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1) Cress
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Lunar chronicles volume 3
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"Cinder, Thorne y Wolf son los fugitivos más buscados. Juntos, planean destronar a la reina Levana y destruir su armada. Todas sus esperanzas están puestas en Cress, una joven hacker que se encuentra atrapada en un satélite. Durante toda su vida, estuvo rodeada de pantallas, observando, espiando. Lo único con lo que siempre soñó fue con ser libre. Y finalmente logra escapar ... pero el precio que deberá pagar es más alto de lo que ella imagina....
2) Neruda
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Sexuality/nudity and some language.
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
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"Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara comprende que en el pasado de su nuevo amigo hay un secreto, o quizá varios. Su atracción por la misteriosa vida de Laverde, nacida al hilo de sus encuentros en un billar, se transforma en verdadera obsesión el día en que éste es asesinado. Convencido de que resolver el enigma de Laverde le señalará un camino en su encrucijada vital, Yammara emprende una investigación que se remonta...
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Will's older brother Ken is his hero. One day an old girlfriend of Ken's is found raped and murdered in the family's home in New Jersey. All evidence points to Ken and he runs. Will has always believed in his brother's innocence, and 11 years after the crime he sets out to find the real killer and clear his brother's name.
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Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is "one about love".
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"Llamarse Lizzy apellidándose Bennet fue una casualidad, pero esta anécdota ha marcado su vida desde niña, desde el momento en que decidió guiar su conducta por el código moral de la protagonista de Orgullo y prejuicio, la otra Lizzy Bennet: honor, libertad, coherencia. Pero algo tuvo que salir muy mal, porque con treinta años recién cumplidos, esos tres principios se han volatilizado: la prensa la considera un monstruo, la policía la persigue,...
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Ember in the ashes volume 2
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After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.
Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom. But dark forces, human...
10) Shantaram
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"Me tomó mucho tiempo y a la mayor parte del mundo aprender lo que sé sobre el amor y el destino y las decisiones que tomamos, pero el corazón de esto me llegó en un instante, mientras estaba encadenado a una pared y siendo torturado". Así comienza esta épica e hipnotizante primera novela de Gregory David Roberts, ambientada en el inframundo de la bombay contemporánea. Shantaram es narrado por Lin, un convicto fugado con un pasaporte falso...
11) Reconexión
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Unwind trilogy volume 2
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"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
12) La perla secreta
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Adam, Duke of Raybourne, encounters a young prostitute named Fleur and hires her as governess to his daughter when he discovers that she is a desperate gentlewoman fleeing a horrific situation, only to find himself falling for his beautiful charge.
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Narrativas hispánicas volume 639
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Una novela desternillante sobre el miedo a ser invadidos. Una historia sobre dos amigos, un barrio y unas cuantas teorías conspiranoicas. Trece mil ochocientos millones de años después del nacimiento de nuestro Universo, en una ciudad del poniente, dos amigos inmigrantes enfrentan una crisis vital. Max acaba de perder su restaurante porque el propietario no le ha renovado el contrato de alquiler; Gastón debe dormir a su perro, Gato, diagnosticado...
14) Los gavilanes
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A young man wrongly accused of the death of his girlfriend, goes to live in the mountains and leads a gang of rustlers that take from the rich and give to the poor. In one of his "raids" to a rich house, he is presented with the opportunity to kidnap the bride of the true murderer.
15) Luna caliente
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Set in provincial Argentina during the days of the military dictatorship of the late 1970s and early 1980s, this novella finds Ramiro Bernardez back home from his studies in Paris after an absence of eight years. He is welcomed and celebrated by the town, and he is immediately aroused by the now-lovely daughter of a friend of his father's. But his arousal leads to murder, and in an incredibly short span of time, Ramiro goes from commanding community...
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Charleston, 1799: A daughter of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt has no lack of suitors at home in Virginia, waiting to fulfill her dream of marriage and family. But Cay's adventurous spirit, fostered by growing up with her three brothers, is piqued while visiting her godfather in South Carolina. Bedridden with a broken leg, he asks Cay to fill in for him on an urgent task: on her way to a fancy dress ball, she must...
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A love story about resentment and revenge. Camila, a veterinarian, loses her fiance and takes refuge working on her uncle's cattle farm. There she meets Daniel, an idealistic Chilean man who is unjustly accused of something he didn't do and he believes that Camila's family is responsible for his misfortune. Daniel travels to Mexico and will stop at nothing until his name is cleared. When he meets Camilla it all changes. To find true love they'll each...
20) Los Miserables
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Jean Valjean es un ex presidario. Cuando viaja rumbo a su pueblo natal, nadie se digna a ayudarlo, salvo don Bienvenido, el párroco, quien hará que se convierta en un hombre de bien. La pobreza, el hambre, la desesperación, la bondad, la desdicha, la camaradería y la miseria humanas se describen con nitidez en esta novela para mostrar que en el mundo nada es completamente bueno ni malo.
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