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1) The new girl
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At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful girl who arrives each morning and leaves each afternoon in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. She is not. And when she is brutally kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence, is thrust...
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Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and lying low while the FBI search for him. But they are not the only ones looking for him and Nate finds himself confronting an elite team of special forces soldiers. They're not there to take him in - they say - but to make a deal. They need his help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert, and in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear....
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Amat Editorial
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Español
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La obesidad es la enfermedad metabólica más frecuente en el mundo y un auténtico problema de salud pública que supera al de la desnutrición a nivel mundial. En España el 56% de la población tiene sobrepeso y un 23% padece ya obesidad. La obesidad disminuye la expectativa de vida de las personas que la padecen y aumenta el riesgo de padecer diabetes, gota, colesterol elevado, hipertensión arterial, angina de pecho, infarto de miocardio y accidentes...
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Four months after the deadliest attack on the American homeland since 9/11, terrorists leave a trail of carnage through London's glittering West End. The attack is a brilliant feat of planning and secrecy, but with one loose thread. The thread leads Gabriel Allon and his team of operatives to the south of France and to the gilded doorstep of Jean-Luc Martel and Olivia Watson. A beautiful former British fashion model, Olivia pretends not to know that...
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Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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En La dieta de la longevidad Valter Longo, el ±gurú de la longevidad|, recoge uno de los más importantes descubrimientos científicos en el campo de la alimentación: la clave para prevenir y curar las enfermedades más comunes del siglo XXI. Basado en un revolucionario estudio de la dieta de la población más longeva del mundo. Tienes ante ti uno de los descubrimientos científicos más revolucionarios en el campo del envejecimiento: cómo prevenir...
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Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
[2017]
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Español
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"Durante años se nos ha hecho creer que una vez que comenzamos a perder la vista ya no se recupera. Y lo mismo se ha dicho siempre sobre el cerebro: que las células cerebrales no se regeneran. Esta noción tampoco es cierta. De hecho, el cerebro contiene células madre que, cuando se activan, pueden transformarse en cualquier tipo de célula. El proceso por el cual se regeneran las células cerebrales se denomina neurogénesis. Al igual que otras...
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"Against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, five simultaneous murders on three continents leads a cyber sleuth to a thread revealing someone has just bought five nuclear weapons. But who and what is their target? American intelligence expert Ray Bowman is brought in to find out. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he races around the world to stop nuclear terror. Washington fears the bombs...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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When their careers are thrown into turmoil by false charges of espionage, Marine sniper Kyle Swanson and CIA agent Lauren Carson turn to Kyle's mentor Jim Hall for help only to discover that he has gone rogue and is selling American secrets to a Middle East warlord.
15) Saving Sophie
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Jack Sommers was just an ordinary accountant from Chicago-that is, until his wife passed away, his young daughter was kidnapped, and he became the main suspect in an $88 million dollar embezzlement case. Now Jack is on the run, hoping to avoid the feds long enough to rescue his daughter, Sophie, from her maternal grandfather, a suspected terrorist in Palestine. With the help of investigative team Liam and Catherine, and a new CIA operative, a secret...
16) 24: Season one
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002
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English
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Jack Bauer, head of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit, is thrust into a 24-hour marathon of death, deception, and terror as he struggles to prevent the assasination of a presidential candidate, find the traitor within his own organization, and save his kidnapped wife and daughter.
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New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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After a tragic accident claims the life of his girlfriend, Nick discovers that he has the paranormal power to change the past and save her. But when he keeps going back to alter other events, he soon realizes that his actions have dire consequences for the present and their future.
19) Wildlife
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The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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A meticulously crafted portrait of the American nuclear family in crisis charts the rift that forms within a 1960s Montana household when the father and breadwinner abruptly departs to fight the forest fires raging nearby, leaving his restless wife and teenage son to pick up the pieces. A deeply human look at a woman's wayward journey toward self-fulfillment in the pre-women's liberation era and a sensitively observed, child's eye coming-of-age tale....
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"A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another...
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