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Bogota, 2014. César Gómez Hernández reflects back on a long and memorable life, whose turning point was the voyage to…
Cuba aboard the Granma in 1956 with Fidel Castro and eighty guerrillas to overthrow the Batista dictatorship. Violence. Spanish language. 2017
Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un niño de nueve años, Bruno, está consternado cuando su familia se traslada de Berlín a una…
casa de campo remota. Se esfuerza por entender por qué él no puede ser amigo de un niño al otro lado de una cerca de alambre. Traducido del inglés. Para grados 6 a 9 y lectores mayores
Alemania, 1943. Rosa Sauer toma la fatídica decisión de abandonar un Berlín devastado por la guerra, pero se encuentra reclutada…
para ser una de las catadoras de Hitler. Dos veces al día, ella y otras nueve mujeres van al cuartel general secreto para probar las comidas del Führer. Traducido del italiano
Puerto Rico, 2010. Doctor Efraín López Arraíza confides in his patient Mario--a U. S. Army veteran seeking treatment--the harrowing tale…
of his abduction and captivity in Colombia seven years before. Violence and strong language. Spanish language. 2016
España, 1936. Lorenzo Falcó---para algunas personas, un exitoso empresario; para otros, un miembro de los servicios secretos franquistas--recibe una misión…
de preparar un asalto a la cárcel de Alicante para liberar a un ilustre prisionero
Las cinco familias de La Caída de los Gigantes (DB 79975) continúan luchando a través de las décadas tumultuosos de…
los 1930s y 1940s. Carla von Ulrich, hija de Maud y Walter, lucha contra los nazis, mientras que Lloyd Williams y Boy Fitzherbert compiten por la atención de Daisy Peshkov, una mujer de alta sociedad. Violencia y algunas descripciones de lenguage injurioso
A satiric novel about the mad adventures of Captain Yossarian, a bomber pilot based in Italy during World War II,…
who desperately tries to avoid flying bombing missions. Explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1961. Spanish language
Death narrates the tale of nine-year-old Liesel from 1939 to 1943 in Nazi Germany. Sustained by the books she steals,…
Liesel copes with a foster family, air raids, her friend Rudy, and a hidden Jew. Some strong language. For senior high and older readers. Printz Honor. Spanish language. 2007
Ismael, an elderly retired teacher, lives with his wife in a peaceful Colombian mountain village. When some of their neighbors…
disappear and ransoms are demanded, the tranquillity of the town is destroyed. Then the arrival of unknown soldiers unleashes irrational violence. Some violence. Tusquets Prize. Spanish language. 2007
El autor peruano presenta nueve historias de personas traumatizadas y marginalizadas por guerras, desastres, y un mundo que cambia constantemente.…
En el cuento del título, un guerrillero peruano, poco antes de ser matado, contempla a su hija, su familia y su vida pasada. Violencia y lenguaje injurioso
Historical novel of the early-nineteenth-century naval battle of Trafalgar from the point of view of the French and Spanish sailors…
who fought against Lord Nelson's British fleet. Depicts the bloody order of battle and the ships and men involved. Strong language. Spanish language. 2004
Thirty years after losing her older brother in Vietnam, Teresa and her family are still grieving. Because their elderly mother…
wants to travel cross country to visit the Vietnam Memorial, Teresa and her siblings put aside their personal problems and decide to accompany her. Strong language. Spanish language. 2003
Historical novel by the Paraguayan author presents a series of interwoven stories illustrating the history of Paraguay from the nineteenth-century…
dictatorship of Jose Gaspar Rodriguez Francia to the end of the Chaco War in 1935. Roa Bastos depicts the plight of the Paraguayan people who rise to great heroism in time of war only to fall back into a vicious cycle of misery and oppression. Spanish language
Battle-hardened German soldier Hassel and his comrades fight a losing battle on the Russian front where the stark realities of…
a brutal war admit only one rule: kill or be killed. As the German army begins its retreat before an overwhelming foe, the veterans know their time is running out. Violence and strong language. Spanish language
Corporal Joseph Porta and his comrades in a German tank unit have survived the bloody and brutal war on the…
Russian front. When a prisoner of war turns out to be a Soviet commissar, they learn about a hidden treasure. It doesn't take much to convince them to give up fighting for Hitler to go on a gold-hunting expedition. Violence and strong language. Spanish language
A team of Moslem terrorists blows up a key Russian oil installation. Faced with a severe fuel shortage, the Soviets…
plan to seize the Persian Gulf, after establishing an elaborate smoke screen of hostilities against NATO. Land, sea, and air battles for control of eastern Europe and the North Atlantic ensue. Some strong language. Spanish language
Collects firsthand interviews with survivors of humanity's devastating clash with the undead. Personal accounts from all over the world reveal…
the scope of the conflict, from the first zombie outbreak to the aftermath of war. Strong language and some violence. Spanish language. 2006
Mi-ja and Young-sook are best friends, even though their backgrounds are markedly different. When they come of age, they join…
their village's all-female diving collective, which is run by Young-sook's mother. However, Mi-ja's parentage marks her for scorn and drives the friends apart as war looms. Some violence. Spanish language. 2019
Switzerland, 1970s. Caroline, a doctoral student, investigates the impact of World War II on international boarding schools, which leads her…
to Ms. Geiger, a former student. Will Caroline be able to unravel her secrets to understand what happened as her isolated school shut down due to war? Spanish language. 2020
World War I novel. As the German invaders unleash the beasts of war--Pestilence, Carnage, Hunger, Death--Marcel Desnoyers must watch, powerless…
and ashamed. He is too old to fight for France, and his only son is a carefree bohemian. Spanish language