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Hart, PeterLa grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale
Language: Italian, History & Biography – Format: ePub

Nel centenario dello scoppio della Grande Guerra, questo libro analizza tutti gli elementi-chiave del conflitto che ha cambiato il mondo moderno: milioni di vittime, crollo di imperi secolari, nascita di ideologie e movimenti (More) politici nuovi, utilizzo di tecnologie innovative come cacciabombardieri, carri armati, sottomarini. Focalizzandosi sui fronti più importanti e sulle strategie che i due blocchi furono costretti a seguire, Peter Hart tratteggia un’analisi del conflitto globale, rendendolo così un argomento comprensibile a tutti, appassionati di storia e non.

Herbert, FrankDune
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

Dune es una novela de ciencia ficción escrita por Frank Herbert en 1965. Su éxito fue rotundo; en 1966 ganó el Premio Hugo y en 1965 la primera edición del Premio Nébula a la mejor novela de ciencia ficción. Dune abre una de las (More) sagas más importantes de la literatura fantástica y de ciencia ficción.
La historia comienza a más de 20.000 años en el futuro, en nuestra galaxia, en un gran imperio galáctico de estructura feudal. El Imperio se divide en cuasi-feudos o señoríos planetarios que son controlados por familias nobles, conocidas como Las Grandes Casas, que se agrupan en un gran consejo, llamado Landsraad, y rinden tributo al Emperador Padishah Shaddam IV, de la Casa Corrino. Otra de las instituciones es la Combine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles, o CHOAM, una corporación universal para el desarrollo comercial controlada por el Emperador y las Grandes Casas, con la Cofradía Espacial y la Hermandad Bene Gesserit como socios sin derecho a voto.
La clave para el comercio y la estabilidad del imperio se halla en el viaje espacial, monopolio de la Cofradía Espacial, cuyos «Navegantes» son humanos mutados que usan la especia o melange para ejercitar sus poderes prescientes. De ese modo pueden trazar un rumbo seguro, para así poder plegar el espacio y viajar instantáneamente a cualquier parte de la Galaxia.

Rowling, Joanne K.Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (book 2)
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy. He lives with his Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley, who make him sleep in a cupboard under the stairs.
Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School (More) of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The three friends, Harry, Ron and Hermione, are soon immersed in the daily round of Potions, Herbology, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts and Quidditch. Then mysterious and scary things start happening. First Harry hears strange voices, and then Roni’s sister, Ginny, disappears.

Hemingway, ErnestEl viejo y el mar
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

El viejo y el mar (The Old Man and the Sea) es una novela escrita por Ernest Hemingway en 1951 en Cuba y publicada en 1952. Fue su último trabajo de ficción importante publicado en vida y posiblemente su obra más famosa.
Un viejo (More) lobo de mar está pasando una racha de mala suerte: hace 84 días que no logra capturar un solo pez. Todos los habitantes del pueblo se burlan de él, excepto un niño, que le mira y ayuda. Ambos deciden que el día siguiente será bueno para la pesca del pez espada. Todavía es de noche cuando se levanta, prepara los aparejos y se lanza a la mar con su pequeña barca. En alta mar, el viejo pone diversas carnadas. De pronto, la línea comienza a moverse. El viejo no puede controlarla. Se trata de un gigantesco pez espada. Cuatro horas más tarde, el pez se sacude en la superficie del agua y arrastra a la barca. El viejo lo sostiene con el sedal enrollado alrededor del cuerpo. No hay tierra a la vista. Ahora, mar adentro, el viejo sostiene en su línea al pez más grande que jamás había visto.

Alcott, Louisa MayLittle Women
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub, iSilo

Little Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — (More) and is loosely based on the author’s childhood experiences with her three sisters. The first part of the book was an immediate commercial and critical success and prompted the composition of the book’s second part, also a huge success. Both parts were first published as a single volume in 1880. The book is an unquestioned American classic.

Cussler, Clive¡Rescaten el Titanic!
Language: Spanish, Novel – Format: ePub

En aquella terrible noche de 1912, cuando el majestuoso Titanic se hundió en las gélidas aguas del Atlántico Norte, nadie sabía que en sus bodegas transportaba clandestinamente una pequeña cantidad de bizanio, un elemento (More) escasísimo en la naturaleza pero de incalculable valor. En 1988, el gobierno norteamericano pone en marcha el denominado proyecto Siciliano, un plan arriesgadísimo para recuperar el bizanio y, de paso, rescatar del abismo al Titanic.

Wharton, EdithThe Age of Innocence
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s 12th novel, initially serialized in four parts in the Pictorial Review magazine in 1920, and later released by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London. It won the 1921 (More) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making it the first novel written by a woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and thus Wharton the first woman to win the prize. The story is set in upper-class New York City in the 1870s.
In an era before the advent of electric lights, telephones or motor vehicles, there exists a small cluster of aristocratic “old revolutionary stock” families that rule New York’s social life. Under the rules of this society, “being things” is better than “doing things” and reputation and outward appearances come at the exclusion of everything else. In this Gilded Age, when America’s expansion and increased industrialism produce a group of newly wealthy robber barons and financiers, the patient, time-honored values of the old ruling class, and century, are giving way to the expediencies of the new. Caught at this cusp, a triangle of lovers, who must choose between the expectations of family and society, and the deepest yearnings of the heart.

Crane, StephenMaggie, a Girl of the Street
Language: English, Novel – Format: ePub

Originally published in 1893, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets tells the story of the impoverished Johnson family and their experiences living in the squalid Bowery neighborhood of New York City. When the eldest of the Johnson (More) children, Maggie, commits an act deemed disgraceful by society, her life is tragically altered by the aftermath of the community’s rejection.
Considered risqué at the time of its publication due to its strong, realistic themes, Maggie is now recognized as one of Stephen Crane’s best works, and is an example of one of the first instances of naturalism in American fiction.

Dickens, CharlesCuento de Navidad
Language: Spanish, Short Stories – Format: iSilo

Child, LeeProva a fermarmi (Jack Reacher, 20)
Language: Italian, Novel – Format: ePub

Mother’s Rest. Un piccolo paese in mezzo a un immenso campo di grano, popolato da individui scontrosi e lunatici. Jack Reacher si chiede il perché di quel nome particolare, ma nessuno sembra intenzionato a dare spiegazioni. Lungo (More) la strada, Reacher incontra una donna visibilmente turbata: Michelle Chang. La giovane sembra averlo scambiato per un altro e, chiarito il malinteso, si confida: l’uomo con cui stava seguendo un’investigazione privata è scomparso da giorni e, ormai, Michelle teme il peggio. Incuriosito dalla vicenda, Reacher decide di affiancarla nella ricerca e inizia a indagare. Quanto potrà essere complicato, dopotutto. Invece, ancor prima di rendersene conto, verrà risucchiato in una corsa disperata tra Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix e San Francisco. Attraverso i più oscuri recessi della rete dovrà vedersela a ogni passo con assassini e criminali… fino a tornare a Mother’s Rest, dove dovrà affrontare il suo peggiore incubo. Forse il giorno in cui aveva conosciuto Michelle avrebbe dovuto voltarsi e ignorare il caso. Sarebbe stato più semplice. Ma la regola per Jack Reacher è sempre la stessa: se vuoi fermarmi… provaci!

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