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Esmeralda Santiago Casi una mujer ESNegi, as Santiago's family affectionately calls her, leaves rural Macun in 1961 to live in a three-bedroom tenement apartment with seven siblings, and inquisitive grandmother, and a strict mother who won't allow her to date. At thirteen, Negi yearns for her own bed, for privacy, and her father, who remains in Puerto Rico. Translating for Mami at the welfare office in the morning, starring as Cleopatra at New York's…
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Lynne Truss Cat out of Hell ENBy acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mesmerising tale of a cat with nine lives, and a relationship as ancient as time itself and just as powerful. The scene: a cottage on the coast on a windy evening. Inside, a room with curtains drawn. Tea has just been made. A kettle still steams.
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Susanna Rowson Charlotte Temple ENFirst published in America in 1794, Charlotte Temple took the country by storm—in fact, it was this nation’s first bona fide bestseller. Susanna Rowson’s most famous work is the story of an innocent British schoolgirl who takes the advice of her depraved French teacher— with tragic consequences. Seduced by the dashing Lieutenant Montraville, who persuades her to move to America with him, the fifteen-year-old…
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Jane Feather Chase The Dawn ENFleeing a fiery inferno, beautiful, artisocratic Bryony Paget falls unconscious into the arms of a handsome stranger. She awakens with no memory of her proud aristocratic past—only the stirrings of desire kindled by her mysterious rescuer. American patriot Ben Clare has no time for romance—or for the dark-haired beauty who interfered with his midnight raids for liberty. But he cannot resist Bryony's innocent passion…
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Jack Canfield, Mark Hansen Chicken Soup for the Soul ENChicken Soup for the Soul is a heartwarming collection of tales that will inspire you to live your dreams. The stories demonstrate the best qualities we share as human beings: compassion, grace, forgiveness, generosity and faith and they share a collected wisdom on love, parenting, teaching, death and the overcoming of obstacles. The Chicken Soup series has touched the lives of millions of people worldwide. Discover…
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Alberto Pez, Roberto Cubillas Chiquita ESA Chiquita le dicen chiquita porque es... así de Chiquita. Pero todos, desde su mejor amigo el sapo reynoso hasta los bomberos del barrio se dieron cuenta de que era grande, muy grande cuando salvó a carolo, el gato de Mami.
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Yasmine El Rashidi Chronicle of a Last Summer ENA young Egyptian woman recounts her personal and political coming of age in this brilliant debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives. Underlying this…
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Jacqueline Wilson Clean Break ENEm adores her funny, glamorous dad - who cares if he's not her real father? He's wonderful to her, and to her little brother Maxie and sister Vita. True to form at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, including a real emerald ring for his little Princess Em. Unfortunately he's got another surprise in store - he's leaving them. Will Dad's well-meaning but chaotic attempts to keep seeing Em and the other…
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Philip Pullman Clockwork or All Wound Up ENTick, tock, tick, tock! Some stories are like that. Once you've wend them up, nothing will stop them... A tormented apprentice clock-maker, a deadly mechanical knight in armour - and the sinister Dr Kalmenius, who some say is the devil... Wind up these characters, fit them into a story on a cold winter's evening, with the snow swirling down, and suddenly life and the story begin to merge in a peculiarly macabre -…
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Neal Stephenson Cobweb ENThe Gulf War is imminent and there’s something mighty strange going on in the Agriculture Department of East Iowa University. When an Arab student turns up drunk – and dead – in the lake, redneck Deputy County Sheriff Clyde Banks gets a feeling he’s on to something big. It’s a suspicion shared by low-ranking CIA agent Betsy Vandeventer. But before two great minds yell conspiracy theory, in steps top US policy-maker…
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Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs CodeTory Brennan - great niece of Dr Temperance Brennan - and the Virals return for their most terrifying adventure yet. Life appears peaceful on Loggerhead Island - rescued from financial disaster, the research institute is flourishing once more...
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Christina Skye Code Name: Princess ENJess Mulcahey's life gets complicated in a hurray when she finds herself babysitting a top-secret koala bear. As Jess's world gets tossed into the whirlwind of Navy SEALS and ransom deadlines, her best hope may be to hang on for the ride. With CODE NAME: PRINCESS, Christina Skye features her signature blend of seduction and adventure that readers have come to love.
