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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Un falso inventor lleva conejos a una isla para que acahen con los nidos de unos pájaros cuyo nombre nadie sabe. En la penumbra nocturna, una especie exteinguida hace miles de anos le sale al paso a un archiduque. Los suenos de los clientes de un hotel son objeto de un insólito hurto. El fantasma de una madre abre una cuenta en Facebook y le pide amistad a su hija. Una pareja a punto de romper deambula por un albergue inhóspito. En una banlieue...
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Language
English
Description
Legends and Romances of Spain by Scottish folklorist Lewis Spence, was first published in 1920. The book explores the romantic and chivalric literature of Spain, as well as it's ballads. It contains thirteen sections including: The Source of Spanish Romance; The Cantares de Gesta and the Poema del Cid; Amadis de Gaul; The Sequels to Amadis de Gaul; The Palmerin Romances; Catalonian Romances; Roderic, Last of the Goths; Calaynos the Moor, Gayferos,...
4) Namerica
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"The definite chronicle of an endless territory: Spanish America. There is a region in the world where twenty nations and over 400 million people share a language, a history, a culture, worries, and hopes. We know it poorly. Above all, we know its myths, its reflections, its common places. We think of it as in a different time. This region is called or could be called Namerica, and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is today. Martin...
5) Berta Isla
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Berta Isla thought she knew what to expect from life. When she was a young girl she decided she had found her match in Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages--so she was even able to endure their time apart while Tomás studied at Oxford. But after his graduation, he returns to Madrid a changed man. Distracted, sullen, and anxious, Berta's new husband has become a stranger...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...
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English
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Description
Soon, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, a fifty-year-old man stumbles upon her hiding place, and the two strike up a friendship. He tells her about birds and Nina Simone, buys her soda and chips, and spends almost every day talking with her.Despite their age gap, there's something childlike about Old Man...
8) The promise
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Language
English
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Description
A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship has fallen overboard. Adrift at sea, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, she wonders what she might include in the story of her life-a repertoire of miracles, threats, and people parade tumultuously through her mind. Little by little, her imagination begins to commandeer her memories, escaping the strictures of...
11) Pirineo Noir
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
En As Boiras, un pueblo del Alto Aragón, ha aparecido el cadáver de Emma Lenglet, la hija de un senador francés. El modus operandi del asesino es similar al que empleó el «Carnicero del Valle» tres décadas atrás. Justamente, hace un mes que Marzal Castán, el psicópata que cazó y desangró a seis adolescentes a mediados de los noventa, ha sido excarcelado para recibir cuidados paliativos y ha vuelto al Pirineo. El comisario Kevin Girard,...
14) Nine centuries of Spanish literature/Nueve siglos de literatura española: a dual-language anthology
Series
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
Multiple
Description
"This rich sampling of Spanish poetry, prose, and drama includes more than seventy selections from the works of more than forty writers. The original Spanish text of each work appears with an excellent English translation on the facing page." --Amazon.
15) The storyteller
Author
Pub. Date
[2001?].
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: At a small gallery in Florence, a Peruvian writer happens upon a photograph of a tribal storyteller deep in the jungles of the Amazon. He is overcome with the eerie sense that he knows this man-that the storyteller is not an Indian at all but an old school friend, Saul Zuratas. As recollections of Zuratas flow through his mind, the writer begins to imagine Zuratas's transformation from a modern to a central member of the unacculturated...
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
"Designed for the lover of fine literature as well as the intermediate language student, this dual-language book contains 13 great, representative Spanish short stories. Chronologically arranged to illustrate the development of the story form in Spanish, the stories are presented both in Spanish and English, enabling students to learn a language while simultaneously studying literary classics." --Amazon.
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