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Tierra contrafuturo
Par Luis Carlos Barragán. 2021
"The first extraterrestrial contact occurs in the jungles of Latin America. Two Colombians with nothing to lose flee in a…
spaceship. A couple of years later, one of them returns to found an interplanetary embassy, which promises to bring alien technology and labor to Earth. Now humanity has the opportunity to become a type I society and become part of the Interstellar Directorate. But the usual economic and political powers will try to prevent this future. The diplomatic crisis with the Earth powers is serious, but now there are higher beings who will intervene for good or ill." -- Translation provided by NLSPeregrinas (Colección Andanzas #985)
Par Joaquín Berges. 2021
"Pilgrims tells the story of the journey starring Dorita, Fina and Carmen, three octogenarian women in a nursing home who…
take advantage of the easing of the COVID lockdown to escape with the excuse of making the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. In reality, Dorita has unfinished business in Tarragona, and has convinced Carmen, who has a driver's license, and Fina, owner of an old Volvo 850 inherited from her husband, to accompany her. Fina, who suffers from the onset of Alzheimer's, is gradually convinced that everything they see leads them to Santiago." -- Translation provided by NLSSi le haces una fiesta a una cerdita: If You Give A Pig A Party (spanish Edition) (If You Give... Ser.)
Par Laura Joffe Numeroff. 2005
Si le haces una fiesta a una cerdita, te pedirá unos cuantos globos. Cuando le des los globos, querrá decorar…
la casa. Tan pronto termine, se pondrá su vestido favorito. Luego llamará a sus amigos: Ratón, Alce y muchos más para invitarlos a la fiesta. Para niños preescolares hasta segundo grado. Sin calificaciónSudor
Par Alberto Fuguet. 2016
"Wildly piercing and corrosively funny, Sudor (Sweat) is an editor's raw look at the absurd and oftentimes dysfunctional inner workings…
of the literary world. When his run-of-the-mill existence is suddenly turned upside down by the arrival of a famous author and his spoiled, defiant son, Alf, a junior editor at a large publishing house, embarks on a whirlwind three days that will change his life forever. Taking a page from Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, Sweat is a piercing look at the mad circus that are author book tours-lavish parties, larger-than-life expectations, explosive egos and a whole industry that subsists on catering to the intellectual elite. The author of Bad Vibes, a novel that pulverized every boundary of the post-Pinochet era, plunges readers head first into the gay underworld where feelings are relegated to a second tier in favor of a series of ephemeral and extreme sexual encounters courtesy of Grindr, the popular app that Alf, the novel's protagonist, uses just as often as his authors use him. Meanwhile Santiago, the city where it all unfolds, emerges as a rare and alluring presence. A masterfully crafted and electrifying novel, Sudor confirms Fuguet as one of the most relevant voices in Latin America today." -- Provided by the publisherTreinta y seis metros (Editor/a por un libro)
Par Santiago Ambao. 2020
"Things that happen just because, coffees that are thrown in the sink without drinking, toast that is thrown in the…
trash without eating, a protagonist who tries to name his feelings but forces himself not to think in certain directions, a woman who is almost always in the shower or behind other kinds of screens, another woman shows promise but barely scratches the surface, an innocent and slightly cross-eyed girl, a civil servant who goes crazy just when he is reaching his retirement, a boss or two who do and undo as they please, two children who immerse themselves in the PlayStation's twisted reality, the latest television, a comfortable armchair and the best possible coffee maker, the unfulfilled desire to go fishing as a family, an inner escape, a future escape. Santiago Ambao has put all these ingredients in a cocktail shaker and has extracted from it a brilliant story, well shaken and blended, although what makes it even greater is to join it with another parallel, underground story that takes place on the other side of the world, a kind of political and economic plot, a mixture of realism and science fiction, or rather the fruit of a disturbingly visionary realism." -- Translation provided by NLSTercer mundo
Par Pedro Cabiya. 2019
"Orishas, saints, luases, demons and angels frolic in a fantastic Puerto Rico that only the fertile imagination of Pedro Cabiya…
could have conceived. Different ministries of the multiverse's administrative bureaucracy compete to recover the valuable extraterrestrial contraband abandoned in Santurce, capital of the Borikwa Republic.... But stealing the loot won't be as easy as they think. Political satire and cosmic parody combine in a web of espionage and action where the great questions of existence share space with the most profane humor, producing a novel that resists classification within the known genres, announcing a new one. Prequel to his immensely popular novel |Trance|, |Third World| promises, like its predecessor, a reading that is impossible to interrupt." -- Translation provided by NLSLa noche en la Zona M (A través del espejo)
Par Alberto Chimal. 2019
"In a futuristic dystopian world, civilization as we know it has fallen, even Mexico City, which has been divided into…
