The Dead Sea scrolls

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Kathleen M. Glenn and Janet Pérez

"Cristina Fernandez Cubas is, without question, one of the most important of the Spanish writers who have begun to publish since the end of the Franco dictatorship. Credited with playing a major role in the renaissance of the short story in Spain, she has won national and international acclaim for her fiction. Works by her have been translated into eight languages and have become a staple of university courses on contemporary Peninsular literature. Fernandez Cubas has created a remarkably coherent narrative world, nourished by a core of fundamental concerns. The eleven essays of Mapping the Fiction of Cristina Fernandez Cubas examine the intellectual preoccupations, narrative strategies, and rhetorical devices that distinguish the four volumes of short stories, two novels, the play, and the book of memoirs that she has published to date."--Jacket.

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Christina Dodd

"A su regreso de la Santa Cruzada, Raymond, conde de Avraché, confidente del rey y primo de la reina de Inglaterra, debe contraer matrimonio por orden del monarca con Juliana de Lofts, una rica heredera y señora de dos importantes castillos. Sin embargo, los hechos no siguen el curso esperado: en varias ocasiones, y sin posteriores disculpas, la dama lo ha dejado plantado frente al altar, convirtiéndolo en el hazmerreír de la corte. ¿Qué razones se ocultan tras el comportamiento de lady Juliana? Raymond decide averiguarlas y, para ello, oculta su identidad y se presenta ante tan difícil señora como maese constructor. Aunque existe un pequeño problema: ¡desconoce el arte de edificar fortalezas o barreras de defensa! Bajo este disfraz, el caballero penetrará en el interior del castillo y descubrirá a una delicada dama de valor y astucia incomparables, una madre entregada y mujer indomable que guarda un secreto insospechado."--Page 4 of cover. Ordered by the king himself to marry a man she does not know, Lady Juliana refuses and barricades herself behind castle walls, but her resolve begins to melt with the arrival of her intended, Raymond, the handsome Count of Avrache.

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Ėlen Gremiĭon

Argentina, konet͡s 1980-kh. Strana tolʹko-tolʹko nachala prikhoditʹ v sebi͡a posle mnogoletneĭ voennoĭ diktatury Khorkhe Videla. Odnazhdy psikhoanalitik Vittorio vli͡ubilsi͡a s pervogo vzgli͡ada v krasavit͡su Lisandru, vserʹez uvlechennui͡u tango. Proĭdet neskolʹko let, brak Vittorio i Lisandry medlenno razrushaetsi͡a, i vot odnim sirenevym vecherom pod zvuki tango Lisandra vypadaet iz okna. Sama ona reshila svesti schety s zhiznʹi͡u? A mozhet, za ee smertʹi͡u stoit kto-to iz pat͡sientov Vittorio, raskryvshikh na seansakh u psikhoanalitika vsi͡u podnogotnui͡u svoeĭ dushi? Ili Lisandra stala zhertvoĭ muzha - idealʹnogo kandidata na rolʹ ubiĭt͡sy? I lishʹ Eva Marii͡a, odna iz samykh vernykh poklonnit͡s talantlivogo vracha, ubezhdena v ego nevinovnosti i reshaet rassledovatʹ tainstvennui͡u smertʹ.

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Alberto Angela

"Through lively and detailed vignettes all based on historical documents and archaeological finds, [this work] travels back in time and shows us a world that was perhaps not very different from our own, and in so doing reinforces its relevance for a new generation of readers."--Front jacket flap.