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61) Queen of hearts
65) Jane Eyre
Dr. Jo Banks is well settled in her rather unusual life as one of the few doctors in the New Jersey fields, her office in a motor inn run by a pair of friendly, elderly Jersey-ites. But New York City is where she grew up, and there are times when she thinks back to those days with her father. One day, as she is driving home from her rounds at the hospital in the nearby town, she hears a familiar sound coming from a barn. It is the hum of an out-of-date
...Hathaway's likeable young doctor, Jo Banks, is solidly ensconced as "house doctor" to a group of motels in the New Jersey countryside. Then one day the motel where Jo is living and where she has her office is suddenly over run by a loud group of motorcyclists. When one of the riders is murdered, suspicion falls on Dr. Jo's landlord's son, who turned up after having been presumed either to have permanently gone AWOL or to be lost in battle in Vietnam.
...68) Caperucita Roja
"Boy!" said Ralph to himself, his whiskers quivering with excitement. "Boy, oh boy!" Feeling that this was an important moment in his life, he took hold of the handgrips. They felt good and solid beneath his paws. Yes, this motorcycle was a good machine all right.
Ralph the mouse ventures out from behind the piney knothole in the wall of his hotel-room home, scrambles up the telephone wire to the end table, and climbs aboard
...Sir Arthur Conan Doyle nos deleita con el relato de una investigación de Sherlock Holmes y su amigo Dr. Watson en que incluso se ve involucrado el Almirantazgo Británico. Un crimen en el tren subterráneo y la desaparición de parte de los planos de un submarino, ponen en acción las células grises de Holmes. esto nos lleva por los intrincados caminos de sus deducciones hasta lograr dilucidar el misterio. Un audiolibro que se oye de principio
...75) Fábulas
Las fábulas son relatos tradicionales en los que los animales tienen rasgos humanos y que transmiten experiencias sobre la vida cotidiana y lecciones morales. Son breves y divertidas y sus temas se basan en la lealtad, la generosidad y la virtud del trabajo. Las mas conocidas son La Liebre y la Tortuga y Juanito y el Lobo.
As if it weren't bad enough being a failed romance writer with no sex life, poor Fiona Silk has to cope with the spectacularly embarrassing demise of her old lover, the poet, Benedict Kelly. It's exactly the sort of thing people notice in St. Aubaine, Quebec, a picturesque bilingual tourist town of two thousand. Now the police start getting nasty, the media vans stay parked on her lawn and the neighbours' tongues keep wagging in both official languages.
...Manú es una pequeña inteligente y aguda que lo que más quiere es estudiar y compartir con otros niños en una escuela de verdad, que en su pueblo no la hay. Se desata así un conflicto con el padre, líder y médico de su comunidad, que sabe de las dificultades que Manú deberá enfrentar en la ciudad.
La pluma de una de las mejores escritoras chilenas se ofrece a los niños en este tierna y profunda historia de una niña aymara, habitante
...Podría calificarse como uno de los relatos más crueles del escritor. El barril del amontillado es un cuento maestro del género de suspenso. El barril de amontillado es uno de los relatos de la etapa final en la vida de Poe, escrito sólo poco tiempo antes del inicio de su declive definitivo, marcado por la muerte de su mujer, Virginia Clemm
79) Scarecrow
Briefly departing from her Doctor Fenimore stories, Robin Hathaway brings readers Dr. Jo Banks, a young female doctor practicing in Manhattan. When a little patient dies, Banks blames herself. Unable to face her life, she runs—-leaving her lover, driving away from New York and through New Jersey without a destination on the highway or in her life. She stops at a motel, and that evening is called upon to treat a woman taken suddenly ill.
The
Camilla MacPhee is the black sheep of her perfect, blonde family, although she runs a law office specializing in Justice for Victims of violent crimes. However, her uneasy association with the world of crime takes a bizarre turn when a vicious, vindictive fashion columnist with underworld connections named Mitzi Brochu is crucified in a downtown hotel room. The problem is that Camilla's best friend Robin was on her way to meet the victim, and has
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