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21) The vacationers
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
22) Origin: a novel
Author
Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
After an event at which futurist Edmond Kirsch is to announce a groundbreaking discovery erupts into chaos, Robert Langdon rushes to Barcelona to locate a cryptic password that will reveal Kirsch's secret before it is lost forever.
23) Spain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Spain--home of the majestic Pyrenees Mountains, the Sagrada Familia, and Alhambra. Informative, easy-to-read text and oversize scenic photos draw in readers as they learn about Spain's history, government, major cities, land features, natural resources, culture, and more! Maps, a timeline with photos, and a facts page that includes major statistics complement the text."--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the picturesque village of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave on the edge of town, there is a cramped limestone chamber known as "the telling room." This is where villagers have gathered for centuries to share their stories and secrets--usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It was here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself listening to a Spanish cheesemaker as he spun an odd and compelling tale about a piece of cheese. Made...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Alicia lost her parents during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed Barcelona in 1938. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time. Weary of her work as an investigator for Spain's secret police in Madrid, a job she has held for more than a decade, the twenty-nine-year old plans to move on. At the insistence of her boss, Leandro Montalvo,...
Author
Series
Cemetery of forgotten books volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
30) The riddle
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
A retelling of a traditional Catalan tale in which a poor charcoal makers's cleverness wins him an unexpected fortune.
32) Finding Altamira
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1879, Spanish archaeologist Marcelino and his daughter Maria discover seemingly impossible paintings of galloping bison adorning the walls of a hidden cave. The cave of Altamira brings the world together in amazement, drawing people of all types to see the paintings in person. But, Marcelino soon realizes that the art on the walls must be 10,000 years old, earlier than anyone believes possible.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
El arte ha tenido uno de sus caladeros principales en el poder y el dinero. A menudo ha servido para confirmar la posición privilegiada de un individuo o de una familia, como recordatorio de sus hazañas o como distintivo de su estatus social, y en el ceremonial de la riqueza se ha contemplado como una de las formas más refinadas de propaganda. Arte, dinero y poder rastrea las grandes fortunas históricas de España (guerreros, conquistadores,...
Pub. Date
[2017]-
Language
English
Description
Written by locals, Fodor's travel guides have been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for 80 years. Spain remains one of the world's most popular tourist destinations for its cutting-edge cuisine and superior wine, festivals like the running of the bulls in Pamplona, world-class museums like the Museo del Prado, amazing architecture, and more. In stunning full-color, Fodor's Essential Spain puts the best the country has to offer at...
36) Black sun rising
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A riveting thriller combining real historical events and characters with a sinister detective story of eugenics, racism, and nationalist paranoia. Barcelona, summer 1909. When the scientist and explorer Randolph Foulkes is blown up in a random terrorist bomb attack, private detective Harry Lawton is hired by the man's widow to identify the beneficiary of a large payment Foulkes had made shortly before his death. Lawton's arrival in the Catalan capital...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
La economía lineal (el usar y tirar) ha agotado los recursos del planeta y, además, lo ha saturado de residuos. La economía verde trató de ser respetuosa con el medioambiente, pero pasados los años, sus resultados son discretos. En este contexto, Nadya Zhexembayeva propone el desarrollo de un nuevo paradigma empresarial, de la implantación de nuevas estrategias empresariales que llevarán a la tan necesaria innovación disruptiva y a...
Author
Language
English
Description
Undoing the familiar notion of the Middle Ages as a period of religious persecution and intellectual stagnation, Menocal brings us a portrait of a medieval culture where literature, science, and tolerance flourished for 500 years. The story begins as a young prince in exile--the last heir to an Islamic dynasty--founds a new kingdom on the Iberian peninsula: al-Andalus. Combining the best of what Muslim, Jewish, and Christian cultures had to offer,...
39) Xibanya qin gong
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 128
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Traditional Chinese edition of The Spanish Bow - a fictionalized biography of Pablo Casals, 20th century's most accomplished cello virtuoso. He was also known for his ardent support of democracy in Spain that he exiled himself when Spain was under Francisco Franco's dictatorial regime.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A lively, daring ghost story about a dead teen girl who falls in love with a female writer who has no idea she exists. In 1473, fourteen-year-old Blanca dies in childbirth in a hilltop monastery in Mallorca. Nearly four hundred years later, when George Sand, her two children, and her lover Frederic Chopin arrive in the village, Blanca is still there: a spirited, funny, righteous ghost, she's been hanging around the monastery since her accidental...
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