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A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well
Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and in cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native Americans by European settlers and first feels the inner conflict of his heritage.
At the age of sixteen, Diego is sent to Barcelona for a European education. In a country chafing under the corruption of Napoleonic rule, Diego follows the example of his celebrated fencing master and joins La Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. With this tumultuous period as a backdrop, Diego falls in love, saves the persecuted, and confronts for the first time a great rival who emerges from the world of privilege.
Between California and Barcelona, the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born, and the legend begins. After many adventures -- duels at dawn, fierce battles with pirates at sea, and impossible rescues -- Diego de la Vega, a.k.a. Zorro, returns to America to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for all who cannot fight for it themselves.
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Show, don't tell!.......2007-09-12
I was looking for a clever retelling of this fictional American homegrown hero, something with an interesting feminine twist. What I got was indeed a retelling, but not as clever or interesting as I had hoped.
This is a "tale of origin" explaining how Zorro became the masked avenger. He is born Diego de la Vega, son of a Spanish hidalgo and a fierce Shoshone she-warrior. Apparently, the author took great pains to research this book. Kudos. Despite all the research, there seemed to be something a little off. It wasn't so much the facts that were suspect(although I'd like to check if the Shoshone values of "Okahue" were created to serve the plot), but the way the facts integrated--or failed to integrate--with the story. At one point Diego is bitten by a rattlesnake. "Diego remembered some of the facts he had learned about rattlesnakes..." The facts that follow may as well be numbered, taken from some text or scientific article. The fencing scenes are even worse. You might as well read from a manual. I listened to the audiobook, so here is my best paraphrase: "He held his arm 180 degrees in front, foil pointed forward, left arm raised 90 degrees over his head for balance." Yes, that makes for quite the thrilling fight scene. The gripes go on. Every other word is a cliche (the translator's fault?), there is hardly any dialogue, the prose is bland, the characters flat and impossible to sympathize with, as they have as much pep as are papier mache.
This is my first Allende book, and I hear she is renowned for her well-drawn female characters and ability to write emotional drama. I can't speak for her other books, but here I found Julianna a distressed damsel, and Isabelle just annoying. Nuria, the girls' chaperone, is religious, superstitious and narrowminded, which makes her the most interesting of all. As for the men...Bernardo the mute Shoshone is sympathetic, mainly because of some emotional manipulation on the writer's part by making him an orphan who refuses to talk due to his suffering. She tries to make Zorro a sort of "scarlet pimpernel" type who behaves flamboyantly while defending the downtrodden from behind his mask. As with all her descriptions, she never gets more specific than saying he "dressed well" and "behaved flamboyantly". No "show", all "tell". She also tends to spell things out in case the reader wasn't observant enough to figure out something themselves.
I'd like to end on a positive note. Scientific discussion of rattlesnake bites aside, I did enjoy Diego's and Bernardo's Spirit Quests with the Shoshone tribe. I thought the two boys' respective experiences finding their totem animals did more to establish character than any other anecdote in this book.
Breathing life into the Legend.......2007-08-30
Now, I have the original Zorro novel, "Curse of Capistrano", and although all the basic elements are in there, the character of Zorro was truly brought into being by Douglas Fairbanks. His silent 'Mark of Zorro' established everything we know about the character, right down to his now-iconic look. Now, Isabel Allende takes the last step: making this pulp fiction character seem like a flesh and blood human being. Her Zorro is viewed through the sometimes jaundiced eye of the narrator, coming off as both a true hero and at the same time, an overgrown adolescent who likes playing dress-up and swashing his buckle. He seems more human than ever, rather than just an invincible hero who triumphs because his cause is just. I was a bit startled at first by the idea of Zorro's mother as an 'Indian' who barely tolerates her husband's white man's world, as it seemed like having Zorro really close and in tight with the natives is just a tad Lone Ranger, you know, but it works within the context of the book. I guess I'm more used to Mrs. Diego from the Tyrone Power remake of the movie, as just another senora, wife of the Don. This is a stronger and more interesting portrayal. I particularly appreciate the handling of genuine historical events and settings, which lends an extra verisimilitude. All in all, I've read this thing three times in less than two months, and it just made me hungry for more Zorro. Sorry, Antonio Banderas, but this is the real deal.
