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  • Vendrán a detenerme a media noche
    Vendrán a detenerme a media noche
    A moving account of the brutal persecution of the Uyghur community in China and the author’s escape. Since 2017, the Uyghurs, a mostly Muslim Turkic group in Xinjiang, have faced horrific repression under a sophisticated surveillance system. Tahir Hamut Izgil, a Uyghur poet and...
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  • La mujer que rompió los códigos
    La mujer que rompió los códigos
    This book should be the next Hidden Figures—a must-read for those interested in the era, says the Washington Post. In 1916, tycoon George Fabyan hires Elizebeth Smith, a Quaker teacher and poet, to find secret messages in Shakespeare’s plays. Her mission shifts as she...
    Jason Fagone
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  • Eso no estaba en mi libro de los Rolling Stones
    Eso no estaba en mi libro de los Rolling Stones
    Could a devoted Rolling Stones fan conceive of their hometown of Dartford being considered the thieving capital of England? Did they imagine that a band branded Satanic would record a blues that rescued a church minister from destitution? In these pages we will not...
    Mariano Muniesa & Mariskal Romero
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  • Historia desconocida de María Magdalena
    Historia desconocida de María Magdalena
    Was Mary Magdalene really a repentant sinner? Was she the sister of Lazarus and Martha of Bethany, as Catholic tradition claimed? Or has her image been distorted over the centuries? This book immerses the reader in an exciting journey through the enigmas, hidden truths...
    Oscar Fábrega
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  • Las montañas siguen allí
    Las montañas siguen allí
    On December 22, 1972, the world discovered that 16 of the 45 passengers of the Uruguayan Air Force plane, which had crashed in the Andes ten weeks earlier, remained alive. No one could escape their astonishment. Without food, enduring extreme temperatures, facing all kinds...
    Pedro Algorta
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  • Joseph Ratzinger
    Joseph Ratzinger
    Joseph Ratinzger was, in addition to a profound pontiff and rigorous theologian, one of the most consistent and important thinkers of the last century. This book aims, in addition to discovering the main milestones of his career, to explain to a wide audience his...
    José María Carabante
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  • Tres maestros (Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievski)
    Tres maestros (Balzac, Dickens, Dostoievski)
    It is not by chance that I bring together in a single book these three essays on Balzac, Dickens and Dostoevsky. With a common purpose I try to show the three great novelists of the 19th century as prototypes because of the contrast of...
    Stephan Zweig
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  • Memorial Drive. Recuerdos de una hijaMemorial Drive. Recuerdos de una hija
    Memorial Drive. Recuerdos de una hija
    At nineteen, Natasha Trethewey felt her world crumble when her stepfather killed her mother with two bullets. With penetrating acuity and a passionate voice, Trethewey, a Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry, delves in this dazzling work—her first in prose—into the unfathomable experience of loss...
    Natasha Trethewey
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  • Enseñarle a hablar a una piedraEnseñarle a hablar a una piedra
    Enseñarle a hablar a una piedra
    The great writers of nature writing are capable men and women, observing nature with a singular acuity and, then, constructing a story that allows the reader to travel to those worlds normally so foreign to our civilized everyday life. Annie Dillard, however, goes further....
    Annie Dillard
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  • Un año en Sand County
    Un año en Sand County
    Aldo Leopold is one of the mythical figures of contemporary environmentalism. From that time when he was very young, a wolf died in his arms - and he understood that the disappearance of the wild will bring the end of our world - until...
    Aldo Leopold
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  • Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado
    Yo sé por qué canta el pájaro enjaulado
    Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right....
    Maya Angelou
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  • Hildegarda de Bingen (New Edition)
    Hildegarda de Bingen (New Edition)
    The biography of this extraordinary woman written by Christian Feldmann, carried out with good historical knowledge and pulsating style, dares to look back to the distant 12th century, making evident the relevance of this figure. She called the archbishop of Cologne a bird of...
    Christian Feldmann
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  • San Ignacio de Loyola
    San Ignacio de Loyola
    A history review always ends up throwing up a handful of proper names that have influenced its own course, that of St. Ignatius of Loyola is undoubtedly one of them. We owe the founding of the Society of Jesus to him, whose intellectual and...
    Various Authors
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  • Hernán Cortés (Almuzara)
    Hernán Cortés (Almuzara)
    Ramón Tamames discusses Hernán Cortés with beautiful writing in this dazzling scenario. The story is surrounded by contemporary protagonists, such as Moctezuma, Malinche, Cuauhtémoc, Carlos V, Father Las Casas, Governor Velázquez, Pizarro, Alvarado, Sandoval, Bernardino de Sahagún, Vasco de Quiroga and many other characters...
    Ramón Tamames
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  • La transmisión del sabor
    La transmisión del sabor
    What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) for Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. What...
    Bill Buford
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  • La llamada / Un retrato
    La llamada / Un retrato
    This is a true story, full of edges and shadows, about the human condition. The protagonist is Silvia Labayru, an Argentine woman kidnapped in 1976, during the military dictatorship in her country, due to her membership in the Montoneros organization. She was nineteen years...
    Leila Guerriero
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  • Animales metafísicos
    Animales metafísicos
    Oxford, May 1, 1956. In the solemnity of the Bodleian Library, the university faculty has met to decide whether to grant an honoris causa to former United States President Harry S. Truman. One of the people present, the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe, vehemently opposes it,...
    Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman
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  • Unos meses de mi vida
    Unos meses de mi vida
    Between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, Michel Houellebecq became the center of two controversies. On the one hand, the philosopher Michel Onfray did an interview with him: in it the author expressed opinions about the Islamization of Europe and the...
    Michel Houellebecq
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  • Cartas escogidas (1888-1922)
    Cartas escogidas (1888-1922)
    Marcel Proust was, from his earliest youth until his death in 1922, a meticulous and prolific correspondent: he wrote to relatives, family, friends, defenders of his work and even his biggest detractors. In the thousands of letters he sent, in which the register and...
    Marcel Proust
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  • Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe is one of the saddest and most enigmatic figures in world literature. He made his living as a poet, critic, editor, and journalist, and is recognized as one of the universal masters of the short story. He was a pioneer in...
    José Eduardo Caamaño Justo
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