Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the Roaring Twenties, two worldly young aristocrats embark on a journey to see one of their idols, the sublime Italian actress Eleonora Duse, who, to their utmost delight, has recently returned to the stage. What follows as… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) What starts out as an idyllic summer holiday on the Irish coast soon becomes a living nightmare with unpredictable consequences for a world-renowned composer and his family in this chilling psychological thriller. Recently… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) What starts out as an idyllic summer holiday on the Irish coast soon becomes a living nightmare with unpredictable consequences for a world-renowned composer and his family in this chilling psychological thriller. Recently… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From acclaimed Cuban writer Mayra Montero, author of "The Messenger", comes a highly charged erotic novel that explores the impossible vertigo of late passion. "The Last Night I Spent With You" confronts the mysteries of death… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: Mayra Montero ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) From acclaimed Cuban writer Mayra Montero, author of "The Messenger", comes a highly charged erotic novel that explores the impossible vertigo of late passion. "The Last Night I Spent With You" confronts the mysteries of death… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Reporter Kate Kilroy accepts an assignment to travel on the Valkyrie, a German ship veiled in secrecy for decades after it was discovered adrift in 1939 with only one passenger aboard, a baby boy named Isaac Feldman. Obsessed… read more
Summary/Reviews: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) A small town in the Mexican desert has a library where few are interested in books. The only reader is the librarian who sees everything through the lens of literature. When a girl is found dead in the librarian's… read more
Additional Information: Responsibility: David Toscana ; translated by Asa Zatz.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Rafael Molinet Rojas, a Spaniard living in London, plans his suicide following the death of his mother. However, the story of the scandalous and deeply suspicious death of high-society lothario Jaime Valdes causes him to… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Depressed over the death of his mother, Rafael Molinet, an elderly, introverted Spaniard living in London, makes plans for his suicide until he becomes involved in the investigation of the murder of a Madrid playboy at a lavish… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The Legacy of Shadows is an enigma wrapped in mystery as a writer, in an attempt to understand the death of his artist friend, finds unexpected answers in a remote and largely uninhibited mining town which is lost in both space… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The story of one family, which reaches from Hitler's camps to the dungeons of the Uruguayan junta, is recounted in soul-stirring fragments by a single subject: in the memory of Moishe the child, the youth, and the man, fiction… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Originally published in Spanish in 2000 and first appearing in English in 2004, The Letters that Never Came is an autobiographical novel in three parts that reflects Rosencof’s life growing up in 1930s Uruguay as the son of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many… read more
Publisher: Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
City: New York, NY
Year of Publication: 2021
Number of pages: 447 pp.
ISBN: 9781250211682
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many… read more
Summary/Reviews: (BOOK JACKET) "Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village" -- Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn's husband Antoine is drafted… read more
Summary/Reviews: (Amazon.com) The first English translation of a major Argentine literary figure. With an uncommon blend of elation and discretion, The Life and Memoirs of Doctor Pi takes readers on a journey of mysterious encounters, unspoken agreements,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) The bastard son of a prostitute, Lazarillo goes to work for a blind beggar, who beats and starves him, while teaching him some very useful dirty tricks. The boy then drifts in and out of the service of a succession of masters,… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places. For his whole life, the boy has lived underground, in a basement with his parents, grandmother, sister, and brother. Before he was born, his family… read more