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721) Los cuatro vientos
De la autora de El Ruiseñor, una épica y emocionante novela de amor, heroísmo y esperanza.
***Número 1 en las listas de ventas en Estados Unidos***
***Un éxito mundial publicado en más de 30 países***
Texas, 1921. La Gran Guerra ha terminado y Estados Unidos parece entrar en una nueva era de optimismo y abundancia. Pero para Elsa, considerada demasiado mayor para casarse en una época en la que
...722) In the Clearing
Four days to go
Amy has only ever known life in the Clearing, amidst her brothers and sisters—until a newcomer, a younger girl, joins the "family"...
Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries.
Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. For the next ten years he faithfully recorded the day's events and confessed his innermost thoughts. That diary has since become one of our most important, and fascinating, historical documents.
Pepys gave us eyewitness accounts of some of
People who say keep your enemies closer never took a road trip with a guy who hated their guts.
A month ago, my identity as Dr. Love was a secret. A month ago, I thought I was getting engaged.
A month ago, I wasn't stuck with the guy who hates me most in the world.
Now... if I don't make nice with my #1 hater, I might lose my book deal.
Without that, I'm not sure what I have left.
But when I'm forced
...It's all over – The Pitbull has won! He's captured every last dragon from The Island, and brought them to the mainland. The stage is now set for the grand opening of Dragon World.
Meanwhile Flynn, Paddy, and Briar are stuck in their new school, powerless to do anything about it. That is, until they make a new friend...
"A fast-paced action adventure that will have readers hanging on until
...The dying Empire’s most cunning and ruthless warlord, Grand Admiral Thrawn, has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial Fleet and launched a massive campaign aimed at the New Republic’s destruction. Meanwhile,...
A collection of seminal dramatised pieces by the great German polymath
Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.
We open this anthology with a
Rumor has linked Queen Elizabeth I to her master of horse, Robin Dudley. As gossip would have it, only his ailing wife, Amy, prevents marriage between Dudley and the queen. To quell the idle tongues at court, the queen dispatches Ursula Blanchard to tend to the sick woman's needs. But not even Ursula can prevent the "accident" that takes Amy's life. Did she fall or was she pushed? Was Ursula a pawn of Dudley and the queen?
Suddenly
...Award-winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second series playing Sarah, a modern-day agony aunt dishing out real advice for real people. Solving the nation's problems with her Support Group, she wants you to live life to the upmost, and she's got tons of ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of the heart - local cabbie Terry and self-qualified counsellor Marion - Sarah tackles people's dilemmas head on and has a solution
...Come on a merry adventure down the jolly highway! Join the unquenchable Toad, the kindly Mole, the steadfast Water Rat, and the irascible Badger in their spectacularly charming adventures along the waterfront.
Each character is brought to life in this enchanting presentation of Kenneth Grahame's seminal work of fantasy fiction. Don't miss it!
Brought to you by Penguin.
It's never too late to find yourself.
Best friends Agnes and Bea decide to embark on one last adventure before their adult lives begin.
For Agnes's mother Florence, a fresh chapter is starting as her youngest flies the nest and her marriage settles into a new routine. But she can't help feeling that something is missing.
As Agnes travels to London and Florence follows her heart to Europe,
"The Old Man and the Sea" is one of Ernest Hemingway's most enduring works, earning him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1953 and contributing to his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. The novella tells the tale of Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who has not caught a fish for 84 days. In his relentless pursuit of a great marlin, Santiago embarks on a solitary journey that becomes as much about his internal struggle and resilience as it is about
...A cracking collection of comic monologues, written and read by leading comedians
Recorded in front of a live audience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this fantastic anthology features a host of diverse short stories, composed and performed by a veritable Who's Who of stand-up comedians. By turns hilarious and irreverent, poignant and bittersweet, together they make up a superb selection box of tasty treats.
Among the
Dramatisations and readings of Pushkin's most famous works - plus biographical programmes and an original play based on his life
One of Russia's most iconic poets, Alexander Pushkin is often described as the 'father of Russian literature'. A gambler, playboy and social reformer, he was exiled by the Tsar for his controversial poetry and died aged 37 in a duel defending his wife's honour.
This BBC Radio anthology opens with full-cast
Working with my enemy shouldn't be this fun...
Callum Sterling is a grumpy jerk. A ridiculously hot one, but still.
I've battled with Callum during our quarterly conference calls over the past year, but now we get to spar in person.
And not only are we forced to work together every week, but we have to spend time together outside of work too.
At first, I was ready to fight, but the chemistry between us becomes
...Have you ever wondered what might have been?
Gemma Dawson is at the airport, staring at two plane tickets to two different cities. Two different weddings. Two possible futures. She's at a crossroads.
Be maid of honor at her best friend's wedding or crash her ex's?
Gemma's decision, unknown to her, hinges on a delayed flight and a chance meeting. Now her life is about to go down two parallel tracks—will
...737) Claws of Justice
I'm Sunny Shaw, and regardless of what my name might suggest, my world has become rather dim as of late.
With a bankrupt business to save, homeless kittens that need rescuing, and a new business partner distracting me with every glance, there seems to be a disaster waiting at every turn.
Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, a murder literally lands on my doorstep—or at least the corpse does. Now I'm
...738) Mine
Family is everything...
I always knew my father was a cold, heartless bastard.
But the moment he took Elle Castlemaine and her pathetic daughter into our home, barely a month after our mom died, he unleashed something savage inside me.
I didn't care they lost their home. Didn't care their father was behind bars.
Didn't care he betrayed the notorious Stidda Mafia boss, Benjamin Rossi, and now their
...Edward Rutherfurd has introduced millions of readers to the human dramas that are the...
The Pitbull's plans to capture the dragons from Flynn and Paddy's paradise island have been spoiled twice already, so he's hell-bent on revenge. But first he must find a way to lure the brothers to the city.
Meanwhile, to punish his niece Briar for her betrayal, The Pitbull locks her in a prison cell, high in his tower.
Surely escape is impossible this time?
"Like the first two books, this absolutely captures the imagination.
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