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  • NEWTON. UNA BIOGRAFÍA BREVE
    NEWTON. UNA BIOGRAFÍA BREVE
    PETER ACKROYD
    Peter Ackroyd nos muestra en estas páginas a un hombre más bien solitario y reservado, celoso de sus conocimientos, incluso vulnerable y suspicaz, pero con una fe inquebrantable en su talento, poseedor de un genio ante el cual los demás jamás pudieron permanecer indiferentes. ...
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  • SPOILER ALERT: THE HERO DIES
    SPOILER ALERT: THE HERO DIES
    MICHAEL AUSIELLO
    In this evocative and gorgeously wrought memoir reminiscent of Rob Sheffield’s Love Is a Mixtape and George Hodgman’s Bettyville, Michael Ausiello—a respected TV columnist and co-founder of TVLine.com—remembers his late husband, and the lessons, love, and laughter that they shared throughout their fourteen years together.For the past decade, TV fans of all stripes have counted ...
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  • BREAKING ROCKEFELLER
    BREAKING ROCKEFELLER
    PETER DORAN
    Peter Doran's "Breaking Rockefeller" is the best kind of history, telling great stories, providing fascinating detail, and reflecting real knowledge. In this story of the origins of the modern oil industry, there are plenty of lessons for the present too. Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of"Gulag: A History" and"Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944 195...
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  • EN UPPBYGGLIG OCH SALLSAM HISTORIA OM ROTSCHILD I
    EN UPPBYGGLIG OCH SALLSAM HISTORIA OM ROTSCHILD I
    GEORGES SAINT-MARIE
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    Q. 215

  • ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA, THE MOTORCYCL DIARIES
    ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA, THE MOTORCYCL DIARIES
    CHE GUEVARA
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    Q. 140

  • COLOR DE LA LIBERTAD, EL
    COLOR DE LA LIBERTAD, EL
    NELSON MANDELA
    «He descubierto el secreto de que, tras subir a una colina, uno descubre que hay muchas más colinas detrás. Me he concedido aquí un momento de reposo, para lanzar una mirada hacia el glorioso panorama que me rodea, para volver la vista atrás hacia el trecho que he recorrido. Pero solo puedo descansar un instante, ya que la libertad trae consigo responsabilidades y no me atrevo ...
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    Q. 150

  • ESPOSAS DEL CARTEL, LAS
    ESPOSAS DEL CARTEL, LAS
    MIA FLORES / OLIVIA FLORES
    Vivieron en la riqueza más exuberante y en el terror más absoluto. Forjaron familias de ensueño y envenenaron a miles de personas. Construyeron un imperio binacional y luego lo atravesaron corriendo por sus vidas. Fueron socios de Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, y se convirtieron en la pieza clave para que cayera.La historia de los gemelos Peter y Junior Flores resume todo lo alucinan...
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    Q. 185

  • INNOVADORES, LOS
    INNOVADORES, LOS
    WALTER ISAACSON
    La historia definitiva de la revolución digital y una guía indispensable de cómo ocurre la innovación, por el autor de la biografía de Steve Jobs.Tras su extraordinaria biografía de Steve Jobs, en "Innovadores" Walter Isaacson cuenta la fascinante historia de las personas que inventaron el ordenador e Internet, un libro destinado a convertirse en la historia definitiva de la re...
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    Q. 170

  • CONFIESO QUE HE VIVIDO
    CONFIESO QUE HE VIVIDO
    PABLO NERUDA
    Neruda fue un testigo privilegiado de la historia del siglo xx y un poeta de muchas vidas, que se pasea por la amplitud del mundo, que transita entre la muchedumbre y la intimidad y que explora la naturaleza y el amor.Confieso que he vivido, su proyecto autobiográfico más ambicioso, recoge su rica experiencia vital. Con la potencia verbal que caracteriza sus mejores escritos, e...
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    Q. 190

  • GRANT
    GRANT
    RON CHERNOW
    Pulitzer Prize winner Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant.Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't c...
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  • MIS RECUERDOS DE ANNA FRANK
    MIS RECUERDOS DE ANNA FRANK
    MIEP GIES
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    Q. 190

  • PROMISE ME, DAD: A YEAR OF HOPE, HARDSHIP, AND PURPOSE
    PROMISE ME, DAD: A YEAR OF HOPE, HARDSHIP, AND PURPOSE
    JOE BIDEN
    Joe Biden represented Delaware for 36 years in the U.S. Senate before serving as 47th Vice President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. As the Vice President, Joe Biden addressed important issues facing the nation and represented America abroad, traveling over 1.2 million miles to more than 50 countries. He convened sessions of the President's Cabinet, led interagency effo...
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    Q. 270

  • MOLLY'S GAME [MOVIE TIE-IN]: THE TRUE STORY OF THE 26-YEAR-OLD WOMAN BEHIND THE MOST EXCLUSIVE, HIGH-STAKES UNDERGROUND POKER GAME IN THE WORLD
    MOLLY'S GAME [MOVIE TIE-IN]: THE TRUE STORY OF THE 26-YEAR-OLD WOMAN BEHIND THE MOST EXCLUSIVE, HIGH-STAKES UNDERGROUND POKER GAME IN THE WORLD
    BLOOM, MOLLY
    In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunette from Loveland, Colorado, ran the highest stakes, most exclusive poker game Hollywood had ever seen - she was its mistress, its lion tamer, its agent, and its oxygen. Everyone wanted in, few were invited to play. Molly's Game is Ben Mezrich-style storytelling mixed with an insiders-only look at how one of the bigg...
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    Q. 160

