Historic Fiction
Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788418128981
Sutton
This is a true story. A story that begins and ends in one day. A story that lasts a lifetime. Can you relive a life in one day? It happened in New York. On Christmas Day 1969. And the protagonist is Willie Sutton, the Robin Hood of Brooklyn, the Gandhi of gangsters. This story is of astronauts and m..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788418128202
Midnight Blue
Amsterdam 1654: against the backdrop of Holland's Golden Age, a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life… Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five-year old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as a housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant fami..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417954659
With Lead in the Wings
With Lead in the Wings recreates one of the greatest love stories of the Civil War: the one led by the American pilot Harold E. Dahl, who was hired as a mercenary by the Republic, and vaudeville singer Edith Rogers, with whom he had just married weeks before arriving in Spain. / Con plomo en las al..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433975409
Running
In 1946 during the Inter-Alliance Games of Berlin, the World laughed when they saw the clumsy looking man on the poster for Czechoslovakia. But as he accelerated during the 5000 metre race and crossed the finish line alone, the spectators exploded into cheers. Émil Zapotek seemed invincible after tw..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433902597
Running
During the Inter-Alliance Games of Berlin, the World laughed when they saw Émil Zapotek. But after two Olympic Games he seemed invincible, not even the Czechoslovakian regime could stop him. Émil runs against decadence, and he smiles, even in the Uranium mines where he was banished to for supporting..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788416921836
When Anger Threatens
José Antonio Fortea has managed to turn history. He created a historical fiction that Egyptologists will hate because they believe that Moses did not exist, and it adulterates their pharaonic and magical Egypt. In this novel you will learn about the plagues of the God of Israel from the court of Pha..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788418128318
The Ginger Tree
A stunning tour de force acclaimed throughout the world, The Ginger Tree is the spellbinding odyssey of one woman's strength and spirit in the face of terrifying odds… In 1903, a young Scotswoman named Mary Mackenzie sets sail for China to marry her betrothed, a military attaché in Peking. But soon ..
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Brand: Nórdica libros
EAN: 9788418930454
The way to Rainy Mountain
The Way to Rainy Mountain recalls the journey of Tai-me, the sacred Sun Dance doll, and of Tai-me's people in three unique voices: the legendary, the historical, and the contemporary. It is also the personal journey of N. Scott Momaday, who on a pilgrimage to the grave of his Kiowa grandmother trave..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441439481
The Song of La Pardala
Josefa Bosch, nicknamed "the Pardala", fought against the Napoleonic invaders in the lands of Morella, participating in the fight as another soldier. After being imprisoned and hanged by the French, her figure - almost forgotten in official records for a long time - lingers in the memory of the peop..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418089817
The Center of the World
Accompanied by a crew, Hernán Cortés landed in 1519 on the coasts of Mexico. There is no turning back after he decides to burn the ships. From there, one of the most colossal adventures in history begins, and it is the march to Tenochtitlan, the center of the world, the heart of the impregnable Azte..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433960955
The Indian Clerk
One morning in January 1913, G. H. Hardy - thirty-seven years old, eccentric and charismatic, and already considered one of the greatest British mathematicians of his time - receives a mysterious envelope bearing abundant Indian stamps. Inside is a somewhat incoherent letter from a humble Madras acc..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417418465
The Dickens Enigma
In June of 1870, Charles Dickens died before finishing his last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood. The ending of that novel would become one of the great literary enigmas of all time. In 2018 the filmmaker Hugo Almagro agrees to write a script about The Mystery of Edwin Drood. / Una historia que te..
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