Libros de lengua inglesa

Bearers black staff
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Brooks, Terry

Five hundred years have passed since the devastating demon-led war that almost exterminated humankind. Those who escaped the carnage were led to sanctuary by the boy saviour known as Hawk: the gypsy morph. But now, the unimaginable has come to pass: the cocoon of protective magic surrounding the valley has vanished.When Sider Ament, last surviving Knight of the Word, detects unknown predators stalking the valley, and Trackers from the human village of Glensk Wood find two of their own gruesomely killed, there can be no doubt: the once safe haven of generations has been laid bare. Together, the young Trackers, the aging Knight and a daring Elf princess race to spread word of the encroaching danger. But suspicion and hostility among their countrymen threaten to doom their efforts from within, while beyond the breached borders, a ruthless Troll army masses for invasion. Standing firm between the two, the last wielder of the black staff and its awesome magic must find a successor to carry on the fight against the cresting new wave of evil.
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The Twelfth Day of July: A Kevin and Sadie Story
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Lingard, Joan

The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin and Sadie books, set in Belfast during the Troubles. It is one of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first.Sadie is Protestant, Kevin is Catholic - and on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide. It starts with a dare - kids fooling around - but soon becomes something dangerous. Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever. But will the world around them change too?
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The secret commonwealth: the book of dus
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Pullman, Philip

The second volume of Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now 20 years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm, once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right.
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Imagine me
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Mafi, Tahereh

The book that all SHATTER ME fans have been waiting for is finally here. The finale of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling YA fantasy series perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Victoria Aveyard's The Red Queen, Stranger Things and Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows.Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie?Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong – between Ella and Juliette – blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control.The day of reckoning for the Reestablishment is coming. But will the choice of which side to fight on be hers?
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Chronicles of dissent
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Chomsky, Noam

In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war on poor people, how attacks on political correctness are attacks on independent thought, how historical revisionism has recast the United States as the victim in the Vietnam War. Widely recognized as one of the most original and important thinkers of our age, Chomsky's trenchant analysis of current events is a breath of fresh air in a world more and more polluted by mainstream media.
24,11€ 22,90€
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The melting
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Spit, Lize

Eva can trace the route to Pim’s farm with her eyes closed, even though she has not been to Bovenmeer for many years. There she grew up among the rape fields and dairy farms. There lies also the root of all their grief.Eva was one of three children born in her small Flemish town in 1988. Growing up alongside the boys Laurens and Pim, Eva sought refuge from her loveless family life in the company of her two friends. But with adolescence came a growing awareness of their burgeoning sexuality. Driven by their newly found desires, the children begin a game that will have serious and violent consequences for them all.Thirteen years after the summer she’s tried for so long to forget, Eva is returning to her village. Everything fell apart that summer, but this time she’ll be prepared. She has a large block of ice in her car boot and she’s ready to settle the score . . .
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End games
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Dibdin, Michael

The dead man followed the track until it rose above the last remaining trees and ceased to be a rough line of beaten earth and scruffy grass, to become a stony ramp hewn out of the cliff face and deeply rutted by the abrasive force of ancient iron-rimmed cart wheels. By now il morto was clearly suffering, but he struggled on, pausing frequently to gasp for breath before tackling another stretch of the scorched rock on which the soles of his feet left bloody footprints.Aurelio Zen’s final case brings him to remote town of Calabria, at the toe of Italy’s boot, on what is supposed to be a routine assignment: the death of a scout for an American film company. But the case is complicated by a group of dangerous strangers who have arrived to uncover another local mystery – buried treasure – and who will stop at nothing to achieve their goal. The case rapidly spirals out of control, and Zen must penetrate the code of silence in the tight-knit community in order to solve the crime.If you enjoyed the Inspector Zen Mystery series you may also like The Last Sherlock Holmes Story, another crime novel by Michael Dibdin.
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50 fashion designers you should know
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Werle, Simone

