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De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino está anonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunquesostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuandoal fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intención. A los cincuenta años, nueve meses,...
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He is the most terrifying of killers: and what Rico Chavez wants most is Elena Kyler--and he wants her dead. Trained as an assassin, Elena didn?t need anyone to survive. But now she finds herself on the run from one dangerous man and turning for help to another. Sean Galen was a man without illusions. He knew it was only desperation that caused Elena to accept his help--a mother?s desperation to save her young son from a psychopath father who would...
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When a man brings to a remote village two burros, Alfa and Beto, loaded with books the children can borrow, Ana's excitement leads her to write a book of her own as she waits for the Biblioburro to return. Includes glossary of Spanish terms and a note on the true story of Columbia's Biblioburro and mobile libraries in other countries.
Ana ama las historias. Pero en su pequeño pueblo, hay pocos libros y ella ya los ha leído todos. Una mañana, Ana...
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Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
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c2007.
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English
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Aguilar returns from a brief business trip to find that his wife, Agustina, has had a complete mental breakdown, and as he struggles to help her regain her sanity, he begins to realize how little he knows about his wife's troubled past.
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Debolsillo Mexico
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[2015]
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Español
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This book was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Connecticut State Library. Multicultural Grant.
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Juana and Lucas volume 1
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Candlewick Press
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[2016]
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English
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A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
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[2023]
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English
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To save their father's life, a brother and sister must journey across a land full of magical beings from Colombian folklore and find the most powerful and dangerous of them all--the Madremonte.
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La inspiración para escribir este libro le llegó a García Márquez con una insólita noticia que tuvo que cubrir como periodista.
El inigualable Gabriel García Márquez, ahora en formato audiolibro
El 26 de octubre de 1949 el reportero Gabriel García Márquez fue enviado al antiguo convento de Santa Clara, que iba a ser demolido para edificar sobre él un hotel de cinco estrellas, a presenciar el vaciado de las
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Haggerty mystery novels volume 7
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Mark Iverson is a Mormon bishop and an FBI agent. He has just received a new assignment working a covert operation in which he is to rescue a young woman from a powerful drug lord. However, once Mark arrives in Colombia, it doesn't take him long to realize that he has not been told the complete truth about his dangerous mission. He soon realizes that his wife and children may well be in great danger. Now, despite chilling odds and...
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Debolsillo
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2017.
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Fernando, un hombre maduro, regresa a su ciudad natal, Medellín, después de 30 años de ausencia. Allí entabla una relació sentimental con un adolescente, Alexis del que pronto descubre que es un sicario de las comunas populares de Medellín. Fernando se encuentra entonces inmerso en la atmósfera de violencia y homicidio causada por las guerras urbanas del narcotráfico.
Fernando, a man in his fifties, returns to his hometown, Medellin, after...
12) El cielo a tiros
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Alfaguara
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2018
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"Larry regresa al país doce años después de la desaparición de su padre, un mafioso cercano a Pablo Escobar. A su llegada a Medellín lo espera Pedro, su amigo de infancia, para sumergirlo en la celebración de la Alborada, una estruendosa fiesta popular. El encuentro de Larry con su pasado familiar y el redescubrimiento de una ciduad en donde aún se perciben los rezagos de la época más oscura de la historia de Colombia son algunas de las capas...
14) Reputations
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2016.
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An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
15) Muchos changes
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Juana and Lucas volume 3
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Juana's life in Bogotá, Colombia, is just about perfect. Every now and then a big problema comes along--like having to learn English or Juana's mami getting remarried--but things eventually settle down, and life goes back to feeling pretty perfect again. But then Mami springs two new sorpresas on Juana. One: Juana will be spending her school break going to skating camp instead of relaxing (even though she doesn't know how to skate!). Two: Mami is...
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Juana and Lucas volume 2
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Juana's life is just about perfect. She lives in the beautiful city of Bogotá with her two most favorite people in the world: her mami and her dog, Lucas. Lately, though, things have become a little less perfect. Mami has a new hairdo and a new amigo named Luis with whom she has been spending a LOT of time. He is kind and teaches Juana about things like photography and jazz music, but sometimes Juana can't help wishing things would go back to the...
17) Neverforgotten
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"Fabio flies through the streets of Bogotá on his bicycle, the children of his neighborhood trailing behind him. It is there that life feels right-where the world of adults, and their lies, fades away. But then one day, he simply forgets. Forgets how to ride his bicycle. And Fabio will never be the same again. = Fabio vuela por las calles de Bogotá en us bicicleta, seguido por los niños de su barrio. Es allí donde la vida es genial, donde el mundo...
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Alfaguara
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2016.
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Español
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"En el año 2014, Carlos Carballo es arrestado por intentar robar el traje de paño de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, líder político asesinado en Bogotá en 1948. Carballo es un hombre atormentado que busca señales para desentrañar los misterios de un pasado que lo obesesiona. Pero nadie, ni siquiera sus amigos más cercanos, sospecho las razones profundas de su obsesión. ¿Qué conecta los asesinatos de Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, cuya muerta partió en...
20) The rising sun
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Atlantic Monthly
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c2001.
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English
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Now in paperback, Douglas Galbraith's The Rising Sun is an extraordinary tour de force of historical fiction in the tradition of Caleb Carr's The Alienist and David Liss's A Conspiracy of Paper. A widespread critical favorite in hardcover, it was hailed by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best novels of the past decade, and established its author as a major new talent. In 1698, five vessels led by the flagship Rising Sun embarked on a perilous voyage...
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