Stef Penney
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Bajo la Estrella Polar es una nueva epopeya histórica de la premiada autora de La ternura de los lobos, especialmente recomendada para fans de Donna Tartt, Sarah Waters o Jessie Burton.
Flora Mackie cruzó por primera vez el Círculo Polar Ártico a la edad de doce años. En 1889, esta hija de un capitán ballenero de Dundee (Escocia), apodada por la prensa "La Reina de las Nieves", se propuso convertirse en científica y exploradora. Tras luchar...
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Enter the world of Haussmann's newly built City of Light: a dazzling, panoramic novel of love and survival set during the Siege of Paris in 1870.
A diverse group of memorable characters find themselves in Paris during the build up to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. Dreamer Anne is half-Haitian, possessed of incredible gifts, but with a past she tries to bury; Laurence is desperate to spread his wings, develop his talents as a photographer, and escape...
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Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee, dubbed by the press “The Snow Queen”, sets out to become a scientist and explorer. She struggles to be taken seriously but determination and chance lead her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition, despite the many who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men.
Geologist Jakob de Beyn was...