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Las guerras globales del agua: privatización y fracking
Par Alfredo Jalife-Rahme. 2021
"Just as the 20th century was the era of the "oil/gas wars" that were part of the superpowers' geostrategic games,…
the 21st century is oriented towards the "global water wars" that have already begun in some areas of the planet, full of sea water and, paradoxically, where most humans are thirsty." -- 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." -- GoodreadsTodo es personal
Par Malú Huacuja. 2021
"The tranquility of the set of director Santiago Parral's latest narcotelenovela is interrupted when hitmen from the Emes Cartel burst…
in and gun him down while he is trying to protect the star of the show, the celebrated actress Monica del Sol. Or at least this is the official version of the admired and revered director's assassination that is broadcast to the media. However, the reality is very different and tremendously less cinematographic. Santiago Parral is murdered, yes, but by which of his employees, close friends and enemies with motive to do so? Through the investigation she initiates to exonerate her husband, one of the main suspects, journalist Daniela Ruiz, will discover clues about the crime that will lead her to new possible suspects: the assistant director and the director's daughter's new husband, her own husband, the artist invited to that day's episode, the cook...." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de la revolución cubana (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par Rafael Rojas. 2018
"A brief and complete history of recent Cuba, from the generalized struggle against the dictator Batista in 1956 until the…
approval of the socialist Constitution in 1976. The Cuban Revolution was a decisive event in Latin American history in the second half of the 20th century. The Cold War consolidated Cuba as an international political actor, as Cuban leaders supported guerrillas in other countries in order to spread the revolution. The institutionalization of the revolutionary regime was a slow process full of twists and turns, conditioned by both internal and external factors." -- Translation provided by NLS"Between March 28--days after the WHO declared the new coronavirus and covid-19 (the disease derived from it) a pandemic--and June…
30, 2020, the Revista de la Universidad de México summoned more than 100 writers, among the most relevant of today, to share their experiences in the midst of an unprecedented global context, marked by fear and anxiety, but also by hope and empathy. The result is a polyphonic testimony that, from different parts of the world, gives an account of day-to-day life in the midst of isolation, uncertainty and pain." -- Translation provided by NLSTreinta y seis metros (Editor/a por un libro)
Par Santiago Ambao. 2020
"Things that happen just because, coffees that are thrown in the sink without drinking, toast that is thrown in the…
trash without eating, a protagonist who tries to name his feelings but forces himself not to think in certain directions, a woman who is almost always in the shower or behind other kinds of screens, another woman shows promise but barely scratches the surface, an innocent and slightly cross-eyed girl, a civil servant who goes crazy just when he is reaching his retirement, a boss or two who do and undo as they please, two children who immerse themselves in the PlayStation's twisted reality, the latest television, a comfortable armchair and the best possible coffee maker, the unfulfilled desire to go fishing as a family, an inner escape, a future escape. Santiago Ambao has put all these ingredients in a cocktail shaker and has extracted from it a brilliant story, well shaken and blended, although what makes it even greater is to join it with another parallel, underground story that takes place on the other side of the world, a kind of political and economic plot, a mixture of realism and science fiction, or rather the fruit of a disturbingly visionary realism." -- Translation provided by NLSEl 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 NLSUna canción inesperada: un testimonio bello y enriquecedor
Par Leire Quintana. 2016
"Leire Quintana decided to leave her life in a big city behind, retreat to a monastery, and learn to listen…
to her own song. How did this experience change the way she saw the world? What life lessons did she learn? Leire Quintana has a lot to tell us: 'I was overwhelmed by the thought of losing my family or friends, and even the impossibility of making new friends because I was in a cloistered monastery. Later I came to recognize that without solitude, the solitude of my cell, I could not progress. [...] Little by little I discovered the causes, the hidden needs that I hadn't known how to manage, I questioned my fears, I embraced them and I knew, by offering them my attention, that that was all they needed to disappear.'" -- Translation provided by NLSDestinos errantes
Par Danielle Steel. 2011
Orphaned at a young age, Audrey Driscoll grows up bound to the caring of her eccentric millionaire grandfather and her…
demanding younger sister. At the age of twenty-six she finally attains the freedom to indulge her passion for travel, and on the eve of World War II she encounters adventure and romance in Europe, China, and Africa. Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 1987Nueve lunas
Par Gabriela Wiener. 2021
"From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood…
that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction." -- Amazon.comNuestra hambre en la Habana: memorias del Período Especial en la Cuba de los 90
Par Enrique Del Risco. 2022
"|Our Hunger in Havana| is a book of personal memories of the 90s Cuban postwar period of peace that received…
the curious euphemism of "Special Period." In a tragicomic tone, the author describes and explains the debacle that brought cats and banana skins to the status of delicacies, pigs to that of urban pets raised in bathtubs, and the practical disappearance of public transportation, gastronomy, and alcoholic beverages. A national catastrophe told through the personal experiences of one who worked in a school, a museum, and a cemetery while trying to be young, free, and happy at the worst time in Cuba's history." -- Translation provided by NLSJuan de Juanes: escritores, editores, agentes literarios y otras glorias y calamidades
