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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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Paris, July 1942: The French police brutally arrest ten year-old Sarah and her family in the Vel d Hiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard thinking that she ll be back in a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel d Hiv s 60th anniversary, Julia Jarmond is asked to write an...
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In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war. The only purebred vampire left on earth, Wrath, the leader of The Black Dagger Brotherhood, a secret band of vampire-warriors defenders of their race, has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents centuri...
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La carta numero 12/ The Twelfth Card (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Jeffery deaver
A two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd, a man whose past has turned him into a killing machine. Boyd is after a high school girl from Harlem. The motive may have to do with a term pa...
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Muerto hasta el anochecer/ Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Charlaine Harris
Description in Spanish: No es facil ser una camarera sexy con poderes telepaticos y enterarse de los terribles secretos que todo el mundo esconde. Tal vez por eso Sookie Stackhouse termina enamorandose de Bill Compton, cuya mente no puede leer. Sookie suspira de felicidad por haber encontrado a su ...
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Diario de una buena vecina/The Diary of a Good Neighbour (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Doris Lessing
At the center of this novel are two women-worlds apart, yet neighbors-who come together by chance in a neighborhood pharmacy. Janna, a middle-aged contemporary woman is the editor of a women's magazine. She is good at her work and her life seems to her a success. Then there is Maudie, skinny, rag-an...
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Vivir y morir en Dallas / Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Charlaine Harris
When a vampire asks cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse to use her telepathic skills to find another missing vampire, she agrees under one condition: the vampires must promise to behave and let the humans that are involved to go unharmed. Easier said than done. All it takes is one delicious blond an...
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Frankenstein 1. El hijo prodigo/ Dean Koontz's Frankenstein Book 1. Prodigal Son (Spanish Edition)
מאת Dean Koontz
Every city has secrets, but none as terrible as this. His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who s traveled centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer who stalks the streets, one who carefully selects his victims for the h...
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Travesuras de la nina mala / The Bad Girl (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Mario Vargas Llosa
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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A group of random people receives notice that they have won a cruise. Once they become passengers onboard the Malcolm, they find themselves tangled in the web of a mystery that is as symbolic as it is ludicrous. The feeling of detachment from ones normal life, typical of vacation cruises, motivates ...
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Paisaje con rio y Baracoa de fondo /Landscape with River and the City of Baracoa (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Luis Leante
A choral novel reminiscent of the works by Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges and Alejo Carpentier, takes us to a remote spot in Cuba, the legendary island of past and present, of reality and imagination. A famous Cuban painter who has lived his entire life in exile returns to Baracoa to be reunited ...
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El paciente ingles / The English Patient (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Michael Ondaatje
The best-selling-novel-turned-movie that garnered 9 Oscars including Best Picture. Four people come together in a deserted Italian villa during the final moments of World War II. Caravaggio, the thief; the Indian sapper Kip; Hana, the nurse, who obsessively tends to her last surviving patient-the En...
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Jacob was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Now he's ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell. It was there that he met Marlena, the beautiful equestrian, and he met Rosie, an untrainable el...
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Best-selling author Spencer Johnson, a pioneer in helping people to gain better health through better communications, shows that a mother can care for her children with confidence and ease, enriching and strengthening the mother-child bond. When you use what you learn in the story you will discover ...
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El Amante Turco/ The Turkish Lover (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Esmeralda Santiago
In this memoir, we become witness to the transformation of the little Puerto Rican girl who emigrated to New York with her single mother and ten siblings. Esmeralda Santiago finally breaks out of a monumental struggle with her powerful mother, only to come under the thrall of the Turk and discover t...
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Buddha is an inspiring re-imagining of the life of a prince who gave up the trappings of royalty for something much more important - wisdom and enlightenment. This revolutionary journey has changed the world forever, and the lessons Buddha taught continue to influence every corner of the globe today...
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It is stranger than fiction and worst than a horror movie. Set in MedellÃn, La Virgen de los Sicarios is a shout of protest against the violence destroying Colombia. The protagonist, Fernando, has a lover who is killed, and Fernando unwittingly takes up with the youngster who did the killing. The...
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These are the stories of unique women whom the author attempts to understand. They appear generous, wicked, cowardly, brave, outgoing or even timid. All of them are original, and some appear even more impressive through their extraordinary adventures. Montero portrays Frida Kahlo, Simone de Beauvoir...
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El pintor de batallas/ The Painter of Battles (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Arturo Perez-Reverte
A war photographer, witness to most of the late 20th Century wars, was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, he starts painting a fresco on a Mediterranean tower, disturbed by the memories of a woman he can't forget and a man who wants to kill him. Des...
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In the hopeful 1950s, Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model couple: bright, beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early. Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife. Yet...
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La vida breve is the novel that introduces Santa Maria, the mythical land in Onettian narrative. Brausen's wife was crippled after a complicated surgery. To make up for the void left by her forgotten caresses, he creates stories. He dreams up Santa Maria and the life of Doctor Diaz Grey. He listens ...
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Deep within the remote backlands of 19th century Brazil sits Canudos, a libertarian's paradise. Home of prostitutes, bandits, and beggars, Canudos embodies the revolutionary spirit in its purest and most apocalyptic form. In one of his most brilliant and tragic novels, Mario Vargas Llosa creates an ...
