Meet Me At Chicote
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Meet Me At Chicote
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Author : Ana Galvan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-03-14
Meet Me At Chicote written by Ana Galvan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-14 with categories.
"Chicote in the old days in Madrid was a place sort of like The Stork, without the music and the debutantes, or the Waldorf's men's bar if they let girls in." -Ernest Hemingway, "The Denunciation,"
Madrid Again
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Author : Soledad Maura
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2020-11-17
Madrid Again written by Soledad Maura and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-17 with Fiction categories.
A modern-day bildungsroman, featuring a young woman on a quest to discover her family history as she is torn between the US and Spain, the old world and the new. Told with humor, candor, and grit, Madrid Again is a highly original novel, and an homage to the haunting power of history, and how it shapes the identity of two generations of women. Madrid, 1960s. Odilia is a brilliant young student who seems to have it all until she is unexpectedly spirited away on an exciting journey across the Atlantic to the United States by a magnetic professor. But the professor disappears from Odilia’s life as mysteriously as he appeared. Left alone in a new country with a baby girl, Lola, Odilia must decide whether to strike out and raise her daughter alone, or return to her strict, upper-class Catholic family in Spain. Mother and daughter travel to Madrid as often as possible, but Odilia ultimately chooses a life of self-reliance in New England. As Lola grows up, she feels torn between two countries, two cultures, and two languages. She becomes a historian and embarks on a quest to seek out the history of her origins. She wrestles with family secrets, as she struggles to answer questions about her own identity and future. How does she fit in to the United States, Spain, or anywhere else?
An Englishman In Madrid
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Author : Eduardo Mendoza
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-04-25
An Englishman In Madrid written by Eduardo Mendoza and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-25 with Fiction categories.
Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value an aristocrat's collection. At a welcome lunch he encounters José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder and leader of the Falange, a nationalist party whose antics are bringing the country ever closer to civil war. The paintings turn out to be worthless, but before Whitelands can leave for London the duque's daughter Paquita reveals a secret and genuine treasure, held for years in the cellars of her ancestral home. Afraid that the duque will cash in his wealth to finance the Falange, the Spanish authorities resolve to keep a close eye on the Englishman, who is also being watched by his own embassy. As Whitelands - ever the fool for a pretty face - vies with Primo de Rivera for Paquita's affections, he learns of a final interested party: Madrid is crawling with Soviet spies, and Moscow will stop at nothing to secure the hidden prize.
Finding Pascasio
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Author : Herminio Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2018-08-27
Finding Pascasio written by Herminio Schmidt and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-27 with History categories.
Four-year-old ‘Wolfi’ Herminio is happily growing up in Berlin with his six-year-old brother Roni, his German mother Klara and his Spanish journalist father Pascasio. But on the day that Hitler invades Poland, a panicked Pascasio rushes home, burns all his papers, and then flees Germany, leaving his family behind and severing all contacts with them. This bewildering abandonment thoroughly derails the lives of the little boys, just as they are faced with the advent of WWII and all its terrors and privation. As a young man, Herminio sets out to solve the mystery of this defining event. Why Pascasio left? What happened to him? A lifelong journey to find the answers becomes a struggle of hope, suspicion, disappointment, and shocking discoveries that will take him to Franco’s Spain, Castro’s Cuba, and the remote Canary Islands. In a story that reads like an engaging thriller, Herminio’s search will also lead him into adventures such as working for a spy agency, becoming an unwitting accessory to a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty, and a ping-pong game with Fidel Castro himself. Juxtaposed against some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century, this fascinating and deeply personal story examines the effects of buried secrets and old wounds, and how they resonate down through generations. While Herminio starts out damaged by his father’s disappearance, his quest reveals that this moment is central to the man he has become.
Omnibook Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
Omnibook Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with categories.
Omnibook
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
Omnibook written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with categories.
