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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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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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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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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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Literary FictionNovember 2017Chasing Butterflies
by Manuel Aguilera
Chasing Butterflies is a thriller combining the suspense of a crime investigation with a mystery that takes readers back centuries to one of the darkest figures of Mexican history: Agustín de Iturbide, who liberated the young nation from the Spanish rule but then betrayed his own ideals and crowned himself Emperor. This is the story of three friends who meet again after a 20 years hiatus, and who see their lives crossing the path of a killer, a mystery involving a treasurer, and an unexpected hero.
