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Newly widowed business woman, Elizabeth Carson, is trying her best to keep her busy life moving forward even though the shock of losing her husband is making it difficult. She knows that her daughter needs her, but this too is a reminder of what she’s lost. It had always been her husband who’d been the one to lend emotional support to their now young adult daughter - a fact that both annoyed Elizabeth and made her feel envious. Always one to be in control, she knows that she’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown, which is the last thing she needs in her life.

A new warlord, Malik Khan, has appeared inside Afghanistan. A common bandit and a thief, but clever enough to cloak his rampage of murder and pillage under the mantel of Islam. He takes a hospital in a remote area as his base of operations, a former stone built military post perched on a hilltop and said to be impregnable. Safe behind his walls and with the medical staff held hostage, he is free to continue his campaign of robbery and murder unmolested.

For the past 14 years, Isabella Jordan's life had been focused on her husband and children. She'd set aside her career as a writer to build a home for them on a vineyard in the Tuscan hills, which was a dream come true for any woman. And it had been for Isabella too - until recently. After years of not writing, she finds herself under a deadline and faced with the worst case of writer's block that she's ever known. But when she finds distraction - and comfort - with another man, she must face the truth about her problems before she makes a mistake that will cost her everything.

Inspired by actual events. Suffering from the later stages of Alzheimer's, Captain Tom “Winkle” Brown is a retired RAF test pilot and World War 2 veteran approaching his century year. When 36 pristine Spitfires are discovered buried deep within the Burmese jungle, he gets a surprise visit from Grant Global Industries, with a most intriguing proposition.

Desensitized and detached from the worldly goods that fall before her, Mai finds herself in a position of great fortune and opportunity being raised as the only child in the respected Zhang family. Steeped in riches, Mai finds it all too much to sacrifice her morality for the life of luxury. The sudden disappearance of her beloved grandfather, the constant presence of the Win Chun family and the ever growing threat of the Shadow Government conjures a story of eternal panic, mistrust and revenge as Mai begins to piece together her family’s true history.

Pequeños Gigantes del Paraíso es un poema épico que muestra el talento de Jaime Bedoya Martínez para crear historias fantásticas basadas en lo mundano, lo visceral, es decir, el mundo natural de los insectos, y los rituales y jerarquías sociales sorprendentemente sofisticados que dominan su existencia.

In 1969 there was a novel called Naked Came the Stranger by Penelope Ashe. A great literary hoax, the book was actually concocted by 24 journalists, each taking a turn at a chapter. Tortuga Triangle carries on in that same spirit, but makes no apologies about its satiric roots. The product of six Key West-based writers, rascals, and raconteurs, this adventure takes you from Haiti to Key West and points unknown as the U.S. Coast Guard, law enforcement officials, and mysterious figures set their sites on a nefarious villain known to all as Da Turtle.

Revive los orígenes del detective más famoso del mundo con "Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes". En esta selección de doce relatos cortos, Arthur Conan Doyle nos presenta a un Holmes en su máximo esplendor, resolviendo misterios intrigantes y cautivando a lectores de todas las edades. Desde "Escándalo en Bohemia" hasta "La banda de lunares", cada caso es una prueba del ingenio y la astucia de Sherlock Holmes. ¡Prepárate para sumergirte en un mundo de misterio y suspense!

Have you ever wondered what a UFO abduction is like from the alien’s viewpoint? Can a machine provide comfort to a dying woman? What would it be like to fall into the hands of a get-rich-quick scheming extraterrestrial? All these questions and more are answered in this book of wonderfully crafted short stories by breakout author J.J. Harlan.

Ever thought about visiting the beautiful and rugged state of Montana? If so, be sure to listen to these stories before you go, for there may be more there than you ever imagined in your wildest dreams. These all new stories are sure to make you want to hide deep in your sleeping bag if you’re brave enough to listen to them at night by headlamp while camped in one of the state’s beautiful campgrounds. And what just brushed against your tent? A wolf? Grizzly bear? Or was it something even bigger and more terrifying?

Un audiolibro apasionante que relata el devenir de los creadores y las criaturas fantásticas que acompañaron a los hombres desde el principio de los tiempos: esfinges, ninfas, ángeles y demonios, son protagonistas de una obra que no da respiro y te obligará a escuchar sin cesar. 

An older man crushed by his long-time sweet-pea, a younger woman who stays in trouble...the crazy MC of Montana! I'm Butch and I'm Kitty's play uncle. I work at her father Mac's motorcycle shop. When she ran away from home, the young girl came looking for me. She shows up to the clubhouse begging for my help. Of course, I’m going to help her - I would never turn away a woman. But with her, she wants more than a stay at my place. I don't know. Her father is a crazy muthaf--ker especially when he drinks. I've known him for a long time.

Álex Ayala escribe acerca de unos jubilados que cumplen heroicamente su última misión en la vida: vigilar una estatua de John Lennon para que nadie robe sus características gafas. Y también lo hace sobre los habitantes de un pueblo de Bolivia que comercian con sus recuerdos sobre las últimas horas de vida del Che Guevara. En otro capítulo se habla del sastre Sillerico, quien ha gozado del dudoso honor de ver en paños menores a la mayoría de los presidentes de su país.

There's no way she's tough enough to get me into shape. When my physical therapist's ex locks her out and takes everything she owns, I want to help. However, a recent, unfortunate incident has social media all over me. Risking all, I offer her cold, hard, cash but she refuses, suggesting I'm trying to buy her sexual favors. Now she's got this ridiculous idea she can get back on her feet with a wedding.

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, is an 1896 novella and early example of the regionalism genre with its sketches of the fictional fishing village of Dunnet Landing in Maine. The narrator is a woman from Boston who returns to the small coastal town after a brief earlier visit, in order to finish writing her book. She rents an empty schoolhouse with a panoramic view of Dunnet Landing, which serves as a focus of narrative consciousness.

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 - April 16, 1898). Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a young governess sent to a remote country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon comes to believe that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care. But is the threat to her young charges really a ghostly presence or something else entirely?

Margie is an indigenous young girl whose best friend is a wolf. Together, Margie and the wolf go on many adventures and make new animal friends. They are different, certainly, but they are all filled with love and fun. As a team, they play games together in the wild landscape of the Australian bush, but rest assured, Margie and the wolf are always side by side.

Andrée Warg lever sina dagar i ett Stockholm som går från 1800-tal till 1900-tal. Det finns en allmän förväntan om det nya århundradet, men Warg är mer intresserad av att tillskansa sig förmögenheter där det går. Många av brotten i staden är råa men Warg är en gentleman och hans raffinerade metoder ger honom både förmögenheter och framgång men även respekt – och med jämna mellanrum löser han brott i bara farten.

I "Amerika tur och retur" tar Warg en atlantkryssare till New York för att fira in det nya århundradet. På fartyget över träffar han den fagra mademoiselle Camille men på kajen i New York står detektiver från Pinkerton och väntar. En dramatisk rättegång och en nyårsdans på The Astoria får Warg att se döden i vitögat.

Återkommen från New York har Warg blivit ett känt namn i Stockholm och miljonären bankir Nils Crona bjuder honom till en helg på Wiks slott. Warg kan givetvis inte motstå frestelsen av denna enorma förmögenhet men ska ett mord och en oväntad gäst få honom att avstå sitt byte?