הוצאת ALFAGUARA
הספרים של הוצאת ALFAGUARA
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Good moods, bad moods- Judy has a mood for every occasion! Right now she's in a jealous mood - jealous of Jessica Finch, whose picture is on the front page of the newspaper. So Judy sets off in pursuit of her own fame and fortune. But all her efforts could just end up making her more infamous than e...
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Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for... Breaking Dawn, the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, will take your breath away. Description in Span...
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Legions of readers entranced by the New York Times bestseller Twilight won't be disappointed by this gripping sequel. In New Moon, Stephenie Meyer delivers another irresistible combination of romance and suspense with a supernatural twist. Passionate, riveting, and deeply moving, this vampire love s...
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Two years have passed since the events of the bestselling Christine Falls, and much has changed for Quirke: his beloved Sarah is dead, his surrogate father lies paralyzed in a convent hospital and Phoebe, his long-denied daughter, has grown increasingly withdrawn and isolated. With much to regret fr...
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This is the story of Maria Margarita, a girl who possesses a magical gift for recounting movies. Whenever a new one by Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper or Charles Heston or even a Mexican one with lots of songs comes to town, money is donated, scrimped and saved, until enough is gathered to pay for a tic...
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When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has m...
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In February of 1993, Saramago established a second residence in Lanzarote. Maria and Javier, his in-laws and residents of Lanzarote, and Luis and Juanjo, friends and new arrivals, gifted Saramago with a notebook to register their days in the Canaries. One stipulation was given: they were, occasional...
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As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth . It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. A veterina...
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In 1903, Mamah and her husband, Edwin, commissioned renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design their new home. A powerful attraction developed between Mamah and Frank. In time, the lovers, each married with children, would embark on a course that would shock Chicago society and forever change t...
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A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? In the painting, the Duke of Flanders and his knight are locked in a game of chess, and a dark lady lurks mysterious...
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In 1936 the Schwarts, an immigrant family desperate to escape Nazi Germany, settle in a small town in upstate New York, where the father, a former high school teacher, is demeaned by the only job he can get: gravedigger and cemetery caretaker. After local prejudice and the family's own emotional fra...
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Spanish Description: Adan Gorozpe es un arribista, y lo reconoce sin ambages. Su matrimonio con Priscila, codiciada heredera del poderoso empresario Celestino Holguin (mejor conocido como el Rey del Bizcocho), fue un afortunado lance que, en palabras llanas, se llama dar el braguetazo, y lo llevo ...
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June 20th, 1973. After a long exile, Juan Domingo Peron returns to Argentina. He leaves behind years of suffered contempt in a Madrid under Franco s regime and the memory of a triumphant Eva Peron, whose body rests in his own home. An unprecedented throng is awaiting his arrival and his followers ba...
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Bobby's destiny turned sour the day he became a cripple. Ashamed of him, his parents send him to study abroad, and onboard the ship he's abused and mistreated by the crew. Humiliated, Bobby reaches a decision: never again to be a victim but become the one victimizing. A heartless aficionado of firea...
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In the early morning hours of August 22, 1972, sixteen men were executed at Almirante Zar base in Trelew after being accused of allegedly trying to escape. Tomas Eloy Martinez, at that time in charge of the weekly publication Panorama, traveled to Trelew to reconstruct the actual events. Readers tod...
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La orgia perpetua/ The Perpetual Orgy:Flaubert and Madame Bovary (Biblioteca Mario Vargas Llosa) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Mario Vargas Llosa
In this brilliant essay, Vargas Llosa examines Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, who is considered the founder of the modern novel and an indisputable influence on future novelists. The first part of this book is autobiographical in tone; the second comprises an exhaustive analysis on the structur...
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Published in this volume are three never before published short stories: El robot sacramentado, Un fantasma tropical, and Pantera en jazz this last one was Carlos Fuentes first short story and was published in a Mexican literary magazine in 1948. Also included are: Tlactocatzine del jardÃn de F...
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Nineteen shots. One murderer. In his most recent novel, Francisco Martin Moreno probes into the circumstances surrounding Alvaro Obregon s assassination, including the list of related murders and the Church s compromising position in these events. Backed by meticulous and thorough investigation, thi...
