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St. Petersburg, New Year's Eve, 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history.Swept up on these tides, Marina will join the marches for workers' rights, fall in love with ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7088-9932-8
EAN 9780708899328
The Atlas of Reds and Blues opens with a woman lying bleeding on her driveway, shot by police. The woman has moved her family to the wealthy suburbs, but once there was is met with the same questions: Where are you from? No, where are you really from? The American-born daughter of Bengali immigrant parents, ...
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Jonathan Hopkirk and Adam "Kurl" Kurlansky are partnered in English class, writing letters to one another in a weekly pen pal assignment. With each letter, the two begin to develop a friendship that grows into love. But with homophobia, bullying, and familial abuse, Jonathan and Kurl must struggle to overcome their conflicts and hold onto ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 25,90 €
ISBN 978-0-316-49264-5
EAN 9780316492645
A "riveting and illuminating" (Yuval Noah Harari) new theory of how and why some nations recover from trauma and others don't, by the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of the landmark bestsellers Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse.In his international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 26,95 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00825-7
EAN 9780349008257
'Sharply observed, snappily written and thoroughly researched, She Merchants provides a fabulous panorama of a largely ignored area of social history. Katie Hickman successfully challenges the stereotype of the snobbish, matron-like memsahib by deploying a riveting gallery of powerful and often eccentric women ranging from stowaways and runaways through courtesans and society beauties to Generals' ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 13,05 €
ISBN 978-0-7088-9912-0
EAN 9780708899120
WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDALFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSWINNER OF THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD - BARBARA GITTINGS LITERATURE AWARDFINALIST FOR THE LA TIMES FICTION AWARD'Stirring, spellbinding and full of life' Tea Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's WifeIn 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 784 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-7515-7287-2
EAN 9780751572872
When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-4168-2
EAN 9781472141682
Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open to regional variations and to the extent that the history of the peninsula and of its political groupings was far from inevitable. Its tone is accessible, supported by boxes providing supplemental information, and is ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14239-5
EAN 9780349142395
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was blamed for the loss of the American ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-00993-3
EAN 9780349009933
Jane Peters is an adrift twenty-something by day, and a world-weary agony aunt by night. But when an office party goes too far, Jane dissolves into the high-stakes world of being the Other Woman: a role she has the right advice for, but not the smarts to follow through on.What starts out as a drunken ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-1125-5
EAN 9781408711255
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo introduced us to 'Scandi noir'. Now, welcome to Alexander McCall Smith's world of Scandi blanc . . .Ulf Varg works in Malmo's Department of Sensitive Crimes. Like all Scandinavian detectives he has his issues. In his case these include his unresolved feelings for his colleague, Anna; his impatience over ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-7515-6722-9
EAN 9780751567229
As the glamour of the Bright Young Things crashes into the world of the Mitford sisters, their maid Louisa Cannon finds herself at the scene of a gripping murder mystery. Meet the Bright Young Things, the rabble-rousing hedonists of the 1920s whose treasure hunts were a media obsession. One such game takes place at the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4721-1552-2
EAN 9781472115522
A casual outing to London's Crystal Palace takes a mysterious and murderous turn . . .April 1928: Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher is being visited in London by her young cousins who are desperate to see the Crystal Palace. On discovering that her children's nanny, Gilpin, has also never seen the palace, Daisy decides to make a ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14270-8
EAN 9780349142708
It is summer in Edinburgh and Isabel Dalhousie is once again caught between 'gossip' and significant rumour. It is none of her business that Patricia, the mother of her son Charlie's little friend Basil, is estranged from Basil's father, or that the woman has a somewhat brazen attitude to childcare. And yet, it is curious.Isabel, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7515-6488-4
EAN 9780751564884
'Another one-more-chapter, stay-up-late sensation' Lee Child 'A work of genius' Joanna Cannon 'No one writes a twist like Clare Mackintosh' Paula Hawkins -------------------------------------- The police say it was suicide. Anna says it was murder. They're both wrong.One year ago, Caroline Johnson chose to end her life brutally: a shocking suicide planned to match that of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,85 €
ISBN 978-0-349-42295-4
EAN 9780349422954
sA conversation-changing look at the social, familial, neurological, and psychological benefits of reading aloud, especially for parents and children. A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. Grounded ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,80 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14304-0
EAN 9780349143040
'A carefully researched and hugely readable account of the build-up to war, the momentum inexorably growing as he assembles each part of the jigsaw. Indeed, his narrative is so persuasive that by the time you are about two- thirds through, it takes some effort to remind yourself that the Third World War never happened' Dominic ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,20 €
ISBN 978-0-349-14319-4
EAN 9780349143194
'Chigozie Obioma is a writer to watch' The EconomistUmuahia, Nigeria. Chinonso, a young poultry farmer, sees a woman attempting to jump to her death from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his most prized chickens into the water below to demonstrate the severity of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 464 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-41498-0
EAN 9780349414980
Thirteen years ago, a catastrophic pandemic known as The Doom killed billions. For those left behind, it is a chance to build a new world. But The Doom was no ordinary virus.In some survivors, it awoke strange powers - to heal, to harm, even to predict the future. Fallon Swift has no memories of the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-1170-5
EAN 9781408711705
At the end of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule ...
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