Fifty major fashion designers are profiled in this book with full-color spreads that showcase their most memorable creations. Red carpet regulars such as Armani, Prada, Calvin Klein, and Dolce & Gabbana are included, as well as the classic clothiers Christian Dior, Karl Lagerfield, and Oscar de La Renta. While some of these designers have designed for the masses - Ralph Lauren and Diane von Furstenberg - others prefer the avant-garde over function, Vivienne Westwood, for instance. Readers will learn how the early 20th-century designers such as Coco Chanel and André Courrèges made fashion history, and discover who's making it now: Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs, and Tom Ford, to name a few. A celebration of diversity and innovation and an essential handbook to a century of fashion, this exciting and informative look into the world of style will delight readers of every taste and age.,An accessible introduction to the 50 most important designers who have moved fashion forward over the past century.
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Moon witch spider king
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James, Marlon

Part adventure, part chronicle of an indomitable woman - the witch Sogolon - who bows to no man, this is an unforgettable exploration of power, personality, and the places where they overlap, set in a world at once ancient and startlingly modern.In the words of Neil Gaiman, James has created 'a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's'.Chronicling the same events but telling a very different story - who will you believe? Read THE DARK STAR TRILOGY in any order! Book one, BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF, is available now.
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Game on
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Evanovich, Janet

Stephanie Plum returns to hunt down a master cyber-criminal operating out of Trenton in the 28th book in the wildly popular series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Janet Evanovich. When Stephanie Plum is woken up in the middle of the night by the sound of footsteps in her apartment, she wishes she didn’t keep her gun in the cookie jar in her kitchen. And when she finds out the intruder is fellow apprehension agent Diesel, six feet of hard muscle and bad attitude whom she hasn’t seen in more than two years, she still thinks the gun might come in handy. Turns out Diesel and Stephanie are on the trail of the same fugitive: Oswald Wednesday, an international computer hacker as brilliant as he is ruthless. Stephanie may not be the most technologically savvy sleuth, but she more than makes up for that with her dogged determination, her understanding of human nature, and her willingness to do just about anything to bring a fugitive to justice. Unsure if Diesel is her partner or her competition in this case, she’ll need to watch her back every step of the way as she sets the stage to draw Wednesday out from behind his computer and into the real world.
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So much things to say
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Steffens, Roger

Roger Steffens toured with Bob Marley for two weeks of his final tour of California in 1979 and the music icon was the first guest of Steffens' award-winning radio show. In So Much Things To Say, Steffens draws on a lifetime of scholarship to tell the story of Marley's childhood abandonment, his formative years in Trench Town, his seemingly meteoric rise to international fame and his tragic death at 36. Weaving together the voices of Rita Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer-as well as band members, family and friends-Steffens reveals extraordinary new details, dispels myths and highlights the most dramatic elements of Marley's life, his psychic abilities and his overriding commitment to the peace and love message of Rastafari. This landmark work will reshape our understanding of this legendary performer.
21,86€ 20,77€
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The necklace
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Wittem, Matt

Susan Lentigo’s daughter was murdered twenty years ago – now, at long last, she will witness the killer’s execution.But on her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that suggests the condemned man is innocent – and the real killer is still out there. Even worse, her new suspect has a young daughter who’s at terrible risk.The FBI refuses to reopen the case. They – and Susan’s own mother – believe she’s having an emotional breakdown. With no money or time to waste, but with the help of two unlikely allies – a cynical teenage girl and the retired cop who made the original arrest – Susan sets out to win justice for the condemned man and her daughter.
10,82€ 10,28€
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Kill joy
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Jackson, Holly

Pippa Fitz-Amobi is not in the mood for her friend’s murder mystery party. Especially one that involves 1920’s fancy dress and pretending that their town, Little Kilton, is an island called Joy. But when the game begins, Pip finds herself drawn into the make-believe world of intrigue, deception and murder. But as Pip plays detective, teasing out the identity of the killer clue-by-clue, the murder of the fictional Reginald Remy isn’t the only case on her mind …
11,32€ 10,75€
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Lbr level 3 tales from Africa the cheeta
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Ladybird

