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261) Among the lost
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the desolate wastelands between the sierra and the jungle, under an all-seeing, unforgiving sun, a single day unfolds as relentlessly as those that have gone before. People are trafficked and brutalised, illegal migrants are cheated of their money, their dreams, their very names, even as countless others scrabble to cross the border, trying to reach a land they call El Paraíso. In this grim inferno, a fierce love has blossomed - one that was...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Para Stella Fortuna, la muerte siempre ha formado parte de la vida. La niñez de Stella está llena de extraños incidentes casi mortales, momentos en los que situaciones cotidianas derivan de modo inexplicable en situaciones letales. Incluso su madre cree que está maldita.En su escarpada aldea italiana, Stella es un bicho raro, y emplea todo su carácter en proteger a su hermana menor (Tina, menos guapa y brillante) de las realidades más...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
2018: At ninety-seven years old, Winnifred Ellis knows she doesn't have much time left, and it is almost a relief to realize that once she is gone, the truth about her shameful past will die with her. But when her great-grandson Jamie, the spitting image of her dear late husband, asks about his family tree, Winnifred can't lie any longer, even if it means breaking a promise she made so long ago... 1936: Fifteen-year-old Winny has never known a real...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
Una impresionante novela debut sobre la lucha de una joven madre peruana indocumentada que está dispuesta a darlo todo por su familia y su nueva vida en Nueva York. Ana Falcón, junto con su esposo Lucho y sus dos hijos pequeños, huyeron de la lucha económica y política del Perú en busca de una nueva vida en la ciudad de Nueva York en la década de los 90. Sin embargo, al ser una inmigrante indocumentada, sus oportunidades se ven reducidas....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"1857. Three women -- once strangers -- come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a promise for the future, she abides an unexpected surprise:...
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