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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon and Lucia Grave
5.0
Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love. --back cover
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4.7
At the beginning of this powerful labyrinthian thriller, David Martin, a pulp fiction writer struggling to stay afloat, is holed up in an abandoned mansion in the heart of Barcelona, furiously tapping out story after story, becoming increasingly desperate and frustrated.
When he is approached by a mysterious publisher offering a book deal that seems almost too good to be real. David leaps at the chance. But as he begins the work, and after a visit to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, he realizes that there is a connection between his book and the shadows that surround his dilapidated home and that the publisher may be hiding a few troubling secrets of his own.
Once again, Carlos Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and creates a breathtaking tale of intrigue, romance, and tragedy.
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The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3)
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4.5
Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife, Bea, have much to celebrate. They have a beautiful new baby son named Julián, and their close friend Fermín Romero de Torres is about to be wed. But their joy is eclipsed when a mysterious stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city’s dark past.
His appearance plunges Fermín and Daniel into a dangerous adventure that will take them back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco’s dictatorship. The terrifying events of that time launch them on a search for the truth that will put into peril everything they love, and will ultimately transform their lives. --back cover
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La catedral del mar (La catedral del mar, #1)
Ildefonso Falcones de Sierra
4.5
Siglo XIV. La ciudad de Barcelona se encuentra en su momento de mayor prosperidad; ha crecido hacia la Ribera, el humilde barrio de los pescadores, cuyos habitantes deciden construir, con el dinero de unos y el esfuerzo de otros, el mayor templo mariano jamás conocido: Santa María de la Mar.
Una construcción que es paralela a la azarosa historia de Arnau, un siervo de la tierra que huye de los abusos de su señor feudal y se refugia en Barcelona, donde se convierte en ciudadano y, con ello, en hombre libre.
El joven Arnau trabaja como palafrenero, estibador, soldado y cambista. Una vida extenuante, siempre al amparo de la catedral de la mar, que le iba a llevar de la miseria del fugitivo a la nobleza y la riqueza. Pero con esta posición privilegiada también le llega la envidia de sus pares, que urden una sórdida conjura que pone su vida en manos de la Inquisición...
"La catedral del mar" es una trama en la que se entrecruzan lealtad y venganza, traición y amor, guerra y peste, en un mundo marcado por la intolerancia religiosa, la ambición material y la segregación social. Todo ello convierte esta obra no sólo en una novela absorbente, sino también en la más fascinante y ambiciosa recreación de las luces y sombras de la época feudal.
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Barcelona
Robert Hughes
4.5
Barcelona is Robert Hughes's monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain. Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny -- the Catalan word for triumphant common sense.
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Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
4.5
In 1936 George Orwell travelled to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fascists. This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s own experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.
The other reason I picked this book is that Orwell, like Dan Schorr, was an outsider. When he went to Spain, he was an unknown. He wasn’t Hemingway. He wasn’t a well-connected intellectual. He just had this amazing eye for detail. He was an amazing observer, and he could write so powerfully. This book, to me, is just one of the classics of foreign reporting. [source]
Anyone who wants to go off and write about Egypt, Tunisia or Libya today should pack a copy of Homage to Catalonia. It’s brilliant reportage. As you know, it opens with a vignette of an Italian militiaman in the barracks in Barcelona and he only saw this guy for a few moments but it captures the excitement. [source]
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Marina
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
4.5
Quince años mas tarde, la memoria de aquel dia ha vuelto a mi. He visto a aquel muchacho vagando entre las brumas de la estacion de Francia y el nombre de Marina se ha encendido de nuevo como una herida fresca. Todos tenemos un secreto encerrado bajo llave en el atico del alma. este es el mio.
En la Barcelona de 1980 Oscar Drai suena despierto, deslumbrado por los placeres mocernistas cercanos al internado en el que estudia. En una de sus escapadas conoce a Marina, una chica audaz que comparte con oscar la aventura de adentrarse en un enigma doloroso del pasado de la ciudad. Un misterioso personaje de la posguerra se propuso el mayor desafio imaginable, pero su ambicion lo arrastro por sendas siniestras cucyas consecuencias debe pagar alguien todavia hoy.
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Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
Dan Brown
4.4
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough . . . one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence. As the event begins, Langdon and several hundred guests find themselves captivated by an utterly original presentation, which Langdon realizes will be far more controversial than he ever imagined. But the meticulously orchestrated evening suddenly erupts into chaos, and Kirsch’s precious discovery teeters on the brink of being lost forever. Reeling and facing an imminent threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape Bilbao. With him is Ambra Vidal, the elegant museum director who worked with Kirsch to stage the provocative event. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch’s secret. Navigating the dark corridors of hidden history and extreme religion, Langdon and Vidal must evade a tormented enemy whose all-knowing power seems to emanate from Spain’s Royal Palace itself . . . and who will stop at nothing to silence Edmond Kirsch. On a trail marked by modern art and enigmatic symbols, Langdon and Vidal uncover clues that ultimately bring them face-to-face with Kirsch’s shocking discovery . . . and the breathtaking truth that has long eluded us. Origin is Dan Brown’s most brilliant and entertaining novel to date.
I just finished this book. I like the author. [source]
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The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
4.4
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in Our Stars is award-winning author John Green's most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of being alive and in love.
@johngreen You should not be. It is a great book. Was recently in Amsterdam and walked some of the scenes with your huge fan, my youngest daughter. Loved hearing from you and meeting you at Kenyon. [source]
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The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
Patrick Rothfuss
4.4
Told in Kvothe's own voice, this is the tale of the magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen.
The intimate narrative of his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-ridden city, his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a legendary school of magic, and his life as a fugitive after the murder of a king form a gripping coming-of-age story unrivaled in recent literature.
A high-action story written with a poet's hand, The Name of the Wind is a masterpiece that will transport readers into the body and mind of a wizard.
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Recommended by Aubrey Marcus, Chris Albon, and Matt Schlicht.
Chris Albon
@WaltHickey I don’t really read fiction and randomly found that book, amazing. [source]
Matt Schlicht
@teej_m Read it. Love it. So amazing. Waiting for the last book and fear it may never come. [source]
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El laberinto de los espíritus (El cementerio de los libros olvidados, #4)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4.4
"El laberinto de los espíritus", es el desenlace de la saga de "El cementerio de los libros olvidados" que se inició en 2001 con "La sombra del viento" y continuó en 2008 con "El juego del ángel" y en 2011 con "El prisionero del cielo".
Elevadas por la crítica internacional a la categoría de clásico contemporáneo, las novelas de "El cementerio de los libros olvidados" se han convertido en uno de los universos literarios más apasionantes del nuevo siglo, y Carlos Ruiz Zafón en el escritor español más leído en todo el mundo después de Cervantes.
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The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien
4.4
Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his journey to the Lonely Mountain he will encounter both a magic ring and a frightening creature known as Gollum. (back cover)
Today is World Book Day, a wonderful opportunity to address this #ChallengeRichard sent in by Mike Gonzalez of New Jersey: Make a list of your top 65 books to read in a lifetime. [source]
First up, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, by JRR Tolkien. But you knew I was going to say that. This one book, which was published in 1937, defined so many variables for the fantasy tradition that are still in place today. Tolkien’s extraordinary achievement was to recover the epic landscapes of Anglo-Saxon myth, bring them back to life, and then to take us through them on foot, so we could see the details up close, at human scale. The Hobbit is both mythic and relatable at the same time – The New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik recently called it “an arranged marriage between the Elder Edda and The Wind in the Willows”, and I think that’s entirely fair. Though I would give more credit to the bass register of Tolkien’s imagination, its abyssal depths. Mole never delved as deep as the Mines of Moria. [source]
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Nada
Carmen Laforet
4.3
Carmen Laforet’s Nada ranks among the most important literary works of post-Civil War Spain. Loosely based on the author’s own life, it is the story of an orphaned young woman who leaves her small town to attend university in war-ravaged Barcelona.
Residing amid genteel poverty in a mysterious house on Calle de Aribau, young Andrea falls in with a wealthy band of schoolmates who provide a rich counterpoint to the squalor of her home life. As experience overtakes innocence, Andrea gradually learns the disquieting truth about the people she shares her life with: her overbearing and superstitious aunt Angustias; her nihilistic yet artistically gifted uncle Román and his violent brother Juan; and Juan’s disturbingly beautiful wife, Gloria, who secretly supports the clan with her gambling. From existential crisis to a growing maturity and resolve, Andrea’s passionate inner journey leaves her wiser, stronger, and filled with hope for the future.
The incomparable Edith Grossman’s vital new translation captures the feverish energy of Laforet’s magnificent story, showcasing its dark, powerful imagery, and its subtle humor. And Mario Vargas Llosa’s Introduction illuminates Laforet’s brilliant depiction of life during the early days of the Franco regime. With crystalline insight into the human condition, Carmen Laforet’s classic novel stands poised to reclaim its place as one of the great novels of twentieth-century Europe.
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
4.3
“Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
Recommended by Andrei Codrescu, Becky Cloonan, Claire Jarvis, and 1 others.
Andrei Codrescu
Vampirism is a growth industry. Dracula is bigger than Jesus now. [source]
Becky Cloonan
@Noise_Raptor Oh, thank you so much! This book was such a delight, and such a challenge! Dracula is one of my favorites- funny enough I'd jump at the chance to do this again XD [source]
Claire Jarvis
Dracula is very explicit. That’s what’s so surprising about it. [source]
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La ciudad de los prodigios
Eduardo.- MENDOZA
4.3
En 1887, Onofre Bouvila, un joven campesino arruinado, llega a la gran ciudad que todavía no lo es, Barcelona, y encuentra su primer trabajo como repartidor de panfletos anarquistas entre los obreros que trabajan en la Exposición Universal del ańo siguiente. El lector deberá seguir la espectacular historia del ascenso de Bouvila, que lo llevará a convertirse en uno de los hombres más ricos e influyentes del país con métodos no del todo ortodoxos.
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
4.3
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the once-innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein.
Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story, but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? How far can we go in tampering with Nature? In our age, filled with news of organ donation genetic engineering, and bio-terrorism, these questions are more relevant than ever.
