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  • GAUDÍ.THE SAGRADA FAMÍLIA AND THE ECSTASY
    GAUDÍ.THE SAGRADA FAMÍLIA AND THE ECSTASY
    RUBIO, SALVA / COMOTTO, AGUSTÍN
    The man, the myth and the city behind the Sagrada Familia Barcelona, 1926. Antoni Gaudí is hit by a tram and dies. But his spirit refuses to go to heaven: his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família, is not finished yet, and he has no plans to leave the world until it is done. Even if he has to wait centuries... This is not just another biography of the Catalan genius and Modernista ...

    22,00 €

  • HOUSEMAID, THE
    HOUSEMAID, THE
    MCFADDEN, FREIDA
    THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh.I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own... Every day I clean the Win...

    18,00 €

  • KATABASIS
    KATABASIS
    KUAN, R.F.
    Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld.Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick.But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and - inconveniently - in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him.But Hell is not as t...

    23,50 €

  • INDIGNITY: A LIFE REIMAGINED
    INDIGNITY: A LIFE REIMAGINED
    YPI, LEA
    ‘There is something about the human spirit, she would say, that withstands all attempts at offence, injury or humiliation ... we call it dignity'When Lea Ypi discovers a photo of her grandmother, Leman, honeymooning in the Alps in 1941 posted by a stranger on social media, she is faced with unsettling questions. Growing up, she was told records of her grandmother's youth were ...

    23,95 €

  • THE CREATIVE ACT
    THE CREATIVE ACT
    RUBIN, RICK
    Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are and what they really offer. He has made a practice of helping people transcend their self-imposed expectations in order to reconnect with ...

    28,00 €

  • HOTEL DESCONEGUT
    HOTEL DESCONEGUT
    MCBRIDE, EIMEAR
    ¿Hi pot cabre tota una vida en una habitació d'hotel? ¿O bé deixem fragments de la nostra ànima com petits objectes perduts en hotels desconeguts? Una narradora sense nom comença un viatge a la recerca de la pròpia identitat —d'Avinyó a Oslo, de Praga a Auckland— atrapada entre el regis- tre d'entrada i de sortida, negociarà amb el seu passat totes i cadascuna de les coses qu...

    16,00 €

  • MEN IN LOVE
    MEN IN LOVE
    WELSH, IRVINE
    It is the late 1980s, the closing years of Thatcher's Britain. For the Trainspotting crew, a new era is about to begin - a time for hope, for love, for raving.Leaving heroin behind and separated after a drug deal gone wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie each want to feel alive. They fill their days with sex and romance and trying to get ahead; they follow the call of the ...

    22,00 €

  • FOX
    FOX
    OATES, JOYCE CAROL
    Who is Francis Fox? A charming English teacher new to the idyllic Langhorne Academy, Fox beguiles many of his students, their parents, and his colleagues at the elite boarding school, while leaving others wondering where he came from and why his biography is so enigmatic. When two brothers discover Fox's car half-submerged in a pond in a local nature preserve and parts of an u...

    24,00 €

  • RELEASING
    RELEASING
    WALSH, CHLOE
    Lizzie Young has always felt she was too much everything. Diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a young age, she's never fit in with her family, her friends, her community. Lizzie wants to be accepted and understood, but with few family or friends in her corner, she carries her burdens and her trauma on her own.But when she meets a kind boy on the school bus, things start to look...

    17,95 €

  • THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
    THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS
    VUONG, OCEAN
    One summer evening in the town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on a bridge, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond.When Hai takes a job at a diner to support himself and Grazina, hi...

    24,00 €

  • DREAM COUNT
    DREAM COUNT
    CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
    Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until - betrayed and brokenhearted - she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka's bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to questi...

    25,00 €

  • NEVER LET ME GO
    NEVER LET ME GO
    KAZUO ISHIGURO
    A beautiful anniversary edition to mark twenty years of Kazuo Ishiguro's modern classic, in which he imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of 1990s England.Narrated by Kathy H, as she tries to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, it is a story of love, friendship and memory, charged throughout with...

    16,50 €

  • JAMES
    JAMES
    EVERETT, PERCIVAL
    The Mississippi River, 1861. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter forever, he flees to nearby Jackson's Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father who recently returned to town.So begins a dangerous and transcendent ...

    16,50 €

  • ORBITAL
    ORBITAL
    HARVEY, SAMANTHA
    Life on our planet as you've never seen it beforeA team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe.Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and d...

    15,90 €

  • LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN
    LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN
    SEE, LISA
    According to Confucius, ‘an educated woman is a worthless woman', but Tan Yunxian - born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separation and loneliness - is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. She begins her training in medicine with her grandmother and, as she navigates the male world of medicine, requiring tact and diplomacy, she struggles against the confi...

    17,00 €

  • MOSCOW X
    MOSCOW X
    MCCLOSKEY, DAVID
    A daring CIA operation threatens chaos in the Kremlin.But can Langley trust the Russian at its center?CIA operatives Sia and Max enter Russia to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London firm that conceals the wealth of the super-rich. Max's family business in Mexico - a CIA front since the 1960s - is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a coupl...

    16,00 €

  • THE BEE STING
    THE BEE STING
    MURRAY, PAUL
    The Barnes family are in trouble.Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they're teetering on the brink of bankruptcy - and that's just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda's marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully.Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are risin...

    16,00 €

  • LORD OF DARK PLACES
    LORD OF DARK PLACES
    BENNETT, HAL
    PEN Faulkner Award winner; "Bennett is a New York Genet." New Statesman ...

