Itzel's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 30 Mar 2025 13:48:16 -0700 60 Itzel's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg La pareja de al lado 32965311 Nunca se sabe lo que ocurre en la casa de al lado.
Dos parejas, dos casas y una montaña rusa de mentiras, traición y secretos entre maridos y mujeres.

La vecina nos ha invitado a una pequeña fiesta en su casa pero prefiere que mi hija de seis meses no vaya. Nada personal, es solo que no soporta la idea de que llore. Y mi marido está de acuerdo. Después de todo, dice, es la casa de al lado. El plan que me propone es que nos llevemos el monitor infantil y nos
turnemos para ir a verla cada media hora.
La niña duerme la última vez que voy a verla. Pero ahora la casa me parece excesivamente tranquila, así que subo tan rápido como puedo las escaleras hasta que confirmo que mi peor pesadilla se ha hecho realidad: ¡mi hija ha desaparecido! Nunca hasta hoy había tenido que llamar a la policía. Pero ahora están en mi casa y quién sabe lo que pueden llegar a encontrar.
¿De que eres capaz cuando has sobrepasado tus límites? ¿De verdad conoces a tus vecinos? ¿Y a tu marido? ¿Y a ti misma? Las personas somos capaces de casi cualquier cosa.]]> 390 Shari Lapena 8491290656 Itzel 3 3.65 2016 La pareja de al lado
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name: Itzel
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2016
rating: 3
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]]> De viaje 157111502
Diarista compulsiva y excelente, en Diario de viajes nos revela los destinos preferidos de Virginia Woolf, donde la encontramos en una aduana alemana durante el régimen nazi, extasiada ante la belleza del Partenón, regateando en el Gran Bazar de Estambul o pasando la noche en una dudosa pensión de Sierra Nevada.

Diario de viajes es una selección de entradas de diario, cartas y artículos, que nos ofrecen una mirada privilegiada en la intimidad de Virginia Woolf. Alejado de la melancolía que impregna su vida y su obra, Diario de viajes revela esa joie de vivre que solo proporciona la aventura y lo desconocido.]]> 306 Virginia Woolf 8419735299 Itzel 0 currently-reading 3.53 De viaje
author: Virginia Woolf
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]]> Maura's Game (Maura Ryan, #2) 936609 640 Martina Cole 0747267596 Itzel 0 4.31 2002 Maura's Game (Maura Ryan, #2)
author: Martina Cole
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> The God of the Woods 217490362
Some said the family deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed out for five nights in the freezing forest trying to help find their missing son.

Some said there was a reason it took the family so long to call for help. That they knew what happened to the boy.

Now, fifteen years later, the Van Laars' teenage daughter has gone missing in the same wilderness as her brother. Some say the two disappearances aren’t connected.

Some say they are.]]> 437 Liz Moore 0008663807 Itzel 4 novelas-ingl-s 4.12 2024 The God of the Woods
author: Liz Moore
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Dune: House Harkonnen (Prelude to Dune)]]> 52644991
Sequel to the international bestseller  House Atreides

Before  Dune  . . . 

The epic tale of Duke Leto Atreides and his rise to power . . . 

The fierce ambitions of his mortal enemy, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen . . . 

The struggles of the young girl Jessica, the Baron’s secret daughter, under the harsh training of the Sisterhood school . . . 

The schemes of Shaddam Corrino to create a synthetic spice that may bring unlimited wealth, or cause the collapse of the Spacing Guild . . . 

And the implausible dream of Planetologist Kynes to turn the desert planet Dune into a paradise, uniting the desperate Fremen into a force unlike anything the Imperium has ever seen . . . 

House Harkonnen  continues the epic story that lays the foundation for Frank Herbert’s masterpiece  Dune , a complex tale of politics, religion, and the rise and fall of dynasties on a galaxy-spanning canvas. 

Look for the entire prequel series
HOUSE ATREIDES � HOUSE HARKONNEN � HOUSE CORRINO]]> 768 Brian Herbert 0593159616 Itzel 0 to-read 3.93 2000 Dune: House Harkonnen (Prelude to Dune)
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]]> The Boyfriend 208503280 She's looking for the perfect man. He's looking for the perfect victim.

Sydney Shaw, like every single woman in New York, has terrible luck with dating. She’s seen it men who lie in their dating profile, men who stick her with the dinner bill, and worst of all, men who can't shut up about their mothers. But finally, she hits the jackpot.

Her new boyfriend is utterly perfect. He's charming, handsome, and works as a doctor at a local hospital. Sydney is swept off her feet.

Then the brutal murder of a young woman―the latest in a string of deaths across the coast―confounds police. The primary suspect? A mystery man who dates his victims before he kills them.

Sydney should feel safe. After all, she is dating the guy of her dreams. But she can’t shake her own suspicions that the perfect man may not be as perfect as he seems. Because someone is watching her every move, and if she doesn’t get to the truth, she’ll be the killer’s next victim...

A dark story about obsession and the things we’ll do for love, #1 New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden proves that crimes of passion are often the bloodiest…]]> 368 Freida McFadden 1728296226 Itzel 5 3.95 2024 The Boyfriend
author: Freida McFadden
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average rating: 3.95
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[La desaparición de Stephanie Mailer]]> 39742376
Jesse Rosenberg y Derek Scott son los dos jóvenes policías de Nueva York que resuelven con éxito el caso, pero veinte años más tarde, en la ceremonia de despedida de la policía a Rosenberg, la periodista Stephanie Mailer lo afronta: pretende que Dereck y Jesse se equivocaron de asesino a pesar de que la prueba se hallara delante de sus ojos, y que ella posee información clave. Pero días después, desaparece.

Así se inicia este colosal thriller que avanza en el pasado y el presente a ritmo vertiginoso, sumando tramas, personajes, sorpresas y vueltas de tuerca, sacudiendo e impulsando al lector sin freno posible hacia el inesperado e inolvidable desenlace.]]> 656 Joël Dicker 1947783793 Itzel 4 novelas 3.93 2018 La desaparición de Stephanie Mailer
author: Joël Dicker
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> La hora azul 218169525 La nueva gran novela de Paula Hawkins, autora de La chica del tren.

Cuando la Tate Modern descubre que el hueso utilizado en una de las esculturas más famosas de la célebre y ya fallecida artista Vanessa Chapman es humano y no pertenece a un animal, como se creía, todas las miradas se centran en ella y en la misteriosa desaparición de su marido, Julian.

Temiendo la posible devaluación de la obra de la artista, Douglas Lennox, director de la Fundación Fairburn, envía al conservador James Becker a la remota isla escocesa en la que Vanessa vivía para investigar qué oculta el macabro hallazgo. Pero lo que parecía una empresa fácil pronto se convierte en algo mucho más oscuro, mucho más peligroso y mucho más imprevisible que puede poner en peligro su propia vida.

Ambientada en una isla escocesa accesible solo las horas del día en que baja la marea, La hora azul explora la tensión entre la libertad del genio creativo y la presión social, y señala con aterradora precisión cómo la luz con la que vemos a la gente que queremos a veces oculta su peor oscuridad. Una novela magistral con ecos de Patricia Highsmith o Alfred Hitchcock por una de las autoras de novela negra más importantes de las últimas décadas.]]> 456 Paula Hawkins 8408294555 Itzel 3 novelas 3.13 2024 La hora azul
author: Paula Hawkins
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.13
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Metamorphosis and Other Stories]]> 7723 The Metamorphosis,� a story that is both harrowing and amusing, and a landmark of modern literature.

