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A Doubleday anchor book volume A323
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English
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Razumov is a young Russian student of philosophy who is uninvolved in politics or protest. Against his will he finds himself caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing directed against the Tsarist authorities. He is pulled in different directions - by his conscience and his ambitions, by powerful opposed political forces, but most of all by personal emotions he is unable to suppress.
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English
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"A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him"--
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"Few works by comic book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein was met with upon its original release in 1983. A generation later, this magnificent pairing of art and literature is still considered to be one of the greatest achievements made by any artist in the field. This book includes the complete text of the original groundbreaking novel,...
4) Frankenstein
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The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship ... and horror.
5) Geneva
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A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's is invite to a prestigious conference in Geneva to meet a enigmatic neuroscientist who has developed technology that could change medicine forever and also save her life.
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English
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The most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs and animates a creature from dead body parts - with catastrophic results.
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Edith trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
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A spy story set between the world wars. Edith Berry, a young Australian diplomat, is posted to the League of Nations in Geneva. There she meets a much older British officer who is a transvestite, a lifestyle that at once attracts and repels her.
16) Island of time
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Series
Island of time volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Geneva branch of Interpol - the international agency tasked with policing magic and the arcane arts - is where careers go to die. Action is rare as Switzerland banned magic seven hundred years ago. That's how Agent Jackson Burnett likes it. But then reports of an explosion lead Jackson to the home of businessman Bernard Bouchon. What's there is unfathomable: The family and their possessions have vanished into ash. Jackson's enigmatic new partner...
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Penguin Clásicos
Pub. Date
2015.
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Español
Description
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823.
18) Bella del señor
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Series
Otra vuelta de tuerca volume 53
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
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"Una de las cumbres novelisticas del siglo XX, obra de un autor inclasificable comparado con Shakespeare, Proust, Musil, Celine y Chaplin Situada en Ginebra y en Francia en 1936, cuando el antisemitismo alcanzo su paroxismo en Alemania, Bella del Senor relata, con lirismo romantico e ironia feroz, la relacion entre Solal, judio, alto funcionario de la Sociedad de las Naciones, y Ariane, la aristocrata aria casada con un subordinado de Solal, desde...
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