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79661) Bajo las alas del benteveo
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Dame unos latidos más, dejame sentir ese fuego que arde dentro, ese que alguna vez nos unió. Fuego con el que supimos encender hogueras enormes en nuestra habitación… Y… Y qué frío se va a poner todo esto después…
David comienza a dar sus primeros pasos en el amor y transita sin rumbo gozando de su presunta felicidad hasta que inevitablemente fantasmas del pasado regresan para atormentarlo y su vida cambia por completo.
De repente, el...
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Grizzbear's adventures continue in this sequel to Saved by Love. He learns about loss, love, and friendship. Grizz experiences a pandemic, loses his best friend, and must try to find a balance between grieving and learning to live and love again. Chloe May bounds into his world- ready or not- and steals his heart. Chloe is quite the character and just what he needs to help bring him out of his grief. They are soon fast friends and enjoy many heartwarming...
79663) Festival of Friends and Foes
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Festival of Friends and Foes takes us on a wild ride of good friends and strange assurances. Ethan, Camille and Jeremy plan on enjoying a fun weekend festival called Beltane with their families and other children with similar gifts. Thinking that this would give them time to share some of their stories with each other and help Ethan understand more about his family. Little did they know there was more thrills and chills waiting for them than they...
79664) Alea Jacta Est
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A house divided cannot stand...
Erik Larsson's world changes forever the day the lights go out. As hours turn into days and word spreads that terrorist attacks have thrown the whole nation in the dark, Erik and his neighbors soon discover just how quickly the thin veneer of civilization can crumble: the crisis has given birth to open rebellion. To survive, Erik must rally his community in the face of growing lawlessness. But when invasion is thrown...
79665) A Noble Savage
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John Jones, known as Bones, is a history teacher and former paratrooper. He and Clair, his partner, have two children. But memories of Rhian, a woman from his past, keep seeping into his thoughts.
Bones' story begins on vacation with his family, where he finds himself wanting space and questioning whether fate or free will has led him to this path. The author deftly uses this internal contemplation to share details from the protagonist's journey...
79666) Long Gun, Day of Consequence
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Day of Consequence defines a frontier child striving for manhood. Five-year-old Jimmy Longhon, inadvertently shoots Baxter Boreen to death. Only a cowboy like Jimmy would persevere and prevail over the consequences brought on by his escapades and transgressions. He traverses a 113-year labyrinth of uncertainty along the dusty, bygone roads of California. The story culminates in one more act of random kindness to Little Walt, his lifelong antagonist....
79667) A-Z According to Mikey
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Mikey's teacher said A is for Apple, B is for boy, C is for cat, D is for Dog, and so on. Is that what you learned too? I thought so...but Mikey started to wonder if maybe the alphabet went a bit more like this:
What if B was for Blue? A rock and roll baboon I saw last week at the zoo. One of my favorite letters is M and it's not for Monkey or Mom. M is for the mismatched shoe day, my favorite day of school. O is for odd, which is exactly what you'll...
79668) Yuletide Proposal
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Helping children in her hometown is a dream fulfilled for single mother Brianna Benson. But being back in Hope, New Mexico, isn't easy for the medical clinic's new child psychologist. Ten years ago, the night before her wedding, Brianna discovered that her fiancé, Zac Ender, betrayed her--and she left town in tears. Now a school administrator, Zac is asking for her help with kids at risk--such as her own troubled son. But how can she work with the...
79669) Betabel
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Por la novela pululan países, idiomas, razas, costumbres, creencias. Pululan conflictos y enfrentamientos, nacen ciudades nuevas en medio de civilizaciones milenarias.
El relato trascurre en una contraposición alternada de lugares de estancia (ciudad) y lugares de tránsito (viajes): el viaje a su segundo kibutz es una obra maestra de literatura y de vivencia biográfica. Y se monta también sobre la contraposición entre los lugares tradicionales,...
