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2) Sunburn
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Language
English
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On Spain's Costa Brava, passion and intrigue are everywhere -- especially in the hearts of those who dwell there. As the dictator Franco teeters on the edge of overthrow, two couples are entwined. One is a husband and wife bored with the existence they have drifted into, the other a passionate, combative pair who relish every moment of life. Into this potent mix comes a young American seeking his missing lover -- bringing a shadow of danger into the...
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Spain is a nation poised to suffer its worst internal strife in a thousand years. Certain well-placed Spanish diplomats sense it. Op-Center intelligence corroborates it. All the United States and Spain have to do is find a way to avert it. Before they can, an Op-Center representative is assassinated in Madrid on her way to a top secret diplomatic meeting. Now all fears are confirmed. Someone very powerful wants another Spanish civil war -- no matter...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For the Posts, a two-week trip to the Balearic island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: Franny and Jim are observing their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary, and their daughter, Sylvia, has graduated from high school. The sunlit island, its mountains and beaches, its tapas and tennis courts, also promise an escape from the tensions simmering at home in Manhattan. But all does not go according to plan: over the course...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Udo Berger, a failed writer, travels to a small resort on Spain's Costa Brava, where he befriends another German couple. But when one of his friends disappears after a night out with two sinister local characters, Udo's serene life is disrupted.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 421 pages ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"When their college-aged daughter is abducted on a European family vacation, Brian and Rebecca Unsworth--both U.S. intelligence staffers--race to find the kidnappers and keep their fragile marriage intact"--
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English
Description
"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...
9) Amberes
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
103 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
10) Pepita Jimenez
Author
Publisher
YoYo USA Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
3 sound discs (3 hrs) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
La historia del seminarista enamorado de la prometida de su padre viudo y los conflictos que crea esa rivalidad, están acertadamente descritos en esa novela donde se mezcla la ironía con un desarrollo argumental original y con un inesperado desenlace.
The story of a seminary student in love with his widower father's fiancée and the conflicts that this rivalry creates are accurately described in this novel where irony is mixed with original plot...
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Language
English
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From the acclaimed author of the international sensations City of Bohane and Beatlebone comes a striking and gorgeous new novel of two aging criminals at the ends of their damage-filled careers--a superbly melancholic melody of a novel full of beautiful phrases and terrible men. men.
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
cp2001
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4.5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The story of a shepherd boy who yearns to travel and ends up risking everything to pursue his destiny. A fable about following your dreams, listening to your heart, and reading life's omens.
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Series
Javier Falcon mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Javier Falcón, still struggling with the psychological trauma of his last case, investigates an apparent suicide in a wealthy neighborhood and becomes increasingly alarmed when subsequent suicides have suspicious links to the first.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
331 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
The latest work by the most noted contemporary novelist of Nicaragua, an historical novel based on the life of the famous 16th century Spanish aristocrat and feminist who was declared insane and lived the last forty-six years of her life in captivity.
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Series
Jack Ryan Jr volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
x, 468 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small café. At first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too...
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Language
Español
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The objective of this edition of the Quixote is, on one hand, to serve as an initiation to those who approach for the first time this monumental novel through an anthology covering the best passages, contributing therefore one complete vision of the totality of the work. And on the other hand, to help High School and College students understand the Quixote better thanks to its footnotes, to an analysis on the work, a section on Cervantes and his time,...
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Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Nine-year-old Alicia lost her parents during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed Barcelona in 1938. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time. Weary of her work as an investigator for Spain’s secret police in Madrid, a job she has held for more than a decade, the twenty-nine-year old plans to move on. At the insistence of her boss, Leandro Montalvo,...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
590 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Un marino sin barco, desterrado del mar, conoce a una extraña mujer que posee, tal sin saberlo, respuestas a preguntas que ciertos hombres se hacen desde hace siglos. Nunca el mar y la Historia, la ciencia de la navegación, la aventura y el misterio, se habían combinado de modo tan extraodinario en una novela, como en La carta esférica. De Melville a Stevenson y Conrad, de Homero a Patrick O'Brian, toda la gran literatura escrita sobre el mar...
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Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Language
English
Description
It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel and Bea from 'The shadow of the wind' have married. They now have a son, Julian, and are living with Daniel's father at Sempere & Sons. Fermin still works with them and is busy preparing for his wedding to Bernarda in the New Year. However something appears to be bothering him. Daniel is alone in the shop one morning when a mysterious figure with a pronounced limp enters....
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julian, and their close friend Fermin Romero de Torres is about to wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
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