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At the beginning of Virginia Woolf's fantastical and satirical 1928 novel, Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan, England. At the age of 30, Orlando awakens to have found he's now a woman. Moving through the following centuries, the novel stretches over 300 years, during which time Orlando meets several key figures of English literary history.

Todos queremos ganar dinero, pero a muy pocos nos enseñan cómo relacionarnos con él y con qué mentalidad debemos abordar esa consecución de objetivos. Para ellas, además, la información parece aún más alejada de la realidad cotidiana, como si el dinero fuera solo cosa de hombres. Eso se acaba aquí y ahora: Resuelve todas las dudas acerca de cómo hacer crecer tu dinero, aprende a diferenciar la deuda buena de la deuda mala, descubre cómo calcular el riesgo de tus inversiones... ¡PON TUS NÚMEROS A TRABAJAR!

At home, with a baby, no one can hear you scream. Most people think that once you’ve had your happy ever after, nothing can go wrong. But for Millie and Tom, their love did not have a fairy tale beginning. It was not love at first sight, at least not for Millie. When the strength of their love for each other finally brings them together, their marriage is a chance to heal the wounds of their past and build a brighter future. For Tom, the arrival of their daughter is everything he ever dreamed about. But for Millie, the reality of motherhood becomes a lot darker.

Hope House has always operated on a shoestring budget, but when a fire marshal delivers an impossible ultimatum—install a costly fire escape within 30 days or close forever—Lauren Greenwood faces her greatest challenge yet. With ten children depending on her and three more arriving from a mining accident, failure isn't an option.

As floods rise and tensions mount, Lauren and her close-knit community face not only the forces of nature, but also the threat of those who would see them divided. With courage, resilience, and unwavering love, they must stand together against hatred, uncertainty, and the echoes of the past.

A family holiday to the seaside takes a dramatic turn when Lady Ottilia Fanshawe's young son Luke accidentally stumbles on a body in a cave. Lady Fan and her husband Francis quickly rush to the scene and find the corpse bound and blindfolded with a bullet hole in his head. It appears the man was executed, and with smugglers well-known to operate in the area, the local sergeant suggests it was a quarrel amongst the reprobates.

Einmal mehr begibt sich die horasische Gelehrte Yalsinia ya Tarcallo, ihres Zeichens Völkerkundlerin und Leiterin der Aves-Schule der Universität von Methumis, auf eine Reise in den Tiefen Süden. Ihr Forschungsbestreben gilt diesmal den Gerüchten vom Aufkommen neuartiger Todeskulte unter den Stämmen der Waldmenschen und Utulus, welche die Dampfenden Dschungel bevölkern. Selten jedoch verlaufen ihre Expeditionen wie geplant, und so schätzt sie sich glücklich, die Bekanntschaft des jungen Nepi-Luhan vom Stamm der Napewanha zu machen, der sich auf seiner ganz eigenen Mission befindet.

Barcelona, 1916. A sus veintisiete años, Frederic Mayol ha dejado atrás una vida cómoda en la esplendorosa Viena y la traumática participación en una guerra que sigue asolando Europa. Psiquiatra y seguidor de las teorías psicoanalíticas, se enfrenta a su futuro puesto en un sanatorio ubicado en un tranquilo pueblo pesquero cercano a Barcelona, un enclave perfecto para superar los horrores vividos en el frente.

Pauvre Chien Pourri, personne ne lui a jamais souhaité son anniversaire! Heureusement, son fidèle ami Chaplapla est là pour tout organiser. Les saucisses sont décongelées et les cartons d'invitation flottent déjà dans le caniveau. Il y aura un monde fou, c'est sûr, mais comment trouver un cadeau à la hauteur de ce pourriversaire?

On a bright summer's day in 2013, Freya Rivers disappears, leaving twin sister Imogen behind. Did Freya leave to travel alone without telling anyone? When friend Emily also disappears three days later, Imogen knows there's something dark lurking beneath the surface. Five years later, Imogen is living in Australia, having searched the world for her sister. So when her mother calls, she knows it's time to return home...because Emily is back and she has a child with her. Where has Emily been and why did she disappear? Does she know Freya’s whereabouts?

Once upon a time Gabrielle Price wrote and published an extraordinary novel. But 20 years on her literary star has dimmed, her "work of genius" is all but forgotten, and no further novels have materialised. She now lives an unremarkable life: middle-aged, living alone in the sleepy village she grew up in, and working as a housekeeper for the local vicar. Her lonely existence is dominated by memories of her best friend Madeleine, who died young, in tragic and mysterious circumstances.

Three steamy suspensive romances all in one place!

Your artistry involves you intimately with the world around and beyond you. So your artistry involves profound but simple philosophical matters. As a human person, you are artful and philosophical, at the core of your being. Doorway to Artistry offers a playful, everyday philosophical approach necessary for life, integration, healing, and thriving in artistry. It reflects on the real and how we are involved with it, especially in our creative effort. In short, the real hospitably welcomes us, and in our artistry we reciprocate in noble courtesy.

Remembering Women argues that there is a historical precedent for a fairer society. From reappraisals of well-known objects such as the earliest human bone calendars from the Stone Age to revelatory findings of innovative bioarcheological methods used on human remains from Ancient Scythia, evidence is accumulating that there were places in the past where all women were allowed to thrive.

Get ready! It’s time to transform your little voice into a powerful roar! This is the book you’ll come back to over and over at any stage of your life and career.

Nephew Johnnie and friend Farah come to stay for Christmas and are naturally looking forward to having a fun, jolly festive season. Because the children are naughty Auntie Bertie bans Christmas! What with Rescue cats Georgie and Molly loitering around and a burglar in town events could quickly spiral out of control!

Candidato al Premio Strega 2023, "Cassandra a Mogadiscio" è uno struggente memoir dove affiorano e si intrecciano insieme la travagliata storia del popolo somalo e la storia familiare e autobiografica dell'autrice. Il risultato è un vero e proprio racconto intergenerazionale che parla di identità e colonialismo; dell'Italia e della Somalia e di un possibile, per quanto difficile, perdono.

Nueva Delhi, invierno, 3 de la madrugada. Un Mercedes que circula a toda velocidad invade la acera, atropellando y matando a cinco personas. Es el vehículo de un millonario, pero al volante solo encuentran a un criado en estado de conmoción, incapaz de explicar cómo o porqué ha cometido este crimen. Y tampoco puede prever el oscuro drama que está a punto de desencadenarse.

Con un tono empático muy particular, Esther Iturralde —life coach espiritual y creadora del podcast Reinvéntate— te tiende la mano para que el fracaso no te detenga.

'I will describe it as best I can. This is their story. Or perhaps just mine. Let us begin, again . . .' A vivid and inventive debut novel about four generations of women in a family, their past and their legacy, which evokes the work of Kate Atkinson, Tessa Hadley and Virginia Baily. On a brisk...