Bringing together some of Kafka’s finest work, this collection demonstrates the richness and variety of the author’s artistry. �The Judgment,� which Kafka considered to be his decisive breakthrough, and �The Stoker,� which became the first chapter of his novel Amerika, are here included. These two, along with �The Metamorphosis,� form a suite of stories Kafka referred to as “The Sons,� and they collectively present a devastating portrait of the modern family.

Also included are �In the Penal Colony,� a story of a torture machine and its operators and victims, and �A Hunger Artist,� about the absurdity of an artist trying to communicate with a misunderstanding public. Kafka’s lucid, succinct writing chronicles the labyrinthine complexities, the futility-laden horror, and the stifling oppressiveness that permeate his vision of modern life.]]> 224 Franz Kafka 1593080298 Itzel 3 4.08 1915 The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
author: Franz Kafka
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]]> <![CDATA[El otrx: arte, cultura y migración en la ciudad de Madrid]]> 97873609 208 Dagmary Olívar Gaterol 8412120639 Itzel 0 currently-reading 0.0 El otrx: arte, cultura y migración en la ciudad de Madrid
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]]> Violeta 59424709
Desde 1920 -con la llamada «gripe española»- hasta la pandemia de 2020, la vida de Violeta será mucho más que la historia de un siglo.

Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos. Desde el principio su vida estará marcada por acontecimientos extraordinarios, pues todavía se sienten las ondas expansivas de la Gran Guerra cuando la gripe española llega a las orillas de su país sudamericano natal, casi en el momento exacto de su nacimiento.

Gracias a la clarividencia del padre, la familia saldrá indemne de esta crisis para darse de bruces con una nueva, cuando la Gran Depresión altera la elegante vida urbana que Violeta ha conocido hasta ahora. Su familia lo perderá todo y se verá obligada a retirarse a una región salvaje y remota del país. Allí Violeta alcanzará la mayoría de edad y tendrá su primer pretendiente...

En una carta dirigida a una persona a la que ama por encima de todas las demás, Violeta rememora devastadores desengaños amorosos y romances apasionados, momentos de pobreza y también de prosperidad, pérdidas terribles e inmensas alegrías. Moldearán su vida algunos de los grandes sucesos de la historia: la lucha por los derechos de la mujer, el auge y caída de tiranos y, en última instancia, no una, sino dos pandemias.

Vista con los ojos de una mujer poseedora de una pasión, una determinación y un sentido del humor inolvidables que la sostienen a lo largo de una vida turbulenta, Isabel Allende nos regala, una vez más, una historia épica furiosamente inspiradora y profundamente emotiva.]]> 436 Isabel Allende 8401027470 Itzel 0 currently-reading 4.03 2022 Violeta
author: Isabel Allende
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]]> Una buena chica 30247006
La primera novela de Mary Kubica tiene una estructura poco usual: hablan varias voces, todas en tiempo presente, que van saltando del antes al después. Tal vez esto parezca complicado, pero no lo es. Para ser una primera novela, es asombrosamente pulida y profesional.]]> 368 Mary Kubica 0718092198 Itzel 3 novelas 3.62 2014 Una buena chica
author: Mary Kubica
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.62
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)]]> 6328854
At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis . Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais , or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton.

With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" ( Vogue ).]]> 543 Amitav Ghosh 0312428596 Itzel 0 to-read 3.95 2008 Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
author: Amitav Ghosh
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[Doing Rapid Qualitative Research]]> 57646386
Key features of the book include discussion questions and exercises for you to reflect on and apply your learning, as well as two case study chapters of real-world research so you can see rapid research in action.

Written by the world’s leading expert on this subject, this book contains the theoretical and practical nuts and bolts you need to reframe existing qualitative methods, speed up your research, and make tangible contributions to your field.  It is the perfect companion for any researcher, final-year undergraduate or postgraduate student looking to conduct rapid, but rigorous, qualitative research.]]> 200 Cecilia Vindrola-Padros 1526497360 Itzel 0 academic 5.00 Doing Rapid Qualitative Research
author: Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
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]]> La sombra del Caudillo 2419143 872 Martín Luis Guzmán 8489666636 Itzel 0 novelas, to-read 4.03 1929 La sombra del Caudillo
author: Martín Luis Guzmán
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.03
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)]]> 51901147
The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.]]> 541 Suzanne Collins Itzel 4 3.99 2020 The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow]]> 58784475 In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.]]> 401 Gabrielle Zevin 0735243344 Itzel 5 Qué bonito libro :) 4.12 2022 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
author: Gabrielle Zevin
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average rating: 4.12
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Qué bonito libro :)
]]> <![CDATA[Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch]]> 12067
People have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it’s only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. This time though, the armies of Good and Evil really do appear to be massing. The four Bikers of the Apocalypse are hitting the road. But both the angels and demons � well, one fast-living demon and a somewhat fussy angel � would quite like the Rapture not to happen.

And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist…]]> 491 Terry Pratchett Itzel 3 novelas-ingl-s 4.27 1990 Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.27
book published: 1990
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly]]> 33313 A deluxe, annotated edition of Kitchen Confidential to celebrate the life of Anthony Bourdain, featuring new photo inserts

Over two decades ago, the New Yorker published a now infamous article, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,� by then little-known chef Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain spared no one’s appetite as he revealed what happens behind the kitchen door. The article was a sensation, and the book it spawned, the now iconic Kitchen Confidential, became an even bigger sensation and megabestseller. Frankly confessional, addictively acerbic, and utterly unsparing, Bourdain pulls no punches in this memoir of his years in the restaurant business.

Fans will love to return to this deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade, laying out Bourdain’s more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine. Including a handwritten introduction and annotations done by Bourdain about a decade after the book was originally published, this edition also features previously unpublished photos to accompany the now-classic text.]]> 312 Anthony Bourdain 0060899220 Itzel 0 currently-reading 4.17 2000 Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> Nueve nombres 58122133 A todas esas mujeres se las había despojado de todo. No tenían ni ropa, ni zapatos, ni utensilios de aseo propios, ni fotografías, ni nada que les recordase a cómo eran antes de entrar en el manicomio. Encerradas, castigadas, humilladas y medicadas durante años. Enajenadas y deshumanizadas. No solo habían perdido sus vidas; también el recuerdo de haberlas tenido. Aisladas, sin memoria y sin identidad, no habían conseguido conservar ni sus propios nombres. Recuperarlos fue el primer paso para volver.]]> 132 María Huertas Zarco 8412193326 Itzel 5 4.59 Nueve nombres
author: María Huertas Zarco
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average rating: 4.59
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]]> El amante 381050
Esa jovencita bellísima, pero pobre, que vive en Indochina, no es otra que la propia escritora quien, hoy, recuerda las relaciones apasionadas, de intensos amor y odio, que desgarraron a su familia y, de pronto, grabaron prematuramente en su rostro los implacables surcos de la madurez. Pocas personas -y en particular mujeres- permaneceran inmunes a la contagiosa pasión que emana de este libro.]]> 152 Marguerite Duras 8472237494 Itzel 4 novelas 3.65 1984 El amante
author: Marguerite Duras
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.65
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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]]> Bartleby el escribiente 656697 Bartleby, escrito en 1853, es, dentro de la obra de Melville, una curiosa aventura hacia mares interiores. Ciertamente, este relato logra unir la compasión y la curiosidad del lector por saber quién es el silencioso escribiente, cada vez más retraído del mundo exterior y más cercano a sus propios muros.]]> 106 Herman Melville 842067298X Itzel 4 4.03 1853 Bartleby el escribiente
author: Herman Melville
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average rating: 4.03
book published: 1853
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]]> The Change 59030015
After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim white house not far from the ocean. In the quiet of her late forties, the former nurse begins to hear voices. It doesn’t take long for Nessa to realize that the voices calling out to her belong to the dead—a gift she’s inherited from her grandmother, which comes with special responsibilities.

