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  • The Last Days of Terranova

    by Manuel Rivas ...
    Translated by Jacob Rogers ...
    Series series
    A far-reaching story of an outcast and his bookstore: a home to forbidden books, political dissidents, and cultural smugglers all brought to vivid poetic life“Rivas is a master… His pages bloom like flowers, swerving in unpredictable arcs toward a light-source that is constantly moving.” —BookforumThe Last Days of Terranova tells of Vicenzo Fontana, the elderly owner of the long-standing Terranova ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Carpenter's Pencil

    A Novel of the Spanish Civil War

    by Manuel Rivas ...
    Translated by Jonathan Dunne ...
    The acclaimed Galician author's novel of the Spanish Civil War is "a sincere and beautiful portrait of a brutal, ugly period of Spanish history" ( The Guardian).Novelist and El País journalist Manuel Rivas has been heralded as one of the brightest in a new wave of Spanish authors. Originally written in Galician, his native language, The Carpenter's Pencil was a bestseller in Spain and has been ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Books Burn Badly

    by Manuel Rivas ...
    Translated by Jonathan Dunne ...
    On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coruña and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight. With this moment a young carefree group of friends are transformed into a broken generation.Out of this incident during the early months of Spain's tragic civil war, Manuel Rivas weaves a colourful tapestry of stories and unforgettable characters to create a ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

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    The Last Days of Terranova

    by Manuel Rivas ...
    Narrated by Andre Bellido ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 44 min

    A far-reaching story of an outcast and his bookstore: a home to forbidden books, political dissidents, and cultural smugglers all brought to vivid poetic lifeThe Last Days of Terranova tells of Vicenzo Fontana, the elderly owner of the long-standing Terranova Bookstore, on the day it's set to close due to the greed of real-estate speculators. On this final day, Vincenzo spends the night in his ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • El libro rojo

    English version

    by Manuel Payno, Vicente Riva Palacio ...
    El libro rojo (English version) (1870) is a historical-literary work by Mexican writers Manuel Payno and Vicente Riva Palacio that recounts some of the bloodiest, most violent, and decisive episodes in Mexican history. The book presents a series of narratives centered on executions, political assassinations, conspiracies, and acts of cruelty, spanning from pre-Hispanic times through the 19th ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Politics and Political Elites in Latin America

    Challenges and Trends

    Edited by Manuel Alcántara, Mercedes García Montero, Cristina Rivas Pérez ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents in-depth analyses of the data gathered for 26 years by the Political Elites of Latin America project (PELA), the most comprehensive database about the topic in the world. Since 1994, PELA has conducted around 9,000 personal interviews with representative samples of the Legislative Powers of 18 Latin American countries, generating a unique resource for the study of political ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    A Novel

    by Antonio Muñoz Molina ...
    Translated by Edith Grossman ...
    In this "beautifully wrought" novel set in Franco-era Spain, a university student stumbles into a decades-old mystery ( New York magazine).It's the late sixties, the last dark years of Franco's dictatorship. Minaya, a university student in Madrid, is caught up in the student protests and the police are after him. He moves to his uncle Manuel's country estate in the small town of Mágina to write ... Read more

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  • The Shadow of the Wind

    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ...
    Translated by Lucia Graves ...
    Series series The Cemetery of Forgotten Books
    "Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind**. Really, you should." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post“Wondrous...masterful...The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —* ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Love in the Time of Cholera

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Series series Vintage International
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A love story of astonishing power" (Newsweek), the acclaimed modern literary classic by the beloved Nobel Prize-winning author.In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Days of the Incas

    by Kim MacQuarrie ...
    The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers.In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • On The Plain Of Snakes

    A Mexican Journey

    by Paul Theroux ...
    The legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US–Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Even Silence Has an End

    My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

    by Ingrid Betancourt ...
    "Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -Los Angeles TimesIn the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization in conflict with the government. She would spend the next six and a half years ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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