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Theo de Golden
Levi, Allen, 1956- author.
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from...or why... His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their 'rightful owners.' With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered. A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another.....
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La psicología del dinero : 18 claves imperecederas sobre riqueza y felicidad
Housel, Morgan, author.
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Confesiones : una novela
Hoover, Colleen, author.
Auburn Reed’s life is one meticulously constructed plan after another. But when she stumbles into Owen Gentry’s art studio, a chance encounter unravels a connection she cannot deny. Owen’s art, created from anonymous confessions, carries an eerie weight, its beauty laced with sorrow and truths too unsettling to ignore. Auburn is drawn to both the man and his mysterious work, and she’s willing to risk everything to know more. But Owen has his own confession. His past is shrouded in secrets that could destroy everything Auburn believes about him. As choices made in the shadows threaten to unravel the delicate bond they’ve created, Auburn soon finds herself trapped in a labyrinth of lies, where love seems as dangerous as it is irresistible.....
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El eternauta 1969
Oesterheld, H. G. (Héctor Germán), 1919-1977, author.
This originally appeared as weekly installments from 1957-59. Juan Salvo, the inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metal-worker, Franco, face what appears to be a nuclear accident, but quickly turns out to be something much bigger than they had imagined. Cold War tensions, aliens of all sizes, space―and time travel―this one has it all. Black & white illustrations throughout.....
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La niñera de la mafia. 1
Matter, Violet, author.
from English-language edition.....
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Las brujas de El Paso
Jaramillo, Luis.
If you call to the witches, they will come. 1943, El Paso, Texas: teenager Nena spends her days caring for the small children of her older sisters and longing for a life of adventure. The premonitions and fainting spells she has endured since childhood are getting worse, and Nena worries she’ll end up like the scary old curandera down the street. Nena prays for help, and when the mysterious Sister Benedicta arrives late one night, Nena follows her across the borders of space and time. In colonial Mexico, Nena grows into her power, finding love and learning that magic always comes with a price. In the present day, Nena’s grandniece, Marta, balances a struggling legal aid practice with motherhood and the care of the now ninety-three-year-old Nena. When Marta agrees to help search for a daughter Nena left in the past, the two forge a fierce connection. Marta’s own supernatural powers emerge, awakening her to new possibilities that threaten the life she has constructed. ....
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La posesión de Alba Díaz
Cañas, Isabel, author.
When a demonic presence awakens deep in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn't trust...from bestselling author Isabel Cañas. In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family's isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting as other dangers soon bare their teeth: Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. She senses something cold lurking beneath her skin. Something angry. Something wrong. Elías, haunted by a troubled past, came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family's legacy of greed. Alba, as his cousin's betrothed, is none of his business. Which is of course why he can't help but notice the growing tension between them every time she enters the room...and why he notices her deteriorate when the demon's thirst for blood gets stronger. In the fight for her life, Alba and Elías become entangled with the occult, the Church, long-kept secrets, and each other... not knowing that one of these things will spell their doom.....
ver en catalogoLa psicología del dinero : 18 claves imperecederas sobre riqueza y felicidad
Housel, Morgan, author.
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ver en catalogoConfesiones : una novela
Hoover, Colleen, author.
Auburn Reed’s life is one meticulously constructed plan after another. But when she stumbles into Owen Gentry’s art studio, a chance encounter unravels a connection she cannot deny. Owen’s art, created from anonymous confessions, carries an eerie weight, its beauty laced with sorrow and truths too unsettling to ignore. Auburn is drawn to both the man and his mysterious work, and she’s willing to risk everything to know more. But Owen has his own confession. His past is shrouded in secrets that could destroy everything Auburn believes about him. As choices made in the shadows threaten to unravel the delicate bond they’ve created, Auburn soon finds herself trapped in a labyrinth of lies, where love seems as dangerous as it is irresistible.....
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Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo
Reid, Taylor Jenkins, author.
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways. ....
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Reid, Taylor Jenkins, author.
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn’s luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the ‘80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn’s story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique’s own in tragic and irreversible ways. ....
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La mesa herida
Martínez-Belli, Laura, 1975- author.
"México, 1935. Cuando descubre que Diego le es infiel con su hermana Cristina, Frida, que atraviesa un periodo de depresíon ligado a su imposibilidad de ser madre, utiliza el dolor como inspiracíon para crear La mesa herida, una enigmática pintura de gran formato que años despúes formar á parte de la primera exposicíon de artistas mexicanos en la Uníon Sovíetica. Moscú, 1947. Olga, una burócrata rusa con una existencia tranquila y comprometida con el Partido, reencuentra su pasíon por el arte al conocer la impactante obra de la pintora mexicana. Sin embargo, su vida dará un vuelco cuando se vea envuelta en un oscuro complot para destruir el cuadro. ¿ÉHasta dónde estará dispuesta a llegar para salvar el trabajo de la artista? Traiciones, heridas, robos, falsificaciones y tráfico de arte se entretejen en este emocionante thriller histórico, inspirado en hechos reales, que nos lleva a descubrir uno de los misterios más grandes de la plástica mexicana: la desaparicíon de una pieza única que lleva más de medio siglo perdida." -- page 4 of the cover.....
ver en catalogoEl eternauta 1969
Oesterheld, H. G. (Héctor Germán), 1919-1977, author.
