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The triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their daughter Blanca embarks on a forbidden love affair in defiance of her implacable father, the result is an unexpected gift to Esteban: his adored granddaughter Alba,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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Dr. Victor Dalmau and pianist Roser Bruguera flee Spain after the Civil War to travel aboard the Winnipeg and settle in Chile, but are again uprooted after the 1973 coup againt Victor's chess partner Salvador Allende.
En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navío fletado...
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Pub. Date
2013
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IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
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2024.
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English
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"A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer. It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. She loves this new life, but more than anything, she loves it for helping her forget the decade she...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle.
9) Diez mujeres
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Debos¡llo / Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Español
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"Nine women, very different from each other and never have seen before, share their stories. Natasha, their therapist, has decided that wounds only begin to heal when the chains of silence are broken. No matter the origin or social background, age or profession, women carry on their shoulders all the weight of fear, loneliness, desire, insecurity ... sometimes with a past that can not be left behind, sometimes with a present that does not look like...
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2017.
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English
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"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno invierno...
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English
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"An annual backpacking trip has deadly consequences in a chilling new novel from the bestselling author of The Lost Night and The Herd. Emily is having the time of her life--she's in the mountains of Chile with her best friend, Kristen, on their annual reunion trip, and the women are feeling closer than ever. But on the last night of their trip, Emily enters their hotel suite to find blood and broken glass on the floor. Kristen says the cute backpacker...
13) Limpia
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Lumen
Pub. Date
[2023]
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Español
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"Estela deja a su madre en el sur para trabajar en la casa de una familia en Santiago de Chile y allí se queda los siguientes siete años, limpiando y criando a una niña acosada por la ansiedad, cuya muerte conocemos al comienzo de la novela. Como en una tragedia griega, la tensión crece en cada página, con cada personaje o elemento: la perra callejera, las ratas, la confesión inconfesable del "señor", la aparición de Carlos, el veneno, la...
14) The tenth girl
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Imprint, a part of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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[In 1978] at the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi -- a bold Buenos Aires native fleeing the military regime that took her mother -- it offers an escape to a new life as a young teacher to Argentina's elite girls. Mavi tries to embrace the strangeness of the imposing house -- despite warnings not to roam at night, threats from an enigmatic...
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
El enfrentamiento de un hombre con su historia, su clase, su sexualidad. A través de una serie de encuentros con personas que fueron parte de su pasado, el narrador de Los hombres que no fui se enfrenta a su memoria, a sus decisiones y a las derivas que ha tomado su vida, dando paso al retrato de "un mundo de formas bellas, tiránicas e infructuosas, de reglas inculcadas que podían llegar a ser mortales". Con una mirada esclarecedora, conjugando...
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English
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"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
17) Poeta chileno
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 641
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"Durante buena parte de esta novela Gonzalo es un poetastro que quiere ser poeta y un padrastro que se comporta como si fuera el padre biológico de Vicente, un niño adicto a la comida para gatos que años más tarde se niega a estudiar en la universidad porque su sueño principal es convertirse -también- en poeta, a pesar de los consejos de Carla, su orgullosamente solitaria madre, y de León, un padre mediocre dedicado a coleccionar autitos de...
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Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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Cuatro mujeres chilenas, a las puertas de la madurez y a orillas de un lago, dan curso sin inhibiciones al relato apasionado de sus historias personales. Vidas marcadas a fuego por la experiencia socialista durante el gobierno de Salvador Allende y el golpe militar de 1973, pero también por la huella más íntima del amor y del dolor, el desengaño y la compasión. Los hilos de estas biografías están entrelazados con las vidas de otras mujeres...
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Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Celeste Marconi es una niña de once años soñadora, poeta, y coleccionista de palabras. De pronto, una nueva palabra susurrada se filtra en su vida: subversivos. Su amado país, Chile, ha sido tomado por una dictadura militar, y los subversivos - aquellas personas consideradas una amenaza para el nuevo gobierno - corren cada día más peligro. Los padres de Celeste, que son médicos, tienen que esconderse para mantenerse a salvo, y Celeste, desconsolada,...
Author
Series
Butterfly Hill volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear.".
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