Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Libertad Demitrópulos ; translated by Mary G. Berg.
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿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... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan José Saer ; translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph.
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Presents the events of Miguel Cervantes' "Don Quixote" from the viewpoint of Sancho Panza through the medium of a fictitious diary.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) Can flowers speak? Can they remember? Doctor Patricio Gallardo begins to wonder when his son Gregorio abruptly cuts off their unusually close relationship. In the pages of this book, an intricate web of emotions gradually is... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) Seeing Red describes a young Chilean writer recently relocated to New York for doctoral work who suffers a stroke which leaves her blind. It charts her journey through hospitals and an increased dependency on... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The first English translation of Unamuno's first novel, published in 1897, when he was 33. Its setting is the Basque country of northern Spain during the Second Carlist War (1874--1876), a conflict he lived through as a child.... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Miguel de Unamuno ; translated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick with Anthony Kerrigan ; annotated by Allen Lacy and Martin Nozick ; with an introduction by Allen Lacy.
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The three remarkable pieces of fiction included in this volume are not so much novelets, novels, as nivolas, a form invented by Unamuno.Originally published in 1976.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... mostrar más