How Like An Angel
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Author : Margaret Millar
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2016-02-09
How Like An Angel written by Margaret Millar and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with Fiction categories.
California cultists, duplicitous damsels in distress, and dangerously high stakes conspire against Joe Quinn, a private eye who is beginnnig to feel more like a knight-errant Joe Quinn is cut adrift. He’s lost everything. His girl. His job. His place in the universe. A security head for a casino in Reno just can’t afford to have a gambling problem. Life takes a turn from tragic to strange when Quinn finds himself on the doorsteps of a religious cult’s tower in the remote California hills. Quinn hitched a ride from Reno but never thought he’d end up in a place like this. But a gambler has to play the hand he’s dealt. When one of the cultists asks Quinn to check on a man named Patrick O’Gorman and slides a not so small amount of money in his jacket, well, that’s just the sort of hand Quinn has been looking for. Thing is, Quinn soon finds out, O’Gorman disappeared under bizarre circumstances several years ago. For reasons he doesn’t entirely understand, perhaps for the sake of having a purpose, Quinn begins a lurid quest to uncover the truth. What he finds out instead is that there are just as many crazies outside the walls of a cultist tower as there are inside.
Looking For Trouble
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Author : Virginia Cowles
language : en
Publisher: New York, Harper
Release Date : 1941
Looking For Trouble written by Virginia Cowles and has been published by New York, Harper this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Europe categories.
The memoirs of an American woman journalist in Europe.
Women Through Women S Eyes
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Author : June E. Hahner
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 1998-08-01
Women Through Women S Eyes written by June E. Hahner and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-08-01 with Social Science categories.
The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where a new political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Such expeditions resulted in numerous travel accounts, most by men. However, because this period was a time of significant change and exploration, a small but growing minority of female voyagers also portrayed the people and places that they encountered. Women through Women's Eyes draws from ten insightful accounts by female visitors to Latin America in the nineteenth century. These firsthand tales bring a number of Latin American women into focus: nuns, market women, plantation workers, the wives and daughters of landowners and politicians, and even a heroine of the independence movement. Questions of family life, religion, women's labor, and education are addressed, in addition to the interrelationships of men and women within the structure of Latin American societies. Women through Women's Eyes is a perceptive look at Latin American women from various walks of life during this period. Within these pages, the reader catches lengthy glimpses of the women on both sides of the travel accounts-author and subject-and thereby may examine them all and their societies close-up.
De Neergang Van Madrid
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Author : Eduardo Mendoza
language : nl
Publisher: J.M. Meulenhoff
Release Date : 2013-01-16
De Neergang Van Madrid written by Eduardo Mendoza and has been published by J.M. Meulenhoff this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-16 with History categories.
Madrid, 1936. Aan de vooravond van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog is de stad een gevaarlijke kluwen van politieke groeperingen die elkaar onafgebroken in de gaten houden en proberen te dwarsbomen: de geheime dienst van de Republiek, rechtse en linkse terreurgroepen en buitenlandse agenten die op tijd de juiste kant proberen te kiezen - de kant van de winnaar. Spionage, achterdocht, verraad en dubbelspel zijn aan de orde van de dag.Anthony Whitelands, een keurige Engelse kunsthistoricus, wordt door de hertog van Igualada naar Madrid gehaald om diens kunstcollectie te taxeren voor verkoop in Londen. Beide mannen hebben een verborgen agenda: Anthony heeft gehoord dat zich een waardevolle Vélazquez in de collectie bevindt en hoopt dat deze ontdekking zijn kwakkelende carrière weer vlot zal trekken; de hertog hoopt dat de veiling hem een ontsnappingsroute uit het steeds onveiliger wordende Spanje zal bieden.Op zijn onnavolgbare satirische wijze beschrijft Mendoza de chaos vlak voor de oorlog en de neergang van Madrid, gezien door de ogen van een verbaasde buitenstaander die niet lang aan de zijlijn kan blijven staan