Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so.
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Author:Ruth, ElizabethSummary: -
Author:Liversedge, Ronald, Yorke, DavidSummary:Ron Liversedge could hardly wait for the call from the International Brigades. A veteran of the Great War, Canada's Great Depression, and scores of battles for social justice, he wanted to get to Spain to fight against Franco's attack...
- Author:Haggard, H. RiderSummary:
It is the time of 'The Eight Years War,' a religious conflict raging in the Low Countries as Spain sought to dominate the region with influence and religion. Set principally between the years 1571-74 this colourful tale...
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Author:Wilson, JohnSummary:Steve Is off to Spain, armed with only a letter from his grandfather that sends him to Barcelona. There he meets a girl named Laia and finds a trunk containing some of his grandfather's possessions, including a journal he kept during...
- Author:Portella Bricka, Patricia, Marc-Antoine, ZouékiSummary:
Les gens du Sud n’aiment pas la pluie présente une fresque de la survivance en temps de guerre. Carmen, le personnage central du roman est une femme simple, ballotée par l’Histoire. Une vie pleine de mystères, d’injustices et de misères...
- Author:Barwin, Gary, Saint-Martin, Lori, Gagné, PaulSummary:
Les Amériques ne figurent encore sur aucune carte quand Moshé décide de fuir son shtetl misérable et les pogroms qui le ravagent. Répondant à l’appel du large et de l’inconnu, le boychik de quatorze ans embarque comme moussaillon sur un...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
- Author:Madden, Thomas F.Summary:
Saint Louis University professor Thomas Madden delivers a series of lectures exploring all facets of the Inquisition, including the religious and political climate of its time and the Inquisition's relationship to heresy and reformation...
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Author:Moffette, DavidSummary:This thorough analysis of immigration governance in Spain explores the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion at play at one of Europe’s southern borders. Drawing on interviews with policymakers and from parliamentary debates, laws, and...
- Author:Pérez Galdós, BenitoSummary:
Capturing a ninteenth-century Spanish world of political tumult and personal obsession, Benito Pérez Galdós's Fortunata and Jacinta tells of two women who love the same man unfailingly—one as his mistress, the other as his wife.
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- Author:Ernest HemingwaySummary:
An American learns the true value of life while fighting with a guerrilla band during the Spanish Civil War.
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Author:Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel deSummary:The greatest book about why you shouldn’t read books, weirdly written at a time when there weren’t that many books to read. Quest along with Don Quixote and the long-suffering Sancho Panza as they break peoples’ china, get beaten up by...
- Author:Butler Hallett, MichelleSummary:
Constant Nobody takes readers deep into the brutal hearts of darkness of both civil war Spain and Soviet Russia during Stalin's purges. In those hellish places, men and women struggle with duty and survival while tormenting their...
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Author:Teixidor, EmiliSummary:In the rough hill country of rural Catalonia, the Spanish Civil War is over and the villagers live under occupation by the fascist Civil Guard. With his father in jail, facing possible execution as a subversive, and his mother working...
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Author:Kaye, AnnieSummary:Javier is fulfilling his parents' wishes by serving as a soldier in the Spanish army — a duty that will take the young swordsman far from his beloved home and family to a planned invasion of England. In France, his unit awaits the...
- Author:Stewart, Roderick, Majada, JesúsSummary:
Norman Bethune (1890-1939) was a man who had everything, and yet had nothing. Although he had achieved international prominence as a surgeon, he was unhappy in his personal life and deeply frustrated by a failed attempt to introduce...
- Author:Tovell, Freeman M.Summary:
Capitán de Navío Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was the most important Spanish naval officer on the Northwest Coast in the eighteenth century. Serving from 1774 to 1794, he participated in the search for the Northwest Passage and...
- Author:Banville, JohnSummary:
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish coast Don't disturb the dead... On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is...
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Author:Urza, GabrielSummary:It's 2004 in Muriga, a quiet town in Spain. Five years have passed since the murder of a young local politician, and the town's rhythms have almost returned to normal. But in the aftermath of the Atocha train bombings in Madrid, the...
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Author:Hébert, AnneSummary:This magnificent and final novel from Anne Hebert completes an internationally acclaimed literary oeuvre that is fearless in its explorations of the dark and violent side of human passion. Rose-Alba Almevida, her husband Pedro, and her...
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