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"Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the superrich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New...
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Flora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union. In 1891, Flora's grandson, struggling painter and stubborn visionary Paul Gauguin, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas,...
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Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as "Lily" in Lima in 1950, when she flits into his life one summer and disappears again without explanation. He loves her still when she reappears as a revolutionary in 1960s Paris, then later as Mrs. Richardson, the wife of a wealthy Englishman, and again as the mistress of a sinister Japanese businessman in Tokyo. However poorly she treats him, he is doomed to worship...
6) Eclipse
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Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
8) La hojarasca
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These are a series of interlocking stories, written by Garcia Marquez in the fifties of the last century. The stories of a burial and hate.
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Don Segundo Sombra (1926) es una narración en primera persona de Ricardo Güiraldes. En ella se narra el proceso de formación de un joven, Fabio Cáceres, que busca la libertad en la pampa y en el mundo gaucho.
Fabio Cáceres aprenderá al lado de Don Segundo Sombra, un maestro cualificado (siempre segundo y siempre en la sombra). Junto a él va viviendo los quehaceres cotidianos del gaucho, no faltando tampoco los episodios amorosos y sentimentales.
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12) Diario
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A thirteen-year-old Dutch-Jewish girl records her impressions of the two years she and seven others spent hiding from the Nazis before they were discovered and taken to concentration camps. Presented in Spanish.
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"Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara comprende que en el pasado de su nuevo amigo hay un secreto, o quizá varios. Su atracción por la misteriosa vida de Laverde, nacida al hilo de sus encuentros en un billar, se transforma en verdadera obsesión el día en que éste es asesinado. Convencido de que resolver el enigma de Laverde le señalará un camino en su encrucijada vital, Yammara emprende una investigación que...
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Somos nuestra memoria, afirmaba Jorge Luis Borges. ¿Qué pasaría si cada uno de nuestros recuerdos comenzara a desaparecer? ¿Acaso también nos diluiríamos como sujetos? Victoria Dana nos muestra los devastadores efectos del síndrome de Pick, una enfermedad neurodegenerativa, no sólo en quien la padece, sino en todos aquellos que lo rodean. Las palabras perdidas explora esta situación a través de Blanca Hernández, una exitosa abogada...
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Brings together all the short story work of Sergio Ramírez. His stories narrate with ironic tone the most common events of Latin American culture.
Un volumen que reúne toda la obra cuentística del Premio Cervantes Sergio Ramírez. La cuentística de Sergio Ramírez se destaca por su peculiar sentido de lo visual: mediante un juego de perspectivas logra crear efectos y sensaciones contrapuestas en el lector. A manera de sátira social, sus...
16) Los informantes
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Primera edición en Debolsillo.
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Primera edición en México en Debolsillo.
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Desde las calles de los Balcanes hasta Santiago de Chile pasando por La Mancha, hay hilos capaces de unir el mundo interior de las mujeres: a veces serán la fuerza de la risa, el valor de la amistad, el amor o el sexo; otras, los miedos ante un matrimonio vacío, la hipocresía, la soledad o el temor al abandono. Marcela Serrano vuelve a demostrar su talento para penetrar el alma y la psicología femeninas con un grupo de veinte relatos protagonizados...
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Carlos Fuentes examina la separación entre México y Estados Unidos con el cristal de la discriminación, el racismo, la violencia, pero también la fuerza de la vida mexicana, que parece sobrevivir a todas las agresiones.
This novel portrays Carlos Fuentes' best; it is aggressive, sharp, and powerful. With penetrating humor and frank narrative, the nine stories (in this novel) depict the rift that has occurred between the U.S. and Mexico in...
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