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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 25
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago. During what was supposed to be a routine investigation in South America, NUMA...
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"This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on one child in Europe in 1938 and another in the United States in 2019. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler was six years old when his father disappeared during Kristallnacht-the night their family lost everything. Samuel's mother secured a spot for him on the last Kindertransport...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
1989. La sociedad salvadorenأa vive sumida en el horror de la Guerra Civil. Una fatidica madrugada de noviembre, un grupo de hombres armados entra en las instalaciones de la Universidad Catolica y asesina a seis jesuitas y dos mujeres a sangre frÃa. El padre Tojeira se ve entonces obligado por las circunstancias a tomar las riendas de la Compania en esos dias siniestros tras la masacre, con el deseo y la obligacion de descubrir la verdad...
6) Salvador
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Richard Boyle, a journalist, down on his luck in the US, drives to El Salvador to chronicle the events of the 1980 military dictatorship.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana,...