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  • MY STROKE OF INSIGHT
    MY STROKE OF INSIGHT
    TAYLOR, JILL BOLTE
    Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist who teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Bloomington, Indiana. She is the National Spokesperson for the Mentally Ill for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank) and the Consulting Neuroantomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Since 1993 she has been an active member of NAMI (National Alliance ...
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    Q. 160

  • LA VIUDA DE BASQUIAT
    LA VIUDA DE BASQUIAT
    CLEMENT, JENNIFER
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    Q. 110

  • PABLO ESCOBAR. MI PADRE
    PABLO ESCOBAR. MI PADRE
    JUAN PABLO ESCOBAR
    Hasta ahora creíamos que se había contado todo sobre el narcotraficante Pablo Escobar, el peor criminal en la historia de América Latina. Sobre él han escrito las mejores plumas, los más reputados periodistas y hasta sus hermanos. El celuloide también ha recreado la vida del delincuente.No obstante, su historia siempre fue contada desde afuera, nunca desde la intimidad de su en...
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    Q. 280

  • APPETITE FOR WONDER INTL, AN
    APPETITE FOR WONDER INTL, AN
    DAWKINS, RICHARD
    With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, impolite" debate (San Francisco Chronicle). his first memoir offers a more personal view.His first book, The Selfish Gene, caused a seismic shift in the study of biology by proffering the gene-centered view of evolution. It was...
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    Q. 190

  • LES GRANDES AMITIES SOUVENIRS
    LES GRANDES AMITIES SOUVENIRS
    RAISSA MARITAIN
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    Q. 380

  • BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK, A
    BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK, A
    DAWKINS, RICHARD
    In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the twentieth century—The God Delusion.Called “one of the best nonfiction wri...
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    Q. 190

  • RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
    RUNNING WITH SCISSORS
    AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
    Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard s...
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    Q. 160

  • SO MANY ROADS
    SO MANY ROADS
    DAVID BROWNE
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    Q. 300

  • MY FIRST 100 YEARS IN SHOW BUSINESS
    MY FIRST 100 YEARS IN SHOW BUSINESS
    WILSON, MARY LOUISE
    The unabashedly funny and forthright memoir by the Tony Award winner for Grey Gardens, detailing the singular life and career of one of our most admired and acclaimed stage actorsMary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop portraying legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her life and her career?including the Ton...
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    Q. 300

  • THE GHOSTS WHO TRAVEL WITH ME
    THE GHOSTS WHO TRAVEL WITH ME
    GREEN, ALLISON
    Curious about her enduring love for Richard Brautigan s work, Allison Green embarks on a roadtrip tracing the route of his most famous work, Trout Fishing in America. As she travels, she examines the way we relate to the things that influence us the ancestors who created us, the past that shaped us, the writers who changed the way we saw the world and how these things intertwin...
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    Q. 160

  • TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
    TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
    VERA BRITTAIN
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    Q. 180

  • LINDBERGH
    LINDBERGH
    SCOTT BERG
    Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh—renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for his opposition to America's entry into World War II. Lindbergh's is "a dramatic and disturbing American story," says the Los Angeles...
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    Q. 200

  • MORE FOOL ME
    MORE FOOL ME
    STEPHEN FRY
    By his early thirties, Stephen Fry?writer, comedian, star of stage and screen?had, as they say, “made it.” Much loved on British television, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him.As the ’80s drew to a close, he began to burn the candle at both ends. Writing an...
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    Q. 429

  • MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA
    MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA
    MARK PERRY
    At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him for the dustbin of history. Yet despite his flaws, MacArthur is remembered as a brilliant commander whose combined-arms operation in th...
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    Q. 180

  • MOORE´S LAW
    MOORE´S LAW
    ARNOLD THACKRAY, DAVID BROCK AND RACHEL JONES
    Our world today--from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon--has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history a...
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    Q. 350

  • PAROLES D'ETOILES
    PAROLES D'ETOILES
    ..
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    Q. 30

  • BLACKOUT
    BLACKOUT
    SARAH HEPOLA
    "It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you. Close your eyes and open them again. That's what a blackout feels like."For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly staye...
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    Q. 260

