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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06065-5
EAN 9781250060655
Newly reissued as a Picador Modern Classic, Marilynne Robinson's brilliant, PEN/Hemingway Award-winning first novel "Housekeeping" is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, the eccentric and remote sister of their dead ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,30 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07491-1
EAN 9781250074911
A post-9/11 literary spy thriller from the National Book Award winning author of Tree of SmokeRoland Nair calls himself Scandinavian but travels on a U.S. passport. After ten years' absence, he returns to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to reunite with his friend Michael Adriko. They once made a lot of money here during the country's civil ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 12,90 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07484-3
EAN 9781250074843
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church the only available shelter from the rain and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-250-09863-4
EAN 9781250098634
Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church the only available shelter from the rain and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life. She becomes the wife of a minister, John Ames, and begins a new existence while trying to make sense of ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-250-08124-7
EAN 9781250081247
New York Times Number One bestsellerLonglisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2014In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of aging and dying in his patients and in his family, as well as the limits of what he can do. And he emerges with story that crosses the ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07472-0
EAN 9781250074720
One of Britain's most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary short stories that demonstrate what modern England has becomeIn The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display.Her classic wicked humor in each story ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 11,80 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07471-3
EAN 9781250074713
Isolated by a disfiguring injury since the age of seventeen, Sean Phillips crafts imaginary worlds for strangers to explore. From his small apartment in southern California, he orchestrates fantastic adventures where possibilities, both dark and bright, open in the boundaries between the real and the imagined. As the creator of "Trace Italian"-a text-based, role-playing game ...
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Hiroshima Nagasaki
The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their Aftermath
- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07005-0
EAN 9781250070050
In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombings had little impact on the eventual outcome of the Pacific War. More than 100,000 people were killed instantly by the atomic bombs, mostly ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-250-04691-8
EAN 9781250046918
A groundbreaking and compelling book that gives readers an in-depth understanding of the most thought-provoking and important technological innovation of the twenty-first century.Every day, social media is automatically uploading our thoughts, memories, preferences, beliefs, and history to a virtual existence, essentially creating a "mindfile" of ourselves. Thousands of software engineers across the globe are working ...
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First Jobs
True Tales of Bad Bosses, Quirky Coworkers, Big Breaks, and Small Paychecks
- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06125-6
EAN 9781250061256
A future mayor shining shoes, an atheist shilling Bibles, a housewife heading to work during World War II, a now-famous designer getting fired-we all got our start somewhere. A first job may not have the romance of the first kiss or the excitement of a first car, but more than anything else, it offers a ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 17,60 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06250-5
EAN 9781250062505
A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society for the better War!..../What is it good for?/Absolutely nothing, says the famous song but archaeology, history, and biology show that war in fact has been good for something. Surprising as it sounds, war has made humanity safer and richer.In War! What Is It ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06245-1
EAN 9781250062451
Declan O Donnell has sailed out of Oregon and deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to and beloved of no one. But the galaxy soon presents him with a ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06243-7
EAN 9781250062437
Her stories may be literal one-liners: the entirety of Bloomington reads, Now that I have been here for a little while, I can say with confidence that I have never been here before. Or they may be lengthier investigations of the havoc wreaked by the most mundane disruptions to routine: in A Small Story About ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 13,30 €
ISBN 978-1-250-03615-5
EAN 9781250036155
Sophie Kohl is living her worst nightmare. Minutes after she confesses to her husband, Emmett, a mid-level diplomat at the American embassy in Hungary, that she had an affair while they were in Cairo, he is shot in the head and killed.Stan Bertolli, a Cairo-based CIA agent, has fielded his share of midnight calls. But ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,00 €
ISBN 978-1-250-07125-5
EAN 9781250071255
The year is 1823, and the trappers of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company live a brutal frontier life. Trapping beaver, they contend daily with the threat of Indian tribes turned warlike over the white men's encroachment on their land, and other prairie foes like the unforgiving landscape and its creatures. Hugh Glass is among the ...
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- Picador USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,10 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06374-8
EAN 9781250063748
Set in the ashes of post World War II Vienna, a powerful, subtle novel of five people as they return home, fifteen years after being exiled by Hitler's deadly reignElisabeth de Waal's stunning novel follows a number of exiles, each returning has come to terms with a city in painful recovery: Kuno Adler, a Jewish ...
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Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem unconnected, yet Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that they are all are examples of a mind-set produced by scarcity.Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioral science and ...
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- Picador USA, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 11,35 €
ISBN 978-1-250-06661-9
EAN 9781250066619
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis. In The Red Tent, Anita Diamant brings this fascinating biblical characer to vivid life.Told in Dinah's voice, the novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient ...
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- Picador USA, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-1-250-05609-2
EAN 9781250056092
'You are a prophet and seer with the brightest mind in an age. Your blood is that of the man who should have been king ...That's what the king and his lords see. And they will kill you, one day' Britain in the seventh century - and the world is changing.Small kingdoms are merging, frequently ...
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