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Inspector Elena Blanco and her Case Analysis Brigade investigate the Purple Network--a group which traffics videos of extreme violence on…
the Deep Web, the hidden side of the Internet. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2019
Inspector Elena Blanco--head of the Case Analysis Brigade in Madrid--investigates the brutal murder of Susana Macaya, a young gypsy woman…
who disappeared during her bachelorette party. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2018
Hace veinticinco años, el hermano de Libby fue declarado culpable de asesinar a su madre y sus hermanas. Cuando el…
fondo fiduciario sobre lo cual ella ha estado subsistiendo se acaba, Libby--ya con treinta y un años de edad--toma dinero de un grupo que está tratando de demostrar la inocencia de su hermano. Traducido del inglés. Violencia, lenguaje injurioso, y descripciones de índole sexual
Lima, Peru. Rolando Garro, director de un periódico sensacionalista, intenta destruir la reputación de un prominente ingeniero de minas, poniendo…
en marcha una serie de acontecimientos que revelan la corrupción, la intriga, y la violencia en el Perú de Fujimori. Por el autor ganador del Premio Nobel. Violencia, lenguaje injurioso, y descripciones de índole sexual
En esta novela, el protagonista Jaime Baylys, periodista peruano y personalidad de televisión incomprendido, reflexiona sobre su tumultuosa relación con…
una amante, Lucía, en anécdotas y a través de su periodismo. Lenguaje injurioso y descripciones de índole sexual
Chicago reporter Camille Preaker, recently treated for psychological problems, arrives in her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to investigate the…
murders of two preteen girls. Camille sees her mother and thirteen-year-old half sister for the first time in years. But events from the past overwhelm her. Some violence and some descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2006
San Juan. Bajo la tutela de una propietaria de un cabaret, un adolescente puertorriqueño adicto a las drogas llamado Leocadio…
se transforma en la diva travesti Sirena Selena. Algunas descripicones de índole sexual y de lenguaje injurioso
La detective privada Lupe Solano investiga lo que aparenta ser un sencillo caso de legitima defensa. Un prospero comerciante admite…
haber disparado contra un balsero cubano que intento robar en su tienda
Corren los "locos años veinte" y dos jóvenes homosexuales emprenden un viaje a la Habana en busca de la legendaria…
actriz italiana, Eleonora Duse. En camino, los dos encuentran un mundo bizaro de barrios bajos, sórdidos prostíbulos, oficinas policiales y caracteres raros y excéntricos. Al mismo tiempo Eleonora Duse se recuerda de su propria carrera fabulosa
Los residentes del pueblo de Chipping Cleghorn están sorprendidos al leer una noticia del diario que anuncia que alguién va…
a ser asesinado en la casa de un vecino. Tomándola por broma, la gente acude al lugar sólo para quedar atónitos cuando se produce un asesinato de verdad. La viejecita detective Miss Marple investiga. Violencia
An erotic literary work, hailed as an international modern classic by critics, in which the exhilarations and defeats of love…
become pure sensation through the characterization of Jose Cemi. The Cuban poet has attempted to portray the daily life of a Cuban man and his family. The result is perceptive and psychologically intricate. Explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language
Manuel is shocked that his husband of many years, Álvaro, died in a car accident in Galicia when he thought…
he was at a business meeting in Barcelona. He begins to uncover Alvaro's secret life as part of a noble family, and questions his "accidental" death. Strong language and some violence. Planeta Prize. Spanish language. 2016
Forward by Alberto Fuguet. Andrés is gay and in love with his old friend, Demetrio, who is engaged. Before getting…
married, he wants to take a road trip from the Mexican border to Canada to see the Northern Lights. Both friends discover each other on the trip. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2018
When Lala, an affluent Argentine girl, falls in love with her Paraguayan maid, they plan to escape to Paraguay's Ypacaraí…
Lake to be together without judgment. Their plans go awry and Lala arrives at the lake alone, where she hears the legend of the fish boy. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2004
This exploration of the relationship between a father and his adolescent son begins with the eruption of the Villarrica volcano…
in 1971, and continues through the years of the Chilean dictatorship as the boy matures into adulthood and realizes he is gay. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2017
"Born in the small Argentine town of Mina Clavero, Camila is designated male but begins to identify from an early…
age as a girl. She is well aware that she's different from other children and reacts to her oppressive, poverty-stricken home life, with a cowed mother and abusive, alcoholic father, by acting out - with swift consequences. Deeply intelligent, she eventually leaves for the city to attend university, slipping into prostitution to make ends meet. And in Sarmiento Park, in the heart of Córdoba, she discovers the strange, wonderful world of the trans sex workers who dwell there. Taken under the wing of Auntie Encarna, the 178-year-old eternal whose house shelters this unconventional extended family, Camila becomes a part of their stories - of a Headless Man who fled his country's wars, a mute young woman who transforms into a bird, an abandoned baby boy who brings a twinkle to your eye." -- Goodreads
"While her mother dies of cancer in a northern city, the protagonist is making love with a woman in a…
hotel in Barcelona. She will catch a flight to visit her mother the next morning, but she is already late. Shortly after, her lover abruptly and definitively disappears. Her partner returns from London to live with her in a small apartment by the sea, trying to calm and sustain her, while she cries for a mother and longs for a lover." -- Provided by publisher
"In the midst of the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a…
smokehouse in Harlem, a Latina transvestite gets to know none other than Billie Holiday. A group of rugby players haggle over the price of a night of sex and get what they deserve in return. Nuns, grandmothers, children and dogs are never what they seem. The nine stories that make up this book are inhabited by quirky, deeply human characters who confront an ominous reality in ways as strange as they are themselves." -- Translation provided by NLS
"Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart…
of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean - and humanity - from disaster. But first she must become the man she always was - with the help of a sacred anemone. Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art. Bursting with punk energy and lyricism, it's a restless, addictive trip: The Tempest meets the telenovela." -- Goodreads
"It's 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to…
appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sixteen-year-old Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend, than parade in front of suitors. At the ball, Sophia makes the desperate decision to flee, and finds herself hiding in Cinderella's mausoleum. There, she meets Constance, the last known descendant of Cinderella and her step sisters. Together they vow to bring down the king once and for all--and in the process, they learn that there's more to Cinderella's story than they ever knew." -- Provided by publisher