Libros del Asteroide
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The Whistling Season
“Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. That unforgettable season deposits the ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of..
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Uncanny Valley
In 2013, twenty-five-year-old Anna Wiener decides to leave her precarious job as an editorial assistant at a literary agency in New York for the seductive promises of burgeoning tech startups. An adventure that will lead her to move to San Francisco and sign for a new data analysis company. In the e..
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EAN: 9788493501822
They Came Like Swallows
To eight-year old Bunny Morison, his mother is an angelic comforter in whose absence nothing is real or alive. To his older brother, Robert, his mother is someone he must protect, especially since the deadly, influenza epidemic of 1918 is ravaging their small Midwestern town. To James Morison, his..
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EAN: 9788417977993
Godspeed
Cole, Bart, and Teddy, the three principals of True Triangle Construction, are hired to finish a project for a mysteriously wealthy homeowner. The grand house is unlike anything they’ve worked on before, and they’re sure it’ll put their name on the map. But the owner is intent on having it built in ..
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EAN: 9788417007805
The End of the Affair
In 1946, in a London where the scars of war are still visible, Maurice Bendrix meets diplomat Henry Miles by chance, whom he hasn't seen for a long time. Henry is married to Sarah, with whom Maurice had an affair during the war. When Henry confesses that he suspects that Sarah is unfaithful, it will..
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EAN: 9788493431563
Fifth Business
The plot of this novel is woven around the mysterious death of Canadian magnate Boy Staunton. The narration is carried out by Dunstan Ramsay, Staunton's childhood friend, who, when trying to clarify the circumstances of his death, will have no choice but to face the story of his own life. From the b..
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EAN: 9788417977641
Friday Black
From the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities that black men and women contend with..
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EAN: 9788419089458
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
Born and raised in the United States, Mildred Harnack was studying for a PhD in Germany when she witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi Party. In 1932, together with her husband Arvid Harnack, she promoted the creation of a clandestine group that by 1940 had become the largest anti-Nazi resistance ..
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EAN: 9788419089670
The Crane Wife
Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you..
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EAN: 9788419089212
Lean Fall Stand
A small Antarctic expedition ends in tragedy after a strong storm. One of the team members has disappeared and another, Robert Doc Wright, a veteran of field work in Antarctica who has the keys to what happened, has lost his speech and some mobility. Back home, the consequences of the accident reach..
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EAN: 9788417977757
Out of Egypt
This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the s..
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EAN: 9788419089403
Tracy Flick Can't Win
A fun reflection on ambition, adulthood and the complexities of today's world. Tracy Flick is the hard-working assistant principal of a public high school in a quiet, small New Jersey town. At forty years old, she leads a peaceful life and, although her ambition is less than in her youth, when the o..
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