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La Bahia del Silencio continues to be one of the fundamental books of the Rio de la Plata narrative. In the intelligent structure of the novel, in the gift of observation, in the exemplary use of irony, the voice of a true teacher is recognized.
The rebellious, truth-seeking spirit of universal youth runs through this first-person story of a young Argentine who batters his head against the stone wall of corruption in his native land. It is the same...
3) The mangy parrot: the life and times of Periquillo Sarniento : written by himself for his children
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"A bawdy tale of colonial Mexico, a merciless political satire, a kaleidoscope of Mexican society in the twilight of Spanish rule ..."--Back cover.
The Mangy Parrot has become a Mexican classic beloved by generations of Latin American readers. Now, in vibrant American idiom, translator David Frye captures the exuberance of Lizardi's tale-telling as the author follows his narrator and alter ego, Periquillo Sarniento, through a series of misadventures...
4) Jem
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A vision of the future which confronts the issues of morality, innocence and corruption.
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"Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie [Stark] Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career...
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"The scene: a pitch-black lavatory after lights-out at the Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima, Peru. Four cadets are drawing lots for the night's mission. Their objective: the captain's office. Their target: to steal a copy of the next day's chemistry examination. In this microcosm, this city within a city, a group of cadets form still another circle in their attempt to break out of the vicious round of sadistic hazing, military discipline, confinement,...
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Successful children's-book author Jessie Schroeder, devastated after a divorce, returns to the small town where she grew up and finds herself bristling at the interference of nosy relatives, who object when she hires recovering alcoholic Willy Bachmann as her handyman. When a local woman in town turns up dead, everyone assumes that Willy is the murderer. Jessie's efforts to clear him irritate the locals, especially when she starts investigating the...
10) Popisho
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"Everyone in Popisho was born with a little something-something, boy, a little something extra. The local name was cors. Magic, but more than magic. A gift, nah? Yes. From the gods: a thing so inexpressibly your own. Somewhere far away - or maybe right nearby - lies an archipelago called Popisho. A place of stunning beauty and incorrigible mischief, destiny and mystery, it is also a place in need of change. Xavier Redchoose is the macaenus of his...
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Inspired by Mrs. Dalloway and Sula, The Days of Afrekete is a tender, surprising novel about two women who rediscover themselves--and perhaps each other. Liselle Belmont is having a dinner party. It seems a strange occasion--her husband, Winn, has lost his bid for the state legislature--but what better way to thank key supporters than a feast? Liselle was never sure about her husband becoming a politician, never sure about the limelight, never sure...
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"When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from twenty years earlier. As police officer Ramón Cabrera discovers, Blanco had been writing a book about a 1970's case dealing with the murder of several young schoolgirls in Paracuán by a man known as the Jackal ..."--Front inside flap.
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Talcott Garland belongs to two privileged worlds: the upper crust African American society of the Eastern seaboard -- families who summer at Martha's Vineyard -- and the inner circle of an Ivy League law school. He is a successful law professor, devoted father, and husband of a beautiful and ambitious woman, whose future desires may threaten the family he holds so dear. When Talcott's father, Judge Oliver Garland, a disgraced former Supreme Court...
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