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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence -- sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing -- but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces. A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a...
262) Intemperie
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Un niño escapado de casa, escucha, agazapado en el fondo de su escondrijo, los gritos de los hombres que le buscan. Cuando la partida pasa, lo que queda ante él es una llanura infinita y árida que deberá atravesar si quiere alejarse definitivamente de aquello que le ha hecho huir. Una noche, sus pasos se cruzan con los de un viejo cabrero y, a partir de ese momento, ya nada será igual para ninguno de los dos. Intemperie narra la huida de un niño...
264) Entre los rotos
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Una joven encuentra la coleccion de fotos de su hermano menor. No entiende por que Julian decidio conservar esas imagenes. No retratan momentos particularmente alegres, por el contrario, casi todas pueden verse como la antesala de una catastrofe domestica. Pensandolo bien, eso fue su infancia en Veracruz: la antesala y las secuelas de una catastrofe continua, la construccion minuciosa de las ruinas que son ella, su hermano y su madre. Su padre, un...
Author
Publisher
Unique Pen Publications
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Everyone has heard the saying at least once in their life, "What happens in this house stays in this house". Imagine being raised in a household and hearing those words over and over again. Raymond Kramer has anger issues but having grown up in a house where his parents drilled the same motto in his head when he was younger. How Raymond dealt with his kids proves to be a bit more drastic than other parents, but he saw nothing wrong with it. Having...
266) La ola detenida
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
La peligrosa ciudad de Caracas es el trasfondo de una historia de la búsqueda de la hija díscola de un influyente politico conservador. La familia contrata a Magdalena Yaracuy, una detective que emplea la brujería con la puntería con las armas de fuego. La resulta es un thriller involvidable con un personaje entrañable.
"Caracas is the most dangerous city in the world, and there has been lost the trace of the Spanish Begoña, daughter of a conservative...
Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 952
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Nápoles, hoy, es una ciudad bella y terrible: es el reino de la camorra, y los chicos que crecen allí lo hacen bajo su influjo. Una pandilla formada por diez de ellos se lanza a la conquista de la ciudad: provienen de familias normales, les gusta lucir calzado de marca y tatuarse el símbolo de su banda. Liderados por Nicolas Fiorillo, alias Marajá, el grupo de adolescentes utiliza las motos como los forajidos de las películas del Oeste usaban...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Four Corners is a bare-knuckled debut novel in the style of Daniel Woodrell, Barry Hannah, and Charles Bowden. Both a savage, mean-streets thriller and a heartbreaking story of unfortunate love, Four Corners is carved from the rich, distinct voices and landscapes of the American Southwest. It manages to be brutal and beautiful at the same time. For the better part of thirty-seven years, Frank Bruce has hobbled through his life, dragging his hunger...
269) República luminosa
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 597
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
What has to happen so that we are forced to redefine our idea of childhood? The appearance of thirty-two violent children of unknown origin completely disrupts the life of San Cristóbal, a small tropical city encased between the jungle and the river. Twenty years later, one of its protagonists wrote this luminous Republic, a chronicle woven of facts, evidence and rumors about how the city was forced to reformulate not only its idea of order and violence...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body full of bullies and zealots, and a faculty that's even worse in Anthony Breznican's Brutal Youth. With a plunging reputation and enrollment rate, Saint Michael's has become a crumbling dumping ground for expelled delinquents and a haven for the stridently religious when incoming freshman Peter Davidek signs up. On his first day, tensions...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
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Description
1970, Ciudad de México. Maite trabaja como secretaria, pero solo vive para una cosa: la siguiente entrega de «Romance secreto». Las protestas estudiantiles y la inestabilidad política asedian la ciudad, pero ella se evade de todo gracias a esas maravillosas historias de pasión y riesgo. La vecina de la puerta de al lado, una atractiva estudiante de arte llamada Leonora, parece llevar una vida repleta de intriga y romance, algo que Maite envidia....
272) Raging bull
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Multiple
Description
Jake La Motta is a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. His brother, Joey, falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia and jealousy, and fifteen-year-old Vickie, becomes Jake's most prized trophy. The same anger that drives Jake in the ring, ultimately drives him to beat his wife and brother, and sends Jake down a self-destructive spiral of paranoia and rage.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"El corredor es un alarido de metal y literatura cuya virtud primordial es llevar al lector a un paroxismo, a esa exaltación propia de los derviches y pilotos cuyos bólidos están avizorando, en fracciones de segundo, la pared donde habrán de estrellarse, el fuego donde serán desgarrados por engranajes y ángulos enfurecidos. Alejandro Vázquez Ortiz ha logrado escribir un mecanismo narrativo cromado, con varias capas de pintura, donde conviven...
274) Old Newgate Road
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Old Newgate Road runs through the tobacco fields of northern Connecticut that once drove the local economy. It's where Cole Callahan spent his youth, in a historic white colonial that his family was devoted to restoring--painstakingly, relentlessly, pointlessly. But the famous claim that you can't go home again falls far short in this instance. Cole has not come back to this house, to this street, in thirty years--not since he was a teenager, when...
275) Ugly
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ugly is not an easy book to read. The subject matter is not easy to deal with. Ugly deals with physical and emotional abuse. Many people do not understand the dynamics of domestic abuse. Why, they wonder, would a woman stay with a partner who was abusive? The answers are simple. Lack of self-esteem, a feeling of powerlessness, no positive role models, lack of resources...take your pick. Singly, or in combination, all can factor into a woman feeling...
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Maria is young and innocent and has never known love -- until Tony. And Tony, searching for life beyond the savagery of the streets, has discovered love for the first time with her, too. But Maria's brother is the leader of the Sharks and Tony had once led the rival Jets. Now, both gangs are claiming the same turf and with tensions rising to the point of explosion, it seems there is no way to stop a rumble. Tony promised Maria that he would stay...