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A born sailor, Jonathan Kennebrae thrives in his role running his grandfather's shipping enterprise. That is until his grandfather delivers a crippling ultimatum—Jonathan will marry Melissa Brooke or lose his inheritance and everything he’s worked for. Though Jonathan finds himself drawn to Melissa, he can’t help feeling his intended may not be who she appears to be.

La madrugada del 15 de abril de 2011, Cherán, municipio indígena ubicado en Michoacán, se convirtió en un cuerpo colectivo para defender el bosque, el territorio y la vida. Fueron mujeres las que tomaron la iniciativa de poner un alto a la tala ilegal, que para entonces representaba más del 70% de su territorio. Así nació la resistencia en Cherán que lleva más de 10 años planteando una alternativa pacífica y colectiva para hacer frente a la complicidad de las autoridades con grupos criminales, que deja en evidencia la captura del Estado.

Conviértete en una persona auténtica y única, ¡porque Dios nunca te ayudará a ser nadie más que tú misma! Él te ama tal como eres. Deja que Dios te use, con todas tus fortalezas y debilidades, y te transforme de adentro hacia afuera para hacer algo mucho más maravilloso que tus sueños más extravagantes.

When Reina arrives at Aguila Manor, her heart stolen from her chest, she’s on the verge of death—until her estranged grandmother, a dark sorceress in the Don’s employ, intervenes. Indebted to a woman she never knew, and smitten with the upper-caste daughter of the house, Celeste, Reina will do anything to earn–and keep–the family’s favor. Even the bidding of the ancient god who speaks to her from the Manor’s foundations. To save the woman she loves, Reina will have to defy the gods themselves, and become something she never could have imagined.

The story of a daughter being raised by a single father, who happens to be a serial killer.

Meg Cabot, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Airhead novels, brings listeners the first installment in an exciting fantasy series about the underworld. When 17-year-old Pierce spots John Hayden, her first impression is that he’s a murderer. And she’s right—sort of. Fighting a strange attraction she feels towards John, Pierce struggles to discover what’s really behind a mysterious death—and what she discovers may make her wish she’d stayed in the dark.

Esta es una historia real, llena de aristas y sombras, sobre la condición humana. A fines de los sesenta, con trece años, la argentina Silvia Labayru era una adolescente tímida, lectora, amante de los animales, entusiasta de John F. Kennedy, hija de una familia de militares que incluía a su padre, miembro de la Fuerza Aérea y piloto civil. A esa edad ingresó en el Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires, una institución pública de gran prestigio, donde entró en contacto con agrupaciones estudiantiles de izquierda y se transformó en una militante aguerrida.

In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. Humans aren’t so lucky. Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended periods of time.

Even as scores of Americans rally to the Ukrainian cause and adopt Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero, the lives of Ukrainians remain opaque and mostly anonymous. In By the Second Spring, the historian Danielle Leavitt goes beyond familiar portraits of wartime heroism and victimhood to reveal the human experience of the conflict. An American who grew up in Ukraine, Leavitt draws on her deep familiarity with the country and a unique trove of online diaries to track a diverse group of Ukrainians through the first year of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

When I run into Tyler Evans at the car-repair shop, I want to slap the smirk off his face. I've broken down on the way to a wedding when I'm greeted by the guy who ghosted me four years ago. He left my body deliciously wrecked and my heart uncomfortably bruised, and if he wasn't surrounded by five other hot mechanics, I'd call out his terrible behavior. But all the men at Deep Repairs are smoking hot, with bulging arms covered in grease and tattoos, and chiseled abs glistening in the summer heat.

Smartphones, social media, and surveillance tech are sold to us as ways to build a safer, more connected, and convenient world.

An anthropologist and his daughter travel to Kermunkachunk, the capitol of Chalazia, to conduct research for an ethnography on the Chalazian Mafia Faction (a splinter group of the Chalazian Children's Theater). The book takes place over the course of a night at the Bar Pulpo, Kermunkachunk's #1 spoken-word karaoke bar, where conversations are actually being read from multiple karaoke screens arrayed around the barroom. Moreover, it's Thursday, "Father/Daughter Nite", when the bar is frequented by actual fathers and daughters as well as couples cosplaying fathers and daughters.

Noah Kennebrae, disgraced ship captain, has escaped to a remote lighthouse to avoid his grandfather's schemes and the ghosts that haunt him. Taking a job under an assumed name, he's determined to start over—until he meets Annie Fairfax. The feisty housekeeper's warmth and spirit captivate him, and he falls for her despite his best efforts. But he's keeping secrets that could destroy her trust...and his chance at redemption.

Primavera con una esquina rota es un testimonio directo y dolorido que trata de una sociedad escindida, fracturada por la represión y el autoritarismo, e intenta ser un puente entre dos regiones -el Uruguay bajo la dictadura y el Uruguay del exilio- que constituyen un solo y lacerado país.

Eli Kennebrae plans to revolutionize cargo transportation on the Great Lakes. But his grandfather's meddling obligates him to an arranged engagement. Though Josie Zahn is kindhearted and strikes his interest, Eli needs an engineer for his ship, not a fiancée. Josie has admired Eli for years, but to him, she’s just “one of the Zahn girls.” Worse, society expects her to marry, not pursue her passion for mathematics and engineering. If she could only get Eli’s attention, she could help him achieve his goals.

Life has its hard knocks but after aging out of the foster system, Kayla and Brooke are finding adulting brutal. Kayla has a hard time keeping steady employment. Being an empath who can pick up on evil intentions makes you a bit confrontational. When Kayla and Brooke stumble through a God Portal to another planet, they must survive together as they battle a vampire who’s caused catastrophic devastation to the planet. In this paranormal romance, the two Earth females have a fate to face on a doomed planet while dealing with the unruly antics of the Gods.

Un libro en el que se entrecruzan el arte, la literatura y la vida: la confirmación del inmenso talento de María Gainza. Una noche, durante su estancia bonaerense para el rodaje de su película Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola le dijo a María Gainza: "El artista viene al mundo con un carcaj que contiene un número limitado de flechas doradas. Puede lanzar todas sus flechas de joven, o lanzarlas de adulto, o incluso ya de viejo. También puede ir lanzándolas de a poco, espaciadas a lo largo de los años. Eso sería lo ideal, pero ya sabés que lo ideal es enemigo de lo bueno".

Luisa (Lou) Patterson grew up across the street from Sam Alvarez in the small, quirky town of Port Coral. They used to be inseparable — spending every holiday together, shooting silly YouTube videos, and rescuing stray cats. But then middle school happened, including the most disastrous (and embarrassing) serenade ever, and Lou and Sam haven't talked in the four years since.

Ancestral healing is the process of revealing and releasing inherited wounds and traumas that have been passed down by our ancestors. Anyone researching their heritage will uncover both positive and negative issues that pass through the bloodlines from one generation to the next.

Esta compilación de cuentos cortos de la mano de Plim Plim es ideal para divertirnos cuando estamos de viaje. En este libro, Plim Plim y sus amigos nos acompañan con divertidas historias para entretener a los más pequeños cuando hacemos un viaje largo o en algún lugar en el que tenemos que esperar un ratito.