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Casi todo desaparece
Ramírez Muro, Verónica, author.
Vera's story, like that of many exiles, is marked by loss and sacrifice. After fleeing with her family from the ravages of World War II, which tore her country apart, and after living in Peru for several decades, Vera still retains an intact image of her homeland and, above all, of those people and events that shaped her childhood and defined her existence forever. Her memories come back to her playing with her brother Alex and her friend Misha, her father's strict upbringing, her mother's loving care, the misery, the crime, the fear, but also the courage of the young Koschei army in the face of an ever-closer enemy, and, finally, the reckless escape to a freedom won at the cost of insurmountable sacrifices. Haunted by memories and loneliness, Vera decides to return to that feared and beloved place where certain losses may perhaps reappear. Told in two time periods, which channel the double impulse of its protagonist - towards an inextinguishable past and, also, towards an enigmatic future - Almost Everything Disappears reproduces, with notable mastery of narrative tension, the exciting evolution of a memory of open wounds and courageous challenges.....
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Alpe d'Huez
Silva Romero, Ricardo, 1975- author.
It's 1984 and as Lucho Herrera enters the most demanding stretch of the Tour de France, things aren't going his way. These are the golden years of radio in Colombia, and the inseparable team of Pepe Calderón Tovar and Ismael Enrique Monroy - sports commentators who, now in their forties, are beginning to feel the strain of their professional relationship - are struggling to track their countryman's progress while battling each other for the attention of young reporter Marisol Toledo. Added to the mix are "the Monster," Bernard Hinault, bitter at his former teammate and recent champion, "the Alien" Laurent Fignon; and the undistinguished Manfred Zondervan, crazed with the need to prove himself in what seems to be his final chance at glory. In Alpe d'Huez, Ricardo Silva Romero has a unique and compelling ability to portray the world of race cycling, especially the mind over body struggle against the fear of failure, treacherous terrain and travails of competition.....
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Actos humanos
Han, Kang, 1970- author.
May 1980. The city of Gwangju mobilizes against the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan, who had seized power in South Korea a few months earlier. The civilian opposition, led by university students, rises up in favor of democracy, but the army cruelly represses the protests by shooting indiscriminately into the crowd, making no distinction between students and civilians. In the aftermath of the bloody massacre, a young man searches for the body of a friend, a soul tries to cling to its abandoned body and its memories, and a brutalized country searches for its voice. In this polyphonic novel, the victims and the survivors who mourn them confront censorship, denial, forgiveness, guilt, and the memory of a traumatic episode that continues to resonate today. Han Kang, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life," pays tribute to the victims of the massacre in her hometown through the voices of the martyrs of the South Korean dictatorship. Human Acts is a brutal, profoundly timeless, and universal novel that speaks to collective wounds, repression, and human violence.....
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Los parientes pobres
Gumucio, Rafael, 1970- author.
A hilarious x-ray of the Latin American upper classes. In his long-awaited new novel, Rafael Gumucio confirms his incomparable mastery and surprises us again with the hilarious portrait of a family that must deal with the unusual fact that the elderly father of one and the elderly mother of the other, siblings who are also crazy and are admitted to the same nursing home, have fallen in love. A portrait of Latin American endogamous society and the eccentricity of its wealthy classes, Los relantes pobres is a detailed investigation: while the children discuss among themselves what to do with their parents, the family's dirty laundry comes to light in a kind of Pandora's box from which no one emerges unscathed.....
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Corazón de piedra
Sobrado, Lucía G., 1993- author.
Historia de las Tres Guerras, siglos VIII-XIV. Imperio de Yithia, año 1400 de la Era Solar. Cinco siglos después, la heredera al trono Ashbree Aldair posee un extraordinario don que podría destruir el corazón del Señor de las Sombras y acabar con el conflicto para siempre. Pero no es fácil que el futuro de toda tu raza dependa de ti y menos aún si tu padre se encarga de hacerte saber, cada vez que fracasas en tu cometido, que eres una vergüenza. Un inesperado ataque a la capital lleva a Ashbree hasta la primera línea de combate, donde conoce a Ilian, un elfo oscuro con demasiados secretos. La futura emperatriz deberá tener cuidado, porque la sangre de plata que recorre el cuerpo de su atractivo contrincante podría convertirse en su perdición y, por ello, en la de todo el reino. Cercada por múltiples peligros y presa de una pasión muy difícil de resistir, Ashbree tendrá que luchar en todos los frentes, incluso contra sí misma, en cada una de las páginas de esta historia adictiva, llena de magia y pasión, que da comienzo a una trilogía que va a convertirse en tu nueva obsesión.....