Super Reader.......2007-08-04
Not too bad, although Allende is clearly not that great an action/adventure writer. The first part of the book should be called 'The Unhappy mother of the boy who it looks like will become Zorro'. Included in this are a few Tom Sawyer type adventures for him and his mate.
Points for this though : they get attacked by pirates while ON THEIR RANCH! That is novel. Once they get to Spain, it becomes more interesting, as the boy is old enough for some serious escapades, and the identity of Zorro comes out.
After some Napoleonic induced problems there he and his female entourage return to yankeeland and there you get the full on Zorro feel. I think she was perhaps getting the hang of it a bit more by then.
El Zorro, Romantic and Honorable .......2007-08-01
I confess I have superhero ambitions. I am attracted to anyone having the fashion sense and BMI to pull off wearing tights and a cape in public and I want to be just like them when I grow up. The consummate altruism that comes along with the costume is an ideal I can only hope to achieve. Paragons of this race come along only once in a generation.
When Isabel Allende wrote El Zorro, I knew I had to read it. Zorro may not be the type of superhero that has a bat cave or changes clothes in a phone booth, but he's still a superhero of the most romantic kind.
Impatiently I waited for it to come out in paperback. Seeing it paraded in front of me constantly over the next few months, I broke down and bought it in hardcover, an honor normally reserved for books I plan to read over and over. It turns out that the investment was prudent. I recently reread this wonderful story. It was just as good the second time around.
The author herself is almost as interesting as her characters. Like El Zorro Diego de la Vega, Allende has noble roots. Like Diego de la Vega, she was essentially exiled to Spain as a young adult. Perhaps it was inevitable that she would write the story of the Fox. Even in translation, Allende writes beautifully. Although she lives in California, she writes in her native Spanish.
El Zorro explores the creation of not just a folk hero, but of the boy, Diego de la Vega, who grew up to become el Zorro. Spanning two continents and four decades, there is never a lull in the story. The swordplay is really cool, too.
Zorro's parents meet at a Spanish Mission. His father, Alejandro de la Vega, is the brilliant young officer charged with the mission's defense. His mother, Toypurnia, is the daughter of White Owl, a shaman and healer of the Gabrieleno tribe, and a Spanish sailor who deserted his ship and lived among the Indians.
Toypurnia is injured in an attack she leads on the San Gabriel mission. When the Spaniards discover that she is a woman, she is given medical treatment. Alejandro de la Vega is fascinated by her and often tends to her himself. She and Alejandro fall in love and rather than allow her to be executed as a captured enemy, Alejandro maneuvers Toypurnia into the protection of Doña Eulalia de Callís, the wife of the governor of Alta California, who, as a condition of Toypurnia's pardon, turns her into a "Christian Spanish lady" newly christened "Regina María de la Inmaculada Concepción." Alejandro and Toypurnia are married and inherit a grand estate when Doña Eulalia and her husband, Governor Pedro Fages, decide to return to Spain.
When Toypurnia seems to have failing health during her pregnancy with Diego, an unmarried pregnant Catholic Indian woman is sent from the San Gabriel Mission to be her servant. The two women give birth the same day, but since Toypurnia's health continues to decline the servant nurses both Diego and her own son, Bernardo. Diego and Bernardo come to be more than milk brothers, though. They are the best of friends and when Bernardo's mother is killed during a pirate raid on the family's compound, they are raised as true brothers. Bernardo is so traumatized by seeing his mother murdered by the marauders, though, that he becomes mute.
Bernardo is the perfect foil for Diego's personality. He is smart, strong, silent, sturdy, and unassailably loyal to his brother. Diego, on the other hand, is small, mischievous, brilliant, witty, and the instigator of most of the trouble the boys find.
