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"Seven Island has two houses. One for Hillsingers and one for Quicks. 1964. The Hillsingers and the Quicks have shared the small Maine island of Seven for generations. But though technically family --Jim Hillsinger and Billy Quick married Park Avenue sisters Lila and Hannah Blackwell -- they do not mix. Now, on the anniversary of Hannah's death, Lila feels grief pulling her toward Billy. And Jim, a spy recently ousted from the CIA on suspicion of...
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Pelna namietnosci historia milosnego trójkata, ze splendorem i dekadencja angielskiej arystokracji u progu drugiej wojny swiatowej. Powrót do Brideshead nie jest powiescia wojenna, lecz nostalgicznym - i troche ironicznym - wspomnieniem znakomitego pisarza o szalonym swiecie lat dwudziestych, mlodosci na uniwersytecie w Cambridge, o przyjazniach, milosciach, a zwlaszcza o dworze w Brideshead, który z perspektywy okopów wydaje sie bohaterowi utracona...
45) Niania
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Growing up blaming her mother after the mysterious disappearance of her beloved nanny, an embittered woman is forced to return home decades later when the discovery of human remains forces her to question everything she thought she knew.
When her beloved nanny, Hannah, left without a trace in the summer of 1987, seven-year-old Jocelyn Holt was devastated. Thirty years later, returning to the house, and forced to confront her troubled relationship...
46) El señor del Sur
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En ocasiones, el pasado es una puerta que más valdría dejar cerrada. O al menos eso es lo que está a punto de descubrir Jack Branch en este thriller donde la violencia se transmite de padres a hijos y las pegajosas sombras del delta del Missisipi esconden los más terribles secretos. Branch, heredero de una familia de la clase alta sureña, lleva tres años dando clase en el instituto de Lakeland cuando descubre que, entre los alumnos de su popular...
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"Man Booker International finalist Yan Lianke has been lauded for his imaginative satire and insightful cultural critique as "one of China's greatest living authors" (Guardian). His internationally bestselling new novel, The Explosion Chronicles, follows the excessive expansion of a rural community from small village to megalopolis. With the Yi River on one side and the Balou Mountains on the other, the village of Explosion was founded more than a...
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