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Recommended by Michael Arrington, Adam Roberts, Adam Roberts, and 5 others.
Michael Arrington
Founder/TechCrunch
Shelley wrote this book as a teenager, and most of us read it in high school. Often credited as the first science fiction novel. You can read just about any political viewpoint you want into the book, and there are strong undertones that technology isn’t all good. But what I get out of it is the creativeness that can come with solitude, and how new technology can be misunderstood, even perhaps by the creator (see Twitter). Key thing to remember: Frankenstein is the name of the scientist/creator, not the Monster. Everybody forgets that. [source]
Adam Roberts
Brian Aldiss has famously argued that science fiction starts with Mary Shelley’s novel, and many people have agreed with him. [source]
Brian Aldiss has famously argued that science fiction starts with Mary Shelley’s novel, and many people have agreed with him. [source]
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V for Vendetta
Alan Moore, David Lloyd
4.3
"Remember, remember the fifth of November..."
A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedom and identity in a chillingly believable totalitarian world, V for Vendetta stands as one of the highest achievements of the comics medium and a defining work for creators Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
Set in an imagined future England that has given itself over to fascism, this groundbreaking story captures both the suffocating nature of life in an authoritarian police state and the redemptive power of the human spirit which rebels against it. Crafted with sterling clarity and intelligence, V for Vendetta brings an unequaled depth of characterization and verisimilitude to its unflinching account of oppression and resistance.
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Recommended by Boris Starling and Evan Goldberg.
Boris Starling
V for Vendetta is a graphic novel set in a future, fascist Britain. It mirrors 1984 in some ways. The fascists are called Norsefire. [source]
This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities -- a cosmopolitan city of vibrant architecture and art, great churches and museums, intriguing port life and extravagant nightclubs, restaurants and bars. It moves from the story of the city's founding, and huge expansion in the nineteenth century, to the lives of Gaudi, Miro, Casals and Dali. It also examines the history of Catalan nationalism, the tragedy of the Civil War, the Franco years, and the transition from dictatorship to democracy which Colm Tóibín witnessed in the 1970s.
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Rick Steves Barcelona
Rick Steves
4.3
Ramble down Las Ramblas, relax on Mediterranean beaches, and marvel at the sweeping curves of Gaudi's architecture: with Rick Steves on your side, Barcelona can be yours! Inside Rick Steves Barcelona you'll find:
Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Barcelona
Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites
Top sights and hidden gems, from Gaudi's mind-bending Sagrada Familia and the colorful Picasso museum to cozy bars with vermouth on tap
How to connect with local culture: Join hands with locals in a traditional sardana dance, chat with fans about the latest fútbol match, or meander down winding streets in search of the best tapas
Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight
The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a glass of cava
Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods, museums, and churches
Detailed neighborhood maps and a fold-out city map for exploring on the go
Useful resources including a packing list, Spanish and Catalan phrase books, a historical overview, and recommended reading
Over 300 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down
Complete, up-to-date information on Las Ramblas, Barri Gòtic, El Born, Eixample, Montjuïc, and more, as well as day trips to Montserrat, Figueres, Cadaqués, and Sitges Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Barcelona. Spending just a few days in the city? Try Rick Steves Pocket Barcelona.
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The Green Mile
Stephen King
4.3
When it first appeared, one volume per month, Stephen King's THE GREEN MILE was an unprecedented publishing triumph: all six volumes ended up on the New York Times bestseller lists—simultaneously—and delighted millions of fans the world over.
Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile. But he's never seen anyone like John Coffey, a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. In this place of ultimate retribution, Edgecombe is about to discover the terrible, wondrous truth about Coffey, a truth that will challenge his most cherished beliefes... and yours.
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Recommended by Clive Stafford Smith.
Clive Stafford Smith
It’s an immensely courageous book for such a famous author to write. It’s written from the perspective of the warder, whose job is to supervise death row and the execution of prisoners. The story is ultimately about a guy called John Coffey, a Christ-like figure who gets executed. [source]
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The Complete Maus
Art SPIEGELMAN
4.2
Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents. A contemporary classic of immeasurable significance.
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Recommended by Susan Bordo.
Susan Bordo
It’s about the Holocaust. It’s also a comic book, in which the various characters are depicted as animals – the Jews as mice, the Nazis as cats. [source]
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The Time of the Doves
Mercè Rodoreda, David H. Rosenthal
4.2
Barcelona, early 1930s: Natalia, a pretty shop-girl from the working-class quarter of Gracia, is hesitant when a stranger asks her to dance at the fiesta in Diamond Square. But Joe is charming and forceful, and she takes his hand. They marry and soon have two children; for Natalia it is an awakening, both good and bad. When Joe decides to breed pigeons, the birds delight his son and daughter - and infuriate his wife. Then the Spanish Civil War erupts, and lays waste to the city and to their simple existence. Natalia remains in Barcelona, struggling to feed her family, while Joe goes to fight the fascists, and one by one his beloved birds fly away. A highly acclaimed classic that has been translated into more than twenty languages, In Diamond Square is the moving, vivid and powerful story of a woman caught up in a convulsive period of history.
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Sin noticias de Gurb
Eduardo Mendoza
4.2
Esta divertida novela relata la búsqueda de un extraterrestre que ha desaparecido, tras adoptar la apariencia de la vocalista Marta Sánchez, en la jungla urbana barcelonesa. Pero el protagonista de la narración no es Gurb, sino otro alienígena que sale en pos de él y cuyo diario constituye el esqueleto de la narración. La verdadera naturaleza del relato es de carácter satírico: Mendoza convierte esta Barcelona, a un tiempo cotidiana y absurda, en el escenario de una carnavalada que revela el verdadero rostro del hombre urbano actual.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
4.2
Hemingway's classic novel of the Spanish Civil War. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war; three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Surpassing his achievement in The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway creates a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving and wise. "If the function of a writer is to reveal reality," Maxwell Perkins wrote to Hemingway after reading the manuscript, "no one ever so completely performed it." For Whom the Bell Tolls stands as one of the best war novels of all time.
Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big-game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.
Isla and the Happily Ever After (Anna and the French Kiss, #3)
Stephanie Perkins
4.2
Love ignites in the City That Never Sleeps, but can it last?
Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to confront the challenges every young couple must face, including family drama, uncertainty about their college futures, and the very real possibility of being apart.
Featuring cameos from fan-favorites Anna, Étienne, Lola, and Cricket, this sweet and sexy story of true love—set against the stunning backdrops of New York City, Paris, and Barcelona—is a swoonworthy conclusion to Stephanie Perkins’s beloved series.
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Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally
4.2
In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and a bon viveur, but to them he became a saviour. This is the extraordinary story of Oskar Schindler, who risked his life to protect Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland and who was transformed by the war into a man with a mission, a compassionate angel of mercy.
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Últimas tardes con Teresa
Juan Marse
4.1
Dentro de la obra de Juan Marsé, Últimas tardes con Teresa ocupa un lugar especial y muy significativo, pues en ella se dan cita todos los elementos de su particular mundo narrativo, la geografía de su enorme talento. A lo largo de sus páginas nos encontramos con dos personajes cuya larga y feliz estancia entre los lectores les ha convertido, como siempre ocurre con los grandes tipos de la literatura, en mitos, encarnaciones de su tiempo. Teresa, muchacha rebelde, universitaria e izquierdista, hija de la burguesía catalana; y el inmigrante, chava, murciano y ladrón de motos llamado Pijoaparte viven una historia de amor que refleja todas las contradicciones de una época, el esplendor, la miseria y la mediocridad de las clases sociales, la ingenuidad del compromiso fácil y la amargura y el resentimiento de los perdedores, habitantes de un exilio interior en el que, forjados en tantas derrotas, sueñan como niños
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Suskind, J.E. Woods
4.1
An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift—an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and fresh-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"—the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brilliance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
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Recommended by Denise Hamilton.
Denise Hamilton
It’s a very lush, richly imagined book. It just bursts with sensuality and the smells of Paris in the 18th century. [source]
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Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937
Chris Ealham, Paul Preston
4.1
Anarchism and the City is a fascinating look at four decades of tension preceding the Spanish Civil War, and the actors in competition for control of social and economic space in the expanding industrial city of Barcelona—host to the largest anarchist movement in Europe's history. This history "from below" examines the burgeoning public sphere of working-class life and its relationship to the State, industrial bourgeoisie, and professional classes. Unemployment, rent strikes, and rising food prices are the backdrop to this laboratory of emergent urbanism.
Chris Ealham is a lecturer at Saint Louis University in Madrid and co-editor of The Splintering of Spain.
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Anne Rice
4.1
This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even "settle down" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are.
Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.
Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power. source: annerice.com
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La verdad sobre el caso Savolta
EDUARD MENDOZA
4.1
En un período de neutralidad política (Barcelona 1917-1919), una empresa fabricante de armas abocada al desastre económico por los conflictos laborales es el telón de fondo del relato de Javier Miranda, protagonista y narrador de los hechos. El industrial catalán Savolta, dueño de ese negocio que vendió armas a los aliados durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, es asesinado. El humor, la ironía, la riqueza de los matices y de las experiencias, la parodia y la sátira, el pastiche de la subliteratura popular, la recuperación de la tradición narrativa desde la novela bizantina, la picaresca y los libros de caballerías hasta el moderno relato detectivesco, convierten esta novela en una tragicomedia inteligente y divertida, que situó a Eduardo Mendoza entre los narradores españoles más destacados de las últimas décadas.
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The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue (Montague Siblings, #1)
Mackenzi Lee
4.1
A hilarious and swashbuckling teen historical fiction novel, named one of summer's 20 must-read books by Entertainment Weekly! A New York Times bestseller!
A young bisexual British lord embarks on an unforgettable Grand Tour of Europe with his best friend/secret crush. An 18th-century romantic adventure for the modern age written by This Monstrous Thing author Mackenzi Lee—Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda meets the 1700s.
Henry “Monty” Montague doesn’t care that his roguish passions are far from suitable for the gentleman he was born to be. But as Monty embarks on his grand tour of Europe, his quests for pleasure and vice are in danger of coming to an end. Not only does his father expect him to take over the family’s estate upon his return, but Monty is also nursing an impossible crush on his best friend and traveling companion, Percy.
