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A Darker Domain by Val McDermid EN
ScotlandDescription:
“Tough-minded, richly described...combines a thrilling story with heartbreaking questions of social justice and history.”—Seattle Times Set in Scotland, Val McDermid’s brilliant exploration of loyalty and greed intertwines the past and present in a novel that was chosen as a New York Times Notable Crime Book of the Year and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial. Fife, Scotland, 1984. Mick Prentice abandons his family at the height of a politically charged national miners' strike to join the strikebreakers down south. Des... continue
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A Devil Comes to Town by Paolo Maurensig EN
ItalyDescription:
A small village full of aspiring writers + The devil in the form of a hot-shot publisher = A refined and engaging literary fable on narcissism, vainglory and human weakness
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A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Guns of August *Lawrence Wright, author of The End of October, in The Wall Street Journal The fourteenth century reflects two contradictory images: on the one hand, a glittering age of crusades, cathedrals, and chivalry; on the other, a world plunged into chaos and spiritual agony. In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like... continue
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.
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A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio EN
Description:
"Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of... continue
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A propósito de las mujeres by Natalia Ginzburg ES
Description:
Mujeres con sombrero y sin sombrero, jóvenes y viejas, maquilladas o con la cara recién lavada. Ellas, tan solas o con demasiada gente a su alrededor; con hijos que hacen preguntas molestas o amantes que llegan, te usan, saludan y se van. Mujeres que tarde o temprano se sienten malqueridas, aunque anden por la calle pisando fuerte y mirando coquetas el reflejo de su cuerpo en el escaparate de alguna tienda.
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A Season of Giants : Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, 1492-1508 by Vincenzo Labella EN
Country: Europe / 
Vatican City
Vatican City
Description:
Looks at three of the greatest artists in history, the competition among them, and their best works
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A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor EN
EnglandDescription:
Book Four in the madcap time-travel series based at the St Mary's Institute of Historical Research that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.
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A Violent Life by Pier Paolo Pasolini EN
Description:
Not far from the splendour of tourist Rome are the slum suburbs. Here immigrants from village and countryside, lured to the capital by promises of work, gather and make a painful accommodation with the modern world. A new generation emerges, full of unreal hopes, wily and resourceful, brutal and vulnerable. A Violent Life, first published in Italy in 1959, is the story of that generation. Written by the renowned film maker, poet, polemicist and novelist Pier Paolo Pasolini, A Violent Life is an uncanny fictional chronicle of the author's death foretold. It is the story of Tommaso Puzzilli, a s... continue
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