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The Honorary Consul
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Graham Greene |
In a provincial Argentinean town, Charley Fortnum, a British consul with dubious authority and a weakness for drink, is kidnapped by Paraguayan revolutionaries who have mistaken him for the American … |
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Gauchos judíos
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Alberto Gerchunoff |
"Reprint, with minor changes, of the 1955 translation of Gerchunoff's 1910 classic volume about Jewish immigrants in rural Argentina. Twenty-six vignettes, with some inter-related characters, tell st… |
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Jack's run
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Roland Smith |
Kidnapped by drug czar Alonzo Asnar and held hostage in Argentina, Jack and his sister Joanne attempt a daring escape while their parents, aided by some old friends, set out to rescue them. |
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Indiana Jones and the arms of gold
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Lee Marrs |
The intrepid archaeologist Indiana Jones travels to Argentian to seek a lost Incan treasure. |
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Three musketeers
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Marcelo Birmajer |
Elias Traum, a former Argentinean currently residing in Israel, returns to Buenos Aires after 20 years of absence to mourn his two friends--two fellow Jews who together with him once comprised 'the t… |
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Seven ways to kill a cat
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Matías Néspolo |
Set in Buenos Aires at the time of Argentina's financial crash, and seen through the eyes of twenty-year-old Gringo, it tells the story of two boys on the cusp of adulthood who have no choice but to … |
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Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego
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Mariana Enríquez |
A haunting collection of short stories all set in Argentina. |
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The hostage
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William E. Butterworth III |
The second novel in W. E. B. Griffin's new bestselling series finds Presidential Agent Charley Castillo investigating the death of an American diplomat in Argentina, the kidnapping of the diplomat's … |
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Secret honor
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William E. Butterworth III |
A World War II spy novel set in Argentina, featuring Cletus Frade, an OSS agent and heir to an oil fortune in Texas. Argentina is crawling with Nazis--their submarines refuel there--and some Nazis ar… |
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At large
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Michael Anthony Steele |
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 co… |
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Eva Luna
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Isabel Allende |
The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence. |
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Against the Inquisition
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Marcos Aguinis |
"Born in sixteenth-century Argentina, Francisco Maldonado da Silva is nine years old when he sees his father, Don Diego, arrested one harrowing afternoon because of his beliefs. Raised in a family pr… |
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Dreaming of the delta
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Perla Suez |
"Argentine novel set during the Proceso de reorganización nacional; an experimental thriller that focuses on secrecy, betrayal, and violence and reflects the national struggle for power and control t… |
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Atmospheric disturbances
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Rivka Galchen |
When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves exactly like her. A simulatcrum. But Leo is not fooled, and he knows bet… |
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This Thing of Darkness
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Harry Thompson |
The year is 1828.
Brilliant young naval officer Robert Fitzroy is given the captaincy of HMS *Beagle*, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. But Fitzroy hides a dark secre… |
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The Rhinemann exchange
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Robert Ludlum |
Allied agent David Spaulding is selected by Allied Command to transact an undercover deal in Argentina involving top secret Nazi scientific plans. The dealer is Erich Rhinemann, an exiled German Jew … |
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In Dante's Debt
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Jane Porter |
Count Dante Galvan was ruthless. Though it broke Daisy's heart to hand over control of her family's horse farm to him, she had no alternative -- she was in Dante's debt up to her ears!
Part of the… |
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A Quiet Flame
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Philip Kerr |
Philip Kerr returns with his best-loved character, Bernie Gunther, in the fifth novel in what is now a series: a tight, twisting, compelling thriller that is firmly rooted in history.A Quiet Flame op… |
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The Oxford Murders
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Guillermo Martínez |
If I had read the last chapter first, I wouldn't have read the rest of the book. Th author needs to learn how to end a book. |
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The Hunters
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William E. Butterworth III |
Acting on orders from the president, Charley Castillo and his team travel to Uruguay in pursuit of answers pertaining to missing oil-for-food scandal funds, only to witness the murder of the man they… |
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