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    <title><![CDATA[The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined]]></title>
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    <author_name>Steven Pinker</author_name>
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                                      author: Steven Pinker<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82]]></title>
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    <book_id>185404</book_id>
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    <author_name>Charles Darwin</author_name>
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                                      author: Charles Darwin<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Black Swan Mystery (Inspector Onitsura, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Early one morning, a body is found lying next to the railway tracks just outside of Kuki Station in Saitama Prefecture, shot dead. It is identified as belonging to the owner of a local mill which is embroiled in a labour dispute. Suspicion initially falls on the workers' union, then on a new religious sect that has been gaining followers recently.<br /><br />Chief Inspector Onitsura and his assistant Tanna are called in to investigate, and soon set off in a journey across Japan, from Tokyo to Kyoto and Osaka, and finally to the island of Kyushu, in a hunt for the killer.<br /><br />But as they investigate, the killer strikes again, and again. Will they be able to catch the murderer before even more people are slain?]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Tetsuya Ayukawa</author_name>
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                                      author: Tetsuya Ayukawa<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.44<br/>
                                      book published: 1959<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title>Seis Cuatro</title>
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    <book_id>56022470</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[La pesadilla que ningún padre podría soportar. El caso que ningún inspector podría resolver. El giro que ningún lector podría prever.<br /><br />En enero de 1989, una niña de siete años fue raptada al norte de Tokio. Los padres nunca llegaron a saber la identidad del secuestrador. Tampoco volvieron a ver a su hija. Nombre en clave del caso: Seis Cuatro.<br /><br />Más de una década después, el jefe de prensa de la policía se ve obligado a volver sobre el suceso, cuyo estigma no se ha diluido en el tiempo: el fracaso de la investigación sigue siendo motivo de escándalo. Pero el veterano Mikami no aspira ya a resolver el crimen, solo pretende tender una mano a la familia de la víctima y contribuir de algún modo a limpiar la reputación del cuerpo. Sin embargo, tras detectar una irregularidad en el expediente, Mikami acabará desvelando el móvil de un delito que encierra secretos inimaginables.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Hideo Yokoyama</author_name>
    <isbn>8418107251</isbn>
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    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
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                                      author: Hideo Yokoyama<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.21<br/>
                                      book published: 2012<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title>El discípulo del diablo</title>
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    <book_id>19275150</book_id>
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    <author_name>Shirō Hamao</author_name>
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                                      author: Shirō Hamao<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.80<br/>
                                      book published: 1929<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:11:47 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[La biblioteca de los nuevos comienzos]]></title>
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    <book_id>177329990</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Entra tú también en la biblioteca de la Sra. Komachi. Un libro puede cambiarte la vida. <br />La novela japonesa sobre el poder de los libros vendida en 22 países.<br />En el corazón de Tokio hay una pequeña biblioteca donde trabaja la Señora Komachi.<br />Teclea en su ordenador a velocidad de vértigo y en sus momentos de ocio elabora pequeñas figuras de fieltro que ofrece a los visitantes más especiales, ya sea una flor, un pequeño gato o un cangrejo. <br />Y también les hace una pregunta que parece fácil de contestar: "¿Qué estás buscando?" Su extraño magnetismo lleva a los clientes a compartir con ella sus grandes sueños y, sin esperarlo, salen de la biblioteca con un libro muy especial entre las manos, recomendado por la Sra. Komachi.<br />Tras leer, descubren puertas donde antes solo veían muros, nuevos caminos donde antes solo había obstáculos. Cada uno de ellos descubrirá un libro tiene el gran poder de cambiarnos la vida.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>304</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Michiko Aoyama</author_name>
    <isbn>8408277189</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
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                                      author: Michiko Aoyama<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.94<br/>
                                      book published: 2020<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:24:34 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions]]></title>
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                                      author: John Grisham<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.05<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot, #7.5)]]></title>
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    <book_id>16352</book_id>
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    <author_name>Charles  Osborne</author_name>
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                                      author: Charles  Osborne<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.64<br/>
