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A common theme in life is death. Those who lose someone to death must find a way to continue living. Grief was not something for me to understand or even question. Grief was something I had to experience. For a long time after Ricky’s death, I woke up unable to see the morning sun. Two questions overwhelmed my mind: Why did Ricky die? What am I supposed to do now? One day, the morning sun found me.

En esta novela el autor nos traslada al siglo sexto a. C. a la ciudad de Tartessos en el sur de la península ibérica, siendo su principal caudillo Argantonio, que tiene a su servicio multitud de mercenarios de distintos pueblos de la península. Entre estos mercenarios están Sembeles y su primo Alongis, que se enamora en una fiesta de Nefele, una bailarina y quiere comprársela a su amo, pero no tiene dinero para hacerlo. Unos mercenarios celtas al darse cuenta, le proponen que les ayude a encontrar la tumba de un rey, que está llena riquezas que repartirán con él.

Adam - The Missing Link is the third and final book of The Adam Series trilogy by author Leon Bibi. In this final chapter, evidence of extraterrestrial tampering with human DNA is explored, and evidence given to prove that the Missing Link has never been missing. It is not found “embedded in the crust of the Earth”, it is found within us. The missing link is not a “transitional form” that proves that man is a direct descendant of the ape, it is an alteration of DNA. What do the following scientists have in common?

Few novels have made a more shattering impact on their society than El Filibusterismo - and its predecessor, Noli Me Tangere, by Jose Rizal. And surely no writer has paid a higher penalty for self-expression. Rizal was executed by firing squad mainly because of these two books.

Durante un'immersione, tre ragazzi scoprono un oggetto misterioso che riposava da millenni sui fondali del Tirreno. Dentro c'è la lettera, mai arrivata a destinazione, con cui Scipione Emiliano riferiva al Senato che i sommi sacerdoti fenici, dopo la distruzione di Cartagine, erano fuggiti con la statua d'oro del dio Baal verso l'oasi di Anphar. Per Riccardo, Milena e Gianni, i "Serpenti del mare", a questo punto la vacanza diventa una pericolosa caccia al tesoro! Età di ascolto: da 13 anni.

Gerolamo Martini, un misterioso matematico di fine Ottocento, ha davvero trovato la formula per vincere alla roulette? E d'Annunzio ne era a conoscenza, e la usò per finanziare l'impresa di Fiume? E la troupe di acrobati precipitata durante un pericoloso esercizio è davvero vittima di un semplice incidente? Le tracce di un segreto e di un enorme tesoro scivolano nel tempo fino ai nostri giorni, seminando la morte con la freddezza di una equazione matematica.

Stop and think about your own inner voice. What common thread in your inner language have you used over time that has shaped the person you’ve become? Does your inner voice speak truth or lies? Have you spent so much time listening to your inner voice that you believe these thoughts whether true or not? This book is the link connector between children’s self-identity and the developed language they adopt as their own.

Este audiolibro proporciona una investigación informativa sobre la formación de la cultura extrovertida de la sociedad moderna, donde la timidez, la sensibilidad y la seriedad se perciben a menudo como algo negativo. Utilizando los ejemplos de muchas personalidades famosas, la autora demuestra de manera convincente que, la naturaleza introvertida de aproximadamente la mitad de la humanidad hace posible alcanzar el éxito donde los extrovertidos no pueden.

Somewhere far away - or maybe right nearby - lies an archipelago called Popisho. A place of stunning beauty and incorrigible mischief, destiny, and mystery, it is also a place in need of change. A storm is brewing. Before it comes, before the end of the day, this wildly imaginative narrative will take us across the islands, their history, and into the lives of unforgettable characters.

When Milo moves into a new house, his dog Dandy discovers a mysterious locked door and a hidden key. Bravely, Milo opens the door and finds himself sucked into a magical world of adventure. In this first book in a new series, Milo joins a band of pirates, led by the notorious Blackbeard. This book is ideal for parents to listen along with children aged three to eight years old.

Cuando Milo se muda a una nueva casa, su perro Dandy descubre una misteriosa puerta cerrada y una llave oculta. Valientemente, Milo abre la puerta y se ve arrastrado a un mundo mágico lleno de aventuras.

Un archeologo scomparso. Un pugnale con incisioni in una lingua misteriosa. Una setta segreta cinese. Premonizioni e indizi convergono sotto la superficie di Roma, dove si concentrano leggende di antiche divinità e di civiltà lontane. Una missione pericolosa per la Compagnia dei Serpenti: Riccardo, un debito in storia ma coraggio da vendere, Gianni, secchione ma non troppo, e Milena, una tredicenne che vive pericolosamente ma senza mai rovinarsi il trucco.

Violet Bloom leaves Charleston to come west as a mail-order bride. But when she steps off the stagecoach, she's greeted by tragic news. She vows to begin anew in Wylder, to lay haunting memories to rest, and find peace. Former Union soldier Thomas Harvey's dreams of homesteading are crushed, along with his heart, at the passing of his wife.

Había una vez una bruja llamada Tatis, cuya apariencia no era la que su espantosa madre hubiera querido.Ciertamente, tenía algunos rasgos de bruja heredados de ella , sin embargo, en la pequeña también había algo de humana: Tal vez era su voz o su carácter tímido. Tatis simplemente, no era una bruja común.

Das Böse ist näher, als du glaubst. Sie leben in völliger Isolation tief in den Wäldern einer kleinen Insel: Mutter, Vater und zwei heranwachsende Kinder in einer Blockhütte, das Festland ist in der Ferne kaum sichtbar. Die 16-jährige Juno und ihr Bruder verbringen die Zeit mit Fischfang, Kuchenbacken und sonntäglichen Gesellschaftsspielen. Und in ständiger Angst. Denn schon auf der anderen Uferseite lauert das Böse. Fremde können jederzeit auftauchen.

Lev Nikoláyevich Tolstói, más conocido como León Tolstói, nació en Yásnaya Poliana, Rusia, en el seno de una de las familias la más antigua nobleza, el 9 de septiembre de 1828. Es considerado como uno de los escritores más importantes de la historia de la literatura, y sus obras se cuentan entre las más importantes del Realismo.

A sixth grade field trip to the local planetarium provides more questions than answers for Thomas Adkins Johnson, a 12-year-old going on 13, whose head begins to spin as he contemplates the vastness of the heavens projected on the dome above him. The field trip marks Tommy’s transition from sixth grade, where his major concerns centered on school and vacation, sports and gaming, to a more complex world where questions of identity and belief take hold of the imagination. Tommy and his friends - Micky Boonaling.

The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, but even the light can't keep away all that goes bump in the night. From rituals and witches to summer slasher and sunny horror, this anthology has it all.

Personne n'aime être dérangé en pleine lecture de l'Annabase un samedi après-midi par un coup de sonnette intempestif. Surtout pas le commissaire Guido Brunetti, fin lettré et flic épicurien, et surtout pas pour une sombre affaire de permis de construire introuvable concernant son propre appartement... Simple formalité ? Pas sûr. D'autant que le fonctionnaire zélé tombe malencontreusement d'un échafaudage où il n'avait rien à faire, devant des témoins qui à leur tour décèdent brutalement.

There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind”. For millennia, blind­ness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil).