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1) Solaris
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Libranda
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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Impedimenta se complace en presentar, por primera vez en traducción directa del polaco, "Solaris", la mítica novela que consagró a Stanislaw Lem como autor de culto. Un texto hoy en día considerado un clásico sin paliativos de la literatura moderna.Kris Kelvin acaba de llegar a Solaris. Su misión es esclarecer los problemas de conducta de los tres tripulantes de la única estación de observación situada en el planeta. Solaris es un lugar peculiar:...
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En lo más profundo de la historia de la iglesia, más allá de las páginas llenas de fe, esperanza y amor, yace un oscuro y perturbador pasaje que ha sido ocultado por siglos. Este libro, "La Iglesia: Los Horrores Ocultos en su Historia", tiene la valiente misión de desvelar esos aspectos sombríos y controversiales que han sucedido en la vida real.A menudo, la iglesia ha sido considerada como un faro de luz y guía espiritual para millones de...
3) Earth Story
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Earth Story' is an engaging and thought-provoking alternative view of mankind's history and those who have manipulated pivotal events throughout millennia. The story is told through the eyes of different characters who provide an, as yet, untold version of historical events, such as the discovery of the tomb Tutankhamun, the Second World War, and the 1969 moon landing. Are humans really the masters of their own destiny or merely pawns in a much wider...
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October 31, 1855. Celebrated author and social champion Victor Hugo, in exile from France, is forced to relocate to the Isle of Guernsey. En route across the Channel, the trunk containing his unfinished masterpiece, Les Misérables, is lost overboard! But fate deals Hugo a strange blow as he begins to recreate the book with the help of the very people he was destined to immortalize, and he discovers what really happened the night the barricades fell,...
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"Celestial Brushstrokes and Moonlit Verses" by Engr Dr Naila Hina, unfolded as a tale of passion and peril, with Liang Chen navigating the treacherous waters of both mortal and celestial realms. The novel wove together elements of suspense, romance, and comedy, set against the backdrop of a mythical China where art held the power to unlock the secrets of the human soul. With Detective Dae and Confucius leading the game and Laizi poetry.
6) Sanctuary
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The second volume in the continuation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.In 1855, while Victor Hugo continues to write Les Misérables on the Isle of Guernsey, he learns the story of Jean Valjean's continuing journey, taking him and his companion, the former Inspector Javert, from France in 1833 to the London of Dickens; from there the pair are drawn to the walled city of Québec, where awaits another attempted revolution which threatens Jean Valjean...
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Victor Hugo continues to write his masterwork Les Misérables while he becomes more and more familiar with the people he will immortalize: Jean Valjean and his family. But not everyone welcomes Hugo's curiosity, especially as Valjean relates to Hugo how he and Javert encountered an old acquaintance and Marius rediscovered something long thought lost to him while struggling to keep his marriage to Cosette from disintegrating. And who is the mysterious...
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Flush with the proceeds from the 'Israeli Caper' Prentice takes up with Caroline Maxwell the daughter of Lord Stigwell of Bashwell Higham. She is working as a Financial Advisor at Spooner, Sedgewick & Pell a City branch of Standish Holdings Plc., her father's Business Empire - a relic of the Victorian Era. Prentice is looking for advice on where to invest his new found riches from the 'Israeli Caper'. But it all comes apart at the seams when Caroline...
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Major Ralph Smith, injured at the Battle of Antietam is no longer able to lead his men into battle but goes undercover at the Port of Baltimore for the Confederate Secret Service to find out what a mysterious Frenchman, Reynard Gastonne, is up to. As Smith sets about to investigating the Frenchman, he is tailed by Pinkerton Agents on the lookout for Southern Spies.
10) Juniper Point
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June 1910. Charles Richard Crowningshield, a wealthy industrialist from Chicago, is sending his family east, to escape the summer heat. They arrive by private train, to the village of Woods Hole, a small fishing village on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He's just purchased a new home there, high atop Juniper Point, a windswept promentary with views to the sea and the Elizabeth islands beyond. But the house, built in 1880, a large Victorian mansion...