                                      book published: 1998<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title>La bestia ciega</title>
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    <book_id>36410555</book_id>
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    <book id="36410555">
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    <author_name>Edogawa Rampo</author_name>
    <isbn>8494673262</isbn>
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                                      author: Edogawa Rampo<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.75<br/>
                                      book published: 1928<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[»Das wär nix für mich, so’n Lebenssinn. Erstmal muss man ihn finden. Und dann muss man drauf aufpassen, damit man ihn nicht verliert.«<br /><br />Richard Gold hat alles vorbereitet. Heute ist der Tag, an dem er sich das Leben nehmen wird. Der Strick liegt schon um seinen Hals, als sich ein dürrer Kater vor das Fenster setzt, interessiert glotzt – und Gold komplett aus dem Konzept bringt. Als dann der Kater auch noch bei Gold einzieht, weil der einen großen Fernseher hat, ein „extremst“ weiches Bett und pünktlich Essen serviert, beginnt die skurrile Freundschaft zwischen zwei Außenseitern, von denen zumindest einer ganz fest an ein Happy End im Leben glaubt.<br /><br />Ein Mann, der sterben will. Ein Kater, der ein Zuhause sucht. Eine berührende und zugleich urkomische Geschichte über eine außergewöhnliche Freundschaft und den Weg zurück ins Leben.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>159</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Jochen Gutsch</author_name>
    <isbn>3641295912</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
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                                      author: Jochen Gutsch<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.17<br/>
                                      book published: 2023<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[La primera investigación de Maigret]]></title>
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    <book_id>6678619</book_id>
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      <num_pages>227</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Georges Simenon</author_name>
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                                      author: Georges Simenon<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.73<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:50:46 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[El café de los gatos mensajeros]]></title>
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    <book_id>228555049</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>UNA CAFETERÍA MUY ESPECIAL, CINCO ENCUENTROS Y UN GATO QUE DESEA VOLVER A VER A SU DUEÑA</b><br /><br /><b> Desde Japón, una novela sobre la magia de las pequeñas cosas<br /><br /></b><b>Más de 100.000 ejemplares</b><br /><br />Tras una larga vida con una familia que lo ha llenado de amor, Fūta acaba de llegar al más allá. Pero entre el mundo de Michiru, su dueña, y el de este gato atigrado existen puentes que conectan ambos sitios.<br /><br />El Café Pont se encuentra en el limbo y es un lugar de lo más los clientes escriben en una tarjeta el nombre de la persona a la que desean volver a ver y Nijiko, la propietaria, asigna un gato mensajero a cada petición. El trabajo de los mininos consiste en provocar el encuentro y transmitir las palabras que el solicitante y el destinatario jamás se dijeron. Es una tarea complicada y de gran responsabilidad, pero no hay nada que un ronroneo no pueda lograr.<br /><br />Además, si consigue completar cinco trabajos como gato mensajero, Fūta podrá volver a ver a Michiru. ¿Conseguirá acurrucarse en su regazo de nuevo y agradecerle el tiempo que pasaron juntos?<br /><br />★★★★★ «Te deja con una maravillosa sensación de esperanza y calidez.»<br /><br />★★★★★ «Es muy especial. Te llegará al corazón.»<br /><br />★★★★★ «Una historia que emocionará a los amantes de los gatos.»]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Nagi Shimeno</author_name>
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                                      author: Nagi Shimeno<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.92<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Little Sparrow Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #6)]]></title>
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    <book_id>184156364</book_id>
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    <author_name>Seishi Yokomizo</author_name>
    <isbn>1782278877</isbn>
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                                      author: Seishi Yokomizo<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.76<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women]]></title>
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    <author_name>Akimitsu Takagi</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Murder at the Black Cat Cafe (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #7)]]></title>
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    <book_id>219206186</book_id>
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    <author_name>Seishi Yokomizo</author_name>
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    <title>El quinteto de Nagasaki</title>
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    <author_name>Aki Shimazaki</author_name>
    <isbn>8426405592</isbn>
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                                      average rating: 4.11<br/>
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    <author_name>Seishi Yokomizo</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Village of Eight Graves (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #3)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Seishi Yokomizo</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Murder in the Mews (Hercule Poirot, #16)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Agatha Christie</author_name>
    <isbn>1572702842</isbn>
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    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
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                                      author: Agatha Christie<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.81<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title>Sin noticias de Gurb</title>
