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Mac Reilly novels volume 4
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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?
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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...
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Hugo Marston novels volume 5
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A nineteen-year-old aspiring model has disappeared in Paris. Her father, Bart Denum, turns to his old friend Hugo Marston for help.
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When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year's Day, he doesn't expect much from the coming year. When a stray, brindle-furred cat slips into his Barcelona apartment, it becomes the catalyst that leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and classical music to places he's never been and to people he might never have met. Even better, he is led back to the mysterious Gabriela, whom he thought he'd lost...
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"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...
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"A talented college professor in Madrid, Blanca Perea seems to have it all. But her world is suddenly shattered when her husband of twenty years leaves her for another woman. Questioning the life she once had and whether she truly knows herself, Blanca resolves to change her surroundings. She accepts what looks like a boring research grant in California involving an exiled Spanish writer who died decades ago. Anxious to leave her own troubled life...
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"A riveting thriller combining real historical events and characters with a sinister detective story of eugenics, racism, and nationalist paranoia. Barcelona, summer 1909. When the scientist and explorer Randolph Foulkes is blown up in a random terrorist bomb attack, private detective Harry Lawton is hired by the man's widow to identify the beneficiary of a large payment Foulkes had made shortly before his death. Lawton's arrival in the Catalan capital...
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"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....
10) Barcelona days
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"In this captivating novel, an erupting Icelandic volcano grounds all flights in and out of Europe, forcing four vacationing Americans to reckon with the problems they'd hoped to leave behind in Barcelona. Whitney and Will are a perfect couple by all appearances, their relationship rock-solid, and their engagement soon to be announced. Before their impending nuptials, however, Whitney suggests a lighthearted experiment: why not give each other three...
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Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado más de dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le arrastra...
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Con El Juego del Ángel, el autor de La Sombra del Viento vuelve al cautivador mundo de la Barcelona del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados para sumergirnos de nuevo en una apasionante historia de traición, tragedia y amor. David Martín es un joven periodista y aspirante a escritor en los años 20 que pasa rápidamente de escribir en un pequeño diario local a publicar novelas, primero bajo pseudónimo y más tarde bajo su propio nombre. Al mismo...
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"Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinked stories follow ordinary people whose lives will be changed forever. Like Robert Altman's film Short Cuts, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three interconnected stories that are bound by time and place, and by the way characters weave in and out of them. A crime that remains unreported in one story has light shed on it in another. Exploring addiction,...
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Harlequin romance volume 4845
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"Shy Lady Dulcibella is enduring, rather than enjoying, her rambunctious cousin's OTT bachelorette party in Barcelona...until she finds herself trapped in a hotel elevator with the most gorgeous man she's ever seen! Their instant chemistry sparks a fling neither intended... Yet, no matter how perfect Raffiel might appear, love-weary Dulcie is hesitant to let him in. So, when the royal secret he's kept from her is revealed, will the headlines that...
17) Cień wiatru
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"W letni świt 1945 roku dziesięcioletni Daniel Sempere zostaje zaprowadzony przez ojca, księgarza i antykwariusza, do niezwykłego miejsca w sercu starej Barcelony, które wtajemniczonym znane jest jako Cmentarz Zapomnianych Książek. Zgodnie ze zwyczajem Daniel ma wybrać, kierując się właściwie jedynie intuicją, książkę swego życia. Spośród setek tysięcy tomów wybiera nieznaną sobie powieść Cień wiatru niejakiego Juliana Caraxa....
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"During an atomic alarm in Barcelona in the year 2025, the thirty-year old hero takes refuge in a luxurious mansion in the mountains where he is put up, along with other guests, awaiting the outcome of the conflict. For the following seven days the residents of the mansion spend their spare time reading and taking walks , and, above all, telling stories to each other. The narrators (most of whom belong to the generation thirty years older than the...
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"En una gélida mañana de 1170, un juicio cruel sella los destinos de dos familias enfrentadas por la avaricia y los usos feudales. Según marca la tradición, los primogénitos de las dos casas, de apenas meses de edad, deben ser sumergidos en agua helada. El que se hunda será el escogido de Dios, y eso dará la razón a su familia. Tras el lastimoso evento, Blanca, la hija del noble Ramón de Corviu, resulta elegida, y Robert de Tramontana,...
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