Diego's Indian grandmother, White Owl, exerts as much influence on the course of the boys' lives as do the Spaniards who raise them. She takes the boys on shamanistic journeys of survival and character development. On a survival vision quest Bernardo finds his spirit animal, the horse Tornado, and Diego finds his totem, the fox. "Like the fox, you will discover what cannot be seen in the dark, you will disguise yourself, and you will hide by day and act by night," his grandmother explains after the vision quest.
Diego is sent to Barcelona, to the home of his father's best friend, to be educated. Naturally Bernardo accompanies him, ostensibly as a servant but in actuality Bernardo is educated the same as Diego. The Spanish household accepts the boys without reservation. He and Bernardo reach their adult growth there. As political intrigues permeate the Barcelona, Diego and Bernardo find themselves getting involved to preserve their own reputations as well as those of their patron. El Zorro, a masked and mustachioed liberator of political captives, is born due to the necessity of acting in secret.
The political climate in Barcelona becomes dire and Diego and Bernardo are entrusted with the safety of his patron's beautiful daughters. They escape back to America, encountering the famous pirates Pierre and Jean Lafitte in the process. Their return to Alta California does not improve their circumstances. The political climate there is at least as bad as it was in Barcelona. El Zorro has a need to continue to act. The Zorro we are all familiar with becomes the legend we love.
Allende's El Zorro embodies the melding of many different aspects of society into one conflicted and heroic personality. El Zorro becomes a legend because he has no choice given his integrity his complex background. Loyalties that should be divided find a simple resolution simply by doing what is right. Diego is of three worlds: Indian, Californio, and Spain. El Zorro cannot fail because of his wit and his friends and family.
The elements that make el Zorro a hero and a legend are the elements that create any true legend: mystery, physical prowess, masterful wit, and above all else, honor.
Easy, entertaining read - characters a bit frustrating.......2007-07-30
Three and a half stars. ***1/2
This was an easy read following the creation of Zorro from Diego de la Vega's childhood up to his first full adventure as Zorro in California. Unlike Allende's other books, it was more for entertainment than serious thought on a certain era of time and it felt like she just had a lot of fun writing it.
Although called "Zorro", the real focus is on the women who helped him become Zorro. Out of the books I've read by her, it was the first time I saw her have a man as her principal character which I think she struggled with a bit. Hence, her using the women's roles (her forte) to save her.
Anyway, I really enjoyed following the characters (although I could have slapped Juliana around a bit -- okay, I could have slapped a lot of them) on their wild ride to Zorro's creation.
I couldn't put the book down as her writing was quite gripping and certainly kept me entertained (beautifully written scenery and swashbuckling adventures!) but it wasn't as intellectually satisfying as her other works. For this, I'd recommend the book to seasoned Allende readers but not first timers. This is not a reflection of her usual work (except in terms of her ease in prose) and so beginners would be best introduced to her earlier works.
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Originally titled The Curse of Capistrano in its 1919 debut, this exciting tale achieved immortal fame thanks to Douglas Fairbanks's 1920 blockbuster film, The Mark of Zorro—a cinematic triumph that inspired Johnston McCulley to retitle his novel and dedicate it to Fairbanks. Set in Mexican California during the 1820s, the story follows the career of Don Diego Vega, by all appearances an effete and foppish aristocrat. But Vega's timorous reputation is nothing more than a mask to conceal his alter ego: a California Robin Hood known as Zorro, whose swift blade strikes down those who exploit the poor and oppressed. The inspiration for dozens of film and television adaptations, The Mark of Zorro remains a paradigm of swashbuckling adventure.
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A thrill-a minute ride set in the days of Spanish colonialism in California, where thugs and greedy tyrants try to wrest every penny from peasants . . . and the one hero who defends the common man is the mysterious masked stranger who calls himself Zorro--The Fox! The first Zorro story appeared as a 5-part serial in All-Story Weekly, a famous American pulp fiction magazine, starting in the August 9, 1919 issue. In a case of fortunate timing, Douglas Fairbanks, the silent movie star, was in the process of trying to change his image at the time, and he chose Zorro as his next starring role. In 1920, when the romantic swashbuckler debuted, it set movie box office records. Riot police had to disperse the huge crowds that showed up at the New York opening. Zorro entered the public consciousness and is now a part of popular culture, the same as such heroes as Superman, Tarzan, and The Lone Ranger. The rest is history.
