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Par Bibiana Candia. 2022
"Galicia, 1853. The rainiest winter in history has destroyed the crops and a cholera epidemic begins to wreak havoc on…
the population. Orestes, el Tísico, el Rañeta and Trasdelrío, el Comido, Tomás from Coruña and many other young men who yearn for a better future for themselves and their families decide to leave their homes and head to Cuba to make a living on the sugar cane plantations. But what the journey has in store for them is an ordeal that they could never have imagined. Sugar is the fictionalized account of the true story of 1,700 young people who traveled to Cuba to work and ended up being sold into slavery by Urbano Feijóo de Sotomayor, a Galician living on the island who, taking advantage of his compatriots' dire situation, promoted a campaign of white colonization and substitution of labor brought from Africa." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Martín Caparrós. 2021
"There is a certain region of the world in which twenty countries and more than 400 million people share a…
language, a history, a culture, concerns and hopes. We know it poorly; we know mostly its myths, its reflections, its commonplaces; we think of it as it was in other times. This region is called or could be called Ñamérica - and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is now. Martín Caparrós has been traveling through it for many years and has looked at it from all sides: from its big cities to its small towns, from its reggaeton to its economies, from its violence to its food, from its governments to its soccer, from its inequality to its insurrections, from its migrants to its books, from its defiant women to its corrupt politicians, from its new rich to its always poor, from its history to its diverse futures. With all this, Ñamérica assembles a fresco that shows us that Ñamérica is not what we thought it was. A mestizo book, a crossbreed of words, Ñamérica is, like The Hunger before it, a chronicle that thinks, an essay that tells, a great story assembled with that style that defines its author as one of the language's decisive storytellers." -- Translation provided by NLSPar David Graeber. 2022
"Two archaeologists explore reinterpretations of early societal development and reject the common understanding of early mankind as primitive and childlike.…
Drawing on new understanding and research, the authors theorize about what shape human society may have taken if not in bands of hunter-gatherers as long as previously assumed." -- Provided by NLSPar Xelena González. 2022
"Grandma knows that there is wondrous knowledge to be found everywhere you can think to look. She takes her girls…
to their special garden, and asks them to look over their collection of rocks, crystals, seashells, and meteorites to see what marvels they have to show. "They were here long before us and know so much more about our world than we ever will," Grandma says. So they are called grandfathers. By taking a close look with an open mind, they see the strength of rocks shaped by volcanoes, the cleansing power of beautiful crystals, the oceans that housed their shells and shapes its environment, and the long journey meteorites took to find their way to them. Gathered together, Grandma and the girls let their surroundings spark their imaginations." -- Amazon.comPar Herbert S Klein. 2019
"A comprehensive survey of Bolivia's economic, social, cultural, and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes…
to the present, A Concise History of Bolivia highlights fundamental changes since the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982 and its present day consequences. These changes include the introduction of universal education and the rise of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in the nation's history." -- GoodreadsPar Celeste Ng. 2022
"Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books…
in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic-including the work of Bird's mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old. Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change." -- Provided by publisherPar Ángela Pradelli. 2018
"Emilia is five years old when the military takes her mother from the house in Burzaco where they were hiding.…
The girl ends up in an orphanage and soon after she is taken by a married couple. Her appropriators, strict Catholics, decide to name her Florencia. At first, Emilia does not recognize herself in that name, but little by little the past - her mother's caresses, the songs her father sang in her ear, the memory of the green shoes her grandmother Lina gave her - is buried deep in her conscience. Meanwhile, Lina searches for her relentlessly with the help of Quica and Herminia who, like her, have lost their children at the hands of the "forces of order."" -- GoodreadsPar Fred Vargas. 2012
Published separately and at different times, these three novellas put the infallible Commissioner Adamsberg back on the scene, this time…
immersed in the Parisian underworld and the bizarre world of the vagabonds.... In "Health and Freedom," an eccentric vagabond settles on a bench, with all his belongings, in front of Adamsberg's police station while he receives mysterious threatening anonymous letters and a woman appears dead on the train tracks. In "The Night of the Brutes," Danglard and the commissioner investigate the strange death of a woman who appears drowned under a bridge on the Seine. In "Five Francs Unity," a bizarre sponge peddler witnesses the attempted murder of a rich lady, and the commissioner will get him to cooperate with the police in a truly ingenious way." --Translation provided by NLSPar Nancy Springer. 2021
"Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes--Sherlock's much-younger sister--tackles two mysteries: finding the missing Lady Blanchefleur, who disappeared in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century…
London, and deciphering a message from her own estranged mother." -- Provided by NLSPar Nancy Springer. 2020
"London, late 1850s. Enola, the much-younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when Enola's investigation into…
the disappearance of her landlady Mrs. Tupper, a Crimean War widow, grows cold." -- Provided by NLSPar Lola Walder. 2021
"Juanita lived in Santa Catarina Palopó, a pretty little village next to a beautiful lake, surrounded by three huge volcanoes.…