On the cusp of 50, suave advertising director Harriett Osborne has just witnessed the implosion of her lucrative career and her marriage. She hasn’t left her house in months, and from the outside, it appears as if she and her garden have both gone to seed. But Harriett’s life is far from over—in fact, she’s undergone a stunning and very welcome metamorphosis.

Ambitious former executive Jo Levison has spent thirty long years at war with her body. The free-floating rage and hot flashes that arrive with the beginning of menopause feel like the very last straw—until she realizes she has the ability to channel them, and finally comes into her power.

Guided by voices only Nessa can hear, the trio of women discover a teenage girl whose body was abandoned beside a remote beach. The police have written the victim off as a drug-addicted sex worker, but the women refuse to buy into the official narrative. Their investigation into the girl’s murder leads to more bodies, and to the town’s most exclusive and isolated enclave, a world of stupendous wealth where the rules don’t apply. With their newfound powers, Jo, Nessa, and Harriett will take matters into their own hands…]]> 470 Kirsten Miller 0063144042 Itzel 0 to-read 4.06 2022 The Change
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]]> <![CDATA[Girl, Forgotten (Andrea Oliver, #2)]]> 59445976
Who killed Emily Vaughn?

Prom Night. Longbill Beach, 1982. Emily Vaughn dresses carefully for what's supposed to be the highlight of any high school career. But Emily has a secret. And by the end of the night, because of that secret, she will be dead.

Nearly forty years later, Andrea Oliver, newly qualified as a US Marshal, receives her first assignment: to go to Longbill Beach to protect a judge receiving death threats. But Andrea's real focus isn't the judge � it's Emily Vaughn. Ever since she first heard Emily's name a year ago, she's been haunted by her brutal death. Nobody was ever convicted � her friends closed ranks, her family shut themselves off in their grief, the town moved on � so the killer is still out there. But now Andrea has a chance to find out what really happened…]]> 400 Karin Slaughter 0062858114 Itzel 0 to-read 3.99 2022 Girl, Forgotten (Andrea Oliver, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)]]> 58957615
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.

While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim chase down the clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?

From an upmarket spa to a prison cell complete with espresso machine to a luxury penthouse high in the sky, this third adventure of the Thursday Murder Club is full of the cleverness, intrigue, and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman's bestselling series.]]> 413 Richard Osman 0241512425 Itzel 0 to-read 4.32 2022 The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)
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average rating: 4.32
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]]> The Old Woman with the Knife 57938998 The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her career--this is an international bestseller and the English language debut from an award-winning South Korean author

At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, with only her aging dog, a rescue named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are expectations for people her age--that she'll retire and live out the rest of her days quietly. But Hornclaw is not like other people. She is an assassin.

Double-crossers, corporate enemies, cheating spouses--for the past four decades, Hornclaw has killed them all with ruthless efficiency, and the less she's known about her targets, the better. But now, nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up. An injury leads her to an unexpected connection with a doctor and his family. But emotions, for an assassin, are a dangerous proposition. As Hornclaw's world closes in, this final chapter in her career may also mark her own bloody end.

A sensation in South Korea, and now translated into English for the first time by Chi-Young Kim, The Old Woman with the Knife is an electrifying, singular, mordantly funny novel about the expectations imposed on aging bodies and the dramatic ways in which one woman chooses to reclaim her agency.]]> 288 Gu Byeong-mo 1335425764 Itzel 0 to-read 3.49 2013 The Old Woman with the Knife
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]]> A Flicker in the Dark 57693172
Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to get. Sometimes, though, she feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren't really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer?

In a debut novel that has already been optioned for a limited series by actress Emma Stone and sold to a dozen countries around the world, Stacy Willingham has created an unforgettable character in a spellbinding thriller that will appeal equally to fans of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter.]]> 357 Stacy Willingham 1250803829 Itzel 4 novelas-ingl-s 3.96 2022 A Flicker in the Dark
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]]> No salgas de noche 59587018
Desde ese momento, Chloe ha tenido que afrontar las consecuencias de los actos de aquel monstruo: el acoso y vandalismo de sus vecinos, la destrucción de su familia y su propia adicción a los ansiolíticos. Veinte años después ha logrado iniciar una nueva vida. Es psicóloga en Baton Rouge y está organizando su boda.

Todo marcha bien hasta que una adolescente es asesinada, y luego otra. Alguien está matando chicas del mismo modo que lo hacía su padre, y son chicas que ella conoce. Su pasado le persigue y la historia, que creía enterrada, parece repetirse.]]> 400 Stacy Willingham Itzel 4 3.70 2022 No salgas de noche
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]]> The Haunting of Hill House 89717 182 Shirley Jackson 0143039989 Itzel 3 3.85 1959 The Haunting of Hill House
author: Shirley Jackson
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]]> Aura 56899 118 Carlos Fuentes 9580469717 Itzel 2 3.87 1962 Aura
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]]> Monstruos rotos 28209631 James Ellroy

En Detroit, la ciudad que se ha convertido en el símbolo de la muerte del sueño americano, una ciudad embargada, desahuciada, un asesino en serie pretende redimir sus frustraciones artísticas a través del horror. La detective de homicidios Gabriella Versado ha visto muchos cadáveres a lo largo de sus ocho años de carrera, pero este es demasiado macabro incluso para los estándares de Detroit: el tronco de un niño de doce años aparece pegado a la parte trasera de un ciervo, en una suerte de fusión repulsiva. A medida que la policía va hallando cadáveres cada vez más inquietantes, surge una pregunta: ¿cómo se puede sobrevivir en esa ciudad, escombrera del sueño americano?

Monstruos rotos es un thriller que trasciende el género y que muestra ciudades rotas, sueños rotos y personas rotas que buscan recomponerse. Lauren Beukes se mueve sin esfuerzo entre los distintos submundos de la ciudad, ya sean comisarías de policía, las vidas secretas de unas adolescentes obsesionadas con internet, refugios para indigentes o los vecindarios moribundos de una ciudad renqueante, todo mientras se asoma al universo perturbadoramente hermoso y casi sobrenatural que existe en las fronteras.]]> 440 Lauren Beukes 8416396728 Itzel 4 novelas 3.50 2014 Monstruos rotos
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Perturbador, original, bien escrito.
]]> Blue Ticket 52058372 In a world where women can't have it all, don't underestimate the relief of a decision being taken away from you.

Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you marriage and children. A blue ticket grants you a career and freedom. You are relieved of the terrible burden of choice. And once you've taken your ticket, there is no going back. But what if the life you're given is the wrong one?

When Calla, a blue ticket woman, begins to question her fate, she must go on the run. But her survival will be dependent on the very qualities the lottery has taught her to question in herself and on the other women the system has pitted against her. Pregnant and desperate, Calla must contend with whether or not the lottery knows her better than she knows herself and what that might mean for her child.

