Isabel Allende
82) Dom duchów
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Polish
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"Powieść "Dom duchów" to refleksyjna podróż po losach wielopokoleniowej rodziny Estebana Trueby. Opowiada o pokoleniach kobiet, dzieci i wnucząt, które obecne były w otoczeniu mężczyzny. Losy bohaterów ukazane są na tle historii postkolonialnych Chile. Opisywane zdarzenia łączą się z wydarzeniami politycznymi i społecznymi w kraju. Formuła powieści opiera się na narracji dwóch podmiotów, którzy z dwóch różnych perspektyw...
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English
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"In a package packed with powerful stories and visual storytelling are 75 recipes from some of the great food entrepreneurs who have graduated from La Cocina, for decent home cooks looking for new recipes, and those who want to support a good cause via a beautiful Bay Area cookbook"--
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Español
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Diego de la Vega lives on his father's ranch near Los Angeles. One day, he will wear the mask of Zorro, but now he's only concerned with riding horses with his friend Bernardo. When men and cattle start disappearing from the area, however, he and Bernardo decide they must take action.
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English
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Francisco Leal is an on-the-edge photographer whose work with a beautiful magazine reporter uncovers a government's nightmare: a secret so deadly, the military will stop at nothing to eliminate them! Now, as they are thrown together into danger... and drawn closer by passion... they must risk everything for a chance at freedom!
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English
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The classic survey of Latin America's social and cultural history, with a new introduction by Isabel Allende
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.
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English
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In the early hours of September 11, 1973 a military coup d'etat begins in Santiago de Chile. It is lead by General Pinochet and directed against Salvador Allende, democratically elected President three years prior to these events. Allende decides to barricade himself with a few loyal friends and his guards in La Moneda, the presidential Palace of Santiago. He refuses to negotiate with the military, and addresses the Chilenean people one last time...