This originally appeared as weekly installments from 1957-59. Juan Salvo, the inimitable protagonist, along with his friend Professor Favalli and the tenacious metal-worker, Franco, face what appears to be a nuclear accident, but quickly turns out to be something much bigger than they had imagined. Cold War tensions, aliens of all sizes, space―and time travel―this one has it all. Black & white illustrations throughout.....
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Malinalli
Chapa, Veronica, author.
A real-life historical figure, the woman known as Malinalli, Malintzin, La Malinche, Doña Marina, and Malinalxochitl was the Nahua interpreter who helped Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés communicate with the native people of Mexico. When indigenous leaders observed her marching into their cities, they believed she was a goddess-blessed with the divine power to interpret the Spaniards' intentions for their land. Later, historians and pop culture would deem her a traitor-the "Indian" girl who helped sell Mexico's future to an invader. In this riveting, fantastical retelling, Malinalli is all of those things and more, but at heart, she's a young girl, kidnapped into slavery by age twelve, and fighting to survive the devastation wrought by both the Spanish and Moctezuma's greed and cruelty. Blessed with magical powers, and supported by a close-knit circle of priestesses, Mali vows to help defend her people's legacy. In vivid, compelling prose, debut author Veronica Chapa spins an epic tale of magic, sisterhood, survival, and Mexican resilience. This is the first novel to reimagine and reinterpret Malinalli's story with the empathy, humanity, and awe she's always deserved.....
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Hombrecito
Sanchez, Santiago Jose, author.
In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy’s life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami. In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind. He moves to New York, ducking in and out of bed with different men as he seeks out something, someone, to make him whole again. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns to the country as a young man, trying to find peace with his father, with his homeland, with who he’s become since he left, and with who his mother is: finally we come to know her and her secrets, her complex ambivalence and fierce love. ....
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Sabrina y Corina
Fajardo-Anstine, Kali, author.
"With Denver as their backdrop--a place as exquisite as it is wild--a group of Latinas of Indigenous descent navigate their complex lives with caution, grace, and quiet strength. The protagonists of the eleven stories collected in this book compose a mosaic with the common denominator of absence and uprooting in a radically mixed-race American society, marked by structural violence and the breakdown of the family. But there are also hopeful glimpses of sisterhood and a connection with previous generations"--Translated from page 4 of cover.....
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Jaramillo, Luis.
If you call to the witches, they will come. 1943, El Paso, Texas: teenager Nena spends her days caring for the small children of her older sisters and longing for a life of adventure. The premonitions and fainting spells she has endured since childhood are getting worse, and Nena worries she’ll end up like the scary old curandera down the street. Nena prays for help, and when the mysterious Sister Benedicta arrives late one night, Nena follows her across the borders of space and time. In colonial Mexico, Nena grows into her power, finding love and learning that magic always comes with a price. In the present day, Nena’s grandniece, Marta, balances a struggling legal aid practice with motherhood and the care of the now ninety-three-year-old Nena. When Marta agrees to help search for a daughter Nena left in the past, the two forge a fierce connection. Marta’s own supernatural powers emerge, awakening her to new possibilities that threaten the life she has constructed. ....
ver en catalogoHombrecito
Sanchez, Santiago Jose, author.
In this groundbreaking novel, Santiago Jose Sanchez plunges us into the heart of one boy’s life. His mother takes him and his brother from Colombia to America, leaving their absent father behind but essentially disappearing herself once they get to Miami. In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten him, disappeared, but she is always on his mind. He moves to New York, ducking in and out of bed with different men as he seeks out something, someone, to make him whole again. When his mother invites him to visit family in Colombia with her, he returns to the country as a young man, trying to find peace with his father, with his homeland, with who he’s become since he left, and with who his mother is: finally we come to know her and her secrets, her complex ambivalence and fierce love. ....
ver en catalogoMalinalli
Chapa, Veronica, author.
