Allende, Isabel
Summary: "In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Allende 2020Bianchin, Helen.
Summary: Romy Picard will do anything to prevent her aged father from being imprisoned. But the only man who can help her is the rich, notorious Spaniard who stole her virginity and her heart three years ago. Xavier DeVasquez could drop all charges against Romy's father with a click of his arrogant fingers--but he sees an opportunity to have Romy in his bed one more time. This time, though, he'll make...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC BIAJardine, Quintin.
Summary: With his childhood sweetheart, Grace, by his side, and a burgeoning career as a brilliant journalist, Xavier has everything to live for. Yet, despite his passion for uncovering the truth, Xavi's own world is steeped in lies. As his life, his love, and his work become increasingly entwined, Xavi is immersed in a story of tragedy, loss and betrayal, in search of a truth that may ultimately...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JARFurst, Alan.
Summary: The future of Spain is at stake. Germany and Italy have ensured that Republican forces are starved of weapons and a Franco victory now looks likely. Cristian Ferrar, a Spanish lawyer living in Paris, is a well-connected man. When Ferrar is approached by anti-Franco forces, he readily agrees asked to help smuggle arms into his homeland. Working with de Lyon - an enigmatic man of Slavic descent -...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FURAllende, Isabel
Summary: "In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALLEscobar, Mario
Summary: "Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his younger sisters, Isabel and Ana. When Marco's parents align themselves against General Franco and his fascist regime, they have no inkling that their ideals will endanger them and everyone they love--nor do they predict the violence that is to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ESCHill, Reginald.
Summary: The tiny village of Illthwaite in Cumbria, England, seems to be the kind of place where nothing much has happened for the last few centuries. But the two young strangers who arrive there on the same dank autumn day soon find that appearances are deceptive. Samantha Flood and Miguel Madero have absolutely nothing in common--except a burning desire to find out more about possible connections...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HILVaughn, Carrie
Summary: "Discover the deadly origins of the noble immortal Rick, ally to bestselling author Carrie Vaughn's fan-favorite werewolf, Kitty Norville.Ricardo de Avila would have followed Coronado to the ends of the earth. Instead, Ricardo found the end of his mortal life, and a new one, as a renegade vampire.For over five hundred years, Ricardo has upset the established order. He has protected his found...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tachyon Publications 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAUAcevedo, Chantel
Summary: After her cloistered childhood at the Spanish court, her youth spent in exile, and a loveless marriage, Eulalia gladly departs Europe for the New World. In the company of Thomas Aragon, the son of her one-time wet nurse and a small-town bookseller with a thirst for adventure, she travels by ship first to a Cuba bubbling with revolutionary fervor then on to the 1893 Chicago World Fair. She is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ACEMendiluce, José María.
Summary: Ariadna, una barcelonesa que trabaja en la ONU, pide un traslado a Costa Rica con la intención de cambiar de aires por una temporada. Tiene veintisiete años y quiere vivir. En su nuevo escenario combinará la puesta en marcha de su proyecto de trabajo con una desenfrenada vida social, marcada por todo tipo de excesos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Planeta 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH PLASantiago, Esmeralda.
Summary: "Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de Leon. And in twin brothers Ramon and Inocente, both in love with Ana, she finds a way to get there: she marries Ramon and convinces the brothers that their destiny is in the remote sugar plantation they have inherited on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2011