Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A desperate father hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. The priest has threatened to reveal that the man's family is of Jewish descent, so he has no... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Hired to rescue a man's daughter from a convent where a powerful corrupt priest is forcing her to be his personal concubine, Alatriste finds himself thrust into a religious and political conspiracy with ties to the highest levels... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Queen Cocaine takes place amid the violence that rules everyday life in Colombia. In the remote Pacific Coast jungle, a region of incessant rain that is ravaged by the drug trade and by civil war, the army, the guerillas, and the... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) "A brilliant new comic novel from "a linguistic virtuoso" (José Antonio Aguado, Diari de Terrassa). It's the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno--a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows--and a poor family... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In the story "Ratfish", the main character is an illegal immigrant, a house painter who lives traumatized by the unrelenting harassment from the INS. Two word "ratfish", as it can be clear seen, is a new coinage composed of two... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Tom Wright, an American CIA agent, is sent into Guatemala to rescue an Australian banker who has been kidnapped by a guerrilla organization known as EGP.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian society... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Santiago Roncagliolo ; translated from Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Lima prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar becomes the investigator in a mysterious murder, discovering links to the terrorist group, the Shining Path, and mass graves that expose the destruction and corruption of Peruvian... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Introducing Antonia Scott--the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander--in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller & thriller that has taken the world by storm.... mostrar más
Editorial: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Ciudad: Waterville, ME
Año de publicación: 2023
Nº de páginas: 607 págs.
ISBN: 9798885790888
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Antonia Scott--the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother--has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Historians refer to the Spanish Civil War as one of the bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. In 1937, at Mexico's request and offer, nearly 500 children from Spain - remembered as Los Niños de Morelia - were relocated via... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From international bestseller Mario Escobar comes a 20th-century historical novel of tragedy and resilience inspired by Spain's famed Children of Morelia and the true events that shaped their lives.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In this final volume, the Indian struggle, which began in the first book as a single-handed revolt against the despotism of Judge Montenegro, has evolved into a fully organized insurrection against the oppression by ruthless... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Cover) Manuela Beltrán, a poet haunted by a troubled childhood, is bent on revenge for the wrongs she suffered at the hands of her mother's lover. Her vendetta will draw together a cast of enigmatic characters, the inhabitants of Gamboa's... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (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.
Más información: Responsibility: José́ Manuel Prieto ; translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen.