Historic Fiction
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788416517404
The Royal Governess
Sunday Times bestselling author Wendy Holden brings to life the unknown childhood years of one of the world’s most famous figures, Queen Elizabeth II, and reveals the spirited young governess who made her the icon we love today.“This captivating page-turner whisks readers back in time to ..
$25.16 $27.95
Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417418601
The Sephardic Key
What does the discovery of Velázquez's grave have to do with the family treasure of an Israeli diplomat? A Sephardic key and a promise throughout history by the family of Rabbi Samuel Ha Levi. The key to the synagogue of Toledo will be the heavy burden of the Samuel family. / ¿Qué tiene que ver el ..
$21.56 $23.95
Brand: Impedimenta
EAN: 9788418668326
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura
The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses East and West, memory and reality, fox-possession myths, and psychiatric mythmaking. As an outstanding young Japanese medical student at the end of the nineteenth century, Dr. Shimamura is sent―to his dismay―to the provinces: he is asked to cure scor..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788418128431
The Child on Platform One
Prague 1939. Young mother Eva has a secret from her past. When the Nazis invade, Eva knows the only way to keep her daughter Miriam safe is to send her away - even if it means never seeing her again. But when Eva is taken to a concentration camp, her secret is at risk of being exposed. In London, Pa..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788417761462
The Cut out Girl
Bart van Es left Holland for England many years ago, but one story from his Dutch childhood never left him. It was a mystery of sorts: A young Jewish girl named Lientje had been taken in during the war by relatives and hidden from the Nazis, handed over by her parents, who understood the danger they..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418757259
Stefan Zweig's Little Bookstore
In the summer of 1936, the ship that carried the great writer Stefan Zweig to America stopped over at the port of Vigo. With the dramatic echoes of the Civil War resounding in the Galician atmosphere, the writer walked through the streets and stopped in front of the window of a small bookstore and m..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417797959
Warsaw Beach
Aleksander, a Polish Jew of Sephardic origin, has to face the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 and fight against them in the 1944 City Uprising. After having lost his family in dramatic situations and after going through hard experiences as a prisoner of war, he reaches Spain. A plot that perfectl..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788417418984
The Seville Prophecy
Some tablets engraved in clay appear in Seville in the sixteenth century. By chance these have been separated and their contents must be known to unravel the mystery which they conceal. The adventure reaches the current epoch, in which the CIA, Mosad and members of ISIS become interested in these ta..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788411310376
Sun Yat´sen´s Shadow
Cities, life, writing. A seductive book, halfway between the chronicle, the autobiography and the narrative. This is a book about cities, about lived experiences, about writing and literature. The common thread that sews these texts is the trip through cities that have been relevant in the author's ..
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Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788419075611
Exiled Shadow
In this vibrant mosaic of voices, sources, and stories, the protagonist, known only as the Nomadic Misanthrope, leaves communist Romania and is reunited with his friend Gunther, an unrepentant Marxist exiled in Berlin. Their meeting sparks a spirited dialogue that endures throughout the Nomadic Misa..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418346385
The Translator from Toledo
In the midst of the Christian Reconquest, a young woman from Toledo called Amira must take charge of her family in the face of adversity, in a world dominated by men, developing excellent skills as a translator in a society that is beginning to open up to knowledge. / En plena Reconquista cristiana..
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Brand: Duomo
EAN: 9788418128851
Remarkable Creatures
On the windswept, fossil-strewn beaches of the English coast, poor and uneducated Mary learns that she has a unique gift: "the eye" to spot ammonites and other fossils no one else can see. When she uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home, she sets the religious community ..
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