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English
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"Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires by his loving German mother, inseparable from his identical twin. When Joachim moves to Paris with his mother in his late teens, his twin stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the precision and intense demands, and goes on to work in some of the grandest homes in England. His brother never reappears. Olivia White has given ten...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Katie Cleary has always known exactly what she wants: to be the best skier in the world. As a teenager, she leaves her home to live and train full time with her two best friends, all-American brothers Luke and Blair, whose wealthy father has hired the best coaches money can buy. Together, they are the USA's best shot at bringing home Olympic gold. But as the upward trajectory of Katie's elite skiing career nears its zenith, a terrifying truth about...
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. As Vera becomes more and more enmeshed with...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz--nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina's...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
399, 12 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The late 1800s find fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing endless pogroms with her family. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America. Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon she discovers that she's entered a waking nightmare. Her...
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Series
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"Se acerca el confinamiento de 2020 y el protagonista siente la tentaci©đn de retirarse a su caba©ła en las afueras de Buenos Aires para hacer frente desde all©Ư a lo que pueda venir. Mientras espera, cultiva un jard©Ưn con todo tipo de plantas y flores. Su amor por la naturaleza le lleva a indagar en la formaci©đn del pensamiento cient©Ưfico, el nacimiento de la bot©Łnica y la gran aventura de las expediciones europeas del siglo xviii....
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edic̤in.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Se acerca el confinamiento de 2020 y el protagonista siente la tentación de retirarse a su cabaña en las afueras de Buenos Aires para hacer frente desde allí a lo que pueda venir. Mientras espera, cultiva un jardín con todo tipo de plantas y flores. Su amor por la naturaleza le lleva a indagar en la formación del pensamiento científico, el nacimiento de la botánica y la gran aventura de las expediciones europeas del siglo xviii. Al mismo tiempo,...
Author
Series
Futbolísimos volume 12
Publisher
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
365 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"¡Los futbolísimos estamos en Buenos Aires! Nos han invitado a jugar el Torneo del Obelisco con los equipos Xuan Jung, de China; Black Bull, de Estados Unidos, y La Loma, de Argentina. Pero nada más llegar, Helena y Rosita nos cuentan sus verdaderos planes. 'Tenemos que devolvérselo a su verdadero dueño.' 'Es un objeto mágico...' Aunque nosotros solo podemos pensar en una cosa: ¿volverá con nosotros a Espąa Helena?" -- Page [4] cover.
11) Rayuela
Author
Publisher
Real Academia Española
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Edición conmemorativa.
Physical Desc
lxxxiii, 1026 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
En el contexto de la celebrac̤in del VII Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Espąola en la ciudad argentina de C̤rdoba en marzo de 2019, esta edic̤in rinde homenaje a uno de los autores en espąol m̀s importantes de todos los tiempos y a su obra m̀s emblèmtica, que conmocio̤n el panorama cultural de su tiempo y que no deja de encontrar lectores hasta nuestros d̕as. La publicac̤in de Rayuela en 1963 supuso una verdadera revoluc̤in en la...
12) Rayuela
Author
Description
En el contexto de la celebracÞin del VII Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Esp♯ola en la ciudad argentina de ÞCrdoba en marzo de 2019, esta edicÞin rinde homenaje a uno de los autores en esp♯ol ms importantes de todos los tiempos y a su obra ms emblemtica, que conmocioÞn el panorama cultural de su tiempo y que no deja de encontrar lectores hasta nuestros das. La publicacÞin de Rayuela en 1963 supuso una verdadera revolucÞin en la narrativa...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 162 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A critical sensation in France, Santiago Amigorena re-imagines his Jewish grandfather--a Polish immigrant in Argentina in the 1930s--and the tragic events that defined his life as he fails to rescue his mother and siblings from a Warsaw ghetto in this novel about identity, guilt, and the unshakable power of love"--
In Buenos Aires, the afternoon of September 13, 1940 was rainy and the war in Europe so remote that one might still have thought it...