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Author
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Sami Kierce, a young college grad backpacking in Spain with friends, wakes up one morning, covered in blood. There's a knife in his hand. Beside him, the body of his girlfriend. Anna. Dead. He doesn't know what happened. His screams drown out his thoughts-and then he runs. Twenty-two years later, Kierce, now a private investigator, is a new father who's working off his debts by doing low level surveillance jobs and teaching wannabe sleuths at a night...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace...
Author
Series
Cemetery of Forgotten Books volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1957 Barcelona, Daniel Semper and his close friend Fermin Romero de Torres find their lives violently disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger who threatens to divulge a terrible secret that has been buried for two decades in the city's dark past.
Author
Series
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
805 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In late 1950s Barcelona, Bea, the wife of Daniel Sempere, and his friend FermÃn are trying to help him recover from the mysterious death of his mother when a woman offers to lead him to the secret of his family's past.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Unsworths’ marriage isn’t as perfect as it seems. After two decades together, they’ve drifted apart, talking little and having sex even less. Seeking to revive their strained relationship, they decide for their twentieth wedding anniversary to take their two kids, Kira and Tony, on a European getaway. They have a blast...until one night in Barcelona when Kira doesn’t come home from a dance club. She’s gone. Abducted. Over the course...
10) The vacationers
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating their thirty-fifth anniversary and their daughter's high-school graduation during a two-week vacation in Mallorca, Franny and Jim Post confront old secrets, hurts, and rivalries that reveal sides of themselves they try to conceal.
11) The angel's game
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
531 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offered a career-making writing deal from an enigmatic publisher in turbulent 1960s Barcelona, David Martin wonders about his capacity for writing a book for which the publisher claims others will live and die.
12) Shadow of a bull
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1964
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
165 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
13) The other woman
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his asset inside Russian intelligence is assassinated, Gabriel's search for the truth leads him to the twentieth century's greatest act of treason.
14) A silent death
Author
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Spain, 2020. When ex-pat fugitive Jack Cleland watches his girlfriend die, gunned down in a pursuit involving officer Cristina Sanchez Pradell, he promises to exact his revenge by destroying the policewoman Cristina's aunt Ana has been deaf-blind for the entirety of her adult life: the victim of a rare condition named Usher Syndrome. Ana is the centre of Cristina's world, and of Cleland's cruel plan. John Mackenzie, an ingenious yet irascible Glaswegian...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers a fictional account of the life of Enric Marco, who was exposed as a fraud after receiving innumerable honors as an inspirational speaker and Holocaust survivor.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
306 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Isabel Perez travels to Barcelona to save her sister Beatriz, she discovers a shocking family secret. Barcelona, 1964. Exiled from Cuba after the revolution, Isabel Perez has learned to guard her heart and protect her family at all costs. After Isabel's sister Beatriz disappears in Barcelona, Isabel goes to Spain in search of her. Joining forces with an unlikely ally thrusts Isabel into her sister's dangerous world of espionage, but it is an...
17) The familiar
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A veteran of the Great War, Jake Barnes is both physically and emotionally wounded, leaving him unable to be intimate. Even so, he pines after Lady Brett Ashley, a promiscuous twice-divorced woman. As feelings are hurt and punches are thrown, their lives and the lives of their friends and lovers become tangled as they journey from Paris to Spain and struggle with the repercussions that come from surviving the First World War. Sometimes referred to...
19) The bird king
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
403 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From award-winning author G. Willow Wilson, The Bird King is an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula at the height of the Spanish Inquisition. G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King , a stunning new novel that tells the story of Fatima, a concubine in...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
251 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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 - Ferrar goes on a quest which will take him from libertine...
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