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Aidara en el País de las Nubes

Doridalia Lozada Quiñones

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Life is a collection of memories, music and everything we forget in between. One day you're young and the next adulthood is upon you, ready to do its worst. In comic style and with quintessential millennial humor, the author and illustrator gives a glimpse of her life from a child with a passion for art to the long road it took to become an artist.

Memorias de una Despistá

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Simone

Yu Miri

Morgan Giles

A Novel

WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATED LITERATURE A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Japanese Emperor, his life is tied by a series of coincidences to the Imperial family and has been shaped at every turn by modern Japanese history. But his life story is also marked by bad luck, and now, in death, he is unable to rest, doomed to haunt the park near Ueno Station in Tokyo. Kazu's life in the city began and ended in that park; he arrived there to work as a laborer in the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and ended his days living in the vast homeless village in the park, traumatized by the destruction of the 2011 tsunami and shattered by the announcement of the 2020 Olympics. Through Kazu's eyes, we see daily life in Tokyo buzz around him and learn the intimate details of his personal story, how loss and society's inequalities and constrictions spiraled towards this ghostly fate, with moments of beauty and grace just out of reach. A powerful masterwork from one of Japan's most brilliant outsider writers, Tokyo Ueno Station is a book for our times and a look into a marginalized existence in a shiny global megapolis.

Tokyo Ueno Station

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Luis Sepulveda

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

"Este extraordinario libro recoge un conjunto de breves relatos, algunos de los cuales habian sido publicados anteriormente en El Pais. Ambientados en diferentes lugares y epocas trata temas tan diversos como el Holocausto judio, el colonialismo economico en el Amazonas, el irracional nacionalismo serbio, los delitos ecologicos y otras situaciones de grave injusticia. El Holocausto judio, el colonialismo economico en el Amazonas, el irracional nacionalismo serbio, los delitos ecologicos y otras situaciones de grave injusticia son los protagonistas de este extraordinario libro de relatos."

Historias Marginales

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Andrés Barba

A real estate agent is preparing an empty house for buyers to visit when she finds herself in the kitchen with a seven-year-old boy who doesn't blink an eye. The apparition will be repeated, and the woman will leave her everyday world behind. What is on the other side is suspended time, a loop, and a life. Full of appearances, but in a contemporary version in which lyricism, delicacy and cruelty play a leading role.

El último día de la vida anterior

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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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 encuentra La Sombra del Viento, 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.

Ambientada en la enigmática Barcelona de principios del siglo XX, este misterio literario mezcla técnicas de relato de intriga, de novela histórica y de comedia de costumbres, pero es, sobre todo, una tragedia histórica de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros, manteniendo la intriga hasta la última página.

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"Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show."--The New York Times Book Review. -A New York Times Bestseller

Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

" Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

"Wonderous... masterful... The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero." --Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice)

"One gorgeous read."--Stephen King



La Sombra Del Viento

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Cuando nadie nos nombre

Traducción de Javier Albiña Serain

Luna llena

Julie Cameron

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Jeremy Horton is a man denying his past, haunted by a dysfunctional childhood full of dark secrets--including the suspicious death of his younger sister.Married to lawyer Sarah and with children of his own, Jeremy keeps his eyes firmly focused on the present, never daring to glance in the rear-view mirror for fear of what he might see there. But when a chance encounter awakens the memories he's fought so hard to suppress, and the death of his estranged mother takes Jeremy back to his sleepy hometown and the scene of the family tragedy, he determines to finally uncover the truth behind his sister's death.Villages hold long memories, and Jeremy's presence quickly becomes an unwelcome reminder of nameless cruelties and shameful secrets. The more he learns, the more the stories from his past take on a sinister significance, leading him to question his own innocence. Meanwhile, someone desperately wants him gone, and their efforts to drive him out escalate as Jeremy's anxiety spirals out of control. Do they fear him for what he knows--or for what he's done? 

