Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody is having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady in blue. She doesn't know that this same spirit appeared to leaders of the Jumano Native American tribe in New Mexico 362… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In three separate autobiographies, celebrated Mexican innovator Mario Bellatin recounts his childhood trauma as a bathhouse spectacle, the treatment of an illness suffered by his Sufi spiritual mentor, and his complicated search… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) A brave young butterfly, a small boy, and a dancing blue planet build a bond of love and hard work, drawing on the magic of their relationship. A delightful adventure into the migration of monarch butterflies, and the value of… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Sister Ottavia Salina, a Vatican archivist, along with an archaeologist and a captain in the Swiss Guard, investigates international relic thefts, faces tests based on the seven deadly sins, and searches for the True Cross.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) In the same vein as Ruiz-Zafon's "In the Shadow of the Wind" and Daniel Silva's "Prince of Fire" comes an internationally bestselling novel about the search for the secret location of the actual Holy Cross used to crucify Jesus.
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Alberto Barrera Tyszka's Patria o muerte is a thriller set at the time of Hugo Chávez's impending death and the frenzy that it sets off in Venezuela. The retired oncologist Miguel Sanabria lives on edge, and his skepticism about… read more
Summary/Reviews: (WorldCat) Awarded the Alejo Carpentier Award in 2012, The Last Librarian follows the journey of a writer who has decided, as a way of honoring the artists who have meant the most to him, to visit and deposit a single book within each of… read more
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