Bennett, 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 BENEnrigue, 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 ENRHenríquez, 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 HENRice, 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 RICHerrera, 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 HERAllende, 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 ALLBowles, David (David O.)
Summary: "México. 1418. Les presentamos al príncipe Acolmiztli. Puma de la gente Acolhua. Heredero al trono de su padre. Mitad Acolhua, mitad Mexica. Cantante. Guerrero. Poeta. Dieciséis años de edad. Y ahora, traicionado. Una conspiración en el palacio, planeada por el letal imperio Tepaneca, mata a su madre y hermanos, pone al ejército de su padre en retirada, y manda al príncipe Acolmiztli a un...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ediciones LQ
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH BOWSegovia, 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 SEGAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "English just feels wrong to Isabel. She prefers her native Spanish. As she prepares for a new school, she knows she's going to have to learn. Her first day is uncomfortable, until she employs her crayons and discovers there's more than one way to communicate with new friends"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALECoulter, Catherine
Summary: Much like the hero of his frightening gothic adventure stories, well-known English author Grayson Sherbrooke has his own share of run-ins with peculiar supernatural beings, both good and evil. From his home on the northern coast of England, Sherbrooke leaps into these otherworldly mysteries to find the truth with the help of his son, Pip; his beautiful neighbor, Miranda, and her daughter, P....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COURoss, Rebecca (Rebecca J.)
Summary: "Tras permanecer dormidos durante siglos, los dioses vuelven a la guerra... Lo único que la joven periodista Iris Winnow desea es mantener unida a su familia. Con un hermano obligado a luchar en el bando de los dioses y desaparecido del frente de batalla y una madre que se ahoga en su pena, la mejor opción de Iris es obtener el ascenso a columnista del Oath Gazette. Pero cuando las cartas de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck
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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ROSAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: Adelaide Forsythe doesn't regret marrying for love instead of wealth, but she feels woefully unprepared to run her own household. Then, on the first Sunday of Advent in 1901, winter winds bring surprising change, first through a young orphan boy and then a seasoned housekeeper who seems too good to be true. The boy, Jack, claims he isn't an orphan at all and is desperate to reunite his family....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "This next spellbinding installment of Juno's "irresistible" fantasy series Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Lana Harper) takes us back to the reign of Henry VIII and the origins of Her Majesty's Royal Coven under the beautiful, the bewitching, Anne Boleyn. It's 1536 and the Queen has been beheaded. Lady Grace Fairfax, witch, knows that something foul is at play--that someone had betrayed Anne Boleyn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAWJackson, Holly
Summary: "Seis amigos, un viaje y un único objetivo: sobrevivir. En las vacaciones de primavera, seis amigos deciden hacer un viaje por carretera. Ellos, una casa rodante y kilómetros por delante. Este va a ser el viaje de sus vidas. Pero cuando su vehículo sufre una avería en medio de la nada, en una zona sin señal y alejada de cualquier lugar habitado, descubrirán que no fue algo fortuito. Alguien los...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta
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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FIC JACTowles, Amor
Summary: The millions of listeners of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: While working for an oil company in the bitter cold of winter, Walt Longmire and Henry Standing Bear soon encounter a ferocious polar bear who seems hell-bent on their destruction. But it's not long until they realize the danger does not lurk outside in the frozen Alaskan tundra, but with their coworkers who are after priceless treasure and will stop at nothing to get it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: During a blackout in a war-torn Angola, two teenagers explore their deepest emotions as they share personal stories and dreams in the intimacy of the darkness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enchanted Lion Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ONDTaylor, Patrick
Summary: "December 1965. Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly, his colleague Barry Laverty, and their friends, neighbors, and patients are enjoying their favorite holiday traditions. There's even the promise of snow in the air, raising the prospect of a white Christmas. The season brings its fair share of challenges as well, including a black-sheep brother hoping to reconcile with his estranged family, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company 2021
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Summary: In the City of Meat, Charles Swagger is on the hunt for notorious bank robber Baby Face Nelson when he traces a tip to the Chicago stock yards. While there, he's brutally assaulted and discovers that the madman who attacked him is involved in a nearby narcotics ring with plans to spread its new drug to the residents of the disenfranchised 7th District of Chicago. Worse, this is no ordinary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUNWillems, Mo
Summary: Gerald the elephant has a big decision to make, but will he make it in time?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children, an imprint of Disney Book Group 2015
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JBR GREEN SPANISH WILPilkey, Dav
Summary: Dog Man is still learning a few tricks of the trade. Petey the cat is out of the bag, and his criminal curiosity is taking the city by storm. Something fishy is going on! Can Dog Man unleash justice on this ruffian in time to save the city, or will Petey get away with the purr-fect crime?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, un sello editorial de Scholastic 2018
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Summary: "Pedro/Peter Martín es un Mexikid, o un niño que nació en Estados Unidos de padres mexicanos: un niño que no pertenece a ninguno de los dos lugares. Así que no sabe qué pensar cuando su padre anuncia que toda la familia (¡11 personas!) se apretará dentro del Winnebago para manejar 2,000 millas hasta México con una misión: traer a su misterioso abuelito de la era de la Revolución Mexicana a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J468 SPANISH MAR (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Castillo, Javier
Summary: "¿Quieres jugar? Nueva York, 2011. Una chica de quince años aparece crucificada en una iglesia en un suburbio a las afueras. Miren Triggs, periodista de investigación del Manhattan Press, recibe de manera inesperada un extraño sobre. En su interior, la polaroid de una chica amordazada y maniatada, con una sola anotación: 'Gina Pebbles, 2002.' Miren Triggs y Jim Schmoer, su antiguo profesor de...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Suma 2021