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En "Soledades, galerías y otros poemas" encontramos al Machado "misterioso y silencioso". Un Machado que elabora un modernismo íntimo que permitirá que sus poemas resistan bien la prueba del tiempo y los embates de las modas literarias. El audiolibro de Machado es un libro teñido de melancolía; con ello estamos descubriendo esa veta de romanticismo que nunca habrá de abandonar.

La historia comienza con una joven llamada Norma Restarick, quien visita la residencia de Miss Marple en St. Mary Mead. Norma está preocupada y le cuenta a Miss Marple que siente que algo extraño está sucediendo en su vida y que alguien podría estar tratando de dañarla. Miss Marple, intrigada por la historia, decide investigar. A medida que indaga, descubre que Norma comparte un apartamento en Londres con dos otras mujeres y que ha habido tensiones entre ellas, especialmente después de la aparición de una muñeca extraña en su habitación.

In Had I Known, the former host of Good Morning America, health advocate, international speaker, mother of seven, grandmother of one, and New York Times best-selling author Joan Lunden speaks candidly about her battle against breast cancer, her quest to learn about it and teach others, and the transformative effect it has had on her life.

Metrópolis autenticas, casi siempre desconocidas, desde las que se gestionaron los mayores imperios de la antigüedad. Existen pocos trabajos que nos enseñen cómo eran las grandes metrópolis del mundo antiguo, y muchos menos que nos las recreen y que nos den una imagen total que englobe el urbanismo, la arquitectura, el arte, la política o la religión.

This star-studded rendition of Ogden Nash's humorous verses backed by a full-orchestra performance of Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals will surely delight adults and children of all ages.

Two ranching families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, are locked in a bitter century-old feud. In The Cowboy, Johnston brings to life a breathtaking love story between the Blackthornes' oldest son and the Creeds' beautiful daughter - a magnificent novel of passion, vengeance, and star-crossed love.

Melissa Craig has settled into a new job in the charming Cotswolds village of Upper Benbury. She is teaching French to several of the local teenagers, which gives her a fascinating insight into the young people’s lives. Material for a new novel, perhaps.... Her quiet life is interrupted when she sees her new neighbour running out of the woods in a blind panic. Melissa rushes to help him, but what she finds leaves her breathless: The body of young woman is lying on the bank of the river.

Didion discusses her deeply moving new memoir about her daughter, and her own fears and thoughts about growing old, in her first book since the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking. As with that memoir, in her new one Didion confides and confronts her fears, frailties, and sorrows about her life as she looks back and forward. In conversation with her nephew Griffin Dunne ( After Hours).

"Sólo el que ha experimentado el colmo del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema." Abatido por una vil traición, Edmond Dantés, un joven marinero, regresa a Marsella para hacer justicia. Obsesionado por su inesperado destino, el personaje experimenta la lucha interna entre la luz y la oscuridad para tramar la venganza perfecta enmascarándose con el personaje el Conde de Montecristo. Considerada una de las mejores novelas de todos los tiempos, la obra ahonda de manera exquisita los sentimientos mas profundos de la justicia, la lealtad, la venganza, la piedad y el perdón.

Experience Henry V as a powerful full-cast drama with entertaining and enlightening commentary that explains what's what and who's who as the plot unfolds. To help you get the most out of Shakespeare, the narrator offers historical insights and background information, so you can enjoy the jokes, appreciate the references, and get a real sense of Shakespeare's world.

Cassie Wright, legendaria reina del porno en decadencia, decide culminar su carrera batiendo el récord mundial de polvos consecutivos con hombres distintos. Seiscientos, ni más ni menos. En una habitación repleta y ruidosa, los señores 72, 137 y 600 aguardan su turno para hacer historia. Cada uno de ellos espera que el breve encuentro con Cassie cambie sus vidas para siempre, pero, como en todas las novelas de Chuck Palahniuk, nada sale como esperaban.

Herramientas y argumentos claros, con un lenguaje sencillo, para mantener una conversación sincera, abierta y constructiva con nuestros hijos que dé respuesta a todas sus dudas y siente las bases de una sexualidad sana. Un libro necesario y útil, de un autor experto en el tema, en un momento en el que cunde la alarma y la preocupación en padres y educadores por una cuestión de máxima vigencia: el sexo en internet y el consumo de pornografía por parte de menores y de jóvenes.

The first Olympic women's marathon and the battle for the right to run.

It kills me that the only way I can spend proper time with my son Toby is by helping out at his school camp. I sit under the emerald green pine trees and Toby’s little face lights up as he runs past me, joining the other chattering, happy children around us. Then I see my ex, David, glaring at me and my heart sinks. He may have full custody, but he’d love nothing more than for me to disappear. Forever.

A newspaperman of the people, by the people, and for the people - that's Randy Stone of the Chicago Star, pounding the city streets night after night on the trail of crime, corruption, and haunting human interest stories! Frank Lovejoy stars as Stone in these 16 digitally restored and remastered episodes from 1950. Sheldon Leonard, Joan Banks, William Conrad, Lurene Tuttle, Gerald Mohr, Betty Lou Gerson, Bill Johnstone, and more portray the complex characters in his intriguing adventures.

A delightful afternoon stroll turns to disaster when the guests of an artists’ retreat in the French mountains spot the body of a man at the bottom of a cliff. Amongst them is Melissa Craig, who, binoculars at the ready, suddenly finds herself at the center of a very puzzling mystery. Was it an accident, or was he pushed? Her suspicions are confirmed when another body is found days later in almost the exact same spot. It can’t be a coincidence; someone in this idyllic French village is up to no good, and it’s up to her to find out who.

Doses of concentrated thrills and pure, raw excitement are delivered directly on the heels of the most explosive musical theme in radio - a crashing rendition of Mussorgsky's "Night On Bald Mountain". Produced and directed by William N. Robson, Norman MacDonnell, and Antony Ellis - and featuring stories by Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, and more - Escape is capable of chilling spines as expertly as it accelerates heartbeats.

Delve into the world of Rosemary Timperley if you dare! In this chilling collection, discover ten chilling full-cast dramatisations of sinister stories and suspenseful tales and immerse yourself in a totally unique listening experience. Recorded with a full musical score, these standalone tales are perfect for fans of the supernatural and will raise goosebumps on even the warmest of days.

In this speech training manual, we teach you how to produce all British English sounds. Each chapter in the book covers one sound. First, we explain how to place your tongue, lips, and jaw for the target sound. Then you repeat the sound in words, phrases, sentences, proverbs, famous quotations, verses, and tongue twisters. In addition, you drill contraction exercises, words with silent letters, and French expressions used in business in the English-speaking world. This is the most complete and comprehensive resource for business speech training.

The process of healing is one of self-realization. It is a peeling away from the fears, concepts, and negativity that obscure the light of our own true nature and its innate essence of compassion, creativity, wisdom, and love. As negativity is transformed, the physical body often heals as well.