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Super Reader.......2007-08-04
The Mark of Zorro is the first Zorro story, retitled for publication in many different book editions.
Repression and oppressive taxation grows in one corner of California. Don Diego Viega, whose picture might just be beside the word 'fop' if California had a dictionary, can do nothing about it.
As one of the local military says "he is about as dangerous as a lizard basking in the sun".
The same cannot be said for Zorro. The Fox offers the local peons some hope, and does what he can to foment resistance.
When the moneygrubbing goes to far and some of the reasonably well liked local aristocracy are imprisoned, things come to a head, especially after the flogging of the local friar.
In an amusing scene, Senorita Pulido gets herself out of captivity by holding herself hostage. Luckily, while fleeing, Zorro is on hand.
Comedy, and action, and romance as Zorro saves the day.
Well worth reading.
Adventures of the Paladin of Justice - Zorro.......2007-04-02
Excellent reading of old Spanish California - Paladin of Justice.
Recommend to young and/or old - global audiences.
Thought provoking and suspenseful filled with witt.
Viva El Zorro!.......2006-09-26
We all know the story of Zorro by now. I, myself, read The Mark of Zorro more than two decades ago, when I was a child and the copy I read was titled The Curse of Capistrano. No doubt, more people have seen the various Zorro films than have read the actual book, which started the Zorro legend. Johnston McCulley first introduced his iconic character in a five-part serial in the pulp magazine All Story Weekly, in 1919. The story proved to be popular enough, but this masked avenger really took off when silent film star Douglas Fairbanks read it and subsequently made it into the silent swashbuckling film The Mark of Zorro in 1920. Since then, Senor Zorro has never looked back.
Before re-reading this novel, I was afraid that I would find the writing stilted and archaic. Happily, the page-turning experience proved to be as reader-friendly as I remembered it. True, you do have to get into a certain mindset to get used to the writing style (this is classic pulp writing, after all), but, once you do, you'll be swept along. Zorro, nicknamed the Curse of Capistrano and the defender of Old California's oppressed, was still the same vibrant Zorro - dashing, bold, cunning, and intolerant of injustice. He still flashed that certain twinkle in the eye and displayed that playful nature. Handsome, wealthy Don Diego Vega, on the other hand, was still the dubious caballero, unbolstered by his languid, foppish mannerisms and hindered by the weak constitution. Upon seeking a girl's hand in marriage, Don Diego announced to her father that he would send his servant over at night to serenade the girl by proxy, because the chill night wind would kill the delicate Vega. Of course, we all know it's a game that Diego's been playing for years and his devotion to his wussy role makes it all the more delicious for the reader. Also, I was again struck by how delightful and plucky the beautiful love interest, Senorita Lolita Pulido, was.
Another thing I didn't recall was how long it took before Zorro's alter ego was divulged to the reader, although McCulley didn't really try too hard to hide his secret identity. People ignorant of the Zorro mythos (and under which rock have you been hiding?) would still be readily able to figure out who Zorro really is. However, the novel was almost at the last page before Zorro finally unmasked. But it was worth it to witness the stunned but happy reaction of Diego's father, Don Alejandro Vega, who had long been disappointed with his wimpish son.
To echo A. Nesbitt's spotlight review, if you thought Johnston McCulley only wrote this one Zorro adventure, think again. McCulley ended up writing more than 60 Zorro stories (65, to be exact), several of which were in serial format. The last Zorro tale, "The Mask of Zorro," was published in 1959 (Short Stories for Men magazine).
