Book type: fiction (6207)
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Chile2963.
Mit Maigret in der Bretagne by Georges Simenon DE
BelgiumDescription:
TwoDie Bretagne! Eine Gegend, die jeden in Ferienstimmung versetzt – außer den aus Paris angereisten Kommissar, der in Concarneau einen Mordversuch aufklären soll. Mürrisch setzt er sich ins Café de l’Amiral, um sich bei einem Glas Pernod ein Bild von dem Opfer und den Verdächtigen zu machen. Doch der Pernod ist mit Strychnin versetzt, und ein herrenloser gelber Hund verbreitet Angst und Schrecken. Düster lässt sich auch Maigrets zweiter bretonischer Fall an, obwohl sich eine hübsche Mordzeugin dem Kommissar als Assistentin anbietet. Maigret mysteries located in France.
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Mitternachtskinder by Salman Rushdie DE
IndiaDescription:
The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course.
Croatia
Romania2967.
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden State. The year is 1998, the End of History. The Soviet Union is dissolved, the Cold War is over, and Bunny Glenn is an American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's eyes we watch global interests flock to the former Soviet Union during the rush for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hear rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We follow Bunny from adolescence to middle age--from Azerbaijan to America--as the e... continue
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Moby-Dick by Herman Melville EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power. Filtered through the consciousness of the novel’s narrator, Ishmael, Moby-Dick draws us into a universe full of fascinating characters and stories, from the noble cannibal Queequeg to the natural history of ... continue
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Moccasin Square Gardens : Short Stories by Richard Van Camp EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
The characters of Moccasin Square Gardens inhabit Denendeh, the land of the people north of the sixtieth parallel. These stories are filled with in-laws, outlaws and common-laws. Get ready for illegal wrestling moves ("The Camel Clutch"), pinky promises, a doctored casino, extraterrestrials or "Sky People," love, lust and prayers for peace. While this is Van Camp's most hilarious short story collection, it's also haunted by the lurking presence of the Wheetago, human-devouring monsters of legend that have returned due to global warming and the greed of humanity. The stories in Moccasin Square ... continue
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Modelos de mujer by Almudena Grandes ES
SpainDescription:
Como insinúa el propio título, Modelos de mujer, estos siete relatos están todos protagonizados por mujeres que, en distintas edades y circunstancias, se enfrentan todas ellas, en algún momento, a hechos extraordinarios. Todos, menos el que da título al libro, están de un modo u otro ligados a la infancia, a la capacidad de desear como motor de la voluntad, de los actos de voluntad que las protagonistas deberán asumir para impedir que la vida las avasalle. En los tres primeros cuentos -«Los ojos rotos», «Malena, una vida hervida» y «Bárbara contra la muerte»-, los personajes femeninos vencen, ... continue