2024 Adult Hispanic Heritage Month

 

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1. Largo pétalo de mar

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Author:
Allende, Isabel
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Dr. Victor Dalmau and pianist Roser Bruguera flee Spain after the Civil War to travel aboard the Winnipeg and settle in Chile, but are again uprooted after the 1973 coup against Victor's chess partner Salvador Allende. En plena Guerra Civil española, el joven médico Víctor Dalmau, junto a su amiga pianista Roser Bruguera, se ven obligados a abandonar Barcelona, exiliarse y cruzar los Pirineos rumbo a Francia. A bordo del Winnipeg, un navío fletado...

2. Portrait in sepia: a novel

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Allende, Isabel
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Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets Set at the end of the nineteenth century, Portrait in Sepia is a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family. The protagonist, Aurora del Valle, suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollections...