Libros de Editorial : VINTAGE BOOKS

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  • AMERICAN PASTORAL
    2ª mano
    AMERICAN PASTORAL
    PHILIP ROTH
    Seymour 'Swede' Levov - a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father's glove factory - comes of age in thriving, triumphant, postwar America. He has a beautiful wife - Miss New Jersey 1949 - and a lively, precocious daughter, Merry. She is the apple of his eye - until America begins to run amok in the turbulent 196...

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  • GRACE NOTES
    2ª mano
    GRACE NOTES
    BERNARD MACLAVERTY
    Returning to Belfast after a long absense, to attend her father`s funeral. Catherine McKenna-a young composer-remembers exactly why she left: the claustrophobic intimacies of the Catholic enclave, her fastidious, nagging mother, and the pervading tensions of a city at war with itself. She remembers a more innocent time, when the Loyalists Lambeg drums sounded mysterious and exc...

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  • THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
    2ª mano
    THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN
    SIMON CARR
    After Simon Carr's second wife dies, he brings up two sons (one from a previous marriage) in a domestic set-up he describes as free range, and that visiting mothers prefer to term semi-feral. He shows how three males of different ages and character learn from each other. ...

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  • THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
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    THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
    AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
    This extraordinary, magical novel is the story of Clare and Henry who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder- periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly...

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  • THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
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    THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED
    MORGAN SCOTT PECK
    The culmination of a lifetime of counselling, lecturing and writing, M. Scott Peck's book leads us to a deeper awareness of how to live rich, fulfilling lives in a world fraught with stress and anxiety. Writing with a depth of understanding that comes with the seasoned perspective of age, Dr Peck continues the journey of spiritual growth that began with The Road Less Travelled,...

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  • THE GOOD PEOPLE OF NEW YORK
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    THE GOOD PEOPLE OF NEW YORK
    THISBE NISSEN
    From a thrillingly talented 28-year-old newcomer - the Anne Tyler for a new generation, yet with a distinctive voice and quirky sensibility all of her own - comes a contemporary novel that brings to life a few of the 'good people of New York' and renders them in all their neurotic glory. When Roz Rosenzweig, self-described spitfire and loud n' proud New York Jew, meets Edwin An...

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  • THE RECKONING
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    THE RECKONING
    ALMA KATSU
    I turned to Luke and reached for him. My blood felt as though it had seized up in my veins."Lanny, what is it?" Luke asked. I clutched his lapel desperately"It's Adair. He's free." FOR 200 YEARS SHE'S BEEN HIDINGHe gave her immortality.She tried to destroy him.Now he is searching for her.They must not meet.Or there will be a RECKONING ...

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  • STATE OF THE UNION
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    STATE OF THE UNION
    DOUGLAS KENNEDY
    Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript corner of Maine. But normality isn't quite what Hannah imagined it would to be,...

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  • THE GHOST
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    THE GHOST
    ROBERT HARRIS
    ''¬~The moment I heard how McAra died I should have walked away. I can see that now. I should have said, ''¬ÅRick, I'm sorry, this isn't for me, I don't like the sound of it,''¬¥ finished my drink and left. But he was such a good storyteller, Rick ''¬" I often thought he should have been the writer and I the agent ''¬" that once he'd started talking there was never any q...

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  • THUNDERBALL
    2ª mano
    THUNDERBALL
    IAN FLEMING
    'He was one of those men - one meets perhaps only two or three in a lifetime - who seem almost to suck the eyes out of your head. He was their Supreme Commander - almost their god' Spectre is a merciless new enemy - a group of the world's toughest criminals, headed by the brilliant Ernst Stavro Blofeld. When two NATO atom bombs go missing, Bond must unravel Spectre's intricate ...

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  • FRANK SKINNER AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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    FRANK SKINNER AUTOBIOGRAPHY
    FRANK SKINNER
    A hilarious autobiography from one of Britain's funniest and most successful comedians. Born Chris Collins in 1957, Frank Skinner he grew up in the West Midlands where he inherited his father's passion for football - and alcohol. Expelled from school at 16, Frank had been nurturing a serious drink problem from the age of 14, but managed to go teetotal in 1987. Along with person...

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  • GOING DUTCH
    2ª mano
    GOING DUTCH
    KATIE FFORDE
    Jo Edwards never planned to live on a barge. She's not even sure she likes boats. But when her husband trades her in for a younger model, she finds her options alarmingly limited. Dora Hamilton never planned to run out on her own wedding. But as The Big Day approaches, her cold feet show no signs of warming up - and accepting Jo's offer of refuge aboard The Three Sisters seems ...

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  • A DEMON IN MY VIEW
    2ª mano
    A DEMON IN MY VIEW
    RUTH RENDELL

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  • FAIRY TALE
    2ª mano
    FAIRY TALE
    MONICA KULLING / ERNIE CONTRERAS

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  • RESTORATION
    2ª mano
    RESTORATION
    ROSE TREMAIN
    Discover this bestselling classic from the author of The Gustav Sonata, charting Robert Merivel's rise and fall through glittering seventeenth-century society. When a twist of fate delivers an ambitious young medical student to the court of King Charles II, he is suddenly thrust into a vibrant world of luxury and opulence. Blessed with a quick wit and sparkling charm, Robert M...