Nameless Acts of Cruelty

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Alaina Urquhart

From the co-host of chart-topping true crime podcast Morbid, a thrilling debut novel told from the dueling perspectives of a notorious serial killer and the medical examiner following where his trail of victims leads

Something dark is lurking in the Louisiana bayou: a methodical killer with a penchant for medical experimentation is hard at work completing his most harrowing crime yet, taunting the authorities who desperately try to catch up.


But forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller is the best there is. Armed with an encyclopedic knowledge of historical crimes, and years of experience working in the Medical Examiner's office, she's never encountered a case she couldn't solve. Until now. Case after case is piling up on Wren's examination table, and soon she is sucked into an all-consuming cat-and-mouse chase with a brutal murderer getting more brazen by the day.


An addictive read with straight-from-the-morgue details only an autopsy technician could provide, The Butcher and the Wren promises to ensnare all who enter.


The Butcher and the Wren

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Mariana Enriquez

Buena condición, algunas manchas de humedad

El legado, el deseo de vivir, la paternidad, el horror, lo íntimo y lo político. El terror sobrenatural se entrelaza con terrores muy reales en esta osada y perturbadora novela. Un padre y su hijo atraviesan Argentina por carretera, desde Buenos Aires hacia las cataratas de Iguazú, en la frontera norte con Brasil. Son los años de la junta militar, hay controles de soldados armados y tensión en el ambiente. El padre de Gaspar trata de protegerlo del destino que le ha sido asignado después de que su madre muriese en circunstancias poco claras; en un accidente que acaso no lo fue. Como su padre, Gaspar está llamado a ser un médium en una sociedad secreta, la Orden, que contacta con la Oscuridad en busca de la vida eterna mediante atroces rituales. Para ellos es vital disponer de un médium, pero el destino de estos seres dotados de poderes especiales es cruel, y el desgaste físico y mental es rápido e implacable. Los orígenes de la Orden, regida por la poderosa familia de la madre de Gaspar, se remontan a siglos atrás, cuando el conocimiento de la Oscuridad llegó desde el corazón de África a Inglaterra y desde allí se extendió hasta Argentina. El lector emprenderá un viaje entre la represión de la dictadura militar argentina y el Londres psicodélico de los años sesenta, donde la madre de Gaspar conoció a un joven cantante de aire andrógino llamado David; descubrirá casas cuyo interior muta, pasadizos que esconden monstruos inimaginables, rituales con fieros sacrificios humanos, enigmáticas liturgias sexuales y la carga de una herencia atroz. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A father and a son cross Argentina by road, from Buenos Aires to the Iguazu Falls. It's the military regime era, there are controls of armed soldiers and tension in the environment. The son's name is Gaspar and the father tries to protect him from his destiny after his mother died in unclear circumstances.

Nuestra Parte de Noche 

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Claire Keegan

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

An international bestseller and one of The Times' "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love; now released as a standalone book for the first time ever in the US

It is a hot summer in rural Ireland. A child is taken by her father to live with relatives on a farm, not knowing when or if she will be brought home again. In the Kinsellas' house, she finds an affection and warmth she has not known and slowly, in their care, begins to blossom. But there is something unspoken in this new household--where everything is so well tended to--and this summer must soon come to an end.

Winner of the prestigious Davy Byrnes Award and published in an abridged version in the New Yorker, this internationally bestselling contemporary classic is now available for the first time in the US in a full, standalone edition. A story of astonishing emotional depth, Foster showcases Claire Keegan's great talent and secures her reputation as one of our most important storytellers.

