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2261) La novia gitana
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Susana Macaya, a young gypsy girl raised as a paya, disappears after her bachelorette party. Her body is found two days later: the victim has been brutally tortured following an unusual and atrocious ritual. Her sister Lara suffered the same fate seven years ago, on the eve of her wedding, but the murderer is serving a sentence in prison: has someone imitated his terrible methods or is an innocent person imprisoned? Inspector Elena Blanco, a veteran...
2262) Barefoot dogs: stories
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An unforgettable debut of linked stories that follow the members and retinue of a wealthy Mexican family forced into exile after the patriarch is kidnapped. On an unremarkable night, Jose; Victoriano Arteaga--the head of a thriving Mexico City family--vanishes on his way home from work. The Arteagas find few answers; the full truth of what happened to Arteaga is lost to the shadows of Mexico's vast and desperate underworld, a place of rampant violence...
2264) Los niños del verano
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"El FBI estaba preparado para cualquier caso, menos para este. Cuando la agente Mercedes Ramirez encuentra en la entrada de su casa a un niño golpeado, cubierto de sangre y aferrado a un oso de peluche, no se puede imaginar que ese brutal evento es solo la punta de un iceberg siniestro. El chico le cuenta que sus padres fueron asesinados por un ángel que luego lo llevó hasta su porche para que ella lo cuidara. Sin embargo, no se trató de cualquier...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Quizá deba considerar la duda de Hamlet: ser o no ser, es la bronca." Sebastian Salcido, alias el Siciliano, esta libre después de pasar más de dos décadas en prisión. Es el líder de un despiadado grupo de exmilitares dedicados al narcotráfico. Lejos de suavizarse en la cárcel, ahora busca con ferocidad vengarse del excomandante de la policía que consiguiera arrestarlo. El Zurdo Mendieta deberá atraparlo, pero muy pronto descubrirá que...
2266) El sanatorio
Author
Series
Principal noir ; 16
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Un debut escalofriante en el que una detective debe descubrir la oscura historia de un hotel de lujo en los Alpes si tiene alguna esperanza de detener las muertes que no cederán. . . Medio escondido por el bosque y ensombrecido por picos amenazantes, Le Sommet siempre ha sido un lugar siniestro. Una vez que fue un sanatorio que trataba a pacientes con tuberculosis, fue abandonado hace años y había caído en mal estado. Durante mucho tiempo plagado...
2267) Guadalupe Canyon
Author
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Monte Segundo and Rosa Bustamonte depart from the Rancho de la Osa ranch in Sasabe, Arizona, and head east to the ranch of John Slaughter where they intend to take possession of much-needed breeding stock. Unknown to them, due to the prevailing tensions with Mexico, the U.S. army has stationed a military garrison on the Slaughter ranch. Unfortunately, one of the officers of the garrison, having been present at General Pershing's court-martial trial...
2268) Un revés inesperado
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Los miembros de la familia Delaney se quieren con locura...es solo que a veces se asesinarían. Para todos los que los conocen, los Delaney son una familia envidiable. Incluso después de todos estos años, los padres, Stan y Joy, siguen teniendo una química evidente y continúan arrasando en las pistas de tenis. Y ahora que han vendido su exitosa academia tienen todo el tiempo del mundo para relajarse y disfrutar de la vida. Sus cuatro hijos nunca...
2269) La noche era terciopelo
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
1970, Ciudad de México. Maite trabaja como secretaria, pero solo vive para una cosa: la siguiente entrega de «Romance secreto». Las protestas estudiantiles y la inestabilidad política asedian la ciudad, pero ella se evade de todo gracias a esas maravillosas historias de pasión y riesgo. La vecina de la puerta de al lado, una atractiva estudiante de arte llamada Leonora, parece llevar una vida repleta de intriga y romance, algo que Maite envidia....
Author
Series
Publisher
Bruguera
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
After her mother disappears, Enola Holmes, younger sister of Sherlock, journeys in disguise to London and finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a marquess, as she tries to find her mother and evade the efforts of her brother to track her down.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"In the twenty years since the Hinamizawa disaster, the small village has become a literal ghost town. Terrible rumors about the mysterious gas leak that claimed hundreds of lives have kept even the most curious at bay. But on this night, fate has led five strangers to the abandoned mountain hamlet--among them a certain Mion Sonozake. As the footsteps of the living echo through the abandoned halls of Furude shrine, the sleeping demons of Hinamizawa...
Author
Series
Witcher ; 6
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Geralt faces a reckoning when a witch hunt casts doubt on his beliefs"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Horizon: a far-future Earth where awe-inspiring, animal-like machines are the dominant species and humans struggle to survive in pre-industrial tribes. In the aftermath of a titanic battle, Talanah, one of the greatest machine-hunters in the land, struggles to find her place in the rebuilding effort. Making matters worse, Aloy, her trusted friend, has disappeared. When a new threat emerges in the hinterlands, she must decide how best to serve her...
2274) Ghostwriter
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
August 2020.
Language
English
Description
"This noir graphic novel, which stars a pregnant radio scriptwriter, won Spain's 2017 National Comic Award."--
"Barcelona, 1943. As a scriptwriter for a popular radio advice column, Laia is embroiled in the romantic entanglements of others. Each day, letters flood in from troubled wives and girlfriends recounting their partner's abuses, and Laia tries her best to counsel them. In contrast, her own life seems perfectly ordered, with a devoted husband...
2275) Jinx freeze
Author
Publisher
Avery Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A genre-bending graphic novel mystery where a missing statue is the entry point to the criminal scene on the Riviera."--
2276) Lumine
Author
Publisher
WEBTOON UNSCROLLED
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In a world where weredogs, witches, and humans live side by side, Lumine is a down-on-his-luck weredog with nowhere to turn--until he meets antisocial witch boy Kody. Lumine also has a big, fluffy, secret--he is actually a werewolf, a rare and more powerful type of magical being thought to be extinct. Except ... he can't transform properly. When robbers attach the two boys, Lumine shifts into his other form: a tiny, fierce, and ridiculously cute...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to who the note refers-Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as...
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