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  • THE PELICAN BRIEF
    2ª mano
    THE PELICAN BRIEF
    JOHN GRISHAM
    In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brill...

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  • THIRTEEN STEPS DOWN
    2ª mano
    THIRTEEN STEPS DOWN
    RUTH RENDELL
    A classic Rendellian loner, Mix Cellini is superstitious about the number 13. Living in a decaying house in Notting Hill, Mix is obsessed with 10 Rillington Place, where the notorious John Christie committed a series of foul murders. He is also infatuated with a beautiful model who lives nearby - a woman who would not look at him twice. Mix's landlady, Gwedolen Chawcer is equal...

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  • SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN
    2ª mano
    SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN
    DONNA LEON
    When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked him and took his 18-month-old son - but why? ...

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  • IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE
    2ª mano
    IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE
    ERNEST J. GAINES
    A compelling novel of a man brought to reckon with his buried past... In St. Adrienne, a small black community in Louisiana, Reverend Phillip Martin—a respected minister and civil rights leader—comes face to face with the sins of his youth in the person of Robert X, a young, unkempt stranger who arrives in town for a mysterious "meeting" with the Reverend.   In the confronta...

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  • CATHERINE CARMIER
    2ª mano
    CATHERINE CARMIER
    ERNEST J. GAINES
    A compelling debut love story set in a deceptively bucolic Louisiana countryside, where blacks, Cajuns, and whites maintain an uneasy coexistence--by the award-winning author of A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. After living in San Francisco for ten years, Jackson returns home to his benefactor, Aunt Charlotte. Surrounded by family and old friend...

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  • OF LOVE AND DUST
    2ª mano
    OF LOVE AND DUST
    ERNEST J. GAINES
    “A serious, powerful novel…[Gaines] is a writer of terrific energy.”—The Nation This is the story of Marcus: bonded out of jail where he has been awaiting trial for murder, he is sent to the Hebert plantation to work in the fields. There he encounters conflict with the overseer, Sidney Bonbon, and a tale of revenge, lust and power plays out between Marcus, Bonbon, Bonbon’s...

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  • THE LAKE OF DEAD LANGUAGES
    2ª mano
    THE LAKE OF DEAD LANGUAGES
    CAROL GOODMAN
    Jane Hudson never thought she would return to Heart Lake. Her years there as a scholarship girl ended in a fatal and mysterious double tragedy. Now she is back, struggling to adjust to her new life teaching Latin and as a single mother. But the events that haunted her memories for so many years begin to recur in front of her eyes. It seems she alone can see what is happening, a...

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  • TALES FROM WATERSHIP DOWN
    2ª mano
    TALES FROM WATERSHIP DOWN
    RICHARD ADAMS
    Traditional folks stories - the adventures of El-ahrairah, the mythical rabbit hero, Rabscuttle his friend and their journey home and encounters with the Black Rabbit of Inle. Stories about Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig and their friends including the obsessive doe Flyairth and Hyzenthlay the Chief Rabbit. ...

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  • VICTORIA LINE, CENTRAL LINE
    2ª mano
    VICTORIA LINE, CENTRAL LINE
    MAEVE BINCHY
    "Millions of people travel on London's tube every day, yet we usually give our fellow passengers only a cursory glance. But each one of these nameless passengers has their own story to tell. t Notting Hill, the mysterious secretary, harbouring her secrets, travels to work; at Highburyand Islington, Adam has a sudden change of heart; and at Holborn, a disastrous reunion is about...

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  • THE LILAC BUS
    2ª mano
    THE LILAC BUS
    MAEVE BINCHY

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  • LIGHT A PENNY CANDLE
    2ª mano
    LIGHT A PENNY CANDLE
    MAEVE BINCHY
    As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling - who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper she...

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  • ECHOES
    2ª mano
    ECHOES
    MAEVE BINCHY
    "It was sometimes called the echo cave, and if you shouted your question loud enough in the right direction, you got an answer instead of an echo..." u003cpu003eu003cbru003eClare and David--divided as children by a rigid social code that branded her as shanty Irish and him as gentry...brought together as adults by a desire that knew no class, no barriers, only the urgent hunger...

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  • GEORGETTE HEYER'S REGENCY WORLD
    2ª mano
    GEORGETTE HEYER'S REGENCY WORLD
    JENNIFER KLOESTER
    "A bestselling novelist since 1921, Georgette Heyer is known across the world for her historical romances set in Regency England. Millions of readers love the outrageous lifestyle, fashion and capricious escapades of the elegant bon ton, and no one has captured that world better than Georgette Heyer, with universally beloved novels such as Regency Buck, The Grand Sophy and Frid...

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  • MARY, QUEEN OF FRANCE
    2ª mano
    MARY, QUEEN OF FRANCE
    JEAN PLAIDY

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  • BIRDSONG - BOOK 2 - FRENCH TRILOGY
    2ª mano
    BIRDSONG - BOOK 2 - FRENCH TRILOGY
    SEBASTIAN FAULKS
    Set before and during the great war, Birdsong captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. It is the story of Stephen, a young Englishman, who arrives in Amiens in 1910. His life goes through a series of traumatic experiences, from the clandestine love affair that tears apart the family with whom he lives, to the unprecedented experiences of the war i...

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