Foster

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Grady Hendrix

"A supernatural thriller set in South Carolina in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious stranger who turns out to be a real monster"--

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

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Traducción de Paula Kuffer

Topología de la violencia

Elvira Navarro

Elvira Navarro nos brinda su mejor obra: una novela en tres movimientos sobre la memoria, la lealtad hacia los mandatos de los ancestros y la muerte. «Elvira Navarro es una de las grandes escritoras españolas de hoy. Una cirujana precisa y certera de las emociones más escondidas del corazón». -Manuel Vilas ¿Cómo se reordena el mundo tras una muerte? ¿Cuánto hay en toda existencia de reparación de quienes la precedieron? ¿Qué voces nos habitan? Adriana, la protagonista de esta historia, afronta varios duelos mientras cuida de su padre enfermo. También se ha convertido en una voraz espectadora de la vida de los demás gracias a las redes sociales y en una tímida consumidora de experiencias amorosas a través de una app de citas, pero eso solo acentúa su sensación de estancamiento. El miedo a romper con inercias que han perdido el sentido a menudo proviene de los fantasmas del pasado, y el suyo acaba irrumpiendo ferozmente a través de una casa que una vez encarnó el universo entero y de una abuela y una madre que cuentan unos hechos trágicos. Elvira Navarro ofrece al lector su mejor obra con esta novela en tres movimientos sobre la memoria, la lealtad hacia los mandatos de los ancestros, el carácter cada vez más espectral de nuestro presente y la muerte. También sobre lo que nos queda cuando los seres que amamos ya no nos acompañan. El resultado es un libro extraordinario, conmovedor y audaz. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Elvira Navarro offers us her best work yet: a novel set in three movements about memory, loyalty to the mandates of the ancestors, and death. «Elvira Navarro is one of today's great Spanish writers. She is a precise and accurate surgeon of the heart's most hidden emotions». -Manuel Vilas How to rearrange the world after a death? How much reparation is in every existence from those who preceded it? What voices inhabit us? Adriana, the protagonist of this story, faces several duels while she takes care of her sick father. She has also become a voracious spectator of the lives of others thanks to social media and at the same time a shy consumer of love experiences through a dating app, but this only accentuates her feeling stuck. The fear of breaking with meaningless inertia often comes from ghosts of the past, and hers ends up breaking fiercely through a house that once embodied the entire universe and a grandmother and a mother who tell some tragic events. Elvira Navarro offers the reader her best work with this novel set in three movements about memory, loyalty to the mandates of the ancestors, the increasingly spectral nature of our present, and death. It is also about what we have left when the people we love are no longer with us. The result is an extraordinary, moving, and bold book.

Las Voces de Adriana 

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Bajar es lo peor

Alafair Burke

New York Times Bestselling Author From Alafair Burke--New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife-- comes another twisty tale of domestic noir. When a prominent Manhattan lawyer is murdered, two estranged sisters--one the dead man's widow, the other his ex--must set aside mistrust and old resentments ... but can they escape their past? Keep your enemies close and your sister closer. Though Chloe was the younger of the two Taylor sisters, she always seemed to be the one in charge. She was the honor roll student with big dreams and an even bigger work ethic. Nicky--always restless and more than a little reckless--was the opposite of her ambitious little sister. She floated from job to job and man to man, and stayed close to home in Cleveland. For a while, it seemed that both sisters had found happiness. Chloe earned a scholarship to an Ivy League school and moved to New York City, where she landed a coveted publishing job. Nicky married promising young attorney Adam Macintosh and gave birth to a baby boy they named Ethan. The Taylor sisters became virtual strangers. Now, more than fifteen years later, their lives are drastically different--and Chloe is married to Adam. When he's murdered by an intruder at the couple's East Hampton beach house, Chloe reluctantly allows her teenage stepson's biological mother--her estranged sister, Nicky--back into her life. But when the police begin to treat Ethan as a suspect in his father's death, the two sisters are forced to unite . . . and to confront the truth behind family secrets they have tried to bury in the past.

The Better Sister

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Fernanda Trias

Novela contemporánea
Suspenso, familia disfuncional

Empezamos allí donde terminamos: ¿qué ha ocurrido en este apartamento en ruinas, separado del mundo exterior?