Recommended for children aged 3-11, the eight levels of Ladybird Readers follow the CEFR framework (Pre-A1 to A2+) and develop key language and comprehension skills. This Level 3 Reader is A1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, some expression of future meaning, comparisons, contractions and relative clauses. I can make you a love potion, said Abeba's Grandmother. But there's one thing I need. You must steal a whisker from a cheetah. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to any online resources. Exclusively with the print edition only, readers can unlock a digital book and audio edition (not available with the eBook). There are no activities included with the eBook edition.
7,08€ 6,73€
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The daughters of Kobani
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Tzemach Lemmon, Gayle

In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Kobani. By then, the Islamic State had swept across vast swathes of the country, taking town after town and spreading terror as the civil war burned all around it. From that unlikely showdown in Kobani emerged a fighting force that would wage war against ISIS across northern Syria alongside the United States. In the process, these women would spread their own political vision, determined to make women's equality a reality by fighting - house by house, street by street, city by city - the men who bought and sold women.
15,62€ 14,84€
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Tales of the unexpected
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Aavv

In this collection of stories, Dahl tantalizes, amuses, and sometimes terrifies readers into a sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Included in this collection are such notorious gems of the bizarre as The Second Machine, Lamb to the Slaughter, Neck, and The Landlady.Other stories explore: A wine connoisseur with an infallible palate and a sinister taste in wagers. A decrepit old man with a masterpiece tattooed on his back. A voracious adventuress, a gentle cuckold, and a garden sculpture that becomes an instrument of sadistic vengeance. Social climbers who climb a bit too quickly. Philanderers whose deceptions are a trifle too ornate. Impeccable servants whose bland masks slip for one vertiginous instant.
19,45€ 18,48€
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Small Pleasures
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Chambers, Clare

With the emotional intelligence of Maggie O'Farrell and the witty observational skills of Kate Atkinson, this is a novel of unexpected second chances set in 1950s England.¿A quién va dirigido el libro ?Small Pleasures de Clare Chambers atrae a un público amplio, pero se dirige especialmente a lectores interesados en novelas literarias con un trasfondo histórico, que aprecien las historias centradas en el desarrollo de los personajes y las relaciones humanas. La novela explora temas de la condición femenina en la década de 1950, la búsqueda de la felicidad y el significado de la familia, por lo que resultará especialmente atractivo para aquellos interesados en la literatura que aborda estas temáticas con profundidad y sensibilidad. Asimismo, aquellos que disfrutan de novelas con un misterio sutilmente entretejido en la trama encontrarán en Small Pleasures una lectura cautivadora.Temas que trata el libro Small Pleasures explora una serie de temas interconectados:La condición femenina en la década de 1950 en Gran Bretaña: La novela presenta la vida de Jean Swinney, una mujer de cuarenta años que se enfrenta a las limitaciones sociales y profesionales de su época. Se muestra la presión social sobre las mujeres para casarse y formar una familia, y las dificultades que enfrentan aquellas que eligen un camino diferente.La búsqueda de la felicidad y el significado de la vida: Jean se encuentra en un momento de su vida en el que cuestiona sus elecciones y busca un propósito más allá de sus responsabilidades cotidianas. La novela explora la idea de que la felicidad puede encontrarse en los pequeños momentos y en las conexiones humanas inesperadas.Las relaciones familiares y amistosas: La relación de Jean con su madre, su interacción con la familia Tilbury y el desarrollo de nuevas amistades son elementos centrales de la trama. La novela explora la complejidad de las relaciones familiares, la importancia del apoyo social y la capacidad de encontrar conexiones significativas en circunstancias inesperadas.El misterio y la verdad: La historia de un supuesto nacimiento virginal sirve como catalizador de la trama, creando un misterio que Jean investiga. Este misterio no solo impulsa la acción, sino que también sirve como metáfora de la búsqueda de la verdad en la vida personal de Jean.El conflicto entre el deber y el deseo personal: Jean se enfrenta a un dilema entre sus responsabilidades y sus propios deseos. La novela explora el conflicto entre la obligación social y la búsqueda de la realización personal.Resumen de críticas, opiniones y valoraciones del libro Se destacan las descripciones de la novela como una obra "asombrosa y agudamente observada", que captura la vida de una mujer británica común en la década de 1950, mostrando su vida cotidiana y cómo un evento inesperado la lleva a una batalla entre la decencia y una pasión inesperada. Se elogia la prosa de la autora, calificándola de "bella", capaz de crear "un gran placer a partir de pequeños detalles". La novela ha sido comparada con obras de autoras como Tessa Hadley, Kazuo Ishiguro y Ann Patchett, lo que sugiere una calidad literaria notable. También se menciona que la obra ha sido preseleccionada para el Women's Prize for Fiction, lo que refuerza su reconocimiento en el ámbito literario. Finalmente, se describe la novela como una mezcla de misterio e historia de amor, que explora el conflicto entre la realización personal y el deber, celebrando la belleza y el potencial de alegría en las cosas sencillas y poco comunes.
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Pinocchio
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Collodi, Carlo

