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Temperance Brennan mystery volume 5
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In the searing heat of Guatemala, Dr Temperance Brennan must harden herself against the horrors she excavates. And then four young girls go missing from Guatemala City. When a skeleton is found at the back of a rundown hotel, only someone with Tempe's expertise can deduce the identity and cause of death. But as she searches for answers, her path is blocked at every turn. It is clear that some people will stop at nothing to keep Guatemala's secrets...
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"In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster--a 60-year-old human rights scholar--hits the car of Evelyn Ortega--a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala--in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and...
4) Merrick
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Vampire chronicles volume 7
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In this seventh volume of the Vampire Chronicles, it is Lestat's friend and coeval Louis de Pointe du Lac who takes centre stage, tortured by the memory of the child vampire, Claudia, whom he loved and lost. Merrick must use black witchcraft to call up her ghost, however dangerous this may be...
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A Christian missionary with a troubled past tracks his wayward, alcoholic father to the lawless wilds of present-day Guatemala, a land beset by violent gangs, political corruption, and crushing poverty. It is also an easy place to get killed. The sudden interest of a rogue's gallery of local gangsters will make the father-son reunion more dangerous than either could have imagined. A gritty thriller about family and solitude, travel and home, cynicism...
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Paul Madriani novel volume 7
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When a lawyer friend and his client are murdered outside the San Diego courthouse, attorney Paul Madriani fears he may have been the actual target and takes the case of a suspect he believes may hold the answers.
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"In this atmospheric thriller set at a luxury memoir-writing workshop on the shores of Lake Atitlaan, Guatemala, a grieving mother goes undercover to investigate her daughter's mysterious death. Rose, the mother of 20-something aspiring writer Jules, has waited three months for answers about her daughter's death. Why was she swimming alone when she feared the water? Why did she stop texting days before she was last seen? When the official investigation...
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Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -"en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible"- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan "en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas": una chilena, una joven guatemalteca indocumentada y un maduro norteamericano. Los tres sobreviven a un terrible temporal de nieve que cae en pleno...