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Marianne Daventry haría cualquier cosa para escapar del aburrimiento de Bath y las atenciones amorosas de un cretino que no le interesa en absoluto. Así que cuando le llega una invitación de su hermana gemela, Cecily, para que se una a ella en una maravillosa casa de campo, aprovecha la...

Have you ever had the hiccups? Amber and her sister want to find a cure! After multiple attempts, though, they still haven’t figured one out. Learn about why we get the hiccups and whether or not there’s a cure!

From best-selling mystery and suspense author Blake Pierce comes book nine in a gripping new series. When a violent and deranged killer escapes a maximum security mental hospital, only FBI Special Agent Valerie Law and her criminally-insane unit has a chance to track him down. But is this killer truly insane? Or is he just smart enough to pretend?

Time is running out for Kane. His human body is rapidly aging, and he must unlock secrets that can transform him back into a wolf before it's too late. Only Cal Davis holds the key. And their "pack of two" is not the only one searching for Cal. But they have a lead. Dr. George Fineman has known Cal since he was a boy and has been quietly helping him survive in the British Columbian forest. If Kane and Emelda can convince Fineman to reveal Cal's hideaway, they will finally get the solution they seek.

In an unnamed Latin American country, a mysterious plague quickly spreads, erasing the memory of anyone infected. Angustias Romero flees with her family, but their flight is tragically cut short when she loses both her children. Consumed by grief, she finds herself within the hallucinatory expanse of Mezquite—a town corrupted by greed and populated by storytellers, refugees, and violent, predatory gangs. Here, Angustias is finally able to lay her children to rest at the Third Country, a cemetery run by the larger-than-life Visitación Salazar and a refuge beyond suffering and fear.

No puedo volver con mi familia. No soy digna de ellos, nunca podría volver a ser uno de ellos. La hermana que conocen, aman y recuerdan, no existe. Ya nunca más. Hasta él.... El que me acogió, me rescató de mis demonios, mis miedos, sanando mis cicatrices. Reconstruyéndome, poco a poco. No me acerco a la gente, y ciertamente no necesito a nadie. Hasta ella... Ahora, es todo lo que quiero, todo lo que necesito. El imbécil egoísta en mí, quiere robarla, tenerla solo para mí.

ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA "CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU", DE. JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA MALCOLM MCDOWELL E JAMES EARL JONES MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA. Se a viagem no tempo fosse uma possibilidade, o que você diria ao seu eu adolescente, caso o encontrasse? Em Carta Para Meu Jovem Eu, personalidades das mais diversas áreas refletem sobre o que teria sido bom saber antes. Elas também lembram aqueles momentos mágicos que gostariam de reviver. O livro inclui a participação especial de personalidades brasileiras.

Have you ever wanted to know more about cruise ships and how they stay afloat on the water? Learn more about the different parts of a cruise ship, how it functions, where the crew operate the ship, and activities that passengers can do while aboard.

Hop in your rocket ship for a trip to the stars! In this fantasy rhyming poem about flying through space, listeners will visit Mars, the purple kitties of the planet Fuzz, and an asteroid inhabited by dinosaurs—all in plenty of time to return home for lunch!

When volcanoes blow their top, watch out! They can blast out dangerous lava, rocks, ash, and steam that can contain clouds of poisonous gas. But when lava cools, it becomes rock, which in turn creates new land.

Bees pollinate the flowers of the plants we eat. Without pollination, plants can't grow fruits and seeds. Which foods would you miss if we didn't have honeybees? So next time you're eating a meal, stop and thank the bees for their hard work!

One way astronomers search for planets is by looking for the shadows they cast in front of stars.

Todos los días, por todos los medios de supuesta comunicación, tenemos un bombardeo incesante de noticias sobre Venezuela que nos presentan un panorama apocalíptico del país suramericano: «En Venezuela no hay comida, no hay pan, no hay luz, los hospitales no funcionan, se están muriendo de...

When Washington D.C. human rights attorney Craig Malcault’s investigations uncover connections to U.S. military intelligence and the mysterious wife of an international biochemical conglomerate’s founder, the assassins are dispatched. Craig’s job is to extract evidence from the hellish pitfall while the top candidate is en route to face and pass his final test.

Mit 10 Jahren wird die ordnungsliebende Lilibet unerwartet zur Nummer 1 in der englischen Thronfolge. Obwohl sie lieber reitet und mit ihren Hunden spielt, stellt sich Elizabeth zunehmend stärker in den Dienst der Nation und lenkt die Monarchie und das Land pflichtbewusst in neue Zeiten. Am Ende regiert sie über 70 Jahre, besucht 129 Länder, ohne jemals einen Pass zu besitzen, trifft unzählige Persönlichkeiten, die die Welt verändert haben, und ist für die meisten Menschen einfach nicht mehr wegzudenken.

This book charts the emergence of Kate Bush in the early-to-mid-1980s as a courageous experimentalist, a singularly expressive recording artist and a visionary music producer. Track-by-track commentaries focus on the experience of the album from the listener’s point of view, drawing attention to the art and craft of Bush’s songwriting, production and sound design.

Rapunzel thinks today is a bad hair day to end all bad hair days, but it just may be the best day yet.

Why did they come? When they appeared across the sky, speculation wheeled around the world—the aliens were from heaven, the invaders were from hell… or they were proof that neither existed. But when they landed, curiosity gave way to suspicion and the nations reacted with nuclear force, setting off a chain reaction that left the world in ruins. Twenty years later, instead of nearing her retirement, Dr. Elspeth Darrow struggles to forget the loss of her child and husband by plunging herself into the work of operating the last remaining hospital in San Francisco.

It wasn’t until I lost everything—my home, my marriage, even my career—that I started to wonder if our “family curse” might be more than an unfortunate turn of phrase. Now turning forty-five, the age at which every woman in my family dies, I need answers not only for myself but for my two daughters. And I’ll see every specialist in the country if that’s what it takes. But when a lifelong friend discovers a link between my strange family history and an abandoned estate, I can't pass up the opportunity to learn what happened before the death certificates started piling up.

Russkaja narodnaja skazka - proizvedenie ustnogo tvorchestva russkogo naroda, odin iz vidov fol'klornoj prozy. V russkih skazkah russkij narod pytalsja vyskazat' svoe nacional'noe mirooshhushhenie, nastavit' svoih detej v pervobytnoj, no glubokoj zhiznennoj mudrosti, - razreshaja lezhavshie na ego serdce zhiznennye, nravstvennye, semejnye, bytovye i gosudarstvennye voprosy.