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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Singer, actress, and celebrity Bibi Fortunata fled Hollywood Hills and headed for Barcelona two years ago after being arrested for murder--then set free. But when Bibi's daughter comes to private investigators Mac Reilly and Sunny Alvarez for help, they can't resist the temptation to solve the cold case once and for all. Who really killed Bibi's lover? Who would want to frame Bibi? And who is beckoning them from Barcelona?
Author
Publisher
Vintage Española
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Un amanecer de 1945 un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo XX, desde los últimos esplendores...
Author
Publisher
Atria Español
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
When her longtime marriage abruptly ends in the wake of her husband's infidelity, Madrid college professor Blanca Perea struggles to rebuild her own life by researching that of an enigmatic Spanish writer who died decades earlier.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale--a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark history of Franco's Spain. In this unforgettable final...
12) Marina
Author
Publisher
Edebé
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
"'Marina me dijo una vez que sólo recordamos lo que nunca sucedió. Pasaría una eternidad antes de que comprendiese aquellas palabras'. Así empieza Marina, una apasionante novela cuyo protegonista y narrador, Óscar Drai, abandonó su ciudad natal en un vano intento de escapar a sus recuerdos, pensando que, si ponía suficiente distancia, las voces de su pasado se acallarían para siempre. Quince años más tarde ha regresado a Barcelona para conjurar...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret. Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel's sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain in search of her. Joining forces with an unlikely ally thrusts Isabel into her sister's dangerous world of espionage, but it is an...
14) Amanecer contigo
Author
Publisher
Terciopelo, Roca Editorial de Libros
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Una conmovedora intriga familiar. Un joven que debera romper con su pasado para afrontar su imprevisto futuro. Una apasionante historia de amor que lo liberara de su propios fantasmas ... Barcelona, 1916. En su lecho de muerte, Oriol, la oveja negra y unico heredero de la acaudalada familia Agramunt, confiesa que tiene un hijo que nadie conoce. El patriarca de los Agramunt, Biel, decide encontrar a su nieto y un mes despues, cuando Lucas regresa a...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer's current woes. The city is dazzling and unpredictable, but the biggest surprise for Grace is discovering who arranged and paid for the vacation. Carrie Ann wasn't just Grace's foster sister. Clever, pretty, and mercurial, she was her best friend--until everything went terribly wrong. Now, as she flees an abusive marriage, Carrie Ann has turned...
Author
Publisher
Montena
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
El esperadísimo cierre de la bilogía Salvajes: Uno de nuestros finales de Elsa Jenner. ¿ES EL AMOR O LA MUERTE LO QUE DA SENTIDO A LA VIDA? Por mucho que deseemos que no suceda, nada nos asegura que nuestro mundo no vaya a desmoronarse. En la vida podemos equivocarnos, pero los errores conllevan consecuencias con las que debemos aprender a vivir. Una obsesión, una ilusión perdida, una mentira terrible y una dolorosa realidad: el precio por alcanzar...
18) Kantika: a novel
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A kaleidoscopic portrait of one family's displacement across four countries, Kantika--"song" in Ladino--follows the joys and losses of Rebecca Cohen, feisty daughter of the Sephardic elite of early 20th-century Istanbul. When the Cohens lose their wealth and are forced to move to Barcelona and start anew, Rebecca fashions a life and self from what comes her way--a failed marriage, the need to earn a living, but also passion, pleasure and motherhood....
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"While on vacation in Barcelona, Jack Ryan, Jr. is surprised to run into an old friend at a small café. At first, Renee Moore seems surprised to see Jack, but then she just seems irritated and distracted. After making plans to meet later, Jack leaves, only to miss the opportunity to ever speak to Renee again, as the café is destroyed minutes later by a suicide bomber. A desperate Jack plunges back into the ruins to save his friend, but it's too...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, this evocative novel is made up of three stories linked by time and place, and also by the moving, unexpected interactions of a rich cast of characters. Barcelona Dreaming is narrated, in turn, by an English woman who runs a gift shop, an alcoholic jazz pianist, and a translator tormented by unrequited love, all of whose lives will be changed forever. Underpinning the novel, and casting a long shadow,...
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