So Monty vows to make this yearlong escapade one last hedonistic hurrah and flirt with Percy from Paris to Rome. But when one of Monty’s reckless decisions turns their trip abroad into a harrowing manhunt, it calls into question everything he knows, including his relationship with the boy he adores.
Witty, dazzling, and intriguing at every turn, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue is an irresistible romp that explores the undeniably fine lines between friendship and love.
5 starred reviews and #1 pick on the summer 2017 Kids’ Indie Next List!
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Victus
Albert Sánchez Piñol
4.1
«¡Lo contaré todo! Cómo jodieron al general Villarroel, cómo derrotaron nuestras victorias. Porque, hasta ahora, de aquella guerra solo he oído las versiones que vienen de arriba o del enemigo.» VICTUS es una novela histórica que nos narra la guerra de Sucesión española, un conflicto que puede considerarse como la primera de las contiendas mundiales y que termina el 11 de septiembre de 1714 con el apocalíptico asalto a Barcelona. También es la tragedia de Martí Zuviría, un joven barcelonés, alumno aventajado del marqués de Vauban, que se convierte en un genio de la ingeniería militar. VICTUS es un derroche de información y rigor histórico al servicio de un relato ágil, potente y desenfadado, con una dicción rabiosamente contemporánea que nos lleva de Francia a Barcelona pasando por Madrid, Toledo, Tortosa o las batallas de Brihuega y Almansa. Y es también una obra sobre la Barcelona irreductible de 1714, que sufrió un asedio desigual de trece meses y el bombardeo de más de treinta mil proyectiles. VICTUS cuestiona las versiones oficiales de ambos bandos y cede la palabra a los auténticos protagonistas de la historia, desde la figura inmensa de Villarroel, el general que defendió la capital catalana con lágrimas en los ojos, hasta los civiles y soldados anónimos de todas las naciones que lucharon a un lado y otro de las murallas. Pero, ante todo, VICTUS es un festín literario de primer orden que se devora del modo en que siempre se han devorado las grandes obras, como lo demuestra el que antes de su aparición ya se hayan vendido los derechos al ruso, el alemán, el holandés y el francés. «Un huracán de aire fresco, una iconoclasta visión desde abajo que rehace el mito de 1714 con más potencia. Más vibrante. Más cercano.» Joan B. Culla, profesor de Historia Contemporánea.
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And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
4.1
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Abdullah, Pari - as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named - is everything. More like a parent than a brother, Abdullah will do anything for her, even trading his only pair of shoes for a feather for her treasured collection. Each night they sleep together in their cot, their heads touching, their limbs tangled. One day the siblings journey across the desert to Kabul with their father. Pari and Abdullah have no sense of the fate that awaits them there, for the event which unfolds will tear their lives apart; sometimes a finger must be cut to save the hand. Crossing generations and continents, moving from Kabul, to Paris, to San Francisco, to the Greek island of Tinos, with profound wisdom, depth, insight and compassion, Khaled Hosseini writes about the bonds that define us and shape our lives, the ways in which we help our loved ones in need, how the choices we make resonate through history and how we are often surprised by the people closest to us.
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El Príncipe de la niebla
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4.1
El nuevo hogar de los Carver está rodeado de misterio. En él aún se respira el espíritu de Jacob, el hijo de los antiguos propietarios, que murió ahogado. Las extrañas circunstancias de esa muerte sólo se empiezan a aclarar con la aparición de un diabólico personaje: el Príncipe de la Niebla, capaz de conceder cualquier deseo a una persona a un alto precio...
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The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth
Robert Foster
4.1
Now in a gorgeous new hardcover format with a four-color map of Middle-earth, this is the completely revised guide to every creature, place, and event from the great fantasy epic.
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The Flea: The Amazing Story of Leo Messi
Michael Part
4.1
The captivating story of soccer legend Lionel Messi, from his first touch at age five in the streets of Rosario, Argentina, to his first goal on the Camp Nou pitch in Barcelona, Spain. The Flea tells the amazing story of a boy who was born to play the beautiful game and destined to become the world's greatest soccer player.
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Te daré la tierra
Chufo Llorens
4.1
Pasión, amistad, envidia, honor y venganza en la Barcelona del siglo XI. La Barcelona medieval abriga entre sus murallas dos historias, ambas marcadas por el amor y la ambición: la de un joven campesino que logra cambiar su destino con la única esperanza de prosperar, conseguir la ciudadanía y hacerse, así, merecedor del amor de una joven de alcurnia, y los amores adúlteros del conde de Barcelona, que sumen a la ciudad en un peligroso conflicto político. Una novela que une, con maestría, ficción e historia para recrear una Barcelona en la que los pactos, el linaje, las intrigas palaciegas, la ambición comercial y la convivencia entre religiones se tiñen con las emociones más intensas.
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The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolano, Eddie Lopez, Armando Duran
4.1
The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolano has been called the Garcia Marquez of his generation. In this dazzling novel, the book that established his international reputation, Bolano tells the story of two modern-day Quixotes--the last survivors of an underground literary movement, perhaps of literature itself--on a tragicomic quest through a darkening, entropic universe. Brilliantly rendered into English by Natasha Wimmer, the acclaimed translator of Bolano's other great masterwork, 2666, The Savage Detectives is an exuberant, wildly inventive and ambitious novel from one of the greatest Latin American authors of our age.
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Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Benedict Wells
4.1
Jules und seine beiden Geschwister wachsen behütet auf, bis ihre Eltern bei einem Unfall ums Leben kommen. Als Erwachsene glauben sie, diesen Schicksalsschlag überwunden zu haben. Doch dann holt sie die Vergangenheit wieder ein. Ein berührender Roman über das Überwinden von Verlust und Einsamkeit und über die Frage, was in einem Menschen unveränderlich ist. Und vor allem: eine große Liebesgeschichte.
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Lonely Planet Pocket Barcelona
Lonely Planet, Sally Davies, et al.
4.1
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet's Pocket Barcelonais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Wander along La Rambla and through the lanes of the Barri Gotic, marvel at the detail of La Sagrada Familia, and sip cava and sample endless varieties of tapas - all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Barcelona and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Barcelona:
Full-colour maps and images throughout Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Free, convenient pull-out map (included in print version), plus over 20 colour neighbourhood maps User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time Covers La Rambla, Barri Gòtic, El Raval, La Ribera, Parc de la Ciutadella, La Barceloneta, Passeig de Grà cia, L'Eixample, Montjuïc, Poble Sec, Camp Nou, Pedralbes, Sarria, and more The Perfect Choice:Lonely Planet's Pocket Barcelonais our colourful, easy to use, handy guide that literally fits in your pocket, providing on-the-go assistance for those seeking the best sights and experiences on a short visit or weekend away.
Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Spainguide for an in-depth look at all the country has to offer.
About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.
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La reina descalza
Ildefonso Falcone
4.1
En la España del siglo XVIII, una conmovedora historia de amistad, pasión y venganza une dos voces de mujer en un canto desgarrado por la libertad.
«Canta hasta que la boca te sepa a sangre…» En enero de 1748, una mujer negra deambula por las calles de Sevilla. Atrás ha dejado un pasado esclavo en la lejana Cuba, el hijo al que nunca volverá a ver y un largo viaje en barco hasta las costas españolas. Caridad ya no tiene un amo que le dé órdenes, pero tampoco un lugar donde cobijarse cuando se cruza en su camino Milagros Carmona, una joven gitana de Triana por cuyas venas corre la sangre de la rebeldía y el arte de los de su raza. Las dos mujeres se convierten en inseparables y, entre zarabandas y fandangos, la gitana confiesa a su nueva amiga su amor por el apuesto y arrogante Pedro García, de quien la separan antiguos odios entre ambas familias. Por su parte, Caridad se esfuerza por acallar el sentimiento que está naciendo en su corazón hacia Melchor Vega, el abuelo de Milagros, un hombre desafiante, bribón y seductor aunque también firme defensor del honor y la lealtad para con los suyos. Pero cuando un mandato real convierte a todos los gitanos en proscritos, la vida de Milagros y Caridad da un trágico vuelco. Aunque sus caminos se separan, el destino volverá a unirlas en un Madrid donde confluyen contrabandistas y cómicos, nobles y villanos; un Madrid que se rinde a la pasión que emana de las voces y bailes de esa raza de príncipes descalzos. Ildefonso Falcones nos propone un viaje a una época apasionante, teñida por los prejuicios y la intolerancia. Desde Sevilla hasta Madrid, desde el tumultuoso bullicio de la gitanería hasta los teatros señoriales de la capital, los lectores disfrutarán de un fresco histórico poblado por personajes que viven, aman, sufren y pelean por lo que creen justo. Fiel reflejo de unos hombres y mujeres que no agacharon la cabeza y que alzaron la voz para enfrentarse al orden establecido.
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Le otto montagne
Paolo Cognetti
4.1
Pietro è un ragazzino di città, solitario e un po' scontroso. La madre lavora in un consultorio di periferia, e farsi carico degli altri è il suo talento. Il padre è un chimico, un uomo ombroso e affascinante, che torna a casa ogni sera dal lavoro carico di rabbia. I genitori di Pietro sono uniti da una passione comune, fondativa: in montagna si sono conosciuti, innamorati, si sono addirittura sposati ai piedi delle Tre Cime di Lavaredo. La montagna li ha uniti da sempre, anche nella tragedia, e l'orizzonte lineare di Milano li riempie ora di rimpianto e nostalgia. Quando scoprono il paesino di Grana, ai piedi del Monte Rosa, sentono di aver trovato il posto giusto: Pietro trascorrerà tutte le estati in quel luogo «chiuso a monte da creste grigio ferro e a valle da una rupe che ne ostacola l'accesso» ma attraversato da un torrente che lo incanta dal primo momento. E lì, ad aspettarlo, c'è Bruno, capelli biondo canapa e collo bruciato dal sole: ha la sua stessa età ma invece di essere in vacanza si occupa del pascolo delle vacche. Iniziano così estati di esplorazioni e scoperte, tra le case abbandonate, il mulino e i sentieri più aspri. Sono anche gli anni in cui Pietro inizia a camminare con suo padre, «la cosa più simile a un'educazione che abbia ricevuto da lui». Perché la montagna è un sapere, un vero e proprio modo di respirare, e sarà il suo lascito più vero: «Eccola lì, la mia eredità: una parete di roccia, neve, un mucchio di sassi squadrati, un pino». Un'eredità che dopo tanti anni lo riavvicinerà a Bruno. Paolo Cognetti, uno degli scrittori più apprezzati dalla critica e amati dai lettori, entra nel catalogo Einaudi con un libro magnetico e adulto, che esplora i rapporti accidentati ma granitici, la possibilità di imparare e la ricerca del nostro posto nel mondo.
