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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 15,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-754832-3
EAN 9780007548323
Raised in the 1940s in the mostly Irish neighbourhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, by an alcoholic mother and a union-wage father, Eileen yearns for more from an early age. Driven by this longing, she places her stock and love in a handsome young scientist and with him begins a family.Once her childhood neighbourhood begins to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 15,45 €
ISBN 978-0-00-730313-7
EAN 9780007303137
Moving back and forth in time, between America today and China in the 1990s, "Kinder Than Solitude" is the story of three people whose lives are changed by a murder one of them may have committed. As one of the three observes, "Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime." ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-748575-8
EAN 9780007485758
A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. Cressida Mayfield has gone missing. The desperate search yields but one clue; she was last seen in the company of Corporal Brett Kincaid, Iraq veteran - ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-733942-6
EAN 9780007339426
In 2007, a New York attorney bumps into an old college buddy - and accepts his friend's offer of a job in Dubai, as the overseer of an enormous family fortune. Haunted by the collapse of his relationship and hoping for a fresh start, our strange hero begins to suspect that he has exchanged one ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-750742-9
EAN 9780007507429
A new novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'.In turn-of-the-century Shanghai, Violet Minturn is raised by her American mother, the mistress of the city's most renowned courtesan house. When the revolution comes, a cruel deception forces Violet to become a virgin courtesan.'The Valley of Amazement' is the story of three women, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-736048-2
EAN 9780007360482
Love Miss Marple? Adore Holmes and Watson? Professor Morley's guide to Norfolk is a story of bygone England; quaint villages, eccentric locals and murder!It is 1937 and disillusioned Spanish Civil War veteran Stephen Sefton is stony broke. So when he sees a mysterious advertisement for a job where intelligence is essential', he applies.Thus begins Sefton's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755281-8
EAN 9780007552818
The Manhattan funeral of Charles Henry Topping would have been a minor affair but for the identity of the eulogist: reclusive author A. N. Dyer, whose novel 'Ampersand' stands as a classic of teenage angst.Now Andrew Newbold Dyer takes stock of his own life, the people he's hurt and the novel that will endure as ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-755778-3
EAN 9780007557783
A vision appears in the sky above wintry New York and seems to exert an influence over two brothers, in this luminous, compassionate novel from the author of 'The Hours'. Barrett Meeks, having lost love yet again, is walking through Central Park when he is inspired to look up; in the sky he sees a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-754867-5
EAN 9780007548675
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie Laure lives with her father in Paris within walking distance of the Museum of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-741213-6
EAN 9780007412136
A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of the Moby-Dick Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'. The sea surrounds us. It gives us life, provides us with the air we breathe and the food we eat.It is ceaseless change and constant presence. It ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 475 páginas
PVP: 12,40 €
ISBN 978-0-00-735634-8
EAN 9780007356348
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,90 €
ISBN 978-0-00-754989-4
EAN 9780007549894
Hilary Mantel's novels are the most formidable literary achievements of recent times. She is the first writer to win the Man Booker Prize with consecutive novels. Adapted by Mike Poulton, the plays were premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in December 2013, directed by Jeremy Herrin.This edition contains a substantial ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749418-7
EAN 9780007494187
Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Welcome to Shanghai. A restless metropolis where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become Somebody.Golddigger, property magnate, pop star, entrepreneur ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749422-4
EAN 9780007494224
An eerie, unforgettable story of power, loss, and family curses in early 20th-century Princeton.Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century: soon-to-be commander-in-chief Woodrow Wilson is president of Princeton University. On a neighbouring farm, muck-raking novelist Upton Sinclair, enjoying the success of The Jungle, has taken up residence with his family. Grover Cleveland, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-00-746887-4
EAN 9780007468874
A new novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club'. In fin de siecle Shanghai, Violet Minturn grows up at Hidden Jade Path, the city's most exclusive courtesan house. But when revolution comes, she is separated from her mother and forced to become a "virgin courtesan." Both Chinese and American, Violet moves ...
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Franzen, Jonathan; Kraus, Karl
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-00-751824-1
EAN 9780007518241
A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehumanizing machinery of technology and consumerism, and the jingoistic rhetoric of a fading empire. But even though his followers included Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-00-749808-6
EAN 9780007498086
'Bad Science' hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science, becoming a 400,000 copy bestseller. Now Ben Goldacre puts the 600bn global pharmaceutical industry under the microscope. What he reveals is a fascinating, terrifying mess.Doctors and patients need good scientific evidence to make informed decisions. But instead, companies run bad trials ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,95 €
ISBN 978-0-00-752430-3
EAN 9780007524303
this is the story of the five Lisbon sisters beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the entire neighbourhood.The boys that once loved them from afar are now grown men, determined to understand a tragedy that has always defied explanation. For still, the question remains why did all five of the Lisbon girls take their own ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-0-00-728876-2
EAN 9780007288762
From the bestselling author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'; his first novel in 5 years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. As summer in Oakland, California, draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are hanging in there, co-regents of Brokeland Records. Their wives, Gwen and Aviva, are the Berkeley Birth ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-00-745953-7
EAN 9780007459537
The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming ...
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