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Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"When an American exchange student is accused of murder, her mother will stop at nothing to save her...A midnight phone call shatters Jennifer Lewis's carefully orchestrated life. Her daughter, Emma, who's studying abroad in Spain, has been arrested after the brutal murder of another student. Jennifer rushes to her side, certain the arrest is a terrible mistake and determined to do whatever is necessary to bring Emma home. But as she begins to investigate...
Author
Series
Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 16
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Cuban Intelligence Service Colonel Maria Leon is called to the bedside of the dying Fidel Castro. She is his illegitimate daughter but has never been acknowledged by her father until now. Castro makes her promise to contact the legendary former Director of the CIA Kirk McGarvey to help her on a mysterious quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of Gold. As the Cuban government unravels, Leon has to use every means at her disposal just to find...
Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
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Quienquiera que seas. Creas lo que creas. Todo estâa a punto de cambiar. La asombrosa y sorprendente nueva novela de autor de suspense mâas popular del mundo.Bilbao, Espaäna Robert Langdon, profesor de simbologâia e iconografâia religiosa de Harvard, llega al ultramoderno Museo Guggenheim Bilbao para presenciar un importante anuncio la revelaciâon de un descubrimiento que “cambiarâa la historia de la ciencia para siempre”. El anfitriâon...
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Language
English
Description
"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Former Royal Marine, ex-cop and sportfishing skipper Steve Flynn finds that his is the last name on a dead man's hitlist in this fast-paced action thriller. A man with too much time on his hands and vengeance on his mind can be extremely dangerous - as Steve Flynn is about to find out. Spending an idyllic summer running pleasure cruises for holidaymakers on the island of Ibiza, Flynn stumbles across a botched armed robbery in progress. He is hardwired...
Author
Series
Trilogía de la ciudad blanca volume 1
Publisher
Vintage Español, una divisióon de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Una novela negra absorbente que mezcla mitología y leyendas, arqueología y secretos de familia. Elegante. Compleja. Hipnótica. Tasio Ortiz de Zárate, el brillante arqueólogo condenado por los asesinatos que aterrorizaron Vitoria hace dos décadas, está a punto de salir de prisión cuando los crímenes se reanudan. En la Catedral Vieja, una pareja de veinte años aparece muerta por picaduras de abeja en la garganta. Pero solo serán los primeros....
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get. But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killed her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping historical thriller set in sixteenth-century Spain, a Catholic priest is murdered by a mysterious Muslim avenger as the Inquisition continues to force Moriscos to live and worship as Christians. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town's inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Anxious to avert a...
89) Sira
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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"Cuatro ciudades, dos misiones, una mujer. Vuelve a sumergirte en un tiempo inolvidable. Después de El tiempo entre costuras, SIRA, la nueva novela de María Dueñas. La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos, Sira Quiroga afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo logrará, sin embargo. El destino le tendrá preparada...
90) Esos dias azules
Author
Series
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
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Description
Nieves Herrero desvela por primera vez la verdadera vida de Pilar de Valderrama, la musa de Antonio Machado, una mujer que, en el ocaso de sus dias, tuvo la valentia de confesar al mundo que ella fue la Guiomar de la que hablaban algunos de los versos mas hermosos del poeta. Miembro de la alta sociedad madrilena, casada y con tres hijos, arriesgo todo por el amor del unico hombre que supo comprenderla. A traves del testimonio y la documentacion inedita...
Author
Series
Trilogía de la ciudad blanca volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Description
El esperado desenlace de la trilogía de la Ciudad Blanca. Vitoria, 2019. Los señores del tiempo, una novela ambientada en el medievo, se publica bajo un misterioso seudónimo: Diego Veilaz. Victoria, 1192. Diago Vela retorna a su villa después de dos años en una peligrosa misión encomendada por el rey Sancho VI y se encuentra a su hermano Nagorno desposado con la que era su prometida, la intrigante Onneca de Maestu. Unai Lopez de Ayala, Kraken,...
92) Falcó
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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Description
A turbulent Europe during the thirties and forties in the twentieth century, is the backdrop for the adventures of Lorenzo Falcó, ex-smuggler of arms, spy without scruples, agent of the secret intelligence services. During the fall of 1936, when the border between friends and enemies is reduced to a dangerous and unprecise fine line, Falcó is given the task of infiltrating a complicated mission that could change the course of Spain's history.
La...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Rumor has it on the streets of sixteenth-century New Spain, there's a new vigilante in town serving justice. This reimagining of Zorro-featuring a heroic warrior sorceress-weaves Mesoamerican mythology and Mexican history two decades after the Spanish conquest into a swashbuckling, historical debut fantasy with magic, intrigue, treachery, and romance. A new legend begins... In sixteenth-century New Spain, witchcraft is punishable by death, indigenous...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When a DNA test yields surprising results, widowed father Baxter Shaw and his 8-year-old daughter journey to southeastern Spain to connect with their mysterious roots where the romance of the culture awakens a new outlook on life but also reveals long-simmering secrets"--
95) Don Quixote
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Language
English
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"Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Spain."--BOOK JACKET.
A definitive English translation of the sixteenth-century classic follows the adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha and his faithful...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado más de dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le arrastra...
97) Nefando
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda. Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki Ortega, a researcher writing a pornographic novel; Iván Herrera, a writer whose prose reveals a deeply conflicted relationship with his body; three siblings, Irene, Emilio, and Cecilia, who quietly search for ways to transcend...
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