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"El mercader de libros"  ("The book merchant") by Luis Zueco
"There was a time when books could discover new worlds, challenge the most sacred dogmas, and change the course of history."

Thomas Babel is our young protagonist and with him we will live great adventures in the search for a mysterious book that has been stolen from the “Colombina Library”, the largest in the West, created by the second son of Christopher Columbus.

This novel set in the 16th century, will take us on a trip from Antwerp to Seville, passing through magical places. The plot takes place in the years after the Discovery of America and the invention of the printing, with a highly well-informed story.
The love for books that the author transmits from the first moment captivates you and makes you unable to stop reading. The descriptions are wonderful, and I have loved the plot. A fascinating read that further enriches the history of the books. Highly recommended!!

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Todo gran viaje comienza en los libros.
Con una perfecta unión de rigor histórico e intriga, Luis Zueco traslada al lector a una época en que la palabra impresa podía ser el arma más peligrosa.
Hubo un tiempo en que los libros podían descubrir nuevos mundos, tambalear los dogmas más sagrados y cambiar el curso de la Historia.

Esta novela es un viaje a los años siguientes a la invención de la imprenta, cuando un mercader de libros emprende la búsqueda de un misterioso ejemplar que ha sido robado de la mayor biblioteca de Occidente, creada en Sevilla por el hijo de Cristóbal Colón.

Año 1517. El joven Thomas atraviesa la incipiente Europa renacentista huyendo de su pasado. Son los años siguientes al descubrimiento de América y la invención de la imprenta, un periodo de profundos cambios que han supuesto el fin de la Edad Media. La curiosidad que siente por el Nuevo Mundo, cosechada en sus múltiples lecturas, le llevará hasta España, donde comenzará a trabajar con un mercader de libros.

El encargo de localizar un ejemplar envuelto en un halo misterioso le conduce hasta Sevilla, una próspera ciudad que sirve como enlace en el comercio con las Indias y que alberga, entre sus murallas, la biblioteca más importante de Occidente, creada por el hijo de Cristóbal Colón y llamada la Colombina. Será precisamente allí donde Thomas descubra que alguien ha robado el libro que él busca y, por alguna razón, tiene mucho interés en que nadie lo encuentre.

Hubo un tiempo en que los libros permitían descubrir nuevos mundos, tambalear los dogmas más sagrados y cambiar el curso de la Historia. Luis Zueco nos sumerge en los albores de la bibliofilia y nos traslada, en una perfecta unión de rigor histórico y trama trepidante, a una época en la que la palabra impresa podía ser el arma más peligrosa.

La crítica ha dicho:
"En la estela de Los pilares de la Tierra y La catedral del mar."
La Vanguardia

"Tramas oscuras, traiciones, venganza: las novelas de Zueco aseguran al lector un suspenso constante."
Alessandra Penna, editorial Newton Compton Editori (Italia)

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Todo gran viaje comienza en los libros. Con una perfecta unión de rigor histórico e intriga, Luis Zueco traslada al lector a una época en que la palabra impresa podía ser el arma más peligrosa. Hubo un tiempo en que los libros podían descubrir nuevos mundos, tambalear los dogmas más sagrados y cambiar el curso de la Historia.

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"The great project of the Alexandria library, which is the starting point this essay, was tremendously innovative and daring in many respects because its objective was to acquire works from different eras and cultures, and preserve them. The idea of ​​gathering all the knowledge of the world in one place to be consulted. In addition, those wise men who set it in motion included a program of translations from one language to another, something revolutionary and that until the time of the Greeks had not been thought."
Lola Atanet,  English B2

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“AND THEN THERE WERE NONE” (DIEZ NEGRITOS), By Agatha Christie.

I strongly recommend this crime novel for two reasons: it is considered one of the best books of the author, and it has a thought-provoking plot that makes you feel intrigued till the end. If you read it, it would be a good idea for you to learn this song:

“Ten little 🤬 boys went out to dine
One choked his little self, and then there were nine.

Nine little 🤬 boys sat up very late
One overslept himself, and then there were eight.

Eight little 🤬 boys traveling in Devon
One said he’d stay there, and then there were seven.

Seven little 🤬 boys chopping up sticks
One chopped himself in half, and then there were six.

Six little 🤬 boys playing with a hive
A bumble-bee stung one, and then there were five.

Five little 🤬 boys going in for law
One got in chancery, and then there were four.

Four little 🤬 boys going out to sea
A red herring swallowed one, and then there were three.

Three little 🤬 boys walking in the zoo
A big bear hugged one, and then there were two.

Two little 🤬 boys sitting in the sun
One got frizzled up, and then there was one.

One little 🤬 boy living all alone
He went and hanged himself and then there were none.”

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Emilio Onorato (2º B ING)
Different WORLDS, by Margaret Johnson
A deaf girl and a music boy fall in love, but are their worlds different ? Can they understand each other?

