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1) The familiar
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Las selecciones nacionales de fútbol de Portugal y España mantienen una rivalidad desde hace décadas. ¿Qué llevó a estas selecciones a convertirse en feroces competidores? ¿Cómo contribuye la afición de ambos países a mantener esta rivalidad? El texto de fácil lectura y las fantásticas imágenes hacen de estos libros una opción obvia para los fanáticos del fútbol que tienen dificultades con la lectura o reacios a leer"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...
Author
Publisher
Plaza y Janes
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"En 1963, el franquismo puso en marcha una operación secreta para desarrollar una bomba atómica en España. Los detalles de aquella operación han permanecido ocultos durante seis decadas. Hasta ahora. Por el autor de El gran apagón, Guerra 3 y La firma de Dios. Un sobrecogedor thriller detectivesco que se sumerge en uno de los episodios más desconocidos de nuestra historia: el desarrollo de la bomba atómica española, el Proyecto Islero. En...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The events, participants, and consequences of the civil war are examined from historical as well as diplomatic, military, and political perspectives. A masterpiece of the historian's art, Hugh Thomas's The Spanish Civil War remains the best, most engrossing narrative of one of the most emblematic and misunderstood wars of the twentieth century. Revised and updated with significant new material, including new revelations about atrocities perpetrated...
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Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
Trapped in a working-class Madrid slum in the 1980s, a woman navigates the local party scene involving heroin and disco while searching for belonging in a potentially violent world where every choice can be fatal.
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of the engineering behind the empire, showing how imperial Spain built upon existing infrastructure and hierarchies of the Inca, Aztec, and more, to further its growth. Sixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited, and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo argue that Spain's engineers...
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