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Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Physical Desc
155 pages ; 20 cm
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
Language
English
Description
The author of five bestselling novels, including Under Cover of Darkness and The Pardon, James Grippando writes compulsively readable thrillers that could be drawn from today's headlines, only better. Now his trademark gifts are wonderfully demonstrated in a taut new tale of intrigue that will keep you guessing to the final, breathtaking scene. Just two years out of law school, Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
Español
Description
De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino está anonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 pequeños romances, su corazón todavía pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intención. A los cincuenta años, nueve meses...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she does make it to Bogotá, will she trade the facts of her father and life in Colombia for the distant vision of her...
Author
Series
Ryder Creed novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Ryder Creed and his dogs have been making national headlines. They've intercepted several major drug stashes being smuggled through Atlanta's airport. But their newfound celebrity has also garnered some unwanted attention. When Creed and one of his dogs are called in to search a commercial fishing vessel, they discover a secret compartment. But the Colombian cartels' latest shipment isn't drugs. This time, its cargo is human. To make matters worse,...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
El mundo de afuera (The Outside World) takes place in Medellín. There, time is wrapped in a mist, and voices seem like whistles that get lost among tree branches. A castle-like structure stands watch in the overgrown outskirts of the city, and a blond girl runs out the door. Eyes watch, captivated by this unusual presence, and the girl disappears into the forest. It is 1971, and this girl's father, don Diego, has been kidnapped. El Mono is the leader...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Fernando Vallejo vuelve a la carga con una poderosa diatriba contra la clase política colombiana y lo que sucede en el mundo. El memorialista loco de este libro sostiene que la democracia es el pernicioso sistema electoral de unos corruptos que van tras el botín del poder, pero que le permite por lo menos al ciudadano escoger entre el malo y el peor; que las patrias solo traen guerras; que las religiones han impedido el surgimiento de la moral y...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Trained by the military as an assassin, Elena Kyler is forced into a deadly alliance with Sean Galen, the most dangerous man she knows, when she is targeted for death by Rico Chavez, a charismatic, utterly ruthless killer with unlimited resources.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Riverhead trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer reflects on the mid-twentieth-century uprising between Pablo Escobar's drug cartel and government forces that trapped Pablo's community in a nightmarish existence and culminated in a friend's murder.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
509 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping tale of conspiracy theories, assassinations, and twisted obsessions -- the much anticipated masterpiece from Juan Gabriel Vasquez. The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. A man is arrested at a museum in Colombia for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of an assassin. The incident barely makes the news though the political murder this assassin committed years before...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
191 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Aquiles o El guerrillero y el asesino, la novela inédita de Carlos Fuentes, es un relato personal, fascinante y revelador sobre un episodio controvertido de la historia contemporánea de Colombia. Basándose en la biografía de Carlos Pizarro, uno de los jefes del movimiento guerrillero M-19, el autor dio forma en esta novela a un personaje carismático, lleno de luces y de sombras. Un Aquiles que, como los protagonistas de los poemas homéricos,...
Author
Publisher
YoYo USA
Pub. Date
p2008
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A romantic novel with traces of modernism. The Colombian writer Jose Maria Vargas Vila was one of the most popular and widely read novelists in Latin America, as he added to his celebrity as a polemicist and friend of freedom, that of the romantic writer, with erotic allusions and an original literary style. His first novel, 'Aura o las violetas', tells of a love story between two teenagers, and in its development, one can see signs of what would...
13) Missionaries
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Neither Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America's long post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet war also exerts a terrible draw that neither can shake--the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US, with its patented fusion of intelligence dominance and quick-striking...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
Español
Description
Un espléndido e inspirador álbum ilustrado acerca de la vida de José Alberto Gutiérrez, un recolector de basura de Bogotá, Colombia, que creó una biblioteca a partir de un libro que rescató de la basura mientras realizaba su ruta. En la ciudad de Bogotá, en el barrio La Nueva Gloria, viven dos Josés. Uno es un niño que sueña con los sábados, día en que él y otros niños del barrio visitan el Paraíso, la biblioteca. El otro José es...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Disney Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal--every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When women of color write history, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story."--SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street. A mesmerizing debut set against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990's Colombia about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that...
18) Juana y Lucas
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First edition in Spanish.
Physical Desc
88 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"A Juana le gustan muchas cosas: dibujar, comer repollitas y vivir en Bogotá, Colombia. Pero más que nada, adora a su perro, Lucas. Lucas es su mejor amigo, absolutamente sin la más mínima duda. A Juana no le gusta su uniforme del colegio, que le pica mucho. Tampoco le gustan problemas de matemáticas, ni las clases de baile. Sobre todo, a Juana NO le gusta aprender inglés. Todas las TH de ese idioma inoportuno le hacen cosquillas en la lengua,...
19) Neverforgotten
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fabio flies through the streets of Bogotá on his bicycle, the children of his neighborhood trailing behind him. It is there that life feels right--where the world of adults, and their lies, fades away. But then one day, he simply forgets. Forgets how to ride his bicycle. And Fabio will never be the same again" -- Jacket flap.
"Fabio vuela por las calles de Bogotá en us bicicleta, seguido por los niños de su barrio. Es allí donde la vida es genial,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021].
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
18 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Disney Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal--every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides...
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