Mario Escobar
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Librarian Of Saint Malo
$17.99Libraries are being ransacked. France is torn apart by war. A French librarian is determined to resist. Told through smuggled letters to an author, an ordinary librarian describes the brutal Nazi occupation of her small coastal village and the extraordinary measures she takes to fight back.
Saint-Malo, France: August 1939. Jocelyn and Antoine are childhood sweethearts, but just after they marry, Antoine is drafted to fight against Germany. As World War II rages, Jocelyn uses her position as a librarian in her town of Saint-Malo to comfort and encourage her community with books. Jocelyn begins to write secret letters smuggled to a famous Parisian author, telling her story in the hope that it will someday reach the outside world.
France falls and the Nazis occupy Jocelyn’s town, turning it into a fortress. The townspeople try passive resistance, but the German commander ruthlessly begins to destroy part of the city’s libraries. Books deemed unsuitable by the Nazis are burnt or stolen, and priceless knowledge is lost.
Risking arrest and even her life, Jocelyn manages to hide some of the books while desperately waiting to receive news from her husband Antoine, now a prisoner in a German camp.
Jocelyn’s mission unfolds in her letters: to protect the people of Saint-Malo and the books they hold so dear. Mario Escobar brings to life the occupied city in sweeping and romantic prose, re-creating the history of those who sacrificed all to care for the people they loved.
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Remember Me : A Spanish Civil War Novel
$16.99Madrid, 1934. Though the Spanish Civil War has not yet begun, the streets of Madrid have become dangerous for thirteen-year-old Marco Alcalde and his younger sisters, Isabel and Ana. When Marco’s parents align themselves against General Franco and his fascist regime, they have no inkling that their ideals will endanger them and everyone they love-nor do they predict the violence that is to come.
When the Mexican government promises protection to the imperiled children of Spain, the Alcaldes do what they believe is best: send their children, unaccompanied, across the ocean to the city of Morelia-a place they’ve never seen or imagined. Marco promises to look after his sisters in Mexico until their family can be reunited in Spain, but what ensues is a harrowing journey and a series of heartbreaking events. As the growing children work to care for themselves and each other, they feel their sense of home, family, and identity slipping further and further away. And as their memories of Spain fade and the news from abroad grows more grim, they begin to wonder if they will ever see their parents again or the glittering streets of the home they once loved.
Based upon the true stories of the Children of Morelia, Mario Escobar’s Remember Me explores the agony of war and paints a poignant portrait of one family’s sacrificial love and endurance.
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Children Of The Stars
$16.99From international bestselling author Mario Escobar comes a story of escape, sacrifice, and hope amid the perils of the second World War.
August 1942. Jacob and Moses Stein, two young Jewish brothers, are staying with their aunt in Paris amid the Nazi occupation. The boys’ parents, well-known German playwrights, have left the brothers in their aunt’s care until they can find safe harbor for their family. But before the Steins can reunite, a great and terrifying roundup occurs. The French gendarmes, under Nazi order, arrest the boys and take them to the Vélodrome d’Hiver-a massive, bleak structure in Paris where thousands of France’s Jews are being forcibly detained.
Jacob and Moses know they must flee in order to survive, but they only have a set of letters sent from the south of France to guide them to their parents. Danger lurks around every corner as the boys, with nothing but each other, trek across the occupied country. Along their remarkable journey, they meet strangers and brave souls who put themselves at risk to protect the children-some of whom pay the ultimate price for helping these young refugees of war.
This inspiring novel, now available for the first time in English, demonstrates the power of family and the endurance of the human spirit-even through the darkest moments of human history.
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Color Del Corazon – (Spanish)
$13.99Esta novela es atractiva y se basa en uno de los episodios más oscuros de la historia de Estados Unidos y le da vida a una historia que es más relevante hoy en día de lo que nunca ha sido.Mario es actualmente es uno de los autores más vendidos en Amazon en español. Sus seguidores cada vez son más, ya que es un prolífico escritor que ahora publica en todas las editoriales principales en varios idiomas. Anticipamos que esta historia resonará en su audiencia, pero tambien lo presentará a un nuevo mundo de lectores. Esto está a punto de ser la próxima Canción de cuna de Auschwitz.
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Auschwitz Lullaby : A Novel
$17.99In 1943 Germany, Helene is just about to wake up her children to go to school when a group of policemen break into her house. The policemen want to haul away her gypsy husband and their five children. The police tell Helene that as a German she does not have to go with them, but she decides to share the fate of her family. After convincing her children that they are going off to a vacation place, so as to calm them, the entire family is deported to Auschwitz.
For being German, they are settled in the first barracks of the Gypsy Camp. The living conditions are extremely harsh, but at least she is with her five children. A few days after their arrival, Doctor Mengele comes to pay her a visit, having noticed on her entry card that she is a nurse. He proposes that she direct the camp’s nursery. The facilities would be set up in Barrack 29 and Barrack 31, one of which would be the nursery for newborn infants and the other for children over six years old.
Helene, with the help of two Polish Jewish prisoners and four gypsy mothers, organizes the buildings. Though Mengele provides them with swings, Disney movies, school supplies, and food, the people are living in crowded conditions under extreme conditions. And less than 400 yards away, two gas chambers are exterminating thousands of people daily.
