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Primera de las cuatro obras dedicadas al personaje con el que Colette revolucionó la literatura francesa, Claudine en la escuela (1900) nos presenta a la protagonista a la edad de quince años, cuando está a punto de terminar su educación formal y aventurarse en la vida adulta. Rebelde, ingeniosa y efervescente, Claudine se mete en líos con sus compañeras, se burla de sus mayores, critica a los acartonados señores que tiene por maestros y compite con la directora del colegio por el afecto de la señorita Aimée, que ha despertado en ella algo más que amor por el conocimiento.

Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless sculptures of Indigenous faces, each resembling her own, she sees herself in them—but the man responsible for pillaging them was her own great-great-grandfather, Austrian colonial explorer Charles Wiener.

Come back to the mountain with Frankie Love! Coming Home to the Mountain is a new filthy-sweet, high heat series by Frankie Love featuring rugged mountain men who fall hard, fast and forever. And with the women they love at their side, they choose to put family first.

Othello, by William Shakespeare, is adapted in a Moroccan style by David Serero. Starring David Serero as Othello.

Izdanie vkljuchaet v sebja znamenituju rabotu "Nauka o dyhanii indijskih jogov" izvestnogo pisatelja, perevodchika, okkul'tista Uil'jama Uokera Atkinsona, izvestnogo pod literaturnym psevdonimom Jog Ramacharaka. Kniga rasskazyvaet o metodah fizicheskogo i duhovnogo razvitija posredstvom dyhatel'nyh uprazhnenij, razrabotannyh v ramkah tak nazyvaemoj "nauki o dyhanii", javljajushhejsja sostavnoj chast'ju uchenija jogov.

Meghan Truman’s relationship with her assistant is severely tested when she becomes prideful over a donut recipe she’s introduced to Truly Sweet’s menu. Matters are further worsened when a distant relative of this assistant, with selfish intentions and bad manners, is found dead in the town center. The local handyman is arrested and put in jail when several witnesses confirm they saw him having an altercation with the murdered victim. Handsome detective Irvin and Meghan believe he’s innocent but the evidence against him is too damning to overlook.

He's not supposed to love her.... Silas Davenne has wanted Hannah Valentine since the day he walked into her life six years ago. The problem? He promised her mother he'd protect her from his dangerous shifter life. And Silas Davenne never breaks a promise. Hannah Valentine is on a mission. She wants Silas Davenne. After years of sexual tension brewing between them, she's determined to either become his mate or move on for good. But after one tragic night, suddenly fate has other plans.

Bob and Penny Lord travel to Lithuania, to a hill where crosses have miraculously appeared over a period of centuries of enslavement and harsh treatment at the hands of foreign dictators. Witness the apparition of Our Lady at the hill. This is a tribute as well, to a brave people who were undaunted in the face of the enemy. Learn of the miracle of the cross on a hill high above the capital city of Vilnius, which would not go away.

Tres meses atrás aparecieron restos humanos en los vertederos de Pinto y Valdemingómez. Pese a haber dedicado ingentes recursos, no se ha encontrado el cadáver completo y no hay una sola pista de la autoría del crimen. Y lo que es peor: tres meses después sigue sin identificarse a la víctima. Manuela se enfrentará de esta manera al mayor desafío de su carrera como inspectora de homicidios: la Operación Vertedero.

Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes macht sich Rosemarie mit dem himmelblauen Opel Kadett und dem alten Zelt ihres Gatten auf eine Reise durch ihre eigene Jugend und durch ein Deutschland, das geprägt war von Friedensbewegung und Studentenunruhen, von Flower Power und freier Liebe. Und dann war da ja auch noch Rosemaries erste große Liebe - die "rote Renate" aus der Zeit in dieser West-Berliner Kommune.

La autora buscó los secretos que guardan mujeres reconocidas por su sabiduría en zonas de raíz matrifocal, que les hace sentirse cada vez mejor, vivir más años y ser cada vez más poderosas. Al final del viaje encontró a las ancianas herederas de los saberes milenarios femeninos que hoy recorren pueblos y países para recordar a las mujeres - y cada vez más a los hombres - donde reside su propio poder y como rescatarlo; como convertirse en oro a medida que envejecen y despertar entre todas el femenino global para enfrentar los grandes retos actuales de la humanidad.

When Tracy discovers that her first love is back in town, she's torn between what used to be and what is...her stable relationship with Detective Copeland. Things get further complicated when a member of the circus crew, that's rolled into town, is found dead. The small town of Fern Grove is tired of the awful antics of the circus folk, and not many are bothered when this murder is revealed.

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. A faithful daughter, a loving wife and mother, an obedient nun, a lover of the eucharist and mother Mary - a role model for today.

A haunted Aquarius finds love behind the veil. An ambitious Aries will do anything to stay in the spotlight. A foodie Taurus discovers the best eats in town (with a side of romance). A witchy Cancer stumbles into a curious meet-cute. Whether it’s romantic, platonic, familial, or something else you can’t quite define, love is the thing that connects us. All Signs Point to Yes will take you on a journey from your own backyard to the world beyond the living as it settles us among the stars for thirteen stories of love and life.

En el lenguaje actual de las mujeres nombrar es poder, por eso esta obra propone palabras y situaciones cercanas a las mujeres, pero jamás exclusivas porque, como el lenguaje, este es un libro plural, cualquier persona interesada en el debate de por qué y cómo se expresan, es bienvenida a estas páginas. La autora se ocupa fundamentalmente de palabras, pero también de anécdotas, de casos reales, recuerdos, entrevistas, reflexiones, datos, estadísticas, referentes históricos y actuales; lugares, instituciones, consignas, canciones, lemas… pues cuando se trata de palabras todo suma.

Just three weeks after my 21st birthday, on the evening of October 4, 1994, I was abducted from the streets of my hometown in Southern Russia while on my way home. They drugged me and drove to another country, where they held me captive in a tiny room at first, and then under a house in a pit. A few weeks after my kidnapping, a brutal civil war broke out. Through eight horrifying months of captivity, witnessing atrocities, surviving bombings and sexual violence, I fought desperately to stay alive, stay sane, and not to lose the one thing that kept me going: my hope.

Jodie and Harper are destined to be on the West End stage side by side. They've lived and worked on that dream all their lives but, in a split second, their world divides. Harper is left disabled after a black taxi ploughs into her and Jodie has to return to her stage career alone. After the accident, the doctors tell Harper she will live, but she'll be a wheelchair user. Jodie vows to never leave her side, but Harper knows that's not what she needs.

Elspeth Swansome wird dort als Kindermädchen für die kleine Mary eingestellt. Mary hat seit dem plötzlichen Tod ihres Zwillingsbruders William kein Wort mehr gesprochen. Und das Schweigen des Mädchens ist nicht das einzige Rätsel.

El libro revela el Amor Universal y Cósmico del Sendero Rojo. El Sendero Rojo es la filosofía/cosmovisión/religión de las tribus/pueblos indígenas nativos de América del Norte y del Sur. Esta cosmovisión promueve la integración con la Madre Tierra y el cosmos para lograr la armonía dentro de la Existencia en eterna evolución.

«M?len'kij princ» (fr. Le Petit Prince) - allegoricheskaja skazka, naibolee izvestnoe proizvedenie Antuana de Sent-Jekzjuperi. Vpervye opublikovana 6 aprelja 1943 goda v N'ju-Jorke. «Ved' vse vzroslye snachala byli det'mi, tol'ko malo kto iz nih ob jetom pomnit» - Antuan de Sent-Jekzjuperi, iz posvjashhenija k knige.