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1) Furia
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.
Rosario, Argentina. At home Camila Hassan lives within her mother's narrow expectations, her soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her...
2) Furia
Author
Series
Description
Seventeen-year-old Camila Hassan, a rising soccer star in Rosario, Argentina, dreams of playing professionally, in defiance of her fathers' wishes and at the risk of her budding romance with Diego.
Rosario, Argentina. At home Camila Hassan lives within her mother's narrow expectations, her soccer-star brother's shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her...
3) Eartheater
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 206 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of...
Author
Series
Description
"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,...
6) Cruz
Author
Description
"Tomas Cruz swore he would never be like his father, an abusive cocaine junky whose gangland exploits are notorious throughout the underbelly of northern Argentina. When Samuel Cruz is sentenced to thirteen years in prison, he leaves a laundry list of unfinished cartel business. Seba, Tomas's revered older brother, has no choice but to abandon his straight life and take over his father's underworld debt. But Tomas has been able to stay out of the...
7) Cruz
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tomas Cruz swore he would never be like his father, an abusive cocaine junky whose gangland exploits are notorious throughout the underbelly of northern Argentina. When Samuel Cruz is sentenced to thirteen years in prison, he leaves a laundry list of unfinished cartel business. Seba, Tomas's revered older brother, has no choice but to abandon his straight life and take over his father's underworld debt. But Tomas has been able to stay out of the...
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...