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81) Rebecca
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A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 7
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English
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Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him
84) Of mice and men
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The tragic story of the friendship between two migrant workers, George and mentally retarded Lenny, and their dream of owning a farm.
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A criminal feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse and tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse Ratched. McMurphy swaggers into...
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When David Copperfield's widowed mother remarries, David suffers from his stepfather's abuse. At age 8, David is sent away to a harsh school where the principal routinely beats the students. David's circumstances become even worse when he is removed from school and, at age 10, forced to labor from morning to night in a London warehouse. David then decides to take desperate action. He will run away to his great-aunt, who lives in Dover. Having never...
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When the chance discovery of an ancient cryptogram reveals a path to the Underworld, the adventurous Professor Otto Liedenbrock sets off to Iceland, determined to reach the centre of the earth. But nothing can prepare him and his nephew Axel for what they will find beneath the ground; measureless caverns and vast subterranean seas reveal all of the earth's known history and more, while dinosaurs do battle, giant men herd mastodons and danger and excitement...
88) Vaso de rocío
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SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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Vaso de rocío es un drama teatral del dramaturgo Salvador Rueda. Ambientado en la Grecia clásica, cuenta una historia de amor frustrado en las coordenadas típicas de la obra del autor: el gusto por el costumbrismo, las potentes imágenes sensoriales, un incipiente modernismo en el estilo y una plasticidad tan pictórica como musical en las metáforas.-
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Editorial el Pirata
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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SUMMARY IN SPANISH:
Pascual el dragó n viaja a Asia. Descubrirá có mo juegan los niñ os, las tradiciones populares y las fiestas de estos paí ses y, como siempre, lo hará ayudando allí donde se
Un libro infantil interactivo en españ ol, en el que el propio dragoncito cuenta la historia y, de vez en cuando, hace preguntas al niñ o.
Este es el segundo tí tulo de la colecció n Pascual el dragó...
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Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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Un viaje formidable por las historias de la Biblia que alimentaron la imaginación de un futuro escritor
Como muchos niños de la posguerra española, Eduardo Mendoza estudió en el colegio una asignatura denominada Historia Sagrada, resumen e ilustración de algunos pasajes de la Biblia que hicieron nacer en él la fascinación por la palabra escrita y por los mundos de ficción, además de enseñarle a distinguir entre lo real y lo imaginario. «No...
91) Ulysses
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A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, whose odyssey through the streets of turn-of-the-century Dublin leads him through trials that parallel those of Ulysses on his epic journey home
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Jack Reacher novels volume 21
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English
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"Discover the thriller series that The New York Times calls 'utterly addictive.' After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, Lee Child sends readers back to school with the most explosive Jack Reacher novel yet. It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom--an FBI agent...
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A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...
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The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, who is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Buck is a dog born to luxury, but his life changes dramatically when he is sold to be a sled dog in the Yukon Terrority. He earns a reputation for his strength and courage, and is rescued from a series of bad owners by John Thornton, who teaches him to love. When John is...
95) Dirty thirty
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2023.
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English
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Stephanie Plum, Trenton's hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment that seems simple enough. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, Andy Manley (a.k.a. Nutsy), who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same...
96) Oliver Twist
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Born and raised in the appalling deprivation of a Victorian-era London workhouse, the orphan Oliver escapes the drudgery of apprenticeship only to fall into the hands of the notorious Fagin and his gang of child thieves. But Oliver is an innocent at heart and the attempts by Fagin and the impudently witty Artful Dodger to teach the boy the trick of the pick-pocket's trade lead only to his almost immediate capture. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr....
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Set in the summer of 1917, the story follows the war-wounded Hastings to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. In the village, Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot and, when the estate's trouble turns deadly, the friends unite to solve a most baffling case.
98) Moby Dick
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English
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Retells the story of the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him
100) Negando la realidad
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Zafiro eBooks
Pub. Date
2019
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Español
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De una boda, en teoría, sale otra boda.
Chorradas.
¡Qué más quisiera yo!
Porque os seré franca, quiero casarme cuanto antes, pero no me sirve cualquiera.
En mi entorno familiar, el matrimonio es un arte, o al menos así me lo ha explicado mil veces mi madre.
He tenido novios y pretendientes; sin embargo, ninguno cumplía todos los requisitos, empezando por una cuenta bancaria saneada. Ya sé lo que estáis pensado, no hace falta que me lo digáis,...
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