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a story about an animated puppet, boys who turn into donkeys, and other fairy tale devices. The setting of the story is the Tuscan area of Italy. It was a unique literary marriage of genres for its time. The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name.
9,92€ 9,42€
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What if we stopped pretending
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Franzen, Jonathan

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world’s failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what?
11,34€ 10,77€
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Clickbait
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Parmegiani, Simon

Introducing an unprecedented fusion of AI and storytelling, a groundbreaking art book that will take you on a journey through vivid and surreal visuals that don't exist.With each turn off the page, you'll be drawn deeper into a world crafted in collaboration between the author and a machine, where familiar places and concepts take on entirely new meanings. These visuals will leave you feeling simultaneously confused, excited and hungry for more, as you explore a world that exists only in the mind of Simon and the algorithms that generated it.From placid beaches to surreal fashion shots, this book will transport you to places that never were, unveiling the beauty and mystery of an AI-generated universe. Each story within this art book has been carefully crafted to weave seamlessly between the visuals, creating an immersive experience that will keep you captivated from start to finish.Whether you're into art, fashion, or disruptive technology, this book is sure to capture your imagination and leave you yearning for more.
39,95€ 37,95€
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The van alen legacy
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De la Cruz, Melissa

With the stunning revelation surrounding Bliss's true identity comes the growing threat of the sinister Silver Bloods. Once left to live the glamorous life in New York City, the Blue Bloods now find themselves in an epic battle for survival.Not to worry, love is still in the air for the young vampires of the Upper East Side. Or is it? Jack and Schuyler are over. Oliver's brokenhearted. And only the cunning Mimi seems to be happily engaged.Young, fabulous and fanged, Melissa de la Cruz's vampires unite in this highly anticipated fourth instalment of the Blue Bloods series.
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A calling for Charlie Barnes
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Ferris, Joshua

Named a best book of the year by NPR, Vogue, and the New York Times Book Review, the hilarious and profound new novel from National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris is “a fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man trying to be better (Stephen King). Someone is telling the story of the life of Charlie Barnes, and it doesn't appear to be going well. Too often divorced, discontent with life's compromises and in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like out of his present circumstances and into the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past full of forking paths quickly tapers to a black dot.Then, against all odds, something goes right for a change: Charlie is granted a second act. With help from his storyteller son, he surveys the facts of his life and finds his true calling where he least expects it—in a sacrifice that redounds with selflessness and love—at last becoming the man his son always knew he could be.A Calling for Charlie Barnes is a profound and tender portrait of a man whose desperate need to be loved is his downfall, and a brutally funny account of how that love is ultimately earned.
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Peril at end house
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Christie, Agatha

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers.Nick Buckley was an unusual name for a pretty young woman. But then she had led an unusual life. First, on a treacherous Cornish hillside, the brakes on her car failed. Then, on a coastal path, a falling boulder missed her by inches. Later, an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed.Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick's sun hat, Hercule Poirot decides the girl needs his protection. At the same time, he begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn't been committed. Yet.
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The zoologists guide to the galaxy what
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Kershenbaum, Arik