    25,00 €

  • HOMECOMING
    HOMECOMING
    MORTON, KATE
    Adelaide Hills, 1959. At the end of a scorching hot day, in the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most mystifying murder investigations in the history of Australia.London, 2018. Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London fo...

    17,00 €

  • DEMON SLAYER VOL 10
    DEMON SLAYER VOL 10
    KOYOHARU GOTOUGE
    Despite some comic misunderstandings that almost blew their cover, Tanjiro, Inosuke and Zenitsu have smoked out Daki, a demon that has been devouring the residents of an entertainment district for years. The Hashira Tengen Uzui and his ninja companions engage Daki, but if they cannot handle her, what chance do Tanjiro and his friends have of taking on one of Kibutsuji's Upper-...

    13,00 €

  • DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 9
    DEMON SLAYER: KIMETSU NO YAIBA, VOL. 9
    KOYOHARU GOTOUGE
    Tanjiro and his friends accompany the Hashira Tengen Uzui to an entertainment district where Tengen's female ninja agents were gathering information on a demon before they suddenly disappeared. In order to investigate, Tanjiro and the others disguise themselves as women to sneak in! As they close in on their target, the demon reaches out for the courtesans of the district! ...

    15,00 €

  • HOUSEMAID'S SECRET, THE
    HOUSEMAID'S SECRET, THE
    MCFADDEN, FREIDA
    WINNER OF THE GOODREADS AWARD FOR BEST CRIME AND THRILLER 2023 As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about the woman behind closed doors. But I can't risk losing this job - not if I want to keep my darkest secret safe . .. It's hard to find an employer who doesn't ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky sta...

    16,90 €

  • EL NEDADOR
    EL NEDADOR
    CHEEVER, JOHN
    Considerat el Txékhov del somni americà, els contes d'aquest recull són dos dels millors que va escriure. «El nedador» és un home alegre que travessa el comtat nedant, seguint la ruta marcada per les piscines del veïnat. A «La ràdio enorme», un jove matrimoni descobreix que la ràdio nova capta les converses dels pisos veïns. La dona queda fascinada pels problemes dels altres i...

    12,85 €

  • TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
    TOMORROW AND TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
    ZEVIN, GABRIELLE
    This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love.When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one morning he is catapulted straight back to childhood, and the hours they spent immersed in playing games. Their spark is instantly reignited and sets off a creative collaboration that will make them superstars. It is the 90s, and anything i...

    15,95 €

  • PIONERS, OH PIONERS!
    PIONERS, OH PIONERS!
    CATHER, WILLA
    «La seva vida personal, els seus pensaments més íntims, eren com una existència subconscient; com un riu subterrani que de tant en tant aflorava a la superfície.» Emigrats de Suècia, els Bergson s'instal·len a les àrides praderies de Nebraska, una terra salvatge i difícil de domesticar. Ho saben prou perquè s'hi han escarrassat durant anys. Els homes, amb la força dels braços...

    24,50 €

  • UNA SOCIETAT
    UNA SOCIETAT
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    "Una societat" és un grup de dones que es reuneix per dilucidar si el que pensen, escriuen i fan els homes mereix que elles continuïn portant fills al món. A les "Memòries dÆuna novel·lista" hi plana la vida i lÆobra dÆuna autora, imaginària i mediocre. La biògrafa l'enyora perquè els diumenges tenien el costum dÆanar a "Kew Gardens". On passegen els homes. I també els cargols...

    13,50 €

  • SANDITON
    SANDITON
    AUSTEN, JANE
    Sanditon és un poblet de la costa anglesa que respira aire de mar entre el món dels vells costums i el nou món del boom turístic. Un poblet on s'instal·len una lady, un home ambiciós que somia a enriquir-se, les seves germanes i el germà, que pateixen malalties imaginàries, i noies joves sensibles i pobres. Esperen amb ànsia que els estiuejants converteixin el poblet en un ind...

    15,50 €

  • MONÒLEG DE LA MOLLY BLOOM
    MONÒLEG DE LA MOLLY BLOOM
    JOYCE, JAMES
    Molly Bloom té 33 anys, és cantant, de cabells negres, grossa, amb un bon pitram i li agrada tirar-se les cartes. Amb el marit ajaçat al llit, pren la paraula per primera vegada en tota la novel·la. Vet aquí el famós monòleg interior de la Molly Bloom, el final d'"Ulisses", on la magnífica traducció de Joaquim Mallafré arriba als cims més alts. ...

    16,50 €

  • DEAD LIONS
    DEAD LIONS
    HERRON, MICK
    From the Intelligence Service purgatory that is Slough House, where disgraced spies are sent to see out the dregs of their careers, Jackson lamb is on his way to Oxford, where a former spook has turned up dead on a bus. Dickie Bow was a talented streetwalker once, good at following people and bringing home their secrets. He was in Berlin with Lamb, back in the day. But he's no...

    15,95 €

  • ENTRE ELS ACTES
    ENTRE ELS ACTES
    WOOLF, VIRGINIA
    L'última novel·la que va escriure Virginia Woolf, acabada pocs mesos abans de suïcidar-se. L'autora la considerava la seva novel·la més ambiciosa i és una porta d'entrada excel·lent a l'obra de Woolf, ja que malgrat la seva brevetat hi concentra tots els temes de la seva narrativa. L'escriptura l'embriagava i li feia oblidar els bombarders de la Segona Guerra Mundial, que tamb...

    20,50 €