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Freedom to Read: Books Unite Us
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Originally published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises is Ernest Hemingway's first novel and a timeless example of his spare but powerful writing. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 1920s Paris to the...
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In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight, " For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal....
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Madrid, 1957. Under the fascist dictatorship of General Francisco Franco, Spain is hiding a dark secret. Meanwhile, tourists and foreign businessmen flood into the country under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine. Among them is eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson, the son of a Texas oil tycoon, who arrives in Madrid with his parents hoping to connect with the country of his mother's birth through the lens of his camera. Photography--and fate--introduce...
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The Westmoreland legacy: the Outlaws volume 1
Harlequin desire volume 2773
The Westmoreland legacy the Outlaws volume 1
Westmoreland Legacy The Outlaws volume Book 1
Harlequin desire volume 2773
The Westmoreland legacy the Outlaws volume 1
Westmoreland Legacy The Outlaws volume Book 1
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Falling in love wasn't part of the plan. The arrangement is simple: two weeks in Spain then a marriage of convenience. Until Garth Outlaw's potential bride doesn't show and pilot Regan Fairchild ends up sharing his bed. But Garth has vowed never to love again. Can Regan convince him the wife he needs and the woman he desires are one and the same?
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Taking leave of his usual Chicago haunts, Archbishop John Blackwood Ryan travels to the south of Spain in this latest mystery by bestselling author Greeley. The local cardinal has summoned the wily archbishop to Spain in hopes that Blackie can avert a murder before it happens.
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"Presented by Hemingway's grandson Seán Hemingway, with a personal foreword by the author's son Patrick Hemingway, this enhanced Library Edition of Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece about an American in the Spanish Civil War features early drafts and supplementary material, including three previously uncollected short stories on war by one of history's greatest writers on the subject."--
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"This paperback edition of Hemingway's second novel reprints the corrected text from the Library of America omnibus Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises & Other Writings 1918-1926. In an appendix it gathers writings related to The Sun Also Rises-a short selection of journalism and letters"--
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Hemingway mysteries volume 2
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When one of Fascist Spain's political officials is found dead on a hillside, his own government colleagues suspiciously take little interest in finding the culprit. Hemingway, in the country as a journalist, can't let the murder go. Despite the other deaths everywhere around him--it is wartime, after all--he sets out to discover not just who killed the man but also the reason for the cover-up.
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Goal! volume 2
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After leaving Los Angeles to play soccer with Newcastle United, Mexican American Santiago Munez is recruited to play for Real Madrid, one of the best teams in the world, and must struggle with the pressure and temptations his newfound fame brings.
19) Fiesta
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"Esta hermosa y punzante historia narra la excursión a Pamplona de un grupo de americanos e ingleses exiliados en París en los años veinte, donde se reencuentran la seductora Brett Ashley y el desventurado Jake Barnes, que durante la Primera Guerra Mundial vivieron un amor genuino e irrealizable. El ambiente del París rive gauche y las descripciones de las corridas de toros en España, brutalmente realistas, son la metáfora de una era de bancarrota...
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