Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Hector Belascoaran Shayne has danced with the dead. Luke Estrella does the rumba in white patent leather shoes. Together, they make the perfect pair to lead each other into an inferno under an azure Acapulco sky: a hell populated… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Revisits the domino-playing characters twenty years later as they seek to combat German forces in their country at the beginning of the Second World War.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The writer daughter of a Cuban dissident falls in love with an actor making a documentary about her father, but soon discovers that neither the actor nor her father are who she thought they were.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A Proust-worshipping narrator falls into the dangerous world of the Russian mob in this novel run amok by the author of Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire.
Additional Information: Responsibility: José́ Manuel Prieto ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) For Amanda Martín and her friends, Ripper started off as just a game. But then the murders began and San Francisco found itself once more in the grip of a cold-blooded killer. The police can't crack the case alone, and the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The Jackson women, Indiana and Amanda, have always had each other. Yet while their bond is strong, mother and daughter are as different as night and day. Indiana, a beautiful holistic healer, is a free-spirited bohemian who looks… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) River of Sorrows is set in the sixteenth century Argentina of the earliest Spanish settlements, when Juan de Garay came down the Parana River from Asuncion, Paraguay, to found the settlement of Santa Fe in 1573. After he left… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Libertad Demitrópulos ; translated by Mary G. Berg.
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Valencia native Emma isn’t looking for love when her best pals take her out on the town for her thirty-second birthday. But after just enough cocktails at their favorite bar, the trio encounters John Davies, a British movie… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Rosario Tijeras is the violent, violated character at the center of Jorge Franco Ramos' delicately balanced novel, set in self-destructing 1980s Medellin. Her very name-evoking the rosary and scissors-bespeaks her conflict as a… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Since they shot her at point-blank range while she was being kissed, she confused the pain of death with that of love." So begins Rosario Tijeras, Jorge Franco's eponymous novel of a violent, violated woman on the run in 1980s… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) Petra Leyva has begun to write a novel about the Sanctuary Movement when she hears that her widowed, womanizing father has set fire to his house in a drunken rage. Overwhelmed by family memories, Petra begins a journey of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) Sangama: A Story of the Amazon Jungle tells the story of a young man, Abel Barcas, entering the Peruvian Amazon in the early twentieth century to make his fortune in the then booming trade in natural rubber. He meets an older… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This enduring classic of Mexican literature traces the path to ruination of a country girl, Santa, who moves to Mexico City after she is impregnated and abandoned by her lover and subsequently shunned by her family. Once in the… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A student at the Buenos Aires School of Philosophy attempts to put her life (academically and romantically) in the service of a professor whose nearly forgotten theories of violence she plans to popularize and radicalize--against… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) Juan José Saer's Scars explores a crime committed by Luis Fiore, a thirty-nine-year-old laborer who shot his wife twice in the face with a shotgun; or, rather, it explores the circumstances of four characters who have… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Jorge Volpi's international bestseller Season of Ash puts a human face on the earth-shaking events of the late twentieth century: the Chernobyl disaster, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of Soviet communism and the rise of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) This is the story of a man who lived inAlabama, New York, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico. A story about friendships and family,relationships, hopes and disappointments. You willfind a lot of humor and some sadness,all told with… read more