La Azotea

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz 2021 Uno de los mejores libros en español del 2020 del New York Times Con una prosa inquietante y rica en hallazgos poéticos, construye un universo que descubre la enorme belleza y el inmenso dolor que hay en la fragilidad de la vida y las relaciones. En una ciudad portuaria asolada por una plaga misteriosa, una mujer intenta descifrar por qué su mundo se desmorona. No es sólo el acecho de la enfermedad y la muerte, las algas y los vientos pestíferos, los amasijos rosáceos que son ya lo único que se puede comer, sino el colapso de todos sus vínculos afectivos, la incertidumbre, la eclosión de una soledad radical. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award 2021 One of the best Spanish Books of 2020 by The New York Times With an unsettling prose, rich in poetic findings, Trías creates a whole universe to discover the immense beauty and insurmountable pain we find in the frailty of life and relationships. In a port city ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman struggles to understand why her world is falling apart. It is not just sickness and death lurking, the algae and the pestiferous winds, the pink mashes that are the only things left to eat, but the crumbling of all her emotional attachments, the uncertainty, the dawn of radical loneliness.

Mugre Rosa 

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Nancy Levit

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Legal theory
Feminist legal theory

A Primer

An updated edition of the praised primer for feminist legal theory and how it shapes contemporary gender issues At long last, the complex field of feminist legal theory is presented in accessible, teachable form by two of its experts, Nancy Levit and Robert R. M. Verchick. In this outstanding primer, the authors introduce the diverse strands of feminist legal theory and the array of substantive legal issues relevant to women's and gender studies. The book centers on feminist legal theories—including equal treatment theory, cultural feminism, dominance theory, critical race feminism, lesbian feminism, postmodern feminism, and ecofeminism. The authors also address feminist legal methods, such as consciousness raising and storytelling. The primer demonstrates the ways feminist legal theory operates in real-life contexts, including domestic violence, reproductive rights, workplace discrimination, education, sports, pornography, and global issues of gender. Levit and Verchick highlight a sweeping range of cutting edge topics at the intersection of law and gender, such as single sex schools, women in the military, abortion, same sex marriage, date rape, and the international trafficking in women and girls. At its core, Feminist Legal Theory shows the importance of the role of law and feminist legal theory in shaping contemporary gender issues.

Feminist Legal Theory

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Cristian Alarcón Casanova

Ganadora del Premio Alfaguara de Novela 2022 Se acerca el confinamiento de 2020 y el protagonista siente la tentación de retirarse a su cabaña en las afueras de Buenos Aires para hacer frente desde allí a lo que pueda venir. Mientras espera, cultiva un jardín con todo tipo de plantas y flores. Su amor por la naturaleza le lleva a indagar en la formación del pensamiento científico, el nacimiento de la botánica y la gran aventura de las expediciones europeas del siglo xviii. Al mismo tiempo, rememora la historia de su familia, que fue arrancada de cuajo de sus raíces en Daglipulli, Chile, por la dictadura de Pinochet. Poco a poco este escenario singular se ve inundado por el recuerdo de las humildes dalias que plantaba su abuela Alba, la presencia exuberante y amenazadora de la selva amazónica con la que se encontró Humboldt en 1799 y la seguridad controlada de los híbridos que compra ahora en viveros. En este paraíso en diferentes grados de conservación, el paisaje natural del Cono Sur se convierte en un personaje fundamental, con sus propios ritmos, con las huellas que dejaron los hombres que intentaron poblarlo. La historia, la botánica y el relato familiar confluyen en él y marcan el carácter del protagonista, sus elecciones vitales y su manera de estar en el mundo. Esta novela es un relato luminoso sobre la vida cotidiana de un individuo pero también sobre las tragedias colectivas que nos acechan. Lo pequeño, lo sencillo, ese paraíso personal que construimos como refugio es también, en última instancia, lo que siempre nos salva ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Winner of the 2022 Alfaguara Novel Prize The 2020 quarantine is fast approaching, and the protagonist feels the urge to retire to his cabin on the outskirts of Buenos Aires to face whatever may come in the near future. While he waits, he starts to grow a garden with all kinds of plants and flowers. His love for nature leads him to research the creation of scientific thought, the birth of botany, and the great adventures of European expeditions of the eighteenth century. At the same time, he recalls his family’s history, one that was uprooted from its core in Daglipulli, Chile, by the Pinochet dictatorship. Little by little, this unique setting is flooded by the memory of the sweet dahlias that his grandmother Alba used to grow, the exuberant and threatening presence of the Amazon jungle that Humboldt first laid his eyes on in 1799, and the then controlled sale of the hybrids that he now buys in nurseries. In this paradise, and at different degrees of conservation, the natural landscape of the Southern Cone becomes a central character, with its own rhythms and with the footprints left behind by those who tried to settle it. History, botany, and the family’s story come together and mark the protagonist’s personality, his life choices, and his way of being part of this world. El tercer paraíso / The Third Paradise is a brilliant story about the daily life of a person, but also about the collective tragedies that dwell within us. The small and simple things, that personal paradise that we build for ourselves as a refuge is also, ultimately, what always saves us.

