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Un cuaderno con las memorias de Inés Belmonte, conocida en Melilla como "la reina del azúcar", aparece en un archivo militar entre documentos confidenciales. El juez Prieto abre una investigación, mientras el comandante Fonseca, fascinado por el contenido de los recuerdos de esta mujer, tiene una misión: encontrar en el archivo de la Comandancia el original del Tratado de límites, y evitar una guerra entre España y Marruecos.

Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.

Laurel Hill and her precocious daughter, Skye, have always been each other's everything. The pair lives on Lake Superior, where the local school has classes of just four children and the nearest hospital is a helicopter ride away. Though they live frugally, eking out a living with Laurel's patchwork of jobs, their deep love for each other feels like it can warm them even on the coldest of nights. What more do they need? One otherwise normal afternoon, their landlord decides to evict them in favor of a more profitable summer rental, and they are pushed farther to the margins.

Este es un paquete de 3 libros, que aborda varios subtemas, incluidos, entre otros, los siguientes.

Los filósofos de oriente (China, otros países de Asia, etc.) tienen muchas cosas en común con los filósofos antiguos de occidente (Grecia, Eurasia, etc.). Pero también hay diferencias. En esta guía, destacaremos y compararemos algunas de estas diferencias y similitudes. Algunos otros capítulos están dedicados a varios filósofos de ambas regiones del mundo, a saber, Pitágoras, Mo Ti y Aristippus de Cyrene. Junto con esto, aprenderá sobre tradiciones generales, patrones de pensamiento y mucho más.

Únanse a este viaje en el que la libertad es ley, donde la cadenas de la moralidad no existen, disfruten de sus cuerpos, rían, lloran, bailen, sufran. Dejen atrás la corrección y atraviesen la puerta, pues en ese momento, en cuanto el maestro de ceremonias pronuncie las palabras "Welcome to the freak show!" formarán parte de este carnaval de los horrores repleto de historias que pueden ser reales o no. ¡Arriba el telón! ¡Que salgan al escenario los monstruos! ¡Que comience la magia! ¡Sean todos bienvenidos una vez más a este gran espectáculo de la vida!

Makenna Grace Gold is just your average 12-year-old girl. That is, until she is told that she must protect her newborn brother and sister to safeguard the future of the world. Armed with a mysterious weapon, three Fairy mentors, and a wisecracking earthworm named Fluffy, Makenna must battle the forces of evil and became a defender for hope. Can Makenna truly be "The Virago"? 

Cecilia Carboni ha venticinque anni e per buona parte della vita si è ritrovata a seguire, suo malgrado, i diktat imposti dal padre Alberto, uno dei più quotati avvocati milanesi. Proprio per volere suo, si è laureata in Giurisprudenza e ha iniziato il praticantato nello studio legale di famiglia. Il suo futuro sembra già delineato, quando un giorno le viene rivolta una proposta allettante: lavorare nel prestigioso showroom di Franco Sartori, uno degli stilisti più celebri al mondo.

Forgiveness can often be perceived as saccharine and overtly religious, something just for the spiritually superior or mentally strong. But really it is a gritty, risky concept that is so often relevant to our ordinary everyday lives. Forgiveness explores the subject from every angle, coming from a place of enquiry rather than persuasion, presenting it as an offering, never a prescription. Marina Cantacuzino seeks to investigate, unpick and debate the limits and possibilities of forgiveness.

No one has commanded more universal comment and attention than the mystic who was known by the name of the Comte de St. Germain. A hero of romance, a charlatan, a swindler, and an adventurer; rich and varied were the names that showered freely upon him. Hated by the many, loved and reverenced by the few, time has not yet lifted the veil that screened his true mission from the vulgar speculators of the period. Then, as now, the occultist was dubbed charlatan by the ignorant; only some men and women here and there realized the power with which he stood possessed.

