Catalog Search Results
41) The Withering
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Instinct and choice define a person, or at least Harrison Stone believes so, which is why he chose to become a warden. Despite his impressive efforts, however, it was always going to be his twin sister, Siljanna, receiving the admiration of their commander and father, Sampson Stone.
Living in her shadow had its advantages, until a tragic event and devastating fire changed his life unimaginably.
Forced to choose between Siljanna and one of his dearest...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Embark on a thrilling adventure with Kalea Breese into a dimension beyond your imagination. Follow her journey as she uncovers a world of shapeshifters, magical creatures, and warriors. RISK's upcoming 3 to 4-part series will take you on an enchanting ride through an extraordinary realm filled with elves, demons, pegasi, and humans endowed with unimaginable gifts. In Book 1, "Anguish With Actions Comes Consequences", you'll meet Kalea, a foster teenager...
43) Terra Nostra
Author
Language
English
Description
Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation-the total work of art.
Author
Language
English
Description
This wild, magic-realist ride of a novel, originally published in 1994, is funny, sexy, satirical, linguistically exuberant, and utterly unique. Written as a fictional biography, it tells the life story of a woman with magical sexual powers that she uses to heal people. The story follows our heroine from her miraculous birth through her childhood in a magical orphanage to adulthood, when she uncovers sinister conspiracies among political and well-hidden...
Author
Language
Deutsch
Description
Eigentlich wollte Finn lediglich sein Leben auf die Reihe bekommen.
Doch die göttliche Vorsehung hatte andere Pläne mit ihm. Was für die Gelehrten untergegangener Hochkulturen grundlegendes Wissen war und für die Wissenschaft, bis zum erforschen der Quantenphysik, gänzlich nicht existierte, wurde für Finn zu einer lebensverändernden Gewissheit:
Unsere Existenz in diesem Universum hält mehr Überraschungen für uns parat, als wir jemals auch...
Author
Language
English
Description
This inspired novel, Christopher Unborn, is narrated by the as yet unborn first child to be born on October 12, 1992, the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America; his conception and birth bracket the novel. A playfully savage masterpiece by Carlos Fuentes.
Author
Series
Language
'>Spanish 4748""",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Description
Antología temática que reúne una amplia y variada serie de textos que el genial escritor Álvaro Cunqueiro publicó en diferentes periódicos y revistas desde los inicios de la guerra civil hasta su muerte. Lo hagiográfico y milagroso fue una constante sobre la que Cunqueiro regresó una y otra vez a lo largo de su obra, mostrando a través de ella tanto su coherencia narrativa como su capacidad para someter estos contenidos a un complejo juego...
48) Two Truths
Author
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Firebird Book Award in two categories: Women's Fiction and Magical RealismThe truth lies at the heart of every great love.Alexis Chandler Leneghan is an author, wife, best friend, and self-described student of human nature who prides herself on maintaining the perfect home while also engaged in a whirlwind of writing and book promotions. While waiting for a friend to join her at lunch before a book signing, she has a chance encounter...
Author
Language
English
Description
A radiant and epic new novel that is among the finest achievements of Mexico's greatest man of letters.
The Years With Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City--tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and that is a significant element...
Author
Language
English
Description
Not everything in this book may be for everyone, but there is something in it for each person. Because this book is more than a collection of stories. It is something different and not easy to pigeonhole. That is precisely its greatest virtue.This anthology is made up of 63 short stories selected that span different genres, realities, and emotions. Some are extensive, others mere whispers. Some will seem familiar to you, while others may seem strange,...
51) Inez: A Novel
Author
Language
English
Description
A magical short novel that weaves together two stories, two couples, two different times, and two grand passions
In one of the narratives that comprise this superb new novel from Carlos Fuentes, we are introduced to Gabriel Atlan-Ferrara, a fabled orchestral conductor, and his great love Inez Prada, a renowned singer. In the other, Fuentes memorably delineates the very first encounter in human history between a man and a woman. In one, the intense...
52) A Change of Skin
Author
Language
English
Description
First published in 1968, Carlos Fuentes's controversial novel A Change of Skin tells the story of four persons who drive from Mexico City to Veracruz one Palm Sunday. The Driver of the car is Franz, an ex-Nazi, and with him is his young Mexican lover Isabel, the talented but failed poet Javier, and his embittered wife, Elizabeth. There is a fifth person as well-the Narrator. Through him, we discover that all the characters are searching for some real...
Author
Language
English
Description
Eden's so called friends locked her in the witch's house. The leader, Angelica, stole a knick knack from the witch's house to prove she was there. How can Eden get herself out of this mess, when Angelica dumps the knick knack on her? Can she get it back to the witch, or is she doomed to have wierd battle dreams forever?
Author
Language
English
Description
The Good Conscience is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's life and the idealism of his youth and his Catholic education. His father is a good man but weak; his uncle is powerful, yet his actions...
55) The Orange Tree
Author
Language
English
Description
In the five novellas that comprise The Orange Tree, Carlos Fuentes continues the passionate and imaginative reconstruction of past and present history that has distinguished Terra Nostra and The Campaign. From the story of Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean, to the fate of Hernan Cortes's two sons, to the destruction of the Spanish city of Numantia by the Romans and the annihilation of Hollywood by Acapulco, Fuentues couples the epic grandeur of...
56) The Death Tax
Author
Language
English
Description
Why do a million hummingbirds descend upon a certain Missouri lake every April 15th, killing one more resident than they did the year before?
Once a man with a seemingly limitless future, Lake Tanaka resident Dr. Kevin Cousey struggles to find a purpose in life after a prankster mangled his hand with an M-80 twenty years ago, costing him his career, his family, and very nearly his life. He thinks he has found it in the lethal hummingbird attacks...
Author
Language
English
Description
Through a series of vividly imaginative and wildly colorful characters, Hoeg gives us a very different account of the twentieth century, which in Denmark encompasses the transition from a medieval society to a modern welfare state with its accompanying cultural revolutions. Reminiscent of the work of the magical realists but with a distinctive Nordic twist, The History of Danish Dreams is a truly magical novel.
58) Decadence Kills
Author
Language
English
Description
"Michael P. Charlton is so gritty that he could eat Charles Bukowski for breakfast."- JOHN DAVID EBERT, CULTURAL CRITIC "Michael P. Charlton has a skill for writing rich dialogue, likeable characters, and memorable conflicts, the relationships enriched by violence and tenderness."- JAMES ANDERS BANKS, BOOKER PRIZE LISTED, AWARD-WINNING NOVELIST "Charlton smacks of originality. His prose is shockingly raw, designed to reflect the depravity, listlessness,...
59) Hearth Magic
Author
Language
English
Description
After the events of RIVER MAGIC, Cian O'Connor and Anthony Russo must grapple with their relationship to the land, the spirit realm, and each other. One man wants to support Lacey and protect her from another otherworldly maelstrom. The other needs her help as he confronts an angry presence in his home so he can move on with a new lover. Are Cian and Anthony's lives more entwined than they ever imagined? "The medium, the conservationist, and the poacher,...
60) After the Fall
Author
Language
English
Description
Jeff Talbot was an artist. And a husband and a father. He thought he had everything he wanted-and he did. Until the day his second child, a daughter, Christy, was born. His wife, Emily, went into a coma that day and never recovered. He had to raise his son and new daughter alone. He moved to a farm, away from the crowds and tried his best. But his relationship with his oldest child, Ben, grew strained. The day that Christy fell down the stairs to...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request