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Letras de bolsillo volume 80
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Bruno tiene nueve años y desconoce el significado del Holocausto. Todo lo que sabe es que su padre, recién nombrado comandante de un campo de concentración, ha ascendido en su trabajo, y que ha pasado de vivir en una confortable casa de Berlín a una zona aislada. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Shmuel, un niño judío que vive una extraña existencia paralela al otro lado de la alambrada.
Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place...
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Letras de bolsillo) volume 198
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Una novela ambientada en una isla remota de Australia, donde una pareja sin hijos vivir tranquilamente la ejecución de un faro, hasta que un barco que transportaba a un bebé se lava en tierra.
A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore.
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Letras de bolsillo) volume 220
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In 1935, orphaned Pierrot leaves France to live with his aunt, who works as a housekeeper in Hitler's residence in the Bavarian Alps, where he is thrown into a seductive world from which he emerges after the war with a tremendous weight on his conscience.
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En una remota provincia de China, las mujeres crearon hace siglos un lenguaje secreto para comunicarse libremente entre si: el nu shu. Aisladas en sus casas y sometidas a la ferrea autoridad masculina, el nu shu era su unica via de escape. Mediante sus mensajes, escritos o bordados en telas, abanicos y otros objetos, daban testimonio de un mundo tan sofisticado como implacable. El ano 2002, la autora de esta novela viajo a la provincia de Huan, cuna...
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When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
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