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Author
Publisher
Editorial Alma
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Robert Louis Stevenson fue uno de los gigantes de la novela de aventuras, pero también fue uno de los grandes conocedores de la mentalidad humana, por lo que tarde o temprano escribiría un clásico eterno como El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll y el señor Hyde. Como testigo lúcido de la Revolución Industrial en el Reino Unido, Stevenson reflexiona sobre los límites de los métodos y la ética científica, y sobre todo, de una manera absorbente...
2) 1984
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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A dictatorship called Big Brother rules the people in a collectivist society where Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. Winston joins the underground where he becomes involved in a forbidden love affair.
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
¿Estabas en el tren de las 8.04? ¿Viste algo sospechoso? Rachel, sí. Rachel toma siempre el tren de las 8.04 h. Cada mañana lo mismo: el mismo paisaje, las mismas casas... y la misma parada en la señal roja. Son solo unos segundos, pero le permiten observar a una pareja desayunando tranquilamente en su terraza. Siente que los conoce y se inventa unos nombres para ellos: Jess y Jason. Su vida es perfecta, no como la suya. Pero un día ve algo....
Author
Language
Español
Description
Amity Doncaster es una viajera experimentada acostumbrada al peligro y Benedict Stanbridge es un hombre de ciencia y espia al servicio de la Corona britanica. Pero ambos estan a punto de enfrentarse a una amenaza en su propio territorio. Una mujer no espera que la secuestren en una calle londinense a plena luz del dia. No obstante, Amity Doncaster consigue salir indemne tras verse atrapada en un carruaje con un hombre que oculta su rostro tras una...
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
The people who know the woman who calls herself "Athena" and is known as "the Witch of Portobello Road" in London--including a reporter, an actress, her mother, her ex-husband, and others--recount their experiences with a remarkable individual.
Author
Publisher
EDAF
Pub. Date
c2002, c1999
Language
Español
Description
Society shunned the base-born rogue. Matrons whispered behind their fans about his sensual exploits. Young ladies secretly dreamed of his intimate touch. No one expected Drake Wilder to force his way into the closed ranks of the nobility-by coercing a very proper lady to the altar. To save her family from ruin, Lady Alicia Pemberton agrees to wed the scandalous owner of a gambling club. She insists upon a marriage in name only. But Drake has other...
Author
Series
Publisher
Destino
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Language
Español
Description
Tessa Fell's search for her missing brother leads her into Victorian London's supernatural underworld, where she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crossbooks
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
September 3, 1940, ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. Only one person can help them, but she's trapped in the body of a bird. The extraordinary journey that began in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children continues as Jacob Portman and his newfound friends journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. There, they hope to find a cure for their beloved headmistress, Miss Peregrine. In this war-torn city, hideous surprises...
10) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
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The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, and set upon by evil and adversity from his first breath - shocked readers when it was published. After running away from the workhouse and pompous beadle Mr Bumble, Oliver finds himself lured into a den of thieves peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the Artful Dodger, vicious burglar Bill Sikes, his dog Bull's Eye, and prostitute Nancy, all watched over by cunning master-thief Fagin. Combining elements...
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