An urgent inquiry into free will, social expectation, and the fraught space of motherhood, Blue Ticket is electrifying in its raw evocation and desire and riveting in its undeniable familiarity.]]> 304 Sophie Mackintosh 0385545630 Itzel 0 to-read 3.18 2020 Blue Ticket
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]]> The End of Men 53717123 Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and unforgettable debut from a remarkable new talent that what would life truly look like without men?Only men are affected by the virus; only women have the power to save us all. The year is 2025, and a mysterious virus has broken out in Scotland--a lethal illness that seems to affect only men. When Dr. Amanda MacLean reports this phenomenon, she is dismissed as hysterical. By the time her warning is heeded, it is too late. The virus becomes a global pandemic--and a political one. The victims are all men. The world becomes alien--a women's world.What follows is the immersive account of the women who have been left to deal with the virus's consequences, told through first-person narratives. Dr. MacLean; Catherine, a social historian determined to document the human stories behind the "male plague;" intelligence analyst Dawn, tasked with helping the government forge a new society; and Elizabeth, one of many scientists desperately working to develop a vaccine. Through these women and others, we see the uncountable ways the absence of men has changed society, from the personal--the loss of husbands and sons--to the political--the changes in the workforce, fertility and the meaning of family.In The End of Men, Christina Sweeney-Baird creates an unforgettable tale of loss, resilience and hope.]]> 416 Christina Sweeney-Baird 0385696639 Itzel 0 to-read 3.74 2021 The End of Men
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]]> <![CDATA[This Is How You Lose the Time War]]> 41093489 Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in this thrilling and romantic book from award-winning authors Amal-El Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading.

Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There’s still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war. That’s how war works. Right?

Cowritten by two beloved and award-winning sci-fi writers, This Is How You Lose the Time War is an epic love story spanning time and space.]]> 198 Amal El-Mohtar 1534431004 Itzel 0 to-read 3.82 2019 This Is How You Lose the Time War
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]]> Klara and the Sun 54120408
In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?]]> 340 Kazuo Ishiguro 059331817X Itzel 0 to-read 3.71 2021 Klara and the Sun
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]]> The Book of Cold Cases 58371432
Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true crime website, the Book of Cold Cases--a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To Shea's surprise, Beth says yes.

They meet regularly at Beth's mansion, though Shea is never comfortable there. Items move when she's not looking, and she could swear she's seen a girl outside the window. The allure of learning the truth about the case from the smart, charming Beth is too much to resist, but even as they grow closer, Shea senses something isn't right. Is she making friends with a manipulative murderer, or are there other dangers lurking in the darkness of the Greer house?

A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel.]]> 344 Simone St. James 0440000211 Itzel 0 to-read 3.76 2022 The Book of Cold Cases
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]]> <![CDATA[Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)]]> 1089563 Vilma Santiago-Irizarry 0801487528 Itzel 0 currently-reading 3.71 2001 Medicalizing Ethnicity: The Construction of Latino Identity in a Psychiatric Setting (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
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]]> El Mesías De Dune 53745 336 Frank Herbert 8470022008 Itzel 4 3.67 1969 El Mesías De Dune
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]]> <![CDATA[Damas de corazon (Spanish Edition)]]> 3242681 289 Bradu 9681645081 Itzel 4 3.53 1994 Damas de corazon (Spanish Edition)
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]]> Dune (Dune, #1) 44767458
When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.]]> 658 Frank Herbert 059309932X Itzel 5 4.33 1965 Dune (Dune, #1)
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]]> Flush 18844 ]]> 204 Virginia Woolf 0156319527 Itzel 5 3.86 1933 Flush
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]]> Patria 31842429 El día en que ETA anuncia el abandono de las armas, Bittori se dirige al cementerio para contarle a la tumba de su marido el Txato, asesinado por los terroristas, que ha decidido volver a la casa donde vivieron. ¿Podrá convivir con quienes la acosaron antes y después del atentado que trastocó su vida y la de su familia? ¿Podrá saber quién fue el encapuchado que un día lluvioso mató a su marido, cuando volvía de su empresa de transportes? Por más que llegue a escondidas, la presencia de Bittori alterará la falsa tranquilidad del pueblo, sobre todo de su vecina Miren, amiga íntima en otro tiempo, y madre de Joxe Mari, un terrorista encarcelado y sospechoso de los peores temores de Bittori. ¿Qué pasó entre esas dos mujeres? ¿Qué ha envenenado la vida de sus hijos y sus maridos tan unidos en el pasado? Con sus desgarros disimulados y sus convicciones inquebrantables, con sus heridas y sus valentías, la historia incandescente de sus vidas antes y después del cráter que fue la muerte del Txato, nos habla de la imposibilidad de olvidar y de la necesidad de perdón en una comunidad rota por el fanatismo político.

]]> 889 Fernando Aramburu 8490663270 Itzel 5 4.42 2016 Patria
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]]> <![CDATA[La ridícula idea de no volver a verte]]> 17567272
Una narración a medio camino entre el recuerdo personal y la memoria de todos, entre el análisis de nuestra época y la evocación íntima. Son páginas que hablan de la superación del dolor, de las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres, del esplendor del sexo, de la buena muerte y de la bella vida, de la ciencia y de la ignorancia, de la fuerza salvadora de la literatura y de la sabiduría de quienes aprenden a disfrutar de la existencia con plenitud y con ligereza. Vivo y original, este libro inclasificable incluye fotos, remembranzas, amistades y anécdotas que transmiten el primitivo placer de escuchar buenas historias. Sentirás que ha sido escrito sólo para ti.]]> 240 Rosa Montero 8432215481 Itzel 3 4.11 2013 La ridícula idea de no volver a verte
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]]> Local Woman Missing 54737068 People don’t just disappear without a trace....

Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold.

Now, 11 years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they’ll find....

In this smart and chilling thriller, master of suspense and New York Times best-selling author Mary Kubica takes domestic secrets to a whole new level, showing that some people will stop at nothing to keep the truth buried.]]> 356 Mary Kubica 0778389448 Itzel 0 to-read 4.12 2021 Local Woman Missing
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]]> <![CDATA[Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego]]> 28787166
Las autodenominadas «mujeres ardientes», que protestan contra una forma extrema de violencia doméstica que se ha vuelto viral; una estudiante que se arranca las uñas y las pestañas, y otra que intenta ayudarla; los años de apagones dictados por el gobierno durante los cuales se intoxican tres amigas que lo serán hasta que la muerte las separe; el famoso asesino en serie llamado Petiso Orejudo, que sólo tenía nueve años; hikikomori, magia negra, los celos, el desamor, supersticiones rurales, edificios abandonados o encantados... En estos doce cuentos el lector se ve obligado a olvidarse de sí mismo para seguir las peripecias e investigaciones de cuerpos que desaparecen o bien reaparecen en el momento menos esperado. Ya sea una trabajadora social, una policía o un guía turístico, los protagonistas luchan por apadrinar a seres socialmente invisibles, indagando así en el peso de la culpa, la compasión, la crueldad, las dificultades de la convivencia, y en un terror tan hondo como verosímil.

Mariana Enríquez es una de las narradoras más valientes y sorprendentes del siglo XXI, no sólo de la nueva literatura argentina a cargo de escritores nacidos durante la dictadura sino de la literatura de cualquier país o lengua. Mariana Enríquez transforma géneros literarios en recursos narrativos, desde la novela negra hasta el realismo sucio, pasando por el terror, la crónica y el humor, y ahonda con dolor y belleza en las raíces, las llamas y las tinieblas de toda existencia.

