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1) 1984
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"En el ano 1984 Londres es una ciudad lugubre en la que la Policia del Pensamiento controla de forma asfixiante la vida de los ciudadanos. Winston Smith es un peon de este engranaje perverso, su cometido es reescribir la historia para adaptarla a lo que el Partido considera la version oficial de los hechos... hasta que decide replantearse la verdad del sistema que los gobierna y somete."--Amazon.
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The 1934 journal of seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain reveals her perspective on six stormy months in the eccentric and poverty-stricken life of her family in a ruined Suffolk castle, ending with the revelation that Cassandra is deeply in love.
3) Mr. Fox
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2011
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Fairy-tale romances end with a wedding. The fairy tales that don't get more complicated. In this book, the celebrated writer Mr. Fox can't stop himself from killing off the heroines of his novels, and neither can his wife, Daphne. It's not until Mary, his muse, comes to life and transforms him from author into subject that his story begins to unfold differently.
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Barefoot
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c2002
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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64 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
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Faeries of the British Isles are featured in this collection of stories, poems, and explanations. Not to be confused with the sweet fairy godmothers and tooth fairies of modern American myth, these are the little folk who play mischievous tricks, cause humans to lose their way when traveling, and replace babies with changelings.
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A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her -- but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the...
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Libraries Unlimited
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2006
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xix, 562 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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A textbook for library students and reference for public librarians and booksellers to books people read voraciously just for entertainment, including westerns, crime novels, adventure, romance, science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Defines each genre, describes its characteristics and subgenres, groups authors according to type or subject, and provides a selective annotated bibliography of the history and criticism of each genre.
8) The sworn
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Fallen kings cycle volume 1
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2011
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English
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Summoner-King Martris Drayke must attempt to meet this great threat, gathering an army from a country ravaged by civil war. Tris seeks new allies from among the living -- and the dead -- as an untested generation of rulers face their first battle. Meanwhile, the legendary Dread are stirring in their burrows after millennia of silence and no one knows what hand wakes them and whom they will serve when they rise. Now, Drayke turns to the Sworn, a nomadic...
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Steerforth Press
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[2014]
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159 pages ; 22 cm
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In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds.
10) No safe house
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Seven years ago, Terry Archer and his family experienced a horrific ordeal that nearly cost them their lives. Today, the echoes of that fateful night are still audible. Terry's wife, Cynthia, is living separate from her husband and daughter after her own personal demons threatened to ruin her relationship with them permanently. Their daughter, Grace, is rebelling against her parents' seemingly needless overprotection. Terry is just trying to keep...
11) Game of mirrors
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2015.
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When Montalbano comes to the aid of his new neighbor, Liliana Lombardo, after the engine of her car is interfered with, the inspector can little imagine where this innocuous event will lead. It soon transpires that the young woman -- beautiful, intelligent and rather vague about the whereabouts of her husband -- is being targeted by someone with a grudge against her. But is Liliana's growing interest in Montalbano simply a product of the detective's...
12) Moby Dick
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Moby Dick es la escalofriante historia de la lucha entre el capitán Ahab, capitán del ballenero Pequod y Moby Dick, la gran ballena blanca que arrancó su pierna. Ahab con una sed de venganza arrastra su tripulación en una obsesionada búsqueda de su gran enemigo. FonoLibro les trae esta emocionante aventura con un elenco completo, música y efectos de sonido que les hará vivir la historia de un hombre obsesionado en buscar su Némesis, la gran...
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Henry Holt and Company
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2017.
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x, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys four legendary writers, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, and D. H. Lawrence, make over the course of one pivotal year. As 1922 begins, all four are literally at a loss for words, confronting an uncertain creative future despite success in the past. The literary ground is shifting, as Ulysses is published in February and Proust’s In Search of Lost...
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La Bruja de Portobello relata la vida de Athena mediante la gente que la conocía bien o que no la conocía nada. Entre ellos, su madre adoptiva, un periodista, una sacerdotisa, un historiador y una actriz. Cada persona ilustra un aspecto diferente del carácter de Athena, describiendo lo que vieron y experimentaron, y también compartiendo sus propias impresiones, creencias e inquietudes.
In this deceptively simple novel, a bereaved lover attempts...
15) Malinche
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Cuando Malinalli conoce a Cortés asume que se trata del propio Dios Quetzalcóatl que regresa a liberar a su pueblo. Los dos se enamoran apasionadamente, pero este amor pronto es destruido por la desmedida sed de conquista, poder y riqueza de Cortés. A lo largo de la historia de México Malinalli/Malinche ha sido conocida por su traición al pueblo indio. Pero recientes investigaciones históricas han mostrado que Malinalli fue la mediadora entre...
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FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el best seller internacional Las Crónicas de Narnia: El León, La Bruja y El Ropero, escrita por C. S. Lewis, libro que también fue llevado a la pantalla grande, en una espléndida superproducción de Walt Disney Pictures y Walden Media.
Narnia...una tierra congelada por un invierno eterno...la cual espera ser liberada...
Un ropero abandonado se convierte en el pasaje a la más maravillosa aventura
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