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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks...
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A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it, his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long...
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Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the...
4) Marina
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Español
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While exploring Barcelona, boarding school student Oscar Drai meets Marina, who takes him to a secret graveyard, where they see a woman in black lay a rose on a gravestone and follow her into a world of forgotten secrets.
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. Close to despair, he receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime--write a book unlike anything that has ever existed--a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins...
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Dang dai wen xue volume 043
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Yuan shen chu ban she you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2006
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中文（繁體）
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Dang dai wen xue volume 076
Publisher
Yuan shen chu ban she you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2009
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中文（繁體）
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Shi jie zhu ti zhi lü volume 118
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Tai ya chu ban you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2019.
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中文（繁體）
12) Taxi
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Salamandra Ñ
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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"Tenemos que hablar", le dice Lola a su marido durante el desayuno. Él le responde que lo harán por la noche, cuando acabe se jornada en el taxi. Sandino es un hombre melancólico, que duda en regresar a casa porque teme que Lola, harta de sus infidelidades, lo deje. No está muy seguro de si desea que eso suceda, como tampoco sabe si le gusta ser taxista, si es capaz de querer a alguien o si todo consiste en seguir rodando y chocando, como una...
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Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Rihanna, una joven trans de Marruecos es torturada hasta la muerte por sus secuestradores en las afueras de Barcelona. Marina regresa de un viaje y descubre que su amiga y compañera de piso ha sido brutalmente asesinada. Yusuf está asimilando el nacimiento de su hija cuando recibe una llamada: la joven no acompañada a la que ha estado apoyando en los últimos diez años ha muerto y hay más. Las desgracias nunca llegan solas. Los inspectores encargados...
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
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Español
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"En la Barcelona de finales de los años 50, Daniel Sempere ya no es aquel niño que descubrió un libro que habría de cambiarle la vida entre los pasadizos del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. El misterio de la muerte de su madre Isabella ha abierto un abismo en su alma del que su esposa Bea y su fiel amigo Fermín intentan salvarle. Justo cuando Daniel cree que está a un paso de resolver el enigma, una conjura mucho más profunda y oscura de...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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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.
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Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Banished from her abusive home for a summer with her estranged grandmother in Barcelona, twelve-year-old Alba feels hope and love while exploring a newly discovered passion for bread baking.
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