«El terror, en los cuentos de Mariana Enriquez, se desliza como un jadeo de agua negra sobre baldosas al sol. Como algo imposible que, sin embargo, podría suceder» (Leila Guerriero).

«Su escritura es tan auténtica y perspicaz que consigue evocar una realidad más vívida que la que nos rodea. Todo ello, resultado de su destreza y meticulosidad. La prueba de que nos hallamos ante una escritora de primera clase» (Daniel Gumbiner, McSweeney’s).

]]> 200 Mariana Enríquez 8433998064 Itzel 4 otros 4.10 2016 Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
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]]> A Slow Fire Burning 56213354
Look what you started.]]> 307 Paula Hawkins 073521123X Itzel 3 novelas-ingl-s 3.45 2021 A Slow Fire Burning
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country]]> 234705
Etel Adnan, a Lebanese American poet, painter, and essayist, lives in Paris, Beirut, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Among her books, the novel Sitt Marie Rose is considered a classic of Middle Eastern literature. She has been a powerful voice for compassion and empowerment in feminist and antiwar movements.]]> 120 Etel Adnan 0872864464 Itzel 0 currently-reading 4.36 2004 In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country
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]]> <![CDATA[Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth]]> 13376363 37 Warsan Shire 1905233299 Itzel 0 currently-reading 4.23 2011 Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
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]]> <![CDATA[Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)]]> 46756 Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporations took mankind on an uncontrolled genetic engineering ride. Margaret Atwood projects us into a near future that is both all too familiar and beyond our imagining.]]> 389 Margaret Atwood Itzel 4 4.01 2003 Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)]]> 6080337
Have others survived? Ren's bioartist friend Amanda? Zeb, her eco-fighter stepfather? Her onetime lover, Jimmy? Or the murderous Painballers, survivors of the mutual-elimination Painball prison? Not to mention the shadowy, corrupt policing force of the ruling powers...

Meanwhile, gene-spliced life forms are proliferating: the lion/lamb blends, the Mo'hair sheep with human hair, the pigs with human brain tissue. As Adam One and his intrepid hemp-clad band make their way through this strange new world, Ren and Toby will have to decide on their next move. They can't stay locked away...

By turns dark, tender, violent, thoughtful, and uneasily hilarious, The Year of the Flood is Atwood at her most brilliant and inventive.]]> 431 Margaret Atwood 0385528779 Itzel 0 currently-reading 4.06 2009 The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
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]]> Temporada de huracanes 34847511
Una novela cruda y desgarradora en la que el lector quedará envuelto, atrapado por las palabras y la atmósfera de terrible, aunque gozosa, fatalidad.

Un grupo de niños encuentra un cadáver flotando en las aguas turbias de un canal de riego cercano a la ranchería de La Matosa. El cuerpo resulta ser de la Bruja, una mujer que heredó dicho oficio de su madre fallecida, y a quienes los pobladores de esa zona rural respetaban y temían.

Tras el macabro hallazgo, las sospechas y habladurías recaerán sobre un grupo de muchachos del pueblo, a quienes días antes una vecina vio mientras huían de casa de la hechicera, cargando lo que parecía ser un cuerpo inerte.

A partir de ahí, los personajes involucrados en el crimen nos contarán su historia mientras los lectores nos sumergimos en la vida de este lugar acosado por la miseria y el abandono, y donde convergen la violencia del erotismo más oscuro y las sórdidas relaciones de poder.

Otros autores han opinado:

"Un viaje nocturno a las profundidades del alma humana con el estilo más radical de su generación." -Martín Solares-

"Fernanda Melchor no sólo escribe con la potencia rabiosa que le reclaman los temas que ha decidido investigar, sino que en cada página muestra un oído y una agudeza pocas veces vista en nuestra literatura." -Yuri Herrera-]]> 224 Fernanda Melchor 6073152736 Itzel 3 4.20 2017 Temporada de huracanes
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]]> André Breton en México 460703 210 Fabienne Bradu 0968756026 Itzel 3 otros 3.50 2000 André Breton en México
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]]> Antonieta (1900-1931) 14650896 245 Fabienne Bradu 6071604338 Itzel 4 3.83 2007 Antonieta (1900-1931)
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]]> Dos veces única 26814324
Diva y musa por derecho propio, esposa legendaria, cocinera magnífica, madre tormentosa y viuda trágica, María Guadalupe Marín Preciado, Lupe Marín (1895-1983) fue testigo excepcional y parte indispensable de algunas de las vidas extraordinarias que dieron forma al arte mexicano del siglo XX.

Casada con Diego Rivera y con el poeta y crítico Jorge Cuesta, el más connotado de los escritores del grupo Contemporáneos, Lupe Marín vio refulgir su obra y la de otros creadores como Frida Kahlo, Rafael Coronel, Xavier Villaurrutia y Juan Soriano, además de ejercer una influencia poderosa sobre sus hijos y nietos, herederos de un legado tan brillante como imperioso.]]> 416 Elena Poniatowska 6070730887 Itzel 4 novelas 3.94 2015 Dos veces única
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]]> <![CDATA[The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait]]> 91760
Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo’s amazing, illustrated journal documents the last 10 years of her turbulent life. These passionate, often surprising, intimate records, kept under lock and key for some 40 years in Mexico, reveal many new dimensions in the complex personal life of this remarkable artist.

The 170-page journal contains the artist’s thoughts, poems, and dreams—many reflecting her stormy relationship with her husband, artist Diego Rivera—along with 70 mesmerizing watercolor illustrations. Her views of love, politics, and more come into sharp focus in a kaleidoscope of creativity and thought.

In his introduction, award-winner Carlos Fuentes, one of Mexico’s most important writers and critics, ties Kahlo’s images of pain, loss, mutilation, and transcendence to Mexico’s historic cycles of revolution and reaction. Sprinkled with irony, black humor, even gaiety, and augmented with translations of the diary entries plus commentaries and photographs, her diary stands as a reminder of not only Kahlo’s formidable talent, but also her resilience and courage.

The text entries, written in Frida’s round, full script in brightly colored inks, make the journal as captivating to look at as it is to read. Her writing reveals the artist’s political sensibilities, recollections of her childhood, and her enormous courage in the face of more than 35 operations to correct injuries she had sustained in an accident at the age of 18.

This intimate portal into her life is sure to fascinate fans of the artist, art historians, and women’s culturalists alike.]]> 296 Frida Kahlo 0810959542 Itzel 0 otros 3.91 1995 The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
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]]> <![CDATA[From Outrage to Courage: The Unjust and Unhealthy Situation of Women in Poorer Countries and What They Are Doing About It]]> 18007915 374 Anne Firth Murray 061576116X Itzel 4 academic 4.37 From Outrage to Courage: The Unjust and Unhealthy Situation of Women in Poorer Countries and What They Are Doing About It
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]]> <![CDATA[El cuento de la criada (El cuento de la criada, #1)]]> 34517195
En la República de Gilead, el cuerpo de Defred sólo sirve para procrear, tal como imponen las férreas normas establecidas por la dictadura puritana que domina el país. Si Defred se rebela —o si, aceptando colaborar a regañadientes, no es capaz de concebir� le espera la muerte en ejecución pública o el destierro a unas Colonias en las que sucumbirá a la polución de los residuos tóxicos. Así, el régimen controla con mano de hierro hasta los más ínfimos detalles de la vida de las mujeres: su alimentación, su indumentaria, incluso su actividad sexual. Pero nadie, ni siquiera un gobierno despótico parapetado tras el supuesto mandato de un dios todopoderoso, puede gobernar el pensamiento de una persona. Y mucho menos su deseo.