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Alas de hierro
Yarros, Rebecca, author.
Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance. It's the new vice commandant, who's made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is--unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet's body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else's, she still has her wits--and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. But a determination to survive won't be enough this year. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College--and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.....
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Blackouts
Torres, Justin, 1980- author.
Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book-Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns-and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan's tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? A book about storytelling-its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change-and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres's Blackouts uses fiction to see through the inventions of history and narrative. A marvel of creative imagination, it draws on testimony, photographs, illustrations, and a range of influences as it insists that we look long and steadily at what we have inherited and what we have made-a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth. A reclamation of ransacked history, a celebration of defiance, and a transformative encounter, Blackouts mines the stories that have been kept from us and brings them into the light.....
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Los vivos
Monge, Emiliano, 1978- author.
Mexico? It could be. But it could also be its reverse. Just as this could be the time, or any other, and the characters who they are, apart from who they were and who they will be. In these pages, filled with wonder and beauty, losses and findings, reality is an eternal doing and undoing. Vestige, whose past seems impenetrable, needs to remember in order to understand her pain; Emphasis wishes to change his relationship with others, but still cannot tolerate living in fear of them not being there; the Boy, who strikes like lightning, wants to make sense of words and things, gazing into silence and emptiness, and Lucia, chasing the tongue of the dead, wishes to unravel what lies behind presence and absence." -- Amazon.com....
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Rey de sombras
Sobrado, Lucía G., 1993- author.
Historia de las Tres Guerras, siglo XIV. Reino de Lykos, año 1400 de la Era Solar. El rey de los elfos oscuros ha secuestrado a la heredera al trono Ashbree Aldair. Con ella, se ha llevado las posibilidades de victoria y ha incendiado la ira de los elfos del Imperio de Yithia. La historia se repite y nadie ha podido evitarlo. Durante su cautiverio, la futura emperatriz hará todo lo que sea necesario por regresar a su hogar. Incluso acercarse al rey, aunque eso signifique correr el extremo peligro de oler su adictiva sangre de plata, sentir su atracción arrolladora y oír el silencio que dejó en su pecho el corazón de piedra que, durante años, ella ha intentado destruir. En esta segunda entrega de la Trilogía Sangre de Plata, Ashbree Aldair se dará cuenta de que no siempre el que relata la historia cuenta la verdad. En un juego de traiciones, engaños e intereses cruzados, una pasión sin límite podría cambiar el destino de un mundo que lleva demasiado tiempo sumido en la guerra. Aunque, en realidad, la lucha no ha hecho más que empezar.....
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Tu enemiga secreta
Bailey, Tessa, author.
New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey returns with the hilarious follow-up to Secretly Yours, in which a down-on-her-luck Napa heiress suggests a mutually beneficial marriage of convenience to a man she can't stand... only to discover there's a fine line between love and hate. After losing her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop, Natalie Vos returned home to lick her wounds. A few months later, she's sufficiently drowned her sorrows in cabernet and she's ready to get back on her feet. She just needs her trust fund to finance her new business venture. Unfortunately, the terms require she marry before she can have the money. And well, dumped, remember? But Natalie is desperate enough to propose to a man who makes her want to kill him-and kiss him, in equal measure. August Cates may own a vineyard, but he doesn't know jack about making wine. He's determined to do his late best friend proud, no matter what it takes. Except his tasting room is empty, his wine is disgusting (seriously, he once saw someone gag), and his buddy's legacy is circling the drain. No bank will give him the loan he needs to turn the business around... and then the gorgeous, feisty heiress knocks on his door. Natalie has haunted his dreams since the moment they met, but their sizzling chemistry immediately morphed into simmering insults. Now, a quickie marriage could help them both. A sham wedding, a few weeks living under the same roof, and then they can go their separate ways-assuming they make it out alive. How hard could it be? There's just one thing they didn't account for: their unfortunate, unbearable, undeniable attraction.....
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La camarera
Prose, Nita, author.
Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life's complexities all by herself. No matter; she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job. She delights in donning her crisp uniform each morning, stocking her cart with miniature soaps and bottles, and returning guest rooms at the Regency Grand Hotel to a state of perfection. But Molly's orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black, only to find it in a state of disarray and Mr. Black himself dead in his bed. Before she knows what's happening, Molly's unusual demeanor has the police targeting her as their lead suspect. She quickly finds herself caught in a web of deception, one she has no idea how to untangle. Fortunately for Molly, friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black; but will they be able to find the real killer before it's too late?....
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La vegetariana
Han, Kang, 1970- author.
Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams-invasive images of blood and brutality-torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that's become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. ....
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