For sixteen months, Helene lives with this reality, desperately trying to find a way to save her children. Auschwitz Lullaby is a story of perseverance, of hope, and of strength in one of the most horrific times in history.
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Mas Alla De Las Fronteras De M – (Spanish)
$9.99Tras la destruccion de Ione, Tes y sus amigos deciden ir en busca de una ciudad en la que pueden habitar. En el viaje descubriran que no todos los adultos han muerto. Muchos se han convertido en monstruos, de aspecto desagradable y costumbres canibales. Deciden viajar hasta el sur, pasan por Reno en Nevada, aunque su destino es California. Hay rumores de que un medico de San Francisco ha encontrado una cura. En Reno, encontraran a los angelicales, un grupo que elimina a las nias, porque cree que son las que transmiten el virus. Tes y sus amigos terminaran con esta horrible practica, pero los susurrantes (adultos enfermos) atacaran Reno y todos escaparan hacia California.
After the destruction of Ione, Tes and his friends decide to search for a city to live in. In their journey, they discover that not all the adults have died. Many have become disfigured monsters with cannibalistic tendencies. Tes and his friends decide to head south and go through Reno, Nevada on their way to California. There are rumors that a doctor in San Francisco has found a cure. In Reno, they come across the “Angelicales,” a group that kills young girls for being the supposed cause of the virus. Tes’ group finally puts an end to this horrible practice, but the “whispering ones,” the infected adults, attack Reno, and everyone flees to California.
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IONE – (Spanish)
$9.99En el ao 7 de la Nueva Era, el mundo es muy diferente a cuando Tes tenia diez aos; una bacteria ha exterminado a todos los hombres y mujeres mayores de dieciocho aos y los humanos que han quedado sobreviven como pueden en todas las partes del mundo, al igual que Tes tras la perdida de sus padres, John y Graciela, pastores de la iglesia bautista de la ciudad. La vida de Tes en la pequea ciudad de Ione en Oregon es tranquila a pesar de que Frank, el jefe de su clan, se esta volviendo cada vez mas despotico. La llegada al pueblo de un extrao llamado Peter, que dice provenir de la ciudad, levanta la sospecha de que hay mas supervivientes al otro lado de las montaas….
In the year 7 of the New Era, the world is very different to when Tes was ten years old. A bacteria has killed every man and woman over eighteen years of age. Now the surviving humans are managing to get by the best they can all over the world, just like Tes after losing his parents, John and Graciela, pastors of the local Baptist church. Tes’ life in the small town of Ione, Oregon is relatively calm even though Frank, the leader of their clan, is turning more and more into a despot. When Peter, claiming to be from the city of Portland, shows up in town, they begin to suspect there more be more survivors across the mountains. Frank puts the intruder in prison, condemning him to death for lying. The community’s harsh laws, imposed by the prophet Mateo, forbid clan members from entering the forest….
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Francisco – (Spanish)
$13.99Primer Papa Jesuita. Primer Papa Latinoamericano. Un hombre que eligio como su primer acto una simple peticion: por favor oren por mi.
La reciente dimision del Papa Benedicto XVI tomo al mundo por sorpresa y por buenas razones. Mas de 600 aos han pasado desde que un Papa renuncio a su cargo.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, ahora Papa Francisco, es un hombre de oracion, un hombre de accion y un hombre humilde que siempre ha promovido a otros sobre si mismo. El fue quien en 2005 renuncio al papado, para facilitar el ascenso de Benedicto XVI.
Sin embargo, el nuevo Papa enfrenta a una iglesia catolica en crisis -una iglesia que ha perdido la atraccion de los medios de comunicacion de Juan Pablo II y es acosada por los escandalos de pedofilia. Su primer ao puede no ser facil, pero ni este hombre ni la Iglesia han eludido los retos que se les han impuesto.
El Papa Francisco es un hombre sencillo pero con una amplia formacion teologica. Es un hombre de su tiempo, pero uno que tambien viaja en metro y autobus al igual que cualquier otro ciudadano. Ha llegado por fin la primavera despues de este invierno tan largo?
El primer papa latinoamericano es una completa biografia de un hombre humilde que repentinamente se ha convertido en uno de los hombres mas poderosos e influyentes del planeta.
First Jesuit. First Latin American. And a new pope who chose as his first act a simple request: please pray for me.
The recent resignation of Pope Benedict XVI took the world by surprise, and for good reason. More than 600 years had passed since a pope last left his post.
Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, is a man of prayer, a man of action and a humble man who has always promoted others over himself. In fact, it was Bergoglio who bowed out of the running in the papal election of 2005 to facilitate the rise of Benedict XVI.
However, the new pope faces a Catholic Church in crisis-a church that has lost the media pull of John Paul II and is still hounded by pedophile scandals and the filtration of documents from former papal administrations. His first year may not be an easy one but neither this man nor the church itself has ever shied away from the challenges thrust upon them.
Pope Francis is austere and simple but has vast theological training. He is a man of his time but one who also travels by subway and bus just like any other citizen. Tirelessly fighting poverty and marginalization, he is a beacon of hope for the poor, persecuted sectors of the
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