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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...
2) Diez mujeres
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Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 19 cm
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Español
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Nueve mujeres, muy distintas entre sí y que nunca se han visto antes, comparten sus historias. Natasha, su terapeuta, ha decidido reunirlas en la convicción de que las heridas empiezan a sanar cuando se rompen las cadenas del silencio.
No importa el origen ni la extracción social, la edad o la profesión: todas acarrean sobre sus hombros el peso del miedo, la soledad, el deseo, las inseguridades. A veces ante un pasado que no pueden dejar atrás;...
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Restless Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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386 pages : 1 genealogy chart illustration ; 24 cm.
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English
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In this wildly imaginative, powerfully moving, "psychomagical" autobiography-cum-novel, Alejandro Jodorowsky tells the story of how his Ukrainian Jewish grandfather, his fiery wife, Teresa, and their four children moved to Chile under fake passports and assumed Christian identities, with only a half-kopek to their name and no idea how they'd forge their new lives. His book is a visionary family saga filled with ancestors both mythical and real including...
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English
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"Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker she'd been flirting with attacked her, and she had no choice but to kill him in self-defense. Even more shocking: The scene is horrifyingly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Disillusioned in her marriage, Aurora sets out to rediscover the missing years of her early childhood.
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English
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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 far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor’s house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz — a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile — for her advice....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 27
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Español
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The epic story of the passionate Trueba family begins at the turn of the century in South America.
La transcendental novela de Isabel Allende cuenta la historia epica de la numerosa y turbulenta familia Trueba de Chile, con su patriarca angustiado y sus mujeres clarividentes, trazando sus vidas desde los fines del siglo pasado, hasta los dias violentos del golpe que derroco al gobierno de Salvador Allende en 1973. Allende combina lo supernatural...
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Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
70 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
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"A leading Latin American writer effortlessly builds a choral and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship in Chile. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history"--
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Aguilar Chilena
Pub. Date
2009
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206 p. ; 24 cm.
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Español
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En los años 20, existió un pueblo llamado Pampa Unión en pleno desierto en el norte chileno, que ostentaba la mayor concentración de prostíbulos y bares de la zona. En esta novela se rescatan las memorias de las minas de salitre, sus fatigas y sus descansos en la tiniebla prostibularia. Los trabajadores venían del sur para labrarse un "futuro mejor", abandonando a sus esposas y marchaban para poder crear algún capital y regresar a sus tierras....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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This contemporary coming-of-age story centers upon Maya Vidal, a remarkable teenager abandoned by her parents. Maya grew up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandmother Nini, whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973 with a young son, and her grandfather Popo, a gentle African-American astronomer. When Popo dies, Maya goes off the rails. Along with a circle of girlfriends known as "the vampires,"...
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Sharpe volume 21
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
322 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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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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Publisher
Vintage Espanol, Una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 25 cm
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Español
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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...
14) Poeta chileno
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Narrativas hisp�anicas volume 641
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020.
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421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Español
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"Durante buena parte de esta novela Gonzalo es un poetastro que quiere ser poeta y un padrastro que se comporta como si fuera el padre biologico de Vicente, un nino adicto a la comida para gatos que anos mas tarde se niega a estudiar en la universidad porque su sueno principal es convertirse -tambien- en poeta, a pesar de los consejos de Carla, su orgullosamente solitaria madre, y de Leon, un padre mediocre dedicado a coleccionar autitos de juguete....
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