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41) Mortals: a novel
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"Nobody here is entirely what he claims to be. Ray Finch is not just a Milton scholar but a CIA agent. His doted-upon wife, Iris, is also a possible adulteress. And Davis Morel, the black alternative physician who is undertaking a quixotic campaign to de-Christianize Africa, may also be her lover. As a spy, Ray ought to have no trouble confirming his suspicions. But there's the distraction of actual spying. Most of all, there's the problem of love"--Page...
42) Viva, Rose!
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In El Paso, Texas, in 1915, fourteen-year-old Rose Solomon seeks her missing brother's return and inadvertently ends up running with Pancho Villa and his revolutionary army.
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"From the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes a mystical and heartening tale about seeking justice and the power of memory. In his modest home at the edge of town, the former President of a Latin American country receives a journalist in his iconic gardens to discuss his legacy and the dire circumstances that threaten democracy around the globe. Once known as the Poorest President in the World, his reputation is the stuff of myth: a former guerilla...
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Forced into early marriage in nineteenth-century Brazil, Anita is swept into an affair with mercenary resistance leader Giuseppe Garibaldi before joining the violent decade-long effort to liberate Southern Brazil from Portugal.
Anita Garibaldi, una de las mujeres más reconocidas de toda América del Sur e Italia, cobra vida y fuerza de la mano de Diana Giovanazzo. Brasil, 1839. Mucho se ha hablado del revolucionario italiano Giuseppe Garibaldi,...