Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Arriving in Paris for their inaugural meeting during the 1889 World's Fair, an exclusive society of the world's most renowned detectives wonders at the absence of its co-founding member, who has sent a secret message about a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Pablo De Santis ; translated from Spanish by Mara Lethem.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) It is a time for upheaval in Cuba: the time to build a new society. Even from her position of privilege, idealistic divorcée Carmela Vasconcelos sees the waves of uprising and is caught up in the excitement. Persuaded by her… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books—the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two books: the novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Juan Rulfo is one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexico, though he wrote only two booksthe novel Pedro Páramo (1955) and the short story collection El llano en llamas (1953). First translated into English in… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) At the end of the 19th century, a successful store owner, Stamos Marikanis, marries GemaUs most beautiful woman. But his bride dies in a bizarre accident. Twenty years later, Stamos comes back to life in the form of Jeronimo… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather's past and the story behind his numbered tattoo; a Serbian classical pianist longs for his… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In an unnamed town in the Ecuadorian Andes, a small wooden icon - La Virgen Pipona (the Potbellied Virgin) - conceals the documents that define the town's social history. That history has been dominated by the women of the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) It's a strange new world, indeed! Who knows what is true? As seventeenth-century Spain experiences the growing pains of change, discovery, and globalism, playwright Juan Ruiz de Alarcón exploits the public's receptiveness with… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Havana, Cuba, 1947. Young Patricio flees impoverished Spain and steps into the sultry island paradise of Havana with only the clothes on his back and half-baked dreams of a better life. Blessed with good looks and natural charm,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafón ; translated by Lucia Graves.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the 1920s, long before he wrote The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was an accomplished pilot. Along with Jean Mermoz and Henri Guillaumet, he was chosen to pioneer new mail routes across the globe. No distance was too… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) 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… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Carlos Ruiz Zafon ; translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) 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… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Veronica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. But as the night stretches on before him, and the… read more