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  The Twilight Saga: Book 1

  Twilight

  by Stephenie Meyer

  When Bella's mother remarries she grudgingly decides to go live with her father in the sunless, perpetually rainy city of Forks, Washington. It's the middle of the semester at a new school and the most she can hope for is to blend in. Then she sees the mysterious Edward Cullen. He's handsome, intriguing and he happens to be a vampire. Despite the risk to her life, Bella and Eward are drawn together and their... (more)
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  Memories of My Melancholy Whores

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  A New York Times Notable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit–he has purchased hundreds of women–he asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this... (more)
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  Perdona si te llamo amor

  by Federico Moccia

  Niki es una joven madura y responsable que cursa su último año de secundaria. Alessandro es un exitoso publicista de treinta y siete años a quien acaba de dejar su novia de toda la vida. A pesar de los veinte años de diferencia que hay entre ambos y del abismo generacional que los separa, Niki y Alessandro se enamorarán locamente y vivirán una apasionada historia de amor en contra de todas las convenciones y... (more)
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  Tres metros sobre el cielo: Book 1

  Tre metri sopra il cielo.

  by Federico Moccia

  Il successo di Tre metri sopra il cielo è una bella realtà. È diventato un libro di culto, il “primo libro” di un numero sterminato di giovani, il libro che ha fatto da ponte a generazioni diverse. E il titolo è diventato uno slogan comparso sui muri di moltissime città: “Io e te tre metri sopra il cielo”. Federico Moccia ha raccontato ai suoi lettori la storia del romanzo: che fu pubblicato in poche migliaia di... (more)
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  Eleven Minutes

  by Paulo Coelho

  Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Maria's despairing view of... (more)
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  Norwegian Wood

  by Haruki Murakami

  Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga: Book 4

  Breaking Dawn

  by Stephenie Meyer

  When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved? It would cost you your life. How could you leave the person you love the most, when you know it'll hurt them the most as well?To be irrevocably in love with... (more)
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  El pasado

  by Alan Pauls

  A stunning tale of love gone bad: passion, obsession, sex, and cocaine, all in excess—riveting from start to finish. Rímini splits up with his girlfriend of 12 years, Sofía. The parting is initially amicable and he moves on, carefree, with a new zest for life. Hungry to make up for lost time and keen to forget the past, he finds a younger girlfriend and starts using cocaine. Sofía, however, finds herself unable to... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga

  Twilight / New Moon / Eclipse / Breaking Dawn

  by Stephenie Meyer

  Bella Swan moves back to Forks, Washington to live with her dad. On her first day of school she is breathless when she meets Edward Cullen, the most beautiful boy you will ever lay eyes on. Until she finds out his secret that puts her life in danger.
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  Tres metros sobre el cielo: Book 2

  Ho voglia di te

  by Federico Moccia

  La esperada segunda parte de A tres metros sobre el cielo. Los protagonistas sellarán su relación con un candado en el Ponte Milvio de Roma. El «fenómeno Moccia» continúa: millones de jóvenes italianos imitan a los protagonistas de la novela y cuelgan en el puente candados con sus nombres. Son los candados del amor. Y hay tantos que su estructura, del S. III, ha empezado a resentirse y a peligrar a causa del peso,... (more)
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  Evernight: Book 1

  Evernight

  by Claudia Gray

  Bianca wants to escape. At the eerily Gothic Evernight Academy, the other students are sleek, smart, and almost predatory. Bianca knows she doesn't fit in. When she meets handsome, brooding Lucas, he warns her to be careful—even when it comes to caring about him. But the connection between them can't be denied. Bianca will risk anything to be with Lucas, but dark secrets are fated to tear them apart . .... (more)
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  El Viaje al Amor: Las Nuevas Claves Cientificas

  by Eduard Punset

  ¿Es posible hablar de una existencia feliz sin considerar lo que significa el amor? Paso a paso, en un estilo al alcance de todos los lectores, El Viaje al Amor descubre revelaciones fundamentales sobre esta emoción. Los secretos del amor se habían interpretado siempre desde los campos de la moral o la literatura. "El amor es ciego," se decía, pero hoy empezamos a saber que se mueve por razones evolutivas y... (more)
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  The Unbearable Lightness of Being

  by Milan Kundera

  A young woman in love with a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing; one of his mistresses and her humbly faithful lover — these are the two couples whose story is told in this masterful novel. In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence, we feel... (more)
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  The Twilight Saga: Book 2

  New Moon

  by Stephenie Meyer

  Edward and Bella have fallen in love. They can't stay away from each other until all of a sudden Edward starts acting a little strange. When he tells Bella he's decided to leave her Bella is heartbroken and doesn't know what to do with her life. Until she meets Jacob an old friend.
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  The Twilight Saga: Book 3

  Eclipse

  by Stephenie Meyer

  As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings, Victoria continues her quest for revenge, and Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob-–knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite a war between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella has one more... (more)
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  The Bad Girl

  by Mario Vargas Llosa

  Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as “Lily” in Lima in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be from Chile but vanishing the moment her claim is exposed as fiction. He loves her next in Paris, where she appears as the enchanting “Comrade Arlette,” an activist en route to Cuba, and becomes his lover, albeit an icy, remote one who denies knowing... (more)
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  Of Love and Other Demons

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  Sierva Mari+a7a, the neglected child of a rich plantation family, is locked in a convent because she is believed to be possessed by demons, and there she falls in love with the priest sent to exorcise her. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.
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  Like Water for Chocolate

  A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

  by Laura Esquivel

  The number one bestseller in Mexico and America for almost two years, and subsequently a bestseller around the world, "Like Water For Chocolate" is a romantic, poignant tale, touched with moments of magic, graphic earthiness, bittersweet wit - and recipes. A sumptuous feast of a novel, it relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden... (more)
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  Love in the Time of Cholera

  by Gabriel García Márquez

  In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months,... (more)
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  The Host

  by Stephenie Meyer

  The earth has been invaded by an alien species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact so that most of humanity has succumbed. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, and the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former... (more)