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1) The butler
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Language
English
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"The moment the plane touched down at Ministro Pistorini Airport in Buenos Aires, Joachim von Hartmann knew in every fiber of his being that he was home. It was almost as if his heart and soul, and even his body, knew it. He had left as a boy of seventeen, twenty-five years before, when he moved to France with his mother, and new French stepfather. Eight years later, he went to England on a lark, which turned into a worthy career for the past seventeen...
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Sweet Island Inn volume 4
Language
English
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Description
"Toni's life has been a roller coaster. Years ago, the heartbreak caused by a cheating ex-husband left her in tatters. Then she discovered the run-down fixer-upper that would become the Sweet Island Inn. For a while, things were good. But when her brother Henry's tragic death sends her reeling all over again, she's back to square one."--Provided by publisher
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Language
English
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"The late 1800s find fourteen-year-old Batya in the Russian countryside, fleeing endless pogroms with her family. Desperate, her father leaps at the opportunity to marry Batya to a worldly, wealthy stranger who can guarantee his daughter an easy life and passage to America. Feeling like a princess in a fairytale, Batya leaves her old life behind as she is whisked away to a new world. But soon she discovers that she's entered a waking nightmare. Her...
Author
Series
Black Ops Inc. (Cindy Gerard) volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Leaving the CIA to take a job with Black Ops, Inc., a private security and intelligence firm specializing in jobs the military and CIA will not touch, Gabriel Jones becomes involved with American journalist Jenna McMillan when she accidentally becomes caught in the middle of an assassination plot Gabriel is trying to foil in Buenos Aires.
7) At large
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ryan Barnes is youngest skater in a group on an international tour to South America, but a Argentinian team, led by an older skater and named Arsenio, is determined to win at any cost--including getting Ryan and his friends into serious trouble.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"En un pueblo perdido de la provincia de Buenos Aires, muchas cosas est�an a punto de extinguirse. Durante la crisis econ�omica de 2001 que desemboc�o en el corralito bancario, un grupo de vecinos se propone reunir el dinero necesario para llevar a cabo un proyecto que podr�ia ser una salida de la decadencia y la pobreza. Pero en medio de la incautaci�on general de los ahorros, sufren una estafa particular que los decide a recuperar lo perdido"--back...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In Buenos Aires, where her father is the legal attach�e at the U.S. Embassy, sixteen-year-old Tess falls in love and tries to live the fast and free life of her friends until she discovers the devastating consequences of ignoring rules.
10) The accomplice
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen years after the fall of the Third Reich, Max Weill has never forgotten the atrocities he saw as a prisoner at Auschwitz-nor the face of Dr. Otto Schramm, a camp doctor who worked with Mengele on appalling experiments and who sent Max's family to the gas chambers. As the war came to a close, Schramm was one of the many high-ranking former-Nazi officers who managed to escape Germany for new lives in South America, where leaders like Argentina's...
