Historic Fiction
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788416517961
The Historian
Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful ..
$30.56 $33.95
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: Urano World
EAN: 9788416517848
The Dressmaker of Paris
Rosa Kusstatscher has built a global fashion empire upon her ability to find the perfect outfit for any occasion. But tonight, as she prepares for the most important meeting of her life, her usual certainty eludes her. What brought her to this moment? As she struggles to select her dress and choose ..
$21.56 $23.95
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 ..
$28.76 $31.95
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..
$24.26 $26.95
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 ..
$19.76 $21.95
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: 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: Duomo
EAN: 9788418538681
The Oceans Between Us
London just suffered a bombing. Enemy planes drift away, and in the city, people are struggling to win back what's left of their lives. In the midst of the chaos, a woman wanders alone, injured. She doesn't remember anything, not even her name. The only thing she knows is that she has lost something..
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Brand: Almuzara
EAN: 9788418709159
Defeat the English Corsair
Much has been written about the supposed disaster of the so-called Invincible Armada, when there was another British fleet which failed miserably in its assault on the Spanish coasts in 1589. That fiasco led Elizabeth I of England to punish the corsair Drake, responsible for the defeat, with a ban o..
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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..
$12.56 $13.95
Brand: Urano World
EAN: 9788416517237
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. / En el Que..
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