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    <author_name>Eduardo Mendoza</author_name>
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    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
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                                      author: Eduardo Mendoza<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.78<br/>
                                      book published: 1990<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 07 Jan 2026 04:45:17 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[El clan Inugami (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>16029556</book_id>
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    <author_name>Seishi Yokomizo</author_name>
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    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
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                                      author: Seishi Yokomizo<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.74<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Inspector Imanishi Investigates]]></title>
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    <book_id>112895</book_id>
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    <author_name>Seichō Matsumoto</author_name>
    <isbn>1569470197</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
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                                      author: Seichō Matsumoto<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.83<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (George Smiley, #5; Karla Trilogy, #1)]]></title>
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    <author_name>John le Carré</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Poet (Jack McEvoy, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #5)]]></title>
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    <book_id>32506</book_id>
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    <author_name>Michael    Connelly</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Seishi Yokomizo</author_name>
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                                      author: Seishi Yokomizo<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.62<br/>
                                      book published: 1946<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Los misterios de la taberna Kamogawa (Detectives culinarios Kamogawa, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>132057830</book_id>
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    <author_name>Hisashi Kashiwai</author_name>
    <isbn>8419346020</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
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                                      author: Hisashi Kashiwai<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.62<br/>
                                      book published: 2013<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:21:00 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>Flores de verano</title>
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    <book_id>12625769</book_id>
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      <num_pages>136</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Tamiki Hara</author_name>
    <isbn>8415130074</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      author: Tamiki Hara<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.83<br/>
                                      book published: 1947<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:58:43 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Cards on the Table (Hercule Poirot, #15)]]></title>
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    <book_id>16297</book_id>
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    <author_name>Agatha Christie</author_name>
    <isbn>0425205959</isbn>
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                                      author: Agatha Christie<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.94<br/>
                                      book published: 1936<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:30:11 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>La ciudad de los cadáveres</title>
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    <book_id>218716190</book_id>
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    <author_name>Yoko Ota</author_name>
    <isbn>9566117116</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
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                                      author: Yoko Ota<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.27<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Murder in Mesopotamia (Hercule Poirot, #14)]]></title>
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    <book_id>16360</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[An archaeologist’s wife is murdered on the shores of the River Tigris in Iraq.<br /><br />It was clear to nurse Amy Leatheran that something sinister was going on at the Hassanieh dig, something associated with the presence of ‘Lovely Louise’, the wife of the celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. But she couldn't pinpoint it.<br /><br />In a few days’ time Hercule Poirot was due to drop in at the excavation site. With Louise suffering terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late…]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Agatha Christie</author_name>
    <isbn>0007113803</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
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                                      author: Agatha Christie<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.92<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 02 Nov 2025 05:32:03 -0800]]></pubDate>
    <title>El Pantano del Diablo</title>
