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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,05 €
ISBN 978-0-00-843000-9
EAN 9780008430009
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-847865-0
EAN 9780008478650
Cloud Cuckoo Land follows three storylines: Anna and Omeir, on opposite sides of the formidable city wall during the 1453 siege of Constantinople; teenage idealist Seymour and gentle octogenarian Zeno, in an attack on a public library in present day Idaho; and Konstance, on an interstellar ship bound for a distant exoplanet, decades from now. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-831950-2
EAN 9780008319502
The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar (R)-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York. 'Riotously funny' New York Times 'Just as loopy and clever as his movies' Washington Post B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 370 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-827087-2
EAN 9780008270872
How a New York Times bestselling author and New Yorker contributor parlayed a strong grasp of the science of human decision-making and a woeful ignorance of cards into a life-changing run as a professional poker player, under the wing of a legend of the game Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 800 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-0-00-838111-0
EAN 9780008381110
The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker side of our society Night Sleep Death The Stars is a gripping examination ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-00-842182-3
EAN 9780008421823
A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm Throughout history, humans have been driven by the quest for two cherished ideals: community and freedom. The two don't coexist easily: we value individuality and self-reliance, yet are utterly dependent on community for our most basic needs. In this ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-0-00-832650-0
EAN 9780008326500
Marguerite Demers is twenty-four when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint-Sulpice, to take up a job as a live-in nurse. Her charge is Jerome Lanvier, once one of the most powerful men in the village, and now dying alone in his large and secluded house, surrounded by rambling gardens. Manipulative and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 270 páginas
PVP: 13,20 €
ISBN 978-0-00-847030-2
EAN 9780008470302
A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger.You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-829395-6
EAN 9780008293956
The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. That's one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of.The other is that Miss Rue - midwife, healer, crafter of curses - will know what to do. But for once Rue doesn't know. Times have changed since her mother Miss May Belle held the power ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-830857-5
EAN 9780008308575
We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Will civilisation collapse? Are we already past the point of no return? What kind of future can our children expect? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we have set for Earth over the next century ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-828637-8
EAN 9780008286378
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behind What will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from now? In Footprints, David Farrier explores what traces we will leave for the very deep future. From long-lived materials like ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 912 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-748100-2
EAN 9780007481002
'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner.As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-834003-2
EAN 9780008340032
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 John Updike compared them to 'the sun coming out on an Easter morning'. Bob Dylan introduced them to drugs.The Duchess of Windsor adored them. Noel Coward despised them. JRR Tolkien snubbed them.The Rolling Stones copied them. Loenard Bernstein admired them. Muhammad Ali called them 'little sissies'.Successive Prime Ministers ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-832266-3
EAN 9780008322663
After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she'd never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America - defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end - yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery.Sala's experience ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-833484-0
EAN 9780008334840
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes in our society. It is innovation that will shape the twenty-first century.Yet innovation remains a mysterious process, poorly understood by policy makers and businessmen alike. Matt Ridley argues that we need to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-00-832310-3
EAN 9780008323103
A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures; and it's about the rare and joyous refusal to be disillusioned. Everyone remembers what it's like to be seventeen. The conversations you have; the ideas ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-838103-5
EAN 9780008381035
Elise knows every inch of the house. She knows which boards will creak. She knows where the gaps are in the walls.She knows which parts can take her in, hide her away. It's home, after all. The home her parents made for her.And home is where you stay, no matter what. Eddie calls the same ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-833196-2
EAN 9780008331962
It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom.While the town's men embrace the coming prosperity, its women intimately know and fear the violence that always seems to follow. When a fourteen-year-old girl shows up at Mary Rose Whitehead's door, bleeding and desperate for shelter, she has to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-831773-7
EAN 9780008317737
The lives of two women-the sole survivor of an airplane crash and the troubled park ranger who leads the rescue mission to find her -intersect in a gripping debut novel of hope and resilience, second thoughts and second chances I no longer pass judgment on any man nor woman. People are people, and I do ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-835424-4
EAN 9780008354244
Set in a 2054 where humans have locked themselves out of the internet and Elon Musk has incinerated the moon, Set My Heart To Five is the hilarious yet profoundly moving story of one android's emotional awakening. Unhappy with his programmed job of dentistry and inspired by a love of classic movies, Jared sets out ...
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