Par Sergio Ramírez. 2014
"Memory is also a sort of homage to the friends who have accompanied us throughout life, those with whom we…
share a table, books, travels and, in the case of Sergio Ramirez, revolution. In Juan de Juanes' vast map of memories, Ramirez traces the route that takes us from his beginnings as a writer, the triumph of the Sandinista revolution in his native Nicaragua, the Alfaguara Prize in 1998, to the awarding of the 2011 José Donoso Ibero-American Literature Prize, a few days before the suicide of the Chilean writer's only heir, Pilar Donoso. In the pages of Juan de Juanes, Sergio Ramírez tells us about memorable characters in his life, to whom he remained indebted, among others Carlos Fuentes, Julio Cortázar, Augusto Monterroso, Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Cardenal and Juan Cruz, his first editor and the starting point of this journey through Latin America." -- Translation provided by NLSLa educación de Margot Sánchez
Par Lilliam Rivera. 2019
"After 'borrowing' her father's credit card to finance a more stylish wardrobe, Margot Sánchez suddenly finds herself grounded. And by…
grounded, she means working as an indentured servant in her family's struggling grocery store to pay off her debts. With each order of deli meat she slices, Margot can feel her carefully cultivated prep school reputation slipping through her fingers, and she's willing to do anything to get out of this punishment. Lie, cheat, and maybe even steal... Margot's invitation to the ultimate beach party is within reach and she has no intention of letting her family's drama or Moisés-the admittedly good looking but outspoken boy from the neighborhood-keep her from her goal." -- GoodreadsTaína: 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." -- GoodreadsTierra fresca de su tumba (Candaya narrativa #72)
Par Giovanna Rivero. 2021
"Six tales of a dark beauty that throb with disturbing themes: the legitimacy of revenge, incest as survival, indigenous witchcraft…
versus Japanese wisdom, the body as a corpse we inhabit. Rivero's stories pierce the reader like a wound, but in the end also offer possibilities of love, justice and hope. Told with a fierce and fragile lyricism that probes the abysses of the human soul, in |Fresh Dirt from the Grave| Giovanna Rivero reworks the boundaries of the gothic to engage with pre-Columbian ritual, folk tales, sci-fi and eroticism." -- Provided by publisherA statistician and medical doctor believes most people hold mistaken ideas unsupported by facts about global issues such as poverty,…
education, and the environment. He explains that instincts and biases distort our perspective, and we don't know what we don't know. Spanish language. 2018El hombre que movía las nubes: memorias
Par Ingrid Rojas Contreras. 2022
"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and '90s Colombia, in…
a house bustling with her mother's fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called "the secrets": the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit "the secrets," Rojas Contreras' mother was just as powerful. Mami delighted in her ability to appear in two places at once, and she could cast out even the most persistent spirits with nothing more than a glass of water. This legacy had always felt like it belonged to her mother and grandfather, until, while living in the U.S. in her twenties, Rojas Contreras suffered a head injury that left her with amnesia. As she regained partial memory, her family was excited to tell her that this had happened before: Decades ago Mami had taken a fall that left her with amnesia, too. And when she recovered, she had gained access to "the secrets." In 2012, spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, and her own powerful urge to relearn her family history in the aftermath of her memory loss, Rojas Contreras joins her mother on a journey to Colombia to disinter Nono's remains. With Mami as her unpredictable, stubborn, and often amusing guide, Rojas Contreras traces her lineage back to her Indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her mestizo family into two camps: those who believe "the secrets" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse." -- Amazon.com"For the first time, music legend Rudy Pérez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to…
composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage. Named the most successful Latin songwriter in history, Rudy Pérez is the creator behind some of the bestselling records of Beyoncé, Julio Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, and IL Divo. In his one-of-a-kind memoir, Rudy tells about his childhood in Cuba and the heart-gripping visits to his father in prison during the height of the communist revolution. Tracing his family's perilous escape on one of the last Freedom Flights to America, Rudy opens up about the years of poverty and growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood. These memories contrast with tender moments of dancing to the stereo with his siblings, nodding along to his mother's classical favorites, and swaying to blues melodies with his father. At a young age, Rudy tried his hand at recreating the music he loved, and his talent led him to an unprecedented career with over 300 hit songs. With years of hard work, ceaseless creativity, and a strong faith, Rudy was the first Latin music artist to win Billboard Producer of the Decade. Looking back over his five-time Grammy winning legacy, Rudy shares little-known stories of faith and behind-the-scenes details of working with stars like Fergie, Jaci Velasquez, Michael Bolton, Simon Cowell, and Sam Moore." -- GoodreadsBeso: Ella Te Roba Más Que El Corazón
Par Ted Dekker. 2010
"Austin, Texas. Six weeks after a car accident leaves her in a coma, twenty-eight-year-old Shauna wakes up with amnesia. Her…
father, Senator Landon McAllister, blames her for the accident, which also severely injured her beloved brother Rudy. But Shauna begins to doubt she can trust what she's being told." -- Provided by NLS