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Olor a rosas invisibles / The Scent of Invisible Roses (Bilingual Edition) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Laura Restrepo
Olor a rosas invisibles is the story of two lovers who meet again after 40 years. Luice Campos is an older gentleman, married, and at piece with the life he's chosen to live. His only ghost is the nostalgic memory of Eloisa, a lover from his youthful and carefree days, a lover who one day will mater...
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Published on the 25th anniversary of the author s death, this work is an extensive assortment of writings and unedited texts written throughout Cortazar s life. Grouped in three sections following a rough internal chronology: poems, prose and self-interviews, the writings include unknown short stori...
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La venganza de las pretenciosas/ Revenge of the Wannabes (The Clique #3) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Lisi Harrison
Alicia and Olivia are on their way to Manhattan so the Teen Vogue editors can do a story on them about winning the Octavian Country Day uniform design contest. When Massie finally processes that the girls who hijacked her victory are also modeling for Teen Vogue, she is livid. It should have been he...
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A hacker breaks into the Vatican's system. A baroque church in Seville kills to protect itself. A beautiful Andalusian aristocrat, a handsome priest/agent who handles the Church's dirty work, a jealous banker and his gambling secretary, a seventy-year-old woman who only drinks coke, a postcard from ...
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This is not a fictional tale nor a history book, nor does it have-strictly speaking-a main character, as there were countless men and women involved in the events that took place in Madrid in 1808. Heroes and cowards, victims and executioners, history kept the names of most of them. The people, plac...
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The moving love story that has enamored millions of readers throughout the world is the most read Japanese novel of all times. It has inspired a big screen version, has been made into a TV serial and has been illustrated as a comic. Sakutaro and Aki meet at school in a small provincial city of Japan...
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Fe en disfraz is a timeless novel, and one that should be savored like a strong cup of black coffee and devoured like a feast. I traveled with Mayra Santos-Febres and have never felt so sheltered as I did when wrapped by her literature and intelligent writing, as warm as she herself is, as warm as t...
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Donde viven los monstruos: Album clasico / Where the Wild Things Are: Classic Picture Book (Historias Para Dormir) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Maurice Sendak
Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new...
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Summa de Maqroll el Gaviero: Poesia Reunida 1947-2003/ Collected Poetry 1947-2003 (Spanish Edition)
מאת Alvaro Mutis
This comprehensive compendium of Mutis' poetry includes six decades of published work ending in 2003 with Summa de Maqroll el Gaviero. Poesia reunida, a work that at times shows the private life of el Gaviero, the main character of Mutis' works, and at times reveals an intimate portrait of its creat...
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The sun has set and Gorgias is about to finish his work, Exhortation to obedience. Suddenly, the hundred and nine-year old philosopher drops dead. The lives of three people are forever changed by this unexplained event-Jason, Gorgias' tyrannical benefactor and pupil, Akorna, the philosopher's eunuch...
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Have you ever woken up feeling like you're still in a dream? After a terrible accident, Julia is trapped between the realm of dreams and reality. Guided only by her survival instinct she will be reunited with those she loves. In Presentimientos, Clara Sanchez recounts the enveloping and mysterious s...
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Ricardo, at an early age, sees his life-long dream fulfilled: to live in Paris. But an encounter with a past love will change everything. The young girl, adventurer, pragmatic, wicked, calculating, and mischievous, will drag him out of his small world of ambitions. This is the story of the intimate ...
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Crepusculo: Diario De La Directora / Twilight: Director's Notebook (Spanish Edition)
מאת Catherine Hardwicke
A personal, behind-the-scenes look at the making of the blockbuster film Twilight from groundbreaking director Catherine Hardwicke!
This intimate full-color notebook, designed to replicate the one director Catherine Hardwicke kept on and off the set, takes you through the creative process that... |
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From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic y...
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Real, fictitious, invented and stolen, Beatriz writes about other Beatriz s: those she could also be, the lives she could have a prescription medicine sales person, a manicurist, one that was murdered young, a Senegalese that longs to go back to her country. As she recounts these lives, the way she ...
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Mr. Sorokin's latest work is named after Ivan the Terrible's 16th-century KGB. These 21st-century oprichniki, however, drive around in their Chinese-made Mercedes and use computers, but still behave like feudal lords. The novel is set in 2028, when all that counts are oil, gas and an unswerving loya...
