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Date: 2000

Portada de The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay de Michael Chabon
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Fiction Fiction The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Michael Chabon

2000

La obra sigue la vida de dos primos: Joe Kavalier, un joven escapista y artista que logra huir de la ocupación nazi en Praga, y Sammy Clay, un escritor inseguro pero brillante que vive en Nueva York. Esta novela mezcla aventura, historia, cultura popular y drama personal para retratar el nacimiento de la industria del cómic en Estados Unidos, el impacto de la guerra y el precio del éxito artístico. Tiene un tono épico y nostálgico, lleno de referencias al ilusionismo, los superhéroes y la identidad americana.

Portada de A Twist at the End de Steven Saylor

Fiction Fiction A Twist at the End

Steven Saylor

2000

Austin, Texas, in 1885 is a place of dust and dreams, quick rich, and wild dreams. But "the Servant girl Annihilators" are also making it a city of fear. The first victim, a mulatto housekeeper, is born from her bed and murdered. Six more women will die, including pretty blond Eula Phillips, who is bank Clerk's Will Porter's love. Over a decade later, living in New York as O. Henry, Will cannot escape his memories--or a blackmailer's merciless demands. Then a mysterious letter invites him ba

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Adventures Adventures The spherical card

Arturo Pérez Reverte

2000

The spherical letter is the story of a seaman without a boat, banished from the sea, to whom a woman who returns him to the marine adventure rescues. Historical cartography, ancient archives, naval museums and shipwrecks make up the argument of The Spherical Letter. All nautical literature, from Homer to Conrad and Melville, is explicit or implicit in the pages of The Spherical Letter. A novel containing the great literary obsessions of Arturo Pérez- Reverte: the enigma, the tra

Portada de The residence of the gods de René Goscinny

Comic Comic The residence of the gods

René Goscinny

2000

The residence of the gods Le domaine des dieux Publication First edition On album: 1971 Hachette Livre Editorial No of pages 48, to color ISBN 978-2-01210-149-4 Content French-Belgian tradition Chomic gender Artistic direction Writer René Goscinny Drawing (s) Albert Uderzo Series Asterix el Galo Collection Number 17 Number 33 Previous volume Asterix in Helceria Next volume The Laurels of Caesar Website [edit data in Wikidata] The residence of

Portada de Asterix in Helceria de René Goscinny

Comic Comic Asterix in Helceria

René Goscinny

2000

The Prefect of Condate (Rennes), Graco Ojoalvirus, leads a life full of luxuries in which the orgies abound thanks to the fact that he scams large amounts of the tributes that the city pays to Julio César. Because of the few coins Condate sends to Rome, the government begins to suspect Ojoalvirus's attitude and sends to the Quaestor (collector) Claudius Sinusitus to report possible tax irregularities in the area. This is received apparently cordial by Ojoalvirus, per

Portada de Asterix in Spain de René Goscinny

Comic Comic Asterix in Spain

René Goscinny

2000

The story begins on March 17, 45 BC. C. where we observe a gala village where it dominates the calm, calm that will be disturbed by incidents that are taking place in the Upper Hispania (Andalusia). Julio César has just defeated the last survivors of Monda (Montilla, Córdoba), subjecting all of Hispania (Spain and Portugal) to the Roman Empire, except a small village between Monda and Hispanis (Sevilla) governed by Sopalajo de Arriérez and Torrezno. The Romans kidnap Pepe (in rea

Portada de Asterix and the caldero de René Goscinny

Comic Comic Asterix and the caldero

René Goscinny

2000

The chief galo Moralelástix entrusts Asterix to the care of a caldero full of sestercios, so that the money does not fall into the hands of the tax collector of the Roman empire. In Asterix's custody, the money is stolen, leaving only the empty caldero with the aroma of onion soup. As the situation compromises the honour of the village in front of another Galo boss, Asterix is banished, unless he returns the missing money. Obelix is self-deearth and accompanies his friend to fill the ca

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Crime Crime The Last Precinct

Patricia Cornwell

2000

It's Christmas, and coroner Kay Scarpetta just lost her lover, Benton Wesley. The last case of the detective is still open, as it has not been possible to clarify the authorship of a series of murders, blamed on the Mafia Chandonne. A conspiracy leads the situation to unsuspected limits, to the point that Scarpetta can be prosecuted for murder. On the other hand, the evidence points to a possible relationship between the crimes and Benton's death.