"  Love is the most powerful of languages"

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María José Campillo Rodríguez. (2ºB ING)

La villa de las telas, by Anne Jacobs.

Ausburg,1913. Young Marie begins work in the kitchen of the impressive villa owned by the Melzers, a rich family in the textile industry. While Marie, a poor girl from an orphanage, fight to find her way among the servents, the Melzers await the start of the new winter dance season, when they will present Katharina in society. Only Paul, the family heir, stays away from all the turmoil, preferring his life as a student, in Munich. That is, until he meets Marie...

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Forget to Remember, by Alan Maley

"Life without memory is not a life at all ... Without it, we are nothing", Luis Buñuel

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ARMAN'S JOURNEY, by Philip Prowse.

A teenage makes an epic journey in the hands of people smugglers.
He lives and works as an illegal immigrant, until one day love comes into his life.

Nice lesson of life 'At the end of the tunnel there is always a light'

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Le Petit Prince

Je me demande si les étoiles sont éclaiées afin que chacun puisse un jour retrouver la sienne

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"An enigmatic classic that envelops and moves you to another time.
Love, passion, hate and revenge in a little dark world"

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Pilar Anfrúns (teacher)           The Body, by Bill Bryson.

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Pilar Anfrúns (teacher)           The Body, by Bill Bryson.

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This is an entertaining and informative book I highly recommend for those interested in health issues:
“That is unquestionably the most astounding thing about us—that we are just a collection of inert components, the same stuff you would find in a pile of dirt. I’ve said it before in another book, but I believe it’s worth repeating: the only thing special about the elements that make you is that they make you. That is the miracle of life.”
― Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants

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Teresa Blanco Arias 3ºC ING                    The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupéry                            “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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Teresa Blanco Arias 3ºC ING                    The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupéry                            “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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The title of the book makes reference to the old Irish phrase: 'Whatever you say, say nothing'.
The book gives a very detailed history of the Irish Troubles by focusing on the murder  of a 38-year-old mum of 10 children living in Belfast by IRA activists in the 1970s.
If you are interested in the topic or in modern Irish history in general, you should read this book.

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JOSE MANUEL MORENO TORRES 1ºB ING                  SELF HELP, by Samuel Smiles 

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JOSE MANUEL MORENO TORRES 1ºB ING                  SELF HELP, by Samuel Smiles 

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Sow a thought, and you reap an act

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success

Truthfulness is at the foundation of all personal excellence

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THE SHADOW OF THE WIND by CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN.

'I still remember the day my father took me to the Cementery of Forgotten Books for the first time...'

'This is a place of mysteri,Daniel,a sanctuary.Every book ,every volume you see here,has a soul.The soul of the person who wrote it ...'

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 Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

My children, who take the words of the song for granted:

Deep in the meadow, under the willow

Abed of grass, a soft green pillow

Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes

And when again they open, the sun will rise.

Here it's safe, here it's warm

Here the daisies guard you from every harm

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrowbrings them true

Here is the place where I love you.

My children, who don't know they play on a graveyard"

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ENSEMBLE, C'EST TOUT
de l'écrivaine Anna Gavlada.

Leur histoire, c'est la théorie des dominos, mais à l'envers. Au lieu de se faire tomber, ils s'aident à se relever.

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MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, by Elena Ferrante

Children don't know the meaning of yesterday, of the day before yesterday, or even of tomorrow, everything is this, now: the street is this, the doorway is this, the stairs are this, this is Mamma, this is Papa, this is the day, this is the night.

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EMOCIONARTE, LA DOUBLE VIE DES TABLEAUX. De Carlos del Amor.
Il nous parle de l'histoire qu'il y a plus loin du cadre d'un tableau.
Il nous étonne de combien d'émotion il y a plus loin de l'artiste.
Énormément recommandable!.

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ÉBANO,by Riszard Kapuscinki.
who many the best reporter of the century dives into the African continent, shunning platitudes and stereotypes.Lived in the houses full of cockroaches of the poorest, sick with celebral malaria. you are in danger of death at the hands of guerrillera. Possibbly the masterpiece from the author.

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"Enormous and brilliant...a great epic tale...crammed with characters unbelievably alive across the great gulf of centuries...touches all human emotion -love and hate, loyalty and treachery, hope and despair. See for yourself. This is truly a novel to get lost in. Cosmopolitan. Jesús Colón Díaz, teacher.

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MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Agatha Christie wrote this book as she loved travelling on the Orient Express train and inspired by the incident occurring in 1929 when the train was trapped by snow for five days

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MARTIN LUTHER KING by Coleen Degnan-Veness
"I have a dream...." His dream for the future was for all children, all Americans. The color of a person´s skin did not matter. Only a person´s heart and mind were important.
"War is not the way to solve problems. It is necessary to end war and violence between nations. We can solve problemms through paceful activities"

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THE YELLOW EYES OF CROCODILES by Catherine Pancol
Joséphine nodded. "You stood up for me tonight,Hortense. You fought for me. I´m so happy, you can´t imagine!...........
I´m already awake,Hortense. You woke me up!................
Hortense took her mother´s hand. "So, do you know what your next book will be about?"