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Of mixed race and cultures, Barack Obama struggled for years with his identity and place in society. Having found his niche in public service, he has made history as the first African American U.S. President ever to be elected. From Hawaii to Chicago to Washington, D.C., Obama's life has been intere...
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This is the story of the chaste, absolute, and hopeless love that pushes Ãngel Andrade to leave his house forever, determined to become the Authentic Savior of the City, the Angel that Eradicates All Impurities, the one that faces a booming catastrophe that tirelessly piles ruin upon ruin. In any...
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Julian Mercader's deepest wish is to create a truly unusual toy. Inspired by images engraved in his memory, he successfully shapes his wish into a doll blessed with nearly human life. Named Violet, after Mercader's own daughter, the doll's custom orders start rolling in. The customers ask Mercader t...
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El viajero del siglo is an ambitious experiment. It invites us to look at the 20th Century with 19th-Century eyes. Searching for an inn to spend the night, Hans stops his horse-drawn carriage in Wandernburgo, a city located between Saxony and Prussia. The following day he happens upon an organ grind...
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As Cain and Abel, two brothers confront each other for their father's lover, the most powerful man in the country. La voluntad y la fortuna is the great novel of Mexico s past and the present of a Narconation . An incredible and real story; Fuente s most awaited novel. Caressed by the gentle nightti...
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The subject of fiction and life is a constant that, since distant times, has been expressed through literature. Yet in the work of no other modern author does it have the force and inventiveness as it does in the short stories of Juan Carlos Onetti. It is not an exaggeration to say that Onetti s wor...
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After his first work, Los dÃas enmascarados, was published in 1954, it became clear to all that Carlos Fuentes is one of the contemporary masters in the art of short story writing. This volume includes, among other stories, Vieja moralidad, Las dos Elenas, Malintzin de las maquilas, La sierva del...
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Libros para contar (Audio)(Serie Cuentos para todo el ano) (Libros Para Contar / Stories for the Telling) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Alma Flor Ada
Includes readings and songs for the following 5 titles: Amigos / Me gustaria tener / Una extrana visita / El canto del mosquito / Quien nacera aqui?...
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The say good times don t last forever. During the first three decades of the twentieth century, the north embodied this truth. The golden age of saltpeter was in its final death throes. Places that once shone with the brilliance of gemstones threatened to become ghost towns. In the hamlet of Yungay,...
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Ficciones de la Revolucion mexicana / The Fictionary Mexican Revolution (Spanish Edition)
מאת Ignacio Solares
From Madero and Huerta to Felipe Angeles and Rodolfo Fierro, passing through Carranza, Obregon, Leon Toral and many other historical figures, the stories woven by Ignacio Solares unsettle, dazzle and surprise readers. In his plots, destiny delivers the shots differently from the official versions, e...
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''I cling desperately to my mother's womb.'' Acid rain bathes Makesicko City, the world's most populated and polluted city. The government's control and manipulation mechanisms are ruthless. Festivities and contests keep the masses under their spell. To win one of these contests a couple must give b...
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The Infidel invasion unleashes a celebration of demons in Iraq. One of them, sickened by human vileness, tours the battlefield beside a woman who searches for her loved ones, confident that they survived the daily massacres and mutilations. A hopeless man, reminiscing on his lost loves concludes men...
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''I want to love her to goad her into loving herself more.'' In a room that is also a house, a city, and a world, an old man, a woman and a child make up a Trinity in the ephemeral depths of an instant. Time is the true narrative space of this novel -a story that is played by transposable identitie...
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This Nobel Prize winner s latest work takes the reader to his childhood: some parts in Azhinaga, the town where he was born, and other parts in Lisbon where he left to when he was two. With the poetic prose that characterizes him, and without resentments, even though it is full of hardships, Saramag...
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Hortensia Campanella reveals the man behind the humble author who shied away from public tribute and lavish praise, the discreet legend that presented the world with a significant body of literary works. Readers will be infected with Benedetti s enthusiasm and lucid pessimism, his courage, commitmen...
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How many times have we felt ashamed, not by what we do but by being caught doing it? Without ever realizing it, life can become a collection of secrets that permeate our daily routine. Carmela and Nico lead a peaceful middle-class life until Olivia, the cleaning lady from Ecuador, threatens to shatt...
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