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1) Elena knows
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English
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SHORTLISTED for the International Booker Prize 2022
After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets
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Barcelona, 1952: General Franco's fascist government is at the height of its oppressive powers, casting a black shadow across the city. When wealthy socialite Mariona Sobrerroca is found dead in her mansion in the exclusive Tibidabo district, the police scramble to seize control of the investigation.
Ana Martí Noguer, an eager young journalist, is surprised to be assigned this important story, shadowing Inspector Isidro Castro. But Ana soon realizes...
Publisher
Distributed in Canada by Seville Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Barbara Daly marries above her social class to the dashing heir of the Bakelite plastics fortune. The birth of the couple's only child, Tony, intensifies the already volatile marriage. As Tony matures, he become the unwilling pawn in the psychosexual games of his parents.
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Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In a crime novel that upends all the genre's conventions, a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad and quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past: a murdered brother, a dealer of beautiful thoughts, a private school where students disappear and girls give birth to strange creatures. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance leads to a job offer and launches an inner conflict full of holes and missteps. Ultimately,...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
Journalist Zo�e comes to the town of San Felipe to learn about the famous healer Feliciana, who has the ability to heal the soul as well as the body, and about the murder of Feliciana's teacher, Paloma.
Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and...
9) Forty guns
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Tougher-than-nails landowner Jessica Drummond has ruled over her county in Arizona with such power that even the local sheriff won't stand up to her. And when gunslinger-turned-U.S. marshal Griff Bonnell and his brothers seek to restore law and order, they meet with harsh resistance, that is until Jessica falls in love with Bonnell. But when the man's brother is murdered and the two families become bitter enemies, Jessica's loyalty is divided, and...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
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