79670) The Keepers
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Jessie Nolan has troubles enough. Most of the time her mild psychic ability keeps her slightly off base. Her daughter has a teenage attitude. Her young son, Andy, has a powerful dose of Jessie's clairvoyance, and it terrifies him. Her husband, Stan, is out of work and tempers are flaring. When an ancient, evil Group pick Stan as their next inductee, Jessie learns what trouble really is. In 1865 in London, The Group selected Robert Milton. His family...
79671) Windmill
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Greg is a rancher in the western United States. Burdened by generational alcoholism, he struggles to achieve personal happiness and at the same time hold it together with his family and friends. It is not without casualties to some of the characters in the book. In Windmill, the men and women are searching for personal freedom. In America, freedom is guaranteed but the methods and means of how to achieve it inevitably clash. People from different...
79672) South Dakota
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1973, South Dakota.
The historic site of a massacre some 80 years before.
History repeats itself, they say. And before he was someone's father, he was a young man, a college student, and trying to find his own identity. Along with a few friends, this young man begins a journey into the unknown.
The town of Wounded Knee is at the end of the road, but that is not his final destination.
79673) Con Me Once
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After witnessing a mob hit-gone-wrong, Frank Lambda, an inept superhero wannabe, goes on the run. Enter mystery woman Keira who claims to run a secret training program, turning cosplayers like Frank into real-life heroes. He smells a con but with nowhere to turn, he joins a mismatched troupe of bumblers and travels to the promised land: Las Vegas, Sin City USA. Against the backdrop of a thousand spandex-clad cosplayers, Keira's true agenda-to steal...
79674) Land Of Milk And Honey
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A powerful story based on the real-life experiences of hundreds of British children who were sent as war refugees to New Zealand and Australia during the Second World War. Fourteen-year-old Jake suffers cruelly at the hands of a rural family, only to be offered sanctuary and eventual redemption by the elderly town doctor, Mac. His story is complex, dealing graphically with issues of community attitudes to violence and discipline and Jake's eventual...
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Même les meilleures amies ne se disent pas tout (surtout cté sexe).
Même les filles les plus gentilles deviennent parfois (très) méchantes.
Même les épouses aimantes peuvent souhaiter une mort (vraiment) atroce à leur mari.
Maryse, alias Karma-Mamma, en sait quelque chose. Son salaud de mari s'en est bien tiré en mourant de manière opportune et ça ne calme en rien le volcan qui gronde en elle. L'heure de la vengeance a sonné. Mais...
79676) A Nice Cup of Tea
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Milly is a fine, New England older lady, that is surprisingly resourceful when confronted with a serious problem. No one will ever know, of that she is certain. But, can you ever be sure?
79677) Gritos en la noche
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Basado no filme "Una noche de crimen". La ley de la purificación finalmente fue aprobada en Brasil. Madre e hija corren contra o tempo para salvarse. Sólo que ellas no esperaban que tantas cosas malas pudiesen suceder en uma única noite.
79678) Haymarket
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On the night of May 4, 1886, during a peaceful demonstration of labor activists in Haymarket Square in Chicago, a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of police -trying to disperse the crowd. The officers immediately opened fire, killing a number of protestors and wounding some two hundred others.
Albert Parsons was the best-known of those hanged; Haymarket is his story. Parsons, humanist and autodidact, was an ex-Confederate soldier who grew...
79679) Cagulant
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Evil gives no mercy. Offer it none.
Two restmen, servants of the gatekeeper god Ligniium, are sent to confront a terrible beast, a thing of evil, a cagulant. This horrid abomination never gives back those it claims. Never.
You must not heed its cries, the siren song of desperate pleas from jagged throats. You must deny it mercy, deny it hope. You must deny even the love you have for those people lost within its darkness. Two restmen, servants of...
79680) Why Fall and Winter
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Whether you enjoy reading to your children or having your children read to you, allow Jasmine's wiser than her years love of words, rhymes, curiosity, imagination, faith, and her Shih-Tzu (Jasmine's Dog) to spark your own imagination. Her questions and answers intend to help you create a space in your memory bank for lighthearted conversations that you can enjoy revisiting at any time.
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