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¿Nuestra vida está marcada por el apellido que llevamos? Una novela sobre realidades paralelas. Antonio es un empresario gallego con una ambición desmedida. Cuando por fin asume la dirección de la fábrica de ataúdes fundada por su padre, hasta entonces reacio a ceder el testigo, da un cambio radical al negocio. Quiere situarlo en lo más alto y pone la vista en el sector del lujo. Eso lo lleva de viaje por Houston y Ciudad de México, donde alcanza el éxito con el que ha vivido siempre obsesionado.

When Julia asks her deceased husband to take her with him, she doesn’t expect an answer. But when it’s vampires who hear her request, she’s given a choice: follow her husband to the hereafter...or become a witch and assist the undead. As Julia tries to solve the mystery of her husband's death, she will get to know Ludovic, a charming Italian vampire who pledged to never fall in love with a witch again.

In Robert Picart’s debut novel Goddie, we listen to the story of Goddie, a young girl born in the mid-1900s in the picturesque Blue Mountains of Jamaica. With the sudden loss of both parents, Goddie finds herself indentured to strangers in order to pay for school. Heartbroken, weary, and alone, she forms a plan to escape to Great Britain as the Windrush movement escalates.

Una novela inolvidable sobre una mujer de un talento excepcional. La historia real de la orquesta de Vivaldi y su verdadera estrella, Anna Maria della Pietà. En la esplendorosa Venecia del siglo XVIII, la desesperación y la miseria nunca están lejos. A través de un agujero en la pared , las niñas huérfanas son abandonadas en el Ospedale della Pietà cada día.

With Dylan now dead, Kira has no one else to look to for protection but Nick. Unfortunately for Kira, though, Nick doesn't want that responsibility and makes other plans.

Boston, 1919. Laura McKerrigan-Montero conoce el destino de cualquier chica de su posición: casarse con un buen partido que convenga al negocio familiar. Pero Laura tiene un sueño: aprender alta repostería con el afamado maître pâtissier del hotel Taormina. Y, con la excusa de estudiar francés, convence a su severo padre para que le permita residir en Nueva York durante tres meses.

Have you ever thought about having your own fresh eggs or chicken meat right in your backyard but don't know where to start? Then this book is perfect for you. Nothing tastes better than fresh organic eggs. Not only do they taste great but they are more nutritious. You will know exactly what is going into your family's food.

Lo que no supimos decir nos dolerá eternamente y sólo el valor de un corazón abierto podrá liberarnos de esta congoja. Nuestros encuentros en la vida son un momento fugaz que debemos aprovechar con la verdad de la palabra y la sutileza de los sentimientos. Viendo inminente el final de su vida, Olga decide escribir a su nieta una larga carta para dejar constancia de lo que ninguna de las dos ha sabido ni decir ni escuchar. Cuando la nieta regrese, sólo encontrará la relación de los pensamientos, sentimientos, delicadeza y esperanza, soledad y amargura que la vida ha ido tejiendo.

Shalom Sefarad es, probablemente, la mejor novela escrita sobre la historia de la expulsión de los judíos sefardíes, de la terrible equivocación que cometieron los Reyes Católicos. Un libro cargado de sabiduría y erudición, que asombrará al oyente por su ritmo, passion, y belleza.

Ten years ago, Harper Harlow lost a classmate. Jennifer Jessup was sweet, nice, and seemingly aimless in life. She came from a good family, lived on an island, and was spoiled with every material gift that could possibly be bestowed upon her. She was still unhappy. Now, a decade later, her father Byron Jessup has approached Harper with a business opportunity. He wants her - and the rest of her operation, of course - to spend a long weekend on his island. Other psychics and ghost hunters will be there, as will his family. The goal? To find out what happened to Jennifer.

Tras 5 años sin publicar vuelve Álex Rovira, líder de ventas en autoayuda y especialista en psicología del liderazgo, en coautoría con Francesc Miralles, autor del reciente éxito Ikigai. Muchas personas se pierden las pequeñas alegrías esperando encontrar la gran felicidad. Mitad género narrativo, mitad género de autoayuda, este libro descubrirá al lector, mediante capítulos cortos a modo de cartas, cómo centrarse en aquello que es realmente importante en la vida y cómo superar la adversidad y la tristeza.

Whisper Cove is stuck in a heat wave, although it's nothing compared to the fire stoking between Harper Harlow and Jared Monroe. They're happy and enjoying themselves...until a face from the past resurfaces. Jason Thurman and Harper had a brief fling in high school, and when he returns to town to open a restaurant he's hoping they can revisit their relationship as adults.

It's been twenty years since Detective Chelsey Calhoun lost her sister, and she's been searching ever since: for signs, for closure, for other missing girls. Happy endings are rare in Chelsey's line of work. Until one day, local teenager Ellie Black is found in Washington State woods. Two years after her disappearance, she's an echo of herself, but alive. But something's not right about this girl. Where has she been, and who is she protecting? Chelsey has to find out. For herself, for her sister, and before the next girl is taken.

Esta novela constituye no solo la culminación de la narrativa de Mark Twain, sino también una de las obras maestras, junto a Moby Dick, de la novela norteamericana. Clásico entre los clásicos, Mark Twain, con su sentido del humor y su prosa ágil, precisa y soleada, nos lleva al río Mississippi abajo de la mano del inolvidable Huck Finn, que va en busca de la libertad junto a Jim, un muchacho negro que quiere escapar de la esclavitud.

Walter Hartright se traslada a Limmeridge para dar clases de dibujo a Laura, sobrina y heredera del barón Frederick Fairlie. Sin que ninguno de los dos pueda evitarlo, surge entre ellos un profundo amor, enturbiado por el compromiso de la muchacha con sir Percival Glyde, que solo busca arrebatarle su fortuna. La aparición de una misteriosa mujer, sin embargo, cambiará de forma inevitable el curso de los acontecimientos.

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos.

There is no universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative stories in a variety of genres. These tales from fifteen bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee experiences.

With Single Mothers Raising Sons in a Fatherless Home, Dr. William James brings his experience to bear upon the serious topic of boys being raised in homes in which fathers are not present.

In book seven in the series, a whole new group of guests check into the Inn, each with their own reason for being there and their own story to tell. Once of the guests, a single woman named Mylie, finds a long-forgotten letter to Santa in the mouth of the life-sized nutcracker Lacy purchased for Abby after a visit to an antique store. The list does not ask Santa for toys or games, but for time with her parents. Abby wonders what ever happened to the child who left the list, and why the list was still in the nutcracker years later. Her research pulls her into an unsolved mystery.

Everyone deserves a second chance. As general manager of the Portland Storm, Jim Sutter knows this all too well. And he's in the perfect position to grant second chances like he's Santa Claus - even if he never gives himself one. When his friends take matters into their own hands, Jim might just get the holiday surprise of a lifetime.