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The bestselling book that asks the question: what would present-day America look like if the Civil War never happened?
A young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Marshall Service in exchange for his freedom. He's got plenty of work. In this version of America, slavery continues in four states called "the Hard Four." On the trail of a runaway known as Jackdaw, Victor...
12) Brookland
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A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A Los Angeles Times Book Review Favorite Book of the Year
Since her girlhood, Prudence Winship has gazed across the tidal straits from her home in Brooklyn to the city of Manhattan and yearned to bridge the distance. Now, established as the owner of the enormously successful gin distillery she inherited from her father, she can begin to realize her dream.
Set in eighteenth-century Brooklyn,...
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From the bestselling author of The Illuminator comes a magnificent tale about the power of love and the perils of faith
Tudor England is a perilous place for booksellers Kate Gough and her brother John, who sell forbidden translations of the Bible. Caught between warring factions-English Catholics opposed to the Lutheran reformation, and Henry VIII's growing impatience with the Pope's refusal to sanction his marriage to Anne Boleyn-Kate embarks...
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"A Trunkful of Memories: The Autobiography of an Elephant" is a captivating journey into the heart of the wild, told through the keen eyes and wise perspective of a sentient being navigating the complexities of the untamed jungle. This extraordinary autobiography unveils the rich tapestry of a pachyderm's life, blending poignant reflections, thrilling adventures, and profound life lessons acquired beneath the sprawling canopy.As the pages unfold,...
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Cette fresque s'est fixée un pari : celui de vulgariser l'Histoire universelle en posant, l'une à cté de l'autre, les représentations du monde de ceux qui en ont été les acteurs les plus représentatifs, qui le sont, ou qui le seront peut-être un jour. Ces personnages s'adressent tous au lecteur à la première personne, comme s'ils voulaient faire de lui le témoin privilégié de leur bilan, de leurs réflexions ou de leurs recommandations....
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Their mission isn't over. Malia and David think they've escaped the tyrannical Diversity Justice Republic for good. She's devouring books once forbidden to her. David says he will never kill again. He is trying to learn the ways of the executive suite, wearing a suit rather than the uniform of the brutal Antifan Defense Forces he served for many years. The couple is raising their children in suburbia, in the still-free United States. But they have...
17) Olive Kitteridge
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Publisher
Libranda
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Olive Kitteridge es una maestra retirada que vive en un pequeño lugar de Maine, en Nueva Inglaterra. A veces dura, otras paciente, a veces lúcida, otras abnegadamente ciega, Olive lamenta las transformaciones que han agitado el pequeño pueblo de Crosby y la deriva catastrófica que va tomando el mundo entero, pero no siempre se da cuenta de los cambios menos perceptibles que afectan a las personas más cercanas: la desesperación de un ex alumno...
18) El señor Mani
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Libranda
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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El señor Mani es una crónica envolvente de seis generaciones, que se adentra en el tiempo desde el Jerusalén de 1982 hasta mediados del siglo XIX. A través de los Mani, Yehoshua nos habla de ese a veces fino pero inquebrantable hilo que une a padres e hijos. ¿Puede un hombre romper las cadenas que lo atan a su pasado? ¿Puede anular su identidad? A.B. Yehoshua pone en escena cinco diálogos en los que una voz diversa nos guía entre las historias...
19) Sinai Tapestry
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Sinai Tapestry, the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet, is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert...
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"People think - wrongly - that speculative fiction is about predicting the future, but it isn't; or if it is, it tends to do a rotten job of it. Futures are huge things that come with many elements and a billion variables, and the human race has a habit ... What speculative fiction is good at is not the future but the present - taking an aspect of it that troubles or is dangerous and extrapolating that aspect into something that allows the people...
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