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1) Furia
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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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...
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 7
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
In December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on an island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, but a tragic accident suspends further investigation. In the present, Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon team, chasing the remanants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumble upon a shocking revelation. His efforts to untangle the mystery lead first to that island, and then much farther back, to an ancient Chinese...
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Description
As did his three immensely popular series Brotherhood of War, The Corps and Badge of Honor, W.E.B. Griffin's novel of World War II espionage Honor Bound became an immediate bestseller: "A superior war story" (Library Journal) "whose twists and turns keep readers guessing until the last page" (Publishers Weekly). Now the characters of Honor Bound are back, in an adventure as exciting as anything Griffin has written. It is...
Author
Series
Honor bound volume 5
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.
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Series
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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"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
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"The moment the plane touched down at Ministro Pistorini Airport in Buenos Aires, Joachim von Hartmann knew in every fiber of his being that he was home. It was almost as if his heart and soul, and even his body, knew it. He had left as a boy of seventeen, twenty-five years before, when he moved to France with his mother, and new French stepfather. Eight years later, he went to England on a lark, which turned into a worthy career for the past seventeen...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old ©mbar has never known any parent other than her father, V©Ưctor Mondrag©đn, nor any life other than his - the life of a criminal. On any given Friday night, ©mbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she's more likely to be patching up V©Ưctor's latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities for the both of them. Although she has come to terms with the realities of her life and enjoys...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma's curiosity about her father's past,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
"Valdin is still in love with his ex-boyfriend Xabi, who used to drive around Auckland in a ute but now drives around Buenos Aires in one. Greta is in love with her fellow English tutor Holly, who doesn't know how to pronounce Greta's surname, Vladislavljevic, properly. From their Auckland apartment, brother and sister must navigate the intricate paths of modern romance as well as weather the small storms of their eccentric Māori-Russian-Catalonian...
Author
Publisher
VINTAGE ESPAÑOL
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
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"Un padre y su hijo atraviesan Argentina por carretera desde Buenos Aires hasta las cataratas de Iguazú, en la frontera norte con Basil. Son los años de la junta militar, hay controles de soldados armados y tensión en el ambiente. El padre de Gaspar trata de protegerlo del destino que le ha sido asignado después de que su madre muriese en circunstancias poco claras: un accidente que quizás no lo fue. Como su padre, Gaspar está llamado a ser...
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
For DEA Special Agent Marshall Everett, life as he knows it is over once a gunshot wound renders his arm useless. Barred forever from the undercover work he loves, he has nothing -- no close friends, no family, no hometown or base, and no desire to settle for life behind a desk. He's called to action in the most unlikely of places when he stumbles upon a beautiful girl burying an old steel box in a Parisian park. Drawn into the mystery, Marshall soon...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
13) Love in English
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a sixteen-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class.
Ana moved to New Jersey from Argentina for her Junior year of high school. She's a poet and a lover of language-- except that now, she can barely understand what’s going on around her, let alone find the words to express...
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Series
Boxcar children great adventure volume 5
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In this all-new very special miniseries, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations--all around the world! The final leg of the Aldens' journey brings them to South America and to the Salt Flats in northern Argentina. But when they hit a dead end, they realize someone has tricked them in order to delay their plans! Returning to Buenos Aires, the Aldens connect with the Silvertons...
15) Rayuela
Author
Publisher
ALFAGUARA
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
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Description
En el contexto de la celebración del VII Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española en la ciudad argentina de Córdoba en marzo de 2019, esta edición rinde homenaje a uno de los autores en español más importantes de todos los tiempos y a su obra más emblemática, que conmocionó el panorama cultural de su tiempo y que no deja de encontrar lectores hasta nuestros días. La publicación de Rayuela en 1963 supuso una verdadera revolución en...