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Author
Series
Berlin ; 1
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2001-
Language
English
Description
Covers eight months in Berlin, from September 1928 to May Day, 1999, meticulously documenting the hopes and struggles of its inhabitants as their future is darkened by a growing shadow.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"1944. Crystal City, Texas. Margot gave up everything to keep her family together. And now they are together -- imprisoned in the Crystal City family internment camp, worlds away from their German-American farm community in Iowa. But the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. As Margot watches her mother's health deteriorate and her loving, patriotic father turn into a man who fraternizes with Nazis, she wonders what more it will take...
24146) Viajera
Author
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Desde el momento en que anida en su corazón la esperanza de que James Fraser haya sobrevivido la guerra entre ingleses y escoceses, Claire Randall decide emprender un nuevo viaje en el tiempo para reunirse con él. El traslado es un éxito y los amantes están juntos otra vez, pero la felicidad se empaña cuando las circunstancias los obligan a iniciar una larga travesía hacia las exóticas y desconocidas costas del Caribe. Allá lejos, entre las...
24147) Gore
Author
Publisher
Black Panel Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Beryl Gore is a lonely orphan living and working at the Palace Theater in London. Night after night, the company performs tales of guts and glory to an audience of drunken louts while young Beryl cranks the artificial wave machine, entranced by the drama. The plays color Beryl's otherwise humdrum life amongst the slaughterhouses and cobbled alleys of the city. In her attic room, she pens her own melodrama, a bloody yarn of pirates and damsels where...
Author
Series
I survived ; 19
Publisher
Scholastic Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets. --
24149) The triumphant
Author
Series
Valiant novel ; 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of their victorious fight to win back the Ludus Achillea, Fallon and her gladiatrix sisters have become the toast of the Republic. However, as a consequence of his actions during the Ludus uprising, Fallon's love Cai has been stripped of his Decurion rank and cast down to serve as one of Caesar's gladiators. Amid fighting for Cai's freedom, Fallon soon learns that Caesar's enemies are plotting against him and planning to get revenge on...
24150) El cementerio de cristal
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"22 de mayo de 1938. Miles de hombres permanecen presos en el interior del penal de San Cristóbal. Tras sus muros, la Guerra Civil destruye sin piedad la vida de un país... Sin embargo ese domingo, festividad de Santa Rita, la patrona de los imposibles, algo está a punto de suceder: una fuga masiva abre una ventana a la esperanza. Esta novela arranca solo dos años antes, en 1936, cuando la guerra separa a dos jóvenes enamorados. Él, como la...
24151) The year of the gun
Author
Series
Irregular spy ; 3
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost-lover Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Britain's poorest city, Dublin. Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss's girlfriend around town. Molly wants O'Connell to support her Irish nationalist cause - a cause needing guns to defeat the British--and then they go to find them in America....
24152) Jack el Destripador
Author
Series
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Seventeen year old Audrey Rose Wadsworth was born a lord's daughter, with a life of wealth and privilege stretched out before her. Between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a forbidden secret life. Against her stern father's wishes and society's expectations, Audrey often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into...
24154) El jardin de las mentiras
Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
"Ursula Kern es una joven viuda que tiene una agencia que provee secretarias a clientes adinerados, y Anne Clifton era una de sus mejores empleadas. Pero ahora Anne esta muerta, y Ursula esta segura de que no se debio a causas naturales y decide investigar. El arqueologo y aventurero Slater Roxton piensa que el empeno de Ursula la pondra innecesariamente en peligro. Al no lograr convencerla, Slater se propone permanecer cerca de ella mientras la mujer...
24155) A la caza de Houdini
Author
Series
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Al emprender un viaje de una semana po el océano Atlántico a bordo del opulento RMS Etruria, Audrey Rose Wadsworth y su compañero de investigaciones, Thomas Cresswell, se ven deslumbrados por una compañĩa itinerante de artistas de circo, videntes y un carismático escapista que entretienen a los pasajeros de primera clase durante la noche. Cuando algunas jóvenes de alta cuna comienzan a desaparecer sin ninguna explicación, y una serie de asesinatos...
24156) Dragonfly eyes
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ah Mei has always been close to her French grandmother, Nainai, and is proud to look like her. But in their home city of Shanghai, many people are suspicious of their European heritage and looks. Politics and war make 1960s Shanghai a difficult place to grow up, especially when the family silk business is given over to the government and they are left with their beloved home and little else. Ah Mei and her grandmother suffer, but they are resourceful...
24159) Remember, remember
Author
Publisher
HarperNorth
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An explosive debut historical novel by a blazing young talent. This dazzling alternative history reimagines the gunpowder plot to derail the slave trade in 18th-century London
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
While Kenshin tries to embrace the peace he and others fought so hard for, there are those who don't agree. In ten days, Kenshin's enemies will come for him and all those who stand with him are in danger also. Is it time for Kenshin to pay for his past sins?
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