Full of derring-do, sword fights, daring escapes, a passionate love story, and a masked hero who laughs scornfully in the face of danger, it's escapism at its finest, imbued with a Spanish/Mexican flavor. Yes, it does borrow a bit from The Scarlet Pimpernel, but no matter. The Mark of Zorro is still as entertaining a read today as it undoubtedly was back in 1919. Give it a try and see why Zorro is hailed as the people's champion and why this book gave birth to so many reincarnations in cinema.
Meal Mush And Goat's Milk!.......2006-05-26
I liked this story quite a bit. I remember when I was a little kid watching The Zorro show on television so I was interested in reading this book and see how it all started. I thought overall it was really good.. Senorita Lolita sounds like a very attractive girl. I like how the story ended as well sort of caught me off guard a bit. If your any at all interested in Zorro then pick this book up.. Good stuff.
Justin
A Wonderful Romp.......2006-03-25
I found "The Mark of Zorro" to be a wonderful romp through a bygone era.
I read this book out loud to my father, and we could hardly put it down. If you like swashbuckling adventures, heroes who stand against injustice and play their part in the struggle between good and evil. Then "The Mark of Zorro" is for you. And if you enjoy finding the origins of things, as much as I do, then this book will be well
worth your wile. A true gem for anyone's collection.
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Before Batman, before all the other masked vigilantes to follow in his footsteps, the masked adventure known as Zorro meted out justice and aided the oppressed. Set in the early days of Spanish California these four volumes recapture the swashbuckling derring-do of the first masked vigilante: Zorro. Fans of westerns, high-romance and adventure will find their palates satiated with these volumes from some of today's greatest creators. Zorro: The Complete Alex Toth retells the swashbuckler`s incredible story by one of the most renowned and respected illustrators alive.
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Mask of Zorro: Mighty Chronicle OP (Mighty Chronicles)
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A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well
Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. At the age of sixteen, Diego is sent to Spain, a country chafing under the corruption of Napoleonic rule. He soon joins La Justicia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor.
Between the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born, and the legend begins. After many adventures -- duels at dawn, fierce battles with pirates at sea, and impossible rescues -- Diego de la Vega, a.k.a. Zorro, returns to America to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for all who cannot fight for it themselves.
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Thoroughly enjoyable.......2007-05-23
I'm not much for current fiction authors, especially if they don't write in English, but as a baby boomer, I'm an old Disney Zorro fan, so I decided to give this book a try. I was really surprised at how well this "literary" author constructed a backstory for what is, in essence, a pulp hero. Allende begins with a look at Diego de la Vega's father, not-yet-Don Alejandro, as a young military man in 1790 Spanish California, and his meeting with his future wife, a half-Spanish, half-Gabrieleno-Indian warrior woman and the daughter of a female shaman. Given a land grant by the Governor, Alejandro resigns from the army and sets to work to develop a rancho (along with a soap factory and a formula for preserving meat in a tasty way). In 1795 his only child, Diego, is born. Allende constructs a plausible boyhood for the future Zorro, showing how he acquires many of the skills and secrets that will later serve him so well, and painting a picture of his relationship with his "milk-brother," the mestizo Bernardo (who in Allende's version is not born mute, but shocked into it by his mother's rape and murder when he is 10), and his championing of his schoolmate, the future Sgt. Garcia. Deeply affected by the bullying Garcia undergoes at the hands of other boys, by the ill-treatment often visited on the native Indians by his father's neighbors, and by the mystic experiences connected to his Gabrieleno vision quest (in which he learns that his spirit guardian is El Zorro, the fox), his later experiences in Barcelona, where he is sent to school at 15, only solidify his sympathies for the underdog. In Barcelona he is exposed to the progressive philosophy of his host, Don Tomas de Romeu, as well as to the reforms and brutalities of the Napoleonic occupation of Spain (some of Allende's best prose lies in her descriptions of the strange juxtaposition of medievalism and modernity that is Barcelona at this time in history); he learns to fence, and is initiated into La Justicia, a secret society dedicated to helping the oppressed. He also falls