She loved her pueblo and their people. Women there helped their families by weaving huipiles from silk, wool, and cotton thread while men worked the land. Juanita wanted to be of help, so she always cooked for her family her favorite meal, tortillas. At night, when the sun cleared the way for the moon to shine bright, Juanita would run onto the roof of the house for her nighttime routine: counting stars. The sky was so clear she could almost touch it. But one day, Juanita's mom became very ill, and she couldn't work at her loom. Juanita wanted to help but didn't know how to. It appears the sky had been listening to her all the time and had a big surprise stored for her..." -- Amazon.comPar Yvette Canoura. 2022
"In the midst of political intrigue and international espionage, secrets threaten Fatima's chance at happily ever after. Will she succeed…
at keeping them buried forever or will fate step in to shatter her fairytale life? Children of Antarah, the second book in the Mediterranean Sunset trilogy, kicks off years after Fatima leaves the U.S. for the Middle East to fulfill her father's promise of an arranged marriage, but puts her life in jeopardy after falling for another man." -- Amazon.comPar José María Guelbenzu. 2016
"Hermógenes Arbusto, tax adviser and successful businessman, sees death enter his office one day, and, reacting quickly, manages to dodge…
the blow of the scythe, rushes to the door, leaves in a hurry, and locks and deadbolts it behind him, leaving the reaper locked inside. Shortly after, and while he is getting his wits about him in Madrid's Plaza Mayor, he reaches a Faustian pact with the devil, the distinguished Forcas (with permission to travel to Earth), to whom he sells his soul in order to be free, at least temporarily, from meeting the Cold Lady again. Meanwhile, Tomás Beovide, poet and Literature teacher at the Juan García Hortelano Secondary School, corrects exams, laments the abandonment of his girlfriend, grieves happily over his unhappy love encounter with Maribel Arbusto and consoles himself by listening with joy to the long-suffering love songs of his admired Julie London. And we don't go on counting because everything that follows is pure nonsense, a narrative implausibility where a wild and stubborn nonsense builds its own logic until it blows any reasonable expectation or argument out of the water." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Serge Gruzinski. 2022
"The history of Mexico City is monumental, like Our Lady of Guadalupe that watches over the city. That's because time,…
people, and cultures have never stopped intermixing there. In the 1920s, as the first skyscrapers rose up, art, cinema and revolution rendezvoused in the city. Eisenstein discovered the land of Zapata and shared his passion in ¡Que viva México!. Trotsky took refuge in La Casa Azul where Frida Kahlo beguiled André Breton, and Graham Greene admired on the murales the rural teachers dressed in white with pious apostolic faces. For a long time artists, scientists, actors, and adventurers flocked to this American Venice where another world awaited them. The author tells the story of Mexico City in reverse, from the chaos of a global metropolis to the rise of the imperial Aztec city of Tenochtitlan." -- Amazon.comPar Francisco Goldman. 2020
"Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemala's leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in…
1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and disappearances of some two hundred thousand civilians. Realizing that it could not rely on police investigators or the legal system to solve the murder, the church formed its own investigative team, a group of secular young men in their twenties who called themselves Los Intocables (The Untouchables). Known in Guatemala as "The Crime of the Century," the Bishop Gerardi murder case, with its unexpectedly outlandish scenarios and sensational developments, confounded observers and generated extraordinary controversy. In his first nonfiction book, acclaimed novelist Francisco Goldman has spoken to witnesses no other reporter has reached, and observed firsthand some of the most crucial developments in the case. Now he has produced "The Art of Political Murder," a tense and astonishing true detective story that opens a window on the new Latin American reality of mara youth gangs and organized crime, and tells the story of a remarkable group of engaging, courageous young people, and of their remarkable fight for justice." -- GoodreadsPar Luis Goytisolo. 2016
"Ramón Rada is a successful painter who finds himself at a vital crossroads: he feels the need to connect his…
life and his work, and to do this he plans a memory book that will also be a guide for the reinterpretation of his artwork. His memories will take us to Miralrío, a village where someone is investigating some tragic events that occurred forty-five years earlier. From there, Luis Goytisolo develops a kaleidoscopic novel where historical recreation, artistic reflection and the chronicle of everyday life run parallel." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Miguel Ángel González. 2016
"Leonard Cohen, in one of his most popular songs, sings: 'The future...is murder.' In All Fears, two apparently unrelated stories…
converge: that of a woman who, after being kidnapped and tortured by a stranger after leaving work, manages to survive the hell to which she is subjected and must face the life that comes after her personal tragedy, and that of a terminally ill man facing the final stage of his existence. Two stories that, despite being born from opposite premises, share the fear of facing the future. In All Fears, Miguel Ángel González addresses a recurring theme in his work: the management of pain, and how an ordinary person can face extraordinary circumstances that change his or her life." -- Translation provided by NLSPar Monique Gray Smith. 2020
"The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you…
love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy." -- Provided by NLSPar Diana Gabaldon. 2017
Books 7 and 8 in the Outlander Series. In An Echo in the Bone (DB 70073) from 2016, Jamie Fraser…
and his time-traveling wife Claire face suffering despite knowing the Revolution's outcome. In Written in My Own Heart's Blood (DB 79331) from 2017, Jamie, Claire and John must resolve the latter's marriage during the Revolutionary War. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Spanish language. 2017Par Mary Pope Osborne. 2008