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PASIÓN IMPERFECTA
by ROBERTO LAPID
Fritz es un joven austríaco que se hace cargo, a sus 19 años, de la fábrica de armas de su padre y llega a poseer una de las fortunas más grandes del planeta. Es rico, excéntrico, poderoso, mujeriego y astuto. Durante la preguerrasus clientes son Mussolini, Hitler y Franco; entre otros. En 1932, al ver la película Éxtasis, en la que la actriz Hedy Kiesler interpreta el primer desnudo total femenino y el primer orgasmo en la pantalla grande, se enamora y se casa con ella. Hedy es una joven bella y superdotada, estudia teatro e ingeniería y tiene una vida plagada de amantes. Se casa con Fritz y viven en su castillo de Salzburgo. Tras una pasión desbordante ella escapa hacia América para triunfar en Hollywood como Hedy Lamarr, la mujer más bella del cine; es, además, la inventora de un sistema de comunicaciones que permite, hoy, la utilización del Wi-Fi, el Bluetooth y el GPS. Novela basada en la historia verdadera de dos personajes extravagantes. Amor, secretos, trampas, espionaje, política, intrigas y pasión se entremezclan en esta historia que viaja desde una Europa en guerra a los Estados Unidos y a la Argentina, y que atrapa al lector desde su primera página.
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FictionOctober 2020El ojo de la luna
by Ivan Obolensky, translated by Germán González Correa
Una fascinante historia de suspenso y misterio que atrapa al lector desde el comienzo, hasta llegar a su sorprendente final. El ojo de la luna es la traducción al español latinoamericano de la premiada novela Eye of the Moon de Ivan Obolensky. A Johnny y Percy, amigos de infancia, se les ocultan los hechos que rodearon la muerte de la tía Alice, sosteniendo en sus manos el “Libro egipcio de los muertos”. Veinte años más tarde los amigos vuelven a encontrase para una celebración en Rhinebeck, la mansión familiar. Durante los cortos días de su estadía, descubrirán el mundo secreto que la rodeaba. Su vida, e incluso su muerte, están sorprendentemente atadas a ellos, envolviéndolos en una inesperada maraña de misterio, ocultismo, intrigas familiares y magia, elementos que harán que nada parezca lo que es, y que al dejar la propiedad, ninguno de los dos vuelva a ser igual.
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May 2019Cuando tomábamos café
by Sánchez, José Carlos
The heart of Madrid becomes a stage that beats at every step of the protagonists of this story. A novel that perfectly stages the society of the last years of the Franco regime and the conquest for freedom of a generation of brave women who fought to make themselves heard. Matesa, the most convulsive case of corruption under Franco, shakes the political and social landscape in increasingly difficult times. Unaware of this reality, Adela, a young woman from high society, only has eyes for Carlos, a young musician she has known since childhood and who only cares about two things: living without ties and her best friend Constanza. When we drank coffee it is a novel that reflects the social idealism and cultural movement that begins to boil in the streets of Madrid in the hope of changing things. A song to freedom, to how to survive amidst so much uncertainty, but above all, to the efforts of those women and men who inspire us today to fight for our identity, not to give up and to be free to the last consequences. El corazón de Madrid se convierte en un escenario que late a cada paso de los protagonistas de esta historia. Una novela que escenifica a la perfección la sociedad de los últimos años del régimen de Franco y la conquista por la libertad de una generación de mujeres valientes que lucharon por hacerse oír. Matesa, el caso de corrupción más convulso del franquismo, sacude el panorama político y social en unos tiempos cada vez más difíciles. Ajena a esta realidad, Adela, una joven de alta sociedad, solo tiene ojos para Carlos, un joven músico que conoce desde la infancia y al que solo le importan dos cosas: vivir sin ataduras y su mejor amiga Constanza. Cuando tomábamos café es una novela que refleja el idealismo social y movimiento cultural que empieza a bullir en las calles de Madrid con la esperanza de cambiar las cosas. Un canto a la libertad, a cómo sobrevivir entre tanta incertidumbre, pero, sobre todo, al empeño de esas mujeres y hombres que nos inspiran hoy en día a luchar por nuestra identidad, a no rendirnos y a ser libres hasta las últimas consecuencias.
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FictionMarch 2020Night and ocean
by Raquel Taranilla
Winner of the 2020 Biblioteca Breve Prize.Bea Silva is shocked when she comes across an article in the newspaper that says someone has stolen the embalmed skull of the legendary silent film director F.W. Murnau. What’s most surprising is that Bea is convinced she knows who the thief is: Quirós, an underemployed filmmaker who one day showed up at her enormous ramshackle house.At almost thirty-two, Beatriz is a somewhat aloof college professor, weary of life and almost pathologically erudite. The arrival of Quirós brings out her lucid, hyperactive side and sets her up for a wildly unhinged fall.
