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"Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of this novel, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her husband, Sam suddenly dies. And then more jolt: her big-hearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her...
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2020.
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"También de este lado hay sueños. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then...
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"A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling...
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2020
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A long-buried family secret and a chance encounter with an estranged sibling force police detective Jimmy Vega to confront his deepest fears in this gripping new mystery by award-winning author Suzanne Chazin . . .
It's spring in Lake Holly, New York, a time of hope and renewal. But not for immigrants in this picturesque upstate town. Raids and deportations are on the rise, spurring fear throughout the community.
Tensions reach the boiling point...
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2018.
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"After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution... Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary......
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"As a child in Spain, Puri always knew her passion for chocolate was inherited from her father. But it's not until his death that she learns of something else she's inherited--a cocoa estate in Vinces, Ecuador, a town nicknamed "Paírs Chiquito." Eager to claim her birthright and filled with hope for a new life after the devastation of World War I, she and her husband Crisótbal set out across the Atlantic Ocean. But it soon becomes clear someone...
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2002
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Albert Camus El extranjero es una de las novelas más leídas en el mundo, con millones de copias vendidas. Se erige como quizás la historia más grande jamás concebido existencialista, y es sin duda uno de los libros más importantes e influyentes jamás producido. Ahora, por primera vez, esta obra maestra venerado está disponible como una producción audio íntegro. Cuando un joven argelino llamado Meursault mata a un hombre, su posterior encarcelamiento...
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2022
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"From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women's Prize Finalist, an electrifying and indelible new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market...
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Living out her days in a remote part of her South American homeland, Violeta finds her life shaped by some of the most important events of history as she tells her story in the form of a letter to someone she loves above all others.
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family with five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt,...
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"On a rainy winter night in Mexico City, a ten-member wedding party is kidnapped in front of the groom's family mansion. The perpetrator is asmall-time gangster named El Gal�an, who wants nothing more than to make his crew part of a major cartel and hopes that this crime will be his big break. He sets the wedding party's ransom at five million US dollars, to be paid in cash within 24 hours. The only captive not related to either the bride or the...
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2021
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-- Booklist -- “A lush Ecuadoran cacao plantation is the setting for this imaginative historical drama filled with sibling rivalry and betrayals. Threaded throughout this dramatic family saga are descriptions of cocoa-making that will leave your mouth watering for chocolate.” – -- “Richly captivating.” —Woman’s World “A fascinating historical.”—PopSugar
12) The Fragile Edge
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2021
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A sniper attack propels Latino cop Jimmy Vega on a twisting hunt for a predator who stalks the unforgiving landscape of immigrant America. Probing beyond the hardships of the journey north, Suzanne Chazin's taut and timely novel explores the perils that await the hopeful once they reach their destination-and the price they must pay to survive . . .
Jimmy Vega straddles two worlds – the hardscrabble Bronx where he grew up as the child of a...
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2008
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Una novela romántica con huellas del modernismo: el escritor colombiano José María Vargas Vila (1860-1933) fue uno de los novelistas más populares y ampliamente leído de América Latina, mientras añadía a su fama como polemista y un amigo de la libertad, la de el escritor romántico, con alusiones eróticas y un estilo literario original. Su primera novela "Aura o las violetas" narra una historia de amor entre dos adolescentes y en su desarrollo...
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2015
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-- Más que una novela psicológica, un estudio de los aspectos más oscuros del ser humano SOBRE EL AUTOR Luis Salas (Madrid 1962), periodista que ha trabajado en diferentes medios, la mayor parte de su trayectoria profesional ha estado unida al Grupo 16. En la actualidad dirige el gabinete de comunicación de una institución pública. Esta es su primera novela pero, cuando uno se sumerge en la lectura de El sueño del ornitorrinco, no tarda en...
15) L.A. weather
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2021.
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"FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon in L.A. Weather, a fun, fast-paced novel of an affluent Mexican-American family from the author of the #1 Los Angeles Times bestseller Esperanza's Box of Saints L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life...
19) El comandante
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2014
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Un piloto de caza de la Segunda República revive la contienda del 36. Ante el reconocimiento actual como el comandante que fue, intenta asimilar que el grado que en otro tiempo le llevó al borde de la muerte, a las cárceles franquistas y a sufrir las humillaciones del Régimen, ahora le permita encontrarse, abiertamente, con algunos de sus compañeros del aire, pilotos de caza republicanos.Rosa Cano, con mano de poeta, desgrana, desde un punto...
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2015
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-- La balada de Robin Hood (Madrid, Editora Nacional 1981, con Arturo González), Los días del duopolio EXTRACTO —¿Estás en huelga, o qué? —preguntó Luis. —Me han puesto en huelga indefinida. Ignoro cómo me ha pasado algo tan... No te lo vas a creer. He perdido el cuerpo. Lo que estás viendo es sólo una imagen de lo que fui. —¡Venga ya...! ¡Déjate de cachondeos! Juan hizo una breve exposición de lo que le había acontecido...