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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 NLSRespira (Bad Ash #02)
Par Alina Not. 2022
"Ashley Bennet's world has been turned completely upside down. Just when she thought she'd finally landed the perfect guy, she…
gave up what she'd wanted so badly because she fell in love without planning to. And now she's alone. And she's going to have to find out who she really is. Maybe, in the last few years, she forgot that the most important thing was always to love herself. Cameron Parker has lost that confidence he exuded at every turn. He has to face the consequences of his actions, and make sure he doesn't hurt anyone else along the way... even if the one who ends up heartbroken is him. Will Ash and Cam manage to reconcile with themselves so they can find each other again?" -- Translation provided by NLSTiempo de abrazar (Serie amor eterno #02)
Par Karen Kingsbury. 2011
"In this sequel to |A Time to Dance|, John and Abby Reynolds are back together and believe they can handle…
anything. However, their faith will be greatly tested as John struggles in his coaching job, Nicole and Matt have family problems, and tragedy strikes." -- 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 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 publisherEn 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.comFuria
Par Yamile Saied Méndez. 2022
"Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her father's wishes…
and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego." -- Provided by NLSEl juego sigue sin mí (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) #300)
Par Martín Casariego. 2015
"Ismael remembers the time when, at thirteen years old, his parents hired Rai, a boy five years older than him,…
to tutor him. After an unproductive first session, they made a pact: the student would study on his own and the teacher would talk to him about books, movies, music, life.... Also about Samuel, a young man who wrote to schedule a meeting with his ex-girlfriend, with the threat that if she did not show up he would commit suicide. With this starting point, Martín Casariego has written a novel of initiation, a novel about the passage from adolescence to maturity; about the family and the new forms of relationships between young people; about the intensity of such a decisive stage in life; about the weight of existence and how to alleviate it. A story marked by shadows, doubts and secrets, in which the white whale the narrator has been running from will end up showing up unexpectedly years later, changing everything and prompting him to rethink what happened." -- Translation 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 NLSBienvenidos a Villapeste (Pandilla basura #01)
Par R. L Stine. 2022
"Welcome to the town of Smellville, where nine kids all live in a big tumbledown house and have as much…
fun as they possibly can. People may think that they're gross and weird and strange, but they're not bad kids-they just don't know any better. In this hilarious new series from bestselling author R. L. Stine, the Garbage Pail Kids-from Adam Bomb to Brainy Janie-get into mischief at their middle school, all while battling bullies and their archenemies, Penny and Parker Perfect." -- GoodreadsEl 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 LanguageEl laberinto de la soledad y otras obras (Penguin ediciones)
Par Octavio Paz. 1997
"Octavio Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character,…
and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains Octavio Paz' most famous work, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind the mask. Also included are Postscript, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, and Mexico and the United States, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America." -- GoodreadsEl caso de la dama zurda (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #02)
Par Nancy Springer. 2018
"London, 1889. Eluding her brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola sets up her own detective agency in London under…
an assumed name. Using many disguises and costumes, Enola investigates the disappearance of sixteen-year-old Lady Cecily, who may have eloped." -- Provided by NLSEl amigo del héroe
Par Alvaro Enrigue. 2012
"'It's not that I've chosen to be second place, I'm just a natural. Besides, I've believed in the goodness of…
second place for many years.' So begins The Hero's Friend, first published in 1998 and remastered for this edition. This story by Álvaro Enrigue dusts off the naivety and vanity of childhood: Ponchito, a child like any other, played at being the hero. A memorable literary exercise. A sobering experience. Enrigue puts himself at the feet of his protagonist and relives the dialogues of two middle school kids who in their relentless fight against crime are forced to face the ultimate and most unexpected consequences." -- Translation provided by NLSMaldad
Par Leticia Sierra. 2022
"A thirteen-year-old girl is found dead in a wasteland in Oviedo with a brutally disfigured face and a mangled body.…
Elsa, the young victim, was a student at a high school in the area, and the journalist Olivia Marassa (from the regional newspaper) and the inspector Agustín Castro (from the police) are assigned to the investigation. When the news comes out, both have been away for several days and Olivia seems to be too late for an exclusive. But she has shown before that she doesn't give up easily and has a special nose for the most gruesome cases. She soon begins to investigate on her own and discovers that the victim had many secrets and enemies. Students younger and older than her, as well as teachers, feared her for her abusive and violent behavior...." -- Translation provided by NLSObras reunidas: II, Narrativa (Colección obras reunidas)
Par Margo Glantz. 2014
"This second volume of Margo Glantz's |Collected Works| offers her reconstructed chronicle |The Genealogies|, her story-essays |The Day of Your…
Wedding|, |Two Hundred Blue Whales|, |Shipwreck Syndrome|, and |On the Loving Inclination to Get Tangled Up in One's Hair|, plus her novel |Appearances|." -- Translation provided by NLSAurora y el misterio de la cámara secreta (Fabulosas aventuras de Aurora #02)
Par Douglas Kennedy. 2022
"Aurora is finally going to school and is eager to make friends, but not everyone likes that she is different.…
This is what makes her a great detective, and it comes in handy when her first case comes her way. The police already have a culprit, but Aurora thinks she's innocent--will she be able to prove it before it's too late?" -- Translation provided by NLSCarolina entre líneas (Secretos y papeles #01)
Par Tatiana M Alonzo. 2018
"In addition to being community manager at the bookstore Café y letras, and trying to get out of my routine…
even in my dreams, I have tried to write at least twenty stories in which I find true love in the way I least expect and with whom I least expect; from a millionaire who loves my shyness to an unruly man for whom I represent a challenge. Because come on, let's be frank, in real life that won't happen and fortunately it's not a crime to daydream. Hello, my name is Carolina and I'm addicted to love stories. And everything was going well in my stupid fantasy world until I started exchanging emails with the writer Alexander Donoso, whom I don't know anything about; because that name...is a pseudonym." -- Translation provided by NLS