Historic Fiction
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788419030108
She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor Duolog
In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788417128005
Wars of the Roses. Stormbird
Woe to the kingdom whose leader is a weak man. England, 1437. Menacing clouds overshadow the English skies. The rebellion is about to break out in the French territories and, in the palace, intrigues reveal the imminence of war. It is not a time of peace when ambition for the throne confronts the mo..
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Brand: Atico de los Libros
EAN: 9788419703163
The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods: a Tale of
Myth meets history in a blockbuster retelling of the Persian Wars from multi-award-winning author of Rubicon and Persian Fire Tom Holland, lavishly illustrated by Jason Cockcroft.
“The Persians are coming…” Hearing these words, Gorgo of Sparta is plunged into a dangerous world of vengeful gods and ..
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Brand: Libros del Asteroide
EAN: 9788410178090
Properties of Thirst
Set in California during WWII, The Properties of Thirst tells an epic love story against a backdrop of hardship. Rocky Rhodes battles the Los Angeles Water Department draining his ranch’s aquifers, where he raised his twins and mourns his late wife. As the U.S. builds an internment camp in Owens Val..
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Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788418526312
The Past is not a Dream
I was eight years old when my grandfather took me by the hand and did not let go until we found my parents in Athens. Who knows what might have happened if I had stayed in the village. It was 1946. Early spring 1946. The almond trees were blooming side by side and the countryside was in full bloom.'..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411310956
Caesar's Enemies
In the middle of the 1st century BC, Rome was the greatest power in the Mediterranean area. However, the continuous expansion and conquest, demographic and economic growth and the crisis of the state model had fragmented Roman society, greatly increasing social polarization. The Senate was divided i..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418578120
News of the World
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd gives live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for the world news. The captain enjoys the existence of a widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them. He is offered gold to deliver an orphan to San Antoni..
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Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788418526107
Warlock
Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional Western conventions to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertai..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411319652
Averroes or the Devil's Secretary
Born in 1126 in Cordoba, Abu-l-Walid Muhammad would be elevated by the new lords of the Peninsula, the Almohads, as one of their great sages and courtiers, but the audacity of his thinking would eventually cost him everything he had achieved. Centuries later, his work is still more alive than ever...
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418578410
The Master of Rome
Lucio Domicio, after fighting under the orders of Marcus Aurelius on the banks of the Danube, attends the funeral of the late Caesar in Rome. There he will meet the beautiful Valeria, who, despite her distant treatment, captivates him. However, Commodus' rise to power will mark a turning point in th..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433976499
The Bering Strait
In times of communism, party members received updates from the great Soviet Encyclopedia every month. When in July 1953 the dreaded Beria was finally arrested, the encyclopedia still contained a long and laudatory entry dedicated to him. A few days after the arrest, the comrades received an envelope..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411311922
The Doctor at Auschwitz
January 1945. There are 4,800 prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Their physical degradation conditions make it impossible for them to be sent back to their places of origin in the West. Then, the Soviet troops stormed Auschwitz so fast that the SS men only managed to blow up part of the gas chambers a..
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