  • IN ORDER TO LIVE
    IN ORDER TO LIVE
    YEONMI PARK
    Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn’t even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die —from starvation, or disease, or even execution. In Order to Live is the story of Park’s struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country ...
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    Q. 180

  • TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
    TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
    HENDERSON, ELEANOR
    A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud...
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    Q. 160

  • CYCLE OF LIES
    CYCLE OF LIES
    JULIET MACUR
    The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall.In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be grant...
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    Q. 160

  • ERNESTO GUEVARA
    ERNESTO GUEVARA
    PACO IGNACIO TAIBO II
    Desde millones de fotos, carteles, videos, camisetas, postales, discos, libros, frases, testimonios -fantasmas todos ellos de la sociedad industrial, que no sabe depositar sus mitos en la sobriedad de la memoria-, el Che nos vigila. Mas alla de toda parafernalia, retorna. Casi treinta anos despues de su muerte, su imagen cruza generaciones, su mito persigue los delirios de gran...
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    Q. 200

  • CARTAS A UN JOVEN NOVELISTA
    CARTAS A UN JOVEN NOVELISTA
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    «Éste no es un manual para aprender a escribir, algo que los verdaderos escritores aprenden por sí mismos. Es un ensayo sobre la manera como nacen y se escriben las novelas, según mi experiencia personal [...]. Se trata, pues, de un libro muy personal y, en cierto modo, de una discreta autobiografía.» Mario Vargas Llosa «El escritor siente íntimamente que escribir es lo mejor q...
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    Q. 115

  • KARL MARX
    KARL MARX
    FRANCIS WHEEN
    La biografía más humana, cercana y amena de uno de los filósofos más influyentes de todos los tiempos. Las ideas de Karl Marx son probablemente las que más han influido en el mundo después de las de Jesucristo. En esta apasionante y en ocasiones muy divertida biografía se nos presenta por primera vez a Karl Marx en su fa ceta más humana. Un apasionado agitador, que pasó casi to...
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    Q. 220

  • KAFKA, LOS AÑOS DE LAS DECISIONES
    KAFKA, LOS AÑOS DE LAS DECISIONES
    REINER STACH
    Entre 1910 y 1915 el joven, libre e influenciable Kafka se transforma en un funcionario responsable y a la vez en el maestro de la pesadilla precisa y del humor kafkiano. En poco tiempo escribe La condena, La metamorfosis, El desaparecido y El proceso, y durante estos años también se establecen todas las directrices que determinarán el camino de Kafka hasta el final: el encuent...
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    Q. 390

  • HARD CHOICES
    HARD CHOICES
    CLINTON, HILLARY
    Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is “a subtle, finely calibrated work…with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world” (The New York Times).In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, Hillary Rodham Clinton expected to return to the United State...
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    Q. 180

  • AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE: A MARVELOUS MEMOIR
    AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE: A MARVELOUS MEMOIR
    LEE, STAN / PETER A. DAVID / COLLEEN DORAN
    In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee--comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes--shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he h...
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    Q. 300

  • REAGAN
    REAGAN
    H. W. BRANDS
    Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the twentieth century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half c...
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    Q. 350

  • INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
    INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
    HARRIET JACOBS
    Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narratives -- mostly written by men -- published before the Civil War.The child and grandchild of slaves -- and therefore forbidden by law to read and write -- Harriet Jacobs was defiant in her efforts to gain freedom...
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    Q. 40

  • EL REVOLUCIONARIO PEPE MUJICA
    EL REVOLUCIONARIO PEPE MUJICA
    A / D ALFAGUARA
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    Q. 395

  • STEVE JOBS
    STEVE JOBS
    BLUMENTHAL, KAREN
    Autodidacta, visionario, genio, intuitivo, iconoclassta, diferente, inventor.Steve Jobs, el hombre que pensaba diferente. Un libro inspirador para los JÓVENES que no están dispuestos a renunciar a sus sueños.Más que aparatos electrónicos, lo que Jobs dejó a los jóvenes fueron importantes lecciones de vida: un modelo de coraje, de iniciativa y de creatividad. Ésta es su historia...
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    Q. 170