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DK Eyewitness Barcelona and Catalonia
DK Publishing
4.1
An unbeatable guide to the buzzing city of Barcelona and the rural region of Catalonia, packed with photos and maps, insider tips, useful advice, and information.
Inspiring itineraries will help you discover the best things to do in Barcelona and Catalonia, from marveling at Barcelona Cathedral and Gaudi's Sagrada Familia and Park Guell, to enjoying the sun on the Costa Brava and visiting the peaceful monasteries, such as Montserrat, in the hills of Catalonia. You'll find listings for a variety of Catalonian hotels and restaurants, as well as a guide to help you find the best tapas in Barcelona. Unique illustrations, stunning photography, and detailed maps make this guide the essential companion to your trip to the region.
With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Barcelona & Catalonia truly shows you this city as no one else can.
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Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and its Silent Past
Giles Tremlett
4.1
The appearance, more than sixty years after the Spanish Civil War ended, of mass graves containing victims of Francisco Franco’s death squads finally broke what Spaniards call “the pact of forgetting”—the unwritten understanding that their recent, painful past was best left unexplored. At this charged moment, Giles Tremlett embarked on a journey around the country and through its history to discover why some of Europe’s most voluble people have kept silent so long. Ghosts of Spain is the fascinating result of that journey. In elegant and passionate prose, Tremlett unveils the tinderbox of disagreements that mark the country today. Delving into such emotional questions as who caused the Civil War, why Basque terrorists kill, why Catalans hate Madrid, and whether the Islamist bombers who killed 190 people in 2004 dreamed of a return to Spain’s Moorish past, Tremlett finds the ghosts of the past everywhere. At the same time, he offers trenchant observations on more quotidian aspects of Spanish life today: the reasons, for example, Spaniards dislike authority figures, but are cowed by a doctor’s white coat, and how women have embraced feminism without men noticing.
Drawing on the author’s twenty years of experience living in Spain, Ghosts of Spain is a revelatory book about one of Europe’s most exciting countries.
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Memòria d'uns ulls pintats
Lluís Llach
4.1
Quatre amics, dos nois i dues noies nascuts el 1920, creixen junts al barri obrer de la Barceloneta. Comencen a descobrir el món en un ambient humil i llibertari, i la proclamació de la República els obre un amplíssim horitzó de possibilitats, il·lusions i esperances. Però la Guerra Civil i la posterior repressió franquista ho estronquen tot. La vida de tots quatre i de les seves famílies queda marcada per l'impacte d'uns fets històrics que influeixen d'una manera especialment tràgica en la relació d'amor i d'amistat entre els dos nois, Germinal i David. El mateix Germinal, ja vell, narra la seva experiència escruixidora a un jove director de cinema que busca argument per fer una pel·lícula històrica. Reconstrucció vivíssima d'un període sovint mal explicat, Memòria d’uns ulls pintats és, per damunt de tot, una extraordinària història d’amor.
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Antonio Gaudi: Master Architect
Juan Bassegoda Nonell, Melba Levick
4.1
Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) is one of the most admired architects of the twentieth century. Even today, some seventy-five years after Gaudí's death, his fanciful, exuberant buildings define Barcelona's cityscape and continue to influence architects, sculptors, and designers. Perhaps best known for the dynamic, sculptural facades, found on such buildings as the church of the Sagrada Familia and Casa Milà, Gaudí is as much respected as a technological innovator as a daring stylist.
In this enlightening volume, a concise, knowledgeable text by the director of the Royal Gaudí Chair at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (Barcelona) combines with striking images by a well-known architectural photographer to provide a new perspective on Gaudí's remarkable career. The text covers the full range of his oeuvre, describing early assignments in the 1870s as a draftsman for leading architects in Barcelona, the innovative buildings he created for the Güell Palace and Estate, daring new structural solutions at Bellesguard, architecture inspired by nature at the Casa Calvet and in the Park Güell, and the construction of his unfinished masterpiece, the Church of the Sagrada Familia, which occupied him until his death. The author traces all the influences that led to his definitive style, from his fascination with the Orient and neogothicism to his affinity for naturalism and specific geometric forms.
Brilliantly illustrated, this incisive overview of Gaudí's visionary work is ideal for those who delight in his architecture as well as those who look forward to traveling to Spain to see his monumental legacy.
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The Rose of Fire (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2.5)
Shawn Royal
4.1
Set at the time of the Spanish Inquisition in the fifteenth century, “Rose of Fire” tells the story of the origins of the mysterious labyrinthine library, the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, which lies at the heart of Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, and now The Prisoner of Heaven.
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Explorer Academy: The Double Helix (Book 3)
Trudi Trueit
4.1
The mystery deepens and the action intensifies for 12-year-old Cruz Coronado and friends in the exciting third book in the Explorer Academy series.
The adventure continues for Cruz, Emmett, Sailor, and Bryndis as they continue their studies at sea and travel to exotic locations around the world. A mysterious person alerts Cruz to impending danger while he and a few trusted pals explore ancient ruins in Petra, Jordan, and search for another piece of the puzzle his mother left behind. Worst of all, now his father has gone missing, which prompts Aunt Marisol, his number one protector, to leave the ship in search of him. Who is the new professor who takes her place? How does the new technology he introduces help or hurt Cruz's quest? Why is Nebula determined to stop Cruz before he turns 13? The clock is ticking as his first teen birthday draws near ... a milestone that will change his life forever, one way or another.
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Lectura fácil
Cristina Morale
4.1
Son cuatro: Nati, Patri, Marga y Àngels. Son parientas, tienen diversos grados de lo que la Administración y la medicina consideran «discapacidad intelectual» y comparten un piso tutelado. Han pasado buena parte de sus vidas en RUDIS y CRUDIS (residencias urbanas y rurales para personas con discapacidad intelectual). Pero ante todo son mujeres con una extraordinaria capacidad para enfrentarse a las condiciones de dominación que les ha tocado sufrir. La suya es la Barcelona opresiva y bastarda: la ciudad de las okupas, la Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca, los ateneos anarquistas y el arte políticamente correcto.
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Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
Jack McCallum
4.1
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team. As a writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from its inception to the gold medal ceremony in Barcelona. Drawing on fresh interviews with the players, McCallum provides the definitive account of the Dream Team phenomenon. He offers a behind-the-scenes look at the controversial selection process. He takes us inside the team’s Olympic suites for late-night card games and bull sessions where superstars like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird debated the finer points of basketball. And he narrates a riveting account of the legendary intrasquad scrimmage that pitted the Dream Teamers against one another in what may have been the greatest pickup game in history. In the twenty years since the Dream Team first captivated the world, its mystique has only grown. Dream Team vividly re-creates the moment when a once-in-a-millennium group of athletes came together and changed the future of sports—one perfectly executed fast break at a time.
With a new Afterword by the author
“The absolute definitive work on the subject, a perfectly wonderful once-you-pick-it-up-you-won’t-be-able-to-put-it-down book.”—The Boston Globe
“An Olympic hoops dream.”—Newsday “What makes this volume a must-read for nostalgic hoopsters are the robust portraits of the outsize personalities of the participants, all of whom were remarkably open with McCallum, both then and now.”—Booklist (starred review)
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Los herederos de la tierra (La catedral del mar, #2)
Ildefonso Falcone
4.1
Barcelona, 1387. Las campanas de la iglesia de Santa María de la Mar siguen sonando para todos los habitantes del barrio de la Ribera, pero uno de ellos escucha su repique con especial atención... Hugo Llor, hijo de un marinero fallecido, a sus doce años trabaja en las atarazanas gracias a la generosidad de uno de los prohombres más apreciados de la ciudad: Arnau Estanyol.
Pero sus sueños juveniles de convertirse en constructor de barcos se darán de bruces contra una realidad dura y despiadada cuando la familia Puig, enemiga acérrima de su mentor, aproveche su posición ante el nuevo rey para ejecutar una venganza que llevaba años acariciando.
A partir de ese momento, la vida de Hugo oscila entre su lealtad a Bernat, amigo y único hijo de Arnau, y la necesidad de sobrevivir en una ciudad injusta con los pobres.
Obligado a abandonar el barrio de la Ribera, busca trabajo junto a Mahir, un judío que le enseña los secretos del mundo del vino. Con él, entre viñedos, cubas y alambiques, el muchacho descubre la pasión por la tierra al tiempo que conoce a Dolça, la hermosa sobrina del judío, que se convertirá en su primer amor. Pero este sentimiento, prohibido por las costumbres y por la religión, será el que le proporcionará los momentos más dulces y amargos de su juventud.
Diez años después de La catedral del mar, Ildefonso Falcones regresa de nuevo a ese mundo que tan bien conoce, la Barcelona medieval. Y lo hace recreando una vez más a la perfección esa efervescente sociedad feudal, prisionera de una nobleza voluble y corrupta, y la lucha de un hombre por salir adelante sin sacrificar su dignidad.
