Resumen/Reseñas: (¿Sin fuente?) Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Inigo Balboa, have returned: battle-weary, short of cash, and with few prospects for honest work. But the Spanish empire... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) After its liberation from harsh French rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) In this orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of King Henri Christophe's black regime, which was built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (Amazon.com) A vacation in Paris! It was supposed to be a glorious time to immerse herself in culture, go to concerts, visit museums and forget what she had given up. Instead, Malena finds herself in a seedy striptease joint, forced to... mostrar más
Editorial: Harper, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Ciudad: New York, NY
Año de publicación: 2017
Colección: Serie universitaria
Nº de edición: 1ª
Nº de páginas: 805 págs.
ISBN: 9780062668691
Resumen/Reseñas: (From publisher description) The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (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.
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: Mayra Montero ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (¿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... mostrar más
Más información: Responsibility: David Toscana ; translated by Asa Zatz.
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (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... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (WorldCat) Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this is the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust. Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many... mostrar más
Resumen/Reseñas: (BOOK JACKET) "Through letters with a famous author, one French librarian tells her love story and describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village" -- Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn's husband Antoine is drafted... mostrar más