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3) Causa justa
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Punto de lectura volume 73
Pub. Date
2002, c2000
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Young lawyer Michael Brock's investigation into the motives of a homeless gunman who was killed by police after taking Brock and eight of his fellow attorneys hostage, leads him to the discovery of a dirty little secret that changes the course of his life and career.
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En su lecho de muerte, el anciano y enfermo Artemio Cruz recuerda que no siempre fue ese triste saco de huesos y fermentos corporales; alguna vez fue joven, osado, vigoroso. Y tuvo ideales, sueños, revolución extinguieron su fuego y aniquilaron su esperanza. Tal vez por ello perdió a la única mujer que de verdad lo amó.
An imaginative portrait of an unscrupulous individual, the story also serves as commentary on Mexican society, most notably...
5) Rayuela
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" Counternovel, chronicle of madness, the black hole in an enormous funnel, a shout of alert, a type of atomic bomb, a call to necessary disorder, an immense cloud of smoke. These are just some of the expressions that have been used to refer to Rayuela, the novel Julio Cortazar began to dream up in 1958 and published in 1963, Rayuela s arrival had a profound impact on the cultural scene of its time, jolted readers worldwide, and triggered a true revolution...
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Punto de lectura. Rom�antica volume 217/3
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The famous soprano Micaela Urtiaga Four returns to her home town of Buenos Aires in 1914 after years spent in Europe. There she encounters the dangerous, and dangerously attractive, Carlo Varzi.
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Punto de lectura volume 485/3
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Por fin la tercera novela de Richard Castle, con una Nikki Heat sexy, intrépida y en graves problemas. . . Solo James Rook podrá ayudarla y hacer que el calor aumente. El insólito asesinato de un sacerdote en un club sadomasoquista neoyorquino abre el caso más apasionante y peligroso de Nikki Heat hasta el momento, en el que tendrá que hacer frente al narcotraficante más corrupto de Nueva York, a un arrogante asesor externo de la C.I.A. y a...
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Pub. Date
2014
Description
Evacuated from London as a thirteen year old girl, Edies mother is chosen by the mysterious Juniper Blythe, and taken to live at Milderhusrt Castle with the Blythe family: Juniper, her twin sisters and their father, Raymond, author of the 1918 childrens classic The True History of the Mud Man. Fifty years later, as Edie chases the answers to her mothers riddle, she, too, is drawn to Milderhurst Castle and the eccentric Sisters Blythe. Old ladies now,...