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Nainai has lived in Shanghai for many years, and the time has come to find a wife for her adopted grandson. But when the bride she has chosen arrives from the countryside, it soon becomes clear that the orphaned girl has ideas of her own. Her name is Fu Ping, and the more she explores the residential lanes and courtyards behind Shanghai’s busy shopping streets, the less she wants to return to the country as a dutiful wife. As Fu Ping wavers over her future, she learns the city through the stories of the nannies, handymen, and garbage collectors of postwar Shanghai....

Década de 1950. Con el fallecimiento de la Duquesita, matriarca indiscutible del clan de los Cazalet, desaparecen también para siempre los últimos vestigios del mundo de ayer, ese entorno privilegiado en el que prosperó la familia, un universo de grandes mansiones y leales sirvientes, un perfecto equilibrio entre clase, ocio y tradición.

Estamos en 1945, la guerra ha terminado. El momento tan anhe¬lado por los Cazalet ha llegado finalmente, pero una Inglaterra atormentada por las privaciones y la desintegración del Imperio ensombrece la emoción por la noticia. En Home Place, la Navidad tendrá ese año un sabor agridulce: el de la luminosa promesa de una nueva era, el de la añoranza de una época que no habrá de volver.

La última gran saga familiar de la literatura inglesa del siglo XX.

La colosal saga familiar de Elizabeth Jane Howard, el último gran clásico de las letras inglesas del pasado siglo, da en este cuarto volumen de la serie un memorable paso adelante hacia su brillante y esperada culminación.

In the past decade, there has never been such a pop culture titan as Game of Thrones. We all now live in the seven Kingdoms of Westeros, yearn for the Iron Throne, believe in dragons and know the magic word that makes them breathe fire. What is it in the HBO show, spawned by George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series of fantasy novels, that has propelled it into the cultural Hall of Fame and made it such a global phenomenon, with loyal fans from all nationalities, cultures, ages, genders, and even tastes?

El de 1937 y el de 1938. Dos veranos inolvidables, a salvo bajo la dorada luz de Sussex, donde los días se consumen en una sucesión de juegos infantiles y pícnics en la playa. Tres generaciones de la acomodada familia Cazalet reunidas en su finca natal. Los quehaceres de dos abuelos, cuatro hijos, nueve nietos, innumerables parientes políticos, criados y animales domésticos que abarcan desde lo cotidiano hasta lo más trascendental.

Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This audiobook offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people. At a time when competing political visions are at stake the world over, this audiobook urges a move beyond tinkering at the margins to address the systemic crisis of our economy.

Have you ever gotten home from work and all you wanted was an assistant to help you check who is at the door? Or someone to go switch off the kitchen light while you are watching your favorite movie? Or to turn up the thermostat without you having to leave your seat? Well, the world is already there. The current world relies largely on technology and companies are working towards making many home appliances "smart". With the help of voice assistance, one can easily operate a number gadgets form one location using one device.

At the age of 90-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love affairs. Shimi Carmelli can do up his own buttons, walks without the aid of a frame and speaks without spitting. Among the widows of North London, he’s whispered about as the last of the eligible bachelors.

In this deeply moving narrative, Thomas Howard describes his pilgrimage from Evangelicalism (which he loves and reveres as the religion of his youth) to liturgical Christianity. He soon afterward became a Roman Catholic. He describes Evangelicalism with great sympathy and then examines more formal, liturgical worship with the freshness of someone discovering for the first time what his soul had always hungered for.

Bayne Harris has lost everything she holds dear in her life. Her husband and children are dead. She was the one who caused the accident - the one behind the wheel. She cannot escape that night as it continuously haunts her thoughts. A year after they’re gone, nothing has changed. The memories are still unbearable. She can’t breathe. She can’t function. She needs to get away. View top mountain provides the perfect escape. No one will bother her there. No one will want to check on her or talk about what happened.

Roger Olivetti’s novels never set the world on fire as he had once hoped, but he’s contented himself with a comfortable living as an editor, an apartment in downtown Manhattan, and a lovely and best-selling novelist wife. Then the bottom falls out of the publishing industry and his marriage simultaneously, and Roger finds himself living in the basement of his mother’s house, in the Long Island town where he grew up.

Satori in the Slipstream is a collection of dark flash fiction and short stories. Many of the stories are set in Japan and deal with challenges young adults face. There are also several stories about soldiers dealing with the aftermath of war. Homeless and the brutality of living on the streets is also a major theme in this collection.

Luglio 1945. La guerra è finita e tutto cambia. Con l'affacciarsi di una nuova epoca, anche la vita dei Cazalet si incammina su strade inesplorate: dopo la lunga convivenza forzata, una forte spinta centrifuga porta i membri della famiglia ad allontanarsi l'uno dall'altro. In questo lento ritorno alla quotidianità in tempo di pace, i rapporti coniugali vengono messi a dura prova, mentre Polly, Clary e Louise compiono i loro primi passi incerti nel mondo degli adulti.

It's 1995 and Pete Sinclair is feeling the heat. He's been blamed for closing the Gates of Hell and releasing an imprisoned fallen angel by the name of Azael. Now Pete's on the run from mercenaries who've been paid to take off his head. Lucky for Pete, an angel's apprentice believes he's innocent, but she's not about to let him off the hook. She offers him freedom from Satan's forces in exchange for his help. Brandishing the only weapon that weakens angels, Pete must rescue kidnapped nuns and capture Azael. If only he had a clue how to use a sword.

Elise Gilpatrick never thought she would be a parent, especially not like this. After agreeing to take 15-year-old DJ as a temporary foster placement straight from the police station, she feels like she's in over her head. But, as she learns on the job with a little help from her coworker, Elise realizes that she and DJ need to lean on each other and on the God who pieced them together. Their rocky journey will only prove that it's never too late to find the love of a family.

An exciting journey through the huge - and varied - world of the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite! The Kindle Paperwhite is an incredibly useful, versatile piece of technology, considered both on its own and as an e-reader. It is like an entire library’s worth of knowledge that can fit in your backpack, briefcase, or purse! Within these (digital) pages you’ll find easy-to-understand explanations and descriptions of your machine’s abilities, functions, and protocols.

Marlene Wegener is on the run. She has stolen something from her husband, something priceless, irreplaceable. But she doesn't get very far. When her car veers off a bleak midwinter road she takes refuge in the remote home of Simon Keller, a tough mountain man who lives alone with his demons. Here in her high mountain sanctuary, she begins to rekindle a sense of herself: tough, capable, no longer the trophy on a gangster's arm. But Herr Wegener does not know how to forgive, and in his rage he makes a pact with the devil.

An escort was the last thing that anyone would have expected star student Felicia Bennett to become, but sometimes you have to do things you do not want to do in order to survive. The last thing Felicia expected was for her one and only client to be handsome, married billionaire Jake Johnson. Jake is stuck in a sexless marriage and needs an escape. So he offers Felicia a contract which makes her his exclusive girl to call on when he needs to be sexually satisfied.