Historic Fiction
Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788419521453
Monsters
In the realm of appearances, monsters are not what we think. The Louvre, 1655. Catherine Beauvais, known as Cateau, la borgnesse, displays her striking ugliness through the corridors of the most beautiful palace in the world. Catherine has unique knowledge of plants thanks to the recipes passed down..
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Brand: Edaf
EAN: 9788441442764
The Histories
Written on a scale of Homeric proportions, Herodotus' The Histories is the first and greatest work of prose that Greek Antiquity has bequeathed to us. In it, the traveler from Halicarnassus explores an entire era and a universe with an inquiring and deeply humanistic spirit that will forever change ..
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Brand: Batiscafo
EAN: 9788419738561
Mileva Einstein, Theory of Sadness
Mileva Einstein was not only Albert Einstein's first love, wife and mother of children, but also one of the first European women to study physics. As a scientist she collaborated in her husband's discoveries mainly in the field of mathematics, where her knowledge surpassed his. With this novel based..
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433924346
Commander
On September 28, 1940, the Cappellini submarine of the Italian fascist navy left the port of La Spezia heading to the Atlantic, via Gibraltar. In command was the veteran commander Salvatore Todaro. During their mission, they sighted a Belgian ship, the Kabalo. A naval battle ensued and the submarine..
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Brand: Batiscafo
EAN: 9788419392152
I am Milena from Prague.
This is the story of Milena Jesenská, who many know as Kafka's friend. And yes, the months of loving and intellectual relationship with Franz Kafka marked the lives of both. Nothing was the same for Milena, she transformed. She gained confidence in herself, in her writing, in her political stance in..
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Brand: Batiscafo
EAN: 9788419738646
Masters and Peasants
The works that elevated Theodor Kallifatides as one of the great European writers of the second half of the 20th century were his three novels Peasants and Gentlemen (1973), The Plow and the Sword (1975) and A Cruel Peace (1977). They are translated for the first time into Spanish. With them, Kallif..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788410521926
The secret of the Black Order
Amid World War II's chaos, young Spanish Communist María Millán loses her mother and brother, fleeing to France. There, after her father's death and a change of identity, she joins the French Resistance. Captured in Lyon, she's sent to Ravensbrück. Meanwhile, Hans Kammler leads a top-secret Nazi pro..
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Brand: Batiscafo
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: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433924087
Of Our Wounded Brothers
Algeria, 1956. Fernand Iveton, a young thirty-year-old communist worker, decides to show his support for the FNL's independence cause against France by planting a bomb. Iveton's peculiarity is that he is a pied noir, that is, a white Frenchman born in Algeria. The bomb is defused before it explodes ..
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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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Bestseller
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788410085039
The Mailbox of the Impure
In 1863, at the most critical moment of the North American Civil War, the members of the diplomatic mission that President Lincoln sent to Santiago de Chile became the unexpected heroes of one of the most overwhelming tragedies in contemporary world history: death of more than two thousand women tra..
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Bestseller
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788410085008
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal effects—but something doesn’t ma..
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