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  The Shadow of the Wind

  by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Barcelona, 1945—A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind , by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax’s other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has... (more)
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  La Casa en Mango Street [The House on Mango Street] (Unabridged)

  by Sandra Cisneros

  La novela mejor vendida, trata de una niña que crece en una de las comunidades latinas de Chicago-algunas veces le romperá el corazón y otras veces le dará gran alegría-describe un nuevo paisaje americano a través de sus múltiples personajes. -"Una novela profundamente conmovedora . . . Como lo mejor de la poesía, abre las ventanas del corazón sin desperdiciar las palabras." -Miami Herald.
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  Once Minutos / Eleven Minutes

  by Paulo Coelho

  Una novela cautivante y audaz del autor de El Alquimista , bestseller con un millón de ejemplares vendidos. En este nuevo relato, el novelista explora con gran sensibilidad la naturaleza sagrada del sexo y del amor y nos invita a enfrentar a nuestros propio prejuicios y demonios. Once Minutos relata la historia de María, una joven proveniente de una villa brasileña, cuyos primeros roces inocentes con el amor... (more)
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  Brida

  by Luis Gabriel Moreno Ocampo, Paulo Coelho

  This is the story of Brida, a young Irish girl, and her quest for knowledge. She has long been interested in various aspects of magic but is searching for something more. Her search leads her to people of great wisdom, who begin to teach Brida about the spiritual world. She meets a wise man who dwells in a forest, who teaches her about overcoming her fears and trusting in the goodness of the world; and a woman who... (more)
• Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones/Jorge Luis Borges : StoriesJorge Luis Borges Acevedo

  

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  Jorge Luis Borges: Ficciones/Jorge Luis Borges : Stories

  by Anthony Kerrigan, Peter Hulme, Jorge L. Borges

  Ficciones es una obra imprescindible en la literatura contemporánea que merece su lugar destacado en cualquier canon de la literatura universal. Aquí se reúnen dos libros de Borges: El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (1941) que incluye ocho relatos y Artificios (1944) con nueve cuentos. En esta colección, Borges nos lleva de viaje por un reino extraño, irresistible y profundamente resonante. Entramos en... (more)
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  The Club Dumas

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  "A cross between Umberto Eco and Anne Rice. . . .Think of The Club Dumas as a beach book for intellectuals." --New York Daily News Lucas Corso, middle-aged, tired, and cynical, is a book detective, a mercenary hired to hunt down rare editions for wealthy and unscrupulous clients. When a well-known bibliophile is found hanged, leaving behind part of the original manuscript of Alexandre Dumas's The Three... (more)
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  Hojarasca, La

  by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  La Novia Oscura

  by Laura Restrepo

  Laura Restrepo, una de las autoras más importantes de la literatura latinoamericana, ha sabido construir una sensual mezcla de realismo y de imaginación narrativa que ha convertido sus libros en bestsellers internacionales. Su último libro, La Novia Oscura, es una divertida y conmovedora historia de amor. A travé de una serie de entrevistas, la reportera que protagoniza esta novela, da vida a un singular grupo... (more)
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  La reina del sur / The Queen of the South (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura))

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  "The phone rang and she knew they were going to kill her" is how this action-filled best-selling novel starts. This time, Pérez-Reverte's hero is a woman named Teresa Mendoza who is nicknamed "The Queen of the South" and "The Mexican" by the authorities of three continents. After her boyfriend, a pilot employed by drug lords, is murdered, she begins creating an empire with mafias from Spain, France, Italy and... (more)
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  La Tregua

  by Mario Benedetti

  Martín Santome, widowed with three children, begins to write his journal shortly prior to his retirement. He portrays his life as very dull and unfulfilling until one day he meets Laura Avellaneda, a new employee under his management.
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  La casa de Bernarda Alba / The House of Bernarda Alba (Joyas Del Teatro)

  by Garcia Lorca, Federico

  La casa de Bernarda Alba"" constituye un exponente mas de la capacidad de Federico Garcia Lorca para aunar la tradicion y la vanguardia por medio de un teatro simbolico de indole muy personal que le situa entre los valores mas destacados del canon internacional. El autor granadino continua en el camino de la experimentacion con temas, personajes y generos de la tradicion teatral, a los que presenta desde... (more)
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  Facundo

  by Ilan Stavans, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

  Written in political exile by one of Argentina's greatest statesmen and intellectuals, this work is ostensibly a biography of the gaucho "barbarian" Juan Facundo Quiroga. It is also a complex and passionate investigation of the dialectic of civilization and barbarism. Sarmiento explores the impact of Argentinian geography on the life of the gaucho, chronicles the upbringing and the often bloody political and... (more)
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  La familia de Pascual Duarte

  by Liliana Rami?rez, Camilo Jose Cela

  Unabridged edition of Cela's modern novel, with study aids. Winner of the 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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  Piel del Tambor, La

  by Arturo Perez-Reverte

  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 a woman dead a hundred years ago, and the mysterious legacy of Xaloc-the last Spanish privateer, who vanished from... (more)
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  En el Tiempo de las Mariposas [In the Time of the Butterflies] (Unabridged)

  by Julia Alvarez

  On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and... (more)
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  El Misterio De Las Tanias/ The Mystery of the Tanias

  by Sebastian Edwards

  To uncover his best friend s murderers, a professor will travel the world. After countless liaisons and thrashings, he discovers that the key to his friend s mysterious death lies in the hands of a group of women known as the Tanias, wealthy, attractive and influential, these women were recruited as Cuban secret service agents at the command of the Revolution. The Tanias represent the entryway to the mythical... (more)
• Guia Para Una Globalizacion Alternativa: Otro Mundo Es PosibleFrancisco Fernandez Buey

  

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  Guia Para Una Globalizacion Alternativa: Otro Mundo Es Posible

  by Francisco Ferna?ndez Buey

• La Otra IslaFrancisco Suniaga

  

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  La Otra Isla

  by Francisco Suniaga

• Imposible Para Una SolteronaLuisa María Linares

  

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  Imposible Para Una Solterona

  by Luisa María Linares