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Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Es 1943 y Stefania, de dieciséis años, ha estado trabajando durante cuatro en la tienda de comestibles de la familia Diamant en la ciudad polaca de Przemysl, conquistándolos con sus canciones. Incluso le ha hecho una promesa a uno de los hijos de la familia, Izio: un compromiso matrimonial que deben mantener en secreto porque ella es católica y los Diamant son judíos. Pero todo cambia cuando el ejército alemán invade Przemysl. Los Diamant son...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
All through the night: Retired cleaning lady Alvirah Meehan sets out to reunite a mother with a daughter who was stolen as a baby eight years earlier. The mother left her pram outside a church and the pram was taken by a church thief to hide his loot.
Silent night: In New York, a thief steals a woman's wallet with a medal of St. Christopher she was taking to her husband in hospital. One of her young sons gives chase, only to be abducted by a killer...
15603) The devil's pawn
Author
Series
Faust volume 2
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Rome, 1518. Johann Faust is a renowned magician, astrologer, and chiromancer traveling through Germany with his successful troupe: the orphaned juggler Greta and his loyal companion Karl. The avaricious Pope Leo X now requires Johann's services to replenish the papacy's drained coffers through alchemy. But the devil, with whom a regretful Johann once agreed to an unholy trade for fame, wants something else. Racked with paralyzing seizures, Johann...
15604) Los niños del verano
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"El FBI estaba preparado para cualquier caso, menos para este. Cuando la agente Mercedes Ramirez encuentra en la entrada de su casa a un niño golpeado, cubierto de sangre y aferrado a un oso de peluche, no se puede imaginar que ese brutal evento es solo la punta de un iceberg siniestro. El chico le cuenta que sus padres fueron asesinados por un ángel que luego lo llevó hasta su porche para que ella lo cuidara. Sin embargo, no se trató de cualquier...
15605) Nós e mais ninguém
Author
Publisher
Porto Editora
Pub. Date
junho de 2022.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Steven Harding é um professor atraente e respeitado. Ellie Masterson é uma jovem estudante universitária de olhar apaixonado. Juntos, dirigem-se para sul de Nova Iorque, para as suas primeiras férias: três dias numa cabana isolada, longe da cidade. Diante deles, a promessa de noites longas e escuras e a oportunidade de explorarem o corpo um do outro, longe de olhares reprovadores. Deveria ser o passeio romântico perfeito. Só que ele não é...
15606) Nuclear option: a novel
Author
Series
Publisher
Apprentice House Press, Loyola University Maryland
Pub. Date
2020, ©2020.
Language
English
Description
"In 1984 SYLVIA JENSEN was a heavy drinker having an affair with Norton, an atomic veteran and fellow activist in the nuclear disarmament movement. In 2019, at seventy-seven and with her activist days behind her, Sylvia is protecting her hard-won recovery and simple lifestyle until Norton's troubled son Corey draws her back into the fight. To save his life and those of countless others, she and her old friend investigative reporter J.B. Harrell must...
15607) Bli︠u︡stiteli
Author
Series
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
"In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on Quincy Miller, a young man who was once a client of Russo's. Quincy was framed, convicted, and sent to prison for life. For twenty-two years he languished in prison with no lawyer, no advocate...
15608) Rasplata
Author
Publisher
Izdatelʹstvo AST
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Russian
Description
"Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
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