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Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Ella le había devuelto la alegría de vivir. Tuvo dos caídas que estuvieron a punto de terminar con él. La primera vez, la vida de Donovan McRae corrió peligro al caerse por una montaña, y a pesar de haberlo tenido todo, en esos momentos...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. ¿Se atrevería a dar el gran paso? María sabía que era una ridiculez, pero le daban miedo las alturas y cualquier otra cosa mínimamente arriesgada. Entonces, ¿por qué había accedido a saltar desde un avión? Sí, también sabía que era...

“Lagoon swims and boozy nights turn sinister in [this] atmospheric thriller” (People) about a group of friends whose dream journey around the world on a yacht turns into a chilling nightmare when one of them disappears at sea. Lana and her best friend Kitty leave home looking for...

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe.

The armies of the Dark Lord are massing as his evil shadow spreads even wider. Men, Dwarves, Elves and Ents unite forces to battle against the Dark. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring. The devastating conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic tale of adventure, begun in The Fellowship of the Ring and The Two Towers.

Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, is a novel filled with subtle emotions, intrigue, and social tensions. Fanny Price, raised in a poor family, is taken in by her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park. There, she becomes both a witness and participant in the complicated relationships among the family members and their guests–mysterious figures who soon disrupt the harmony of the household.

Little Women, closely based on Louisa May Alcott’s own experience of family life, was first published in 1869 and follows the lives of the four March sisters and their mother, "Marmee". With the heartrending story of gentle Beth, the humorous adventures of tomboyish Jo, Meg’s vain attempts to cut a fashionable figure in "society", and the artistic ambitions of the youngest sister Amy, it has never lost its extraordinary power to move and delight.

Middlemarch is a novel by the English author Mary Anne Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. It first appeared in eight installments in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midland town, from 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Despite comic elements, Middlemarch uses realism to encompass historical events.

I wasn’t born an outlaw. I was trained into one. Cale and I were just kids when the Silver Ghosts taught us how to pick a pocket, pull a trigger, and lie with a straight face. By the time we killed Silas Quinn defending Uncle Will, innocence wasn’t even a word in my vocabulary. So I ran. San Francisco was supposed to be my fresh start—new name, new life, no blood on my boots. Katherine Thorne, respectable lady. That lasted about five minutes. Then Evander Poe showed up, smooth as whiskey and twice as dangerous, and I went and did the stupid thing—I fell for him.

IT'S MURDER BEING A HIT-MOM 'Entertaining, funny and wholly original' CULTUREFLY 'Proves you only need to get mistaken once for a contract killer to solve all your problems' LISA GARDNER 'It is a widely known fact that most mums are ready to kill someone by eight-thirty AM on any given Monday...

Finlay Donovan - single mum, floundering crime writer and accidental hit-woman - is, once again, struggling to finish her crime novel. Ever since someone misinterpreted her talking about her new book, she has been busier than ever working as a hit-woman and taking on the life she usually reserves for her characters. On the bright side, the only dead body she's dealt with lately is that of her daughter's pet goldfish. On the not-so-bright side, someone wants her ex-husband dead.

When a big Hollywood film production comes to Cheerville, the town goes into a tizzy over action star Cliff Armstrong. But when his stunt double is killed on set, Barbara quickly deduces it was no accident and Cliff was meant to be the target. To hunt the killer, Barbara infiltrates the movie set as an extra, but she quickly lands a speaking role against the handsome Cliff Armstrong himself. Can she protect Cliff from a dangerous murderer lurking on set, prevent the town from going up in smoke, and star in Hollywood’s next blockbuster without blowing her cover?

Summer’s arriving on Block Island and along with it, passionate romance, beach bonfires, surfer send-offs, and July 4th fireworks. Murder and Margaritas has one of each, and murders to boot. Reporter Dita Redmond and nurse Addie Morton team up in this novel to find out who is terrorizing Block Island. Along the way, they gain insight into old relationships and develop new ones.

At sixty-eight, Oyin has become very good at helping others let go. She preserves the stories, songs, and memories of people who aren't ready to lose—quietly making peace with her own ending in the process. Then Rai arrives. What begins as simple companionship becomes something Oyin thought she'd left behind forever: a reason to imagine tomorrow. But their home deep beneath the ocean is running out of time, and Oyin must choose whether accepting the end means surrendering to it… or whether some things are still worth holding on for.

È un mercenario delle Highland. Lei è la nobile donna che ha abbandonato. Il figlio di cui non era a conoscenza e la donna che non ha mai dimenticato potranno salvarlo da un oscuro destino questo Natale? Le Highlands scozzesi, 1308. L'infame mercenario Hamish Dunn ha tradito un potente capo clan ed è ora inseguito da assassini quasi altrettanto spietati di lui. Dopo un duello mortale, una fata delle Highland lo convince a recarsi a Carlisle per un incarico che gli fornirà abbastanza oro per fuggire e vivere in pace. Deidre Maxwell ha un segreto pericoloso.

One winter morning in 1998, Alex Martin inherits a mysterious invention from her late father. The Finding Machine solves mysteries. But the biggest mystery of all lies deep within its wiring — the unsolved disappearance of a little girl, dating back seventy years. What happened to the girl, all those years ago? Who was she? Alex and her handsome housemate, Antony, must follow the dots to solve the mystery. But, as dark family secrets are revealed, will the Finding Machine bring them together…or push them further apart?

Becky Kincaid ventures out in the middle of a snowstorm to buy a car seat for her unborn baby and never makes it home. When a second pregnant woman disappears, Marissa Rooney and the team at the Holt Foundation fear a sinister motive lurks behind the crimes. Lead investigator Seth Crawford desperately searches for the thread that binds the two cases together, knowing that if he fails, another woman will soon be gone. While Seth hunts for clues, a madman has Marissa in his sights and she carries a secret that could tear her whole world apart.

Would you willingly allow another man to take your wife to repay a debt of $100,000? This was precisely the situation in which Layden found himself when out of thin air, he found $100,000 had suddenly appeared in the joint account he shared with his wife, Terri. The naive husband was confident the money belonged to him and pursued speculative investments that were doomed to fail. And when they did indeed fail, it transpired the money was transferred to him erroneously from unscrupulous characters.

Jezebel works for a club in Harmony, located in the outer ring of Palen, the slums, a place where you do whatever it takes to survive. She does just that, dancing for men and making sure her sister, Emerson, is well taken care of. When Jezebel is bought and taken to Jericho by a man named B with the promise of paradise, Emerson sees no problem with it. After all, she just wants her sister Jez to be happy. And that is what Emerson thinks Jez to be: happy in Jericho without her. "It is a little sister's destiny to be unwanted by her older sister."

Landscape painter Astrid Thorne and adventure photographer Soren Lindqvist have spent a decade building an unusually deep friendship around creativity, independence, and a shared understanding that neither should ever have to sacrifice their work for the other. They travel together to Iceland for a two-week expedition through the remote Westfjords, establishing a clear pact before they leave: respect each other’s creative space, be completely honest when things become difficult, and never allow isolation to blur their friendship into romance. The harsh Icelandic landscape soon tests that pact.