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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
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Language
English
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A sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship.
Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
457 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Zarité, who is known as Tété, born to an African mother she has never known and a white sailor, survives a brutal childhood and grows up to find comfort in the music and culture of her fellow slaves, and when Toulouse Valmorain purchases young Tété for his bride, both of their lives become intertwined in surprising ways, particularly when they both end up in New Orleans.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
436 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teresa Mendoza's boyfriend is a drug smuggler who the narcos of Sinaloa, Mexico, call "the king of the short runway," because he can get a plane full of coke off the ground in three hundred yards. But in a ruthless business, life can be short, and Teresa even has a special cell phone that Guero gave her along with a dark warning. If that phone rings, it means he's dead, and she'd better run, because they're coming for her next. Then the call comes......
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English
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"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, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth.
Through her father’s prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the...
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest of...
7) Coco Chanel
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
36 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Large colorful illustrations accent this brief biography of the famous French fashion designer Gabrielle Chanel, known as Coco Chanel.
Author
Series
Little people big dreams volume 75
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From an early age, Little Amanda read everything she could get her hands on, from books to cereal boxes. Growing up with an auditory processing disorder and a speech impediment, Amanda had to work hard, but ultimately she took great strength from her experiences. After hearing her teacher read aloud to the class, she knew that she wanted to become a poet, and nothing would stand in her way. At the age of 19, she became America's first-ever National...
Author
Series
Trilog�ia del Bazt�an volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Detective Inspector Amaia Salazar is called in to investigate the death of a baby girl, she finds a suspicious mark across the child's face - an ominous sign that points to murder. The baby's father was caught trying to run away with the body, whether from guilt or grief nobody can be sure. And when the girl's grandmother tells the police that the 'Inguma' was responsible - an evil demon of Basque mythology that kills people in their sleep -...
11) Red queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Introducing Antonia Scott-the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander-in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller thriller that has taken the world by storm. Antonia Scott-the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother-has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
615 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of Sira Quiroga, a young seamstress from Madrid, who becomes entangled in the web of powerful friendships and political alliances determined to keep Francoist Spain from entering WWII on the side of the Axis.
Author
Publisher
ATRIA Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Atria paperback edition
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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A woman reporter in a Latin American country and a photographer are sent on a routine assignment. The two uncover a hideous crime, the revelation of which could challenge the terrorism of the military regime.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 281
Language
English
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Description
A magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the life of ground-breaking Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, this Chilean literary thriller tells the story of three characters whose lives are intertwined with that of an enigmatic author"--
16) All my goodbyes
Author
Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in the southernmost region of Patagonia, she convinces herself she has found happiness, until she's caught up in the horrific murders that haunt her story.
17) Astrid Lindgren
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Learn how Astrid turned her love of books and telling stories into a career as a world-renowned author. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the inspiring writer's life." --
18) Aretha Franklin
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Aretha Franklin, The Queen of Soul. The fourth of five children, Aretha was born in Tennessee and took the stage at an early age in her father's church choir. She went on to become the bestselling rhythm and blues singer of all time, and the first woman to be installed in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations...
19) Princess Diana
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The life of Princess Diana, the world's most loved princess"--Provided by publisher.
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