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Nicholai Hel sobrevive a la destrucci3/4n de Hiroshima para convertirse en un hßbil amante y reputado asesino.

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La joven y bella Victoria Fontaine ha conseguido escandalizar a la alta sociedad con su comportamiento. Su reputación se ve seriamente comprometida cuando es sorprendida por su padre en los brazos del disoluto Sinclair Grafton, recién convertido en lord Althrope al heredar el título de su fallecido hermano mayor. La única opción que les queda es casarse inmediatamente a pesar de la mala fama de Sinclair por los años que ha pasado en Francia mi...

The planet Pern has been colonized for centuries by humans. When humans first settled on this world, they did not take notice of its sister planet, which had an indigenous life form that attempted to land on Pern when it came within reach. These silver "threads" fell in a destructive wave on the temperate lands of Pern once every 200 years, destroying all life they encountered. To combat this menace, the inhabitants of Pern developed a species...

The Miguel Fortunato have just become a widower and is about to retire after a long career in the Provincia de Buenos Aires Police Dept. Six month ago he was commanded to kidnap an american writer, Robert Waterbury, for reasons never given. The abduction becomes a murder. Now the Americans have sent their own investigator, Athena Fowler, an expert in Hhuman rights and Fortunato has also been assigned to the task. . .

Hugo-winner Simmons brings the horrific trials and tribulations of arctic exploration vividly to life in this beautifully written historical, which injects a note of supernatural horror into the 1840s Franklin expedition and its doomed search for the Northwest Passage. Sir John Franklin, the leader of the expedition and captain of the Erebus, is an aging fool. Francis Crozier, his second in command and captain of the Terror, is a competent sai...

An extraordinary fiction debut, Think of a Number is an exquisitely plotted novel of suspense that grows relentlessly darker and more frightening as its pace accelerates, forcing its deeply troubled characters to moments of startling self-revelation. Arriving in the mail over a period of weeks are taunting letters that end with a simple declaration, Think of any numberpicture itnow see how well I know your secrets. Amazingly, those who comply ...

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Proper Lady Christabel, the Marchioness of Haversham, is desperate to regain some letters that could destroy her -so desperate that she pretends to be the mistress of notorious gaming-club owner Gavin Byrne to accompany him to a scandalous house party where she can reclaim them. But when she agreed to let Byrne coach her on how a true mistress behaves, she never suspected how very persuasive his wicked lessons would be]] Gavin is secretly dete...

Beautiful Lady Regina Tremaine has turned down so many suitors that she's called La Belle Dame Sans Merci. The truth: she won't marry because she carries a dark secret. She sees no good reason, however, why her brother shouldn't court the lovely Louisa North -- even if the girl's brother, the notorious "Dragon Viscount, " objects. Marcus North, Viscount Draker -- bastard son of the Prince of Wales -- is rumored to be a monster who holds women ...

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Through over fifty historical facts that are reported here, the reader can get an overview of what has meant the slaughter throughout history. However, this book is not intended as an exhaustive study of this phenomenon, but a simple approximation of an informative nature. But already this simple approach allows us to draw some interesting conclusions that did not leave anyone indifferent.

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel exerted an almost hypnotic influence not only over his own troops but also over the Allied soldiers of the Eighth Army in World War II. Even when the legend surrounding his invincibility was overturned at El Alamein, the aura surrounding Rommel himself remained unsullied. In this classic study of the art of war, Rommel analyzes the tactics that lay behind his success. First published in 1937, it quickly became a high...

In 1737, a committee of eminent citizens has the task of moving the remains of the mausoleum Galilei teacher would have to accept it. However, once opened the tomb to find that there is another body, a woman, accompanied. Who is this mysterious lady and why it earned the honor to remain with Galilei in his eternal rest?

At the 1875 Rome bankers, politicians, journalists and masons are involved in a mystery guided by the invisible hand of Edgar Allan Poe and reminiscent of The Alien by Caleb Carr

He was a Venezuelan general, regarded as a forerunner for the South American emancipation of the Spanish Empire. He was the creator of the idea of Colombia as a nation. He participated in three wars for democracy: Independence of the United States, the French Revolution, in which he was a prominent player, and for that was awarded the title Hero of the Revolution. His ideas influenced prominent separatist leaders as Simon Bolvar and Bernardo O...

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Ramata, the beautiful wife of the almighty Senegal's Justice Minister, goes to Le Dantec hospital in Dakar, where, after a series of incidents, just ends with the killing of the gatekeeper of the maternity hospital. Ngor Ndong. Police corruption and politics will soon be responsible for washing out the murder and the case is hereby closed. For Ramata the fact sinks into oblivion until one day the fate faces off to it to judge her indifference ...

Castilla, 1360. King Pedro I of Castile, the Justiciero for some, cruel for the others, was engaged in a struggle against Aragon and his brother, Enrique de Trastamara. Peter knows that their ranks are a traitor. One of them, their intimates, those in which most relies. One of five. Discovery is vital. But the only man who can reveal the identity of the traitor, Utiel Martin, has died. It appears that it was not a natural death, the body appea...