Los peligros inherentes a mezclar religión y política; el empeño de todo poder absoluto en someter a las mujeres como paso conducente a sojuzgar a toda la población; la fuerza incontenible del deseo como elemento transgresor: son tan sólo una muestra de los temas que aborda este relato desgarrador, aderezado con el sutil sarcasmo que constituye la seña de identidad de Margaret Atwood. Una escritora universal que, con el paso del tiempo, no deja de asombrarnos con la lucidez de sus ideas y la potencia de su prosa.]]> 416 Margaret Atwood Itzel 5 4.08 1985 El cuento de la criada (El cuento de la criada, #1)
author: Margaret Atwood
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]]> El Amante Japonés 2578035 185 Fabienne Bradu 9706906681 Itzel 2 3.42 2002 El Amante Japonés
author: Fabienne Bradu
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average rating: 3.42
book published: 2002
rating: 2
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]]> El mundo de ayer 2244891 El mundo de ayer es uno de los más conmovedores y atractivos testimonios de nuestro pasado reciente, escrito además con mano maestra por un europeo empapado de civilización y nostalgia por un mundo, el suyo, que se iba desintegrando a pasos agigantados. Escritor extraordinariamente popular y testigo de excepción de los cambios que convulsionaron la Europa del siglo XX entre las dos guerras mundiales, Zweig recuerda, desposeído y en tierra extraña—en unas circunstancias personales de insospechado dramatismo�, los momentos fundamentales de su vida, paralela en mucho a la desmembración de aquella Europa central que se quería más libre y segura, al abrigo de la locura y la tormenta. El resultado es un libro capital, uno de los mejores de Zweig y referencia inexcusable para entender los desvaríos de un siglo devastador.

«El mundo de ayer es una lección magistral sobre la demolición de los vínculos entre palabra y verdad».
Rafael Argullol, El País]]> 545 Stefan Zweig 8495359499 Itzel 4 otros 4.54 1942 El mundo de ayer
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average rating: 4.54
book published: 1942
rating: 4
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]]> Chocolat (Chocolat, #1) 47401
Illuminating Peter Mayle's South of France with a touch of Laura Esquivel's magic realism, Chocolat is a timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality. In tiny Lansquenet, where nothing much has changed in a hundred years, beautiful newcomer Vianne Rocher and her exquisite chocolate shop arrive and instantly begin to play havoc with Lenten vows. Each box of luscious bonbons comes with a free gift: Vianne's uncanny perception of its buyer's private discontents and a clever, caring cure for them. Is she a witch? Soon the parish no longer cares, as it abandons itself to temptation, happiness, and a dramatic face-off between Easter solemnity and the pagan gaiety of a chocolate festival.

Chocolat's every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the mouths of chocoholics, francophiles, armchair gourmets, cookbook readers, and lovers of passion everywhere. It's a must for anyone who craves an escapist read, and is a bewitching gift for any holiday.]]> 306 Joanne Harris 014100018X Itzel 3 3.97 1999 Chocolat (Chocolat, #1)
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)]]> 38447
Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and tour de force.]]> 311 Margaret Atwood 038549081X Itzel 5 4.15 1985 The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)]]> 42975172 The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her--freedom, prison or death.

With The Testaments, the wait is over.

Margaret Atwood's sequel picks up the story more than fifteen years after Offred stepped into the unknown, with the explosive testaments of three female narrators from Gilead.

In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades.

"Dear Readers: Everything you've ever asked me about Gilead and its inner workings is the inspiration for this book. Well, almost everything! The other inspiration is the world we've been living in." --Margaret Atwood

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 978-0385543781 can be found here.]]> 422 Margaret Atwood Itzel 5 4.16 2019 The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
author: Margaret Atwood
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average rating: 4.16
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Networked Anthropology: A Primer for Ethnographers]]> 24386906 186 Samuel Gerald Collins Itzel 0 academic 4.33 2014 Networked Anthropology: A Primer for Ethnographers
author: Samuel Gerald Collins
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average rating: 4.33
book published: 2014
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]]> Paula 244082 366 Isabel Allende 0060927208 Itzel 4 4.25 1994 Paula
author: Isabel Allende
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1994
rating: 4
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]]> The Lost Army of Cambyses 39408509 589 Paul Sussman Itzel 0 novelas-ingl-s 4.00 2001 The Lost Army of Cambyses
author: Paul Sussman
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want]]> 2326098 384 Sonja Lyubomirsky 159420148X Itzel 4 novelas-ingl-s 3.89 2007 The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want
author: Sonja Lyubomirsky
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2007
rating: 4
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]]> Into the Water 33151805 The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense.

A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged.

Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has been dragged back to the place she deliberately ran from—a place to which she vowed she'd never return.

With the same propulsive writing and acute understanding of human instincts that captivated millions of readers around the world in her explosive debut thriller, The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins delivers an urgent, twisting, deeply satisfying read that hinges on the deceptiveness of emotion and memory, as well as the devastating ways that the past can reach a long arm into the present.

Beware a calm surface—you never know what lies beneath.]]> 386 Paula Hawkins 0735211205 Itzel 3 novelas-ingl-s 3.59 2017 Into the Water
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rating: 3
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]]> Por último, el corazón 33360957 Víctimas de la debacle económica, Stan y Charmaine se instalan en el coche tras perder su casa. Malviven gracias a los escasos ingresos que ella consigue en un bar de poca monta. Es entonces cuando llama su atención un anuncio acerca del Proyecto Positrón, un experimento social en el que los habitantes de la idílica ciudad de Consiliencia se dividen en dos grupos que alternan su modus vivendi cada treinta días: mientras el cincuenta por ciento se recluye en la Penitenciaría Positrón para mantener el sistema, la otra mitad disfruta de plena libertad y lleva un estilo de vida propio de la clase media. Al cabo de un mes, intercambian sus roles: los libres ingresan en prisión y los encarcelados se instalan en las viviendas que ocupaban los nuevos reclusos, haciendo uso común de todos los objetos, enseres y aparatos. Agotado el entusiasmo inicial, Stan y Charmaine no tardan en percatarse de que Consiliencia no es el paraíso que habían imaginado y pronto se ven envueltos en una serie de aventuras disparatadas, atrapados en un torbellino de lujuria que les hará cuestionarse sus valores y sentimientos más profundos.


Dueña de una de las mentes más lúcidas del panorama literario actual, Margaret Atwood no es sólo una institución de las letras canadienses, sino también una figura relevante que se ha volcado por igual en la promoción de la literatura y la protección del medioambiente. Esta novela, su última obra publicada, se inscribe en el ámbito de la ficción especulativa, género en el que Atwood ha cosechado algunos de los mayores éxitos de su formidable bibliografía.