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Lectures on Algebraic Quantum Groups
Ken A. Brown
4.1
In September 2000, at the Centre de Recerca Matematica in Barcelona, we pre sented a 30-hour Advanced Course on Algebraic Quantum Groups. After the course, we expanded and smoothed out the material presented in the lectures and inte grated it with the background material that we had prepared for the participants; this volume is the result. As our title implies, our aim in the course and in this text is to treat selected algebraic aspects of the subject of quantum groups. Sev eral of the words in the previous sentence call for some elaboration. First, we mean to convey several points by the term 'algebraic' - that we are concerned with algebraic objects, the quantized analogues of 'classical' algebraic objects (in contrast, for example, to quantized versions of continuous function algebras on compact groups); that we are interested in algebraic aspects of the structure of these objects and their representations (in contrast, for example, to applications to other areas of mathematics); and that our tools will be drawn primarily from noncommutative algebra, representation theory, and algebraic geometry. Second, the term 'quantum groups' itself. This label is attached to a large and rapidly diversifying field of mathematics and mathematical physics, originally launched by developments around 1980 in theoretical physics and statistical me chanics. It is a field driven much more by examples than by axioms, and so resists attempts at concise description (but see Chapter 1. 1 and the references therein)."
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)
Alan Bradley
4.1
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events: A dead bird is found on the doorstep, a postage stamp bizarrely pinned to its beak. Then, hours later, Flavia finds a man lying in the cucumber patch and watches him as he takes his dying breath.
For Flavia, who is both appalled and delighted, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw. “I wish I could say I was afraid, but I wasn’t. Quite the contrary. This was by far the most interesting thing that had ever happened to me in my entire life.”
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Messi, Neymar, Suarez and F.C. Barcelona: Soccer (Futbol) Coloring Book for Adults and Kids
Anthony Curcio
4.1
Hours of fun coloring your favorite Barcelona Soccer (futbol) stars and team logos. Create your own players, design your own uniforms, cleats and more! The ultimate book for soccer fans of all ages!
Featuring Neymar Jr., Sergi Roberto, Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Luis Suarez, Lionel "Leo" Messi, Rafinha Alcantara, Gerard Pique, Jeremy Mathieu, Lucas Digne, Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba, Paco Alcacer, Aleix Vidal, Andres Iniesta, Jasper Cillessen, Ivan Rakitic and more!
100 Pages, printed on thick white paper to help prevent bleed. Ages 6+
Messi, Neymar, Suarez y F.C. Barcelona: Libro para colorear f�tbol para adultos y ni�os
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Moon Barcelona & Madrid
Jessica Jones
4.1
Whether you're rambling down Las Ramblas or making your way down the Gran Via, take your time getting to know Spain's top cities with Moon Barcelona & Madrid. Inside you'll find:
Flexible itineraries for up to a week in Barcelona or Madrid that can be combined into a 2-week trip, including day trips to Montserrat, the Penedès wine region, Toledo, and more
Strategic advice for foodies, art lovers, history buffs, and more
Must-see highlights and unique experiences: Marvel at Gaudi's architectural masterpiece Sagrada Familia, stroll through the baroque Royal Palace, or contemplate Picasso's Guernica and Velázquez's Las Meninas. Cheer for the home team at a fútbol match, people-watch from a sunny café terrace, or climb to the top of Mount Tibidabo and explore the lush surrounding park
Savor the flavors of Barcelona and Madrid: Sample mouthwatering jamon or zumo at a sprawling market or snag a table at a Michelin-starred restaurant. Post up with the locals at a no-frills tapas joint, sip authentic vermouth, or snack on the catch of the day at a beach-front bar
Honest suggestions from Madrid local Jessica Jones Full-color photos and detailed maps throughout
Background information on the landscape, history, and cultural customs of each city
Handy tools such as visa information, Spanish and Catalan phrasebooks, and local insight for solo travelers, visitors with disabilities, seniors, LGBTQ travelers, travelers of color, and families with children With Moon's practical tips and local insight, you can enjoy Barcelona and Madrid at your own pace.
For more of Europe's best cities, try Moon Rome, Florence & Venice.
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Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War
Nick Lloyd
4.1
This is a guide to Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War, beginning in the 19th century with the conditions and movements which led to the social revolution of 1936, and ending with the fall of the city on 26 January 1939 when Franco's tanks drove down the Diagonal and set about destroying everything the Republic and the revolutionaries had built. Stories from the aftermath of the war, the exile and the Franco regime are also included. In addition with dealing with the more obvious issues such as anarchism, the Spanish Republic, Catalonia, George Orwell, the aerial bombing, and the May Days, etc, the book also looks at themes such as the People's Olympiad, the American Sixth Fleet in the city, Barca, urbanism, Nazis in Barcelona, Robert Capa, the Spanish in the Holocaust, poster art... Intertwined in the text are contemporary quotes and a few personal accounts of people who experienced the war or its aftermath. There are also biographies of figures such as Salvador Segui, Ramon Mercader, Andreu Nin, Francesc Boix and Lluis Companys. The book is divided into two main sections: a history of the war from the perspective of Barcelona, followed by a guide to related sites which have often been included as an excuse to tell stories or illustrate wider issues. The book ends with an extensive glossary. Nick Lloyd has been running Spanish Civil War tours in Barcelona since 2009. REVIEWS: The Volunteer: Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) "This is a wonderful hybrid of a book. The text tells much about Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War and much else mostly about the radical history of the city. But its other purpose is to be a companion while one is in Barcelona itself to provide information and illumination about the city's terrible, dramatic, and heroic Civil War history." Military History Book Review "Nick Lloyd has produced a brilliant account of a fascinating city and an even more fascinating period of political and social upheaval"
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Rick Steves Spain 2020
Rick Steves
4.1
Savor authentic paella, run with the bulls in Pamplona, or relax on Barcelona's beaches: experience Spain with Rick Steves! Inside Rick Steves Spain 2020 you'll find:
Comprehensive coverage for planning a multi-week trip to Spain
Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites
Top sights and hidden gems, from El Escorial and the great mosque of Córdoba to medieval bars serving house-made madroño liqueur
How to connect with local culture: Enjoy a flamenco show in Madrid, chat with fans about the latest fútbol match, or meander down winding streets in search of the best tapas
Beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist traps with Rick's candid, humorous insight
The best places to eat, sleep, and relax with a glass of sangria
Self-guided walking tours of lively neighborhoods and incredible museums
Vital trip-planning tools, like how to link destinations, build your itinerary, and get from place to place
Detailed maps, plus a fold-out map for exploring on the go
Useful resources including a packing list, Spanish phrase book, a historical overview, and recommended reading
Over 1,000 bible-thin pages include everything worth seeing without weighing you down
Annually updated information on Barcelona, Basque Country, Bilbao, Santiago de Compostela, León, Salamanca, Madrid, El Escorial, the Valley of the Fallen, Segovia, Toledo, Granada, Sevilla, Córdoba, Andalucía, Spain's Southern Coast, Gibraltar, Morocco, and more Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves Spain 2020. Planning a one- to two-week trip? Check out Rick Steves Best of Spain.
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Lonely Planet Barcelona
Lonely Planet, Sally Davies, et al.
4.1
Lonely Planet: The world’s number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet’s Barcelonais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Savour the best of New Catalan cuisine, yell for your team at Camp Nou stadium, and crane your neck at the weird and wonderful architecture of La Sagrada Familia – all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Barcelona and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet’s Barcelona:
Colour maps and images throughout
Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests
Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots
Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices
Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss
Cultural insights provide a richer, more rewarding travel experience - covering history, people, music, cuisine, politics
Over30 maps for easy navigation
Covers La Rambla, Barri Gòtic, El Raval, La Ribera, Barceloneta, La Sagrada Família, Gracia, Park Güell, Camp Nou, Pedralbes, La Zona, Montjuïc, Poble Sec, Sant Antoni, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet’s Barcelona is our most comprehensive guide to the city, and is perfect for discovering both popular and offbeat experiences.
Looking for just the highlights? Check out Pocket Barcelona, our a handy-sized guide featuring the city’s best sights and experiences for a short break or weekend away. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet’s Spain for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer.
About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world’s number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we’ve printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You’ll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.
TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category
‘Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.’ – New York Times
‘Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.’ – Fairfax Media (Australia)
*Source: Nielsen BookScan: Australia, UK, USA, 5/2016-4/2017
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Pep Guardiola - 88 Attacking Combinations and Positional Patterns of Play Direct from Pep's Training Sessions (Volume)
Of all the books on the man many consider the greatest genius of twentieth-century art, this sumptuous work - now available as a compact, affordable paperback - stands out as truly the ultimate Picasso. Not only does it cover in one volume all the periods of Picasso's long, incredibly versatile career - with exquisite reproductions of nearly every significant work he ever created - but the scholarship is also impeccable: each of the three authors is a leading authority on a particular period of Picasso's artistic evolution. Brigitte Leal covers Picasso's formative years from 1881 through 1916, a period that includes his invention of Cubism with Georges Braque. Christine Piot explores the astonishingly fertile period from 1917 through 1952. Marie-Laure Bernadac discusses the unabashed vigor of Picasso's later years, from 1953 until his death in 1973. Over 1200 magnificent reproductions, 798 in full color, illustrate Picasso's breathtaking range of artistic expression, including paintings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, and sculpture.
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Rick Steves Pocket Barcelona
Rick Steves, Gene Openshaw, et al.
4.1
Make the most of every day and every dollar with Rick Steves! This colorful, compact guidebook is perfect for spending a week or less in Barcelona:
City walks and tours: Six detailed tours and walks showcase Barcelona's essential sights, including Las Ramblas, Sagrada Familia, the Picasso Museum, the Barri Gòtic, and more
Rick's strategic advice on what experiences are worth your time and money
What to eat and where to stay: Sample authentic pintxos at a tapas bar, sip cava with friendly locals, and unwind in a cozy room in family-run hotel
Day-by-day itineraries to help you prioritize your time
A detailed, detachable fold-out map, plus museum and city maps throughout
Full-color, portable, and slim for exploring on-the-go
Trip-planning practicalities like when to go, how to get around, basic Spanish and Catalan phrases, and more Lightweight yet packed with valuable insight into Barcelona's history and culture, Rick Steves Pocket Barcelona truly is a tour guide in your pocket. Expanding your trip? Try Rick Steves Spain!