Portada de Ode to a Banker (Falco 12) de Lindsey Davis

Crime Crime Ode to a Banker (Falco 12)

Lindsey Davis

2000

Falco sees his dedication to literature rewarded, but what seemed to be a brilliant future as a writer does not take time to become a nightmare. The sudden and mysterious death of a writing forces him to enter the dangerous world of letters, which will lead him to discover the entrenches that are hidden under the glamour. But he must also face a number of domestic problems: his wife Helena Justina has fought with the builders of his new cas, his father is attracted

Portada de Road without return de Andrzej Sapkowski

Fantasy Fantasy Road without return

Andrzej Sapkowski

2000

< div class "p-3" > It includes the following accounts: < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "Road without return" < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "The musicians." < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "Tandaradei!" < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "In the crater of the bomb" < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "Something ends, something begins." < / div > < div class "p-3" > - Battle Dust. < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "The golden afternoon." < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "What happened in Mischief Creek" < / div > < div class "p-3" > - "Spanienkreuz" < / div >

Portada de The tour to Tindari de Andrea Camilleri
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Crime Crime The tour to Tindari

Andrea Camilleri

2000

A couple of retirees appears dead after a bus trip to Tindari. At the same time a young man of dissipated life appears dead at the door of the estate where the elderly lived. Montalbano is responsible for the two investigations.

Portada de What God has joined together, let Mom not separate it de Alfonso Ussía Muñoz-Seca

Humor Humor What God has joined together, let Mom not separate it

Alfonso Ussía Muñoz-Seca

2000

Cristián Ildefonso, Marquis de Sotoancho, is already free. He has sent Mom and the priest, and he has bounced. It is not bad after sixty-two years of maternal submission, so whole that it could be castrated, and so inexperienced that it needs to resort to a magic spray to get the desired kiss. Susu has become a reclinchon, a sex shark, whose ardors bring in the check of Mom, so rebound always.

Portada de Four to Score de Janet Evanovich

Crime Crime Four to Score

Janet Evanovich

2000

Low-rent bony hunter Stephanie Plum reaches delays of personal experience that other women detectives never quite do. In Hot Six, for example, a sequence of new and healthy cars bit the dust; she finds herself lumbed with a policeman's multiple incontinental dog; and she has several bad skin days. All this when she is trying to prove her distinctly more competent collect and occasional boyfriend Ranger innocent of a mob hit; avoid the heavies training her in the hope of finding him; and cope with a wife-abusing bail defaulter with nasty habitats, such as setting Stephanie on fire.

Portada de Aranmanoth de Ana María Matute

Fiction Fiction Aranmanoth

Ana María Matute

2000

Aranmanoth is a novel of initiation to life and love, starring a half-human, medium-magical boy, son of the Lord of Lines and a fairy of the waters. In a Middle Ages overshadowed by infinite wars, Aranmanoth leaves in search of his destiny, moving away from other mortals and obeying mysterious signs of the leaves of the trees or of the birds that cross the sky. Aranmanoth and Windimanoth, their beloved girl, their father's wife, travel in pursuit of a dream of fullness, to the promised land of their childhood which, gradually, reveals itself within. On that journey through the symbolic lands of a mythical and sensual Middle Ages, you will learn that beauty and love involve pain, and that reality always asecutes to desires and dreams.

Portada de Tokyo blues (Norwegian Wood) de Haruki Murakami

Fiction Fiction Tokyo blues (Norwegian Wood)

Haruki Murakami

2000

While landing at a European airport, Toru Watanabe hears an old Beatles song that makes him back to his youth, to the turbulent Tokyo of the 1960s. He then remembers with melancholy the mysterious Naoko, the bride of his best friend of adolescence.