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"1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling's home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with...
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A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works... full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused...
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Separated by 500 years, two women--Anne Guichard, a young archivist at the Louvre, who at the dawn of WWII must keep treasures safe from the Nazis; and house servant, Bellina Sardi, who is tasked with keeping an impossible secret--each hide Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with unintended consequences.
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"Browsing an antiques shop in Wiltshire, Alison Bannister stumbles across a delicate old portrait-identified as the doomed Tudor queen, Anne Boleyn. Except Alison knows better. The subject is Mary Seymour, the daughter of Katherine Parr, who was taken to Wolf Hall in 1557 and presumed dead after going missing as a child. And Alison knows this because she, too, lived at Wolf Hall and knew Mary...more than four hundred years ago..."--Amazon.com.
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2023.
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Primera edición.
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Español
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"En 1916 el artista francés Édouard Lefèvre deja a su mujer, Sophie, para luchar en el frente. Cuando su ciudad cae en manos de los alemanes, ella se ve forzada a acoger a los oficiales que cada noche llegan al hotel que regenta. Y desde el momento en que el nuevo comandante posa su mirada en el retrato que Édouard pintó de ésta, nace en él una oscura obsesión que obligará a Sophie a arriesgarlo todo y tomar una terrible decisión. Casi un...
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Kaboom!
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2014.
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English
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Finding themselves in trouble after a selfie war, Mordecai and Rigby must destroy all the evidence so no one, especially Margaret, sees Mordecai's scariest picture.
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Barnes & Noble Books
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[1995]
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English
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An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful and innocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.
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