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Amantes del escandalo / Scandalous Lovers (Romantica (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Robin Schone
Married at 15 and widowed at 49, Frances Hart has known the duties of being mother and wife, but never experienced the joys of being a woman. Determined to widen her horizons, she sets out to explore London s sensual glory. James Whitcox, a successful lawyer now widowed, understands the meaning of d...
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La hija del canibal/ The Cannibals Daughter (Spanish Edition) (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura))
מאת Rosa Montero
LucÃa and Ramón have lived 10 bland and uneventful years as a married couple until the day they decide to spend New Year s in Vienna and Ramón disappears at the airport. With the help of Adrián, a strange-ish young man, and of Fortuna, the anarchist, former matador and hit man for Durrui...
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At age fifteen, the day her parents were going to lock her up in a psychiatric ward, Violetta stole a stack of money from her family and escaped from Mexico to the United States, a country with luxuries, vices and many unhappy husbands to discover. During her rebellious, turbulent and wild adventure...
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Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki want to teach you to be rich. Both businessmen believe you cannot solve money problems with money; you can only solve them with financial education. Even though they each could have written a book on the subject, they chose instead to write it together because of the...
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Laura Diaz is a passionated character, intimately connected to many historical events. Through her story, Carlos Fuentes writes the journal of the Mexican twentieth century, supporting his novel with facts and characters that define the shape of today's Mexico. Description in Spanish: A trav...
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Sirena Selena vestida de pena / Sirena Selena dressed of sorrow (Spanish Edition) (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura))
מאת Mayra Santos Febres
Sirena Selena is a gay teenager with a gifted voice. When she leaves home to make her way in the world, she meets bar owner Martha Divine, an old transvestite who decides to promote the young girl. Sirena Selena vestida de pena is a brilliant portrayal of a world within Caribbean society and a super...
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Through the eyes of ten women, some real, some imaginary, Angeles de Irisarri recreates everyday life in a city during the war. Representing every social class, these ten women took up arms and shot cannons to the yells of Win or die. Agustina de Aragon, better known as la Artillera, the countess of...
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Me vuelves loca/ You Drive me Crazy (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Carole Matthews
The last place Anna Terry - single mother of two -expects to fall in love is in her solicitor's office while she is waiting to pick up her divorce papers, but that's where she meets Nick Diamond - a second-hand car dealer - and cupid's arrow strikes. Without meaning to, she lies to Nick about having...
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This is not a fictional tale or a history book on the events that took place in Madrid in the year 1808. This book transforms the obscure and individual stories recorded in books and archives into a collective account. By making use of the most basic liberties that the word novel allows for, these p...
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Nacida del hielo/ Born in Ice (Las Hermanas Concannon/ Born in Trilogy) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Nora Roberts
The second installment in the Born In trilogy takes the reader back to Ireland. While trying to turn the attic of her bed-and-breakfast into another guest room, Brianna Concannon finds a set of old, passionate love letters written to her father 28 years before by a woman who was not her mother. This...
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La Fragancia De La Flor Del Cafe/ Scents of the Coffee Flower (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Ana Veloso
With this novel, author Ana Veloso takes us to Brazil at the end of the 1800’s. The story tells of the forbidden love affair between a beautiful, intelligent and independent woman –born to rich feudal coffee growers, and a journalist whose ideals make him an advocate for the abolition of slavery...
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Consagrada por entero a su pueblo y a su patria, la indomable reina Adara no está dispuesta a consentir que un mercenario le arrebate su corona. Sin embargo, la única manera que tiene de proteger lo que es suyo es buscar el amparo del hombre con el que fue obligada a casarse en la infancia. Chris...
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La Silla del Aguila/ The Seat of Power (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Carlos Fuentes
A detailed vision of the powers and miseries of Mexican politics. It is the year 2020, in a Mexico without telecommunications or computers because the United States (owner and exclusive supplier of everything) has punished them. This is also the year in which the presidency is being disputed, in oth...
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200 years after the birth of Benito Juarez, Benitez book answers the demand for information on this historical figure. Accompanied by detailed accounts of the events that shaped Pre-Porfirian Mexico, Benitez brings forth the human being breathing inside the hero. Finally, an essential reference guid...
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The solitude of women is one of the great subjects of universal Literature. All women either with impossible or tragically lost loves face solitude at some time in their lives. This anthology presents unforgettable stories that portray a psychological state and a peculiar way of life to which women ...
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A student's precarious financial state drives him to desperate measures: a not-so-profitable job at Academia Europa. Here, the young student and poet in the making will discover that walls can forever trap those who inhabit them. Lost in a labyrinth of hallways and classrooms he will discover passio...
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Best selling author returns to the chilling world of gutsy medical examiner Kay Scarpetta in this suspense fiction classic. A reclusive author, Beryl Madison finds no safe haven from months of menacing phone calls -- or the tormented feeling that her every move is being watched. When the writer is f...
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Un asunto pendiente / A Day of Reckoning (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת John Katzenbach
Megan and Duncan Richards have come a long way from 1968 and their radical past. He's a banker; she's in real estate. They have two teenage daughters and a young son. But the past has not forgotten them. From her prison cell, the beautiful and cold-blooded terrorist Tanya, with whom the Richards wer...
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Estampas bostonianas y otros viajes (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
מאת Rosa Montero
To travel is to confront the fleetingness of time. Those of us who love to trek around the world have a lot in common with the servant of a fabled Middle Eastern tale who, after meeting Death in the market goes to his master and asks to borrow his fastest horse to flee to Basra just to find that his...
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