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Aventuras del capitán Alatriste volume 7
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353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Español
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"Nápoles, Roma y Milán son algunos escenarios de esta nueva aventura del capitán Alatriste. Acompañado del joven Íñigo Balboa, a Alatriste le ordenan intervenir en una conjura crucial para la corona española: un golpe de mano en Venecia para asesinar al dogo durante la misa de Navidad, e imponer por la fuerza un gobierno favorable a la corte del rey católico en ese estado de Italia"--Cover.
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"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
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387 pages ; 24 cm
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"'See Naples and die.' To Heddi those words ring true. There is nothing more heartbreakingly beautiful than this city built on Roman ruins and set against a sleeping volcano. Despite years of navigating the narrow, winding streets of Naples's Spanish Quarter, the city never fails to instill in her the pain of longing, a desire to belong. A place she wants to call home despite being l'americano or the American. For Heddi's group of university friends,...
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Giordano Bruno thriller volume extras
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English
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Three exhilarating novellas 'The Secret Dead, The Academy of Secrets, and The Dead of Winter' following the early adventures of young priest Giordano Bruno in the dramatic days of sixteenth century Italy. Even the dead have a story to tell ... Naples, 1566. During a sweltering summer, eighteen-year-old Giordano Bruno takes his final vows at San Domenico Maggiore and is admitted to the Dominican Order despite doubts over his tendency to ask difficult...
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162 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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Una maña una mujer madura aparece ahogada en el mar, vestida solo con un sujetador de encaje, y será Delia, su hija, quien tandrá que reconstruir la historia que se esconde tras lo sucedido. En un frenética búsqueda que se mueve entre la realidad y las tortuosas vías de la memoria, Delia recorre de nuevo Nápoles, su ciudad natal, reviviendo un pasado que se propuso olvidar, pero vuelve y duele. En esta primera novela, que fue aclamada por el...
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477 pages ; 23 cm.
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Español
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Sigue las vivencias de las protagonistas de la saga Dos mujeres: una historia de amistad que recorre la segunda parte del siglo XX Érase una vez dos niñas, Elena y Lila, que nacieron en 1944 en un barrio pobre de la ciudad de Nápoles, y desde entonces su historia ha sido el hilo conductor de esta espléndida saga napolitana que ahora llega a su tercera entrega. Lila se casó muy joven con el hombre más adinerado del barrio y poco tardó en dejarlo....
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