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    <book_id>231506344</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Germain, un joven labrador viudo y padre de tres hijos, lleva una vida austera en casa de sus suegros. Ante la insistencia de estos, accede con desgana a cortejar a una viuda en un pueblo cercano. En su viaje lleva consigo a Marie, la joven hija de una vecina, con la misión de dejarla en una granja en el camino. Al caer la noche, la niebla envuelve el paraje y, tras un encuentro inesperado con su hijito Pierre, que lo ha seguido en secreto, se pierden los tres en una landa pantanosa. Obligados a pernoctar en el bosque, el frío y el hambre los acechan. Sin embargo, Marie, con temple y sensatez, alivia las penurias. Germain, maravillado por su valentía y dulzura, siente despertar en su corazón un amor inesperado, sin que la diferencia de edad sea un obstáculo a la admiración y la ternura que ella le inspira.<br /><br />Novela «campestre» escrita en 1846, El Pantano del Diablo fue un éxito inmediato desde su publicación y sigue siendo una de las novelas más conocidas de la autora. La obra ha sido adaptada en varias ocasiones al teatro, al cine y a la televisión.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>184</num_pages>
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    <author_name>George Sand</author_name>
    <isbn>8412938283</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
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                                      author: George Sand<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 01 Nov 2025 03:51:46 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>La isla misteriosa</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[First published in 1875, The Mysterious Island is one of Jules Verne’s most popular and enduring works. Set during the years of the American Civil War, it tells the tale of a group of castaways who end up on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, surviving thanks to their ingenuity, skill, determination, and the intermittent help of a mysterious power that appears to benevolently assist them in their times of greatest need. Translated and published in English the very same year as the original French edition, the novel incorporates themes and characters of two other novels by Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, both published during the previous decade.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Jules Verne</author_name>
    <isbn>8476347723</isbn>
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                                      author: Jules Verne<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.06<br/>
                                      book published: 1875<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Call of the Wild / White Fang]]></title>
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    <author_name>Jack London</author_name>
    <isbn>1853260266</isbn>
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                                      author: Jack London<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 4.11<br/>
                                      book published: 1903<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:51:26 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>Robin Hood</title>
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    <book_id>52722409</book_id>
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                                      author: Henry Gilbert<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.84<br/>
                                      book published: 1912<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Filosofía y medicina. Una historia de amor]]></title>
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    <author_name><![CDATA[Benjamín Herreros Ruíz-Valdepeñas]]></author_name>
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    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
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                                      author: Benjamín Herreros Ruíz-Valdepeñas<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:52:32 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[Las ocho campanadas del reloj (Arsène Lupin, #11)]]></title>
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    <book_id>62849731</book_id>
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    <author_name>Maurice Leblanc</author_name>
    <isbn>8419004650</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      average rating: 3.78<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Arsène Lupin: caballero ladrón]]></title>
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                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.70<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Arsenio Lupin contra Herlock Sholmes]]></title>
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                                      author: Maurice Leblanc<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.75<br/>
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                                      rating: 2<br/>
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    <title>Los tigres de Mompracem</title>
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                                      author: Emilio Salgari<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.60<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Pelican Introduction: Social Class in the 21st Century]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'. Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today? How has the meaning of class changed? What does this mean for social mobility and inequality? In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our society is changing and what this means for the people who find themselves in the margins as well as in the centre. Their new conceptualization of class is based on the distribution of three kinds of capital - economic (inequalities in income and wealth), social (the different kinds of people we know) and cultural (the ways in which our leisure and cultural preferences are exclusive) - and provides incontrovertible evidence that class is as powerful and relevant today as it's ever been.]]></book_description>
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                                      author: Mike Savage<br/>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[As portrayed in Homer's 'Odyssey', Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, ruthlessly hangs Penelope's twelve maids.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Margaret Atwood</author_name>
