Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In jail, a man loves his innocence with the same absurd force that he fears his crimes. What happens when the innocent is thrown in with the guilty, or the guilty with the innocent? Four unlikely cellmates suddenly find... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) This is the first English translation of Galdos's Juan Martin El Empecinado (1874), in the first series of his Empisodios nacionales. This is the only novel in the first series dedicated to a guerilla fighter rather than to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) This reworked and streamlined version of Goytisolo's 1975 novel spins the reader through an angry, prickly catalogue of Spanish colonialism and slavery.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Juanita la Larga (1896), the third of Juan Valera's eponymous novels with a female protagonist, unfolds in a small town in nineteenth-century Spain and tells the story of a young girl's romance with a wealthy widower many years... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Through the long hours of one sleepless night, twenty-year-old Julia sorts through the story of her life so far. Set against the backdrop of Franco's forty-year dictatorship, her personal history reveals its own small... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Based on radio plays, this collection retells the gospel of John, an epic story with several twists and turns. Each chapter includes a reflection offering background information and an understanding of sociology, politics,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In this ... adventure novel set in 1920's post-revolutionary Mexico, Paco Ignacio Taibo II is searching for a hero, specifically a leftist hero, and he thinks he has found him in the person of Sebastian San Vicente. But... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A novel of linked tales tells the story of an imaginary civilization, from its origins as a collection of hunter-gatherer tribes to its zenith as a sophisticated technological empire.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A novel of linked tales tells the story of an imaginary civilization from its origins as a collection of hunter-gatherer tribes to its zenith as a sophisticated technological empire.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In 1976, a young boy flees Buenos Aires with his opposition-supporting family, renames himself after his hero Harry Houdini, and dedicates his time in exile to mastering his role model's escape artistry.
Más información: Responsibility: Marcelo Figueras ; translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Peter Hook is the son of mid-sixties rock-star parents, but has managed to become a successful children's author of a series of action books and movies. This work is an exploration of the charms and perils of children's... mostrar más
Editorial: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Ciudad: New York
Año de publicación: 2016
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 407 págs.
ISBN: 9780316354219
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Ted McKay had it all: a beautiful wife, two daughters, a high-paying job. But after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor he finds himself with a gun to his temple, ready to pull the trigger. Then the doorbell rings. A... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) ixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Sixteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his grandmother, a writer for a geography magazine, to the remote Forbidden Kingdom in the Himalayas to help locate a sacred statue of a golden dragon before it is stolen by a greedy... mostrar más
Otros títulos: Klail City - Klail City y sus alrededores
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The second installment in Rolando Hinojosa's acclaimed Klail City Death Trip Series returns to South Texas, where Mexicans and Anglos share an uneasy coexistence. Don Aureliano Mora waits three years for justice... mostrar más
Editorial: Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Ciudad: New York City
Año de publicación: 2018
Colección: First Feminist Press edition
Nº de páginas: 101 págs.
ISBN: 9781936932238
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The story of an orphan, Okomo, who lives with her grandmother and dreams of finding her father. She enlists the help of outcasts in the village including a gang of girls. She finds herself falling in love with... mostrar más