La desbordante imaginación de Atwood, arropada por un mordaz sentido del humor, da vida a una novela que, si bien gira en torno a un fenómeno tan actual como la progresiva extinción de la clase media, incide también en los entresijos de la pareja moderna, desvelando de forma inquietante su intimidad, sus crisis, sus demonios y fantasías. Una obra punzante de uno de los escritores más talentosos de la narrativa contemporánea.]]> 315 Margaret Atwood Itzel 4 3.41 2015 Por último, el corazón
author: Margaret Atwood
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.41
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rating: 4
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]]> La herida de Paulina 35454741 0 Elena Poniatowska 6070728440 Itzel 4 otros 4.01 La herida de Paulina
author: Elena Poniatowska
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]]> <![CDATA[Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)]]> 40604658
Until something goes wrong. . . .

In Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton taps all his mesmerizing talent and scientific brilliance to create his most electrifying technothriller.]]> 450 Michael Crichton 0307763056 Itzel 4 novelas-ingl-s 4.38 1990 Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
author: Michael Crichton
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Alicia en el país de las maravillas]]> 12672127 10 Lewis Carroll 8466218513 Itzel 5 3.91 1865 Alicia en el país de las maravillas
author: Lewis Carroll
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1865
rating: 5
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]]> The Design of Everyday Things 840 257 Donald A. Norman 0465067107 Itzel 0 academic 4.14 1988 The Design of Everyday Things
author: Donald A. Norman
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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]]> La metamorfosi 12155926 125 Franz Kafka 8497953738 Itzel 0 3.70 1915 La metamorfosi
author: Franz Kafka
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.70
book published: 1915
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[An unfinished song: The life of Victor Jara]]> 496963 278 Joan Jara 0899192793 Itzel 0 currently-reading, otros 4.57 1976 An unfinished song: The life of Victor Jara
author: Joan Jara
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.57
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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]]> Viajes con Heródoto 59669 312 Ryszard Kapuściński 8433925776 Itzel 5 novelas 4.11 2004 Viajes con Heródoto
author: Ryszard Kapuściński
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2004
rating: 5
read at: 2015/07/14
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]]> <![CDATA[HISTORIA DE MAYTA -BVLL (Spanish Edition)]]> 94352 376 Mario Vargas Llosa 8420484156 Itzel 4 novelas 3.84 1984 HISTORIA DE MAYTA -BVLL (Spanish Edition)
author: Mario Vargas Llosa
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1984
rating: 4
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]]> The Girl on the Train 23664702 THE RUNAWAY SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER AND THRILLER OF THE YEAR

'Really great suspense novel. Kept me up most of the night. The alcoholic narrator is dead perfect' STEPHEN KING

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. ‘Jess and Jason�, she calls them. Their life � as she sees it � is perfect. If only Rachel could be that happy.

And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough.

Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar.

Now they’ll see; she’s much more than just the girl on the train…]]> 409 Paula Hawkins 0552779776 Itzel 5 novelas-ingl-s 3.90 2015 The Girl on the Train
author: Paula Hawkins
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2015
rating: 5
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Really good couldn´t stop reading.
]]> Gone Girl 19288043 What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?]]> 415 Gillian Flynn 0307588378 Itzel 4 novelas-ingl-s 4.22 2012 Gone Girl
author: Gillian Flynn
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Ministry of Utmost Happiness]]> 34139539 A dazzling, moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped neighborhoods of Old Delhi and the roads of the new city to the mountains and valleys of Kashmir and beyond, where war is peace and peace is war.
It is an aching love story and a decisive remonstration, a story told in a whisper, in a shout, through unsentimental tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love--and by hope.
The tale begins with Anjum--who used to be Aftab--unrolling a threadbare Persian carpet in a city graveyard she calls home. We encounter the odd, unforgettable Tilo and the men who loved her--including Musa, sweetheart and ex-sweetheart, lover and ex-lover; their fates are as entwined as their arms used to be and always will be. We meet Tilo's landlord, a former suitor, now an intelligence officer posted to Kabul. And then we meet the two Miss Jebeens: the first a child born in Srinagar and buried in its overcrowded Martyrs' Graveyard; the second found at midnight, abandoned on a concrete sidewalk in the heart of New Delhi.
As this ravishing, deeply humane novel braids these lives together, it reinvents what a novel can do and can be. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts.]]> 444 Arundhati Roy 1524733156 Itzel 0 to-read 3.37 2017 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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average rating: 3.37
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]]> <![CDATA[Fútbol contra el enemigo (Spanish Edition)]]> 18527282 368 Simon Kuper 8493985031 Itzel 0 currently-reading, otros 4.07 1994 Fútbol contra el enemigo (Spanish Edition)
author: Simon Kuper
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Pedro Paramo (Spanish Edition)]]> 38671 Book in Spanish 56 Juan Rulfo 9583007862 Itzel 4 3.67 1955 Pedro Paramo (Spanish Edition)
author: Juan Rulfo
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1955
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[La casa del miedo. Memorias de abajo]]> 1455923 216 Leonora Carrington 9682318211 Itzel 4 4.08 1938 La casa del miedo. Memorias de abajo
author: Leonora Carrington
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1938
rating: 4
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]]> Las mujeres de la tormenta 15975328
A través de cada una de las libretas, partiendo de datos históricos reales y detalles extraordinarios, Lilith conoce a los distintos personajes: Mwezi, una hechicera negra que llega junto con el primer cargamento de esclavos; Leonor, la amante del pirata Lorenzillo en la época en que las costas mexicanas son asediadas por corsarios; la mulata de Córdoba, acusada ante la Inquisición por realizar sortilegios y tener pacto con el demonio; Jacinta, quien mantiene una relación pasional y secreta con Antonio López de Santa Anna, quien es temida por sus hechizos, así como Anastasia, quien después de experimentar la ruina de su familia y los chantajes sexuales de un usurero busca la venganza por medio del conocimiento oculto y ancestral de los conjuros.]]> 346 Celia del Palacio 6071119960 Itzel 0 to-read, novelas 4.13 2012 Las mujeres de la tormenta
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average rating: 4.13
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]]> Inés del alma mía 491430 Inés Suárez es una joven y humilde costurera que se embarca hacia el Nuevo Mundo en busca de su marido, extraviado al otro lado del Atlántico. Inés, que anhela una vida de aventuras, no encontrará a su esposo pero sí un amor apasionado: Pedro de Valdivia, maestre de campo de Francisco Pizarro, con quien enfrentará los riesgos y las incertidumbres de la conquista y la fundación del reino de Chile. En esta novela épica el aliento del amor concede una tregua a la violencia y la crueldad de un momento histórico inolvidable.Isabel Allende ha confirmado que la realidad puede ser tan sorprendente como la mejor ficción, e igualmente cautivadora.]]> 350 Isabel Allende Itzel 3 novelas 4.11 2006 Inés del alma mía
author: Isabel Allende
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2006
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)]]> 23168277
The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.]]> 371 Viet Thanh Nguyen 0802123457 Itzel 0 to-read 4.00 2015 The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
author: Viet Thanh Nguyen
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Benjamin Péret y México (Spanish Edition)]]> 3645235 Spanish 256 Fabienne Bradu 9687870346 Itzel 5 novelas 5.00 Benjamin Péret y México (Spanish Edition)
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name: Itzel
average rating: 5.00
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rating: 5
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]]> The Hidden Oasis 6060581 544 Paul Sussman 0593058461 Itzel 4 novelas-ingl-s 3.78 2008 The Hidden Oasis
author: Paul Sussman
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)]]> 13496
Sweeping from a harsh land of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic band of warriors bear swords of no human metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings carry men off into madness; a cruel young dragon prince barters his sister to win back his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear. Amid plots and counter-plots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, allies and enemies, the fate of the Starks hangs perilously in the balance, as each side endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones.]]> 835 George R.R. Martin 0553588486 Itzel 0 to-read, novelas-ingl-s 4.44 1996 A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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name: Itzel
average rating: 4.44
book published: 1996
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]]> <![CDATA[Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)]]> 1330324 513 Amitav Ghosh 071956896X Itzel 0 to-read, novelas-ingl-s 3.97 2008 Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
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name: Itzel
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2008
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]]> El libro de Balieri 27856587 202 Carlos Candiani 8416320896 Itzel 5 novelas 5.00 El libro de Balieri
author: Carlos Candiani
name: Itzel
average rating: 5.00
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)]]> 6148028 Sparks are igniting.
Flames are spreading.
And the Capitol wants revenge.