A real-life historical figure, the woman known as Malinalli, Malintzin, La Malinche, Doña Marina, and Malinalxochitl was the Nahua interpreter who helped Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés communicate with the native people of Mexico. When indigenous leaders observed her marching into their cities, they believed she was a goddess-blessed with the divine power to interpret the Spaniards' intentions for their land. Later, historians and pop culture would deem her a traitor-the "Indian" girl who helped sell Mexico's future to an invader. In this riveting, fantastical retelling, Malinalli is all of those things and more, but at heart, she's a young girl, kidnapped into slavery by age twelve, and fighting to survive the devastation wrought by both the Spanish and Moctezuma's greed and cruelty. Blessed with magical powers, and supported by a close-knit circle of priestesses, Mali vows to help defend her people's legacy. In vivid, compelling prose, debut author Veronica Chapa spins an epic tale of magic, sisterhood, survival, and Mexican resilience. This is the first novel to reimagine and reinterpret Malinalli's story with the empathy, humanity, and awe she's always deserved.....
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Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle
Allende, Isabel, author.
In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man's pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. As she proves herself, her restlessness returns, until an opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, as does Eric, and while there, she meets her estranged father and delves into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie. As she and Eric discover love, the war escalates and Emilia finds herself in extreme danger, fearing for her life and questioning her identity and her destiny.....
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Los soles de Santiago
Rivero, Viviana, author.
"Dos mujeres valientes entrelazan dos momentos históricos, el año 31 a.C. y el año 2055. En esos tiempos tan distantes entre sí, ambas transitan por una misma geografía, que hoy se conoce como el Camino de Santiago, en España. Es el futuro y las autoridades globales controlan las vidas de las personas. Como parte de un plan sistemático, ya no se ven adultos mayores en las calles: desaparecieron tras las últimas pandemias que azotaron el planeta. Eme perdió a sus padres y está sola, agobiada y sin trabajo. Todo cambia cuando se cruza con Hache, miembro de una organización rebelde que planea un sabotaje en Santiago de Compostela. A fin de infiltrarse sin levantar sospechas, Eme asume la identidad de una peregrina. Mientras avanza por las rutas ancestrales, se ve inmersa en un mundo nuevo, que la conecta con la naturaleza y la espiritualidad. Allí conoce a Orión, con quien vivirá un gran amor, y se adentra en una antiquísima historia vinculada con Las Médulas, mítica mina de oro del Imperio romano, y con Cazue, una mujer perteneciente a la tribu de los astures que libró una dura batalla para recuperar a su hijo robado."--Back cover.....
ver en catalogoTheo de Golden
Levi, Allen, 1956- author.
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from...or why... His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on the walls, portraits of the people of Golden done by a local artist. He begins purchasing them, one at a time, and putting them back in the hands of their 'rightful owners.' With each exchange, a story is told, a friendship born, and a life altered. A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another.....
ver en catalogoLa mesa herida
Martínez-Belli, Laura, 1975- author.
"México, 1935. Cuando descubre que Diego le es infiel con su hermana Cristina, Frida, que atraviesa un periodo de depresíon ligado a su imposibilidad de ser madre, utiliza el dolor como inspiracíon para crear La mesa herida, una enigmática pintura de gran formato que años despúes formar á parte de la primera exposicíon de artistas mexicanos en la Uníon Sovíetica. Moscú, 1947. Olga, una burócrata rusa con una existencia tranquila y comprometida con el Partido, reencuentra su pasíon por el arte al conocer la impactante obra de la pintora mexicana. Sin embargo, su vida dará un vuelco cuando se vea envuelta en un oscuro complot para destruir el cuadro. ¿ÉHasta dónde estará dispuesta a llegar para salvar el trabajo de la artista? Traiciones, heridas, robos, falsificaciones y tráfico de arte se entretejen en este emocionante thriller histórico, inspirado en hechos reales, que nos lleva a descubrir uno de los misterios más grandes de la plástica mexicana: la desaparicíon de una pieza única que lleva más de medio siglo perdida." -- page 4 of the cover.....
ver en catalogoLa posesión de Alba Díaz
Cañas, Isabel, author.
When a demonic presence awakens deep in a Mexican silver mine, the young woman it seizes must turn to the one man she shouldn't trust...from bestselling author Isabel Cañas. In 1765, plague sweeps through Zacatecas. Alba flees with her wealthy merchant parents and fiancé, Carlos, to his family's isolated mine for refuge. But safety proves fleeting as other dangers soon bare their teeth: Alba begins suffering from strange hallucinations, sleepwalking, and violent convulsions. She senses something cold lurking beneath her skin. Something angry. Something wrong. Elías, haunted by a troubled past, came to the New World to make his fortune and escape his family's legacy of greed. Alba, as his cousin's betrothed, is none of his business. Which is of course why he can't help but notice the growing tension between them every time she enters the room...and why he notices her deteriorate when the demon's thirst for blood gets stronger. In the fight for her life, Alba and Elías become entangled with the occult, the Church, long-kept secrets, and each other... not knowing that one of these things will spell their doom.....
ver en catalogoLa niñera de la mafia. 1
Matter, Violet, author.
from English-language edition.....
ver en catalogoMi nombre es Emilia del Valle
Allende, Isabel, author.