We are unprepared for the greatest discovery of modern science. Scientists are confident that there is alien life across the universe yet we have not moved beyond our perception of 'aliens' as Hollywood stereotypes. The time has come to abandon our fixation on alien monsters and place our expectations on solid scientific footing.Using his own expert understanding of life on Earth and Darwin's theory of evolution - which applies throughout the universe - Cambridge zoologist Dr Arik Kershenbaum explains what alien life must be like. This is the story of how life really works, on Earth and in space.
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Until the last of me
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Neuvel, Sylvain

Over 100 identical generations, Mia’s family has shaped earth history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives.After nudging the human race through the dawn of rocket technology, Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. She can't take them to the stars, not quite yet, but she's getting them ever closer...But a terrible adversary is upon her, threatening the future of two species...
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Secret Liverpool
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Keating, Mark

For tourists and locals who have outgrown Hop on–Hop off bus excursions, river cruises and Beatles tours, Secret Liverpool – An unusual guide is an indispensable guide to the curiosities of 'England's finest Victorian city', designed for people who prefer to customise their own itinerary or simply wander where the mood takes them.Discover for yourself the haunts of slave traders, privateers and press-gangs, the hideaway of a suspected assassin and the desecrated grave of a self-professed Jack the Ripper, track down the birthplace of rail travel and the oldest pavilion at a first-class cricket ground, marvel at a life-size replica of the world's first submarine and the original home of the Epsom Derby, be gobsmacked by burial stones older than Stonehenge and one of the earliest human settlements to be found anywhere in the UK, take a turn on John Lennon's first musical instrument and snigger at the sight of Queen Victoria's dildo, meet toads that sing, World War II's best-kept secret and the world's first (and smallest) skyscraper, toast the UK's greatest female athlete in a brew named in her honour or go for a spin on the only purpose-built F1 race track in the country.
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A man in full
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Wolfe, Tom

Charlie Croker was once a fabled college football star and is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepeneur-turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality.
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Baby love
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Wilson, Jacqueline

A heartbreaking, compelling and timely story for older readers about teen pregnancy and its consequences, family trouble and unlikely friendships, set in 1960.When Laura meets a French exchange student, Leon, she is flattered by his interest in her. She's never had any sort of boyfriend before. One night, Leon walks Laura home - and her life will never be the same again. Things start to change for Laura - first her moods, and then her body. Laura isn't prepared for what she learns next - and doesn't even know how it could have happened. When her family learns her secret, they are horrified. Sent away to save them from shame, Laura meets girls just like herself, whose families have given up on them - and they become a family for each other at the most difficult time in all their lives.An emotional and moving tale for fans of Dear Nobody and Juno.
17,02€ 16,17€
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The Woman in Me
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Spears, Britney

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey—and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears’s groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love—and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.
31,25€ 29,69€
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How to
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Munroe, Randall

The world's most entertaining and useless self-help guide from the brilliant mind behind the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, the bestsellers What If? and Thing Explainer, and What If? 2, coming September 13, 2022.For any task you might want to do, there's a right way, a wrong way, and a way so monumentally complex, excessive, and inadvisable that no one would ever try it. How To is a guide to the third kind of approach. It's full of highly impractical advice for everything from landing a plane to digging a hole.Bestselling author and cartoonist Randall Munroe explains how to predict the weather by analyzing the pixels of your Facebook photos. He teaches you how to tell if you're a baby boomer or a 90's kid by measuring the radioactivity of your teeth. He offers tips for taking a selfie with a telescope, crossing a river by boiling it, and powering your house by destroying the fabric of space-time. And if you want to get rid of the book once you're done with it, he walks you through your options for proper disposal, including dissolving it in the ocean, converting it to a vapor, using tectonic plates to subduct it into the Earth's mantle, or launching it into the Sun.By exploring the most complicated ways to do simple tasks, Munroe doesn't just make things difficult for himself and his readers. As he did so brilliantly in What If?, Munroe invites us to explore the most absurd reaches of the possible. Full of clever infographics and fun illustrations, How To is a delightfully mind-bending way to better understand the science and technology underlying the things we do every day.
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Secret Corsica
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Discover a forgotten fresco by Marc Chagall in a mountain village, a magnificent American villa where you can spend the night, the superb Corsican beach used as a setting for the D-Day Normandy landings in The Longest Day movie, remarkable paintings by a civilian First World War POW, a miniature village built with pebbles, golden hands embedded in the rock a two-hour walk into the mountains, a papier-mâché statue of the Virgin Mary, an unusual pool-table pocket bearing the image of Napoleon, an initiatory menhir in a chapel sacristy, a brick from the Holy Door of a church in Rome, a confessional cleverly hidden behind woodwork, the world's largest citrus fruit collection, the painting of an eagle under a balcony, a Bonaparte family tree made from locks of hair, a sleepover in a lighthouse far from civilisation ... Corsica is far from the holiday clichés of beaches, mountains and gastronomy: its little-known treasures are only revealed to locals and travellers who are prepared to venture off the beaten track. An essential guide for those who thought they knew the island well or would like to discover its other aspects.
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Frozen Desserts
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Aavv

