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  • Jirones de seda
    Jirones de seda
    In 220 B.C., Qin Shi Huang unifies China under the Mandate of Heaven. His empire standardizes laws and launches massive works like the Great Wall and his mausoleum. Yet in Xianyang, the imperial jewel, lies a darker, dangerous city. There, a blind healer, a...
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  • Shostakóvich contra Stalin
    Shostakóvich contra Stalin
    On January 26, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was performed at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow with Stalin secretly watching from a box. The next day, Pravda published an editorial titled "Chaos Instead of Music," reportedly written by Stalin, criticizing the opera....
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  • El secreto de la Orden Negra
    El secreto de la Orden Negra
    Amid World War II's chaos, young Spanish Communist María Millán loses her mother and brother, fleeing to France. There, after her father's death and a change of identity, she joins the French Resistance. Captured in Lyon, she's sent to Ravensbrück. Meanwhile, Hans Kammler leads...
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  • Las propiedades de la sed
    Las propiedades de la sed
    Set in California during WWII, The Properties of Thirst tells an epic love story against a backdrop of hardship. Rocky Rhodes battles the Los Angeles Water Department draining his ranch’s aquifers, where he raised his twins and mourns his late wife. As the U.S....
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  • Las chicas de la Academia
    Las chicas de la Academia
    In 4th century B.C. Greece, faced with the imminence of being subjected to a forced marriage to a man she doesn't even know, Lastenia of Mantinea hastily leaves home. Her immediate destination is the nearby temple of Artemis, run by the priestess Cleo, whom...
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  • El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia
    El espíritu de mis padres sigue subiendo en la lluvia
    A young writer living abroad returns to South America to say goodbye to his dying father. At his parents' house, he discovers a stash of documents (articles, maps, photographs) and unknowingly begins to uncover his father's obsession with the disappearance of a local man....
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  • Las manos cálidas de los fantasmas
    Las manos cálidas de los fantasmas
    January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie’s death in combat, along with his personal...
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  • Comandante
    Comandante
    On September 28, 1940, the Cappellini submarine of the Italian fascist navy left the port of La Spezia heading to the Atlantic, via Gibraltar. In command was the veteran commander Salvatore Todaro. During their mission, they sighted a Belgian ship, the Kabalo. A naval...
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  • Soy Milena de Praga
    Soy Milena de Praga
    This is the story of Milena Jesenská, who many know as Kafka's friend. And yes, the months of loving and intellectual relationship with Franz Kafka marked the lives of both. Nothing was the same for Milena, she transformed. She gained confidence in herself, in...
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  • Historia
    Historia
    Written on a scale of Homeric proportions, Herodotus' The Histories is the first and greatest work of prose that Greek Antiquity has bequeathed to us. In it, the traveler from Halicarnassus explores an entire era and a universe with an inquiring and deeply humanistic...
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  • De nuestros hermanos heridos
    De nuestros hermanos heridos
    Algeria, 1956. Fernand Iveton, a young thirty-year-old communist worker, decides to show his support for the FNL's independence cause against France by planting a bomb. Iveton's peculiarity is that he is a pied noir, that is, a white Frenchman born in Algeria. The bomb...
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  • Campesinos y señores
    Campesinos y señores
    The works that elevated Theodor Kallifatides as one of the great European writers of the second half of the 20th century were his three novels Peasants and Gentlemen (1973), The Plow and the Sword (1975) and A Cruel Peace (1977). They are translated for...
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  • Mileva Einstein, teoría de la tristeza
    Mileva Einstein, teoría de la tristeza
    Mileva Einstein was not only Albert Einstein's first love, wife and mother of children, but also one of the first European women to study physics. As a scientist she collaborated in her husband's discoveries mainly in the field of mathematics, where her knowledge surpassed...
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  • Los Perros de Essex
    Los Perros de Essex
    July 1346. Ten men land on the beaches of Normandy. They call themselves the Essex Dogs: an unruly platoon of archers and men-at-arms led by a battle-scarred captain whose best days are behind him. The fight for the throne of the largest kingdom in...
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  • Stalingrado (Stalingrado 1) (New Edition)Stalingrado (Stalingrado 1) (New Edition)
    Stalingrado (Stalingrado 1) (New Edition)
    Vasili Grossman wanted to record everything he had experienced during the second World War, the death of his mother and his stepson, and his experience as a war correspondent, in an ambitious two-part novel cycle. The first, started in 1943 and published in 1952...
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  • La comedia salvaje
    La comedia salvaje
    Benjamin has received a mission that seems disproportionate: stop the Civil War. Though he doesn't think it's possible, to avoid a likely execution squad he will tour a country that has seemingly enthusiastically set out on its own destruction. Along the way he will...
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  • Plata de Indias
    Plata de Indias
    Seville, 1579. The lawyer Pacheco and the twenty-fourth Medina once again face an unprecedented challenge. On this occasion, their mission is riskier than ever: to recover a valuable shipment of smuggled silver that could alter the destiny of the Netherlands and endanger the balance...
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  • La librera de Kentucky (Pocket)
    La librera de Kentucky (Pocket)
    1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky, nineteen-year-old Cussy Mary Carter, nicknamed Damsel and with a rare peculiarity in her skin, is one of the traveling booksellers of the Equestrian Library Project sponsored by Roosevelt as part...
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  • Hannón el Grande
    Hannón el Grande
    In ancient Carthage, where the waves of the Mediterranean caress the African coast, an empire of trade and power was born. But when Rome rose on the horizon, the First Punic War unleashed a fierce struggle that left Carthage in ruins. At the heart...
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  • Averroes o el secretario del diablo
    Averroes o el secretario del diablo
    Born in 1126 in Cordoba, Abu-l-Walid Muhammad would be elevated by the new lords of the Peninsula, the Almohads, as one of their great sages and courtiers, but the audacity of his thinking would eventually cost him everything he had achieved. Centuries later, his...
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