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66141) La autopista Lincoln
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Amor Towles vuelve con una historia colosal sobre el viaje iniciático de cuatro jóvenes por el corazón de Estados Unidos durante la década de los años cincuenta. Contada desde múltiples puntos de vista y poblada por un variado elenco de personajes magnéticos, desde vagabundos que malviven entre raíles hasta aristócratas del Upper East Side, La autopista Lincoln es una novela arrolladora de encuentros y desencuentros, un azaroso...
66142) The last of the Mohicans
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1757, during the French and Indian War, half-sisters Cora and Alice Munro set out to join their father, the British Commander of Fort William Henry. After they are betrayed by Magua, the sisters are rescued by Hawkeye whose efforts to lead them to safety are aided by the noble Mohican Uncas, the last of this tribe.
66143) The last king of Scotland
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles Idi Amin's rise and fall. Amin's despotic reign of terror is viewed through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan, a Scottish doctor who arrives in Uganda in the early 1970s to serve as Amin's personal physician. His perspective as an outsider causes him to be initially impressed by Amin's calculated rise to power and he grows increasingly monstrous. A pointed examination of how independent Uganda (a British colony until 1962) became a breeding...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A bold and gripping graphic history of the fight for women's rights The ongoing struggle for women's rights has spanned human history, touched nearly every culture on Earth, and encompassed a wide range of issues, such as the right to vote, work, get an education, own property, exercise bodily autonomy, and beyond. Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists is a fun and fascinating graphic novel-style primer that covers the key figures and events that...
66146) Sharpe's eagle: Set one
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
Sharpe's rifles : Sharpe saves Wellesley's life and is promoted to Lieutenant. He is put in command of the Chosen men, a crack regiment of riflemen who resist acknowledging his authority. Sharpe's eagle : When the French seize the King's Colours and Sharpe loses an old friend in battle, he steadfastly, but quietly swears to avenge the officer's death and restore England's honour. Sharpe's company : Sharpe becomes a father and desperately attempts...
66147) Finding your roots: Season 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Professor Gates' journey continues as a weekly series that will look at an ever-widening spectrum of our nation's fascinating ethnic mixture.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
SALEM returns with 13 episodes of a highly anticipated second season at the dawn of a witch war. Salem's ruthless leading witch, Mary Sibley (Janet Montgomery), has just completed the elusive Grand Rite, a deadly, supernatural ritual that unleashed a devastating plague on the town's unsuspecting citizens. As death and disease continue to spread through the war-torn village, Mary must face off against adversaries old and new, from within Salem and...
66149) El ángel negro
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Madrid, 2016. Un hombre es asesinado en el Museo del Prado. El cadáver, salvajemente mutilado, yace en la sala de las "pinturas negras" de Goya, y una cuchillada furiosa atraviesa de arriba abajo el lienzo Saturno devorando a su hijo, una de las obras maestras de la colección. La policía se enfrenta a un caso complicado y de enorme repercusión mediática. Venecia, 1873. Durante una fiesta en un palazzo del Gran Canal, una misteriosa joven...
66150) Copying Beethoven
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When young Anna Holz, a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven, she eagerly accepts. She does so despite the warnings about Beethoven's volatile behavior. Beethoven is part maestro, part mentor and part madman. He recluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art.
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...
66152) The Square
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Arabic
Description
Depicts the ongoing Egyptian Revolution of 2011 from its roots in Tahrir Square.
66153) The lost city of Z
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who journeys into the Amazon at the dawn of the twentieth century and discovers evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization that may have once inhabited the region.
66154) Night catches us
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
When a former member of the Black Panthers returns to his Philadelphia neighborhood in 1976, he must struggle to overcome the tensions among the people he left behind.
66155) The Cotton Club encore
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this lavish, 1930s-era drama, Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide. Now, Francis Ford Coppola's extraordinary film is brought to vivid new life with never-before-seen scenes and musical sequences that deepen and enrich the story lines.
Series
Drive thru history. American history volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Dave Stotts explores the rich history of New York and New Jersey. Learn about New York's "freedom trail," the place of George Washington's inauguration and more. Also includes stories on Saratoga, West Point and the Revolutionary War battles of Trenton and Princeton. As always, Dave includes the Christian influences that have shaped history.
66157) The adventures of Marco Polo
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
It is the thirteenth century and Marco Polo has left Venice to open trade with China. From his conquest of new worlds to his discovery of spaghetti, coal, and gunpowder, Marco is a medieval daredevil.
66159) La hija olvidada: una novela
Author
Series
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"The internationally bestselling author of The German Girl delivers an unforgettable family saga of love and redemption during World War II, based on the true story of the Nazi massacre of a French village in 1944"--
66160) La caída de los gigantes
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1. edición Vintage Español.
Language
Español
Description
Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage.
Sigue los destinos de cinco familias interrelacionadas--una estadounidense, una alemana, una rusa, una inglesa, y una galesa--mientras pasan por los dramas de la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Revolución Rusa, y la lucha por el sufragio...
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