It is essential for any serious pastry chef to have a comprehensive knowledge of frozen dessert production, and this book provides all the basic information a pastry professional needs. Introductory chapters include the history and evolution of frozen desserts, ingredients including dairy products, sugars, stabilizers, emulsifiers, fruits, and flavors, and equipment including churning machines, production equipment, and storage and serving containers. Also included are essentials on storage, sanitation, and production and serving techniques. Recipe chapters cover Dairy-Based Frozen Desserts, which include ice cream, gelato, and sherbet, Non-Dairy Desserts, which include sorbet and granites, and Aerated Still-Frozen Desserts, which include parfaits, semi-freddos, and frozen mousses and souffles. Each recipe chapter covers both classic and modern small-batch production techniques, basic formulas, and both basic and advanced base recipes. The final chapter, Finished Items, makes use of these base recipes and shows readers how to produce, plate, garnish, and serve small desserts, plated desserts, frozen cakes, and even frozen accompaniments to savory courses. Recipes are illustrated throughout by full-color beauty photographs. An instructor's manual and companion website are also available for classroom use.
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Secret Naples
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Aavv

A calcified lizard in a church, vestiges of a former brothel, a “hole” that cures headaches, a bunker turned art gallery, a customised Vespa from the Second World War, remarkable secret private collections, extraordinary old libraries unknown to Neapolitans, a Greek watchtower in a theatre, a rare clock that measures the equation of time, the bars of a chapel door that resonate like a xylophone, a mysterious phallic symbol in San Gennaro catacombs, a little-known museum with a section dedicated to Punch, a unique anatomical model dating from the 18th century, a raft ride 20 metres below Piazza del Plebiscito …
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Secret Prague
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A totally overlooked Art Nouveau masterpiece, a forgotten Cubist lamp-post, secrets of the castle alchemists, the message in the hidden palindrome on Charles Bridge, the Kabbalistic mysteries of the Jewish ghetto, a thief’s shrivelled forearm hanging in a church, a statue revealing its intestines, the largest wind tunnel in the Czech Republic, a fragment of the Great Pyramid of Cheops in a pet cemetery, a clock that runs backwards, a house/museum painted blue to meet the needs of the partially blind musician owner …
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Concrete Architecture
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Phaidon, Editores

El libro definitivo sobre arquitectura concreta, que presenta 300 edificios de cada tipo y estilo de los últimos 100 años.Un volumen singularmente impresionante que presenta 300 ejemplos de la arquitectura de hormigón más increíble e inspiradora desde principios del siglo XX hasta la actualidad. Organizado visualmente, con un edificio por página, Concrete Architecture celebra el poder, la majestuosidad y la belleza escultórica de los edificios de hormigón de todo el mundo y se basa en un ensayo contextualizador sobre la larga historia de la arquitectura del hormigón, que se remonta a más de mil años, a las civilizaciones clásicas de Grecia y Roma.Incluyendo edificios de los pioneros maestros modernos del hormigón como Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Louis Kahn, I. M. Pei, John Lautner y Frank Lloyd Wright, y también obras de algunos de los arquitectos más venerados de finales del siglo XX, incluidos Tadao Ando y Steven Holl , Herzog y de Meuron, y Zaha Hadid. Concrete Architecture también saca a la luz a las estrellas contemporáneas que utilizan el hormigón de formas espectaculares, incluidas Grafton Architects, Elemental y Pezo von Elrichshausen. Esta impresionante colección de edificios de hormigón de todo el mundo es un festín visual para los amantes del brutalismo, uno de los temas más candentes de la arquitectura popular.
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Sense and sensibility
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Austen, Jane

