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FictionLa hermandad de la Casa Grande (The brotherhood of the Big House)
Una novela negra sobre el juicio del Estado a los brujos de Chiloé (A detective novel about the state's trial of the witches of Chiloé)
by Eduardo Pérez Arroyo
It's 1879. To the north, Chile defends foreign investment in the Pacific War. To the south, beyond the already invaded Araucania, from a large, almost unexplored island, rumors of violence, superstition and a state incapable of enforcing its law spread. The elite would be at ease if some “elements” that are not occupied at the border with Peru penetrated Chiloé. They need evidence to condemn those criminals who terrorize the population with old indigenous beliefs. They call themselves witches. They are organized as La Recta Provincia or La Hermandad de la Casa Grande. They lie to scare and change the names of the cities on the island –Achao, Dalcahue or Quicaví–, confusing them with others: Buenos Aires, Villarrica, Salamanca. If they were only myths, it would be enough for the government to forget that secret place. But the one who calls himself the Greatest Liar in the World claims to have escaped the sorcerers and travels the north glimpsing the aliens: he talks to them of malice, monsters and murders; of the bloody clans' struggles to become a decaying reign. For these lies, or to secure an unstable national pride, coronels and tenants decide to put an end to things that a mortal has no power to finish.
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FictionIslas de calor (Heat islands)
by Malu Furche
The climate crisis is out of control. Rising temperatures transform societies and force a radical change in life. The water is a treasure, the shadow a salvation, the night the new day and the day a space forbidden by the touch of military rest. A phenomenon within this chaotic world are the points where buildings and concrete capture heat and prevent its release. These “heat islands”, like the accounts in this book, contain the abandonment and incommunication of those who suffer, the attempts of the population to refresh themselves in any way or the exploitation of the unsalted to survive. As parts of the city rearrange in this hell, a spontaneous fire consumes the hill to the height of the Virgin, unleashing some kind of superstition.
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FictionEstepicursor (Steppicursor)
by Marcelo Vera
After the collapse of her life as a couple and the breakdown of her expectations and projects, she desperately needs a place, something or someone to hold onto so as not to remain like a rolling plant at the mercy of the wind. With a simple, profound prose and full of references to popular culture, the Argentine author Marcelo Vera continues to deepen the narrative of the loss. After the publication of his first novel, Solo, and the poem El glitter de los solitarios, he experiments with the loneliness of a separation, the failure of motherhood and the fragility of illusion.
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Literature & Literary Studies2015Shoots
Unpublished poems by Gabriela Mistral
by Gabriela Mistral
In 1965 a trunk was discovered in Gabriela Mistral's house with the label “To be sent to Chile”. It contained notebooks, photos, documents, letters and various objects. In 2007, Doris Atkinson, executor of the Nobel Prize winner, invited Mistral expert Luis Vargas Saavedra to detect unpublished poems. From that collection, the corpus of poems was transcribed for the edition of Almácigo published by Ediciones UC.
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FictionEl baile de la abuela muerta (Dead grandma's dance)
by Elina Malamud
A hundred years of history from two branches of a Jewish family, set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia, from the early 19th century to their migration to Argentina in the early 20th century. It's not just the tradition of the Jews from Eastern Europe, but a vivid portrayal of the characters that inhabited this complex and diverse society of declining nobility, gypsies, and Bolsheviks. Clandestine loves, uprisings, and persecutions are described with nostalgic detail, alongside an unexpected display of Hasidic humor and magic.
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La isla y otros cuentos (The island and other stories)
by Emerio Medina
This book is a collection of stories where are treated some topics of the contemporary reality of Cuba where fiction and reality mix to reveal a peculiar and original point of view concerning humanity existence. His author is Emerio Medina a cuban writer who won some important Literary Prizes like "Hermanos Loynaz".
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2022La traición de Borges
by Marcelo Simonetti
When Jorge Luis Borges dies in 1986, Emilia Forch convinces a mediocre actor—famous for impersonating the Argentine writer—that he is, in fact, the real Borges. The actor embraces the role entirely, and together they leave Chile to settle in Buenos Aires, determined to convince the world that Borges is still alive. Their ruse gains traction, and a love story blossoms—until Antonio Libur, a Chilean writer known for plagiarism and Emilia’s former lover, arrives in Argentina to win her back. Set against the backdrop of Argentina’s euphoric 1986 World Cup victory, Borges' Treason is a sharp, humorous reflection on the fictions we build our lives around. It also explores the powerful cultural influence of iconic Argentine figures—like Borges and Maradona—on neighboring Chile. With vivid, vulnerable characters, Marcelo Simonetti captivated the Casa de América Prize jury with this daring and original novel.
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2025Queen of the Tamarugal
by Malu Furche R.
Queen of the Tamarugal follows Francisca (29), a struggling filmmaker who travels to the town of La Tirana to document the renowned religious festival. While living among a group of dancers, she grapples with memories of a miscarriage, the pressure of an impending marriage, and the physical and emotional aftermath of a bicycle accident. In parallel, the story intertwines with that of Cristi (16), a local teenager trapped in a toxic relationship with Dogo (17), a young man scarred by violence and the absence of his mother. Cristi, Dogo, and their friends also attend the festival, but their motives are far from religious. The novel reaches its climax when, after days of celebration, the house where Cristi and her friends are staying catches fire, and Cristi disappears. Through these two interconnected narratives, the novel delves into themes such as popular devotion, youth, precariousness, the female body, and emotional bonds, all set against the backdrop of a vibrant, rugged, and contradictory northern Chile.
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Pasiones y leyendas de la pelota cubana (Passions and legends of Cuban baseball)
by Juan Osaba
In this book are revealed some interesting topics concerning the cuban baseball.
