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"En una caja de seguridad abandonada en un banco de Nueva York aparecen un fajo de cartas manuscritas, fotografías, pasaportes caducados y veintidós joyas de un valor incalculable. Jane Willoughby, empleada judicial, recibe el encargo de encontrar a los posibles herederos, y Phillip Lawton, experto de la casa de subasta Christie's, el de tasar las piezas. Atraída por el hallazgo, Jane averigua el nombre de la enigmática mujer que aparece en las...
85) Brooklyn
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"Con la templanza, el virtuosismo y la perspicacia psicológica del maestro contemporáneo que es, Colm Tóibín, uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses de nuestros días, ha construido una historia estremecedora sobre el destino cuya diáfana superficie esconde un fondo donde se abisma una complejidad inagotable. Eilis Lacey es una chica de familia humilde que, como tantos otros, no encuentra trabajo en el pequeño pueblo del sudeste de Irlanda...
86) Whisper goodbye
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Till we meet again volume 2
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Crippled both physically and emotionally by his war injuries, First Lt. Gilbert Ballard struggles to find himself again in civilian life. After breaking his engagement to Annemarie Kendall, he has found solace in the arms of Mary McClarney, a spunky Irish immigrant nurse he met at the Army and Navy Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Yet Marys love for Gilbert goes unreturned.
88) My Àntonia
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The strengths and passions of America's early settlers are memorably rendered in this portrait of a pioneer woman.
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A young African mother embarks on a journey to reclaim the infant son stolen from her arms. Beginning in Tunisia, she makes an illegal and harrowing crossing of the Mediterranean, then treks up through Italy, over the Alps, and on to Berlin, where her son has been placed in another woman's care.
90) La granja
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Una distopía feminista que visibiliza la otredad y hará tambalear los cimientos del hiperpatriarcado. La granja Golden Oaks está lista, o así lo cree su gerente empresarial, Mae Yu, para convertirse en el nuevo y gran avance de la economía de la fertilidad. Allí, la progenie de los súper ricos inicia su vida en el útero con lo mejor de lo mejor: dietas equilibradas a base de alimentos orgánicos, listas de reproducción seleccionadas en base...
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"Historia niepoprawnej optymistki, która do końca wierzy w miłość. Dla dobra dzieci, wyjeżdża za ocean... Postawiła wszystko na jedną kartę. Rzuciła pracę, a córkę i syna powierzyła opiece matki. Wyruszyła za ocean z mocnym postanowieniem stworzenia dzieciom spokojnego, bezpiecznego domu z dala od ich ojca alkoholika. Złośliwy los postanowił jednak z niej zakpić i pokrzyżował znaczną część planów. Ale czy tak naprawdę...
93) Threads of love
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Fabric of time volume 3
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"Emily Sundberg considers herself a proper young lady of the twentieth century. But a decade ago she behaved more like a tomboy. So when the neighbor's grandson came to visit one summer when she was thirteen, they became fast friends. Emily even got her first kiss, quite by accident. Unfortunately Jake Edgerton told all the boys something else. Rumors circulated, and Emily caved from embarrassment and guilt. Meanwhile Jake returned home to Fallon,...
94) The dead husband
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Sally sees cozy mystery volume 1
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Cleaning up dead husbands is not in charwoman Sally Collier's job description, so when she finds one half-buried at the bottom of the garden of his home overlooking Discovery Bay, her schedule gets seriously derailed. Her beau, Jefferson County Chief of Detectives George Tullock, warns her she'll have to do a "Sally sees" and remember everything she saw when she got to the house that Monday morning.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne is described as the Shakespeare of American Literature. His novels and stories are mostly set in Puritan New England and are often dark, exposing the psychological complexity and evil within humanity. His literature contains layers of allegory which deepen and enrich the stories. This book contains three novel and three collections of Hawthorne's short stories. The novels are: The Scarlet Letter features the first heroine in American...
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