Historic Fiction
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788410085138
Mrs. England
West Yorkshire, 1904. When recently graduated Ruby May takes a nanny position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House,..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788419030979
The Fragile and the Eternal
1919. A fatal injury in the Great War cuts short Lou Crane's brilliant dancing career. At the funeral of his best friend, an acquaintance takes pity on him and gets him a position as a performing arts teacher in a remote town whose inhabitants are struggling to revive after the ravages of the bombin..
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Brand: Nórdica libros
EAN: 9788418930898
Dead Souls
Since its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as a remorseless satire of imperial Russian venality, vulgarity, and pomp. As Gogol's wily antihero, C..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788410521216
The girls of the Academy
In 4th century B.C. Greece, faced with the imminence of being subjected to a forced marriage to a man she doesn't even know, Lastenia of Mantinea hastily leaves home. Her immediate destination is the nearby temple of Artemis, run by the priestess Cleo, whom Lastenia trusts. On her advice he goes to ..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411311311
The Girl in the Letter
1956. After getting pregnant, Ivy Jenkins is sent to St Margaret's, a dark and gloomy house for single mothers she will never leave. Her baby is adopted against her will. Today, Samantha Harper is a journalist in desperate need of a break. When she comes across a letter from the past, she is surpris..
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Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668289
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and c..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788419030054
The Hauting of Las Lágrimas
Ursula Kelp, a young English gardener, travels to Buenos Aires to take up the role of head gardener at a long-abandoned estate in the Pampas. The current owner wishes to return to the estate with his family and restore the once-famous gardens to their former glory. Travelling deep into the Pampas, t..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788492919604
The Dangerous Kingdom of Love
A story about what happens in companies when they want to change their culture to adapt to the new business reality, and the method that can help them achieve positive change. The fabrika method is a new comprehensive training system for business teams designed to achieve lasting and fundamental cha..
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Brand: Libros del Asteroide
EAN: 9788417977580
Hamnet
Best novel of 2021 according to El País... England, 1580: Agnes, a peculiar girl who seems to answer to no one and who is able to create mysterious remedies with simple combinations of plants, is the talk of Stratford, a small english town. When she meets a young Latin tutor just as extraordinary as..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788419030252
Weyward
2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect that her great aunt had a s..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788492919468
In Memoriam
It’s 1914, and World War I is ceaselessly churning through thousands of young men on both sides of the fight. The violence of the front feels far away to Henry Gaunt, Sidney Ellwood and the rest of their classmates, safely ensconced in their idyllic boarding school in the English countryside. News o..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788417854393
The Light In Hidden Places
The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgórska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by hiding thirteen Jews in her attic during WWII, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sharon Cameron -- now a Reese's Book Club YA Pick! One knock at the door, and Stefania has a choice to make... ..
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