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Updated April 26, 2023
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A game of thrones : book one of A song of ice and fire
Martin, George R. R.
Paper Book
NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES--THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON   Here is the first book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece. A GAME OF THRONES  

Set in Westeros

A year in Provence
Mayle, Peter.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures...
The hobbit : or, There and back again
Tolkien, J. R. R.
Paper Book
The stirring adventure that begins The Lord of the Rings, the greatest fantasy epic of all time When Thorin Oakenshield and his band of dwarves embark upon a dangerous quest to reclaim the hoard of gold stolen from them by the evil dragon Smaug, Gandalf the wizard suggests an...

Set in Middle Earth

Las ruinas
Smith, Scott
Paper Book
Unos jóvenes norteamericanos que pasan unas vacaciones en México ven como sus días de diversión se convierten en una pesadilla. Lo que en un principio iba a ser un aventura emocionante por la jungla mexicana, se convertirá en una caza y captura en la que

Set in the Yucatan

The house of the spirits
Allende, Isabel.
Paper Book
Chilean writer Isabel Allende's classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country's turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too...

Set in Latin America

One hundred years of solitude
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel
Paper Book
A classic of world literature for all time--and probably Marquez's most famous work. The first piece of literature since the Book of Genesis that should be required reading for the entire human race . . . with more lucidity, wit, wisdom, and poetry than is expected from 100 years of novelists, let...

Set in Colombia

For whom the bell tolls
Hemingway, Ernest
Paper Book
Ernest Hemingway's masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honor tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War. In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three...

Set in Spain

Walking the Bible : a journey by land through the five books of Moses
Feiler, Bruce S.
Paper Book
"An instant classic. . . . A pure joy to read." --Washington Post Book World Both a heart-racing adventure and an uplifting quest, Walking the Bible presents one man's epic journey- by foot, jeep, rowboat, and camel- through the greatest stories ever told. From crossing the Red...
Under the Tuscan sun : at home in Italy
Mayes, Frances.
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane--now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword   "This...
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