rainiest winter in history has destroyed the crops and a cholera epidemic begins to wreak havoc on…
the population. Orestes, el Tísico, el Rañeta and Trasdelrío, el Comido, Tomás from Coruña and many other young men who yearn for a better future for themselves and their families decide to leave their homes and head to Cuba to make a living on the sugar cane plantations. But what the journey has in store for them is an ordeal that they could never have imagined. Sugar is the fictionalized account of the true story of 1,700 young people who traveled to Cuba to work and ended up being sold into slavery by Urbano Feijóo de Sotomayor, a Galician living on the island who, taking advantage of his compatriots' dire situation, promoted a campaign of white colonization and substitution of labor brought from Africa." -- Translation provided by NLSLa respiración violenta del mundo
Par Ángela Pradelli. 2018
"Emilia is five years old when the military takes her mother from the house in Burzaco where they were hiding.…
The girl ends up in an orphanage and soon after she is taken by a married couple. Her appropriators, strict Catholics, decide to name her Florencia. At first, Emilia does not recognize herself in that name, but little by little the past - her mother's caresses, the songs her father sang in her ear, the memory of the green shoes her grandmother Lina gave her - is buried deep in her conscience. Meanwhile, Lina searches for her relentlessly with the help of Quica and Herminia who, like her, have lost their children at the hands of the "forces of order."" -- GoodreadsEl caso del mensaje de despedida (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #06)
Par Nancy Springer. 2021
"Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes--Sherlock's much-younger sister--tackles two mysteries: finding the missing Lady Blanchefleur, who disappeared in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century…
London, and deciphering a message from her own estranged mother." -- Provided by NLSEl caso del pictograma (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #05)
Par Nancy Springer. 2020
"London, late 1850s. Enola, the much-younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when Enola's investigation into…
the disappearance of her landlady Mrs. Tupper, a Crimean War widow, grows cold." -- Provided by NLSOído atento a los pájaros (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) #329)
Par Luis Goytisolo. 2016
"Ramón Rada is a successful painter who finds himself at a vital crossroads: he feels the need to connect his…
life and his work, and to do this he plans a memory book that will also be a guide for the reinterpretation of his artwork. His memories will take us to Miralrío, a village where someone is investigating some tragic events that occurred forty-five years earlier. From there, Luis Goytisolo develops a kaleidoscopic novel where historical recreation, artistic reflection and the chronicle of everyday life run parallel." -- Translation provided by NLSSaga forastera: Libros 7-8 (Saga forastera #07, 08)
Par Diana Gabaldon. 2017
Books 7 and 8 in the Outlander Series. In An Echo in the Bone (DB 70073) from 2016, Jamie Fraser…
and his time-traveling wife Claire face suffering despite knowing the Revolution's outcome. In Written in My Own Heart's Blood (DB 79331) from 2017, Jamie, Claire and John must resolve the latter's marriage during the Revolutionary War. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2017El caso del marqués desaparecido (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #01)
Par Nancy Springer. 2018
"England, 1888. When her sixty-four-year-old mother disappears on Enola's fourteenth birthday, Enola sends telegrams to her much older brothers Mycroft…
and Sherlock Holmes. After deciphering why her mother left, Enola escapes to London to search for her and becomes involved in a second mystery." -- Provided by NLSGuerra Revolucionaria en miércoles (Magic tree house series. Spanish #22)
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 2011
"Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General…
George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River." -- Provided by NLSEl caso del abanico rosa (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #04)
Par Nancy Springer. 2020
Guerra Civil en domingo (Magic tree house series. Spanish #21)
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 2011
El infierno heredado (Narrativa. Colección Malaseña #19)
Par Felipe A García. 2022
"In the city of Santa Tecla, at the beginning of the last century, Marta reports to work for a mysterious…
and rich family, and must ignore both the rumors that link her new employers with a supposed pact with the devil, as well as the enigmatic meetings that take place in that strange mansion, in order to earn enough money to get her daughter out of that city where disappearances are the order of the day.... The frequent disappearances of people are thus a central issue of the text, and a theme both then and now, with all the mystery, cruelty and pain that this entails: a truly hellish inheritance that, in the words of one of the characters, is summed up nicely with this solemn phrase: "We should be used to holding wakes over empty coffins by now." -- Translation provided by NLSTornado en martes (Magic tree house series. Spanish #23)
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 2011
"When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie at the time of the earliest railroad trains, they discover…
the hardships of the pioneers. And they experience the terror of a tornado." -- Provided by NLSSaga forastera: Libros 5-6 (Outlander novels #05, 06)
Par Diana Gabaldon. 2016
Books 5 and 6 in the Outlander Series. In The Fiery Cross (DB 53366) from 2016, the Revolution looms as…
Jamie Fraser and his time-traveling wife Claire plan their daughter's marriage. In Breath of Snow and Ashes (DB 61201) from 2017, Jamie and Claire face the conflict between Britain and its American colonies. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2016El caso de los extraños ramos de flores (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #03)
Par Nancy Springer. 2019
"While still hiding from her older brothers, Enola investigates the disappearance of Dr. Watson. A bouquet of flowers symbolizing death,…
delivered to Dr. Watson's home, is her first clue." -- Provided by NLS