Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Ring follows a young New York lawyer who receives two rings -- one from her fiancé and one that will lead her on an unforgettable adventure in search of a Templar treasure that has remained hidden for centuries.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) On El Rancho Grande, the grandchildren are not so interested in how Grandpa bought the ranch, but in what can be done on the ranch. The children play hide and seek in cornfields, under "the canopy of green leaves, golden… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) When Isabel, a Spanish aristocrat living in the pro-Nazi Spain of 1941, becomes involved in a plot to kill her Fascist husband, she finds herself betrayed by her mysterious lover. The effects of her betrayal play out in a violent… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) New Year's Eve, 1975: Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, founders of the visceral realist movement in poetry, leave Mexico City in a borrowed white Impala. Their quest: To track down the obscure, vanished poet Cesarea Tinajero. A… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Chronicles the strange journey of two Latin American poets, Arturo Belano and Ulises Lima, as seen through the eyes of the people whose paths they cross in Central America, Europe, Israel, and West Africa
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sergio Prim is a staid and solitary middle-aged man who finds himself suddenly in love. A geographer by trade, but with a broken radar when it comes to navigating human relationships, he is thrown into a psychological crisis by… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawn to sixteen-year-old Lucia during a visit to Madrid's Prado museum, art historian Manuel draws parallels between Lucia and Juana the Mad, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose story Lucia and Manuel find… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Drawn to sixteen-year-old Lucia during a visit to Madrid's Prado museum, art historian Manuel draws parallels between Lucia and Juana the Mad, the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, whose story Lucia and Manuel find… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A seamstress who is sewing a wedding dress for the pregnant local art teacher fears that her son, while playing in a big semitruck, has been accidentally kidnapped and driven off to Patagonia. Completely unhinged, she calls a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: César Aira ; translated by Rosalie Knecht.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In a rich, luscious style bordering on magical realism, Haghenbeck takes readers on an intriguing ride through Frida's life, including her long and tumultuous relationship with her lover Diego Rivera, the development of her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan Gabriel Vasquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A tale inspired by Joseph Conrad's "Nostromo" follows the story of Colombian-born José Altamirano, who reveals his integral role in the classic's writing and who pens his own version of events against a backdrop of a flourishing… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Benjamín Chaparro is a retired detective still obsessed by the brutal, decades-old rape and murder of a young married woman in her own bedroom. While attempting to write a book about the case, he revisits the details of the… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: by Eduardo Sacheri ; translated by John Cullen.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A collection of short fiction gathers everything the author was working on before his death, including a story about a North American journalist receiving a mysterious call and a woman's recounting of the loss of her virginity.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1497 Milan, a Papal Inquisitor seeks to confirm, or deny, the messages of the "Soothsayer," who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic and has hidden heretical messages in his painting of The Last Supper.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sent to oversee the completion of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper," Dominican inquisitor Fray Agustin Leyre investigates the artist's omission of key elements and use of symbolic imagery, which suggests that there is a coded message… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1497 a Dominican inquisitor is sent to Milan to supervise the final phase of the painting of The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci. Never a conformist, da Vinci creates a masterpiece that raises questions that have yet to be… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A motley group of men who meet to play dominoes in a 1922 Mexico City hotel bar witness a series of strangely related murders and begin to suspect a conspiracy involving the oil-rich lands of the Gulf Coast, greedy army officers… read more