El Tercer paraíso 

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Fernanda Melchor

Nominada para el Man Booker Internacional 2022

«Fernanda Melchor explora la violencia y la desigualdad en esta novela brutal. Lo hace con una destreza técnica deslumbrante, oído absoluto para la oralidad y precisión de neurocirujana para la crueldad. Páradais es un breve e inexorable descenso al infierno». -Mariana Enríquez

En un conjunto residencial de lujo, dos adolescentes inadaptados se reúnen por las noches para embriagarse a escondidas y compartir sus descabelladas fantasías. Franco Andrade, obeso y solitario, adicto a la pornografía, sueña con seducir a la vecina de al lado- una atractiva mujer casada, madre de familia-, por quien ha desarrollado una obsesión malsana; mientras que Polo, su reacio compañero, fantasea con renunciar a su agobiante empleo como jardinero del exclusivo fraccionamiento y huir de su casa, de su pueblo infestado de narcos, y del yugo de su dominante madre. Ante la imposibilidad de conseguir lo que cada uno cree merecer, Franco y Polo maquinarán un plan tan pueril como macabro. 

Páradais, escrita por Fernanda Melchor, una de las escritoras mexicanas más destacadas de la actualidad, explora la facilidad con la que el deseo puede convertirse en obsesión y, más aún, en violencia, al tiempo que narra la alianza entre los polos opuestos de la sociedad mexicana contemporánea. 

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Longlisted for the 2022 International Man Booker Prize

"Fernanda Melchor explores violence and inequity in this brutal novel. She does it with dazzling technical prowess, a perfect pitch for orality, and a neurosurgeon's precision for cruelty. Paradais is a short inexorable descent into Hell." --Mariana Enríquez

In a luxurious residential complex, two outcast teenagers sneak at night to get drunk and share their outrageous fantasies. Franco Andrade, a fat and lonely porn addict, dreams of seducing his next-door neighbor, an attractive wife and mother for whom he has developed an unwholesome obsession. Polo, his reluctant sidekick, fantasizes about quitting his back-breaking job as a gardener in this exclusive complex and running away from home, leaving their narco-infested town and his overbearing mother's grip behind. Faced with the impossibility of getting what they both believe they deserve; Franco and Polo will come up with a plan that is every bit as childish as it is macabre.

Written by Fernanda Melchor, one of the most outstanding Mexican writers of today, Paradais explores how easily desire can turn into obsession, and then further into violence, all the while describing the alliance between opposite sides of contemporary Mexican society.

Páradais 

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Nicole A. Dombrowski

Buena condición /Good condition
Essays about women and war around the world.

Enlisted with or Without Consent

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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