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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...
3) The rocks
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, A member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
417 p.
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 p.
Language
English
Description
From the Hollywood Hills to the streets of Barcelona, from lush vineyards and wineries to the most exclusive homes in Europe, let Elizabeth Adler take you on a journey with a story that will hold you spellbound. Bibi Fortunata was the hottest ticket in town: singer, actress, and celebrity. Two years ago she was arrested on suspicion of murdering her lover and his new mistress, who was also Bibi's best friend.Bibi was front-page news in a way her...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ellen, an autistic thirteen-year-old, navigates a new city, shifting friendships, a growing crush, and her queer and Jewish identities while on a class trip to Barcelona, Spain"--
7) Mum & Dad
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it's left to their three grown-up children in London to step in...Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who's never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor...
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...
10) 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.
11) 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.
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
Publisher
SSBFYR
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted and sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts, once good friends, begrudgingly travel to Spain together for a summer vacation where they uncover a secret their families kept hidden from them their entire lives.
Author
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 Fermín 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.
16) Viva Heather!
Author
Publisher
Magic Attic Press
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
80 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through a magic mirror Heather is transported back to Spain in 1492, where she learns about religious persecution and the true meaning of Passover.
17) 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
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 Fermín 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.
19) The sisterhood
Author
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xiv, 402 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reeling from a broken engagement, adopted 19-year-old Menina Walker flees to Spain to bury her misery by writing her overdue college thesis on a 16th century Spanish artist. When she discovers that a tiny swallow in the artist's painting is the same one on a medallion that is Menina's only link to her birth family, Menina digs deeper into the swallow's significance and uncovers an adventure involving orphans sent to the New World after the Spanish...
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.