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Publisher Annotation: "When the women take over, is it sorcery or power? Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the skies break into a sudden and reckless storm. All forty of the village's men were at sea, including Maren's father and brother, and all forty are drowned in the otherworldly disaster. For the women left behind, survival means defying the strict rules of the island. They fish, hunt,...
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In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
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2021.
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"Para Anna, encontrar su voz fue la única manera posible de estar en el mundo. Nunca imaginó los efectos de su poesía sutil y afilada en tantas personas distintas. Ésta es la historia del torbellino de pasiones que desencadenó en cada una. Desde la envidia del hombre más poderoso y vengativo de su época hasta la atormentada admiración de la mujer encargada de vigilarla y delatarla. Desde la ciudad de San Petersburgo previa a la Revolución,...
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“¡El horror! ¡El horror!” Un viaje fluvial por el Estado Libre del Congo, en búsqueda de la trascendental figura de Kurtz, un ser venerado por los nativos como un dios, y que, sin embargo, ha caído en una locura y una enfermedad bestiales. El individuo y las fuerzas desatadas de la naturaleza, el pesimismo respecto a la condición humana y el mal que puede engendrar la civilización, son el trasfondo de este relato. Conrad, reputado marino,...
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[2023]
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Publisher Annotation: Fully revised reissue edition, with its heavily illustrated take on history and truly wide-ranging content. 8 pages of brand-new timelines. - A truly global approach. - Published in conjunction with the Smithsonian Institution. From dinosaurs and Vikings to the history of robots and espionage, discover incredible world history in this lavish collection of timelines, has been fully updated with new information. More than 120 timelines...
18) Sira
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2022.
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Cuatro ciudades, dos misiones, una mujer. Vuelve a sumergirte en un tiempo inolvidable. Después de El tiempo entre costuras, SIRA, la nueva novela de María Dueñas.
La Segunda Gran Guerra llega a su fin y el mundo emprende una tortuosa reconstrucción. Concluidas sus funciones como colaboradora de los Servicios Secretos británicos, Sira Quiroga afronta el futuro con ansias de serenidad. No lo logrará, sin embargo. El destino le tendrá preparada...
19) El absoluto
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2022.
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"The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters' lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator's ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form...
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