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1) The hostage
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
W. E. B. Griffin’s #1 New York Times bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo in the middle of an investigation into kidnapping, assassination, and even political scandal in this action-packed thriller.
U.S. Army Special Forces Major Charley Castillo is tasked with a discreet mission by the President himself: to investigate the death of an American diplomat in Argentina and the kidnapping of...
U.S. Army Special Forces Major Charley Castillo is tasked with a discreet mission by the President himself: to investigate the death of an American diplomat in Argentina and the kidnapping of...
Author
Series
Honor bound novel volume 5
Language
English
Description
August, 1943: In his short time as a spy with the Office of Strategic Services, young Cletus Frade has faced many unlikely situations, but nothing like his new assignment. Having helped Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Frogger escape a Mississippi P.O.W. camp, he must now get the defiant German to turn against his country.
3) Dead girls
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this brutal, gripping novel, Selva Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980's in the interior of Argentina.Three deaths without culprits: 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; 15-year old Maria Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and 20-year old Sarita Mundin, whose disfigured body was found on a river bank. Almada takes these and other tales of abused women to weave together...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumbles upon a shocking revelation that leads him in search of an ancient Chinese expedition--and a curse that seems to have survived for more than five hundred years.
5) Slum virgin
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Language
English
Description
The slums of Buenos Aires, the government, the mafia, the Virgin Mary, corrupt police officers, prostitutes, transvestites, thieves, drug dealers, cumbia music and debauchery all combine in this sweeping novel deemed to be a "revelation for contemporary literature" and "pure dynamite" (Andraes Neuman, author of Traveller of the Century & Talking to Ourselves, Pushkin Press). Slum Virgin tells the larger-than-life story of Cleopatra, a transvestite...
6) Furia
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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.
8) Repentance
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Language
English
Description
Two Moments In Time, Twenty Years Apart, One Last Chance At Redemption.
What Would You Do With A Second Chance?
1981. Argentina Is In The Grip Of A Brutal Military Dictatorship. Inspector Joaquín Alzada's Work In The Buenos Aires Police Force Exposes Him To The Many Realities Of Life Under A Repressive Regime: Desperate People, Terrified People And -Worst Of All-Missing People. Personally, He Prefers To Stay Out Of Politics, Enjoying A Simple Life...
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Language
English
Description
What happens when you mix a Parisian street orphan, a hot-tempered Spanish forger, a beautiful American pickpocket, an unloved wife, and one priceless painting?
The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau rich-they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and Valfierno sells them flawless forgeries instead. But, when Eduardo meets the beautiful Mrs. Hart on his latest con, he takes a risk that...
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 7
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters of Antarctica to the bone-dry deserts of Argentina, Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. With Nebula agents and the elusive explorer spy still out there, his opportunity to recover his mother's world-changing formula is slipping away. But as Cruz has learned from his time aboard Orion, true explorers must never give up. Even after...
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Born in sixteenth-century Argentina, Francisco Maldonado da Silva is nine years old when he sees his father, Don Diego, arrested one harrowing afternoon because of his beliefs. Raised in a family practicing its Jewish faith in secret under the condemning eyes of the Spanish Inquisition, Francisco embarks on a personal quest that will challenge, enlighten, and forever change him. He completes his education in a monastery; he reads the Bible; he dreams...
13) Cometierra
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspa�nol
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Primera edici�on de HarperCollinsEspa�nol.
Language
Español
Description
A woman from a slum in contemporary Argentina teams up with a withdrawn police officer when she develops a compulsive urge to eat dirt that triggers visions of murdered and missing people, including her own mother.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
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,...
15) Fracture
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, an aging survivor of the atom bomb confronts his memories"--
16) Mama
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Primera edicion.
Language
Español
Description
Una campesina espanola envia a su hija de quince anos a la Argentina de Peron. Quiere sacarla de la miseria, y le promete que pronto la seguira toda su familia. Pero algo falla, nadie viene, y la chica queda atrapada en un pais hostil, donde crece, se casa, lucha contra su destino y sufre el destierro mas cruel. Despues de muchos anos deja de sufrir y se hace argentina. Entonces sus hijos y nietos le anuncian que quieren irse a vivir a Espana para...
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Veronica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth - a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she witnesses, the woman keeps her visions to herself. But when Earth-eater begins an unlikely relationship with a withdrawn police officer, word of...
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