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Antoni Gaudi
Rainer Zerbst, Francois Rene Roland
4.1
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Top 10 Barcelona (DK Eyewitness Travel)
Annelise Sorensen, Ryan Chandler, Mary-Ann Gallagher
4.1
A better value than all the competition, these pocket travel guides offer travelers the insight of local experts to easily plan the perfect trip. Take the work out of planning any trip with DK's Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides. Branded with DK's trusted and familiar "Eyewitness" style, these compact guides make finding the best every destination has to offer easier than ever before! Perfect for business travel and vacation, searching for the finest cuisine or the least expensive places to eat, the most luxurious hotels or the best deals on places to stay, the best family destination or the hottest nightspot, Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guides provide current, useful information based on the insight of local experts to find the best of everything that each destination has to offer.
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The Boy Between Worlds: A Biography
Annejet van der Zijl
4.1
This is the emotionally stirring story of unlikely lovers who brave the bigotry of their era, only to be victims of the even larger forces of history at work in World War II. The plight of Anna (a lively and charismatic woman) and her much younger second husband Waldemar (an immigrant from the Dutch colony of Suriname), and the fate of their only child, Waldy, after his parents are murdered in the Nazi concentration camp for the crime of harboring Jews in their boarding house is unforgettable. Waldemar is unique as a biracial young man in post WWII Netherlands—and his search for his own path in life is sure to engage even the hardest hearts.
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The Jesus Club: Incredible True Stories of How God Is Moving in Our High Schools
Brian Barcelona and Nick Vujicic
4.1
How a Simple Act of Obedience Is Igniting Revival in Our Nation's Schools
What happens when a teenage convert from atheism hears a challenge from the Lord--and decides to act on it? This true story is the catalyst for a move of God that is taking the high schools of America for Jesus.
Brian Barcelona, a dynamic leader on the forefront of youth evangelism, recounts how he answered God's call on his life with dramatic and miraculous results. Just a few months out of high school, Brian obeyed God's directive to return to his alma mater and preach the gospel to the kids in the Bible club. Suddenly lives began to be changed. Hearts were saved. Numbers grew. Soon other schools joined in, sparking a youth revival in which thousands of teens are letting Jesus heal their lives.
This remarkable story will inspire you to reach out to others, particularly young people, and believe that God will equip you for the call he gives you. Let your heart be energized through simple acts of obedience and watch as God does mighty things!
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The South
Colm Toibin
4.0
Set in the 1950s, this is the story of Katherine Proctor who "flees husband, child and County Wexford (Ireland) for Spain. She, a Catalan lover, and another Irish emigre, painters all, fashion new worlds in their work while fighting past worlds in their lives." (Library Journal)
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt
4.0
A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).
Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love -- and at the center of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.
The Goldfinch is a mesmerizing, stay-up-all-night and tell-all-your-friends triumph, an old-fashioned story of loss and obsession, survival and self-invention. From the streets of New York to the dark corners of the art underworld, this "soaring masterpiece" examines the devastating impact of grief and the ruthless machinations of fate (Ron Charles, Washington Post).
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More modern, I recently read The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt and I love the way it was written. A great story brought to life with long, descriptive, sometimes frenetic sentences. She paints some scenes and some ideas that are unlike anything I've ever read. It's like watching magic on the page. [source]
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The Summer of Dead Toys (Inspector Salgado #1)
Antonio Hill
4.0
A skillfully plotted tale of misdeeds and murder--introducing Inspector Hector Salgado, a detective with a complicated past, a love of cinema . . . and a tendency to violence.
Under a hot Barcelona sun, a killer is feeling the heat. When the death of a vulnerable young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo causes the normally calm Police Inspector Hector Salgado to beat someone up, he is moved off the project and sent instead to investigate a teenager's fall to his death in one of Barcelona's uptown areas. As Salgado begins to uncover the inconvenient truths behind the city's most powerful families, two seemingly unsolvable cases are set to implode under the hot Barcelona sun.
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Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın
Orhan Pamuk
4.0
İlk aşk deneyimi bütün bir hayatı belirler mi?
Yoksa kaderimizi çizen yalnızca tarihin ve efsanelerin gücü müdür?
Orhan Pamuk, Yapı Kredi Yayınları’ndan çıkan yeni romanı “Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın”da bizi otuz yıl önce İstanbul yakınlarındaki bir kasabada liseli bir gencin yaşadığı sarsıcı bir aşk hikâyesiyle, büyük bir insani suçun peşinden sürüklüyor.
1980'lerin ortasında geleneksel usulle kuyu kazan Mahmut Usta ile çırağı "küçük bey" Cem zor bir arazide su ararlarken, kasabanın hemen dışındaki sarı çadırda esrarengiz bir tiyatrocu kadın her gece eski masal ve hikayeleri yeniden anlatmaktadır.
Roman, bir yandan genç kahramanın aşk, kıskançlık, sorumluluk ve özgürlük duygularıyla derinden tanışmasını hikaye ederken, diğer yandan medeniyetler üzerinden babalar ve oğullar; "otoriterlik" ve birey olma konularını tartışıyor.
Kırmızı Saçlı Kadın'da okur, Batı'nın ve Doğu'nun iki temel efsanesi Sophokles'in Kral Oidipus'u (babayı öldürmek) ile Firdevsi'nin "Rüstem ve Sührab"ıyla (oğulu öldürmek) yeniden karşılaşacak ve kendine sıradan hayatlarımızın eski metinlerden ne kadar etkilendiği sorusunu soracak.
"Pamuk, en iyi kitaplarını Nobel'den sonra yazan eşsiz bir yazar." - Independent, Londra
Kitabın kapağında İngiliz sanatçı Dante Gabriel Rosetti’nin “Regina Cordium” adlı çalışması sergilenmektedir. Kitabın kapak tasarımı “Mehmet Ulusel”, tasarım uygulaması “Arzu Yaraş”, ve dizgisi “Akgül Yıldız” tarafından yapılmıştır.
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City Trails - Barcelona
Lonely Planet Kids
4.0
Get ready for a walking tour like no other--all from the comfort of your sofa! This seriously streetwise guide is packed with themed trails, from food and festivals to music, art and sport, that reveal amazing facts and intriguing tales you won't find on the tourist routes.
In City Trails: Barcelona, join Lonely Planet explorers Marco and Amelia as they hunt for more secrets, stories and surprises in another of the world's great cities. You'll discover human pyramids, dancing eggs, a witch school, and lots more!
Themed trails include:
Legends From Long Ago Animal Land Delicioso! Gaudi Town Street Shows Watery Way Let's Go! Winning City Musical Marvels Perfect Parks City of Art High Time Barcelona Style City Surprises Spotted in the Streets Spooky Stuff Also available: City Trails â?? London, Paris, New York City, Rome, Tokyo, Sydney, Washington DC and Singapore
About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids â?? an imprint of the world's leading travel authority, Lonely Planet â?? published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travelers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids encourages the next generation of global citizens to learn about the world around them with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. Whether at home, in school or on the road, every day can be an adventure. Come explore!
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Top 10 Barcelona: 2020
DK Eyewitness
4.0
The UK's best-selling pocket guides - an unbeatable guide to Barcelona, packed with insider tips and ideas, detailed maps and a laminated pull-out map, all designed to help you see the very best of Barcelona.
Stroll through lively Las Ramblas, take in Gaudí's jaw-dropping Sagrada Familia and admire the works of art in the Museu Picasso or the Fundació Joan Miró. From Top 10 Catalan folk festivals and traditions to Top 10 fascinating markets - discover the best of Barcelona with this easy-to-use travel guide.
Inside Top 10 Barcelona: - Nine easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend or a week - Top 10 lists showcase the best attractions in Barcelona, covering La Rambla, Barcelona Cathedral, Parc Güell and more - Free laminated pull-out map of Barcelona, plus seven full-colour area maps - In-depth area guides explore Barcelona's most interesting neighbourhoods, with the best places for shopping, going out and sightseeing - Colour-coded chapters divided by area make it easy to find information quickly and plan your day - Essential travel tips including our expert choices of where to stay, eat, shop and sightsee, plus useful transport, visa and health information - Colour maps help you navigate with ease - Chapters covering Barri Gòtic and La Ribera, El Raval, Montjuïc, the Seafront, Eixample, Gràcia, Tibidabo and Zona Alta, and sights beyond the city centre
Staying for longer and looking for a more comprehensive guide to Barcelona? Try our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Barcelona and Catalonia.
About DK Eyewitness Travel: DK's Top 10 guides take the work out of planning a short trip, with easy-to-read maps, tips and tours to inform and enrich your weekend trip or cultural break. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.
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Pep Guardiola: Another Way of Winning: The Biography
Guillem Balagu
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Woesten
Kris Van Steenberge
4.0
Het indringende debuut van Kris Van Steenberge brengt ons naar de Vlaamse klei, waar de negentiende eeuw ten einde loopt. In het dorp Woesten treedt Elisabeth, dochter van de smid, in het huwelijk met de jonge arts Guillaume Duponselle. Maar er rust geen zegen op hun verbintenis. Als Elisabeth acht maanden later van een tweeling bevalt, blijkt de eerstgeborene een prachtige zoon, Valentijn. Het tweede kind is zo mismaakt dat Guillaume weigert hem een naam te geven. Toch blijft Nameloos in leven, tegen alle verwachtingen in. Omdat zijn verschijning zijn vader en de dorpelingen doet huiveren, gaat het jongetje gesluierd door het leven. We volgen in Woesten de dorpse gebeurtenissen rond de opgroeiende tweeling terwijl de Eerste Wereldoorlog zijn intrede doet. Van Steenberge vertelt het broeierige verhaal achtereenvolgens vanuit Elisabeth, Guillaume, Valentijn en Nameloos. Voor al zijn personages pakt de toekomst anders uit dan verwacht.
Guillaume vroeg haar ten huwelijk achter de mesthoop. Een voorteken? Hij had het niet mooi voorbereid, geen schone woorden bedacht. Hij had het gewoon berekend. Haar maandstonden bleven uit en misselijkheid keerde al twee weken ’s ochtends haar maag binnenstebuiten. Hij vroeg het die zondag toen hij de aardappelschillen in het kippenhok kwam gooien en haar zag braken.
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Lonely Planet Best of Barcelona 2020
Lonely Planet, Esme Fox, et al.
