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Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Pocket Bilbao & San Sebastian is your guide to the city’s best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Visit the shimmering Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, enjoy sun-baked beaches, or sample tasty pintxos; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Bilbao & San Sebastian and make the most of your trip! Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Bilbao & San Sebastian : Up-to-date information - all businesses were...
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Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Pocket Barcelona is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore the medieval streets of the Barri Gotic, marvel at the wondrous La Sagrada Familia, or feel football frenzy at Camp Nou; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Barcelona and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Barcelona : Up-to-date information - all...
3) The wonders
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English
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"Through the rich inner lives of two ordinary, unforgettable women, award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel brings a half-century of the feminist movement to life, revealing the simmering truth that money is ultimately the limiting factor in most women's lives"--
Ma̕ra moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Pocket Valencia is your guide to the city’s best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Stroll around the bustling Mercado Central, explore the Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, and sample tapas in Russafa; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Valencia and make the most of your trip! Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Valencia : Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before...
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Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's Pocket Madrid is your guide to the city’s best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Start your day with chocolate con churros, feast on art at Museo del Prado, and fuel your evening fun with the best tapas; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Madrid and make the most of your trip! Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Madrid : Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
"A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise." -Junot Diaz
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami, evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. The book begins as four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain.What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be worth...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Absolutely wonderful. I feel as though I've been on holiday' – Jane Lovering The perfect escapist romance. Let yourself be whisked away to sun-drenched Spain for a holiday you won't forget. For fans of Rosanna Ley, Jennifer Bohnet and Lucy Coleman. Piano teacher Marina Meyer is delighted when her mother offers to help buy her own place in London, even though it means returning to Spain to sell the family holiday home. Cala Turquesa may be beautiful,...
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English
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"A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe--a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"--six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious...
11) Don Quixote
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Hailed by Dostoyevsky as The final and greatest utterance of the human mind," Don Quixote constitutes a founding work of modern Western literature. Cervantes' masterpiece has been translated into more than sixty languages, and the novel's fantasy-driven "knight," Don Quixote, and his loyal squire, Sancho Panza, rank among fiction's most recognized characters. Their adventures have been interpreted for film, opera, and ballet, and they head a cast...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For over eighty years the SBS have sailed into the face of danger. Responsible for quick strikes, reconnaissance, and counter-terrorism, they are the world's foremost marine special forces unit. The SBS risk their lives at sea and on land, undertaking the most dangerous missions. 1995, Spain. The Princess of Wales is enjoying a holiday in Catalonia when she becomes the target of an international terrorist's vengeance. With the Princess kidnapped,...
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ernest Hemingway famously called Spain "the country that I loved more than any other except my own," and his forty-year love affair with it provided an inspiration and setting for major works from each decade of his career: The Sun Also Rises, Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Dangerous Summer, and The Garden of Eden; his only full-length play, The Fifth Column; the Civil War documentary The Spanish Earth; and some of his finest...
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Publisher
Kuperard
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Spain often conjures up a picture of rapacious conquistadores, fiery flamenco dancers, and brilliant artists. How closely does everyday life in modern Spain conform to these dramatic stereotypes? Culture Smart! Spain explores the complex human realities of contemporary Spanish life. It describes how Spain's history and geography have created regional differences, shared values, and attitudes, and reveals what the Spaniards are like at home and in...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A #1 international bestseller reminiscent of the works of Roberto Bolaño, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and Edward Rutherford -- a page-turning historical epic, set in early eighteenth-century Spain, about a military mastermind whose betrayal ultimately leads to the conquest of Barcelona, from the globally popular Catalonian writer Albert Sánchez Piñol. Why do the weak fight against the strong? At 98, Martí Zuviría ponders this question as he begins to...
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Inspector Alvarez likes the quiet life, away from the disapproving gaze of his boss, Superior Chief Salas, and the antics of Mallorca's expatriate community. So he is not inclined to become too concerned when Bevis Ogden, a wealthy British man, reports the disappearance of his attractive young wife, Sabrina. No doubt she has found a younger, possibly wealthier, alternative and left for greener pastures.
However, the discovery of a body at the bottom...
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus / Vearsa Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Andie finds herself in the midst of a media scandal that threatens to end her career as a TV landscape designer and her relationship with fellow presenter Johnny . On impulse, she decides to rent her grandmother's old home in southern Spain where she stayed as a child, but is shocked to discover that the beautiful Mediterranean garden she loved is now neglected and overgrown. Worse, her booking has fallen through and ex-flamenco dancer Vicente and...
20) The bird king
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"One of NPR's 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition... Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King , an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula...
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