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981) Alex Saab: la verdad sobre el empresario que se hizo multimillonario a la sombra de Nicolás Maduro
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Pocos temas de coyuntura ocupan la atención como la puja entre Estados Unidos y el régimen de Venezuela por el controvertido empresario colombiano Alex Saab. Pocos periodistas conocen esta historia como Gerardo Reyes, que en este relato muestra facetas desconocidas de este las relaciones de Saab con Hugo Chávez y políticos colombianos como Piedad Córdoba. Un libro revelador y de candente actualidad. Un relato que muestra las relaciones de Saab...
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"Working late is nothing new for tycoon Alex--and it's the perfect excuse to get close to office cleaner Rosie Gray. He promised his ailing godfather he'd discover whether his long-lost granddaughter is a worthy heir. Intoxicated by the after-hours attentions of the mysterious, suave businessman, Rosie's dreams are destroyed with the slamming of the bedroom door on their one-night stand. Discovering she's pregnant, she goes to confront him, but no...
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Basil, un excéntrico genio inventor, decide abrir una tienda de regalos llamada "El bazar de las cebras con guisantes". Aquí vende regalos provocativos y humorísticos. En su tienda conoce a Arthur, un adolescente rebelde que crea con plantillas y bombas de pintura, y a su madre Giulia, a la que le gustan los perfumes. Tres personas atípicas.
Basil, an eccentric genius inventor, decides to open a gift shop called "The zebra bazaar with peas"....
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1794: War and the revolution in France hang over Britain. In Cornwall, George Warleggan grows his empire with a view to crush the Poldarks while Ross and Demelza attempt to repair their relationship. Ross must ask himself how long he can allow George's ascent to continue unchecked. Facing battles both at home and abroad, will Ross answer the call and risk losing everything he holds dear?
986) Una isla para soñar
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Harlequin Bianca volume 1249
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"Cuando a Georgia Nielsen le ofrecieron contratarla de madre de alquiler para un enigmático hombre de negocios, no pudo permitirse decir que no. Pero antes de darse cuenta de que había hecho un pacto con el diablo se vio atrapada en una remota y aislada isla griega, sin posibilidad de escape, acechada por el inquietante amo de sus costas.Marcado por la trágica pérdida de su esposa, la única esperanza de futuro de Nikos Panos residía en tener...
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"Michael Bloomberg escaló desde la clase media de Medford, Massachusetts, hasta convertirse en un pionero de la era de la informática, alcalde de Nueva York, uno de los filántropos más generosos del mundo y una de las voces más respetadas y revolucionarias de Estados Unidos sobre la violencia con armas de fuego, el cambio climático, la salud pública y otras cuestiones importantes. Todo eso, despuéde que lo despidieran a la edad de 39 años....
989) Una deuda tentadora
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Harlequin Bianca volume 1048
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"El perdón era un concepto extraño para el rico financiero Jonas Deveson. Alguien le había estado robando. Tenía una idea muy precisa de quién, y la mujer que le había quitado dinero Iba a tener que devolvérselo. Al ver las profundas arrugas que la amargura había marcado en las hermosas facciones de Jonas, Ravenna Ruggiero comprendió que aquel hombre jamás sería capaz de comprender por qué lo había hecho ella. Jonas chantajeó a Ravenna,...
990) No más: Big shot
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No más: "In the midst of boxing's contemporary golden age stood two fighters who established a captivating rivalry. Sugar Ray Leonard, who had become a household name after a Gold Medal-winning performance at the 1976 Summer Olympics, versus Roberto Duran, the toughest -- some said meanest -- fighter of all time. Their pair of bouts within a span of just over 5 months in 1980 had all the trappings of instant classics"--Container.
Big shot: "In 1996,...
992) Mind without fear
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"For nine years, Rajat Gupta led McKinsey & Co.--the first foreign-born person to head the world's most influential management consultancy. He was also the driving force behind major initiatives such as the Indian School of Business and the Public Health Foundation of India. A globally respected figure, he sat on the boards of distinguished philanthropic institutions ... In 2011, to the shock of the international business community, Gupta was arrested...
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Criterion collection volume 326, 485, 807
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Over the course of the 1990s, writer-director Whit Stillman made a trilogy of films about the acid tongues and broken hearts of some haplessly erudite young Americans in New York and abroad. Set in the eighties, these films trace the arc of that decade, led by Stillman's Oscar-nominated debut, Metropolitan, which introduced moviegoers to a strange, endangered species of privileged New Yorker, the “urban haute bourgeoisie.” Chronologically, the...
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Harlequin Bianca volume 1002
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When a dream holiday propels Thia from her quiet life in England to the glittering world of New York's scandalous elite, she catches the eye of renowned businessman Lucien Steele. For the first time, she is determined to have what she really wants--love and life in the fast lane.
Cuando surgió la oportunidad del viaje de su vida, Thla Hammond ni se lo pensó. De repente, la ingenua camarera se vio transportada de su tranquila vida en Inglaterra...
996) Kid Carolina: R.J. Reynolds, Jr., a tobacco fortune, and the mysterious death of a Southern icon
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An intimate look at the dramatic, tumultuous life and mysterious death of Dick Reynolds--tobacco fortune heir, business tycoon, cultural obsession, and true American icon.
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"In a major reassessment of modern conservatism, noted historian Kathryn S. Olmsted reexamines the explosive labor disputes in the agricultural fields of Depression-era California, the cauldron that inspired a generation of artists and writers and that triggered the intervention of FDR's New Deal. Right Out of California tells how this brief moment of upheaval terrified business leaders into rethinking their relationship to American politics--a narrative...
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Walter's Welcome is the story of Walter Neisser and the more than fifty members of his family he helped to escape Nazi Germany. The story is told through the letters of the Neisser [and Nothmann] family, which have been meticulously translated and arranged by Walter's niece, Eva, who also provides moving historical contextualization and commentary. After fleeing Germany, the Neissers resettled in Peru. However, their flight was neither easy nor seamless....
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The billionaire entrepreneur and father of a former governor revisits key moments in his life that shaped his views on faith, family, and the responsibilities of wealth, describing his and his wife's commitment to donate their fortune to cancer research.
"Billionaire entrepreneur, distinguished public servant, and father of a former governor and presidential candidate, Jon M. Huntsman, Sr., has been very fortunate in life. The company he founded...
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