4.0
Lonely Planet: The world's number one travel guide publisher*
Lonely Planet's Best of Barcelonais your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Gaze in wonder at Gaudi's Sagrada Familia, stroll along La Rambla and the ancient streets of the Barri Gotic, and take your pick of tapas joints - all with your trusted travel companion. Discover the best of Barcelona and begin your journey now!
Inside Lonely Planet's Best of Barcelona:
Full-colour images throughout Highlightsand itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential infoat your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights provide a richer, more rewarding travel experience - covering history, art, food, wine, sport Covers Barri Gòtic, La Rambla, La Ribera, La Sagrada Família & L'Eixample, Parc Güell, El Raval, Barceloneta & the Waterfront, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Best of Barcelonais filled with inspiring and colourful photos, and focuses on Barcelona's most popular attractions for those wanting to experience the best of the best.
Looking for a comprehensive guide that recommends both popular and offbeat experiences, and extensively covers all the country has to offer? Check out Lonely Planet's Spain guide.
About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company and the world's number one travel guidebook brand, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveller since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travellers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, video, 14 languages, nine international magazines, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more.
'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' - New York Times
'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves, it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' - Fairfax Media (Australia)
*Source: Nielsen BookScan: Australia, UK, USA, 5/2016-4/2017
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Fodor's Essential Spain 2020
Fodor's Travel Guides
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Vele hemels boven de zevende
Griet Op de Beeck
4.0
Lou is 12, Eva 36, Elsie 42, Casper 46 en Jos 71. Vijf mensen, met elkaar verbonden, vertellen hun verhaal. Over onverwacht geluk dat de dingen moeilijk maakt, over geheimen die te groot lijken, over de complexe kunst van het jong zijn, over obstakels die bergen worden, amper te beklimmen, over blijven proberen, tot waar geen mens meer verder kan. In Vele hemels boven de zevende vechten vijf uiteenlopende figuren meer met zichzelf dan met elkaar in dit bestaan dat belachelijk mooi en geweldig lastig is, allemaal tegelijk.
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Cuatro días de enero (Inspector Mascarell, #1)
Jordi Sierra i Fabr
4.0
Barcelona, 1939: cuatro días antes de la ocupación franquista, un inspector republicano deberá resolver su último caso.
En pleno caos previo a la inminente entrada de los nacionales en Barcelona, el inspector Mascarell afrontará el caso de la misteriosa desaparición de una joven. Aunque todo está perdido, el inspector pretende llegar hasta el fondo del asunto, pero se topará con las altas esferas de la ciudad, que están preparando la llegada de los vencedores# Un intenso retrato de una Barcelona hambrienta, triste y aterrorizada, y una hermosa historia de amor en medio de la desolación.
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A Woman Unknown
Lucia Graves
4.0
This beautifully nuanced memoir is a profound meditation on the three cultures-Spanish, English, and Catalan-that have shaped Lucia Graves's life and thought. It is also a complex portrait of Spain under Franco. The author explores the patterns of love, sacrifice, and forbearance that mark not only her own life but those of many other Spanish women she has known.
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Friday on My Mind (Frieda Klein, #5)
Nicci Frenc
4.0
When a bloated corpse is found floating in the River Thames the police can at least sure that identifying the victim will be straightforward. Around the dead man's wrist is a hospital band. On it are the words Dr F. Klein.
But psychotherapist Frieda Klein is very much alive. And, after evidence linking her to the murder is discovered, she becomes the prime suspect.
Unable to convince the police of her innocence, Frieda is forced to make a bold decision in order to piece together the terrible truth before it's too late either for her or for those she loves.
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Landmarks of the World: Color Your Way from Barcelona to Beijing
Abi Daker
4.0
Put your own creative spin on renowned architectural masterpieces! Landmarks of the World lets you color in famous religious buildings, museums, seats of government and commerce, castles, and more across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. From the the ancient grandeur of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, to the iconic spires of Antoni Gaudi’s La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, to Frank Lloyd Wright’s stunning Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, every single creation is inspirational. A concise description with fascinating facts about the structure’s design and history accompanies each illustration.
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Si Beethoven pudiera escucharme
Ramon Gener i Sala and Alfonso Barguñó Vian
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Si te dicen que caí
Juan Marse, Juan Marsé
4.0
Si te dicen que caí es la novela, la gran novela de la madurez de Juan Marsé, avalada por el Primer Premio Internacional de Novela "México". Sin romper con la trayectoria temática y formal que se inició con su alucinante «Encerrados con un solo juguete» y que pareció culminar en «Últimas tardes con Teresa» y «La historia oscura de la prima Montse», la presente novela supone una clara superación. La capacidad de evocación, la fuerza de las imágenes, la riqueza de las sensaciones, la violencia sexual, la sátira, la fantasía transformadora de la realidad, el mito y la desmitificación, constituyen el tejido, de complejidad creciente, con el que el autor nos presenta, mediante un coro de voces dispares, la época de posguerra, desde diferentes perspectivas temporales. Las "aventis" -historias inventadas por los golfillos al socaire de los hechos- son el hallazgo genial, por el cual Juan Marsé interpreta aquel mundo de degradación que conoció en su infancia, y que utiliza como primer ensayo creador de la "aventi" totalizadora que es «Si te dicen que caí». Como el mismo Marsé ha dicho de su obra: "Si te dicen que caí no pretende tanto ser una revancha personal contra el franquismo, como una secreta y nostálgica despedida de la infancia".
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Mirall trencat
Mercè Rodoreda
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Mirall trencat, publicada l'any 1974, és una novel·la de maduresa de Mercè Rodoreda que recull la vida de tres generacions de la família imaginària dels Valldaura. Es tracta d'una obra coral on un seguit de personatges lligats entre si pels llaços familiars i personals ens expliquen una ciutat, Barcelona, i una època, la d'abans de la guerra civil. Fragmentària i composta de múltiples veus, l'estil de la novel·la segueix el seu títol: un mirall esbocinat que reflecteix la realitat del moment i dels personatges a través de petits fragments de les vides que descriu. Aquest estil difereix considerablement d'altres obres de l'autora com La plaça del Diamant o Aloma, on l'autora usa la primera persona en boca d'un personatge femení i despertant així les lectures autobiogràfiques.
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Spanish Novels: Crimen en Barcelona (Spanish Novels for Intermediates - B1)
Paco Ardit
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Looking for Spanish Novels?I know how tough it is to find good readings to learn a new language. You don't usually have a large vocabulary or are able to read long and complex sentences. You'd like to go right to the fun stuff, but maybe it's too hard for you now. A typical Spanish reader isn't interesting or just plain boring. But this book is not like that.
Learning with Spanish Novels is easy and straightforward. Forget about difficult long texts with English-translations. This book for Spanish learners is not like that. It will take you to the next level in less time. That means less effort and struggling towards your way to fluency in Spanish. Improving your Spanish can be lots of fun.
A Spanish Book for Intermediates (B1) Both Fun & EasyCrimen en Barcelona is the book number 13 of the Spanish Novels Series. This Intermediate Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday situations: greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has an intermediate command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. You need to know conditionals, gerund, pluperfect and simple past tenses. Besides, in this book you will find longer and more complex sentences.
Felipe Amador is the CEO of Alaires Airlines and the richest man in Barcelona. One night he's found dead in his office. Nobody knows how he died, but many think it could have been a crime. Two private detectives are hired by his son to find out everything about the case.
This Spanish Book for Intermediates will show you the most used grammar structures in different situations. As the difficulty level is just right you will learn and enjoy it at the same time. This Intermediate Spanish book will definitely help you work your way up toward more advanced readings.
Why Spanish Novels Short sentences Short chapters Easy vocabulary Simple grammar Everyday dialogues An Intermediate (B1) Spanish Reader in SIMPLE Spanish.From the First Chapter:
El martes 1 de febrero nadie fue a trabajar a la aerol�nea. A las 6.10am los empleados de Alaires Airlines recibieron la noticia en sus celulares:
"Lamentamos comunicarles que Felipe Amador ha fallecido. El d�a de hoy la compa��a permanecer� cerrada por duelo"
La gente se sorprendi� con la noticia. La mayor�a de los empleados quer�a mucho a Felipe. Ahora todos est�n muy apenados.
Aparentemente, el CEO de la compa��a apareci� muerto en su propia oficina. Lo encontraron sin vida el lunes a las 11.40pm. Las empleadas de limpieza golpearon la puerta de su oficina durante media hora. Como no tuvieron respuesta llamaron a los empleados de seguridad. Ellos derribaron la puerta y entraron a la oficina. Lo vieron sentado en el sill�n principal, con la cabeza sobre el escritorio. Desde la puerta le preguntaron: "Sr. Amador, �se encuentra bien?". Como no respond�a se acercaron un poco m�s al escritorio. Cuando llegaron al sill�n se dieron cuenta. Felipe no estaba respirando. Estaba muerto.
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The Circle
Dave Eggers
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When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...
In a dusty, turn-of-the-century Catalan village, the bequest of a cello bow sets young Feliu Delargo on an unlikely path. When a local landowner's wrath threatens his family, the Spanish bow leads Feliu to anarchist Barcelona, then on to the court in Madrid, where a music master's daughter gives him his first lessons in the art of love. There he meets up with the charming and eccentric piano prodigy Justo Al-Cerraz and begins the lifelong friendship and rivalry that will orchestrate a tumultuous course for them both. As a war-torn world careens toward catastrophe, they make splendid music together and clash over women, politics, and almost everything else. Then Aviva, an Italian violinist with a haunted past, enters their lives, and Feliu and Justo embark upon their final and most dangerous collaboration.
Inspired by the life of Pablo Casals and with appearances by Pablo Picasso, Bertolt Brecht, and others who wrestled with the competing demands of art and conscience during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, The Spanish Bow is a deeply imagined tale of the passions that accident bestows—and the sacrifices history enacts.
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The Barcelona Legacy: Guardiola, Mourinho and the Fight For Football's Soul
Jonathan Wilson
4.0
Manchester, 2018: Pep Guardiola and José Mourinho lead their teams out to face each other in the 175th Manchester derby. They are first and second in the Premier League, but today only one man can come out on top. It is merely the latest instalment in a rivalry that has contested titles, traded insults and crossed a continent, but which can be traced back to a friendship that began almost 25 years ago.