Jane Austen's first published work, meticulously constructed and sparkling with her unique wit Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love and its threatened loss the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. This edition also includes explanatory notes and textual variants between first and second edition. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the Englishspeaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as uptodate translations by awardwinning translators.
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Los libros en inglés son ediciones impresas que permiten acceder a obras originales o publicadas directamente en esta lengua. Las novelas en inglés y la literatura en inglés ofrecen una experiencia de lectura que combina el placer literario con la práctica lingüística. El formato en papel facilita una lectura pausada, la consulta de vocabulario y la comprensión detallada de los matices propios del idioma.

¿Qué son los libros en inglés?

Son publicaciones en papel que presentan obras literarias escritas originalmente en inglés o editadas en esta lengua para su lectura directa.

Definición

Incluyen novelas, relatos, poesía y textos teatrales pertenecientes a distintas tradiciones culturales del ámbito anglófono. Leer literatura en inglés en su versión original permite apreciar el estilo, el ritmo y las expresiones idiomáticas propias del autor o autora.

Dimensión cultural

Las novelas en inglés reflejan contextos históricos y sociales diversos, desde la tradición británica hasta la narrativa estadounidense y otras literaturas internacionales en lengua inglesa.

Cómo elegir novelas en inglés

Seleccionar libros en inglés implica tener en cuenta el nivel de dominio del idioma y el tipo de obra que se desea leer.

Criterios de selección

Es recomendable considerar la complejidad lingüística, la extensión de la obra y el género literario.

  • Novelas contemporáneas con lenguaje actual.
  • Clásicos de la literatura en inglés.
  • Relatos breves para iniciarse en la lectura en versión original.
  • Ediciones anotadas que faciliten la comprensión.

Tipos de libros y contenido habitual

Los libros en inglés en formato papel abarcan distintos géneros y estilos que se adaptan a diferentes intereses lectores.

Tipos de libros y contenido

  • Novelas completas en inglés original.
  • Antologías de relatos anglófonos.
  • Obras teatrales y poesía en lengua inglesa.
  • Ediciones académicas para estudio y análisis.

Estos libros permiten disfrutar de la literatura en inglés al tiempo que se desarrollan habilidades lingüísticas.

Beneficios culturales y educativos

La lectura de novelas en inglés en papel contribuye al enriquecimiento cultural y al fortalecimiento de la competencia lectora en lengua extranjera.

Mejora del vocabulario

Leer literatura en inglés amplía el léxico y refuerza la comprensión de estructuras gramaticales en contexto.

Comprensión intercultural

Las obras en lengua inglesa permiten conocer otras realidades culturales y perspectivas sociales, favoreciendo una visión más amplia del mundo.

Orientación lectora: ¿para quién son los libros en inglés?

Los libros en inglés están dirigidos a personas interesadas en combinar lectura literaria y aprendizaje lingüístico.

  • Lectores y lectoras que desean practicar el idioma.
  • Estudiantes que trabajan textos en versión original.
  • Personas interesadas en culturas anglófonas.
  • Quienes buscan acceder a obras sin traducción.

Preguntas frecuentes sobre libros en inglés

¿Qué ventajas tiene leer novelas en inglés?

Permite mejorar la competencia lingüística y apreciar el estilo original del autor o autora.

¿Cómo elegir un libro en inglés según el nivel?

Es recomendable comenzar por obras breves o con lenguaje actual y aumentar progresivamente la dificultad.

¿Qué aporta la literatura en inglés a nivel cultural?

Permite conocer distintas tradiciones literarias y contextos culturales del ámbito anglófono.

¿Por qué leer libros en inglés en formato papel?

El formato en papel facilita la concentración, la consulta de términos y una lectura más atenta del texto original.