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                                      author: Margaret Atwood<br/>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Twenty-one, passionate and headstrong, Ann Veronica Stanley is determined to live her own life. When her father forbids her from attending a fashionable Ball, she decides she has no choice but to leave her family home and make a fresh start in London. There, she finds a world of intellectuals, socialists, and suffragettes - a place where, as a student in Biology at Imperial College, she can be truly free. But when she meets the brilliant Capes, a married academic, and quickly falls in love, she soon finds that freedom comes at a price.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>H.G. Wells</author_name>
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                                      author: H.G. Wells<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.57<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions]]></title>
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    <author_name>Jaak Panksepp</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[En busca de la mente: El largo camino para comprender la vida mental (y lo que aún queda por descubrir) (Ciencia que Ladra… serie Mayor) (Spanish Edition)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Stanislas Dehaene</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Las pequeñas alegrías: La felicidad del instante]]></title>
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    <author_name>Daniel C. Dennett</author_name>
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                                      author: E.M. Forster<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.91<br/>
                                      book published: 1908<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title>Bouvard y Pecuchet</title>
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    <book_id>202255496</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Corneille, Racine, Voltaire, Balzac, George Sand. Quiseram saber tudo sobre o amor, o sujeito filosófico, a política, o socialismo, o belo, a estética, o sublime, a escrita, Deus, a Bíblia, a educação. Apaixonaram-se, mas as mulheres revoltavam-nos. Quiseram saber tudo sobre tudo - "mas não tardaram a aborrecer-se, porque os seus espíritos precisavam de um trabalho, as suas vidas de um objectivo", escreve o autor.<br /><br />Flaubert explicou um dia, numa carta a Adèle Perrot, que "Bouvard e Pécuchet" seria "uma enciclopédia da estupidez humana - verá que o sujeito é ilimitado". Mas o autor de "Madame Bovary" não chegou a terminar esta obra, publicada postumamente. Metódico e disciplinado, deixou um plano escrito sobre como deveria acabar o romance. São essas explicações que vêm no final do livro, três páginas de tópicos sobre os destinos dos dois amigos. Aí se verá que a obra é fascinante - não é só um retrato da superficialidade dos conhecimentos, mas uma dura denúncia das banalidades da vida intelectual francesa. Numa carta a Ivan Turgueniev, em Agosto de 1874, Flaubert escreveu: "Parece-me que vou embarcar numa viagem enorme por regiões desconhecidas e de que não voltarei mais." Era mesmo verdade.<br /><br />“O estilo está antes sob as palavras do que nelas.”]]></book_description>
    <book id="202255496">
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    <author_name>Gustave Flaubert</author_name>
    <isbn>8412746147</isbn>
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                                      author: Gustave Flaubert<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.80<br/>
                                      book published: 1881<br/>
                                      rating: 2<br/>
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    <title>Amor y pedagogía</title>
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    <book_id>190740</book_id>
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    <author_name>Miguel de Unamuno</author_name>
    <isbn>8423972631</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>2</user_rating>
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                                      author: Miguel de Unamuno<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.74<br/>
                                      book published: 1902<br/>
                                      rating: 2<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Te receto un gato (Te receto un gato, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>222992691</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>¿Quién imaginaría que la cura perfecta ronronea?</b><br /><br />En un oscuro callejón de Kioto se esconde la Clínica Kokoro, un lugar envuelto en misterio al que solo llegan quienes más lo necesitan. Su peculiar tratamiento consiste en "prescribir" gatos, una solución que desconcierta a los pacientes, pero que guarda el potencial de cambiar sus vidas.<br /><br />Guiados por el excéntrico Dr. Nike y su malhumorada enfermera Chitose, los pacientes buscan un joven administrador, cómo recuperar la alegría tras perder su empleo; una madre agotada, la forma de reconectar con su hija; una diseñadora, el descanso que tanto necesita; y una geisha, el consuelo tras una pérdida dolorosa. Cada uno enfrenta sus conflictos internos mientras encuentra en sus compañeros felinos una inesperada guía, demostrando que, a veces, el amor y la compañía de un gato pueden ser el primer paso hacia la sanación.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Syou Ishida</author_name>
    <isbn>8408300504</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      author: Syou Ishida<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.71<br/>
                                      book published: 2023<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions]]></title>
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    <book id="29358403">
      <num_pages>240</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Per Molander</author_name>
    <isbn>1612195695</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
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    <user_shelves>pendientes</user_shelves>
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    <average_rating>3.23</average_rating>
    <book_published>2014</book_published>
