Robert Wilson
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Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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Sin perder el tiempo con informaciones innecesarias, con dos lecciones por día y en una semana de trabajo podrá aprender inglés y preparar sus fines de semana en Londres, Glasgow, Nueva-York, Sydney, San Francisco, Chicago, Dublín... — asimilará la gramática: verbos, adjetivos, adverbios, construcciones lingüísticas...; — aprenderá el vocabulario básico para los diálogos durante sus viajes; — empezará a construir sus propias frases......
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Pub. Date
2020
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Español
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¡Ahora es posible! Con el famoso método Wilson, tiene en sus manos la mejor oportunidad de aprender inglés con éxito. Sin perder el tiempo con informaciones innecesarias, con dos lecciones por día y en una semana de trabajo podrá aprender inglés y preparar sus fines de semana en Londres, Glasgow, Nueva-York, Sydney, San Francisco, Chicago, Dublín... — asimilará la gramática: verbos, adjetivos, adverbios, construcciones lingüísticas...;...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
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Para el correcto conocimiento y aprendizaje de una lengua es imprescindible conocer a fondo la gramática. El manual que tiene entre sus manos pone a su alcance la adquisición de estos conocimientos de una forma fácil: la teoría está perfectamente sintetizada y explicada de forma clara y sencilla; los ejemplos le ayudarán a comprender perfectamente lo explicado; los ejercicios le permitirán afianzar lo aprendido, y podrá verificar fácilmente...
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
1941. Klaus Felsen, forced out of his Berlin factory into the SS, arrives in a luminous Lisbon, where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs, dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen's assignment takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a devious and brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's bliztkrieg. There he meets the man who plants the first seed of greed and revenge that will grow into a thick...
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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As a sweltering Seville recovers from the shock of a terrorist attack, Inspector Jefe Javier Falcón is struggling to find the bombers. The death of a gangster in a spectacular car crash offers vital evidence implicating the Russian mafia in his investigation, but it pitches Falcón into the heart of a turf war over prostitution and drugs. Now the target of vicious hoods, Falcón finds those closest to him are also coming under intolerable pressure:...
8) Last year
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, he saved the life of President Ulysses S. Grant. It's the near future, and the technology exists to open doorways into the past--but not our past, not exactly. Each "past" is effectively an alternate world, identical to ours but only up to the date on which we access it. And a given "past" can only be reached once. After a passageway...
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English
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"P. T. Barnum was the greatest showman the world has ever seen: the cocreator of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the man who made worldwide sensations of Jumbo the Elephant, General Tom Thumb, and the "Swedish Nightingale," Jenny Lind. He was the championof wonder, joy, trickery, and "humbug." He was, as Barnum argues, one of the most important Americans of the nineteenth century. Nearly 125 years after his death, the name P. T. Barnum still inspires...
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Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
As perplexing murder leads a Spanish detective into the dangerous cultural tensions of Seville in this thriller by the author of A Small Death in Lisbon.
Chief Inspector Javier Falcón is called to the disturbing scene of a faceless, mutilated corpse found in a municipal dump. But just as he begins his investigation, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a...
Chief Inspector Javier Falcón is called to the disturbing scene of a faceless, mutilated corpse found in a municipal dump. But just as he begins his investigation, the beautiful city of Seville is rocked by a massive explosion. The discovery of a...
Author
Series
Bruce Medway mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First Harvest edition.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon “powerfully evokes West Africa” in this mystery thriller of greed, murder and human trafficking (Publishers Weekly).
When schoolgirls begin to disappear on the West African coast, "troubleshooter" Bruce Medway tries to remain detached. Meanwhile, he reluctantly accepts a job from his former nemesis, the mafia capo Roberto Franconelli....
When schoolgirls begin to disappear on the West African coast, "troubleshooter" Bruce Medway tries to remain detached. Meanwhile, he reluctantly accepts a job from his former nemesis, the mafia capo Roberto Franconelli....
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Portugal, 1944. Recruited by British intelligence to help uncover Nazi secrets of atomic warfare, math prodigy Andrea Aspinall soon disappears into the crowds of Lisbon, hiding behind a new identity. Karl Voss, an attaché for German intelligence, arrives in the city under the purported agenda of helping the Reich, all the while secretly working to save his beloved home country from annihilation under their reign. Two lost souls meet in a city filled...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
In an exclusive suburb of Seville, Spain, a wealthy couple is found dead in their home, the tragic conclusion to an apparent suicide pact. Lucia Vega has been suffocated in her own bed, while her husband, construction magnate Rafael Vega, has succumbed to poison, a bizarre note clutched in his hand. When Inspector Javier Falcón is called to investigate the scene, he senses something is not as it seems-a hunch that proves all too true.
Within two...
14) The big killing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First Harvest edition.
Language
English
Description
As a fixer, Bruce Medway makes his living doing things other people don't want to do. And in the seedier corners of West Africa, there are plenty of tasks that need doing. For example, porn producer Fat Paul needs someone to deliver a video to the Ivory Coast, but the recipients will only trust a white man to make a drop. A Syrian millionaire wants Bruce to travel to Korhogo to fire someone on his payroll. And Martin Fall, head of security at a firm...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Called to a gruesome crime scene, Inspector Javier Falcón is shocked and sickened by what he finds. Littered like flower petals on the victim's shirt are the man's own eyelids, evidence of a heinous crime with no obvious motive. When the investigation leads him to read his late father's journals, he discovers a disturbing and sordid past. Meanwhile, more victims are falling. While Falcón struggles to solve the case, he finds the missing section...
16) Blood is dirt
Author
Series
Bruce Medway mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First Harvest edition.
Language
English
Description
Enter into a treacherous world in West Africa, where British expatriate Bruce Medway, a clandestine "troubleshooter" and debt collector, finds himself unexpectedly immersed in toxic waste scams and mafia crime when a job for his newest client turns out to involve more than the recovery of two million dollars. But Napier, the client, isn't the worst of Bruce's problems; that falls to Selina, Napier's seductive daughter, who wants more than money-she...
Author
Series
Charles Boxer volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Boxer messed up his family life. First the army, then the police then high-stakes kidnap and recovery, his ex-wife and daughter learnt to live without him as his work took him places no man can come back from unscarred. Trying to rebuild a relationship with Amy, his teenage daughter, hasn't been easy. But Charlie only realises just how wrong things have gone when he finds her empty room and a note: You will never find me. Having spent years...
18) Mysterium
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In Mysterium, Robert Charles Wilson "blends science, religion, philosophy and alternate history into an intelligent, compelling work of fiction" (Publishers Weekly).
In a top-secret government installation near the small town of Two Rivers, Michigan, scientists are investigating a mysterious object discovered several years earlier. Late one evening, the local residents observe strange lights coming from the laboratory. The next morning, they awake...
19) Darwinia
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In 1912, history was changed by the Miracle, when the old world of Europe was replaced by Darwinia, a strange land of nightmarish jungle and antediluvian monsters. To some, the Miracle is an act of divine retribution; to others, it is an opportunity to carve out a new empire.
Leaving American now ruled by religious fundamentalism, young Guilford Law travels to Darwinia on a mission of discovery that will take him further than he can possibly imagine...to...
20) Burning paradise
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Klyne, nineteen years old, lives in the United States in the year 2015--but it's not our United States, and it's not our 2015. Cassie's world has been at peace since the Great Armistice of 1918. There was no World War II, no Great Depression. Poverty is declining, prosperity is increasing everywhere; social instability is rare. But Cassie knows the world isn't what it seems. Her parents were part of a group who gradually discovered the awful...
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