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1) Nostromo
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"Nostromo, A Tale of the Seaboard" is set in the South American country of Costaguana, and more specifically in that country's Occidental Province and its port city of Sulaco. Though Costaguana is a fictional nation, its geography as described in the book resembles real-life Colombia. Costaguana has a long history of tyranny, revolution and warfare, but has recently experienced a period of stability under the dictator Ribiera. Charles Gould is a native...
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In her debut as author and illustrator, Mirelle Ortega shares her own story of growing up near her familyâs pineapple farm in Mexico, where she learned the true meaning of magic
I learned that magic isnât good or bad, it just is. Sometimes it gives, sometimes it takes. Sometimes life blossoms, sometimes it wilts.
Growing up on a pineapple farm in Mexico, a girl discovers the true meaning of the word magic...
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"An engrossing, suspenseful family saga filled with unpredictable twists and turns." —Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Next Year in Havana
"With an equal mix of historical fiction, dramatic family conflict, and mystery, this tale should please fans of Christina Baker Kline, Lisa Wingate, and Kate Quinn." —Booklist
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"With an equal mix of historical fiction, dramatic family conflict, and mystery, this tale should please fans of Christina Baker Kline, Lisa Wingate, and Kate Quinn." —Booklist
The Washington Post Books to Read Now | Ms....
4) The Pool
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The Pool: Little Readers #28
A Decodable Beginning Reader
Hot days are perfect for swimming in the pool. Paco and Zita swim, splash and play. Poor Coco, he does not get to go in the pool.
This book pairs with the Spanish version, La Piscina: Little Lectores Book 28
This book is part of the Little Readers series - where reading is fun! Join Paco and his best friend, Zita, as they embark on exciting adventures and learn to read in English. The...
5) Pedro Páramo
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Con introducción de Gabriel García Márquez "Vine a Comala porque me dijeron que acá vivía mi padre, un tal Pedro Páramo. Mi madre me lo dijo. Y yo le prometí que vendría a verlo en cuanto ella muriera". Obra maestra del universo literario en español, esta portentosa novela mexicana narra la historia de Pedro Páramo, un caudillo local de quien dependen la vida y la muerte de un pueblo, Comala, y del hijo que va a buscarlo porque así se lo...
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"A literature professor tries to rediscover who she is after the sudden death of her husband, even as a series of family and political jolts force her to ask what we owe those in crisis in our families, biological or otherwise"-- Provided by publisher.
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En Una música futura, premio Mejores Obras Literarias 2019 en la categoría de cuento inédito, María José Navia vuelve a ahondar en relaciones íntimas mediadas y a veces infectadas por la tecnología. Familias pantalla y en pantalla, mujeres que se refugian en el exceso de información o intentan desconectarse completamente del mundo, personajes extranjeros que se enfrentan a escenarios de autoexigencia feroz o franca violencia.
Siete relatos...
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Newly introduced by leading Quixote scholar Ilan Stavans, this 400th Anniversary edition of Don Quixote of La Mancha-called the most popular book in history after the Bible and the first modern novel-inaugurates Restless Classics: interactive encounters with great books and inspired teachers. Each Restless Classic is beautifully designed with original artwork, a new introduction for the trade audience, and a video teaching series and live online book...
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TWAIN & STANLEY ENTER PARADISE, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos, is a luminous work of fiction inspired by the real-life, 37-year friendship between two towering figures of the late nineteenth century, famed writer and humorist Mark Twain and legendary explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
Hijuelos was fascinated by the Twain-Stanley connection and eventually began researching and writing a novel that used the scant historical record...
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Set amid Colombia's unparalleled beauty and inspired by the real-life 1925 Cali earthquake, this riveting novel by the award-winning author of The Spanish Daughter plunges three strangers into a perilous search for the missing owner of a legendary hacienda-a man at the center of the explosive secrets each of them carries.
Driven and recklessly daring, Martin Sabater follows his lifelong dream of owning a cacao plantation in Valle del Cauca. But...
11) Heartland
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In a word-drunk romp through an alternate, pre-apocalyptic United States, Ana Simo's fiction debut, Heartland, is the uproarious story of a thwarted writer's elaborate revenge on the woman who stole her lover, blending elements of telenovela, pulp noir, and dystopian satire.
