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"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
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HarperCollins
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English
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A sequel to Daughter of Fortune, New York Times bestselling author, Isabel Allende, continues her magic with this spellbinding family saga set against war and economic hardship.
Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free
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En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navío fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que llevó a más de dos mil españoles rumbo a Valparaíso, embarcarán en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su país. Recibidos como héroes en Chile -ese ±largo pétalo...
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2013.
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English
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
1. edición.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 24 cm
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Español
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El desierto chileno y las oficinas salitreras castigadas por el sol son los hostiles parajes donde el iluminado, más conocido como el Cristo de Elqui, causará revuelo entre los lugareños con sus prédicas santas.
The Chilean desert, punished by the Sun, is the hostile environment in which the enlightened hermit, better known as the Christ of Elqui, creates commotion among the locals with his saintly preaching.
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"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
9) Bad vibes
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
First edition.
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viii, 308 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Copenhagen volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
13) Deadly shoals
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
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290 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1. edición Vintage Español.
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157 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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An unnamed narrator observes the progression of a young poet into an enigmatic officer and nationalist sky writer with darkly creative aspirations in Pinochet's air force.
16) Mala onda
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Publisher
Aguilar Chilena de Ediciones
Pub. Date
2010.
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Novena edicion: Octubre 2010.
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315 pages ; 19 cm.
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Español
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10 days in the life of an upper-class Chilean teenager at the time of the 1980 referendum on Pinochet's power, captures a youth culture of privilege, drugs, sex, and angst caught in the midst of brutal political forces.
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Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
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404 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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A powerful story about two couples from opposite ends of the globe who seek refuge from political turmoil in Sweden, where their lives intertwine in a poignant dance with destiny.
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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295 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Fanny and Amy's new blog is attracting first-class opportunities for the mother-and-daughter team and their NYC travel agency, and until a pair of murders put them on the trail of a conniving killer.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.
Author
Series
Richard Sharpe novels volume 22
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
322 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Embarking on an odyssey to Chile to find an old friend who has disappeared, Sharpe and Patrick Harper are asked by Napoleon to deliver a seemingly harmless gift--one that plunges them into a world of danger and intrigue.
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