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Updated April 26, 2023
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In a sunburned country
Bryson, Bill.
CD
Read by the author Nine CDs, 10 hours Just in time for the 2000 Olympics-the bestselling quthor of A Walk in the Woods takes listeners on a truly outrageous tour Down Under. Compared to his Australian excursions, Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian Trail...

Set in Australia

Juego de tronos : cancion de hielo y fuego i
Martin, George R. R.
Paper Book
Con Juego de Tronos George R. R. Martin ha creado una obra maestra, ofreciendo todos los mejores aspectos del género. Misterio, intriga, romance y aventura llenan las páginas de este primer volumen de la monumental saga Canción de hielo y fuego, transportando al lector a un mundo como...

Set in Westeros

The hobbit : or, There and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
"In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit." So begins one of the most beloved and delightful tales in the English language. Set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth, at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of literature's most enduring and...

Set in Middle Earth

Behind the beautiful forevers life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Boo, Katherine.
CD
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport...
The ruins : a novel
Smith, Scott
Paper Book
Eerie, terrifying, unputdownable—Scott Smith’s first novel since his best-selling A Simple Plan (“Simply the best suspense novel of this year—hell, of the 1990s”—Stephen King). The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy...

Set in the Yucatan

La casa de los espiritus
Allende, Isabel.
Paper Book
La primera novela de Isabel Allende, La casa de los espiritus narra la saga de una poderosa familia de terratenientes latinoamericanos. El despotico patriarca Esteban Trueba ha construido con mano de hierro un imperio privado que empieza a tambalearse con el paso del tiempo y un entorno social...

Set in Latin America

One hundred years of solitude
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Paper Book
Now a Netflix series adaptation starring Claudio Cataño, Jerónimo Barón, and Marco González One of the twentieth century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning...

Set in Colombia

Salvaje
Strayed, Cheryl
Paper Book
Un libro poderoso e incendiariamente honesto: la historia de los 1800 kilómetros que la joven autora anduvo en su recorrido a pie por la cordillera del Pacífico de los Estados Unidos. Con veintidós años creía que lo había perdido todo en la vida, tras tom
For whom the bell tolls
Hemingway, Ernest
CD
Hemingway's classic novel of the Spanish Civil WarIn 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war; three years later he completed the greatest novel to emerge from "the good fight,"For Whom the Bell Tolls. The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades,...

Set in Spain

Beautiful ruins
Walter, Jess
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestseller--Jess Walter's "absolute masterpiece" (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author): the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and resurfaces fifty years later in contemporary Hollywood. The acclaimed, award-winning...
Free fire
Box, C. J.
Paper Book
Joe Picket returns, this time to the wilds of Yellowstone National Park. Deftly plotted and full of intrigue, Free Fireis C. J. Box's best novel yet. Joe Pickett, having recently been fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law's ranch when he receives a call from...

Set in Yellowstone National Park


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