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Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 1
Language
English
Description
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,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
486, [14] p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
1a edition Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermán, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, vuelven a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo les empezaba a sonreír, un personaje inquietante visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con revelar un terrible secreto que lleva más de dos décadas enterrado en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino lo arrastra inevitablemente...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 2
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Nate's middle school basketball team suffers a frustrating loss, he and his cousin Rachel travel back in time to see the 1992 Dream Team in Barcelona, and learn about teamwork--but he still needs to convince the other players on his team to share the ball.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times Bestseller
""Packed with suspense. . . a gripping edge-of-your-seat thriller." — Washington Book Review
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
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Series
Language
English
Description
Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in the exclusive Tibidabo district, the police scramble to seize control of the investigation.
Ana Martí Noguer, an eager young journalist, is surprised to be assigned this important story, shadowing Inspector Isidro Castro. But Ana soon realizes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephen Hunter has chosen the backdrop of the chaotic and cruel Spanish Civil War to weave a classic tale of espionage and counterespionage. Julian Raines was one of the first Englishmen to volunteer for the international brigade in Spain. The British Secret Service suspect that the flamboyant Raines was recruited for the KGB by the Bolsheviks during his student days at Oxford and send Robert Florry, a struggling young writer to Spain after Raines...
12) Distress signals
Author
Language
English
Description
There's no evidence of a murder, but a person is missing. And what's a missing person minus a body? Not a murder. Oh, no. Never a murder. It's a disappearance. The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend, Sarah, fails to return from a Barcelona business trip, his perfect life begins to fall apart. Days later, the arrival of her passport and a note that reads "I'm sorry - S" sets off real alarm bells. He vows to do whatever it takes to find her. Adam is puzzled...
13) Coraline
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
Coraline steps through a door and seems to find a family and house better than her own. The only problem is, this new family doesn't want to let her go. Coraline will have to fight to return to her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
15) Marina
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"When boarding-school student Oscar Drai meets Marina, she promises him a mystery and takes him to a secret graveyard deep in Barcelona, where they witness a woman dressed in black lay a single rose atop a gravestone etched with a black butterfly. Their curiosity leads them down a dangerous path, and they discover a decades-old conspiracy that puts their lives in the hands of forces more sinister and mystical than they could have believed possible"--...
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2019, 2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Demi-god Percy Jackson and his friends must journey into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. But first Percy will discover a secret that makes him wonder whether being claimed as Poseidon's son is an honor or a cruel joke.
Desde que sabe que es hijo de un dios del Olimpo, Percy Jackson espera que el destino le depare continuas aventuras. Y sus expectativas se cumplen con creces. Aunque el nuevo curso en la Escuela Meriwether transcurre con inusual...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
1. ed. Vintage Español.
Physical Desc
667 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
Español
Description
En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20 un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más. Con estilo deslumbrante e impecable precisión narrativa, el autor de La sombra del viento nos transporta de nuevo a la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para ofrecernos una gran aventura de intriga, romance...
Author
Publisher
Flamboyant
Pub. Date
septiembre de 2022.
Edition
1® edic̤in.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Mar̕tn tiene una imaginac̤in desbordante que a veces le juega malas pasadas. Se imagina que ocurrìrn cosas catast̤rficas y, de lo mucho que se preocupa, tirita como un flan. ¿Y si explotan todos los globos en la fiesta? ¿Y si se pierde en la excurs̤in con su clase? Pero entonces su madre decide darle la vuelta a sus miedos... ¿Y si lo mejor es̀t por llegar?" --
"Mar̕tn has an overflowing imagination that sometimes plays tricks on him....
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