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686 pages ; 23 cm
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Los jóvenes héroes de esta novela intentan entender el mundo que les rodea: Anna y Omeir se encuentran en lados opuestos de las magníficas murallas de Constantinopla durante el asedio de la ciudad en 1453; el idealista Seymour está inmerso en un atentado contra una biblioteca en el Idaho de la actualidad; y Konstance viaja a bordo de una nave espacial que se dirige a un nuevo planeta en el futuro. Todos ellos son soñadores que encuentran fuerza...
22) Bright we burn
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And I darken volume 3
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389 pages : map ; 24 cm.
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English
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To build the country she wants, Lada, the brutal ruler of Wallachia, must destroy everything that came before, including her relationships with brother Radu and former love Mehmed, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
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"Lada Dracul abandonó a las dos únicas personas por las que alguna vez sintió algo parecido al amor -Radu, su hermano menor, y Mehmed, el sultán otomano- para reclamar el trono de su tierra. Pero nada será sencillo y su camino se convertirá en un baño de sangre. Las cosas habrían sido distintas si su hermano hubiera aceptado su pedido de ayuda, pero él, una vez más, eligió a Mehmed. Mientras tanto, Radu se dirige a Constantinopla con la...
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xviii, 381 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
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Perched at the tip of Europe, gazing across to the shores of Asia, Istanbul remains as much a city of crossroads as it has been for the past two millennia. The history of this fabled metropolis--known at first as Byzantion, then Constantinople, and now Istanbul--is glorious, grandiose, and astounding. No other city has stood at the center of world events for so long, a home to great empires and diverse cultures from the Greeks to the Romans, the Italians...
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