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Lev Grossman Codex ENThe cerebral thriller Codex drops up-and-coming investment banker wunderkind Edward Wozny into the musty realm of medieval literature, where he finds an unexpected break from the rat race—a powerful client's commission to uncrate and organise a library. The diversion quickly becomes an obsession after he enlists the help of the quirkily attractive scholar Margaret Napier. Together they discover his employer, the…
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Janice Galloway Collected Stories ENComprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of Scotland's 'most gifted and original writers' (Times Literary Supplement). Each sharply observed, savagely accurate and brilliantly realised - the stories offer revelatory glimpses into everyday lives - from an unwelcome act of kindness…
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Stuart Neville Collusion ENGARRY FEGAN: the former hit man is hiding out in New York, having cut all ties wiht his old life. But he made a fatal mistake: he spared the life of Bull O'Kane, a ruthless gang leader who will stop at nothing to get his revenge. THE TRAVELLER: a merciless assassin who kills without pity or remorse, The Traveller is hired by O'Kane. His instructions are to find - and terminate - Fegan, and O'Kane knows the perfect…
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Haruki Murakami Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage ENAmericke vydanie titulu Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan from the award-winning, internationally best-selling author Haruki Murakami. Here he gives us the remarkable story of Tsukuru Tazaki, a young man haunted by a great loss; of…
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Annie Davidson Colour Together: Christmas ENTake a break this Christmas for some creative colour-together time. From festive decorations to scenes of celebration, there's a new challenge every time you turn a page. Each scene is lavishly illustrated with a large, simple picture on one side and a more complicated, patterned picture on the other, so parent and child or older and younger siblings can have fun creating art to treasure together. The perfect way to…
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Ryan Hunter, Taige Jensen Colouring for Grown-ups ENA caustically funny book of games with a decidedly adult twist. Hungover? Want to look busy while you wait for your Guardian soulmate? Or maybe you just need distraction to while away your pitifully short lunchbreak? Whatever the pathetic occasion, this is the book for you. It might resemble a typical child's activity book but look closer.
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Robert Harris Conclave ENSUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Unputdownable’ Guardian ‘Gripping’ Sunday Times The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world’s most secretive election. They are holy men. But they have ambition. And they have rivals. Over the next seventy-two hours one of them will become the most powerful spiritual figure on…
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Sophie Kinsella Confessions Of A Shopaholic ENRebecca Bloomwood just hit rock bottom. But she's never looked better....Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season's must-haves. The only trouble is that she can't actually afford it—not any of it. Her job writing at Successful Savings not only bores her to tears, it doesn't pay much at all. And lately…
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Edward de Bono ConflictsThink, don't fight. In today's world we use an out of date thinking system to navigate our way through modern society, especially when it comes to conflicts and disagreements. Conflicts argues that instead of our age old system of debate we should ...
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Neal Stephenson Confusion ENNeal Stephenson continues his extraordinary 'Baroque Cycle' in this sequel to his bestselling Quicksilver, bringing to life a cast of unforgettable characters in a time of breathtaking genius and discovery. It is the late 1600s, on the high seas. A group of Barbary galley slaves plot as they ply the oars of a pirate ship, hatching a daring scheme to find an enormous cache of Spanish gold. Amazingly, they succeed -…
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Anna Gavalda Consolation ENAn international bestseller and French publishing sensation Consolation is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite. Charles Balanda is forty-seven; a successful architect, he is constantly on the move. But from the moment he hears about the death of the woman he once loved - Anouk, the tragically big-hearted mother of a childhood friend - his life begins to…
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Robin Cook Convulsión ESEl doctor Daniel Lowell y su asistente (y amante) Stephanie son científicos que investigan en el campo de la biotecnología celular. Están desarrollando una posible cura para enfermedades como Alzeihmer, Parkinson o diabetes. La investigación se basa en transplantar células sanas para alterar el ADN de las células enfermas. Los experimentos que realizan con ratones dan muchas esperanzas de éxito y el próximo paso es…