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                                      author: Per Molander<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.23<br/>
                                      book published: 2014<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Jun 2025 01:59:22 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title><![CDATA[La especie elegida: La larga marcha de la evolución humana]]></title>
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    <book_id>78944</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[¿Es el hombre «la especie elegida», la consecuencia necesaria de la larga marcha de la evolución? ¿Es, por el contrario, un accidente, el resultado de una de tantas opciones posibles en la historia de la vida? ¿Qué fue antes, un ser bípedo o un ser inteligente? ¿Desde cuándo hablan los seres humanos? ¿Eran monógamos nuestros antepasados, cómo vivían, de qué se alimentaban? Este libro ha sido concebido para dar respuestas a estas y a muchas otras preguntas acerca de nuestros orígenes. Con el rigor científico que se espera de investigadores de primera fila mundial, Juan Luis Arsuaga e Ignacio Martínez nos ofrecen en <i>La especie elegida</i> la mejor y más documentada síntesis acerca del enigma del hombre.]]></book_description>
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      <num_pages>342</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Juan Luis Arsuaga</author_name>
    <isbn>8478809090</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
    <user_read_at><![CDATA[Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000]]></user_read_at>
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                                      author: Juan Luis Arsuaga<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.06<br/>
                                      book published: 1998<br/>
                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:33:40 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>A Modern Utopia</title>
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    <author_name>H.G. Wells</author_name>
    <isbn>0141441127</isbn>
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    <user_rating>3</user_rating>
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                                      author: H.G. Wells<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.25<br/>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[El terror gótico de Oscar Wilde ilustrado bajo el magnífico estilo de Lacombe<br />El reconocido escritor y artista gráfico francés Benjamin Lacombe se sumerge en esta ocasión en la oscura historia de Oscar Wilde. El retrato de Dorian Gray es considerado hoy un clásico moderno de la literatura occidental, así como una de las últimas obras de la novela de terror gótica. <br />Una intrigante historia sobre la obsesión por la eterna juventud, el narcisismo, la vanidad y la influencia corruptora del placer y la belleza. Lacombe, con su llamativo estilo reconocido a nivel internacional, otorga una nueva visión al texto. Convierte la asfixiante historia de Dorian Gray y su espiral hedonista en una apasionante obra de narrativa ilustrada para adultos.]]></book_description>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[La Historia del Pensamiento de Jesús Mosterín está integrada por libros monográficos autónomos, que se caracterizan por la frescura de la mirada, el enfoque interdisciplinar, la relevancia actual, la lucidez del análisis y la claridad de la exposición. En su conjunto, la serie ofrece una panorámica única y completa de la evolución de las ideas filosóficas, religiosas, científicas y políticas, situadas en su contexto social. El volumen correspondiente a El pensamiento arcaico todavía no filosófico ni científico, aunque poseedor ya de una visión del mundo, una historia del origen de las cosas, una justificación del incipiente poder político, una moral y unas reflexiones sobre el sentido de la vida y de la muerte# trata de las brumosas raíces del pensamiento humano en la Prehistoria, así como de su desarrollo posterior en Mesopotamia, Egipto, las culturas arcaicas del Egeo y de la India, la cultura indoeuropea y, por último, las civilizaciones arcaicas de Mesoamérica.]]></book_description>
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                                      author: Søren Kierkegaard<br/>
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                                      author: H.G. Wells<br/>
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                                      author: H.G. Wells<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.84<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title>Sobre Literatura</title>
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    <author_name>Umberto Eco</author_name>
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    <user_rating>2</user_rating>
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                                      author: Umberto Eco<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.77<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Thirty-Nine Steps (Richard Hannay, #1)]]></title>
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                                      author: John Buchan<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.80<br/>
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                                      rating: 2<br/>
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    <author_name>Loïc Bollache</author_name>
    <isbn>8411489469</isbn>
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                                      author: Loïc Bollache<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.71<br/>
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                                      rating: 4<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[China (Historia del Pensamiento)]]></title>
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    <title>Cuentos macabros</title>
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                                      author: Edgar Allan Poe<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Alice de l'autre côté du miroir]]></title>