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FictionMay 2019Gaoh
En tierras de Urantia
by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio
Are you ready to read the story of the second coming of Christ in full s. XXI? Do you want to know first-hand who he was, what he did and with whom? Do you know that this time she was a woman and that her mothers were lesbians?Get ready to explode your neurons with this groundbreaking, entertaining, and surprising novel, set in real settings in Spain (Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona) and Europe.Action, adventure, travel, sex, technology, chases, magical scenarios, extraterrestrial beings ...You have before you a new modern and daring thriller that will make you reflect on reality.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)February 2019Cuentos Bi
by María de Alva, Raúl Ortega Alfonso, Silvia Goldman, Beatriz Berrocal, Jorge León Gustà, Meli Navas
Bi? Bi what? BI Stories groups six stories that explore the idea of duplicity and repetition from different perspectives, expanding the "bi" beyond two so as not to have figures and to become innumerable. Some of the inhabitants of this more than binary universe are: a young woman with feline features who unfolds in her uniqueness; a bilingual publicist trained to teach a new language; a mother between two lands who is lost and finds herself in his fantasies; a reader who reads and is read at the same time; a commercial for an insurance company very sure of himself; and a lady who does not listen, and a music-loving tree as a tandem protagonist of the same story. The characters and voices in these stories delve into the unraveling of the being and the human, to reiterate that everything dual can be multiplied in a process of (dis)assimilation.
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2022El hilo (Crónica de los días en los que se paró el mundo)
by Eva Santana López
After a week of lockdown due to the pandemic, a teenager trapped alone in her flat in Barcelona glances at the empty street and spies through the window on her neighbour across the street, Samuel. He soon notices her and, although at first he labels her as a snoop, they end up becoming friends. Together they try to discover who is the mysterious stranger dressed in yellow who wanders around the neighbourhood, raising the alarm bells of the two youngsters: Could he be the criminal the media call “the Eixample killer”?
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceCiclo 3. Retención total: memoria
Sistema Integral de Lectura Rápida. Comprensión y memorización
by María Guadalupe Baeza Gómez
Memory is the psychic faculty by means of which the past is retained and remembered, hence its importance in the process of reading the information only once and remembering it the rest of the lifetime. This is based on attention, perception and reasoning, supported by the association and organization of data, because it not only means accumulating information but also knowing how to use it and for this you have to stimulate and exercise memory. In this third cycle lasting five weeks you will continue exercising all the skills and skills that you have learned in the system to apply in your daily life; also include specific techniques to improve concentration and memory, optimize study time, as well as organize and retain the information of any text. The ability to work in this cycle is TOTAL RETENTION, combining it with speed and understanding. From this one moment your way of reading is different, do not go back to the bad habits and always read with techniques, skills and strategies learned, since on this depends the true mastery from the same.
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EL SILENCIO ACUNA PESADILLAS
by Desirée Ruiz
Invierno de 1991 . Rebeca Naval, una adolescente víctima de acoso escolar, se corta las venas en la bañera de su piso de Zaragoza. Verano de 2017 . Silvana Laborda, reputada interiorista, regresa con su hija a Zaragoza, su ciudad natal, after de residir más de veinticinco años en Londres. Tras unirse en Facebook al grupo de exalumnos de su colegio , los antiguos acosadores de Rebeca comienzan a morir. Tan sólo Genoveva, amiga de Silvana y dueña de la librería Un Crimen Dormido, parece comprender la conexión entre esas muertes y lo acontecido en el pasado. Mientras tanto, una dama cubierta por velos negros visita a Silvana en sus pesadillas. Primavera de 1984 . Una mujer vestida de blanco lee a Emily Dickinson sentada junto al ventanal. En Benassal murmuran sobre ella: la joven solitaria, la mantenida de ese hombre misterioso que llega de noche un par de veces al mes. Un fascinante relato de intriga donde confluyen elementos de literatura policiaca, secretos de familia y sólidos personajes. Sucesos acontecidos en los años ochenta, noventa y en la actualidad, se entretejen hasta formar un entramado envolvente de misterios y memorias, amor y pérdida. El silencio acuna pesadillas trata temas tan actuales como el acoso escolar o la interacción en las redes sociales, y tan atemporales como la venganza, la culpa y la expiación.
