LIBROS DEL AUTOR: diana leon clark

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  • The Condor’s Shadow
    Diana Leon Clark
    Raul Riveiro is a man in crisis. His country remains bitterly divided fifty years after a violent dictatorhip that led to his own beloved uncle’s death; his marriage is a disappointment; and his work in international economics seems pointless. Despite encouraging words from his father and godfather, who’ve done their best to make Chile’s economy stronger and to advocate for Chi...
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    22,05 €

  • Antonio
    Diana Leon Clark
    'True love can defeat the forces of time, distance, and foolish mistakes,' Alicia RiveraAntonio Pereira loves his work, homeland, and family- well, most of them. Only his wife, their distant and difficult relationship, is a disappointment.The need to escape her and his own disastrous error in judgment will send him into the Amazon’s wildest corners and then on to Europe. Here, ...
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    26,18 €

  • To Eduardo Casas
    Diana Leon Clark
    'We need to resist the tyranny of low expectations and open our eyes to the inequality that remains.' Sheryl Sandberg Sofia Casas has a wonderful life-- a handsome, well-respected husband who loves his family, two talented and likable children, and permanent space in a prestigious gallery. It isn’t enough.Tired of being seen as the wallpaper of her family’s lives, Sofia flees S...
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    19,57 €

  • True North
    Diana Leon Clark
    'I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.' Jodi Picoult Anna Bennett, who’s run afoul of a professor while pursuing her Ph.D., marries a fellow graduate student and moves west with him, leaving her dreams of a career teaching at a university behind. Repackaging...
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    20,56 €

  • The Long Game
    Diana Leon Clark
    Bright,, well connected, and good looking, Michael De Benedetti looks forward to his second diplomatic posting in Santiago, Chile. After a military coup there and the establishment of a ruthless dictatorship, his enthusiasm quickly wanes. The indiscriminate violence of General Augusto Pinochet’s regime is bad enough, but Michael is enraged by his own government’s behavior. Thro...
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    22,64 €

  • A Song of Despair
    Diana Leon Clark
    Sometimes, monsters hide behind a polite smile. Angela Castro is an unhappy, frightened young woman married to a man her family and friends see as an ideal husband--handsome, wealthy, and seemingly devoted to his wife. Pregnant and desperate, Angela flees to a married cousin in Venezuela, where she slowly remakes her life. In time, she meets a Chilean professor exiled for speak...
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    21,80 €

  • Touchstone
    Diana Leon Clark
    Three men, one confused young woman--what could go wrong? Lucy Clarke has given up on men after a disastrous affair with a manipulative professor. Still, she is lucky enough to have a 'do-over', a year in New Zealand courtesy of a Fulbright scholarship.A cocky you American determined to win her, an upstairs neighbor who senses she isn’t ready to give away her heart though he’s ...
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    24,77 €

  • Hunting Barbara
    Diana Leon Clark
    'I won’t give up on us, Barbara. Not today, not tomorrow, not with my last breath.'Barbara Baines Allen has finally gotten the life she wants--a great job, a comfortable home in southern California, and friends she can count on. Her classes on familicide and family dynamics are always full, and she’s confident she’ll move up to Associate Professor in two or three years. The onl...
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    20,61 €

  • Interlude in Las Alpujarras
    Diana Leon Clark
    'Write what you know.' But what if that could get someone you love in trouble? Alexandria McCall has a big problem. Everyone close to her knows exactly what her future should look like--everyone except her. Determined to find that future on her own, Alex takes a small bequest from a favorite aunt and flees to southern Spain. There, she encounters a talented and reclusive Spanis...
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    18,63 €

  • The Light of Hidden Flowers
    Diana Leon Clark
    Arabella Davis, a North American scholar with romance on her mind, disrupts the settled lives of two wealthy Chilean brothers. The eldest, Diego, is appalled by Bella’s brash behavior and does his best to discourage her outlandish adventures--even enlisting the aid of his CIA friend. His younger brother, however, delights in her misadventures until a military coup, one backed b...
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    26,83 €

  • 1077 Callaway Street
    Diana Leon Clark
    'Mysteries, like great beauty, sometimes reveal themselves slowly.' Beauty starts within. That is the message Peter Vilaro gently delivers to young Lizzie Vitale, his troubled thirteen-year-old neighbor. Pere’s faith in her future and his tender support for Lizzie, who is bullied at school and unappreciated at home, transcends his sudden death. As she matures, Lizzie, now Liz, ...
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    17,52 €

  • Dangerous Ground
    Diana Leon Clark
    "Money, Douglas, money and power. That’s what oil and gas is all about. Why should I worry if a few lousy field workers get sick?" Problems with radiation in the oil and gas industry is the last thing on geologist Cherlynn Rodgers mind as she begins her new job at the Museum of Northern Arizona. All that changes, however, when a brash field geologist seeks the advice of his for...
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    17,41 €

  • Tapestries
    Diana Leon Clark
    "Sometimes, democracy must be bathed in blood."   General Augusto Pinochet A young Jesuit priest returns to Chile and a politically divided Catholic Church. After a violent military coup, his bishop assigns Alejandro the task of guiding and protecting the women of a church-sponsored workshop. At first reluctant to waste his time with lower-class women, Father Saavedra soon disc...
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    15,10 €