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    <book_id>25736913</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Excitante historia de honor y valor del gran Alejandro Dumas presentada en formato digital con traduccion unica al espanol.<br />Han pasado diez años, desde los sucesos de la novela Veinte años después. Ahora D'Artagnan es el teniente de los mosqueteros; el cardenal Mazarino se encuentra muy enfermo, y próximo a su muerte llama al joven rey Luis XIV, y le sugiere que no tome consejeros. Nuevamente D'Artagnan busca a sus amigos, esta vez para llevar a Carlos II a recuperar el trono que perdió su difunto padre.<br />A su vez Porthos busca ascender en la escala social de Francia, por su parte Athos no está de acuerdo con la relación que su hijo Raúl, el Vizconde de Bragelonne, tiene con la joven Luisa de La Vallière, pero ella secretamente se encuentra interesada en el rey Luis XIV desde la visita que hizo en la casa donde trabaja.<br />Aramis, el nuevo jefe de los jesuitas descubre un secreto que ha mantenido oculto la monarquía francesa por años, Luis XIV no fue hijo único al nacer, tuvo un hermano gemelo que fue separado y criado lejos de la realeza, por temor que al crecer intentara luchar por su derecho a gobernar; el es Felipe, desconoce sus derechos y ha crecido sin saber de su familia. Aquí es cuando Aramis planea suplantar al rey por Felipe, ya que el primero se ha vuelto tirano, pero tendrá que enfrentarse a sus amigos D'Artagnan y Athos, fieles al monarca; contando con el apoyo de Porthos que inocentemente cree ayudar al rey...]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Alexandre Dumas</author_name>
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                                      author: Alexandre Dumas<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.23<br/>
                                      book published: 1850<br/>
                                      rating: 2<br/>
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    <title>The Invisible Man</title>
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    <book_id>17184</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[This masterpiece of science fiction is the fascinating story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.]]></book_description>
    <book id="17184">
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    <author_name>H.G. Wells</author_name>
    <isbn>0451528522</isbn>
    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
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                                      author: H.G. Wells<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
                                      average rating: 3.63<br/>
                                      book published: 1897<br/>
                                      rating: 3<br/>
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                                      date added: 2025/04/06<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Edward Lear and the Pussycat: The Adventures of Famous Writers and their Pets]]></title>
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    <book id="52375445">
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    <author_name>Alex       Johnson</author_name>
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    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
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                                      author: Alex       Johnson<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.17<br/>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <title>La Bruja</title>
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    <book id="18004773">
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    <author_name>Jules Michelet</author_name>
    <isbn>8446022133</isbn>
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    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      author: Jules Michelet<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.88<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Filosofía social: una introducción]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Esta obra de Rahel Jaeggi y Robin Celikates ofrece un panorama amplio y riguroso de las cuestiones fundamentales de la filosofía social, entendida como abordamiento filosófico de los fenómenos que emergen en la vida en sociedad. Desde el enfoque normativo, que reivindican, los autores analizan en ella dimensiones sociológico-políticas cruciales, como el reconocimiento, la alienación, la ideología, la solidaridad, el poder y la libertad, lo que confirma la perspectiva crítica desde la que se examina la génesis de las patologías, fallos y crisis institucionales que atenazan a la sociedad neoliberal actual. Se trata, en suma, de una aportación de calado a la materia, que aboga por un diálogo maduro entre las herramientas conceptuales del pensamiento y el elenco empírico y material de tensiones, fracturas y vínculos que atraviesan las sociedades contemporáneas.]]></book_description>
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    <isbn>8411482111</isbn>
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                                      author: Rahel Jaeggi<br/>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:01:33 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>When the Sleeper Wakes</title>
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    <book_id>80939</book_id>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. Finally resorting to medication, he instantly falls into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. Upon waking in the twenty-second century to a strange and nightmarish place, he slowly discovers he is master of the world, revered by an adoring populace who consider him their leader. Terrified, he escapes from his chamber seeking solace—only to realize that not everyone adores him, some even wish to harm him.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>H.G. Wells</author_name>
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    <user_name>Mad</user_name>
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    <title>Filosofía para bufones</title>
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    <author_name>Pedro González Calero</author_name>
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                                      author: Pedro González Calero<br/>
                                      name: Mad<br/>
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