Correa, Armando Lucas
Summary: Una novela inolvidable ambientada en el Berlín de la primavera de 1939, la Cuba pre- y postrevolucionaria y el Nueva York después del 11 de septiembre. Antes de que todo se desmoronara, Hannah Rosenthal y sus padres tenían una vida encantadora. Su familia, una de las más distinguidas en los altos círculos sociales berlineses, era admirada por amigos y vecinos. Ahora en 1939, Berlín se ha teñido...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Español 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC COREnrigue, Alvaro
Summary: "Hernán Cortés entra en Mehxicoh-Tenoxtitlan con sus nueve capitanes, sus dos traductores -el fraile Aguilar y Malinalli, intérprete y amante-, su tropa y sus caballos. Allí los agasaja con una comida la princesa Atotoxtli, hermana y esposa de Moctezuma, acompañada por los sacerdotes, y más adelante el propio emperador Moctezuma recibirá al caudillo Cortés. Unos no han visto jamás en su vida...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Editorial Anagrama 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC ENRPak, Greg
Summary: "After a mysterious attack devastates a great swath of 19th century Japan, Korea, and China, survivors from all three lands find refuge on a hidden island and build a new society. Hana, the orphaned daughter of Korean farmers, and Kenichi, son of a great samurai leader, have little in common except for a mutual disdain for the other. But these young warriors will have to work together when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONSegovia, Sofía
Summary: En Linares, al norte del país, con la revolución mexicana como telón de fondo. Un buen día, la vieja nana de la familia abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que parecía eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeños bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un bebé misterioso y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conversar y cuidar al...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH SEGPearce, A. J. (Amanda-Jane)
Summary: "From the author of the "jaunty, heartbreaking winner" (People) and international bestseller Dear Mrs. Bird, a new charming and uplifting novel set in London during World War II about a plucky aspiring journalist. London, November 1941. Following the departure of the formidable Henrietta Bird from Woman's Friend magazine, things are looking up for Emmeline Lake as she takes on the challenge of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEAHerrera, Yuri
Summary: "Este libro imagina una hipótesis: ¿qué sucedió durante el año y medio en que Benito Juárez, quien acabaría siendo el primer presidente indígena de México, vivió desterrado en Nueva Orleans? Es en ese «hueco marcado por el punto y aparte» en la autobiografía de Juárez donde comienza la narración. Acompañado por un pequeño grupo de exiliados políticos, Juárez desembarca en 1853 en esa ciudad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Periférica
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC HERMiller, Tom
Summary: "In World War I America, magic and science have blended into an extraordinary art. Eighteen-year-old Robert Weekes, a practitioner of empirical philosophy--an arcane, female-dominated branch of science used to summon the wind, shape clouds of smoke, heal, and even fly--dreams of becoming the first male in an elite team of flying medics"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MILBennett, Brit
Summary: Generación tras generación, la comunidad negra del pueblo de Mallard, en Luisiana, ha intentado aclarar el tono de su piel favoreciendo los matrimonios mixtos. Las inseparables gemelas Desirée y Stella Vignes, con su color níveo, sus ojos castaños y su cabello ondulado, son un buen ejemplo de ello. Tan distintas y tan iguales, decidieron huir juntas del diminuto pueblo creyendo que también...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literatura Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BENRice, Anne
Summary: Vittorio, a five-hundred-year-old vampire, tells the story of how he was seduced at the age of sixteen by Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies, after she saved him from being killed by her fellow vampires during a slaughter in which his entire family was wiped out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeta Bolsillo 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION RICKhoury, Raymond
Summary: "Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom-naked, covered in strange tattoos-to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall-along with all of Europe-to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC KHOHarris, Charlaine
Summary: Gunnie Lizbeth Rose has been hired by a pair of Russian sorcerers as both their local guide and muscle through the small towns of East Texas as they search for a distant relative of an infamous sorcerer, Rasputin, whose bloodline can help save their emperor-in-exile as an ever-increasing number of assassins tries to stop them. Time is middle 20th century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Llc 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARHenríquez, Cristina
Summary: "Dicen que la construcción del canal será la hazaña más grande en la historia de la ingeniería. Pero ¿quién va a construirlo? Para Francisco, un pescador lugareño que no tolera que las potencias extranjeras saqueen a pedazos su país, nada es más desagradable que la decisión de su hijo, Omar, de trabajar como excavador en la zona de perforación. Pero para Omar, cuya crianza fue tranquila y...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HENAllende, Isabel.
Summary: "The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SPANISH 468 ALLKhoury, Raymond
Summary: "Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives in his bedroom--naked, covered in strange tattoos--to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message. Paris, 2017: Ottoman flags have been flying over the great city for three hundred years, ever since its fall--along with all of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2019