There's only one solution for a nasty case of writer's block, and that's murder. Specifically, that of one Mercy McCabe, a cunning SoHo art dealer who was once our Latina narrator's...
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Obras completas de Fernán Caballero
ÍNDICE:
[Biografía]
[Novelas]
La familia de Alvareda
La gaviota
Clemencia
Lágrimas
La Farisea
Las dos gracias
Una en otra
Con mal o con bien a los tuyos te ten
Un servilón y un liberalito, o Tres almas de Dios
[Cuentos]
Un sermón bajo naranjos
Cuentos, adivinanzas y refranes populares
[Relaciones]
La estrella de Vandalia
¡Pobre Dolores!
Callar en vida y perdonar en muerte
El Alcázar de Sevilla
La flor...
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Siamese fighting fish, cockroaches, cats, a snake, and a strange fungus all serve here as mirrors that reflect the unconfessable aspects of human nature buried within us. The traits and fates of these animals illuminate such deeply natural, human experiences as the cruelty born of cohabitation, the desire to reproduce and the impulse not to, and the inexplicable connection that can bind, eerily, two beings together. Each Nettel tale creates, with...
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Obras completas de Garcilaso de la Vega
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[Biografía Garcilaso de la Vega]
[CANCIONES]
Si a la región desierta, inhabitable
La soledad siguiendo
Con un manso ruido
El aspereza de mis males quiero
A flor de Gnido
[COPLAS]
Copla I: Habiéndose casado su dama
Copla II: Yo dejaré desde aquí
Copla III: A una partida
Copla IV: Traduciendo cuatro versos de ovidio
Copla V
Copla VI
Copla VII: A boscán, porque estando en alemania danzó en unas...
15) Hogar
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A tus treinta años, tu vida es un páramo. No tienes pareja ni hijos, apenas algunos amigos. Los fines de semana son iguales que a los veinte, sólo que ahora las conversaciones tratan sobre autos, celulares y sueldos. Tu casa es una caja de fósforos. Los días se te van en pensar, dormir y mirar al techo. Los zapatos te aprietan y a tu alrededor todos se entregan a la búsqueda de una "gran vida". ¿Será que no hay esperanza? Sí la hay. Entre...
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Obras completas de Leopoldo Alas (Clarín)
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[Biografía]
[Obra Crítica]
A 0,50 poeta
A Bago, poeta
Algo sobre Teodoro Guerrero
Los artículos publicados en «Las Novedades» Nueva York, 1894-1897
Benito Pérez Galdós: estudio crítico-biográfico
El comendador Mendoza (Valera)
Crítica popular
Crónica de viajes
Del enemigo el consejo.
El derecho y la moralidad
Un discurso
Doña Luz (Valera)
Ensayos y revistas: 1888-1892
Nubes de estío
La...
17) Safari
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Dos amigos chilenos, mercenarios de una empresa privada durante la guerra de Irak, se embarcan en la perturbadora misión de capturar un camello, sumergiéndose así en los absurdos horrores de la invasión estadounidense. En Santiago, dos compañeros de curso de un colegio británico se involucran en una improbable contienda política luego de la muerte de Pinochet. Muchos años después, una mujer narra la historia de un viejo convicto, a quien...
18) Dejando huella
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Todos los mundos se interrelacionan, nada gravita con independencia de lo demás.
En esta novela, un México campesino, se une sin voluntad a una familia aria que llega al país huyendo del desastre que ha dejado tras de sí la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y la división entre la mentalidad judaica y la occidental germánica, que fundamenta un aspecto elemental en la vida moderna, sobre la que se construyó el siglo XX europeo.
El personaje interior de...
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With Dreaming of the Delta, Perla Suez joins the ranks of other prominent Argentine writers who have incorporated the horrors of the violent period of the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional. Highly experimental, this novel is a tale of secrecy, betrayal, and violence that reflects on a personal scale the national struggle for power and control at the height of the dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. And though violence takes center stage, it is played...
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A Puerto Rican student at a Paris university grapples with heartbreak and isolation in this compelling novel by the author of Simone.
The streets of Paris at night are pathways coursing with light and shadow, channels along which identity may be formed and lost, where the grand inflow of history, art, language, and thought-and of love-can both inspire and enfeeble. For the narrator of Eduardo Lalo's Uselessness, it is a world long desired. But...
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