  • FIDEL, MY EARLY YEARS
    FIDEL, MY EARLY YEARS
    FIDEL CASTRO
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    Q. 150

  • THE ATLAS OF BEAUTY
    THE ATLAS OF BEAUTY
    MIHAELA NOROC
    MIHAELA NOROC lives in Bucharest, Romania, and has traveled to 55 countries in the last four years working on her ongoing photography project The Atlas of Beauty, which is documented on her blog (theatlasofbeauty.com) and on her enormously popular Instagram (@the.atlas.of.beauty) and Facebook (The Atlas of Beauty) pages. Mihaela's work has been featured in the Wall Street Journ...
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    Q. 310

  • HEADSTRONG: 52 WOMEN WHO CHANGED SCIENCE-AND THE WORLD
    HEADSTRONG: 52 WOMEN WHO CHANGED SCIENCE-AND THE WORLD
    Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history's brightest female scientists.In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: "She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children." It wasn't until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devot...
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    Q. 160

  • THIS IS LEONARDO DA VINCI
    THIS IS LEONARDO DA VINCI
    JOOST KEIZER
    Leonardo da Vinci lived an itinerant life. Throughout his career – from its beginnings in the creative maelstrom of fifteenth century Florence to his role as genius in residence at the court of the king of France – Leonardo created a kind of private universe for himself and his work.Leonardo also spent a great deal of time away from his easel, pursuing his interest in engineeri...
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    Q. 160

  • LITERARY WITCHES
    LITERARY WITCHES
    TAISIA KITAISKAIA
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    Q. 200

  • DAVID BOWIE: A LIFE
    DAVID BOWIE: A LIFE
    JONES, DYLAN
    Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled arti...
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    Q. 190

  • IN PRAISE OF DIFFICULT WOMEN
    IN PRAISE OF DIFFICULT WOMEN
    KARBO, KAREN
    From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of 29 iconic women who forged their own unique paths in the world.From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn ...
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    Q. 260

  • RESISTENCIA
    RESISTENCIA
    SCOTT KELLY
    Antes de conquistar Marte, debemos aprender a sobrevivir en el espacio. Un libro ejemplar sobre el triunfo de la imaginación humana, la fuerza de voluntad y las maravillas infinitas de la galaxia. Scott Kelly es el hombre que más tiempo ha pasado en el espacio, 340 días, durante los cuales ha visto y vivido cosas que prácticamente ninguno de nosotros veremos o experimentarem...
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    Q. 260

  • MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: THE LAST INTERVIEW
    MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: THE LAST INTERVIEW
    MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
    In time for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Black History Month, a timely collection of pivotal interviews with the most influential leader of the Civil Rights MovementAs the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to...
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    Q. 160

  • CHARLES DARWIN: VICTORIAN MYTHMAKER
    CHARLES DARWIN: VICTORIAN MYTHMAKER
    A.N. WILSON
    A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life.With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin--hailed as the man who "discovered evolution"--was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton. Eminent writer A. N. Wilson challenges this long-held assumption. Contextua...
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    Q. 180

  • NERUDA: THE POET'S CALLING
    NERUDA: THE POET'S CALLING
    MARK EISNER
    The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation moveme...
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    Q. 350

  • HUNTING EL CHAPO: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE AMERICAN LAWMAN WHO CAPTURED THE WORLD'S MOST-WANTED DRUG LORD
    HUNTING EL CHAPO: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE AMERICAN LAWMAN WHO CAPTURED THE WORLD'S MOST-WANTED DRUG LORD
    HOGAN, ANDREW
    A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller--soon to be a major motion picture from Sony--chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo--the world's most wanted...
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    Q. 195

  • GOOD MORNING, MR. MANDELA: A MEMOIR
    GOOD MORNING, MR. MANDELA: A MEMOIR
    One of Mandela's three private secretaries and now working for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, "La Grange pays tribute to Nelson Mandela as she knew him: a teacher who gave her the most valuable lessons of her life. The Mr. Mandela we meet in these pages is a man who refused to be defined by his past, who forgave and respected all, but who was also frank, teasing, and direct. As...
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    Q. 210

  • 41: A PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER
    41: A PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER
    GEORGE W. BUSH
    "Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a president told the story of his father, another president, through his own eyes and in his own words ... The book covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his ...
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    Q. 280

  • JEFFERSON
    JEFFERSON
    BOLES, JOHN B
    From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sw...
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    Q. 350

  • LA LLAMADA DE LA TRIBU
    LA LLAMADA DE LA TRIBU
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    La autobiografía intelectual del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa. «La doctrina liberal ha representado desde sus orígenes las formas más avanzadas de la cultura democrática y lo que más nos ha ido defendiendo de la inextinguible "llamada de la tribu". Este libro quisiera contribuir con un granito de arena a esa indispensable tarea.» La diferencia entre La llam...
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    Q. 295

  • BECOMING
    BECOMING
    MICHELLE OBAMA
    An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African-American to serve in that role--she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White H...
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    Q. 330