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For sixty years Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. The Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant and complex frontier city that moves to the music of Yiddish. But now the District is set to revert to Alaskan control,
...Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Wallace's work is part of an important sub-genre of historical fiction set among the characters of the New Testament. The novel was a phenomenal best-seller; it soon surpassed Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) as the best-selling American novel and retained this distinction until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's
...Síntesis: ¿Quién es el personaje de este libro? Leví de oficio publicano y linaje saduceo. Pero, es más conocido por su nombre griego: Mateo. No hay nadie en occidente, que crea en Dios o le sea indiferente, que no sepa de memoria o haya oído recitar alguna vez, uno de los párrafos más famosos, escrito por él: "El Padre Nuestro".
Esta ficción histórica, está
...10) Unholy night
In an extraordinary feat of narrative invention, Philip Roth imagines an alternate history where Franklin D. Roosevelt loses the 1940 presidential election to heroic aviator and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh. Shortly thereafter,...
12) Sinai tapestry
In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears...
14) Llamas
La tragedia marca a una familia. La suerte juega en su contra.
La historia cuenta la vida de una familia acomodada en un estatus socioeconómico privilegiado, sin embargo eso no evita que las vicisitudes de la vida los afecte. Un evento trágico cambia por completo sus vidas. Al final la determinación dirá si podrán superar esto.
En 1918, un barco llega al puerto de Río de Janeiro. Al interior se ha desatado una enfermedad. Hay muertos y mutilados, y los únicos sobrevivientes son un grupo de médicos. Las autoridades deciden dejarlos encerrados y los ven morir de hambre. Pero uno de ellos escapa y luego de perder a su familia, encuentra refugio en el Morro, donde tratará de encontrar una cura, usando a los habitantes pobres de la favela como conejillos de indias.
...16) The mirage
A mind-bending novel in which an alternate history of 9/11 and its aftermath uncovers startling truths about America and the Middle East
11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers.
The United Arab States declares
...20) The men: a novel
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