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UN HOMBRE SIN NOMBRE
UNA NOVELA DE TRES BALAS EN LA PAMPA
by H. A. RIQUELME
Tres meses después de la batalla de Santa Fe, la Justicia se obsesiona con los bandidos que se atrevieron a desafiar el sistema. El comandante Araya, militar ambicioso y oportunista, será el implacablepersecutor del Flaco, a quien acorrala hasta obligarlo a cumplir un trato a cambio de su libertad. Así es como nuestro forajido se ve enfrentado a una misión que lo cambiará para siempre; dar caza a uno de los personajes más peligrosos del bandidaje rural chileno. Las quebradas y sierras del Maule constituyen un escenario perfecto para una historia de traiciones, persecuciones y decisiones que traerán grandes consecuencias para la vida del hombre sin nombre. Entre tus manos, tienes un western chileno que rescata y revive la historia salvaje e indomable de nuestro país. ¿Estás listo para la aventura?
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September 2016Mursiyya
El talismán del yemení
by Reyes Puerta, Sergio
In the year 825 A.C., Abderraman II, the Emir of Cordoba, ordered the construction of Madina Mursiyya, the actual city of Murcia. Not many years before, a little boy called Omar, witness to one of the turning points that would spark off a bloody civil war in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, finds and secretly hides a pendant that will later disclose its power and significance. Always in the company of the aforementioned talisman, which belonged to the Yemeni man murdered next to the river Sangonera, Omar will be forced to act as a spy amid the fratricidal conflict if he wants to save his father from the unfair fate that abides him, shake off the yoke of his stepbrothers and recover his beloved from the grip of the emir and his favourite eunuch. For those purposes, he will have to get involved in the foundation of the city and at the same time confront, with the help of those who should have been his natural enemies, a number of intriguing characters who should have been his allies all through an extraordinary plot full of magic, innocence and adventures. En el 825 d.C. el emir de Córdoba, Abderramán II, ordenó la fundación de la ciudad de Mursiyya, la actual Murcia. Pocos años antes el pequeño Omar, testigo de uno de los decisivos sucesos que incitarían una cruenta guerra civil en el sureste de la península ibérica, encuentra y esconde un colgante que más tarde revelaría su poder e importancia. Acompañado de dicho talismán, propiedad del Yemení asesinado junto al río Sangonera, Omar deberá actuar como espía en el fraticida conflicto si quiere salvar a su padre de su injusto destino, liberarse del yugo de sus hermanastros y recuperar a su amada de las garras del emir y de su eunuco predilecto. Para ello deberá colaborar en la fundación de la ciudad sin dejar de enfrentarse, con la ayuda de los que deberían haber sido sus enemigos naturales, a intrigantes personajes de su propia facción en una insólita historia llena de magia, inocencia y aventuras. La sorprendente novela en la que la vida de nuestro entrañable protagonista Omar se entreteje con la de cerca de un centenar de personajes reales de los siglos IX y anteriores, y con la Historia de Murcia, su huerta y el resto de la antigua cora de Tudmir (Región de Murcia, Alicante, y parte de Almería y Albacete), y la del resto de al Andalus.
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Asfixia
by Alex Mírez
Planet Earth. Population: 1 We cannot understand how it happened. On September 1, 2019, it happened. We were all fine and from one moment to the next people began to suffocate. Little by little, the world fell into an astonishing silence. I survived that mysterious and catastrophic incident thanks to my father. When I woke up, I was faced with the horrifying panorama of millions of corpses. They were all dead. Soon after, I discovered that there were actually seven survivors left, and I joined them. Some dedicated themselves to investigating what had happened, the reason for the extinction of the human race; but they died in a strange way in a short time. Those of us left behind struggled to survive, but even so, the others also passed away after a few months. Now only I inhabit the world, I am the only one left on the planet ... Or at least, I believed.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMusic against walls in the Arab-Israeli conflict
by Ana Arambarri
With an agile, precise and sustained style Música Contra los Muros explores the influence of music on the human being in extreme circumstances. Different choral voices immerse the reader in the geopolitical labyrinth of the Middle East and tell a true and little-known story: that of famous musicians who canceled all their commitments and voluntarily traveled to Israel to encourage their compatriots who were fighting at the front. Against this backdrop, suggestive narrative threads are woven: the passionate romance of the pianist Daniel Barenboim with the cellist Jacqueline du Pré during the Six Day War; the account of Israeli soldiers, whose voices were censored for forty years, forced to participate in a war in which they did not believe; or the torn lives of thousands of Palestinians who, since the occupation, lost the right to a decent and dignified life. Hand in hand with a narrative strategy that recalls the New Journalism that emerged in the sixties, a reconciliation proposal is offered: the case of the West-Eastern Divan orchestra, made up of Arab, Israeli and Palestinian musicians, shows that thanks to music, coexistence is possible. Edward Said, a Palestinian thinker and philosopher, asked himself: Who knows how far we are going to be able to change the thoughts and convictions of these young people thanks to music? The energy of this interrogation continues to challenge the possibilities of the present, while confirming the success of an experience as unusual as it is fascinating.
