Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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UN HOMBRE, TRES MUJERES Y UNA REVOLUCIÓN.
UN VIAJE AL CORAZÓN HUMANO Y A LA AVENTURA.
UNO DE LOS LIBROS DEL AÑO SEGÚN EL CORREO
«La etapa creativa que está atravesando Arturo Pérez-Reverte resulta asombrosa. ¿[Revolución es] la mejor novela de Pérez-Reverte? Al menos y sin duda, una de las mejores».
Sergio Vila-Sanjuán, La Vanguardia Ésta es la historia de un hombre, tres mujeres, una revolución y un tesoro. La revolución fue la de...
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"Cádiz, 1811. The Spanish port city has been surrounded by Napoleon's army for a year. Their backs to the sea, its residents endure routine bombardments and live in constant fear of a French invasion. And now the bodies of random women have begun to turn up throughout the city, victims of a shadowy killer. Police Comisario Rogelio Tizón has been assigned the case. Known for his razor-sharp investigation skills--as well as his brutal interrogation...
3) El italiano
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Pub. Date
2021
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Español
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UNA HISTORIA DE AMOR, MAR Y GUERRA.
«Nada traiciona, tanto tiempo después, la mujer que desde hace dos años vive sola junto al mar con un perro y unos libros. Qué otra cosa, decide, sería el impulso, o el deseo, de permanecer abrazada a ese hombre para siempre. Ignora qué habrá en su cabeza dentro de un par de horas, cuando la claridad del día la despeje del todo e ilumine con más crudeza su conciencia. Lo cierto esque en este momento, sin...
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Captain Alatriste adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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Gear up for swashbuckling adventure in the second “riveting”* historical thriller in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series.
The fearless Alatriste is hired to infiltrate a convent and rescue a young girl forced to serve as a powerful priest’s concubine. The girl’s father is barred from legal recourse as the priest threatens to reveal that the man’s family is “not of pure blood”
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Pub. Date
2008
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English
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The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series.
Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master’s aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste’s nemesis, Luis de Alquézar, grows more...
Fifteen-year-old Iñigo Balboa enlists to serve as his master’s aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste’s nemesis, Luis de Alquézar, grows more...
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Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Acclaimed author Arturo Pérez-Reverte has earned a distinguished reputation as a master of the literary thriller with his international bestsellers The Club Dumas and The Queen of the South. Now, in this haunting new work, Pérez-Reverte has written his most accomplished novel to date. The Painter of Battles is a captivating tale of love, war, art, and revenge.
Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired...
Andrés Faulques, a world-renowned war photographer, has retired...
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Captain Alatriste adventures volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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From international bestselling author Arturo Pérez-Reverte comes the fourth adventure of Captain Alatriste in the “series [that] recalls the great adventure novels of Dumas and Scott”(The New York Times).
Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Iñigo Balboa, accept a risky job involving a dozen swordsmen and mercenaries...
Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his protégé, Iñigo Balboa, accept a risky job involving a dozen swordsmen and mercenaries...
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The fifth novel in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, a seventeenth-century swashbuckler and “a twenty-first-century literary phenomenon”(Entertainment Weekly).
In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protégé Íñigo are fish out of water. But the king is determined to keep Alatriste on retainer—regardless of whether his "employment" brings...
In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his protégé Íñigo are fish out of water. But the king is determined to keep Alatriste on retainer—regardless of whether his "employment" brings...
10) Todo Alatriste
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1,784 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Español
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"No era el hombre más honesto ni el más piadoso, pero era un hombre valiente ..." Con esta frase ya legendaria, Arturo Pérez-Reverte daba comienzo, hace veinte años, a la primera de las novelas protagonizadas por el capitán Alatriste, un soldado veterano de los tercios de Flandes que malvive como espadachín en el Madrid del siglo XVII. Sus aventuras constituyen uno de los grandes hitos de la historia editorial reciente en lengua española: la...
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2015.
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453 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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En route from Lisbon to Buenos Aires in 1928, Max and Mecha meet aboard a luxurious transatlantic cruise ship. There Max teaches the stunning stranger and her erudite husband to dance the tango. A steamy affair ignites at sea and continues as the seedy decadence of Buenos Aires envelops the secret lovers. Nice, 1937. Still drawn to one another a decade later, Max and Mecha rekindle their dalliance. In the wake of a perilous mission gone awry, Mecha...
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Pub. Date
2005
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English
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The first action-packed historical adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series, featuring a Spanish soldier who lives as a swordsman-for-hire in 17th century Madrid.
Needing gold to pay off his debts, Captain Alatriste and another hired blade are paid to ambush two travelers, stage a robbery, and give the travelers a fright. “No blood,” they are told.
Needing gold to pay off his debts, Captain Alatriste and another hired blade are paid to ambush two travelers, stage a robbery, and give the travelers a fright. “No blood,” they are told.
Then a mysterious stranger enters
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Captain Alatriste adventures volume 6
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English
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The sixth novel in the international bestselling adventures of Captain Alatriste, set in a time when the only thing needed to summon hell on earth—or sea—was a Spaniard and his sword.
Accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, Captain Alatriste accepts a job as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon. The ship sets sail from Naples on a journey that will take them to some of the most remote—and wretched—outposts...
Accompanied by his faithful foster son, Íñigo, Captain Alatriste accepts a job as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon. The ship sets sail from Naples on a journey that will take them to some of the most remote—and wretched—outposts...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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497 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Max and Mercedes first meet in 1928, when she is the wife of a noted composer and he is a professional dance partner on the ship taking her to Buenos Aires, and their romance does not end although life takes them in different directions.
"Un extraño desafío entre dos músicos, que lleva a uno de ellos a Buenos Aires en 1928; un asunto de espionaje en la Riviera francesa durante la Guerra Civil española; una inquietante partida de ajedrez en el...
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1999.
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245 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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A murder mystery in 1886 Madrid featuring an old fencing master who still teaches in the age of the pistol. He is famous for his unstoppable thrust and one day a beautiful woman arrives asking he teach it to her. The novel traces their relationship. By the author of The Flanders Panel.
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[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Vatican intelligence operative Father Quart investigates an anonymous message sent to the pope concerning a crumbling Spanish church that "kills to defend itself." A deep conspiracy unfolds that puts Father Quart's loyalty and faith to the test"--Container.
20) The ninth gate
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[2007]
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1 videodisc (approximately 133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Dean Corso is an unscrupulous rare-book dealer who is hired to locate the last remaining copies of a demonic manuscript that can summon the devil. Dean becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving murder, theft and satanic ritual, and ultimately find himself confronting the devil incarnate.