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  • E.T. Talk

    How Will We Communicate with Intelligent Life on Other Worlds?

    by Fernando J. Ballesteros ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    For a long time I have been giving scientific lectures in different countries and on diverse topics, generally related to astronomy and to my work at the Arecibo Observatory. No matter which parti- lar topic I am talking about, the same question always comes up: Have we had any contact at Arecibo with “them”? My negative answer does not satisfy anyone. In fact, the answer either confirms their ... Read more

    $42.29 CAD

  • The Women of the Moon

    Tales of Science, Love, Sorrow, and Courage

    by Daniel R. Altschuler, Fernando J. Ballesteros ...
    Philosophers and poets in times past tried to figure out why the stainless moon "smoothly polished, like a diamond" in Dante's words, had stains. The agreed solution was that, like a mirror, it reflected the imperfect Earth. Today we smile, but it was a clever way to understand the Moon in a manner that was consistent with the beliefs of their age. The Moon is no longer the "in" thing. We see it ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • Death in the Maze

    Barcelona 1909

    by Fernando García Ballesteros, Marius Palmer-Brown ...
    Series series Barcelona 1909
    A drowned English nanny, a large house, and a maze that hides many secrets.A new challenge for Inspector Requesens.On 19th July 1909, the day after a reception held in the Horta Maze Park, the Desvall’s British nanny, Elsie Thornton, is found dead floating in the lavoir. Governor Ossorio orders Inspector Ignasi Requesens and his inseparable assistant Cristobal to handle the case. What appears to ... Read more

    $14.41 CAD

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  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    by Gabriel García Márquez ...
    Translated by Gregory Rabassa ...
    Series series Vintage International
    NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society—not just a pair of murderers—on trial.A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, ... Read more

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  • The City of Mist

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    by Carlos Ruiz Zafon ...
    “Ruiz Zafón’s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.”—USA TodayReturn to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits.Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation ... Read more

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  • All Men Are Liars

    by Alberto Manguel ...
    In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew—or thought they knew—Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece In Praise of Lying. But the accounts of those in his circle of friends, lovers, and enemies become increasingly contradictory, murky, and suspect. Is everyone lying, or just telling their own ... Read more

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  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    by Thornton Wilder ...
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  • The Vineyard

    A Novel

    by Maria Duenas ...
    Series series Bestselling Historical Romance
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    by Leonardo Padura ...
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    Padura’s best novel. Assured in pace and style. A suspenseful mystery, a cruel family saga and an ode to literature and his beloved island, all rolled into one. 2. The titles in the Havana Quartet, Havana Red, Havana Black, Havana Blue and Havana Gold were widely praised in the US and the UK and are in their third reprints. They are Bitter Lemon’s best selling titles with sales of over 70,000. 3. ... Read more

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