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  • TENGO A PAPA
    TENGO A PAPA
    BENITEZ, J.J.
    El 8 de octubre de 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara fue capturado por el ejército boliviano en las proximidades de la aldea de La Higuera, al sudeste de Bolivia. Al día siguiente lo fusilaron sin juicio previo.Transcurrido medio siglo desde aquel suceso, la opinión pública sigue dividida.¿Fue el Che un héroe? ¿O se trataba de un asesino despiadado a la cabeza de una banda de guerrille...
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    Q. 145

  • EL DIARIO DE VIRGINIA WOOLF
    EL DIARIO DE VIRGINIA WOOLF
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    El 1 de enero de 1915 , ya casada con Leonard Woolf y en su casa de Richmond, Virginia Woolf decidió registrar diariamente sus quehaceres y reflexiones. Era una escritora de genio indiscutible y una mujer atormentada, víctima de una dolorosa depresión que la dejó inerme solo seis meses después del comienzo de aquellas páginas íntimas. No obstante, volvió a ellas en agosto de 19...
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    Q. 275

  • KID AUTHORS: TRUE TALES OF CHILDHOOD FROM FAMOUS WRITERS
    KID AUTHORS: TRUE TALES OF CHILDHOOD FROM FAMOUS WRITERS
    STABLER & DAVID HORNER, DOOGIE
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    Q. 140

  • THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET
    THE MAYOR OF CASTRO STREET
    RANDY SHILTS
    The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s.Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal and politi...
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    Q. 200

  • LEONARDO DA VINCI HC
    LEONARDO DA VINCI HC
    WALTER ISAACSON
    The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skil...
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    Q. 385

  • OUT OF CAPTIVITY
    OUT OF CAPTIVITY
    KEITH STANSELL / TOM HOWES / MARC GONSALVES
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    Q. 210

  • DEVOTION
    DEVOTION
    PATTI SMITH
    "In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and ...
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    Q. 180

  • OSCAR WILDE HIS LIFE AND CONFESSIONS
    OSCAR WILDE HIS LIFE AND CONFESSIONS
    FRANK HARRIS
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    Q. 550

  • GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
    GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN
    ANN THWAITE
    After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Goodbye Christopher Robin inspired the film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie and Kelly Mac...
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    Q. 170

  • STRONGER
    STRONGER
    JEFF BAUMAN
    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAALThe New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor. When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16 th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a ...
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    Q. 160

  • 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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    Q. 80

  • 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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    Q. 260

  • 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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    Q. 280

  • 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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    Q. 400

  • 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