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Looking back on his life, eight-four year-old Manuel Echaniz will never forget his youth growing up poverty-stricken and in hardship on the streets of Liverpool. Now far away from the place that formed him, Manuel has a family who know nothing about the place he grew up. Concerned by their lack of interest in their heritage, he sets out to teach his granddaughter about his formative years and the matriarchal community that raised him through the toughest of times. Will she ever understand that other world he left behind in the teeming streets of the Mersey docklands?

Nessuno troverebbe da ridire di fronte all'affermazione che il secolo degli autoritarismi sia stato, per antonomasia, il Novecento, con due regimi nazifascisti che hanno incendiato l'Europa e innescato la Seconda guerra mondiale e la creazione, a Oriente, di quello che diverrà il blocco sovietico, sopravvissuto fino al 1989.

On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira’s job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays a trap to put an end to the wrecking, they arrest Mira’s father. Desperate to save him from the noose, Mira strikes a deal.

The abandoned house at the end of Millhaven Road stands on blighted and barren ground, as if nature itself shuns this tainted place. It is known simply as Dead End House, and unspeakably terrible things happened there long ago.

Meet the Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, their children, Brutus and Bunny, along with their beloved grandma Old Lady Blunder, and their pet ostrich, Cedric. An ostrich is not a sensible pet, but then the Blunders are not sensible people. This family of upper-class twits live in a crumbling country house named Blunder Hall. When their home comes under threat, they must embark on a series of comic misadventures to save it.

Throughout the '80s and early '90s, Lizzie Webb inspired the nation to get up and move as TV-am’s resident fitness guru. The music featured in her routines shot to the top of the charts, resulting in hits for the likes of Take That, Sonia, and George Harrison. She also collaborated with Simon Cowell for several years. Filled with heartfelt stories of the wonderful people she has helped along the way, as well as fond reminiscences and hilarious stories from her time on breakfast TV, Mad About the Boys reveals the fascinating two sides to Lizzie’s extraordinary and inspiring life.

Do you know how much BTS contribute to the South Korean economy each year? What Spotify record does the band hold? What video game has Jin played since he was five years old? And which alternative stage names did Jungkook consider before settling on the one we all know and love? In this fantastic audiobook, Lizzie Abbott talks us through more than hundred facts about BTS, the band that has conquered the world.

Eddie and best friend Flo are spending the Easter holidays on the Romney Marshes with Aunt Budge and all his animals—Butch the dog, Bunty the hamster and pirate goldfish Dan and Jake. When the terrible Rancid Twins arrive in town, set on uncovering the secret mystery of the smugglers’ treasure, Eddie and Flo are drawn into a thrilling new adventure. Eddie must use his ability to speak to animals to enlist the help of two elegant alpaca, a friendly sheep called Doris and a famous film-star rabbit to save the day and reveal a treasure of epic proportions.

Can your worst enemy become the love of your life? A fun, feisty, feel-good romance for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Meg Cabot. Jennifer and Ian have known each other for seven years. They are leaders of two different teams in the same London bank, and are constantly engaged in a running battle to be number one. Ian is a handsome, wealthy and sought-after bachelor; Jennifer is a feisty, independent lawyer. When they are thrown together to work on the same project, Ian makes Jenny an offer she can't refuse: to have free reign of their rich client if she pretends to be his girlfriend.

1220. Acri, Regno di Gerusalemme. Il cadavere di un giovane frate giace, orribilmente seviziato, ai piedi della cittadella degli Ospitalieri. Il priore dell'ordine, Enrico, incarica Bonaventura da Iseo, il geniale alchimista francescano appena giunto in città, di indagare su quanto è accaduto. Ben presto il frate comprenderà che dietro a quel delitto c'è la mano di un'antica setta, forse la stessa che ha tentato di ucciderlo in Italia.

È mattina presto quando il professor Charles Baker, appena tornato da una serie di conferenze in Messico, viene svegliato da una misteriosa agente dell'FBI che gli comunica la morte del suo assistente a Princeton, George Marshall. Il professore ha subito un sospetto: possibile che dietro l'omicidio c'entrino le ricerche di George sull'improvvisa adesione del presidente Abramo Lincoln alla causa dell'abolizione della schiavitù?