a set of kingdoms that maintain a fragile peace and try to survive by taking advantage of leftover technology from another era. In the kingdom of the Center lives Sita, a teenager who, along with her grandmother Lucina, is in charge of maintaining communications at the Fort, the local chief's base. Both live with Celeste: the consciousness of a woman who knew the ancient times and is now stored in a computer. When Sita learns of their plans for her, she decides to make an escape to a better place, but along the way she will encounter dangerous threats from which no one has ever escaped alive." -- Translation provided by NLSDragón y sus labores (Dragon. Spanish)
Par Dav Pilkey. 2021
"Dragon is very responsible, but sometimes he makes mistakes. When he's tired, he accidentally reads an egg and fries his…
morning newspaper! When he sweeps his dirt floor, he can't seem to sweep away all of the dirt and ends up sweeping a hole into the center of his living room! And when Dragon goes grocery shopping, he buys more food than he can fit into his car!" -- GoodreadsBienvenido al Campamento de las Serpientes (Goosebumps HorrorLand. Spanish #09)
Par R. L Stine. 2013
Las calles del Parque del Pánico (Goosebumps HorrorLand. Spanish #12)
Par R. L Stine. 2014
"After a group of kids survive HorrorLand, they become trapped in Panic Park. They must each confront their greatest fears…
and make unlikely alliances in order to survive." -- Provided by NLSEscape de HorrorLandia (Goosebumps HorrorLand. Spanish #11)
Par R. L Stine. 2014
Bienvenidos a Villapeste (Pandilla basura #01)
Par R. L Stine. 2022
"Welcome to the town of Smellville, where nine kids all live in a big tumbledown house and have as much…
fun as they possibly can. People may think that they're gross and weird and strange, but they're not bad kids-they just don't know any better. In this hilarious new series from bestselling author R. L. Stine, the Garbage Pail Kids-from Adam Bomb to Brainy Janie-get into mischief at their middle school, all while battling bullies and their archenemies, Penny and Parker Perfect." -- GoodreadsEmoción a raudales (Pandilla basura #02)
Par R. L Stine. 2022
"The Garbage Pail Kids are desperate to win the Smellville Pet Contest. But how can they compete against Good Boy,…
the perfect Chihuahua of the Perfect twins? Good Boy can stand on his head and do algebra problems blindfolded. But the whole thing goes out of control when our heroes meet five new kids who also call themselves the Garbage Pail Kids! Meet Windy Winston, Nat Nerd, Brett Sweat, Nasty Nancy, and Disgustin' Justin. They all share the grand prize-a free all-day trip to Six Thrills Amusement Park. Will anyone have a good time? And will anyone survive?" -- GoodreadsUn campamento turbulento (Pandilla basura #03)
Par R. L Stine. 2022
"The Garbage Pail Kids are off to sleepaway camp in the third installment of the New York Times bestselling Garbage…
Pail Kids series! Welcome to the town of Smellville, where ten kids all live in a big tumbledown house and have as much fun as they possibly can. People may think that they're gross and weird and slobby and strange, but they're not bad kids-they just don't know any better. In this hilarious series from bestselling author R.L. Stine, the Garbage Pail Kids-from Adam Bomb to Brainy Janey-get into mischief at their middle school. These all-new illustrated stories are guaranteed to amuse and entertain readers of all ages." -- Amazon.comGanadores
Par Tarik Carson. 1991
"Winners is very much science fiction but in the satirical vein begun by Jonathan Swift with Gulliver and so it…
is a magnificent satire of our societies and our desires, but not so that man appears entirely degraded. The quest for beauty remains." -- Translation provided by NLSLa Bomba de San José
Par Ana García Bergua. 2013
"In this fun and joyous novel Ana García Bergua humorously evokes Mexico City in the 1960s: a daring and naive…
city, where poets work in brand-new advertising agencies and painters no longer want to paint murals and wives no longer want to be obedient, and where the creative energy is such that even a relative of Mr. President aspires to create a film masterpiece, with the scintillating presence of the Costa Rican leading lady known as 'La Bomba de San José'." -- Translation provided by NLSLos invisibles (Letras mexicanas)
Par Homero Aridjis. 2011
"A series of events causes the Parisian photographer Nicolas Antschel to become the invisible man and, as a consequence, to…
be threatened and persecuted by groups anxious to steal his secret. To save himself and discover the source of his invisibility, Nicolas will be forced to follow a path of ambiguous clues that will lead him to self-understanding. With this novel, written in a mystical and esoteric key, halfway between science fiction and thriller, with black humor and a renewed picaresque, Homero Aridjis makes the invisible visible: the little things, the big questions, the places we are used to, the signs, the words, the messages erased by time." -- Translation provided by NLS2487: novela : ciencia ficción (Colección Literatura de hoy (Cochabamba, Bolivia) #647)
Par Werner Pless. 1989
Delfines al amanecer (Magic tree house series. Spanish #09)
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 2006
"Annie and Jack are transported by the magic tree house to a beach by the ocean. A mini-sub takes them…
underwater to a coral reef where they meet a giant octopus, a shark, and friendly dolphins while looking for the answer to an ancient riddle." -- Provided by NLSMedianoche en la luna (Magic tree house series. Spanish #08)
Par Mary Pope Osborne. 2004
"Annie and Jack travel to the future to visit a moonbase where they figure out the fourth and final special…
thing needed to free Morgan le Fay from the magician's spell." -- Provided by NLS