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Fifteen-year-old drum-piper cadet Blodwyn Draxfort is the star of the Brunswick Carnival. Fourteen-year-old Frida and ten-year-old Agnethe are the Mayor of Hamelin’s daughters who do not get on with their step-mother Malinka or fifteen-year-old step-sister Greta. Attending the Yuletide Ball at Burg Dankwarderode palace, Malinka is determined Greta will marry a Welf.

Progressive Islam takes over England, and two men go on the run with a barrel of rum and a wheel of cheese, intent on keeping English pub life alive. Packed with songs, satire, and style as only Chesteron could write. And what are these drinking songs that came under such fire? Simply some of the dearest and most delightful poems that Chesterton or anyone else has ever written: The Song of Right and Wrong, The Song of the Dog Quoodle, Wine and Water, The Logical Vegetarian, The Good Rich Man, The Saracen’s Head, and The Rolling English Road."

In a utopian future society, where all social unrest has been engineered away, a man has an awakening. Starting as a happy worker drone, he meets a woman who reveals to him the reality of life outside the state's control - the glories of chaotic nature in the world and in the heart. They become entwined with a conspiracy against the state, and eventually try to escape beyond the walls of the state's control... only to meet betrayal, failure, and a dark ending in the glorious light of the state's total control.

Davi has left the horde behind her, hoping to find a peaceful solution to keep the Kingdom from being destroyed this time. But her plan to guide the Kingdom is thwarted when her usual love interest, Prince Johann, is already married and the bloodthirsty Duke Aster is running the government. Johann's new husband is everything Davi is not, but he holds a key to the one mystery she can't solve–the origins of the time loop that has entrapped her. She must gain his trust, and swiftly.

Con una prosa ágil, desinhibida y acertada, Rafael Medina nos entrega estos relatos en los que se vale del humor negro para poner ante nosotros, con tonos de retrato más que de denuncia, historias que fácilmente podrían estar sucediendo en este momento a unas cuantas cuadras de nosotros, pero vistos bajo la mirada del "arte de su tiempo" que Medina utiliza con sutiles atisbos de crítica.

On the surface, Denny Voss’s life in rural Minnesota is a quiet one. At thirty years old, he lives at home with his elderly mother and his beloved blind and deaf Saint Bernard, George. He cleans up roadkill to help pay the bills. Though his prospects are limited by a developmental delay—the result of an accident at birth—Denny has always felt that he has “a good life.” So how did he wind up being charged with the murder of a mayoral candidate—after crashing a sled full of guns into a tree?

Saadat Hasan Manto was born in 1912. As a playwright and author, he wrote in what was then British India until the 1947 partition placed him on the Pakistan side of the new border. He wrote mainly in Urdu and was a prolific short story writer. His writing attracted controversy, and he was arrested and charged with obscenity 6 times but was never convicted.

Eliza was once a globe-trotting classical pianist; now, her time is consumed by the dramas of the judgmental 'momfluencers' at the café across from Mara's school, where she spends hours anxiously watching her lonely daughter during playtimes. When she's sent a suggestive photo of her husband Richard with another woman, it's the last straw. She turns to mysterious marriage therapist Ellen Early for help. But Eliza has no idea just how far Ms. Early is willing to go to get results ...

You are cordially invited to participate in my absurd but heartfelt attempt to help save this nation from corruption, stupidity, and evil beings of one sort or another. No Common Sense is a genre-bending political satire-based update of Founding Father Thomas Paine’s original Common Sense.

The Second Chance Bus Stop has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Reports of His Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Ensayo satírico que critica la imposición de tener que trabajar para comer, una reflexión sobre la desgracia de aceptar reglas que jamás aceptaríamos por gusto o necesidad propia. El humor salpica esta breve narración, ya que pasar todo el día en una oficina acaba por ser una experiencia tragicómica, queramos o no.

ஒருமுறை கரப்பான் பூச்சி ஒன்று கடும் தவம் செய்து சரஸ்வதியிடம் இருந்து பேசும் சக்தியைப் பெற்றது. அது, தான் வசித்து வந்த வீட்டின் உரிமையாளர் ஆரோக்கியராஜ் என்பவர் மேல் ஒரு வழக்கு தொடர்ந்தது. கலாட்டாவான அந்த வழக்கு விசாரணையை சினிமா, காதல், மனிதம் என்று பல்வேறு பார்வைகளுடன் அதிகம் 'லாஜிக்' யோசிக்காமல், சும்மா 'ஜாலி'யாய் வாசியுங்கள்!

Romantic Friction has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

நான் பொய் சொல்லவில்லை. நிஜமாய்த்தான் கூறுகிறேன். நான் முன்தினம் காலில் அணிந்து அழகு பார்த்து, அன்று அணியலாம் என்று கழற்றி வைத்திருந்த எனது சாக்ஸில் ஒன்றைக் காணவில்லை. மக்கள் அடுத்த வேளைச் சாப்பாட்டிற்கும் குடிநீருக்கும் போராடிக் கொண்டிருக்கும் இந்த நிலையில் நான் என்னுடைய ஒற்றை சாக்ஸைப் பற்றிப் புலம்புவது கொஞ்சம் அநியாயமாய்த் தோன்றலாம். ஏன், என்னை நீங்கள் சுயநலவாதி என்று கூட நினைக்கலாம். ஆனால் நான் அதற்காகக் கவலைப்படும் ஆள் இல்லை. என் முழுக்கதையை கேளுங்கள். அந்த ஒற்றை சாக்ஸ் திரும்பக் கிடைப்பது எனக்கு எவ்வளவு முக்கியம் என்று உணர்வீர்கள்!

Butler Helen Thorpe is not one to judge, but the participants in Close Encounters for Global Healing are astonishingly unpleasant. The five-day program brings together people from across the political spectrum with the goal of helping them bridge their ideological and personal differences. No one seems interested in a civil conversation, much less global healing, and each person has shown up with their own secret agenda.

Eliza Sheridan is at her wits' end with her husband, Richard. Not only did he uproot her and their daughter Mara's lives for his career, but he also hasn’t honored the one thing he promised before moving to Dublin: that he’d make more time for his wife and daughter. So when Eliza receives an anonymous photo of Richard with another woman, she's just about ready to file for divorce. As a last resort, she pays a visit to a marriage therapist, Ms. Early, who Eliza quickly learns is a bit…alternative in her approach.

That someone might end up dead at the Palms School’s annual glamping trip in Santa Barbara wasn’t far-fetched. Taking city people into the woods was begging for murder. What was surprising was how far these mothers would go to cover it up.

Quizá hace mucho tiempo que no montas en una patineta para deslizarte cuesta abajo a toda velocidad; o que no subes a una torre para hablar con una nube; o que no afinas puntería con un tirachinas; o que no escuchas un cuento de miedo bien contado; o que no te sientas a silbar con tus amigos… Ven, asómate a este libro y disfruta de las aventuras que hacen brillar los días y los llenan de alegría.

Hace ahora justo veinte años, los Kinsella eran, en apariencia, una familia idílica y feliz. De un día para otro, el marido de Rachel vendió sin avisarle la casa en la que vivían y se llevó a los cinco niños al extranjero. Ella tardó un año en volver a verlos, y su pánico era tan intenso que se tambaleaba por la acera a medida que se acercaba a su encuentro.