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Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Struggling author David Martin, upset over losing his lover to another man and trying to find success, takes an assignment to write a book that the editor promises will make him immortal and is thrown into a web of long-buried secrets, double-crosses, and madness.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A fearless Spanish crew embarks on a search for a lost ship, swallowed by the Indian Ocean centuries ago, in a novel by "a master of the literary thriller" (Booklist, starred review). Manuel Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets Tánger Soto, a captivating beauty who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid. A woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a famed Jesuit...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016, c2015.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and continues as the seedy decadence of Buenos Aires envelops the secret lovers. Nice, 1937. Still drawn to one another a decade later, Max and Mecha rekindle their dalliance. In the wake of a perilous mission gone awry, Mecha...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
6) Memento
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 113 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife's murderer, whose identity he cannot even know for sure. The more he tries to figure out what is true and real, the more he sinks deeper into a multi-layered abyss of uncertainty and surprises.
8) Vlad
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
122 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After centuries of war and blood shortages in Eastern Europe, an undead Vlad the Impaler moves to Mexico and offers eternal life to the only child of Yves and Asuncin̤ Navarro in exchange for their legal and real estate services.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 312 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"There are riders willing to die just to win a single leg of the Tour, careening downhill at a suicidal ninety kilometers per hour; now I know there are also riders ready to kill for it. Marc, a French-Colombian professional cyclist with a military past, is on an elite Tour de France team led by his best friend, Steve, an American star and a favorite to win this year's Tour. But the competition takes a dark turn when someone begins eliminating racers...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
805 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Alicia lost her parents during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed Barcelona in 1938. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time. Weary of her work as an investigator for Spain's secret police in Madrid, a job she has held for more than a decade, the twenty-nine-year old plans to move on. At the insistence of her boss, Leandro Montalvo,...
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