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Pub. Date
2024.
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"New York City, 1911. Edith Wharton, almost equally famed for her novels and her sharp tongue, is bone-tired of Manhattan. Finding herself at a crossroads with both her marriage and her writing, she makes the decision to leave America, her publisher, and her loveless marriage. And then, dashing novelist David Graham Phillips—a writer with often notorious ideas about society and women’s place in it—is shot to death outside the...
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Lumen
Pub. Date
2023.
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278 pages ; 23 cm.
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Mucho se ha escrito y dicho sobre Maria Callas, uno de los mitos del siglo XX, pero casi nadie ha tenido acceso a su correspondencia privada, unas cartas en las que Maria expresaba su yo mas intimo. Alfonso Signorini, un hombre devoto desde la infancia de la voz de la gran artista tenia entre manos estos documentos cuando se puso a escribir La vida de Maria Callas. Tan fiera, tan fragil, la biografia novelada de la diva que nacio en Nueva York en...
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Persevero Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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273 pages : 24 cm
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In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and na�ive would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's domineering, philandering husband (famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz); and...
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Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
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602 pages ; 23 cm
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Tras el asesinato de su padre, Alejandro asciende al trono de Macedonia. Acaba de heredar no solo el título, sino también el deber de salir victorioso en la misión que le reclama su pueblo: arrebatar a los persas las tierras que una vez fueron griegas y devolverles la libertad. Sin embargo, no puede detenerse ahí; la sangre de reyes, de héroes, de dioses que corre por sus venas lo obliga a llevar a cabo una empresa mucho más ambiciosa. Quiere...
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"On a warm night in September, Yvonne Rudellat's house is bombed. Almost everything she owns is destroyed. Yvonne has no one left. She and her husband have long been estranged; her daughter, Jackie, is married and occupied with war work. Yvonne is no useto anyone--older, diminutive, always overlooked. As she prepares to take her own life, fate offers her a new path. Almost no one believes she can do it. She is a woman, unaccustomed to this form of...
6) Libra
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1991.
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456 pages ; 20 cm.
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On November 22, 1963, in the streets of Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald's path intersected with the President John F. Kennedy's and the world witnessed the terrifying explosion of America's dreams. In Libra Don DeLillo applies his masterful imagination to Kennedy's assassination and crestes eerily convincing speculation about one of America's most compelling mysteries.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
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A celebration of Langston Hughes and African American authors he inspired, told through the lens of the party held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in 1991.
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022.
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403 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
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"Cuando Alfonso XI, Rey de Castilla y Leon, muere a causa de la peste negra durante el asedio a Gibraltar, el reino queda huerfano, con las fronteras amenazadas y las cosechas devastadas. Sera entonces cuando su hijo Pedro, un joven de quince anos con gran sed de poder, que ha vivido apartado y marginado de la corte, se coronara rey. Empujado por las ansias de venganza de su madre, Maria de Portugal, y amenazado por la vil mirada de su hermano bastardo,...
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Based on the true story of one of the most brutal crimes in recent Italian history, this hypnotic literary thriller recounts the murder of twenty-three-year-old Luca Varani at the hands of two "ordinary" young men from good families, taking us into the darkest corners of contemporary Rome and of the human soul.
10) El lugar
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Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
[2022]
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102 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Una hija debe aceptar sus a�nos de formaci�on mientras escribe un retrato inquebrantable de su padre, el due�no de un caf�e cuya vida se ha vuelto muy extra�na para ella.
11) A royal affair
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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320 pages ; 21 cm.
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A sequel to The Right Sort of Man finds Iris and Gwendolyn of The Right Sort of Marriage Bureau investigating the past of a dashing Greek prince who has captured the heart of the Princess Elizabeth.
13) Los genios
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Galaxia Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
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238 pages ; 21 cm
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"Garcia Marquez y Vargas Llosa se conocieron en el aeropuerto de Caracas, en agosto de 1967. Con apenas treinta y un anos, Vargas Llosa era ya un escritor aclamado por la critica. Garcia Marquez, cuarenta anos cumplidos, encontraba por fin el exito editorial con Cien anos de soledad, publicada ese ano en Buenos Aires. Antes de confundirse en un abrazo en el aeropuerto de Caracas que dio inicio formal a la amistad, los dos genios de la literatura se...
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[Marta Molnar]
Pub. Date
[2022]
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399 pages ; 21 cm.
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"When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincent van Gogh's paintings. They were all she had, and they weren't worth anything. She was a 28 year old widow with a baby in the 1800s, without any means...
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
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300 pages ; 21 cm
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A novel based on the life of Gerda Taro, a German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist activist, artist and innovator who, together with her partner, the Hungarian Endre Friedmann, was one half of the alias Robert Capa, widely considered to be the twentieth century's greatest war and political photographer. She was killed while documenting the Spanish Civil War and tragically became the first female photojournalist to be killed on a battlefield.
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Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2023.
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242 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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"Dolly Maunder is born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society's long-locked doors are just starting to creak ajar for determined women. Growing up in a poor farming family in rural New South Wales, Dolly spends her life doggedly pushing at those doors. A husband and two children do not deter her from searching for love and independence. Restless Dolly Maunder is a subversive, triumphant tale of a pioneering woman working her way through...
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Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
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381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Suzanne Avramow lleg̤ a ser conocida como "la mujer mejor vestida de M̌xico", su estilo de vida estaba lleno de glamur: cenaba en el Ciro's; asist̕a a los bailes del Jockey Club; se hospedaba en el exclusivo hotel Mirador de Acapulco y, tras su matrimonio con el rico empresario Paul Antebi, se integr̤ al grupo de familias m̀s influyentes del pa̕s durante el alemanismo. Huyendo del nazismo y, hablando apenas espąol, lleg̤ sola a un pa̕s extrąo...
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2023.
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350 pages ; 23 cm
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"Rosalind Franklin es feliz en el laboratorio, ahí da rienda suelta a su imaginación y realiza los experimentos que, está segura, cambiarán el mundo de la ciencia. Lo único que ensombrece ese universo perfecto son sus compañeros, especialmente Maurice Wilkins, James Watson y Francis Crick, quienes la menosprecian por ser mujer. Por eso, cuando el director del laboratorio le asigna trabajar en la estructura del adn, ella está decidida a demostrar...
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