In San Francisco in 1866, an Irish nun, abandoned following a torrid relationship with a Chilean aristocrat, gives birth to a daughter named Emilia del Valle. Raised by a loving stepfather, Emilia grows into an independent thinker and a self-sufficient young woman. To pursue her passion for writing, she is willing to defy societal norms. At the age of seventeen, she begins to publish pulp fiction using a man's pen name. When these fictional worlds can no longer satisfy her sense of adventure, she turns to journalism, convincing an editor at The Daily Examiner to hire her. There she is paired with another talented reporter, Eric Whelan. As she proves herself, her restlessness returns, until an opportunity arises to cover a brewing civil war in Chile. She seizes it, as does Eric, and while there, she meets her estranged father and delves into the violent confrontation in the country where her roots lie. As she and Eric discover love, the war escalates and Emilia finds herself in extreme danger, fearing for her life and questioning her identity and her destiny.....
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El corazón del rey : los secretos derrumban imperios
Bernal Lobo, Karine, author.
"Dentro de la fortaleza del palacio de Lacrontte hay un hombre marcado por heridas del pasado y por los secretos de su linaje. Su corazón late por una mujer que no encaja en los planes del reino ni en las exigencias de la nobleza... y que no puede perdonarlo. Amarla significa arriesgar la estabilidad de una nación. Negarla sería condenarse a una vida sin alma. Emily nunca soñó con llevar la corona del reino enemigo sobre su cabeza, pero el destino la arrastra al centro de un mundo gobernado por intrigas, alianzas ocultas y emociones que ponen a prueba su valentía. Sabe que amar al rey que le han enseñado a odiar implica arriesgarlo todo, incluso su propia seguridad. Sin embargo, también descubre en ese amor una fuerza que jamás creyó tener. Juntos tendrán que enfrentarse a un pueblo que persigue su amor como un crimen, empujándolos a un abismo que obligará a sus corazones a fundirse en uno solo para resistir la tormenta que amenaza con quebrarlos desde afuera"--Back cover.....
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Rivero, Viviana, author.
"Dos mujeres valientes entrelazan dos momentos históricos, el año 31 a.C. y el año 2055. En esos tiempos tan distantes entre sí, ambas transitan por una misma geografía, que hoy se conoce como el Camino de Santiago, en España. Es el futuro y las autoridades globales controlan las vidas de las personas. Como parte de un plan sistemático, ya no se ven adultos mayores en las calles: desaparecieron tras las últimas pandemias que azotaron el planeta. Eme perdió a sus padres y está sola, agobiada y sin trabajo. Todo cambia cuando se cruza con Hache, miembro de una organización rebelde que planea un sabotaje en Santiago de Compostela. A fin de infiltrarse sin levantar sospechas, Eme asume la identidad de una peregrina. Mientras avanza por las rutas ancestrales, se ve inmersa en un mundo nuevo, que la conecta con la naturaleza y la espiritualidad. Allí conoce a Orión, con quien vivirá un gran amor, y se adentra en una antiquísima historia vinculada con Las Médulas, mítica mina de oro del Imperio romano, y con Cazue, una mujer perteneciente a la tribu de los astures que libró una dura batalla para recuperar a su hijo robado."--Back cover.....
ver en catalogoSabrina y Corina
Fajardo-Anstine, Kali, author.
"With Denver as their backdrop--a place as exquisite as it is wild--a group of Latinas of Indigenous descent navigate their complex lives with caution, grace, and quiet strength. The protagonists of the eleven stories collected in this book compose a mosaic with the common denominator of absence and uprooting in a radically mixed-race American society, marked by structural violence and the breakdown of the family. But there are also hopeful glimpses of sisterhood and a connection with previous generations"--Translated from page 4 of cover.....
ver en catalogoEl corazón del rey : los secretos derrumban imperios
Bernal Lobo, Karine, author.
"Dentro de la fortaleza del palacio de Lacrontte hay un hombre marcado por heridas del pasado y por los secretos de su linaje. Su corazón late por una mujer que no encaja en los planes del reino ni en las exigencias de la nobleza... y que no puede perdonarlo. Amarla significa arriesgar la estabilidad de una nación. Negarla sería condenarse a una vida sin alma. Emily nunca soñó con llevar la corona del reino enemigo sobre su cabeza, pero el destino la arrastra al centro de un mundo gobernado por intrigas, alianzas ocultas y emociones que ponen a prueba su valentía. Sabe que amar al rey que le han enseñado a odiar implica arriesgarlo todo, incluso su propia seguridad. Sin embargo, también descubre en ese amor una fuerza que jamás creyó tener. Juntos tendrán que enfrentarse a un pueblo que persigue su amor como un crimen, empujándolos a un abismo que obligará a sus corazones a fundirse en uno solo para resistir la tormenta que amenaza con quebrarlos desde afuera"--Back cover.....
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