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Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken, dangerous Pa and Jim is a runaway slave longing to be reunited with his family. Flung together by circumstance, they journey down the Mississippi together on a log raft, each in search of his own definition of freedom. Their daring adventures along the way provide both entertainment and a satirical look at the moral values of the Deep South of the 1800s.
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A Penguin Classic
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions...
First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world, these stories reflect Steinbeck’s characteristic interests: the tensions...
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"In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that is just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of "Cannery Row", the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears - from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter....
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In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise up "in dubious battle" against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own, stronger than its individual members and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the strike springs from his tragic idealism, from the "courage never to submit or yield."
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When she discovers that her boyfriend Guero, a Mexican drug smuggler, has been killed by rivals and that she is the next target, Teresa Mendoza must give up her old life and become a member of a dark and deadly world in order to survive.
La joven Teresa Mendoza se ve envuelta en una peligrosa red de narcotraficantes a causa de la muerte de su compañero. Su huida constante la llevará a España, donde buscará un lugar y una identidad.
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Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards.
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Bestseller) volume 238/7
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Debolsillo
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[2010]
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584 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Marzo, 1897. Par?s. Un hombre de sesenta y siete a?os escribe sentado a una mesa, en una habitaci?n abarrotada de muebles: he aqu? al capit?n Simonini, un piamont?s afincado en la capital francesa, que desde muy joven se dedic? al noble arte de crear documentos falsos.
Looks into the 1897 diary of Captain Simonini, an antisemitic Italian in Paris who forges documents for the highest bidder, providing conspiracies and scapegoats for factions all over...
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Vintage Español
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2010.
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510 pages ; 21 cm.
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La azarosa historia de una esclava en el Santo Domingo del siglo XVIII que logrará zafarse de los estigmas que la sociedad le ha impuesto para conseguir la libertad y, con ella, la felicidad.--Desde la descripción de la editorial.
"The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible"--Provided by publisher.
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Debolsillo
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2012, c2009
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954 p. ; 19 cm.
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En la opulenta Córdoba de la segunda mitad del siglo XVI, un joven morisco, desgarrado entre dos culturas y dos amores, inicia una ardiente lucha por la tolerancia religiosa y los derechos de su pueblo. La historia de un joven atrapado entre dos religiones y dos amores, en busca de su libertad y la de su pueblo, en la Andalucía del siglo XVI. En 1568, en los valles y montes de las Alpujarras, ha estallado el grito de la rebelión: hartos de injusticias,...
13) Lo mejor de mí
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Rocabolsillo
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[2014]
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317 pages ; 20 cm.
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Two former high school sweethearts return to their hometown for the funeral of a mentor and confront the choices they have made since they last met.
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Debolsillo
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2016.
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639 pages ; 19 cm.
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Following the devastating ending of La mesa del rey Salomón, Tirso Alfaro and the surviving Searchers now face some baffling yet somehow interconnected robberies from various Spanish archives and libraries. All signs seem to indicate that the mysterious Voynich organization is behind the thefts. The Searchers new adventure involves a gold chain that grants its holder the wisdom of the ages, the stolen fragments of the Islamic codex known as El Mardud...
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Debolsillo
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2016.
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651 pages ; 19 cm.
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"Una antigua leyenda cuenta que, antes de que los árabes conquistaran la península Ibérica, siete monjes tuvieron una visión en la que se les advertía del peligro. Los religiosos abandonaron el reino para poner a salvo sus vidas y las importantísimas riquezas que pertenecieron a los reyes visigodos. Los siete monjes cruzaron el mar y fundaron la mítica ciudad de Cíbola, captial de las <>, que nadie ha logrado encontrar...hasta ...
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2016
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475 pages ; 17 cm.
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The girl of his dreams / Susan Mallery : The moment she turns twenty-five, Kayla Bedford is going to grab her trust-fund money and take off for Paris. She'll drink wine, read at quaint cafés and meet a handsome prince who'll sweep her off her feet. It's been her dream since she was twelve. And now she's so close to realizing it, she's counting down the days. But first she's got to do something for her boss-slash-landlord-slash-best-friend. Patrick...
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Debolsillo
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2016.
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573 pages ; 19 cm.
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Tirso Alfaro, a young Art History student, is chosen to be part of the National Body of Searchers, a secret group of adventurers devoted to recover long-lost or pillaged relics that cannot be searched for legally. He will be embarked on an adventure to find Solomon's Tablet. This is the first installment of a trilogy based on a real organization founded in 1867 by Queen Isabel II.
"Tirso Alfaro está terminando el doctorado en Historia del Arte en...
20) La Selecci�on
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Rocabolsillo
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2016.
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236 pages ; 24 cm.
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America Singer is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Ill�ea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her.
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