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Deborah Moggach examines sexual betrayal and human failings in 17th century Amsterdam as the characters in Tulip Fever move inexorably towards a grand deception and a tragic climax

Sevilla, 1626. A su regreso de Flandes, donde han participado en el asedio y rendición de Breda, el capitán Alatriste y el joven mochilero Íñigo Balboa reciben el encargo de reclutar a un pintoresco grupo de bravos espadachines para una peligrosa misión, relacionada con el contrabando del oro que los galeones españoles traen de las Indias. Los bajos fondos de la turbulenta ciudad andaluza, el corral de los Naranjos, la cárcel real, las tabernas de Triana, los arenales del Guadalquivir, son los escenarios de esta nueva aventura, donde los protagonistas reencontrarán traiciones, lances y estocadas, en compañía de viejos amigos y de viejos enemigos.

An Alex Cross mystery. A brilliant intern disappears in a picturesque college town. A Los Angeles Times reporter is murdered in her home. Two chillingly clever killers are operating - maybe even co-operating.

Barcelona. 23 cm. 357 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Patterson, James 1947-. Traducción de D. N. Bentolila. Traducción de: Along came a spider .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-226-5016-9

In 1970s California, a makeshift family of a father, daughter, adopted daughter and farm hand's lives are shattered by a traumatic event and they are sent off on separate courses.

Una terrible amenaza se cierne sobre el mundo mágico: DomDaniel, el mago que practica magia negra, ha vuelto y ansía dominar el mundo. Sólo necesita dos cosas: matar a la princesa y robar el amuleto Akhenaten de Marcia, la Maga ExtraOrdinaria. Para conseguir lo primero deberá arrebatarla de la familia Heap, unos magos que la adoptaron nada más nacer, y han mantenido en secreto sus principescos orígenes. Para lo segundo, deberá enfrentarse a Marcia, la Maga ExtraOrdinaria. Tanto los Heap como Marcia huyen a casa de la tía Zelda. Sin embargo, una traición hará que DomDaniel los descubra. Todos juntos deberán unirse si quieren vencerlo y se enfrentarán aun sinfín de peripecias donde caben el humor, la ternura, la más trepidante de las aventuras y, cómo no, la más inesperada sorpresa.

"Yo me empeciné en poner luz a esta historia de sombras, en saber, en buscar y buscar sin medir el riesgo afectivo que pudiera traerme". La voz de Luz narra en presente su pasado reconstruido, anclado en testimonios que le devuelven su identidad alguna vez robada. Luz es muy joven, tiene apenas veinte años. Sin embargo, carga en su cuerpo con la pesada historia argentina de las tres últimas decadas: nació en cautiverio durante la dictadura militar y fue uno de los cientos de niños separados de sus padres para ser criados por los verdugos de estos. Pero lejos en el tiempo de esos días tenidos por el terror y la mentira, recompone su historia con una voz propia, que le pertenece. Más allá de su contundente lectura sobre los años de plomo en la Argentina, la novela de Elsa Osorio publicada por primera vez en España, en 1998 es también un relato complejo, tejido casi en clave policial y sostenido con una notable destreza narrativa. Una amplia trama de personajes en un juego de claroscuros que excede clases sociales, ideologías y estereotipos "políticamente correctos", confluyen en Luz como centro, como memoria recuperada.

De schijnbaar alledaagse belevenissen van een schijnbaar alledaagse meneer.

Tim Cornish, a creative writing student, sits composing a confession: an admission of a crime committed two years ago that has yet to be discovered. It began when he first encountered Ivo, a magnetic man, older than himself, and felt compelled to kiss him. By the time they travel together to Alaska's glacial wastes, Tim has fallen in and out of love with Ivo; his real passion is now only for Isabel whom he has met in Ivo's absence. The horror of Tim's subsequent journey with Ivo, battling with disgust and despair, may andure in his memory for ever

The story follows seven-year-old Mary, whose world shatters when her beloved cat, Thomasina, is deemed too sick to survive by her stern father, the town vet. Heartbroken and silent towards her father, Mary faces her own life-threatening illness. Meanwhile, Thomasina is saved by Lori, the enigmatic Red Witch, and transformed into Talitha, a powerful being with ties to an Egyptian goddess, now returning for vengeance. Themes of love, loss, and transformation intertwine in this magical tale.

"Potok writes powerfully about the suffering of innocent people caught in the cross-fire of a war they cannot begin to understand....Humanity and compassion for his characters leap from every page." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE As the Chinese and the army of the North sweep south during the Korean War, an old peasant farmer and his wife flee their village across the bleak, bombed-out landscape. They soon come upon a boy in a ditch who is wounded and unconscious. Stirred by possessiveness and caring the woman refuses to leave the boy behind. The man thinks she is crazy to nurse this boy, to risk their lives for some dying stranger. Angry and bewildered, he waits for the boy to die. And when the boy does not die, the old man begins to believe that the boy possesss a magic upon which all their lives depend....

Amber is het volmaakte koninkrijk dat in feite een geestestoestand is die iedereen hoopt te bereiken. Amber betekent macht en geluk, terwijl Aarde en vele parallelle werelden slechts schaduwen zijn, stukjes doolhof op de weg naar Amber. Maar de weg terug naar Amber is bijzonder gevaarlijk, zoals Corwin, een van de negen prinsen, ondervindt. Pas ontsnapt uit de kerker van zijn broer Eric, is Corwin vastbeloten al zijn bovenmenselijke krachten aan te wenden om de troon van Amber terug te winnen.

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. THE LOST CONTINENT is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.

Tekst van de toelichting die de joodse politicoloog aan het Beierse gerechtshof zond bij zijn eis tot schadeloosstelling voor het in de Tweede Wereldoorlog ondergane leed.

To the spaceship Discovery, floating in the silent depths of space since Dave Bowman passed through the alien 'Star Gate', comes Heywood Floyd on a mission of recovery. What he finds near Jupiter is beyond the imaginings of any mere human.

A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens. Their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness & has decided that it is God. Now it is insisting--with the considerable force of its impressive array of armaments to back it up--that the colonists find appropriate ways to worship It.

De regreso al reino de Amber tras haber vencido al príncipe Eric, Corwin descubre a su hermano Caine asesinado por misteriosas criaturas de Sombra, aparentemente bajo las órdenes de un oscuro y vengativo mandante. La búsqueda del verdadero asesino entre los innumerables reflejos de Amber llevará a Corwin, enfrentado a numerosos peligros e intrigas, al umbral de una revelación infinitamente más importante: la verdadera naturaleza del extraño reino de Amber, sus misterios y sus contradicciones. Este tercer volumen de la serie de los Príncipes de Amber vuelve a expandir las fronteras del monumental y prodigioso universo imaginado por Roger Zelazny.

A world of peaceful aliens conquered by bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. In defending their lives, they endanger the very foundations of their society. Every blow against the invaders is a blow to the core of Athsheans' culture. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. Winner of the 1973 Hugo award for Best Novella, and nominated for many others, The Word for World is Forest is part of Le Guin's 'Hainish Cycle'. It explores a future history of Earth and pacifistic ideals in its depictions of violence, colonialism and resistance. 'A simple story that, like most things Le Guin wrote, packs a powerful emotional and critical punch'- Tordotcom 'Deeply moving and shocking by turns'- Suzanne Reid 'Le Guin writes in quiet, straightforward sentences about people who feel they are being torn apart by massive forces in society . . . and who fight courageously to remain whole' - The New York Times Book Review Welcome to The Best Of The Masterworks: a selection of the finest in science fiction