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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59448-812-2
EAN 9781594488122
Kluth presents a dynamic and exciting way to understand success and failure through the life of Hannibal, one of history's greatest generals. And the epic choices he and his opponents made--on the battlefield and elsewhere in life--offer lessons about responding to our victories and our defeats that are as relevant today as they were more ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-59448-547-3
EAN 9781594485473
1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives...Since its publication in 2003, The Kite Runner has sold twenty one million ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-59448-436-0
EAN 9781594484360
The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of the eighteenth century. Even at her birth, the slave women around her recognize a dark power that they- and she-will come to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-59448-368-4
EAN 9781594483684
In this debut novel, hailed by Stephen King as terrifying, touching, and wildly funny, the stories of two strangers, Eugene Brentani and Mr. Schmitz, interweave. What unfolds is a bold reinvention of storytelling in which Eugene, a devotee of the reclusive and monstrous author, Constance Eakins, and Mr. Schmitz, who has been receiving ominous letters ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-1-59448-354-7
EAN 9781594483547
For a group of four New York friends the past decade has been defined largely by marriage and motherhood, but it wasn't always that way. Growing up, they had been told that their generation would be different. And for a while this was true. They went to good colleges, and began high-powered careers. But after ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 351 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-1-59448-978-5
EAN 9781594489785
For a group of four New York friends, the past decade has been largely defined by marriage and motherhood. Educated and reared to believe that they would conquer the world, they then left jobs as corporate lawyers, investment bankers, and film scouts to stay home with their babies. What was meant to be a temporary ...
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Hearn's third installment in the "Tales of the Otori" series brings a mystical and violent conclusion to the saga of Takeo Otori as he fulfills his destiny to reclaim the Otori lands.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-1-59448-285-4
EAN 9781594482854
Seventeen years ago, Sepha Stephanos fled the Ethiopian Revolution for a new start in the United States. Now he finds himself running a failing grocery store in a poor African-American section of Washington, D.C., his only companions two fellow African immigrants who share his bitter nostalgia and longing for his home continent. Years ago and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-59448-196-3
EAN 9781594481963
It's no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We have a common ancestor, scientists tell us, so it's natural that we act alike. But not all of these parallels are so appealing: the chimpanzee, for example, can be as vicious and ...
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In one of his most inspiring books yet, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes the reader from the Bible through the twentieth century, searching for the ways literature can inform lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes, Plato and Homer, Johnson and Goethe, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Montaigne and Bacon, Emerson and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,24 €
ISBN 978-1-57322-377-5
EAN 9781573223775
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In a debut collection by an award-winning short story writer, a scout troop of African-American girls is confronted by a group of disabled white girls, a young man considers his allegiance to his father during the Million Man March in Washington, and an international group of work-seeking drifters finds themselves starving in Japan.
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In a novel about being an outsider in America and what it means to be an American, Vladimir, a young Russian-American immigrant, pursues his dreams of success, wealth, and a girlfriend, as his quest takes him deep into uncharted territory.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-57322-913-5
EAN 9781573229135
Shy and sheltered as a young woman, Kathleen Norris wasn't prepared for the sex, drugs, and bohemianism of Bennington College in the late 1960s'and when she moved to New York City after graduation, it was a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire. In this chronicle, Norris remembers the education she ...
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Set in an engaging, alternate Japan, this first book in a new epic trilogy has already become a bestselling sensation in England and Australia, earning comparisons to "Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." It begins with legend of a nightingale floor in a black-walled fortress--a floor that sings in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,85 €
ISBN 978-1-573-22606-6
EAN 9781573226066
This stunning collection of stories offers an unsentimental glimpse of life among the immigrants from the Dominican Republic--and other front-line reports on the ambivalent promise of the American dream--by an eloquent and original writer who describes more than physical dislocation in conveying the price that is paid for leaving culture and homeland behind
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