head-over-heels in love with Juliana, Don Tomas's elder daughter--while her cross-eyed tomboy sister, Isabel, becomes equally, though silently, devoted to him. He fights a duel with Juliana's suitor, Rafael Moncada; he rescues political prisoners, has a love affair with a much older Gypsy widow, warns her tribe of a French prosecution, and after the occupation ends he gets Don Tomas's daughters and their duena all the way across Spain and onto a ship bound for America--only to run afoul of the infamous Jean Lafitte and his pirates, among whom he sees slavery and becomes even more devoted to helping the weak. Finally returning to California at 20, he begins his true career as Zorro by again besting Moncada, who has been sent as a royal envoy to Spain and has not only arrested Don Alejandro and confiscated his rancho, but has embarked upon a pearl-harvesting program that flies under the government's radar and exploits the Indians in the process. Wry humor and flashing action abound, and Diego's development from innocent yet mischievous child (including a splendidly described campaign to capture a live grizzly) to the dashing and compassionate Masked Avenger of Los Angeles is portrayed with skill, pace, and believability. (My only question is whether, as Allende asserts, the Spanish Crown took 90% of all wealth harvested from its colonies; I had understood that its share was 20%, "the King's fifth.") It's been some time since I read the Johnston McCulley original, so I can't vouch for how well the book dovetails into the situations described there, but Allende's version stands well on its own, reads quickly, and is compelling and exciting. Even if you don't read "literary" or non-American authors, if you ever watched a Zorro movie or TV episode (or wore a mask and cape and flourished a toy rapier), you'll enjoy this novel.
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Zorro #1: Scars! (Zorro Graphic Novels)
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"Scars!" is a Zorro adventure, a graphic novel featuring fierce battles with deadly foes and intense romance with a mysterious beauty, all set against the savage landscape of the untamed wilds of the Old West. Zorro seeks to find safe haven for Eulalia Bandini, a woman who dared defied the powerful Capitan Monasterio to save Zorro. But no matter how far north Zorro and Eulalia ride, Monasterio and his men are not far behind. Yet Zorro still stops to save Theirry and Amelie Besson, a middle-ages mapmaker and his wife, from the clutches of the cadaverous Ripklaw and his master, Lucifer Trapp!Discover the shocking reason why Trapp wants Besson dead; see the romantic tension increase between Zorro and Eulalia; see Zorro battling all along the breath-taking yet deadly beauty of Yellowstone. It all builds to Zorro's climatic battle to the death with Ripklaw on an ice bridge, while an earthquake threatens to kill everyone!
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toliet paper.......2006-09-25
I am without a doubt one of the biggest Zorro fanboys on this planet. I fell in love with the 1957 television series (the Disney vault re-runs of course) when I was a kid and have been a fan ever since. I collected every film from the 1920's "Mark of Zorro" to 1958's "The Sign of Zorro." I flocked to the theaters the moment I heard they were making a modern Zorro film in 1998 and again in 2005. So, when I heard that papercutz was going to release a graphic novel series I got excited and ordered a copy as soon as I could.
This is the worst version of Zorro...EVER! The dialog is corny, the action scenes are lacking substance, and the overall storyline is terrible. Zorro and his female companion Eulalia Bandini travel across the "wild west" looking for a safe haven to live since they were chased out of Los Angeles by Capitan Monasterio.
Normally, I would recommend a read like this for preteens but there are a few scenes involving blood shed and one frame of a wolf carcass being skinned...So parents be warned.
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Dracula Versus Zorro (#1)
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El Zorro De Arriba Y El Zorro De Abajo (Coleccion Archivos)
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- Bel Canto (P.S.)
- Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book
- Black Cherry Blues: A Dave Robicheaux Novel
- Blindness (Harvest Book)
Books Index
Books Home
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- Earl Nightingale's The Strangest Secret Millennium 2000 Gold Record Recording
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- Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
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- Earnings Measurement, Determination, Management, and Usefulness: An Empirical Approach
- Adam Smith's Lost Legacy
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Ines del Alma Mia: Novela
Ines of My Soul: A Novel (P.S.)
The House of the Spirits
Captain Alatriste
Daughter of Fortune: A Novel
