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La 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 NLSThunderland (Zebra western)
Par Dan Parkinson. 1987
Glimpses of Spanish history from 1248 to 1808 set the stage for this tale of Texas in 1833. A shipwreck…
involves the hero in saving lives. That in turn becomes a search for a centuries-old sword of St. Ferdinand. This is an atypical Texas tale, but typically violent with a Texas-sized hero. Adult. Some violence and strong languageThe door in the wall
Par Benita Kane Jaro. 1994
Benita Kane Jaro recreates the major characters and events in the waning Roman republic with a solid command of the…
ancient sources and the kind of disciplined imagination that brings history to life. Through the eyes of Cicero's witty and perceptive protege, Marcus Caelius Rufus, we are presented a compelling picture of the folly, corruption, and the ruthless ambition that destroyed the Roman republicWill you love me in September
Par Philippa Carr. 1981
Though Clarissa is only twelve when she first encounters Lance Clavering, she is not too young to fall in love,…
nor to become the pawn in a deadly game of power and passion. The time is 1715 in an England rife with civil discontent, and Clarissa is caught up in events which will alter England's history and lure her into a strange, shadowbox future. 1981La expansión del universo
Par Ramiro Sanchiz. 2018
"One summer afternoon in Pinamar, Argentina, Federico decides to venture beyond the limit that his grandparents have imposed for his…
bike rides. This is how he discovers, among the trees, a dead man. It is the eighties, and the signs of the past violence are still there. Settled in the present, an adult Federico living in Barcelona will try to go back to that foundational event to understand what happened afterwards; why life unfolded the way it did and what was the meaning of it all: his grandfather's obsession, his mother's silence, his father's reticence and his uncle's mysterious behavior. Hovering over those targets in his story (and in History), Federico confronts a mystery that reappears in his photos and his memories." -- Translation provided by NLSEl viento distante (Biblioteca Era. Narrativa #44/14)
Par José Emilio Pacheco. 2011
"It has been said that a poem never stops being written. Neither does a short story, as confirmed by this…
new edition of José Emilio Pacheco's The Distant Wind. Originally published in 1963, corrected and augmented in 1969 and subject, since then, to the work and refinement that the prose of this meticulous writer imprints on his stories, this book continues its patient maturation even though it has been an essential part of our modern literary canon for more than thirty years. The reader of these fourteen stories will find, in addition to the loving inventory of the distant years of a country, the lively evocation of its protagonists: children capable of embodying the deepest sufferings, the most icy terrors; adolescents on fire whose light is that of everyday passions, the light that falls on all of us; characters that history does not record but whose steps along these pages leave an imprint of inevitability in the great events. All of them more prone to the small textures of pain than to the shadowless plainness of joy." -- Translation provided by NLSThe good death: a Somershill Manor mystery
Par S. D Sykes. 2021
"England, November 1370. Oswald de Lacy, Lord of Somershill Manor, makes a devastating confession to his dying mother. But will…
he gain the forgiveness he seeks-or destroy his family? In 1349, Oswald, the third son of the de Lacy family, was an eighteen-year-old novice monk at Kintham Abbey. Sent to collect herbs from the forest, Oswald comes across a terrified village girl. Frenzied with fear, she runs headlong into a swollen river. Oswald pulls her broken and bruised body from the water and returns her to the local village, only to discover that several other women have disappeared. A heinous killer is at work, but because all of the missing women come from impoverished families without influence, nobody seems to care. Oswald vows to find this killer himself-but as plague approaches, his beloved tutor Brother Peter insists they must stay inside the monastery. He turns instead to the women of the village for help, and particularly the enigmatic and beautiful Maud Woodstock-a woman who provokes strong emotions in Oswald. As he closes in on the killer, Oswald makes a discovery that is so utterly shocking that it threatens to destroy him and his family. Even as plague rages across England and death is at every door, Oswald must kill or be killed. And the discovery will be a secret that haunts him for the rest of his life." -- Provided by publisherDay of days: a novel
Par John Smolens. 2021
"In the spring of 1927, Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer for the school board in Bath, Michigan, spent weeks surreptitiously wiring…
