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The turbulent encounter of the Spanish conquerors and the Aztec Empire frames this story of jealousy and betrayal featuring two noble Catalonian brothers: the perseverant Guifré, kidnapped on his wedding day and traded as a slave to the New World, where he joins with the Aztecs; and the ambitious Domènech, a calculating monk on his way to becoming a high-ranking inquisitor and the powerful bishop of Catalonia...

Gr 6—10—It's Saturday morning, and 30 middle school students are in the part of the library known as the "Sala de conflictos" or "Room of conflicts...

Separated into six sections, the first being the largest and offering an alphabetical list of the most common false cognates, this quick reference guide, put together by the editors of the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española (ANLE), is both charming and accessible...

Gr 3—5—Julián gets good grades, is neat and orderly, and is never angry or disobedient...

On October 17, 1910, at the age of 23, brilliant young Italian philosophy student Michelstaedter mailed his dissertation to his advisers at the University of Florence and a day later shot himself to death...

Pearl's third historical novel explores the circumstances surrounding Charles Dickens's unfinished last work, The Mystery of Edwin Drood...

This is a new paperback edition of the last novel Nobel laureate García Márquez published before his memoir...

In this stirring, frank account, Jaber, a Lebanese-British foreign correspondent depicts her professional work covering the Gulf War and her personal engagement with an Iraqi family caught tragically in the crossfire...

One of the most widely read writers in Brazil (even more than Paulo Coelho), Cury is a psychiatrist and best-selling author of books on positive thinking and the psychology of mind...