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(0)Piers Paul Read
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Captain Alfred Dreyfus was a rising star in the French artillery command. Reserved yet intelligent and ambitious, Dreyfus had everything: a family, money, and a clear path to a prestigious post. However, Dreyfus also had enemies, especially within the impoverished aristocracy, who disliked him because he was rich, bourgeois, and, above all, a Jew. On the basis of flimsy evidence, he was arrested for high treason, and sentenced to life on the legendary,...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
En 1972 partió de Montevideo, con destino a Santiago de Chile, un avión Fairchild Hiller FH-227 de las fuerzas aéreas uruguayas en el que viajaba el equipo de rugby Old Christians y sus acompañantes. Sin embargo, les aguardaba un destino muy distinto del que habían proyectado. Las infernales condiciones climatológicas determinaron la catástrofe y el aparato se estrelló en los Andes. Solo dieciséis de los cuarenta y cinco pasajeros que...
8) Scarpia
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Ignatius Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Juan Uriarte, a handsome and outspoken Spanish ex-priest is on trial, accused of terrorist activities. Meanwhile an international conspiracy is growing, one that reaches into the Vatican itself. When the death of Pope John Paul II brings about the conclave that will elect Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI, a terrorist plot involving blackmail, subterfuge, and mass murder begins to fall into place.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance: Audible Studios
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Piers Paul Read presents an account of the world's greatest nuclear disaster, based on sources not available before the fall of the Soviet Union. Read spent many months in Russia interviewing hundreds of survivors and experts.
16) A married man
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A successful middle-aged barrister feels trapped in both a marriage and a career that no longer feed or fulfill him. He finds himself falling between the bedsheets of a rich and politically connected young woman--a move that sets into motion forces that will shatter his entire world.
17) Alive
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
A team of rugby players survive a plane crash deep in the desolate, snow-covered Andes Mountains. Stranded there, they must overcome incredible odds to stay alive.