Barcelona, late-nineties: Johan Cruyff's Dream Team is disintegrating and the revolutionary manager has departed, but what will come next will transform the future of football. Cruyff's style has changed the game, and given birth to a generation of thinkers: men like Ronald Koeman, Luis Enrique, Laurent Blanc, Frank de Boer, Louis van Gaal, and Cruyff's club captain Pep Guardiola and a young translator, José Mourinho.
The Barcelona Legacy is a book in part about tactics, about how the theories that underpin the modern game were forged by Cruyff and his successors, but also about the people and personalities who gathered at the Camp Nou for what was effectively the greatest coaching seminar in history, about their friendships and rivalries and, in one case, an apocalyptic falling out that continues to shape the game today.
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FC Barcelona Training Sessions: 160 Practices from 34 Tactical Situations
Athanasios Terzis
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This special book in full colour features 34 game situations of Pep Guardiola's Barcelona team, often described as the best ever. These 34 game situations (analysis) has been used to produce 34 sessions (160 practices) including quick passing functional practices, patterns of play, possession games, transition games, opposed/unopposed zone play, game situations and small sided games. In short, this book will help you coach your team 'The Barca Way.'
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Us
David Nicholls
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Douglas Petersen may be mild-mannered, but behind his reserve lies a sense of humor that, against all odds, seduces beautiful Connie into a second date and eventually into marriage. Now, almost three decades after their relationship first blossomed in London, they live more or less happily in the suburbs with their moody seventeen-year-old son, Albie; then Connie tells him she thinks she wants a divorce.
The timing couldn’t be worse. Hoping to encourage her son’s artistic interests, Connie has planned a month-long tour of European capitals, a chance to experience the world’s greatest works of art as a family, and she can’t bring herself to cancel. And maybe going ahead with the original plan is for the best anyway. Douglas is privately convinced that this landmark trip will rekindle the romance in the marriage and might even help him bond with Albie.
Narrated from Douglas’s endearingly honest, slyly witty, and at times achingly optimistic point of view, Us is the story of a man trying to rescue his relationship with the woman he loves and learning how to get closer to a son who’s always felt like a stranger.
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Lettere meridiane: Cento libri per conoscere la Calabria
Francesco Bevilacqua
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Fodor's Barcelona: with highlights of Catalonia (Full-color Travel Guide)
Fodor's Travel Guides
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Aloma
Mercè Rodoreda Gurgui
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Soldados de Salamina
Javier Cercas
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Un joven periodista topa por casualidad con una historia fascinante, y muy significativa, de la Guerra Civil española, y se propone reconstruirla. Cuando las tropas republicanas se retiran hacia la frontera francesa, camino del exilio, en el desorden de la desbandada alguien toma la decisión de fusilar a un grupo de presos franquistas. Entre ellos se halla Rafael Sánchez-Mazas, fundador e ideólogo de Falange, quizás uno de los responsables directos del conflicto fratricida. Pero Sánchez-Mazas no sólo logra escapar del fusilamiento colectivo, sino que, cuando los republicanos salen en su busca, un miliciano anónimo le encañona y en el último momento le perdona la vida. Su buena estrella le permitirá vivir emboscado hasta el final de la guerra, protegido por un grupo de campesinos de la región, aunque siempre recordará a aquel miliciano de extraña mirada que no lo delató. El narrador se propone desentrañar el secreto del enigmático Sánchez-Mazas, de su asombrosa aventura de guerra, pero sólo para acabar descubriendo, en un quiebro inesperado, que el significado de esta historia se encuentra donde menos podía esperarlo, porque uno no encuentra lo que busca, sino lo que la realidad le entrega .
Como insiste en afirmar el propio narrador, Soldados de Salamina es un relato real ; los lectores, sin embargo, lo leerán como un thriller: Cercas nos embarca en una investigación de hechos históricos que resulta apasionante porque su propósito es desentrañar un secreto que se resiste a ser desvelado, un secreto esencial que concierne no sólo a nuestro pasado más incómodo, sino sobre todo a la condición humana.
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History of Beauty
Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwen
4.0
Umberto Eco’s groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a critical success since its first publication in 2004. What is beauty? Umberto Eco, among Italy’s finest and most important contemporary thinkers, explores the nature, the meaning, and the very history of the idea of beauty in Western culture. The profound and subtle text is lavishly illustrated with abundant examples of sublime painting and sculpture and lengthy quotations from writers and philosophers. This is the first paperback edition of History of Beauty, making this intellectual and philosophical journey with one of the world’s most acclaimed thinkers available in a more compact and affordable format.
From the Trade Paperback edition
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Barcelona-Borinquen
John David Ferrer
4.0
Antonio Roche, a high-class Catalonian anarchist, seeks redemption in the New World after being released from a Barcelona prison. He leaves behind a love interest, Paula Soler, a precocious socialite who seduces a priest and faces the scorn of her family and Spanish society. They meet again years later in San Juan, Puerto Rico when she inherits a sugar plantation managed by Antonio. Both grapple with their new relationship, while economic turmoil, the American military takeover of the island, and three terrifying hurricanes impact the family and their fortunes. Their lives intersect with other immigrants from Spain seeking a better life. All the characters in this multifamily multigenerational saga, experience betrayals in love, broken friendships, and untimely deaths. BARCELONA-BORINQUEN will appeal to bi-cultural audiences who treasure stories of yesteryear brought to the present. It is a story of an era rarely written about that dramatically portrays the endurance of the human spirit.
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As in tas / En we noemen hem
Marjolijn Van Heemstra
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As in tas Elk voorjaar maakte Jelle Brandt Corstius een fietstocht met zijn vader. Een bestemming was er nooit, maar wel de zekerheid dat het niet langer dan twee dagen zou duren. Anders kregen ze ruzie. Op 18 april 2014 begon Jelle Brandt Corstius weer aan een tocht, maar dan zonder zijn twee maanden eerder overleden fietsmaatje en vader, Hugo Brandt Corstius, een wonderlijke man die veel begreep van dingen waar de meeste mensen niets van begrepen (palindromen), maar weer heel weinig van de meest normale dingen (kinderen). Met in zijn fietstas een deel van de as van zijn vader legt Brandt Corstius in zestien dagen 1.620 kilometer af. Hij kampeert op een troosteloze camping in Luxemburg, wordt beroofd door zigeuners (de as laten ze achter), logeert bij een Maastrichtse dame die eist dat hij het douchewater opvangt om de toilet mee door te spoelen en trekt overmoedig met vijftig kilo aan bagage door de Ardennen - tot hij aan de Middellandse Zee uitkomt, waar hij de as uitstrooit.
En we noemen hem Marjolijn van Heemstra had jarenlang een held. Een oudoom die net na de oorlog met 'een bommetje' een 'verraaier' zou hebben omgebracht. In de familie stond hij bekend als verzetsheld, liefkozend 'Bommenneef' genoemd. Marjolijn zou zelfs haar eerste zoon naar hem vernoemen. Als ze daadwerkelijk zwanger is van haar eerste zoon, zoekt ze meer over haar verzetsheld uit en ontdekt ze steeds meer zaken die ze liever nooit had willen weten. De twijfels groeien. Wie was deze schimmige man voor wie de oorlog nooit geëindigd is? Kan ze haar zoon wel opzadelen met de geschiedenis die met deze naam gepaard gaat?
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All Souls' Day
Cees Nooteboom
4.0
A profound and searching new work from one of Europe's major contemporary writers. Arthur Daane, a documentary film-maker and inveterate globetrotter, has lost his wife and child in a plane crash. In ALL SOULS' DAY we follow Arthur as he wanders the streets of Berlin, a city uniquely shaped by history. Berlin provides the backdrop for Daane's reflections on life as he plans his latest project - a self-funded film that will show the world through Daane's eyes. With a new circle of friends - a philosopher, a sculptor and a physicist - Arthur discusses everything from history to metaphysics, and the cumulative power of remembered images and philosophical musings on the meaning of our contemporary existence comes to permeate the atmosphere of the book. Then one cold, wintry day, Daane meets the young history student Elik Orange and his world is turned upside down. Whenever this mysterious woman beckons, Daane is compelled to follow. ALL SOULS' DAY is, finally, an elegiac love story in which the personal histories of the characters are skilfully interwoven with the history of the countries in which they find themselves. It is also the poignant and affecting tale of a man coming to terms
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El día de mañana
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
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Justo Gil es un emigrante recién instalado en Barcelona, un joven avispado y ambicioso que, llevado por los vaivenes del destino, acaba convirtiéndose en confidente de la Brigada Social, la policía política del régimen.
Una docena de memorables personajes nos cuentan cómo conocieron a Justo en algún momento de sus vidas y cómo fue su relación con él. Sus testimonios conforman una visión caleidoscópica de la cambiante realidad de los años sesenta y setenta, al tiempo que reconstruyen la historia de la degradación personal de un individuo cuya evolución y comportamiento ayudan a entender importantes parcelas de ese capítulo fundamental de nuestra historia reciente que fue la Transición.
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón novela ese apasionante período desde dentro, observando, como sólo él sabe hacerlo, el impacto que la historia colectiva tuvo en la individual, es decir, en la realidad de la gente común. Cobra vida en estas páginas la atmósfera incierta y fascinante de una época en la que todo parecía posible.
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Sean Goes to Barcelona
Tanya Preminger and Elettra Cudignotto
4.0
Sean, an 8-year-old aspiring soccer player, travels to Barcelona, Spain, to watch a FC Barcelona soccer game at Camp Nou and get an autograph from his hero, the celebrated forward Leo Messi. The resourceful and determined kid that he is, Sean comes up with various creative and amusing tactics to accomplish his dream of meeting Messi. But sometimes, as he will discover, life doesn't go quite according to plan... 22 beautiful colored illustrations by Elettra Cudignotto. This is a stand alone book, even though it's a part of a series. Age Range: 6 - 10 years Grade Level: 1 - 4
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