Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in A...9999903054412Primo Levi
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miércoles, 20 de diciembre de 2023
The Autobiography of Nelson MandelaThe riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson ...9999903054399Mandela, Nelson
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miércoles, 20 de diciembre de 2023
Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for WomenOn a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, d...9999903054313Sarah Helm
Abacus
miércoles, 20 de diciembre de 2023
Why Reality Matters for Feminism'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard 'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and...9999903054221Kathleen Stock
Abacus
miércoles, 20 de diciembre de 2023
A TIMELESS CHRISTMAS SKY ORIGINAL FILM, STARRING MARK GATISS, SIMON CALLOW AND TAMSIN GREIG 'Charming, magical and life-affirming, Antonia Barber's clever and moving tale has becom...9999903052067Antonia Barber
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martes, 19 de diciembre de 2023
In Chia-Chia Lin's piercing debut novel, The Unpassing, we meet a Taiwanese immigrant family of six struggling to make ends meet on the outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. The father, ...9999903035718Chia-Chia Lin
Abacus
lunes, 20 de noviembre de 2023
Compiled from his own words, this history-making autobiography IS Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who rebelled against segregation; the dedicat...9999903022718King, Martin Luther
Abacus
lunes, 4 de septiembre de 2023
My choice to become a single mother using a donorGoing Solo is the empowering and uplifting story of one woman's choice to become a single mother. 'I hope this story gives hope to anyone who wants children and to anyone who finds...9999903021230Genevieve Roberts
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sábado, 2 de septiembre de 2023
A NovelAfter 300 years of acrimony and two bitter wards, the great Mediterranean powers of Rome and Carthage clash for the final, fateful time. This epic struggle is the subject of Leckie...9999903018544Ross Leckie
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lunes, 21 de agosto de 2023
Travels Around the North Country FairsFollowing his acclaimed book about football in the north-east,THE FAR CORNER, Harry Pearson vowed that his next project would not involve hanging around outdoors on days so cold th...9999903017158Harry Pearson
Abacus
domingo, 20 de agosto de 2023
Set in the late 19th century, The Last Crossing, Guy Vanderhaeghe's first novel since his acclaimed Englishman's Boy, is the story of three well-off English brothers: twins Simon a...9999902988381Vanderhaeghe, Guy
Abacus
sábado, 27 de mayo de 2023
The story of a young boy sold into white slavery in post-Civil War America, who suffers at the hands of a cruel master. He escapes to a new life as a railroadman, then an itinerant...9999902981580Brady, Joan
Abacus
jueves, 11 de mayo de 2023
Shortly after completing The Drowned and the Saved, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and unpremeditated, and there are some who argue that ...9999902975459Primo Levi
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viernes, 21 de abril de 2023
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miércoles, 19 de abril de 2023
Amongst the ancient papyri of the Dead Sea, a remarkable scroll is discovered. Written in the first century AD, it purports to be the true account of the life of Jesus, as told by ...9999902961018Mawer, Simon
Abacus
sábado, 11 de marzo de 2023
Quite Ugly One Morning is the book that made Christopher Brookmyre a star in his native Britain, establishing his distinctive, scabrously humorous style and breakneck, hell-for-lea...9999902958063Brookmyre, Christopher
Abacus
sábado, 4 de marzo de 2023
Inside Ravensbruck: Hitler's Concentration Camp for WomenOn a sunny morning in May 1939 a phalanx of 800 women - housewives, doctors, opera singers, politicians, prostitutes - were marched through the woods fifty miles north of Berlin, d...9999902947463Sarah Helm
Abacus
sábado, 4 de febrero de 2023
Inside Facebook's Battle for DominationNew York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in this behind-the-scenes expose that offers the definitive account of Facebook's fall f...9999902946060Sheera Frenkel Cecilia Ka...
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viernes, 3 de febrero de 2023
In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess of Clancarty, dubbed "th...9999902924044Nuala O'Connor
Abacus
sábado, 10 de diciembre de 2022
For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In ...9999902912850Bainbridge, Beryl
Abacus
viernes, 11 de noviembre de 2022
"Sunlight on a Broken Column, first published in 1961, is a monumental, autobiographical novel, set against the background of Indian Partition. Laila, orphaned daughter of a distin...9999902905012Hosain, Attia
Abacus
viernes, 21 de octubre de 2022
It seemed straightforward enough. Sean had now consumed so much alcohol that everything seemed perfectly reasonable. He'd started planning the job already. The first problem was ho...9999902834886Charles Higson
Abacus
miércoles, 13 de abril de 2022
We call them the sleepers . . . At the elite Missing Persons bureau of the Federal Police, Mila Vasquez is tasked with finding the hundreds of lost people who vanished from their f...9999902796856356
Abacus
miércoles, 19 de enero de 2022
Early one morning among the magnificent honey-coloured buildings of the Sorbonne, the tranquillity of the university is shattered by a death. But why would Albert Cadas, a quiet, c...9999902663295Raphael Cardetti
Abacus
lunes, 21 de diciembre de 2020
1943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its t...9999902657713Radcliffe, Robert
Abacus
sábado, 12 de diciembre de 2020
What does somebody with a wealth of common sense do if retirement palls? Why, open a marriage bureau, of course. And soon Mr Ali, from beautiful Vizag in South India, sees his new ...9999902424834Farahad Zama
Abacus
martes, 26 de marzo de 2019
I'll see to myself when the others are seen to' is what Gladys used to say. The martyr of the family, she brought up her four younger siblings- with a little help from their mother...9999902260876Bernice Rubens
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viernes, 17 de agosto de 2018
By the author of Let the Dead Bury their Dead, this novel revolves around the history of a black family from the years of slavery to present times. The story focuses on two cousins...9999900288636Kenan, Randall
Abacus
miércoles, 1 de julio de 2009
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