Historic Fiction
Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411311106
On the Shores of the Rubicon
In the year 42 BC, Caesar arrives at the Rubicon River along with the legion that follows him. Pompey awaits him in Rome, convinced of his superiority. The Rubicon is the limit of his province and, as consul, Caesar knows that if he and his legion cross it, it would violate the law of Rome and would..
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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: Errata naturae
EAN: 9788415217084
Facing the Chair: Story of the
On August 23, 1927, anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair after one of the most famous, dramatic and controversial trials in American judicial history. They were two Italian immigrants who had been arrested in the midst of an anti-communist frenzy, tried..
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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: 9788418648465
Between Two Worlds
At the beginning of the 17th century, Cartagena de Indias is the most fascinating city in the new world, All the land and sea routes of the Spanish Empire flow into it, as its formidable fortifications store the gold and silver reserves destined to satisfy the always pressing needs of the King of Sp..
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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: 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: 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: Obelisco
EAN: 9788491118077
The Color of Air
Daniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the memories of Daniel’s mother, Mariko, the love of his life, and the scars of a life hard-l..
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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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