Are you curious about the natural way of treating diseases and maintaining sound health? If you are someone who is skeptical about the continued use of synthetic drugs and its possible side effects and want to explore natural herbs for treating diseases, then this is the audiobook for you! Different arguments exist for and against herbs, but the fact is that they work. Prutha Desai was born and raised in Mumbai, India, but now lives in New York. Desai has a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and a master of science degree from Northeastern University.

Tormenti di vite in fuga. In queste pagine parlano pentiti eccellenti di mafia, un tempo protagonisti di stragi efferate, estorsioni, traffico di armi, droga e rifiuti tossici. Sei collaboratori di giustizia uno fra tutti Gaspare Spatuzza, l'uomo d'onore che ha dato il massimo impulso alle indagini sulla trattativa Stato-mafia che restituiscono squarci di grande storia italiana criminale, insieme alla testimonianza personale. E mentre la loro narrazione ambisce a farsi anche rinascita spirituale, la voce ricorda.

Transilvania, XXI secolo. Il caustico e ironico professor Charles Baker dell'Università di Princeton si trova nella città natale del principe delle tenebre, Vlad III l'Impalatore, meglio noto come il conte Dracula, e sta prendendo parte a una conferenza insieme ai più importanti storici del mondo, quando il suo discorso è bruscamente interrotto dall'improvviso, quanto sgradevolissimo, arrivo delle autorità locali. Tre omicidi raccapriccianti richiedono la sua immediata presenza sul luogo del delitto. Tre corpi messi in posa a formare una croce giacciono sulla scalinata degli Scolari.

This book is a tribute to all the strong women in my life. I wanted to also make the rest of the world aware of this mouth-watering cuisine that hails from the land of Piacenza in Northern Italy. This lineage of inspiration began with my great-grandmother, Maria. Her unending determination despite great odds enabled her to open a restaurant. The recipes that were born through that establishment were enhanced through the generations that followed, and continue to satisfy the many palates of various family members and friends.

Harriet and Mark have it all: successful careers, a lovely house in a leafy London suburb, twin boys on the cusp of leaving home. Yvette and Gary share a smaller place with their two daughters in a shabbier part of the same borough. But when the stars align for a collective move north, it means a fresh start for them all. For Mark, it’s a chance to escape the rat race; for Harriet, a distraction from her unfulfilled dream of a late third child. Gary has decided to reboot the Madchester band that made him famous, while Yvette hopes it will give her daughters what she never had.

Il maxi processo di Palermo si conclude con 19 ergastoli e oltre 2665 anni di condanna alla detenzione. Alla base del gigantesco dispositivo giudiziario per la prima volta apertamente in lotta contro Cosa Nostra, ci sono le rivelazioni di un solo uomo. Questa è la storia del boss pentito più famoso al mondo: Tommy Branciforte. La sua testimonianza ha la forza dirompente di una bomba atomica all'interno dell'organizzazione mafiosa, ormai completamente nelle mani degli stragisti corleonesi, colpevoli - secondo Branciforte - di aver tradito lo "spirito" mafioso.

Marsala, nell'autunno del 1971 nel breve tragitto fra scuola e casa, tre bambine di nove, sette e cinque anni scompaiono.Si chiamano Antonella, Ninfa e Virginia. Nei giorni successivi tremila uomini battono la provincia. Sono poliziotti, carabinieri, militari, vigili e molti volontari, li coordina un giudice di alto profilo: Cesare Terranova. Finché i corpi delle tre bimbe vengono ritrovati Nel 1979 la Corte d'Assise di Messina riconosce colpevole del triplice omicidio lo zio di Antonella, nel frattempo diventato "mostro di Marsala", e lo condanna alla pena di 29 anni.

Giuseppe Cruciani racconta il sesso degli italiani attraverso le storie, le confessioni e le esperienze di persone comuni, vip, e di chi col proprio corpo lavora ogni giorno. Cinquant'anni dopo i "Comizi d'amore" di Pasolini, un viaggio nella società italiana del XXI secolo per conoscere le nostre abitudini e i nostri tabù, veri o presunti. E per scoprire che questi raccontano di noi molto più di quello che crediamo.

We all come to a point in life where we would like to make a change in our lives and be just better. Maybe for you that's about shedding extra fat. Maybe it's about becoming healthier. Or, possibly, it's about lessening your impact on the environment. Come with me on this journey and I will show you what I've learned to enable you to do all these things, without the need to count calories or restrict your foods according to some complicated list of rules.