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3) The cobra
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disgusted by the horrors of illegal drug trafficking, the president declares the drug traders and their cartels terrorists, and gives ex-CIA director Paul Devereaux, known as the Cobra from his operations days, free rein to take them on.
4) Reputations
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
5) The bitch
Author
Publisher
World Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when women dry up', as her uncle puts it, she is eager to adopt...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"De jovenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un medico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino est̀ anonadado, pero es un romantico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 pequęos romances, su corazon todavia pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intencion. A los cincuenta anos, nueve meses, y cuatro...
Author
Series
Ala delta. Serie Verde volume 68
Publisher
Edelvives
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
Español
Description
Camilo and Andrés, two friends living in poverty in Medellín, Colombia, meet a kind librarian at a public library who helps them learn about the joys of reading, which helps them both find redemption for difficulties in each of their lives.
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a crime novel that upends all the genre's conventions, a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad and quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past: a murdered brother, a dealer of beautiful thoughts, a private school where students disappear and girls give birth to strange creatures. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance leads to a job offer and launches an inner conflict full of holes and missteps. Ultimately,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"En una época en que la fotografía llegó para atajar el tiempo y los ríos de petróleo manaban como un milagro oscuro de la tierra, Alejandro Plata, un inspector de obras férreas, desaparece cerca del puerto del Cacique. Su hermano y su madre lo buscan en distintos tiempos. Su amante lo aguarda por años. Y, en el trasegar de la búsqueda y a la espera del reencuentro, desembarcan en Colombia el progreso y la explotación petrolera, que no solo...
14) Amazona
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. She comes to mourn her child and to capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family"--
15) House of Beauty
Author
Publisher
4th Estate
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
House of Beauty is a high-end salon in Bogota's exclusive Zona Rosa area, and Karen is one of its best beauticians. But there is more to her role than the best way to apply wax, or how to give the perfect massage. Her clients confide in her, and she knows all about them. Their breast implants, their weekends in Miami, their divorces and affairs. Karen has problems of her own. She's in trouble, and she needs money. More money than she can make at House...
Author
Series
Carlotta Carlyle mysteries volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A tense and haunting literary jigsaw puzzle in the vein of Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, Julianne Pachico's debut novel, set during the ongoing civil war in Colombia, is a prismatic tale about a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected ways"--
"Taking place between 1993 and 2018 in Colombia and New York City, The Lucky Ones is a prismatic tale of a group of characters whose lives intersect in often unexpected...
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