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Síntesis: ¿Quién es el personaje de este libro? Leví de oficio publicano y linaje saduceo. Pero, es más conocido por su nombre griego: Mateo. No hay nadie en occidente, que crea en Dios o le sea indiferente, que no sepa de memoria o haya oído recitar alguna vez, uno de los párrafos más famosos, escrito por él: "El Padre Nuestro".Esta ficción histórica, está dedicada a su persona, historia, familia, amigos y rabinos. Su formación académica,...
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Travel to an alternative and parallel Earth, to an era in which Donald Trump has proclaimed himself emperor of the Union of Trump States of America (UTSA). During the 100th anniversary of women attaining the right to vote, the emperor has rescinded all rights and privileges that women have attained. And to top it all off, the emperor has opened internment camps for dissidents.
Now imagine undocumented extraterrestrial aliens have breached Trump's...
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How far would you go to save the world? When physicist Jacob Newman is pulled from his family, his job, and his whole life to investigate a strange vessel discovered at the bottom of the South Pacific, he finds evidence of time travel, along with implications that a judgment day against mankind is imminent. But it isn't until he cracks the time travel technology and uncovers a startling link to his own family history that he undertakes a dangerous...
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As the overloaded Endeavour reaches the end of its long voyage and its hoped-for planetfall, the refugees from Earth need to find out:
- Can they live on the planet Elpis?
- What threats will it throw at them?
- How quickly can they safely disembark - if they can disembark at all?
Endeavour is desperately needed back on Earth to help rescue the last survivors. But if it does not establish a foothold on Elpis, there will be nowhere for them to go.
Both...
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Versailles 2002. Capital of the French Empire, the most powerful nation on the face of the Earth. A mysterious man found murdered in an alley close to the Palace of Versailles, the very heart of Empire, throws doubt on its security and, before long, on the very future of humanity as a species.
Njabulo ('Jab') de Voggeveen. Doctor of medicine. Hunter of diseases. Expatriate Zulu. Slightly out of his depth, but nonetheless drafted in by the French...
27) Ponchi Fonchi
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Ponchi Fonchi is a classic book on two friends. It is a short story book.
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Resumen Según una antigua teoría, el hombre solo se encontrará en armonía con el mundo y actor de su época en el trascurso de tres existencias: el alma vegetal, el alma animal y el alma racional. A comienzos del siglo XXI, entre los numerosos individuos que no habían encontrado su lugar en este mundo, pero que pretendían hacerlo, Niels, entonces un joven arquitecto griego atormentado por los mitos griegos del pasado, fue internado en un hospital...
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It's 1944, and the quaint Midwest farm town of Russell, Kansas, hides a secret that could turn the tide for Hitler and the Third Reich in Europe.
Nazi spies Andreas and Peter Othmer find it easy to blend in with the small community of 2nd- and 3rd-generation German-American Kansans. Hand-selected by Germany's military intelligence service, they're tasked with secretly documenting B-29 flight patterns from nearby Walker Air Force Base. But as the...
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"A masterful and epic novel . . . a stunning portrayal of how things that seem infinitesimal can shake the entire world." -History that Never Was"The best alternate history novel I have ever read . . . daunting in its vision . . . this book is a dream come true." -Never Was MagazineOn September 11, the United States were destroyed.That is, September 11 of the Year of Our Lord 1620.In this alternate history, the Mayflower was lost at sea, and the English...
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In Journeys Home, Dick Monteith has created an authentic and heartfelt story of three South Carolina boys who grew up together in a small town in the Low country. It follows the trajectory of each as they go off to different colleges, pursue different passions, and end up having very different lives. One becomes a wealthy realtor, another a progressive politician and a third eventually becomes a liberal Presbyterian minister. The novel is in part...
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An immortal, shape-changing alien seeking a reason for being...
A young woman on the brink of greatness...
Fu Hao, daughter of a chieftain, accepts the greatest of honors--to be one of King Wu Ding's sixty wives--propelling her to power in the Shang Dynasty and into the annals of history.
No one speaks of the mysterious "amah" who attended Fu Hao from her first to last breath. More devoted than a mother and possessed of the wisdom of ages, the amah...
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A terrible curse strikes the White House: its occupants, whoever they may be, will not serve for very long...Alex Richards' imaginative and witty homage to Tom Anderson's 'The Curse of Maggie' takes the concept stateside, with hilarious results. After all, everything's bigger in America.
34) Double Play
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What if Lee Harvey Oswald had been an agent tasked with infiltrating an assassination plot against JFK? What if he was successful, but a twin plot to murder Vice President Johnson had succeeded?A spiralling conspiracy apparently succeeds, but two men soon know the truth – they just happen to be in prison.
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1851 and, as a result, of a double Royal suicide, England and France are at war.
The chosen battleground is northern Spain, but this is only the first part of Europe to feel the dreadful effects of The General European Wars. Conflict spreads northwards, from Tyneside to Dunkirk and into Belgium and the Netherlands. Denmark is threatened with conquest and, in the east, the Russian Tsar gathers an army of nearly 400,000 men to achieve a long-held desire;...
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Volumen IV de Con balas de plata, trata de los años 1651-60 en Italia, en América y en Cataluña y Rosellón. De nuevo la toma de Trin, finalmente, la toma de Casal, a la tercera, desde la década de 1620 era la tercera vez que se intentaba el Casal y cedió, por eso dicen "lo que el mundo juzgó por inexpugnable..". El ataque enemigo a Castelamar, la defensa en Pavía, Valencia del Po y Alessandria dela Palla. De aquí pasamos a América, la toma...
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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." — George OrwellThe Fascist and Communist dictatorships left a bloody stain on the 20th Century, leaving tens of millions dead in their wake and a bitter taste in the mouth for hundreds of millions more when they encounter those ideologies. But what if they had never got the opportunity to do that damage?
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In The Bloody Man, Ed Thomas explored what might have happened had a young Oliver Cromwell emigrated to the New World before he had a chance to make a mark in England. Now, the trilogy continues…It is 1647, and England is slipping back into Civil War. The King has escaped; London is burning; mad Prophets roam the streets and the Army has mutinied. There are many Bloody Men abroad. As the world's history increasingly diverges from our own and the...
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What if Napoleon Bonaparte had escaped from St. Helena and wound up in the United States?
The year is 1821. Former French Emperor Napoleon has been imprisoned on a dark wart in the Atlantic since his defeat at Waterloo in 1815. Rescued in a state of near-death by Gulf pirate Jean Laffite, Napoleon lands in New Orleans, where he struggles to regain his health aided by voodoo priestess Marie Laveau. Opponents of the Bourbon regime expect him to reconquer...
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A country on the brink of defeat.A woman who answers a call to arms.A man to challenge an Empire.For centuries, women used weapons to kill for food, men to kill in war. Now Lena must break with tradition to save those she loves, but as she steps from her settled world into one of battle, intrigue and politics, her lover chooses banishment. Lonely and afraid, each decision Lena makes brings more terrible consequences, until even her own people turn...
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