When Meghan is invited to cater for the wedding of one of the oldest citizens of Sandy Bay, she’s happy for the bride-to-be and the opportunity to introduce the guests to her latest creation - orange mousse! Still, she longs for the day when she can wear a white dress and walk down the aisle to marry her Prince Charming. On the day of the wedding, everything seems perfect. The venue is glorious. The weather is beautiful. The couple are radiating love. Until...a strange woman stops the ceremony and claims to be the wife of the groom.

These ladies just want this Christmas nightmare to end. Will they help to find the killers and restore the essence of this most wonderful time of the year? Find out in this box set of Christmas-themed cozy mysteries that will warm your winter heart.

Claire Louisa Rose Bonne de Coëtnempren de Kersaint, duquesa de Duras, nació el 23 de marzo de 1777 en Brest (Francia). Durante la revolución, su padre, el contraalmirante Armand de Kersaint, fue guillotinado; entonces Claire partió para la Martinica de donde era originaria su madre; después emigró a los Estados Unidos, más tarde a Suiza y, finalmente, a Londres, donde se casa con Amédée-Bretagne-Malo de Durfort, duque de Duras en 1797.

1605. Face à l'arrogance anglaise, la fierté écossaise se rebelle. À la cour d'Édimbourg, Meg Mackinnon est venue chercher un époux qui saura tenir tête à l'envahisseur. Dans cette quête pragmatique, il n'est pas question de sentiments. Pourtant, un homme jette le trouble dans son cœur : le farouche Alex MacLeod, un mercenaire qui prétend vendre son épée au plus offrant. Sauf que Meg a reconnu en lui le mystérieux guerrier qui l'a sauvée d'une attaque de brigands sur les routes d'Écosse. Pourquoi ment-il ?

Meghan can’t get over the fact that she’s now married and stares endlessly at her ring finger to confirm that she’s now Mrs. Irvin. She’s pleasantly surprised to discover that her honeymoon will be on a cruise ship, as she’s never been on one before. The honeymoon from paradise suddenly takes a nasty turn when an obnoxious chef is found dead at a cooking event. Things take a turn for the worse when several passengers become violently ill and some of the ship’s crew are confirmed deceased.

Ce livre audio raconte l'histoire bouleversante de Marie, petite fille foudroyée par la mort à la suite d'une maladie en apparence bénigne, à l'âge tendre de deux ans, trois mois et quatorze jours.

Akhila est employée aux impôts. Célibataire, cette quadragénaire n'a jamais été libre de mener sa vie comme elle l'entendait : toujours la fille, la sœur, la tante de quelqu'un, celle qui fait vivre la famille. Sur un coup de tête, elle prend un aller simple pour Kanyakumari, une petite ville balnéaire du sud de l'Inde. Dans l'intimité du sleeping le fameux "compartiment pour dames" qu'elle partage avec cinq autres compagnes, Akhila ose poser la question qui la hante depuis longtemps : une femme a-t-elle vraiment besoin d'un homme pour être heureuse et épanouie ?

Ali es doña manías: el pañuelo de pensar, los desayunos hiperproteicos, la obsesión por la limpieza y el running al amanecer. Debajo de su excéntrico comportamiento y su cuerpo de supermodelo, solo hay una chica que busca desesperadamente ordenar sus sentimientos. No es feliz (todavía). Konrad es don desastre: sin horarios, sin régimen y sin freno... ni en el amor, ni en la comida, ni en el derroche. ¡Gracias al cielo, nació con una creatividad exacerbada que le permite vivir bien y no privarse de nada! Cree que es feliz, hasta que conoce a Ali.

You've been climbing that corporate ladder for years, but are you finding that the higher you go, the tighter the golden handcuffs seem to get? Maybe there’s something else calling you, but you keep pushing it down because you don't see how you could ever pursue it. You are searching for a life of passion and purpose. But how do you get there? In Your Time Is Now, corporate rock star turned author and life coach Tammy L. Breznitsky explains why you're not satisfied with your success and gives you the tools to discover your true passion and live the life of your dreams.

Riley and Jen have been best friends since they were children and they thought their bond was unbreakable. It never mattered to them that Riley is Black and Jen is white. Then Jen's husband, a Philadelphia police officer, is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager and everything changes in an instant.