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16 de julio de 1936, Islas Canarias. Un asesinato desencadena el golpe de estado de Franco y el inicio de la Guerra Civil española. 20 de julio de 1969, Rabat, Marruecos. Una familia celebra el aterrizaje a la luna en el jardín de una antigua mansión. Un asesinato tendrá lugar esa misma noche, destrozando el destino de la familia. Madrid, época actual. Helena Guerrero es una artista de renombre internacional, conocida por las sombras que invaden...
43) The storytellers
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Abdul and Grandfather pass through the streets of Fez, Morocco, and stop at an old gate, where Grandfather performs as a storyteller.
44) Marrakech noir
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This entry in Akashic's noir series takes the gritty sensibilities born out of American film and fiction to Marrakech.
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A journey to the heart of human nature through three short masterpieces. "Novels written by Guatemalans are, by definition, exotic. Guatemalan novels set in the jungles of Petén, in North Africa, or in the south of India might not have the charm of strangeness, but strictly speaking, they should be called 'exotic, '" declares the author in the introduction to this memorable volume.
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La historia de una joya heredada por dos hermanas en los albores del nazismo.Tánger es escenario de una trama de espionaje entre aliados y nazis por conseguir una ruta a través de África, para el tráfico de diamantes necesarios para los tanques. El amor entre una joven catl̤ica y un hombre judío, y la lucha por sobrevivir en una sociedad acelerada por el progreso tensan la trama de una novela que se desarrolla en una p̌oca tan fascinante como...
56) Whitefly
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When a fourth corpse in three days washes up in Tangier with a bullet in the chest, Detective Laafrit knows this isn't just another illegal immigrant who didn't make it to the Spanish coast. The traffickers. The drug dealers. The smugglers. They know what it takes to get a gun in Morocco, and so does Laafrit. As his team hunts for the gun, Laafrit follows a hunch and reveals an international conspiracy to unlock the case.
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Morocco, 1941. With France having fallen to Nazi occupation, twelve-year-old Josie has fled with her family to Casablanca, where they await safe passage to America. Life here is as intense as the sun, every sight, smell and sound overwhelming to the senses in a city filled with extraordinary characters. It's a world away from the trouble back home--and Josie loves it. Seventy years later, another new arrival in the intoxicating port city, Zoe, is...
58) Chaos: a fable
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"Mexican author Rubirosa is attending a book fair in Tangier when he reconnects with an old acquaintance, a Moroccan artist who asks one favor of his visiting friend: to access the puzzling files on a memory card. It could help fulfill the destiny of his son Abdelkrim. It could also unwittingly draw both men into irreversible events already in motion on distant shores. In America, Abdelkrim, a brilliant aspiring astronaut deemed "too Muslim" for citizenship,...
59) Heart of steel
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"Return to the gritty, alluring world of steampunk with the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Duke. Growing up in the dangerous world of the Iron Seas, the mercenary captain of the airship Lady Corsair, Yasmeen, has learned to keep her heart hard as steel. Ruthless and cunning, her only loyalty is to her ship and her crew-until one man comes along and changes everything ... Treasurehunter Archimedes Fox isn't interested in the Lady Corsair-just...
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Independent-minded Sibylla Spencer feels trapped in nineteenth-century London, where her strong will and progressive views have rendered her unmarriageable. Still single at twenty-three, she is treated like a child and feels stifled in her controlling father's house. When Benjamin Hopkins, an ambitious employee of her father's trading company, shows an interest in her, she realizes marriage is her only chance to escape. As Benjamin's rising career...
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