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Mostrando 469 libros encontrados (24 páginas)
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-3313-7
EAN 9781529033137
Recently out of a devastating love affair and mourning the loss of her beloved mum, Casey is lost. The novel she has been writing for six years isn't going anywhere, her debt is soaring, and at thirty-one, with all her friends getting married and having kids, she feels too old for things to be this ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-5193-5
EAN 9781509851935
One more journey to the literary universe of Roberto Bolaño, an essential voice of contemporary Latin American literatureRoberto Bolano's boundless imagination and seemingly inexhaustible gift for shaping the chaos of his reality into enduring fiction is unmistakable in these three exhilarating novellas. In 'Cowboy Graves', Arturo Belano - Bolaño's alter ego - returns to Chile ...
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The System
Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-4372-3
EAN 9781529043723
After years of stagnant wages, volatile job markets, and an unwillingness by those in power to deal with profound threats such as climate change, there is a mounting sense that the system is fixed, serving only those select few with enough money to secure a controlling stake. In The System Robert B.Reich shows how wealth ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 11,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-5707-2
EAN 9781529057072
This special bumper anniversary compendium also features an introduction and commentary from Helen Fielding, and over 100 pages of rare material taken from 25 years of her writing, including:* Extracts from Helen's early journalism* A selection of the original Independent newspaper columns.* Bridget Jones interviews Colin Firth* Later columns on MeToo, Brexit, and Bridget's lockdown ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 13,03 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-3186-7
EAN 9781529031867
Revolt is an eloquent and provocative challenge to the prevailing wisdom about the rise of nationalism and populism today. With a vibrant and informed voice, Nadav Eyal illustrates how modern globalization is unsustainable.He contends that the collapse of the current world order is not so much about the imbalance between technological advances and social progress, ...
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A Place For Everything
The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-8158-1
EAN 9781509881581
Once we've learned it as children few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order. And yet the order if the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays a major role in our adult lives. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-8412-4
EAN 9781509884124
Naima has always known that her family came from Algeria - but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she's learned from her grandparents' tiny flat in a crumbling French sink estate: the food cooked for her, the ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-7905-2
EAN 9781509879052
Danny - Dhananjaya Rajaratnam - is an undocumented immigrant in Sydney, denied refugee status after he has fled from his native Sri Lanka.Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-7467-5
EAN 9781509874675
Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. Soviet buildings crumble, wind scatters sand from the far south, and political protesters flood the streets with song.In this atmosphere of disquiet, an American teacher navigates a life transformed by the discovery and loss of love. As he prepares to leave ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 13,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-1740-3
EAN 9781529017403
A mother moves to Geneva with her husband and their two young children. In their newly rented apartment, she is surrounded by everything she could possibly need to create a perfect family home. Her husband's job means he is almost never present, and her entire world is caring for her children - making sure they ...
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The Ministry of Truth
A Biography of George Orwell's 1984
- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9075-0
EAN 9781509890750
'If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the development of our culture, you should not miss this engrossing, enlightening book.' John Carey, Sunday TimesGeorge Orwell's last novel has become one of the iconic narratives of the modern world. Its ideas have become part of the language - from 'Big Brother' to ...
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- Picador, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-4027-2
EAN 9781529040272
Correspondents by Tim Murphy is a powerful story about the legacy of immigration, the present-day world of refugeehood, the violence that America causes both abroad and at home, and the power of the individual and the family to bring good into a world that is often brutal. Spanning the breadth of the twentieth century and ...
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- Picador, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-8305-9
EAN 9781509883059
Vladimir Putin has dominated Russian politics since Boris Yeltsin relinquished the presidency in his favour in May 2000. He served two terms as president, before himself relinquishing the post to his prime minister, Dimitri Medvedev, only to return to presidential power for a third time in 2012. Putin's rule, whether as president or prime minister, ...
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- Picador, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5290-1997-1
EAN 9781529019971
Noah Selvaggio is a retired chemistry professor and widower living on the Upper West Side, but born in the South of France. He is days away from his first visit back to Nice since he was a child, bringing with him a handful of puzzling photos he's discovered from his mother's wartime years. But he ...
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- Picador, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-8231-1
EAN 9781509882311
Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in Evening in Paradise Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husbands who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking back at their first marriage from the distance of their second ...
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Robert Walter, the popular mayor of Amsterdam, begins to suspect that his wife is cheating on him with one of his aldermen. Though he is happily married, he has always wondered why his wife, born and raised in a distant country, chose him above his brilliant and good-looking physicist friend Bernhard.When, to add to his ...
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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
- Picador, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-6729-5
EAN 9781509867295
If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again. Jill Paton Walsh, author of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteriesMaud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing on ...
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- Picador, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 6,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-5533-9
EAN 9781509855339
Set in 2003 in the sweltering heat of Singapore, Sharlene Teo's Ponti begins as sixteen-year-olds Szu and Circe develop an intense friendship. For Szu it offers an escape from Amisa, her beautiful, cruel mother - once an actress, and now the silent occupant of a rusty house.But for Circe, their friendship does the opposite, bringing ...
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- Picador, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4472-9943-1
EAN 9781447299431
Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor flat with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make.Londoners may find themselves ...
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The Secret Barrister
Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
- Picador, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-4114-1
EAN 9781509841141
I'm a barrister, a job which requires the skills of a social worker, relationship counsellor, arm-twister, hostage negotiator, named driver, bus fare-provider, accountant, suicide watchman, coffee-supplier, surrogate parent and, on one memorable occasion, whatever the official term is for someone tasked with breaking the news to a prisoner that his girlfriend has been diagnosed with ...
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