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2015.
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"Sheriff Pat Garrett claimed that he killed Billy the Kid on July 14, 1881. John Poe, Garrett's deputy on the scene that night, and others, suggest that he killed the wrong man and covered it up. The controversy persists because of contradictions, irregularities and unanswered questions. A Question of Bounty follows Billy the Kid's outlaw adventures right to John Poe's version of his fateful encounter with Pat Garrett. The story concludes with the...
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[2013].
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Philadelphia, the late 1870s. A city of gas lamps, cobblestone streets, and horse-drawn carriages and home to the controversial surgeon Dr. Spencer Black. The son of a grave robber, young Dr. Black studies at Philadelphia's esteemed Academy of Medicine, where he develops an unconventional hypothesis: What if the world's most celebrated mythological beasts, mermaids, minotaurs, and satyrs, were in fact the evolutionary ancestors of humankind? The...
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[2012]
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"Love and Fatigue in America records an Englishman's decade-long journey through his newly adopted country in the company of a mystifying illness and a charismatic dog. When he receives an unexpected invitation from an unfamiliar American university, he embraces it as a triumphant new beginning. Instead, on arrival, he is stricken with a persistent inability to stand up or think straight, and things quickly go wrong. Diagnosed with ME disease--chronic...
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2016.
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"Érase una vez una niña judía inteligente y hermosa que vivía en la ciudad de Lwov con sus padres. Se llamaba Nusia y sus días transcurrían felices-- Así podría empezar una historia si fuera una fábula, pero la peripecia de Nusia Stier de Gotlib es real: en 1939 el ejército ruso invade la ciudad donde elle vive, tras los rusos llegan los alemanes y luego el infierno del gueto"--Page [4] of dust jacket cover.
"Para salvarse y salvar a los...
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2020.
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"Evelyn Hugo, el ícono de Hollywood que se ha recluido en su edad madura, decide al fin contar la verdad sobre su vida llena de glamour y de escándalos. Pero cuando elige para ello a Monique Grant, una periodista desconocida, nadie se sorprende más que la misma Monique. ¿Por qué ella? ¿Por qué ahora? Monique no está precisamente en su mejor momento. Su marido la abandonó, y su vida profesional no avanza. Aun ignorando por qué Evelyn la ha...