2024 Adult Hispanic Heritage Month


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Book cover for Alguien está mintiendo.
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Una nueva app está acorralando a la élite del instituto Bayview para estudiantes de perfil elevado. Las filtraciones de la vida privada de los estudiantes corren como la pólvora por la nueva red social creada por Simon Kelleher, alumno de la misma institución. Pero la cosa se pone muy seria cuando Simon es asesinado justo delante de sus víctimas. Los cuatro cabecillas de la «crème de la crème» estudiantil se convierten en sospechosos directos...
Book cover for Crocodile tears.
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The setting: Montevideo’s Old Town, with its dark alleys, crumbling facades and watchful residents. The gig: an armoured truck robbery. The cast: Diego, a failed kidnapper with weak nerves, Ursula Lopez, an amateur criminal with an insatiable appetite, the Hobo, a notorious hoodlum with excessive self-confidence. Dr Antinucci, a shady lawyer with big plans. And finally, Leonilda Lima, a washed-out police inspector with a glimmer of faith in justice....
Book cover for The infatuations.
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FINALIST From the award-winning, internationally bestselling Spanish author of A Heart So White comes an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder.
"Sometimes startling, sometimes hilarious, and always intelligent ... Marías [has] a penetrating empathy."—The New York Times Book Review


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Book cover for The shadow of the wind.
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A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.
Book cover for The silence of the white city.
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"Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken," is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The killings are eerily similar to ones that terrorized the citizens of Vitoria twenty years earlier. But back then, police were sure they had discovered the killer, a prestigious archaeologist who is currently in jail. Now Kraken must race to determine whether the killer had an accomplice or if the wrong man has been incarcerated for...
Book cover for La sombra del viento.
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A boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget. Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambia el rumbo de su vida y lo arrastra a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos...
Book cover for Take no names.
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While breaking into storage units to steal the possessions of the recently deported, Victor Li finds a rare and valuable gem that sends him across the U.S./Mexico border where he quickly realizes it is wrapped up in a much larger scheme involving shadowy international interests jockeying for power.