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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee

"If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time... it’s because he wants to stay inside."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

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The Feast of the Goat.  By Mario Vargas Llosa. 

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The Feast of the Goat.  By Mario Vargas Llosa. 

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Rafael Granado C1.2
'God in Heaven, Trujillo on Earth'
'You wanted him to suffer misfortunes, diseases, accidents. God granted your wish, Urania. Or rather, the devil did.'......... Years in a wheelchair, not walking or talking ……..Do you feel avenged? "No".

Omnipotent General Trujillo transformed the Dominican Republic into a living hell during his bloody dictatorship, but Urania Cabral had to endure an even worse agony after being pushed into abyss  by her own father.

This page-turner historical novel submerges the reader in the lives of those that Rafael Leonidas Trujillo demolished before being assassinated.

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time

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Mónica Luque R.
4°B English

The wonderful intelligent and analytical mind that shows us a different point of view of thinking, feeling and seeing the everyday things that surround us. It is the perception of the an autistic child's Life.

(...) I went to the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself insignificant.

You can still wish for something, no matter how unlikely it is.

I like dogs. Dogs are faithful and do not tell lies because they do not speak.

In life you have to make a lot of decisions, and if you did not make decisions, you would never do anything because you would spend all your time choosing between the things to do.

It seems to me that people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying because they want to go on living and they don't like the idea of other people moving into their house and throwing their things away.

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1984 George Orwell (José Mª Granado C1.1)

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1984 George Orwell (José Mª Granado C1.1)

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In 1984, London is controlled by a totalitarian government. Big Brother monitors absolutely everything. The enforcer, the Thought Police, checks every aspect of the citizens' lives. A man called Winston Smith, a member of the Ministry of Truth, will seek to rebel against the oppressive government.

"I do not think that the kind of society I have depicted in 1984 will become a reality, but I think that something like it might come into reality," Orwell said after the novel was first published.

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Mari Luz Rodríguez (3°C ING) The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini.
"It always hurt more to have and lose than to not have in the first place"

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THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES, by Paul Auster
I’d highly recommend this novel for reasons like its easy narrative, the surprising effect of coincidences, its touching characters and how your mood changes throughout the story. As Auster says: ‘it’s a book about survival.’
“When you've lived as long as I have, you tend to think you've heard everything, that there's nothing left that can shock you anymore. You grow a little complacent about your so-called knowledge of the world, and then, every once in a while, something comes along that jolts you out of your smug cocoon of superiority, that reminds you all over again that you don't understand the first thing about life.”

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Manuel Fernández B1 ING                      Marina, by Carlos Ruíz Zafón 

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Manuel Fernández B1 ING                      Marina, by Carlos Ruíz Zafón 

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I Will talk about a young men called Oscar Drai. In this history he meet Marina a young woman. After some things they began to have a lot of experiences and problems... Can they solve them? You nenes to read these book if you like to know that. To finish I totally recommend the book if you like suspence and other things like that... I hope that you give it a chance.

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Agustín Aguilera, English 3º A,   LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 

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Agustín Aguilera, English 3º A,   LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov 

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"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." These are the opening lines of one of the most beautiful and controversial novels in the English language, ironically written by a Russian author, Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita's unreliable narrator, paedophile and poet Humbert Humbert seduces the reader as he does his 12-year-old stepdaughter, making us complicit in her abduction and his crime.

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Tú no matarás, by Julia Navarro
"Aucun homme n'est le même après avoir pris la vie d'un autre homme"

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The Clan of the Cave Bear. Jean M. Auel

“The earth we leave is beautiful and rich; it gave us all we needed for all the generations we have lived. How will you leave it when it is your turn? What can you do?”

“No one told her it was impossible to rapid-fire two stones from a sling, because it had never been done before, and since no one told her she couldn’t, she taught herself to do it.”

“A leader must always put the clan’s interests before his own; it is the first thing you must learn. That is why self-control is so essential to a leader. The clan’s survival is his responsibility. He must do many things he may not want to. If necessary, he must even disown the son of his mate. Do you understand?”

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Nelson´s Dream
by J.M Newsome
A great book which still makes us believe in humans being...
"Nelson Mbizi returns to his home in southern Africa after studying in Britain. When he tries to help a family of orphans he meets Viki, a South African TV presenter. The story of Nelson and Viki’s relationship is told against a background of HIV/AIDS and government corruption on the one hand, and great good humour and wonderful music on the other.

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The Clan of the Cave Bear