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Nosotros 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 NLSThe holy innocents (Roger the Chapman mysteries series #04)
Par Kate Sedley. 1995
"A town paralysed with fear, two children gone missing. Roger's most difficult case yet... April, 1475. As Roger approaches the…
thriving village of Totnes, danger crackles in the air. A pack of cutthroats wanders the forest after a night of pillaging, and Roger barely manages to hide from them in the brush. He soon learns that the marauding band has been terrorizing the countryside for weeks. And worse, they are believed to be responsible for the disappearance of two village children. But how did the children get out of the house unnoticed in broad daylight? And would the outlaws really kill just for the sake of killing? Roger cannot rest - or rule out the possibility of more violence - until he solves the puzzle." -- Provided by publisherWhere you come from
Par Saša Stanišić. 2021
In August, 1992, a boy and his mother flee the war in Yugoslavia and arrive in Germany. Six months later,…
the boy's father joins them, bringing a brown suitcase, insomnia, and a scar on his thigh. Translated from the 2019 German edition. Strong language and some violence. 2021Eve of Saint Hyacinth (Roger the Chapman mystery series #05)
Par Kate Sedley. 2021
"A nefarious plot will go right to the heart of the most powerful seat in the land... Roger the Chapman…
returns to London in the summer of 1475 for some badly needed rest and entertainment. But the hand of Fate interrupts his plans once again... King Edward IV is readying his troops to invade France with a great show of strength, and though rumors abound that the king is reluctant, London is teeming with the energy of the march. But as the campaign approaches, a spy infiltrates the household of the Duke of Gloucester, the king's brother, leaving one dead in their wake. All information indicates that the spy is the tool of a conspiracy to assassinate the duke before the king's invasion. Motive and method, no one knows - only that the duke's death is promised by the eve of Saint Hyacinth. Roger, who proved his loyalty to Gloucester in a case a few years ago, is the only one the duke trusts to uncover the traitor and the powers behind him." -- Provided by publisherThe violinist of Venice: a story of Vivaldi
Par Alyssa Palombo. 2015
"Like most 18th century Venetians, Adriana d'Amato adores music except her strict merchant father has forbidden her to cultivate her…
gift for the violin. But she refuses to let that stop her from living her dreams and begins sneaking out of her family's palazzo under the cover of night to take violin lessons from virtuoso violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi. However, what begins as secret lessons swiftly evolves into a passionate, consuming love affair. Adriana's father is intent on seeing her married to a wealthy, prominent member of Venice's patrician class and a handsome, charming suitor, whom she knows she could love, only complicates matters but Vivaldi is a priest, making their relationship forbidden in the eyes of the Church and of society. They both know their affair will end upon Adriana's marriage, but she cannot anticipate the events that will force Vivaldi to choose between her and his music. The repercussions of his choice and of Adriana's own choices will haunt both of their lives in ways they never imagined. Spanning more than 30 years of Adriana's life, Alyssa Palombo's The Violinist of Venice is a story of passion, music, ambition, and finding the strength to both fall in love and to carry on when it ends." -- Provided by publisherYossel's journey
Par Kathryn Lasky. 2022
"Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest…
where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy." -- Provided by publisherCauterio
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 NLSThe sleeping car porter
Par Suzette Mayr. 2022
"When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white…
passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair. The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a queer man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George." On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two queer men, Baxter's memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor." -- Provided by publisherDenver City justice: a novel (Drouillard series #02)
Par J. V. L Bell. 2019
Territory of Colorado, 1864. Newlyweds, Millie and Dom Drouillard, are barely settled into wedded bliss when their neighbor, the Widow…
Ferris, is found dead with an icicle piercing her cold heart. Suspects abound because Widow Ferris has been blackmailing most of the upstanding citizens of Idaho Springs--including its sheriff. Millie's new husband Dom soon becomes the main suspect and is hauled off to jail for a taste of Denver City justice. Can Millie arrive in Denver City in time to help Dom? Adult. Some strong languageBountiful red acres: two farms, two families, and a year on the land
Par Eileen Heyes. 2023
Young readers can get a taste of farm life in the North Carolina Piedmont. The story chronicles a year in…
the lives of two neighboring families, one Black and one White, moving from season to season through the year 1900. Despite the racial inequalities built into American life by both law and custom, the Sawyers and Hauser families share an abiding friendship as they rear children, tend crops, and build community. For grades 3-6Her quiet revolution: a novel of Martha Hughes Cannon : frontier doctor and first female state senator
Par Marianne Monson. 2020
When her baby sister and her father die on the pioneer trail to Salt Lake City, Mattie is determined to…
become a healer. But her chosen road isn't an easy one as she faces roadblocks common to Victorian women. Fighting gender bias, geographic location, and mountains of self-doubt, Mattie pushed herself to become more than the world would have her be. LDS fiction. AdultWhere the stars meet the sea: a Regency romance
Par Heidi Kimball. 2020
Juliet Graham fervently counts the days until her twenty first birthday, when she can claim the inheritance that will grant…
her the freedom she has always craved and the guardianship of her younger brother. Then a chance encounter with a boorish stranger stirs up an unexpected whirlwind of emotions in her. LDS fiction. AdultEl 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 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 NLSLemons in the garden of love: a novel
Par Ames Sheldon. 2021
"It's 1977 and Cassie Lyman, a graduate student in women's history, is struggling to find a topic for her doctoral…
dissertation. When she discovers a trove of drawings, suffrage cartoons, letters, and diaries at Smith College belonging to Kate Easton, founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts in 1916, she believes she has located her subject. Digging deeper into Kate's life, Cassie learns that she and Kate are related-closely. Driven to understand why her family has never spoken of Kate, Cassie travels to Cape Ann to attend her sister's shotgun wedding, where she questions her female relatives about Kate-only to find herself soon afterward in the same challenging situation Kate faced." -- Provided by publisher