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Author
Series
Mac Reilly novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
From the Hollywood Hills to the streets of Barcelona, from lush vineyards and wineries to the most exclusive homes in Europe, let Elizabeth Adler take you on a journey with a story that will hold you spellbound. Bibi Fortunata was the hottest ticket in town: singer, actress, and celebrity. Two years ago she was arrested on suspicion of murdering her lover and his new mistress, who was also Bibi's best friend.Bibi was front-page news in a way her...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1920s Barcelona, love-obsessed writer David Martin makes his living by anonymously penning crime novels from a secluded and abandoned mansion. However, after receiving a tantalizing offer from a mysterious publisher, he realizes that his book possesses the disturbing ability to consume him and all of humanity.
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 574
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way-- a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood. Moving from Spain to Cuba to New York for an arranged second marriage, she faces her greatest challenge-- her disabled stepdaughter, Luna, whose feistiness equals her own and whose challenges pit new family against old....
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Language
Español
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Un amanecer de 1945 un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo XX, desde los últimos esplendores...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Language
English
Description
When a famous scientist is killed in bombing attack in 1909 Barcelona, private detective Harry Lawton teams up with a young anarchist and a crime reporter to investigate a series of deaths linked to a blood-drinking animal.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child,...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Language
English
Description
In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life...
11) Firing point
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Series
Language
English
Description
"While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small café. A first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado más de dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A romantic comedy about a brainy bachelor and the cat that opens his eyes to life's little pleasures"--
When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year's Day, he doesn't expect much from the coming year. When a stray, brindle-furred cat slips into his Barcelona apartment, it becomes the catalyst that leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and classical music to places he's never been and to people he...
14) El anticuario
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1a. edición.
Language
Español
Description
Enrique Alonso, escritor, recibe una carta de su padre adoptivo, uno de los más conocidos anticuarios de Barcelona, en la que éste le relata el hallazgo de un antiguo manuscrito redactado en latín y catalán antiguo. Por desgracia, Artur no verá cumplido su sueño de encontrarla, pues será asesinado. Enrique se trasladará a Barcelona con el objetivo de encontrar la explicación a los misterios del manuscrito, resolver el asesinato y...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's new novel. Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel's sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain in search of her. Joining forces with an unlikely ally thrusts Isabel...
16) Marina
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"'Marina me dijo una vez que sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió. Pasaría una eternidad antes de que comprendiese aquellas palabras'. Así empieza Marina, una apasionante novela cuyo protegonista y narrador, Óscar Drai, abandonó su ciudad natal en un vano intento de escapar a sus recuerdos, pensando que, si ponía suficiente distancia, las voces de su pasado se acallarían para siempre. Quince años más tarde ha regresado a Barcelona...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The American debut of a highly acclaimed young Spanish writer: a darkly funny, acerbic novel about love -- and the end of love -- and how hard it can be to let go. There's a lot about Joan-Marc that his estranged second wife doesn't know -- but which he now sets out to tell her. He begins with the failure of his first marriage to an American woman named Helen, describing a vacation they took in a last-ditch attempt to salvage their once-passionate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale--a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark history of Franco's Spain. In this unforgettable final...
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