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create.

Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.

In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.]]> 391 Suzanne Collins 0439023491 Itzel 5 novelas-ingl-s 4.34 2009 Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)]]> 7260188 My name is Katniss Everdeen.
Why am I not dead?
I should be dead.

Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.

It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss.

The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.]]> 390 Suzanne Collins 0439023513 Itzel 5 novelas-ingl-s 4.10 2010 Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 2010
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)]]> 7285601 WINNING MEANS FAME AND FORTUNE.
LOSING MEANS CERTAIN DEATH.
THE HUNGER GAMES HAVE BEGUN. . . .

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weight survival against humanity and life against love.]]> 374 Suzanne Collins 0439023521 Itzel 5 novelas-ingl-s 4.40 2008 The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2008
rating: 5
read at: 2015/11/17
date added: 2015/11/18
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Love it, couldn´t leave aside.
]]> Caminar: un elogio 23562837 174 David Le Breton 6079209004 Itzel 3 novelas 3.73 2000 Caminar: un elogio
author: David Le Breton
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 2015/10/30
date added: 2015/11/13
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]]> El país de las mujeres 9601757
El país de las mujeres es una novela divertida y audaz, por la que la reconocida autora nicaragüense obtuvo el Premio Hispanoamericano de la Novela La Otra Orilla.]]> 288 Gioconda Belli 9584529471 Itzel 0 to-read, novelas 3.82 2010 El país de las mujeres
author: Gioconda Belli
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> New York 6257535
Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga that showcases his extraordinary ability to combine impeccable historical research and storytelling flair. As in his earlier, bestselling novels, he illuminates cultural, social, and political upheavals through the lives of a remarkably diverse set of families.

As he recounts the intertwining fates of characters rich and poor, black and white, native born and immigrant, Rutherfurd brings to life the momentous events that shaped New York and the Revolutionary War, the emergence of the city as a great trading and financial center, the excesses of the Gilded Age, the explosion of immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the trials of World War II, the near-demise of New York in the 1970s and its roaring rebirth in the '90s, and the attacks on the World Trade Center. Sprinkled throughout are captivating cameo appearances by historical figures ranging from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln to Babe Ruth.

New York is the book that millions of Rutherfurd's American fans have been waiting for. A brilliant mix of romance, war, family drama, and personal triumphs, it gloriously captures the search for freedom and prosperity at the heart of our nation's history.]]> 862 Edward Rutherfurd 0385521383 Itzel 0 to-read, novelas-ingl-s 4.08 2009 New York
author: Edward Rutherfurd
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/08/15
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]]> La hierba de las noches 22444358 La hierba de las noches, Modiano nos invita, como en otras de sus novelas, a un intenso viaje por un París espectral. La ciudad se configura como una geografía interior, hecha de capas de tiempo que se confunden y entremezclan en esa evocación y búsqueda del tiempo perdido que hace Jean, el protagonista de la novela, escritor y tal vez álter ego del propio Modiano. Jean reconstruye en su escritura los fragmentos de su juventud, en los años sesenta, capturados en una libreta negra; abre una brecha en el tiempo y describe su deriva por la ciudad recordada, sigue el rastro de los ausentes e intenta resolver el misterio de un pasado lleno de interrogantes. Y traza una ruta, que oscila entre el hoy y el ayer, siguiendo la pista de una turbia historia de tintes policiales –en la que aparece un leitmotiv del universo modianesco, la exploración del pútrido territorio de la Ocupación� pero también el recuerdo de Dannie, un viejo amor.

Y como en las mejores novelas negras, en el corazón de la trama hay un enigma. Dannie no es quien parece ser, su identidad se desdobla y multi­plica como el laberinto de espacios que transitan los amantes. Jean la acompañará en algunas de sus desconcertantes misiones. Porque ella, junto con los huéspedes del Unic Hôtel, es una de los protagonistas, los perso­najes «verdaderos» de una trama compleja que el lector irá descubriendo a medida que avanza la novela.]]> 168 Patrick Modiano 8433978942 Itzel 4 novelas 3.48 2012 La hierba de las noches
author: Patrick Modiano
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2015/08/01
date added: 2015/08/15
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]]> The Book Thief 893136
YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.

1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier.

Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with her foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.

SOME MORE IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH.

It's a small story, about:
a girl
an accordionist
some fanatical Germans
a Jewish fistfighter
and quite a lot of thievery.

ANOTHER THING YOU SHOULD KNOW:

DEATH WILL VISIT THE BOOK THIEF THREE TIMES.]]> 554 Markus Zusak 0552773891 Itzel 5 novelas-ingl-s 4.43 2005 The Book Thief
author: Markus Zusak
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2005
rating: 5
read at: 2013/02/20
date added: 2015/03/26
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]]> El tiempo entre costuras 7502166
La joven modista Sira Quiroga abandona Madrid en los meses convulsos previos al alzamiento arrastrada por el amor des­bocado hacia un hombre a quien apenas conoce. Juntos se instalan en Tánger, una ciudad mundana, exótica y vibrante en la que todo lo impensable puede hacerse realidad. Incluso la traición y el abandono de la persona en quien ha depositado toda su confianza. El tiempo entre costuras es una aventu­ra apasionante en la que los talleres de alta costura, el glamur de los grandes hoteles, las conspiraciones políticas y las oscuras misiones de los servicios secre­tos se funden con la lealtad hacia aque­llos a quienes queremos y con el poder irrefrenable del amor.

Una novela femenina que tiene todos los ingredientes del género: el creci­miento personal de una mujer, una historia de amor que recuerda a Casablanca� Nos acerca a la época colonial espa­ñola. Varios críticos literarios han destacado el hecho de que mientras en Francia o en Gran Bretaña existía una gran tradición de literatura colo­nial (Malraux, Foster, Kipling...), en España apenas se ha sacado prove­cho de la aventura africana. Un homenaje a los hombres y mujeres que vivieron allí. Además la autora nos aproxima a un personaje real desconocido para el gran público: Juan Luis Beigbeder, el primer ministro de Exteriores del gobierno de Franco.]]> 638 María Dueñas 8484607917 Itzel 3 novelas 4.30 2009 El tiempo entre costuras
author: María Dueñas
name: Itzel
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2009
rating: 3
read at: 2013/05/10
date added: 2014/08/30
shelves: novelas
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]]> <![CDATA[El albergue de las mujeres tristes]]> 1181997 393 Marcela Serrano 968190401X Itzel 3 3.69 1997 El albergue de las mujeres tristes
author: Marcela Serrano
name: Itzel
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1997
rating: 3
read at: 2013/02/22
date added: 2014/06/03
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review:

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