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And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, traveling across the Atlantic with meager resources. She returns to a community riven with...
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Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
El desconcertante homicidio de Olga María, una mujer de clase alta y madre de familia, deja conmocionada a la sociedad salvadoreña. Su mejor amiga no concibe que alguien pueda haber asesinado -a sangre fría, delante de sus dos hijas pequeñas y en su propia casa- a esta mujer honesta y de reputación intachable. Ante la incompetencia policial y la presión de la prensa, será la amiga misma quien intente resolver tan terrible crimen. Su monólogo...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
"Among Frida Kahlo's personal belongings there was a small black notebook she called 'El Libro de Hierba Santa' with her collection of cooking recipes dedicated to Santa Muerte. This would be exhibited for the first time at the Palacio de Bellas Artes with reason for the date of his birth. The day the exhibition was opened to the public the notebook disappeared. FG Haghenbeck, one of the most acclaimed writers in Mexico, was inspired by this fact...
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"In "master of the legal thriller" (Chicago Sun-Times) John Lescroart's electrifying new novel, attorney Dismas Hardy is called to defend the least likely suspect of his career: his longtime, trusted assistant who is suddenly being charged as an accessory to murder. Dismas Hardy knows something is amiss with his trusted secretary, Phyllis. Her out-of-character behavior and sudden disappearances concern Hardy, especially when he learns that her convict...
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