Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) When a New York socialite challenges her millionaire suitor to reproduce the extraterrestrial invasion featured in H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds," three fantastical adventures in time travel and mystery ensue.
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) London, 1896. Andrew Harrington's lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her. Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty, forever being matched with men her family considers suitable,... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Félix J. Palma ; translated by Nick Caistor.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) About to turn forty, Marién Valbuena, finds herself evaluating her relationships, her faith and her life. Two millennia separate her and Mary, a young woman in Ancient Judea. While Marién can't find a reason to hold on to a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Martyrs of Anahuac is a translation of Eligio Ancona's Los Martires del Anahuac (1873). In this historical novel, Ancona employs the writings of Hernan Cortes and others to present an encompassing view of the conquest of... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) New York Times bestselling author Javier Sierra takes you on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind European art--complete with gorgeous, full-color inserts... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a university in upstate New York. Having become entangled in an erotically charged romance with Ashley, a beautiful red-headed... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Medicine Man, which won first place at the 1955 Cannes film festival, is indeed a masterful and compelling narrative, always surprising the reader with a final, unexpected twist, eloquently illustrates in "The Sad Story of... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: by Francisco Rojas González ; translated by Robert S. Rudder and Gloria Arjona.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A crucial period in history is brought vividly to life as Graves describes the plight of two lovers who are separated when one converts to Judaism and the other leaves Spain in 1492.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) In the summer of 1816, Percy and Mary Shelley, Mary's sister, and Lord Byron hid themselves inside a Swiss villa, whiling away rainy afternoons with a Gothic novel writing contest. In Andahazi's reimagining, there was a fifth... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) The Metal of the Dead denounces the deplorable living and labor conditions of the workers in the Rio Tinto copper mine and describes the events that led up to their 1917 general strike. Concha Espina spent several weeks in... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) After fifty years in hiding, the Nazi war criminal known as the Butcher of Spiegelgrund has finally been tracked down by Father Anthony Fowler, a CIA operative and a member of the Vatican's secret service. He wants... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Juan Gomez-Jurado ; translated by A.V. Lebron.
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) Beltran Soler is from Chile, a land in constant movement. A seismologist who knows more about the science of tectonic plate movement than about life, he is cocooned in a world of seismic data, scientific articles, and natural... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Soon to be a major motion picture, this tender, satirical, antiwar novel--now available in English for the first time--vividly captures the tedium, propaganda, and absurdity of war as it explores the joys of true friendship in a... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A simple muleteer caught up in the Spanish Civil War, Juan Castro Přez struggles to make his way home, confronting unrequited love, conflicts with both sides of the war, and exploitation by an opportunistic journalist, a German... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) From the day that old Nana Reja found a baby abandoned under a bridge, the life of a small Mexican town forever changed. Disfigured and covered in a blanket of bees, little Simonopio is for some locals the stuff of superstition,... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿En Resumen/Reseñas?) The Museum or Eterna's Novel (The First Good Novel) is a book ahead of its time. Written during the 1930s and '40s - the heyday of Argentine literary culture - Museum is in many ways an "anti-novel: It opens with more... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Macedonio Fernández ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Schwartz ; preface by Adam Thirlwell ; introduction by the translator.
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) In The Museum of Useless Efforts Cristina Peri Rossi renders familiar, everyday situations uncanny through lyrical reinterpretations; at the same time, she somehow makes the uncanny appear quite ordinary. Crafting... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) A modern-day Flaubert takes us on a comic tour through a deeply neurotic Mexico City. Ramón Martinez is a militant atheist, successful lawyer, and conventional family man. But all of that changes when his privileged life... mostrar más