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1) El ruiseñor
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"Viann and Isabelle have always been close despite their differences. Younger, bolder sister Isabelle lives in Paris while Viann lives a quiet and content life in the French countryside with her husband Antoine and their daughter. When World War II strikes and Antoine is sent off to fight, Viann and Isabelle's father sends Isabelle to help her older sister cope. As the war progresses, it's not only the sisters' relationship that is tested, but also...
2) Mujercitas
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El señor March se ha marchado a la guerra y sus cuatro hijas deben quedarse en casa con su madre, su tiacutea y sus amigos, en medio del bullicio de la vida burguesa de Nueva Inglaterra.
Chronicles the joys and sorrow of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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Continuing the story of five interrelated families as they become entangled in events from the beginning of the twentieth century, from the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs.
"En esta magnífica novela épica, Ken Follett conduce al lector a través de una Europa en ruinas, quebrada de nuevo por las guerras y los conflictos ideológicos....
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A film that relives the horrors of Argentina's Dirty War (1976-83) through the experience of Horacio Pietragalla, a young man raised by the maid of the officer who kidnapped him after the military brutally murdered his parents. The film follows Horacio as he reconstructs the cause for which his real parents gave their lives, and, through this search, reclaims his true identity. This personal journey internalizes the tragedy that ravaged the country...
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"Doscientos año después de la Conquista, la dinastía Targaryen vive su apogeo. Los Siete Reinos de Poniente atraviesan un momento de relativa paz en los últimos años del reinado del buen rey Daeron. Es con este escenario como telón de fondo que Dunk, un muchacho pobre del Lecho de Pulgas, tiene una oportunidad única: dejar su vida miserable y convertirse en el escudero de un auténtico caballero. Pronto, el caballero muere y Dunk decide tomar...
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In 1939, a war that would encompass the world began in Europe. Readers will learn about the causes of World War II in this nonfiction Spanish-translated book. The supportive text and fascinating sidebars work in conjunction with the stunning photos and appealing scrapbook layout to provide an enjoyable and enlightening experience that teaches readers about such events and topics as Pearl Harbor, blitzkreig, and concentration and internment camps....
7) Cautiva
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Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed...
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A menudo olvidamos la fragilidad de nuestras democracias
Y es que el exceso de opiniones y de puntos de vista no significa necesariamente que sostengamos un sistema político abierto. A veces, todo pende de un hilo y apenas podemos imaginarlo.
Ramón Sandoval, un inmigrante español refugiado en París, trabaja como chófer tras perder su particular guerra en España. Pero la capital francesa en 1961 no es un paraíso. El conflicto argelino aviva...
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Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva, Enzo and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith, to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring 'the German...
10) The red star
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A mockumentary about the fictional Leila Salama, a mysterious woman who may have contributed to the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960, but was neglected by official history. Director Gabriel Lichtmann (Hector Da̕z) restores her life's story through a series of interviews with a colorful cast of characters. Putting together the pieces of the puzzle, the film discovers a secret that was hidden for years.
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«El amor no llora jamás como llora la sangre». En esta certidumbre se basa la novela de Hubert Haddad, un relato trágico, realista y contundente a la vez
En el corazón de un Afganistán desgarrado, un muchacho de 12 años, Alam, es descubierto inconsciente tras una ráfaga de disparos. Comienza un descenso obsesivo a los infiernos. Alam lo ha perdido todo durante la guerra, hasta el nombre de pila que ha tomado prestado de su hermano, e inicia...
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Ambientada en la preguerra civil española, la novela aborda el escenario y el universo cultural de una época a través de Bartolomé: un personaje de trazos poderosos, sindicalista y activista, comprometido en primera línea en la transformación social de su tiempo. El amor apasionado, la reconciliación de un pueblo y la memoria olvidada entrelazan una historia actual que irá desentrañando detectivescamente Carmen, una mujer en plena crisis...
13) The Body
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A detective searches for the body of a femme fatale which has gone missing from a morgue.
14) Cartas de Cuba
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"La inspiradora historia de una joven judía que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia. La situación se está poniendo terrible para los judíos en Polonia en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El padre de Esther ha huido a Cuba y ella es la primera en seguir sus pasos y reencontrarse con él en la isla. Vivir separada de su querida hermana es desgarrador, por lo que Esther promete...
15) Baraka
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In the months before the war in Iraq, Abdel and Umayr, two brothers are forced apart. Months later, with the war in full swing, they meet again, but neither of them are the same. Nominated for Best Narrative Short at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Nominated for Best Short Film (Fiction) at the **Goya Awards**.
16) Marshland
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Gripping crime drama about two cops lost deep in the south of Spain while looking for a serial killer as they deal with secrets and lies.
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In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
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"George Takei ha capturado corazones y mentes en todo el mundo con su cautivadora presencia en el escena y su compromiso incondicional con la igualdad de derechos. Pero, mucho antes de alcanzar nuevas fronteras en Star Trek, se despertó de niño, a los cuatro años, para encontrar a su país natal en guerra con el de su padre... y a su familia entera forzada a abandonar su hogar, rumbo a un futuro incierto. En 1942, bajo órdenes del presidente Franklin...
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Traza el efecto domin̤ de la guerra y la inmigraci̤n en dos nįos: Samuel, de cinco ąos, cuya madre lo mete en un tren Kindertransport desde la Austria ocupada por los nazis a Inglaterra en 1938, y Anita, de siete ąos, que aborda otro tren ocho ďcadas m̀s tarde a los EE.UU., donde se separa de su madre.
Traces the ripple effects of war and immigration on two children--five-year-old Samuel, whose mother puts him on a Kindertransport train out...
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De una forma brillante y con detalles conmovedores, Hugh Thomas analiza este devastador conflicto en el que las esperanzas, los sueños y las creencias de este siglo estallaron en el campo de batalla. La Guerra Civil refleja, como si de un microcosmos se tratara, las tensiones que llevaron a Europa a la Guerra Mundial: de la puesta en juego de las maquinaciones de Franco y Hitler, a la tragedia de Guernica y la caída de aquellos que creían en la...
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