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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-1-0350-5486-2
EAN 9781035054862
Follow Colm Tóibín's lone religious pilgrimage along the Irish border during the tumultuous summer of 1987. In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Tóibín walked along the border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-0350-5501-2
EAN 9781035055012
Part travelogue, part reportage, part autobiography, The Sign of the Cross is the story of Colm Tóibín's religious pilgrimage across Europe. Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Tóibín made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the ...
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Prepare for the impossible. Expect the unthinkable. From the Hugo and Locus Award-winning author John Scalzi, When the Moon Hits Your Eye is an entirely serious take on an entirely unserious subject.One day, suddenly and without explanation, the moon turns into a ball of cheese.All people on Earth children and scientists, billionaires and workers, vicars ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 12 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-0350-4496-2
EAN 9781035044962
Lift the flaps to join in the fun with Hares New Dress, a rhyming story in the bestselling Tales from Acorn Wood preschool series by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo.Its time for a dance in Acorn Wood! But Hare needs a new dress first . . . Lift the flaps to ...
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In Nostalgia, historian Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it is co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell ...
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A guide to living and making peace with your ever-changing bodyHave you ever felt like your body has failed you? Maybe youre not as quick or as strong as you used to be, or an illness has wrecked your sense of self, or no matter what diet you follow, you still feel uncomfortable in your ...
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Paris is as chaotic as it is glamorous. Industry and invention have created ever greater wealth and terrible poverty. One autumn morning, an anarchist boards the Granville to Paris express train, determined to make her mark on history.Aboard the train are others from across the globe: the railway crew who have built a life together ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-0350-1901-4
EAN 9781035019014
Two days. One playlist. And the long road home with her past in the rearview mirror.As a music connoisseur, Stella has a song for every day of her life setting a pace with their rhythms and a tone with their lyrics. But when a heartstopping phone call rocks the balance, Stella is faced with a ...
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Nell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby.For Adrienne, parenthood is the start of a new life. For Nell, it's the reason the two of them are sitting in a therapist's office. Because she can't go into this without facing the painful truth: that she has been a mother before.For Dolores, Nell's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-0350-2946-4
EAN 9781035029464
Long Island is Colm Tóibín's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker, The Economist, The ...
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Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook's potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But, when she got there and rose to its top ranks, things turned out a little different.From wild schemes cooked up on private jets to risking prison abroad, ...
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The global population is forecast to begin declining in the second half of this century, and in , years time, our species will likely be extinct.In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, Henry Gee shows how we arrived at this crucial moment in our history, beginning his story deep in the palaeolithic past ...
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"I hope you haven't forgotten me. Shall we play?"Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind. She's the lynchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes.But the Red Queen project is under attack. Across Europe, its agents are murdering each other, and long-resolved past cases are rearing ...
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Here are fifteen pitch-perfect stories about women trying to make their own way: featuring daughters, divorcees, fox demons, a praying mantis, and . . . green frogs.A young girl reconnects with her Korean grandmother an artist considers her connection to the Korean folktale of the green frog a praying mantis living in a beautiful home ...
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Welcome to the Isle of Smile home of The Mubbles, where the beautiful island runs on SUN, WIND and FLOWER POWER. Like the Wibbles of Wobble mountain, the Earworms and the one-eyed Drib Drabs, everyone on the Isle of Smile lives in perfect harmony most of the time. Until the Clouds of Joy BUMP together ...
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What a wonderful book this is. I loved the enchanting and beautifully written story but also the fascinating and thoughtful excursions along the way. Nigel SlaterA garden contains secrets, we all know that: buried elements that might put on strange growth or germinate in unexpected places. The garden that I chose had walls, but like ...
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The Glass Cliff is a conversation about what happens when women break the rules, and break through The Glass Ceiling.Have you ever wondered why there are so few success stories of women in business leadership? Or maybe you've wondered what life is really like on the other side of The Glass Ceiling? The world of ...
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We say that life is priceless but in these surprising stories that explore the value of human life, journalist, broadcaster and documentary-maker Jenny Kleeman takes us on an adventure to meet some of the people who decide what were worth.The cost of saving a life, creating a life or compensating for a life taken is ...
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The epic follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Sword Catcher, from Cassandra Clare. In the epic follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Sword Catcher, praised by George R. R. Martin as everything I look for in fantasy,' Lin and Kel must chart a perilous course between love and lies. Kel Saren, body double ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-9600-2
EAN 9781529096002
A cutting-edge new vision of biology that proposes to revise our concept of what life is from Science Book Prize winner Philip Ball. Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong.In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores ...
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