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Passenger novels volume 1
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1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flight bag, the plane’s black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that...
3) The pearl
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"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to tragedy. Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems"--P. [4] of cover.
4) El italiano
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
391 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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A young bookseller's life is turned upside down when she rescues an unconscious Italian combat diver on her usual walk on the beach.
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Publisher
Coco Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 23 cm.
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Zorro es feliz paseando por los senderos marítimos. Colecciona libros de botánica y conoce casi todas las especies de flora. Pero un día Gaviota le explica que existe una flor muy extraña en las profundidades del mar que brilla en la oscuridad. Sin pensarlo, Zorro se sumerge en busca de esta belleza. Las maravillosas ilustraciones del artista Benjamin Flouw crean esta historia de amor a la naturaleza, los animales y el fondo marino para darnos...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Western Australia, 1886. After months at sea, a slow boat makes its passage from London to the shores of Bannin Bay. The sea is a shocking blue, and gulls float above battered mangrove jetties. From the deck, young Eliza Brightwell and her family eye their strange new home. Here is an unforgiving land where fortune sits patiently at the bottom of the ocean. A land where pearl shells bloom to the size of soup plates. Where men are coaxed into unthinkable...
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Groupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
620 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"El pasajero: 1980, Mississippi. Son las tres de la madrugada cuando Bobby Western se sumerge en el mar del golfo de México con su traje de neopreno e ilumina el avión hundido con la linterna de buceo: nueve cuerpos con el cinturón de seguridad aún abrochado. Faltan la caja negra y el décimo pasajero. Pero ¿cómo es posible? Testigo colateral de maquinaciones que solo pueden perjudicarle, Bobby se ve ensombrecido en cuerpo y espíritu por hombres...
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Korea, 1943. Hana has lived her entire life under Japanese occupation. As a haenyeo, a female diver of the sea, she enjoys an independence that few other Koreans can still claim. Until the day Hana saves her younger sister from a Japanese soldier and is herself captured and transported to Manchuria. There she is forced to become a “comfort woman” in a Japanese military brothel. But haenyeo are women of power and strength. She will find her way...
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