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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Richard Garay, a gay man living in Buenos Aires, is stifled by his job as an English teacher, his overbearing mother, and his need to hide his homosexuality, but his mother's death and an offer by two American diplomats set him on a course to a new life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Captain Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the "Oregon," while searching for a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, make a shocking discovery that leads to further revelations involving a Chinese curse hundreds of years old.
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Language
English
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August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he’s in now—standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in the middle of a miserably hot and remote Mississippi prisoner-of-war camp.
Frade’s job? Typical OSS: to help the un-cooperative Frogger escape. Frogger’s...
Frade’s job? Typical OSS: to help the un-cooperative Frogger escape. Frogger’s...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Marine aviator Cletus Frade, Army demolitions wizard Anthony Pelosi, and communications expert David Ettinger, take on a dangerous assignment in Buenos Aires in 1943, treading between Axis and Allied sympathizers, and rival OSS and FBI factions to fulfill their missions and stay alive.
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English
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Eduardo de Valfierno, who makes his living stealing works of art for Argentina's wealthiest and selling them flawless forgeries, returns to Paris where a team of con artists band together for a heist to lift the "Mona Lisa" from the Louvre, but among the many dangers they face, a relentless police inspector, a devastating flood, and their own doubts prove to be their biggest obstacles.
8) Gauchada
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A necklace is lovingly passed from one person to another, travelling much farther than the Argentine gaucho who made it will ever go.
9) The butler
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Language
English
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Description
"The moment the plane touched down at Ministro Pistorini Airport in Buenos Aires, Joachim von Hartmann knew in every fiber of his being that he was home. It was almost as if his heart and soul, and even his body, knew it. He had left as a boy of seventeen, twenty-five years before, when he moved to France with his mother, and new French stepfather. Eight years later, he went to England on a lark, which turned into a worthy career for the past seventeen...
10) Cousins: a novel
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Language
English
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"Cousins, widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina, who are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals, including illegal abortions, miscarriages, sexual abuse, disfigurement, and murder, narrated by a daughter whose success as a painter offers her a chance to achieve economic independence and help her family as best as she can." -- Amazon.
12) Nothing But Dust
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Landerneau Prize for Crime Fiction: "A combination of a South American Western and a noir [with] airs of Faulknerian tragedy" ( Lire ). By the time Rafael is born, the family farm has already gone to hell. Rafael's father has abandoned them. His older twin brothers blame Rafael for their father's departure and exact revenge. Rafael's other sibling is a simpleton whose affections and allegiances change with the shifting winds. And ruling...
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English
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A novel of international espionage and personal vengeance from the author Lee Childs called "better than John Le Carré." Many years ago, a young American spy crossed the wrong people and found himself on the wrong side of Headquarters. He soon fell into a slow, shameful decline of poverty and self-destruction. But Headquarters didn't count on him having a son. Now, years later, the boy is an American spy himself, serving two masters: Headquarters...
15) Cartwheel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Written with the riveting storytelling and moral seriousness of authors like Emma Donoghue, Adam Johnson, Ann Patchett, and Curtis Sittenfeld, Cartwheel is a suspenseful and haunting novel of an American foreign exchange student arrested for murder, and a father trying to hold his family together. When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for her semester abroad, she is enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful buildings, the street food,...
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