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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight," For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. In...
2) Rescue
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657 days ago Meg's British father left their home in France to fight the Nazis, leaving some codes in a jar for her to decipher, and Meg and her French mother moved to the Perche, a region in France near Normandy known for its forests; now Meg watches the German soldiers in town, and sometimes carries messages for the French resistance--but suddenly things have gotten much more dangerous: there is a wounded British officer hiding in her grandmother's...
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Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lands, each step galvanised by the knowledge that he is following the right path: his own. The people he meets along the way, the things he sees and the wisdom he learns are life-changing. With Paulo Coelho's visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism...
5) Frindle
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Nick Allen is very bright, but he often gets into trouble at school. When he starts fifth grade with Mrs. Granger, who has a reputation for never letting her studnets get away with anything, it looks like his trouble-making days is over.
6) Don Quixote
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Everyman's library volume 3
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From the publisher. Our ceaseless human quest for something larger than ourselves has never been represented with more insight and love than in this story of Don Quixote -- pursuing his vision of glory in a mercantile age -- and his shrewd, skeptical manservant, Sancho Panza. As they set out to right the world's wrongs in knightly combat, the narrative moves from philosophical speculation to broad comedy, taking in pastoral, farce, and fantasy on...
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In this deeply affecting novel Scott O'Dell envelops the reader in the heroic world of the conquistadors - a world that is at once somber and many-colored. Though they may have been ruthless, these steel-helmeted young men of Spain lived their lives on the very edge of eternity with style and uncommon courage.
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Unicorn Rescue Society volume 2
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When their next assignment with Professor Fauna sends Elliot, Uchenna, and Jersey across the Atlantic to Basque Country, their efforts to rescue a fire-breathing dragon are complicated by the Schmoke brothers.
12) Incantation
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The opposing forces of love and hate, loyalty and betrayal underscore this brief but rich tale set during the Spanish Inquisition. Told by 16-year-old Estrella deMadrigal, friends Estrella and Catalina envision that their lives will be intertwined forever. However, there is a secret about Estrella and her family that unfolds in spurts.
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On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary...
14) El dador
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1996
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Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning classic story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world is now in Spanish. ?Ahora disponible en espa?l! Ganador de la Medalla Newbery y un New York Times bestseller, El dador. Diciembre es el mes en el que se celebra la Ceremonia anual, en la que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comitde Ancianos. Pero Jon, un ni que cumple doce as, ha sido elegido...
16) Leaves of grass
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In 1855, Walt Whitman published — at his own expense — the first edition of Leaves of Grass, a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influence of a uniquely American form of mysticism known as Transcendentalism, which eschewed the general society and culture of the time, the writing is distinguished by an explosively innovative free verse style and previously unmentionable subject matter. Exalting nature, celebrating the human body, and...
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1995
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Captain Richard Sharpe is given responsibility for a poorly trained and ill-equipped Irish battalion of the King of Spain. Britain's hopes of victory in Spain depend on Sharpe's ability to combat an elite French guard headed by the vengeful Brigadier General Guy Loup.
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2018.
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From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail.One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a...
20) There be dragons
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[2012]
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When journalist Robert Torres is assigned to write a book about Josemaria Escriva, the controversial founder of Opus Dei, he hopes it will bring him closer to his father, Escriva's childhood friend. As Torres uncovers more about his father's past, he learns dark secrets that will change his world forever.