the public school, as well as his farm, with hundreds of pounds of dynamite. The explosions on May 18, the day before graduation, killed and maimed dozens of children, as well as teachers, administrators, and village residents, including Kehoe's wife, Nellie. A respected member of the community, Kehoe himself died when he ignited his truck, which he had loaded with crates of explosives and scrap metal. Decades later, one survivor, Beatrice Marie Turcott, recalls the spring of 1927 and how this haunting experience leads her to the conviction that one does not survive the present without reconciling hard truths about the past. In its portrayal of several Bath school children, |Day of Days| examines how such traumatic events scar one's life long after the dead are laid to rest and physical wounds heal, and how an anguished but resilient American village copes with the bombing, which at the time seemed incomprehensible, and yet now may be considered a harbinger of the future." -- Provided by publisherThe green age of Asher Witherow
Par M. Allen Cunningham. 2004
In nineteenth-century Nortonville, CA, the Black Diamond Mines produces the majority of coal for the region. Asher, the son of…
Welsh immigrants, comes of age in this gritty and dangerous company town at the foot of Mount Diablo. Adult. Descriptions of sex. ViolenceThe flood of '64: stories
Par David Long. 1987
A thousand steps
Par T. Jefferson Parker. 2022
Sixteen-year-old Matt doesn't believe that his missing older sister is just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love.…
Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. But in a town where the cops don't trust the hippies and the hippies don't trust the cops, uncovering what's really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. Adult. Some strong language. UnratedThe orchard: a novel
Par Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry. 2022
Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union-but not all of them will live to see…
the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel, loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves. This powerful novel speaks to how we experience and process grief-for a beloved friend, a cherished ideal for a country, or for youth itself Some strong language. UnratedLe roi d'août: roman (Miroirs)
Par Michel Pagel. 2002
Août 1179, Philippe, l'héritier de Louis VII, s'égare dans la forêt de Compiègne et rencontre une jeune femme du nom…
de Lysamour. Celle-ci s'avère être une nymphe immortelle qui aurait eu un fils de Hugues Capet, lequel aurait été enlevé par le roi qui l'aurait substitué à son fils mort-né.The solicitor's son (Serendipity #03)
Par Rachael Renee Anderson. 2020
Miss Sophia Gifford is firmly on the shelf, and she's determined to accept her current suitor, a man she likes…
but cannot love. When her sister decides to throw an impromptu summer house party, Sophia reluctantly agrees to help. What she doesn't realize is that her sister has plans of her own. Plans that would bring a certain childhood friend back into Sophia's life. LDS Fiction AdultRiver: where faith and consecration converge : a historical novel. Book two
Par Dean Hughes. 2020
When the settlers from the Muddy River Mission, including the Davis family, move to Long Valley in Utah, they establish…
the town of Orderville, the most successful and longest-lasting attempt at living the United Order. LDS Fiction AdultEl 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 LanguageCat and mouse
Par Günter Grass. 1961
After the dance: a walk through Carnival in Jacmel, Haiti (Crown Journeys series)
Par Edwidge Danticat. 2002
Twenty years after emigrating to America, Danticat (Breath, Eyes, Memory) return to her native Haiti and the coastal village of…
Jacmel to take part in her first Carnival but not without reservations. This is her memoir and travelogue about rediscovering herself and the culture of HaitiIn the land of white nights: Return to the misty shore (Northern lights #02 - 03)
Par Bonnie Leon. 2016
The lure of the nineteenth-century gold rush calls to Erik, a civil-war veteran. He and Anna, his Aleutian bride, set…
sail for a new life together in Sitka. In Return to the Misty Shore, Luba meets Nicholas, a strong, brooding Native from the island of Unalaska. Against her parents' wishes, she elopes, believing love will be enough to bridge the gap between their worlds. AdultAunque nada perdure (Biblioteca breve (Mexico City, Mexico))
Par José Adiak Montoya. 2020
"While a generation of dictators remain in power and armed conflicts are the national hallmark, one of Nicaragua's most important…
plastic artists increases her presence within and outside of the borders. The eldest daughter of a Danish family settled in the country in the 1920s, Edith Gron developed a wonderful life at the stroke of a chisel; she took whatever material she had in front of her and shaped it into something resembling true life, firm and grounded. She was able to assimilate the entire Central American identity and pour her passion into a series of busts and sculptures that crossed borders that were once thought impassable. Touching and rich in images, Although Nothing Lasts is the story of an exodus that seemed almost impossible: from the icy sea of northern Europe to the American tropics, Edith's entire existence will be a struggle to survive. As a metaphor for earthquakes, she and her family will find the means to rebuild after landslides, accidents and illnesses, in a country in full effervescence and in search of their identity. José Adiak Montoya freezes a nation's dreams with those of an artist of universal transcendence, who in the stone found the support to make life last just a little longer." -- Translation provided by NLS