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"When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's new novel. Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel's sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain in search of her. Joining forces with an unlikely ally thrusts Isabel...
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In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
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A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child,...
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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, Daniel Sempere encuentra 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. Un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo XX, desde los últimos esplendores...
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Libros de Seda
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2020
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"During a lavish masked ball at the Liceo, Victoria, Countess of Cardona, appears murdered. She has a mortal wound on her head and in her hand a priceless ruby long gone. It will not be the only death in the Great Theater. Inspector Ignasi Requesens leads the investigation, but no one seems to have seen anything."--
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Doubleday
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2009
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In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime--write a book unlike anything that has ever existed--a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins...
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"While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small café. At first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too...
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Other Press
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[2021]
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"Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinked stories follow ordinary people whose lives will be changed forever. Like Robert Altman's film Short Cuts, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three interconnected stories that are bound by time and place, and by the way characters weave in and out of them. A crime that remains unreported in one story has light shed on it in another. Exploring addiction,...
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Reservoir Books
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2022.
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"In South Barcelona there is a vast area made up of industrial buildings and forgotten neighborhoods. No-man's land, where the greatest drug paradise in Europe is blooming, almost backed by law. Fertile soil for a new kind of organized crime. Silvia Mercado, a stubborn mossa d'esquadra, unafraid to make some enemies, will have to figure out who is behind the chain of deaths and threats the bloody heist has caused. And to do so she will have to enter...
11) Frío
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Amazon Publishing
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2017.
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"En su mundo ašptico de asesino a sueldo no hab̕a sitio para los sentimientos, aunque el destino le deparaba una sorpresa dulce, sensual y amarga a la vez. Cuando recibe el encargo de acabar con la vida de una bell̕sima mujer, Leo se enfrenta a un insospechado contratiempo: enamorarse no entraba en sus planes. Pero las sorpresas nunca llegan solas y un nuevo giro de los acontecimientos da un vuelco a su vida. La pasi̤n lo lleva a emprender una...
12) Barcelona days
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Little, Brown and Company
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2020.
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"Whitney and Will are a perfect couple by all appearances, their relationship rock-solid, and their engagement soon to be announced. Before their impending nuptials, however, Whitney suggests a lighthearted experiment: why not give each other three romantic 'free passes' before getting married? Three opportunities to imagine other lives before returning with new appreciation for each other. On what's meant to be the last night of a romantic Barcelona...
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 697
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Editorial Anagrama
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junio 2022.
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Español
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"Este es un diario sobre días tristes y días felices "La euforia y la felicidad absolutas están a un milímetro del ataque de pánico", escrito sin trampa ni cartón, sin falsos pudores, ni engolada pompa. Escrito siguiendo esta premisa: "Uno escribe solo ante el peligro, no hay otra manera honesta de hacerlo, el menor atisbo de autocomplacencia es una señal de cobardía. Escribes contra ti primero y luego contra todo el mundo. Te pones a ti mismo...
14) Kantika: a novel
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Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company
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[2023]
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English
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"A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika -- "song" in Ladino -- follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way -- a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood....
15) Black sun rising
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Pegasus Crime
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2020.
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English
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"A riveting thriller combining real historical events and characters with a sinister detective story of eugenics, racism, and nationalist paranoia. Barcelona, summer 1909. When the scientist and explorer Randolph Foulkes is blown up in a random terrorist bomb attack, private detective Harry Lawton is hired by the man's widow to identify the beneficiary of a large payment Foulkes had made shortly before his death. Lawton's arrival in the Catalan capital...
16) Nefando
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Coffee House Press
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2023.
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English
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"A techno-horror portrait of the fears and desires of six young artists whose lives are upended by a controversial video game, from National Book Award finalist Mónica Ojeda. Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki Ortega, a researcher writing a pornographic novel; Iván Herrera, a writer whose prose reveals a deeply conflicted relationship with his body; three siblings, Irene, Emilio, and Cecilia, who quietly search for ways to transcend...
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"The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale--a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark history of Franco's Spain. In this unforgettable final...
18) Ghostwriter
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Fantagraphics Books
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[2020]
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English
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"Barcelona, 1943. As a scriptwriter for a popular radio advice column, Laia is embroiled in the romantic entanglements of others. Each day, letters flood in from troubled wives and girlfriends recounting their partner's abuses, and Laia tries her best to counsel them. In contrast, her own life seems perfectly ordered, with a devoted husband and a baby on the way. But when the city is terrorized by a vengeful killer, who leaves behind cryptic messages...
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Berenice
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2021.
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Español
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Durante la posguerra barcelonesa, la vida no es nada fácil para María. Solo el amor parece dar tregua a tanta pobreza, aunque su pasión por el señor Albert sea un imposible que malogrará su inocencia... y condicionará la vida de otra mujer. ¿Qué relación existe entre María e Isabel, que vivirá en el Buenos Aires de 1976, durante la dictadura de Videla? ¿De qué modo está vinculado el secuestro de esta última con el pasado de aquella...
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HarperCollins Ibérica
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[2022]
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Español
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La vida privada de Carmina Massot es una novela ambientada en Barcelona y narrada en dos líneas temporales: en la actualidad, cuando la protagonista, Carmina tiene 87 años, y en 1956, cuando tenía 24 años y vivió la historia de amor más emocionante de su vida.Carmina siempre ha sido soltera y a pesar de su edad y de su enfermedad terminal sigue viviendo sola y siendo muy independiente, aunque su frágil memoria y el cáncer de páncreas que...
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