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Blood and Honor
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W E B Griffin
In 1943 marine aviator Cletus Frade exacts revenge for the German-ordered assassination of his father and protects Argentina, his and his mother's native country, from attack.
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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Piers Paul Read
In October 1972 an aircraft carrying a party of Uruguayan rugby players and their friends took off from Argentina to fly over the Andes to Chile. It crashed in the mountains in dense cloud, and some of the 45 passengers were killed. The survivors soon realized, by listening to their transistor radio, that the search party had been called off ...
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Kiss of the Spider Woman
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Manuel Puig
Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, ...
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The Ministry of Special Cases
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Nathan Englander
The long-awaited first novel from the author of the sensational short-story collection "For the Relief of Unbearable Urges" is a stunning historical tale set at the start of Argentina's Dirty War, a hallucinatory journey into a forbidden city and a world of terror.
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Show No Mercy
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Cindy Gerard
From the "USA Today"-bestselling author of the Bodyguards series comes the first in a new trilogy of romantic suspense novels featuring the sexy heroes of Black Ops, Inc., a covert private security team. Original.
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Lonely Planet Argentina
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Danny Palmerlee, Sandra Bao, Andrew Dean Nystrom
US and Canadian visitors to Argentina in 2006 totaled over 400,000 (Ministry of Tourism, Argentina). Lonely Planet sells more country travel guides in US bookstores than any other publisher (BookScan). The only guide to include substantial coverage of neighboring Uruguay, for short trips across the Rio de la Plata.
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Meet me under the ombu tree
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Santa Montefiore
Spoilt, wilful, resourceful and proud, Sofia Solanas grows up on a magnificent ranch in the middle of the Argentine pampas, loved by all around her. All, that is, except her Irish mother, Anna, who punishes her daughter for her own sense of alienation and inadequacy while doting on her sons. When a horrified Anna discovers that Sofia has embarked ...
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In Patagonia
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Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989) was, for much of his short life, obsessed with the idea of nomadism, feeling that restlessness is encoded into human DNA. His first book, IN PATAGONIA, is a most unorthodox travel book (a designation Chatwin disliked), a picaresque chronicle of his own wanderings through the wildest parts of South America. Chatwin writes ...
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Ficciones
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Jorge Luis Borges
"Fictions" is a collection of short stories, influenced by writers as disparate as Lewis Carroll, Stevenson and Cervantes. Borges turns dry logical puzzles into enchanting fables.
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The House on Garibaldi Street
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Isser Harel, Shlomo J Shpiro (Editor)
The House on Garibaldi Street is the true story of one of this century's most audacious intelligence operations - the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina by the Mossad, Israel's secret intelligence service. In a daring operation which shook the world, a team of elite Mossad agents, under the personal command of the legendary Mossad leader ...
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Atmospheric Disturbances
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Rivka Galchen
At once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind, this highly inventive debut explores the mysterious nature of human relationships.
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A Quiet Flame: A Bernie Gunther Novel
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Philip Kerr
Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history. A "Quiet Flame" opens in 1950. Falsely fingered a war criminal, Bernie Gunther has booked passage to Buenos Aires, lured, like the Nazis whose company he has ...
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Stories of Eva Luna
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Isabel Allende
Short stories in Allende's celebrated magical-realist mode.
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Imagining Argentina
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Lawrence Thornton
The horror of the Junta rule in Argentina is the subject of this novel which combines reality and fiction. The author uses an imaginary character, Carlos Rueda who has a gift for storytelling and an ability to forsee future happenings with unerring precision. People come to Carlos's garden on the Calle Cordova where he tells the stories of the ...
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Labyrinths
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Jorge Luis Borges, James E Irby (Editor), Donald A Yates (Editor)
A generous anthology of Borges's work, including short stories about such things as imaginary universes, mysterious parables, and Chestertonian detective puzzles.
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Honorary Consul
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Graham Greene
When Charlie Fortnum, an Englishman who acts as "Honorary Consul" to the British subjects of a small town in Argentina, is kidnapped by Marxist guerillas, a chain of events is set in motion that draws both apathetic and committed bystanders into a confrontation with the forces of authority. Leon Rivas, a renegade priest, joins the guerillas and is ...
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Jack's Run
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Roland Smith
In this highly entertaining sequel to "Zach's Lie," Jack and his family have entered the Witness Security Program as his dad prepares to testify against a ruthless drug czar. One slip-up, and Jack's entire family is dead. He has messed up before and won't do it again. Unfortunately, someone else in the family hasn't been as careful.
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Lonely Planet Buenos Aires City Guide
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Sandra Bao, Anja Mutic
New pull-out map for handy navigation through out-of-the-way streets. Chapters now organized by neighborhood for easier navigation of the guide. More coverage on the vibrant arts scene in Buenos Aires.
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A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture
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Marguerite Feitlowitz
An oral history of modern Argentine politics. Feitlowitz interviewed dozens of participants in the "dirty war" that followed the death of the despot Juan Peron, which resulted in the deaths of thousands. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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El túnel
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Ernesto Sabato
"El tunel" es la mejor introduccion al universo prodigioso de Sabato; un clasico... una historia sobre el drama del hombre arrojado en el sinsentido mas doloroso: la conciencia de la nada Juan Pablo Castel es un pintor recluido en prision por el asesinato de Maria Iribarne. Durante su encierro rememora la cadena de acontecimientos que lo llevaron ...
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Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron
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Nicholas Fraser, Marysa Navarro
In the colorful, tumultuous setting of postwar Argentina, Eva Peron wielded a power--spiritual and practical--that has few parallels outside of hereditary monarchy. In this "fascinating, frightening, straightforward" (Cleveland Plain Dealer) biography, Fraser and Navarro have produced "a work of great political sophistication. . . . Factual, ...
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Blow-Up: And Other Stories
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Julio Cortazar
In the stories here— including "Blow Up," on which Antonioni based his film— Cortá zar explores the boundary where the everyday meets the mysterious.
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Aleph and Other Stories
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Jorge Luis Borges
Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges' most fully realized human characters.
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Eva Peron
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Alicia Dujovne Ortiz
Argentine-French journalist Alicia Dujovne Ortiz looks behind the myths of Evita. Ortiz used newly declassified archives of the Peron administration to investigate many of the long-standing rumors surrounding Eva Peron, including the connection between the Perons and the German Nazi Party. Ortiz also interviewed many people who knew Eva Peron, ...
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Cuentos de Eva Luna
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Isabel Allende
In this magical bestseller, the story-telling heroine of "Eva Luna" returns with a rich treasure trove of tales--two dozen vibrant, enchanting demonstrations of her artistry. Here is the foreign made indelibly familiar by the imagination, the passion, and the eloquence of one of the world's leading writers.
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