Historic Fiction
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788419030023
The Christie Affair
Why would the world's most famous mystery writer disappear for eleven days? What makes a woman desperate enough to destroy another woman's marriage? How deeply can a person crave revenge? In 1925, Miss Nan O’Dea infiltrated the wealthy, rarefied world of author Agatha Christie and her husband, Archi..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418089817
The Center of the World
Accompanied by a crew, Hernán Cortés landed in 1519 on the coasts of Mexico. There is no turning back after he decides to burn the ships. From there, one of the most colossal adventures in history begins, and it is the march to Tenochtitlan, the center of the world, the heart of the impregnable Azte..
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Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788416622856
The Home for Unwanted Girls
When Maggie Hughes becomes pregnant at fifteen in 1950s Quebec, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life ‘back on track’. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie goes in search of her long-lost daughter...
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Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788418526343
The Shadow King
In this monumental novel, Maaza Mengiste investigates the erased lives of the women who participated in the war of resistance against the fascist Italian invasion that began in 1935 in her native Ethiopia. Through the characters of "The shadow king" –complex and full of edges, with their lights and ..
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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: Almuzara
EAN: 9788416921898
The Secret of the Virgin of Guadalupe
This novel places us in the social context of an event that brought about a radical change in the lives of those who knew it, and in the relations between the indigenous people and the Spanish people in Mexico five centuries ago. / Esta novela nos sitúa en el contexto social de un acontecimiento qu..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788416776740
The Secret of the Emperor
In 1555, Emperor Charles V abandons his position to give it to his son Philip. Disappointed by an ideal impossible to achieve, exhausted by the incessant journeys through his kingdoms, he devotes himself to his last passion, worthy of a prince of the Renaissance: the instruments of time measurement...
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Brand: Nórdica libros
EAN: 9788419320711
Hadji Murád
Hadji Murad is a short novel written by Leo Tolstoy. It was Tolstoy's final work. The subject matter is one Hadji Murat, an Avar rebel commander who, for reasons of personal revenge, forges an uneasy alliance with the Russians he had been fighting...
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Brand: Anagrama
EAN: 9788433981271
The Architect
One day in 1624, a father takes his daughter to the beach of Santa Severa to see the remains of a stranded whale. The father, Giovanni Briccio, treasures in his desk a tooth from that whale, which later his daughter, Plautilla, will keep all her life, along with the indelible memory of the animal th..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788416750979
The Alhambra Captive
Taking advantage of emir Muhammad V´s overthrow, a group of North African warriors of the Sultan of Granada mug and kidnap a family of millers on the hills of Sierra de Cordoba. Fadrique, the miller´s son, who professes as Franciscan at the Monastery of Saint Toribio de Liébana, makes a request for ..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418089121
The Golden City
Peru, 1887. All over the country, people are talking about one man and his incredible discovery. Augusto Berns claims to have found the lost city of the Incas, and the news spreads from Lima to London and New York. But who is the supposed discoverer of El Dorado? It all begins with a young man who w..
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Brand: Galaxia Gutenberg
EAN: 9788418807695
The Wild Comedy
Benjamin has received a mission that seems disproportionate: stop the Civil War. Though he doesn't think it's possible, to avoid a likely execution squad he will tour a country that has seemingly enthusiastically set out on its own destruction. Along the way he will encounter bizarre characters, del..
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