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Todavía la Mitad del día y otros relatos (Still the Middle of the Day and Other Stories)
by Alfredo Galiano
This book is a collection of stories where are treated some topics of the contemporary reality of Cuba. His author is Alfredo Galiano a cuban writer who won some important Literary Prizes like "Hermanos Loynaz", "Cirilo Villaverde" and the International Literary Prize "Premio de Relato Alfonso Sancho Sáenz".
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)October 2017Mexique
El nombre del barco
by María José Ferrada, Ana Penyas
On May of 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, 456 sons and daughters of republican fighters took the transatlantic boat Mexique, that set sail in Bordeau to arrive in Mexico. Previsions were that they would stay there three or four months, but the Republican defeat and the beginning of the Second World War changed that brief exile into a definitive one. This books tells the story not only of those children, but also about the ship, being aware that we do not know how many boats try to cross our oceans every day, moving human beings that have full rights to a proper way of living and not to stand over a land that tears apart below their feet.
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June 2022Philosophy and Us
A story made of more questions than answers
by Lorena Herrera
Philosophy is not just for adults. This book sets out on an adventure with Sebastián and his friends, in which together they will face different enigmas that they will solve in a collaborative and democratic way. Boys and girls will discover how philosophy is more present than we think in everyday details, and that asking questions –many times- is more important than knowing all the answers.
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June 2020Climate change and us
A boy and a rabbit traveling the world to discover how to save the planet
by Rodrigo Lara Serrano
Floods, fires, tsunamis, heat waves, hail and tidal waves; the climate has gone crazy because of man. How to save the planet, the animals and every living thing from this catastrophe? Teo and his rabbit Leon travel the world to understand climate change and how to avoid it. On their journey they will see from the effects of cooking gas, to the springtails in Antarctica, to the Big Ben hamburger. What changes when we talk about “climate change”? What consequences does this have on our planet and its natural cycles? And what effect does it bring to our societies, which tend to celebrate change? This book seeks to provide a clear, integrated and historical look at the elements that shape this important phenomenon that will influence our lives. It is a call to think and act and thereby change the horizon of humanity.
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June 2020Me, digital
Everything you need to know to be the best version of you on the internet!
by Lucha Sotomayor
Welcome! The world you are entering is not the same world your parents entered. Yours is also digital. You are here, here and now, but at the same time you are online, and you have been online since before you were born! In this world you have to respect others, take care of yourself and be a good person, right? The digital world is not so different! But what was the world like before the Internet? What is it for and how does it work? How should we behave online? And what are social networks? This book is a guide that will accompany you in your digital adventure and will help you to know and understand how the internet works, so that you learn to protect yourself, avoid risks and be a GREAT person online.
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December 2023Aufzeichnungen aus der Rue de l'Odéon
Schriften 1917–1953 | Erinnerungen der legendären Pariser Buchhändlerin
by Adrienne Monnier
Buchhandlung, literarischer Treffpunkt und Zufluchtsort der Avantgarde des 20. Jahrhunderts – La Maison des Amis des Livres in Paris links der Seine. Gründerin Adrienne Monnier war nicht nur Buchhändlerin, Herausgeberin und Verlegerin, sondern auch Schriftstellerin. Ihre Aufzeichnungen lassen die Welt der Rue de l’Odéon, in der fünf Jahre nach ihr auch Sylvia Beach die ebenfalls legendär gewordene Buchhandlung Shakespeare & Company eröffnet hat, wieder lebendig werden – mit Betrachtungen zum Beruf der Buchhändlerin, Lektürenotizen, essayistischen Reflexionen sowie ihre Erinnerungen an Sylvia Beach, Walter Benjamin, Bryher, Joyce, Colette, Hemingway, Saint-Exupéry, Valéry, Gisèle Freund und anderen, die Adrienne Monnier als große Porträtistin sichtbar werden lassen.
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2024The Year We Spoke with the Sea
by Andrés Montero
An island, a pact with the devil, the sunken golden bell, the cemetery without bodies, and a tavern in an abandoned ship—a woman and a town weave together the tale of the Garcés brothers. One of the twins decided he would never leave the island where he was born; the other wanted to see the entire world. This novel begins—or perhaps ends—when one of them, who set off in a boat half a century ago, returns by plane only to be trapped for four seasons of a year due to a global pandemic. The story pulses through every inhabitant and every corner, as the place itself becomes a voice questioning whether the Garcés brothers are settling old debts or reconstructing their abandoned family home with the fragments of memory.
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Early learning: first experiencesJuly 2018¡No!
by Jorge Alderete
No, Lautaro, don’t do that. No, don’t do that either. Please don’t, especially not that! This amazing book is about Lautario’s brief compendium before turning 5. It is written by his father, the world famous illustrator Dr. Alderete. This is a great opportunity to establish the limits of authority from a hilarious perspective.
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El andén de las incertidumbres (The platform of uncertainties)
by El Yaizd Dib
The book is about different short stories with a social focus about the real life in Argelia and its public servants as main characters, as well as their conflicts.
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No Mates a Mayakosky (Don't Kill Mayakosky)
by Alberto Marrero
Here appear a group of narrations wich spin around Mayakosky, but in different latitudes, written with a universal language.
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 1984La casa de Bernarda Alba
by Federico García Lorca
by H. Ramsden
Completed only two months before the author's execution in Granada at the age of thirty-eight, La casa de Bernarda Alba marks the completion of Lorca's 'trilogia de la tierra española' and is commonly held to be his greatest play. The theme of vitality and repression that runs as a leitmotif through his writings takes on a clearer social dimension in the 'drama de mujeres en los pueblos de España', with the presentation of a household of five unmarried daughters tyrannised by their mother's excessive concern with social class and obscurantist village morality. ;
