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English
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A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. At the age of sixteen, Diego is sent to Spain, a country chafing under the corruption of Napoleonic rule. He soon joins...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
As soon as the tall, handsome Spaniard leaned down from his stallion to offer her a rose, Caralee McConnell knew California held danger. But all too quickly she was forced to deny the heat Ramon de la Guerra had sparked. Determined to please her uncle who had saved her from poverty, she must resign herself to marrying a man he has chosen for her ... and ignore what is in her heart. Behind Ramon de la Guerra's dark eyes throbbed the memory of his lands,...
3) Blitz
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Learning to Lose, David Trueba's new novel about a young Spanish architect's affair with an older German woman. Blitz is a romantic tragicomedy that recounts the exploits of Beto, a young architect who heads to Munich with his girlfriend to take part in a landscape-planning competition. In an instant, a text message Beto wasn't meant to receive shatters him, leaving him bewildered and heading nowhere. But unintentionally he falls...
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Language
English
Description
"In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance: Audible Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
El rastro de un joven español se esfuma por el sur de Inglaterra tras dejar un mensaje de socorro en el teléfono móvil de su madre. Ella, que apenas ha abandonado su pequeño pueblo en contadas ocasiones, decide ir en su busca. Hace un año, su marido desapareció en las tranquilas aguas de la Albufera y no está dispuesta a vivir de nuevo una angustia como aquella.
The trail of a young Spaniard vanishes through southern England after leaving...
6) Unmade beds
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Axl is a Spanish kid trying to track down the British man who fathered him twenty years ago. Axl finds out his biological father is a real estate broker and pretends to be in the market for an apartment just so he can get to know his dad. Vera has come from France just to get over a heartbreak. She tries hard not to fall in love, she won't even tell a new boyfriend her name, but sometimes the heart knows better.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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"Historians refer to the Spanish Civil War as one of the bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. In 1937, at Mexico's request and offer, nearly 500 children from Spain - remembered as Los Niños de Morelia - were relocated via ship to Mexico to escape the war's violence. These children traveled across the sea without their families and were expected to return at the war's end. No one could have foreseen another world war was on the way - or that...
Author
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Un viaje hacia una vida nueva. Una historia de amor y traición en el ocaso de una época. Una mujer dispuesta a conocer la verdad. 1898. Zoilo y Elisa ven alejarse su Cartagena natal desde la cubierta del transatlántico que los llevará a una nueva e incierta vida en México. Empujado por la violencia de las revueltas mineras en España, el acaudalado matrimonio se ve obligado a huir antes de que sus trabajadores se alcen contra ellos y sus propiedades....
Author
Series
Jonquil brothers romance volume 4
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
London barrister Jason Jonquil has spent his entire life working to establish his identity as a man of refinement, like his father and brothers. But when fiery Spanish beauty Mariposa Thornton walks into his office, he finds himself losing his grasp on his dignified character. The woman is infuriating and pushes him to the end of his patience. Her case seems simple enough. It's only a small matter of inheritance, or so he believes ... Once a well-born...
12) Victoria
Publisher
Adopt Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local Berliners outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these lads are in trouble and they owe someone a dangerous favor that requires repaying that evening. As Victoria's flirtation with Sonne deepens into something more, he convinces her to come along for the ride. As the night takes on an ever more menacing character, what started...
13) Santa Fe
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Describes the historical and strategic roles of Santa Fe, New Mexico in what is now the southwestern United States.
14) Sira
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espanol
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
"La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos, Sira afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo logrará, sin embargo. El destino le tendrá preparada una trágica desventura que la obligará a reinventarse, tomar sola las riendas de su vida y luchar con garra para encauzar el porvenir. Entre hechos históricos que marcarán...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
Cristina Rios is called to assess a castle in Ireland, where she becomes fascinated by the castle, its people, and the legend of a ghost: Dargo, son of the master of the property, who's wandered for 400 years in search of a sacred relic that could free his soul.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navío fletado por el poeta Pablo Neruda que llevó a más de dos mil españoles rumbo a Valparaíso, embarcarán en busca de la paz y la libertad que no tuvieron en su país. Recibidos como héroes en Chile --ese "largo pétalo...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A band of Spanish conquistadors, led by Pizarro, go up the Amazon in search of gold. As the soldiers battle starvation, Indians, the forces of nature and each other, Don Lope de Aguirre (the self-styled "Wrath of God") is consumed by visions of conquering all of South America and leads a revolt, but Aguirre's megalomania turns the expedition into a doomed quest.
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