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121) La modista de París
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Español
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"Tengo que contarte una historia, ma chére. Mi historia. Rosa Kusstatscher ha construido un imperio de la moda gracias a su capacidad de encontrar el conjunto perfecto para cada ocasión. Pero esta noche, mientras se prepara para el encuentro más importante de su vida, esa seguridad que la caracteriza flaquea. ¿Qué acontecimientos la han llevado a este momento? Mientras se esfuerza por seleccionar un vestido y elegir el tono correcto de pintalabios,...
122) Krawcowa z Paryża
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Polish
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W 1943 roku Rosa musi zmierzyć się ze zdradą najbliższej jej osoby. 15-latka nie może dłużej pozostać w Oberfals - decyduje się wyruszyć z niewielkim bagażem, by odkryć swoje miejsce na świecie. Rosa ze zdziwieniem odkrywa, że to w niezwykłym świecie mody czuje się jak ryba w wodzie. Kobieta rozpoczyna swoją nową przygodę, stając się krawcową tworzącą unikalne kreacje, które zachwycą niejednego krytyka. Spotyka również...
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English
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"England, 1870: His health failing, his most important work all but done, Charles Dickens is readying himself for the final bed. But there is still one more story that he must tell. As a young journalist just getting his start, Dickens encountered a story that would affect him for the rest of his life. As his "Sketches by Boz" column is just beginning to find acclaim, young Dickens encounters the wealthy and powerful Charles Wingate. While researching...
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English
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"In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel's Wife, an astonishing and brave novel that resonates painfully with our own strained political moment. At once complex and hideous, sexually liberated and sympathetic to the darkest of political...
125) David Lazar: a novel
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English
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"David Lazar by best-selling author Robert Kalich is a semi-autobiographical novel that blurs the lines between memoir and fiction. A modern love story with a twist of a mystery, it portrays the inner-life of a complex everyman and the incredible externalities of wealth, power and lifestyle that a super successful city dweller acquires. David Lazar is an octogenarian penning his memoir. With mortality dancing on the horizon, Lazar's thoughts drift...
126) The lost diary
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English
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"Germany, 1945. As the ground shakes and the air raid sirens wail, Katja holds her tiny baby to her chest. She pictures Karl's handsome face and kind blue eyes, her breath catching at the thought of him heading back to the front. She must never tell anyone about the letters she delivered for him, or the other secret she is hiding... London, present day. In the midst of a divorce and with her mother Katja recovering from major surgery, Jo is heartbroken...
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