Calibre library
Cryptonomicon [September 19, 2011]
Neal Stephenson
With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this cen...
Snow Crash [September 19, 2011]
Neal Stephenson
The only relief from the sea of logos is within the well-guarded borders of the Burbclaves. Is it any wonder that most sane folks have forsaken the real world and chosen to live in the computer-generated universe of virtual reality? In a major city, ...
The Big U [September 19, 2011]
Neal Stephenson
The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, ...
The Diamond Age [September 19, 2011]
Neal Stephenson
Decades into our future, a stone's throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken therigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neoVictorians. He's made an illicit copy of a st...
Zodiac: The Eco-Thriller [September 19, 2011]
Neal Stephenson
Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and pre...
Conquistadora [August 16, 2011]
Esmeralda Santiago
A gorgeous epic of love, discovery, and adventure by the beloved author of When I Was Puerto Rican.Even as a young girl in nineteenth-century Spain, Ana Cubillas is drawn to the exotic island of Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled ...
Red Hook Road [July 19, 2011]
Ayelet Waldman
Amazon.com ReviewPat Conroy Reviews Red Hook RoadPat Conroy is the author of nine previous books: The Boo, The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, Beach Music, My Losing Season, The Pat Conroy Cookbook: Rec...
The Informant [July 11, 2011]
Thomas Perry
Butcher's Boy [3]: “Perry’s novels—the best ones—are a master class in thriller writing. The Informant should be the newest addition to that syllabus, read for devouring first, and analysis thereafter.”—Los Angeles Times The Butcher’s Boy is back. T...
Sixkill [July 11, 2011]
Robert B. Parker
Spenser [40]: An extraordinary new Spenser novel from the beloved New York Times-bestselling author. On location in Boston, bad-boy actor Jumbo Nelson is accused of the rape and murder of a young woman. From the start the case seems fishy, so the ...
A Time for Patriots: A Novel [July 11, 2011]
Dale Brown
“A master….[Brown] puts readers right into the middle of the inferno.”—Larry BondNew York Times bestselling thriller-master Dale Brown delivers a story for our times. A Time for Patriots is one of his most explosive novels to date—a frightening, all-...
The Warlock [July 11, 2011]
Michael Scott
The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel [5.50]: In the fifth installment of this bestselling series, the twins of prophesy have been divided, and the end is finally beginning. With Scatty, Joan of Arc, Saint Germain, Palamedes, and Shakespeare al...
Island Beneath the Sea [April 24, 2011]
Isabel Allende
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds sola...
De Amor y de Sombra [April 24, 2011]
Isabel Allende
Robert Langdon [1]: Esta es la historia de una mujer y de un hombre que se amaron en plenitud, salvándose así de una existencia vulgar. "La he llevado en la memoria cuidándola para que el tiempo no la desgaste, y es sólo ahora cuando puedo finalmente...
La Suma de los Días [April 24, 2011]
Isabel Allende
En las páginas de este libro, Isabel Allende narra con franqueza la historia reciente de su vida y la de su peculiar familia en California, en una casa abierta, llena de gente y de personajes literarios, y protegida por un espíritu: hijas perdidas, n...
La Isla Bajo el Mar [April 24, 2011]
Isabel Allende
Para ser una esclava en el Saint-Domingue de finales del siglo XVIII, Zarité había tenido buena estrella: a los nueve años fue vendida a Toulouse Valmorain, un rico terrateniente, pero no conoció ni el agotamiento de las plantaciones de caña ni la as...
Qué es el Budismo [April 24, 2011]
Jorge Luis Borges and Alicia Jurado
"Que es el budismo no se limita a brindar un panorama de esta religion, de su fundador y sus doctrinas y derivaciones. En efecto, la propuesta que recibiera Jorge Luis Borges de pronunciar una serie de conferencias acerca de este asunto en el Colegio...
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