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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
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Pablo Borla's marriage is reduced to confrontations with his wife over their daughter's rebellious ways and his firm builds only repellent office blocks destroying the fabric of old Buenos Aires. It all changes with the arrival of a young woman who brings to light a murder committed decades ago by those in his office. A murder everyone assumed was forgotten. Claudia Piñeiro, after working as a professional accountant, became a journalist, playwright...
5) Argentina
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"Argentina is the largest country in the world that has Spanish as its main language. This and other fun facts are waiting for readers to discover as they explore the places and people that make this South American nation unique. From its government and environment to its arts and food, each aspect of life in Argentina is the subject of a focused chapter that features the latest facts and vibrant photographs. Fact boxes and maps provide additional...
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Argentina is the eighth largest country in the world, stretching from the waterfalls of Iguazu to ushuaia, the gateway to Patagonia and the doorstep of the Antarctic. Though home to diverse and beautiful terrains, Argentina is not without cosmopolitan flair, the capital city, Buenos Aires offers visitors a slive of European sophistication in South America with its vibrant cafe culture.
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Viernes 13 de enero de 2006. Más de trescientos policías rodean la manzana del Banco Río en la localidad de Acassuso: una banda toma veintitrés rehenes. Pasan las horas y los ladrones no se entregan. Los grupos de elite deciden irrumpir. Cuando entran, ocurre lo impensado: los asaltantes no están y, como si fuera un acto de magia, sólo quedan las víctimas. Ya sobre la noche, el misterio se revela: fingieron un robo exprés para burlar a los...
11) 17 stone angels
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Miguel Fortunato, a Buenos Aires police officer nearing retirement who months before had been ordered to take part in the kidnapping that resulted in the death of an American, is teamed up with an American to work on that very case.
12) Betty Boo
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When a renowned Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in an exclusive gated community called La Maravillosa, the novelist Nurit Iscar (once nicknamed Betty Boo owing to a resemblance to the cartoon character Betty Boop) is contracted by a former lover, the editor of a national newspaper, to cover the story. Nurit teams up with the paper's veteran, but now demoted, crime reporter. Soon they realize that they are falling in love, which...
14) Buenos Aires
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Packed with the same reliable information and lush color photography as the acclaimed DK Eyewitness Travel Guides, the DK Top 10 Guides are fully illustrated, pocket-sized, and offer a handy pull-out map marking all the major sights.
15) Include me out
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Mara is a simultaneous interpreter who moves to a provincial town in Argentina in order to speak as little as possible for a year. Steeled with the ten rules of silence set out in her manual of rhetoric, she takes a job as a guard in the local museum. The advantages of her work are threatened when she's asked to assist in the re-embalming of the museum's pride and joy: two horses--of great national and historical significance--are disintegrating and...
16) Argentina
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Describes how the culture of Argentina is reflected in its many festivals, including the National Gaucho Festival, Carnival, and the National Immigrant Festival.
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San Cristóbal was an unremarkable city-small, newly prosperous, contained by rain forest and river. But then the children arrived. No one knew where they came from: thirty-two kids, seemingly born of the jungle, speaking an unknown language. At first they scavenged, stealing food and money and absconding to the trees. But their transgressions escalated to violence, and then the city's own children began defecting to join them. Facing complete collapse,...
18) All my goodbyes
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A young Argentinian woman feels her identity is in pieces. Diffident, self-critical, wary of commitment, she is condemned, or condemns herself, to repeated acts of departure, from places, parents, and lovers. Then, arriving in the southernmost region of Patagonia, she convinces herself she has found happiness, until she's caught up in the horrific murders that haunt her story.
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