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1) Alive: the story of the Andes survivors

Author

Read, Piers Paul

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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The #1 New York Times bestseller and the true story behind the film: A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes. Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The skies were clear that Friday, October 13, 1972, and at 3:30 p.m., the Fairchild's pilot...

2) ¡Viven!: El triunfo del espíritu humano

Author

Read, Piers Paul

Publisher

Penguin Random House Audio

Pub. Date

2023

Language

Español

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Bestseller #1 de The New York Times: La verdadera historia de un equipo de rugby que recurre a lo inimaginable cuando su avión se estrella en los Andes. Reinaba el buen ánimo cuando el Fairchild F-227 despegó desde Mendoza, Argentina, con rumbo a Santiago, Chile. Había cuarenta y cinco pasajeros a bordo, entre ellos un equipo de rugby amateur uruguayo y los amigos y parientes de los jugadores. El cielo estaba despejado ese viernes 13 de octubre...

3) Alice in exile

Author

Read, Piers Paul

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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London, 1913. Conversation among the privileged classes centers on the problems of Ulster, women's rights and the troublesome Balkans. Alice Fry, the independent-minded daughter of a radical publisher, is keen to test the boundaries of what's possible in work and love. Falling for Edward Cobb, the eligible son of a baronet, she goes against her political views and accepts his proposal in marriage. But disturbing changes in her circumstance soon force...

4) The Dreyfus affair: the scandal that tore France in two

Author

Read, Piers Paul

Publisher

Bloomsbury Press

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

5) The Templars

Author

Read, Piers Paul

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Pub. Date

2000

Language

English

6) Alec Guinness: the authorized biography

Author

Read, Piers Paul

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

2005

Language

English

7) Ablaze: the Chernobyl catastrophe and its consequences

Author

Read, Piers Paul

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

c1993

Language

English

8) Scarpia

Author

Read, Piers Paul

Publisher

Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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It is the late 18th century and Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, his fiery passion has seen him expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune inseparably bound to the Pope, whose rule is put in question by the French Revolution. Scarpia enrolls in the papal army and is soon taken up by a...