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Unos investigadores descubren en tierras bretonas un cementerio lleno de calaveras, y encuentran el rastro de una antigua maldición que, según parece, fue hecha para intentar destruir a una familia. Hay un personaje del que nadie quiere hablar: el sacerdote negro, que perteneció a la familia maldita y murió en muy extrañas circunstancias.

Through a series of essays, poems, and comics, 30 creators give voice to moments that defined them and shed light on the immense diversity and complexity of the Asian American identity. Edited by CAPE and with an introduction by renowned journalist SuChin Pak, My Life: Growing Up Asian in America is a celebration of community, a call to action, and a road map for a brighter future.

She'd always been off-limits...and I'd never wanted her more. Gorgeous, loyal, poised, and all grown up. Riya Guliani had been a thorn in my side since we were kids, it seemed not much had changed. Except for the fact she was known in influential circles as "the fixer", and she was back in NYC to clean up a mess. Mine. Who cared that I was a little reckless? I hadn't turned my father's million-dollar company into a billion-dollar empire by doing what was expected of me. But sometimes the unexpected was exactly what we needed. And I needed her in a way I never saw coming....

A superbly nuanced work of fiction, Anindita Ghose's first novel The Illuminated revolves around two women: Shashi and Tara. After the sudden death of her celebrated husband, Shashi is alarmed to realize that overnight, she has lost her life's moorings. Meanwhile, their fiercely independent daughter Tara, a Sanskrit scholar, has been drawn into a passionate involvement with an older man, which threatens to consume her in ways she did not imagine possible.

The world's first and longest magical fantasy HOSHRUBA (1883-1893) was compiled in the Urdu language in Lucknow by two of its greatest story-tellers, Syed Muhammad Husain Jah and Ahmed Husain Qamar, wrote a fantasy in the Urdu language whose equal had not been heard before, and which has never been rivaled since. It was called Tilism-e Hoshruba. The writers claimed that the tale had been passed down to them from storytellers going back centuries: It was a part of the beloved oral epic, The Adventures of Amir Hamza which had come to the Indian subcontinent via Persia.

This audio program offers you five different journeys to find everyday ways of deepening your relationship with the web of life that sustains us all - what we call the shamanic way. Through each of the five tracks you will learn to reconnect with all that nourishes your Self. Each guided journey will support you to: deal with everyday challenges in the most creative way possible; connect to the intelligence and health of life moving inside you; strengthen your connection to the unbroken nature of who you are; and much more.

Agnes vive con su familia de clase media, sus padres y su hermana mayor María. Su padre es clérigo y su madre, que pertenecía a un nivel social superior al de su esposo, es una mujer vital, enérgica y de carácter. Viven felices y en armonía hasta que una inversión fallida hace que la situación económica de la familia se vea seriamente afectada. Tras la oposición familiar inicial, finalmente Agnes logra que se le permita trabajar de institutriz—le gustan los niños y se ve capaz de desempeñar correctamente su trabajo. Pero la vida no parece sonreírle precisamente.

About the author: Krishan Chander (1914-1977) was an Urdu/Hindi writer of short stories and novels. He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections of short stories and scores of radio plays in Urdu and later, after partition of the country, took to writing mainly in Hindi. He also wrote screenplays for Bollywood movies to supplement his meager income as an author of satirical stories. Krishan Chander's novels have been translated into over 16 Indian languages and some foreign languages, including English.

Un gran talento que los niños tienen y los adultos parecen carecer es la capacidad de imaginar. Imaginar tierras distantes y extrañas, pobladas de personajes extravagantes, simpáticos o traviesos. La imaginación de un niño no conoce fin, pero para la pequeña Alicia, esta imaginación sin fin se tornará realidad cuando un conejo blanco pasa en frente de ella, revisando un reloj de bolsillo.

Áine Odran es una detective especial: es capaz de ordenar las piezas de un rompecabezas de un solo vistazo y sin embargo no es capaz de ordenar su propia vida. Vive de manera solitaria, sin familia y casi sin amigos, pero un encargo misterioso va a cambiar su vida. Un abogado de aspecto elegante le ofrece unos magníficos honorarios por conseguir el éxito en una misión un tanto extraña: encontrar al famoso Capitán Meteoro, superhombre que desapareció hace ya unos años.

Leopold Gallagher, un rico hombre de negocios inglés de familia aristocrática, serio y obsesionado por el trabajo, conoce una noche en la terraza de su casa a la que, en un principio, toma por la amante de su viejo vecino. Catalina Stapleton, la nueva habitante del piso de al lado, es una joven extrovertida y generosa que disfruta ayudando al prójimo. En cuanto cruza dos palabras con su estirado vecino decide que, aunque él mismo no lo sepa, el señor Gallagher es un hombre infeliz que necesita ser salvado de sí mismo.

Cuando la joven arqueóloga Afdera Brooks acude al lecho de muerte de su abuela, una excéntrica millonaria, coleccionista de obras de arte, recibe como legado las pistas para llegar a una caja de seguridad de un banco americano donde se custodia un antiquísimo manuscrito. Afdera emprenderá un viaje por medio mundo para desentrañar el contenido de ese misterioso documento, terminando por llegar a Venecia, el laberinto de agua....

What if the Western world does not have its ultimate origins in a single cultural bloodline but rather a messy bramble of ancestors and influences? As battles over privilege, identity and prejudice rock the cultural wars, it's never been more important to understand how the concept of The West came to be. This book tells a bold, empowering new story of how the idea of the West was created, how it has been used to justify imperialism and racism, and also why it's still a powerful ideological tool to understand our world.

"Kuttay" as narrated by Mustaq Ahmed Yusufi, Ptaras Bukhari, and Saadat Hasan Manto.

In the shadow of Mount Hood in the US Pacific Northwest, 16-year-old Tennant is checking rabbit traps with her eight-year-old sister, Sophie. The girls are suddenly overcome by a strange vibration rising out of the forest, building in intensity until it sounds like a deafening crescendo of screams. From out of nowhere, their father sweeps them up and drops them through a trapdoor into a storm cellar. But the noise only gets worse....

Learn science with your children using the scientific signs of the Quran. This audiobook is Series 1 of 7 and about the universe.

Blue birds were spreading the epidemic, but were they really?

Intizar Hussain Saheb never got over the nostalgia of leaving Dehli. He was always deeply engrossed in the memories of Delhi, its culture, its wonderful people and its magical beauty. He vividly displays all of these emotions of his in the biography he has penned down on Masih ul Mulk Hakeem Ajmal Khan Saheb, who was born and raised in a family known as Khandan e Shareefi.

¿Porqué estaría dispuesta una mujer a entregar su anillo de brillantes a cambio de una entrada a la ópera? UN BAILE DE MASCARAS"-¿Mi billete? -respondió ella-. No lo tengo."-Pues, entonces, tomadlo en la taquilla."La mujer del dominó volvió bajo el peristilo, registrando vivamente todos sus bolsillos."-¡No traigo dinero! -exclamó-. ¡Ah! Este anillo...

In her 30 years as Temple Hill's most renowned matchmaker, Sarla thought she'd seen it all. Blissful unions, marriages of convenience, Mr. and Mrs. Good Enough. Not to mention the bitter unfortunates who never made it down the aisle. She's received as many threats as thank-yous along the way. Surely no one would actually harm her. A series of threatening notes, sent in blood-red envelopes, suggest otherwise. Then the body of a woman is found at Sarla's office, sprawled on her stomach next to a heavy bronze statue of the Nataraja — the god of dance. Who was the intended victim?