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Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel takes place over the course of a single June day in the lives of some very different Londoners: wealthy society hostess Clarissa Dalloway, who is preparing for a party; her old friend Peter Walsh, recently returned from India, whose proposal of marriage Clarissa rejected years ago; Septimus Warren Smith, a WWI veteran suffering from shell shock; and his Italian-born wife, Rezia, who is trying to care for him as best she can. Woolf's beautiful prose captures the minds and souls of these vivid characters.

La inspectora Oteiza se enfrenta al caso más importante de su carrera. Historia, expolio nazi, intriga y vino en una investigación trepidante que la cambiará para siempre. El robo de uno de los mosaicos mejor conservados de Europa hace que la inspectora Oteiza, de la Brigada de Patrimonio Histórico de la Policía Judicial, se traslade a una pequeña localidad de Burgos para investigar el caso.

Gabi likes to touch and be touched. College has opened her eyes and body to explore more of her own sexuality. She has taken control of her needs. Find out how she becomes willing to do so and who teaches her.

Arturo is hooking up at college, thinking he is an amazing Latin lover. Is he? Do his moves satisfy the ladies? Are there any consequences he faces when he is caught, literally, with his fingers in the bag? What is his punishment? If any? Listen to this book, and find out if Arturo learns how to please.

Sam met Jemma, a college freshman, when she became his daughter's roommate. College life can bring romantic drama, and Sam doesn't hesitate to help save Jemma from a bad night. Sam turns her bad night into a good one when they stop at his home en route back to the dorm. Sam ends up saving Jemma in more than one way, while Jemma learns what it is to be pleased...by a man.

Only Jemma, a college freshman, is saved from the cove after witnessing her present beau be with another girl. The man who saves her is her roommate's father, Sam. He doesn't return her to the dorm. Instead, they stop at his home en route where Sam ends up saving Jemma in more than one way. Jemma never knew what it was to be with a man, she learned that night.

Attending a stranger’s memorial service wasn’t at the top of Kelli Jackson’s to-do list. Especially when that stranger was her own mother. To receive her inheritance Kelli must abide by the conditions of her late mother’s will. She is forced work as a zookeeper for six months with animals that terrify her. Since she needs to money to help support her aging grandmother, she must figure out a way to balance her career as a tax accountant with this new - thankfully temporary - assignment.

When Mishi is taken from her orphanage home, she fears she'll never see her best friend Taka again. And when Taka is taken to the infamous Josankō that same day, it seems as if more than distance will keep them apart. Suddenly alone in their fight to survive, each girl must come to terms with her true nature - Mishi as warrior, Taka as healer. Years after their separation, the girls’ journeys lead them each to uncover the horrifying secret that the Rōjū council has spent centuries killing to keep.

"Schwarzer Engel", so nennen die Bewohner der Trailerparks die dunkle Gestalt, die ihnen im Schutz der Dunkelheit kleine Geschenke vor die Haustür legt. Astrid Stone hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, den Bedürftigen in und um Independence das Leben zu erleichtern, nachdem ein Aufruf an die Einwohner des Städtchens gescheitert war.

This second volume in our popular anthology series is a superlative collection of 15 spine-chilling, marrow-icing, supernatural ghost stories that will have you hiding beneath the covers and reaching for the comfort of your nightlight’s glow.

Virginia Woolf es considerada como una de las más destacadas figuras del modernismo literario del siglo XX.

Virginia Woolf es considerada como una de las más destacadas figuras del modernismo literario del siglo XX.

This book aims to be mainly introductory, but also contain several tricks that can escape the more experienced crafters. It proposes as a guide, which, step-by-step, makes you discover how you can create scarves or sweaters with your own hands and also of different colors, simply buying already faded balls. With the right amount of patience, an excellent illustrated guidebook, nothing is impossible to achieve!

Ever since her emergence as a child prodigy Isabelle Bryant has only ever known one love - her violin. Then, aged 32, at the height of her career, the unthinkable happens. What do you do when everything depends on the dexterity of your fingers, only to lose them in a horrifying instant? Devastated and vulnerable in the aftermath of her accident, Isabelle struggles to find new meaning in her life. Her perilous path of self-discovery leads her to Vienna, the historic city home of her musical hero, Beethoven, and into the arms of the man who will become her lover.

With her stepfather's sudden death, Lady Anastasia Covington goes from living a privileged lifestyle to selling vegetables in the village marketplace in the blink of an eye. Alone and at the mercy of her nefarious stepsister, she yearns for love and acceptance. Disguised as a simple soldier, Prince Percival catches a dark-haired emerald-eyed beauty in his arms. He is bewitched. The more he sees her, the more intrigued he is by her contradictions.

In 1609, two years after its English founding, colonists struggled to stay alive in a tiny fort at Jamestown. John Smith fought to keep order. When he left, desperate colonists ate lizards, rats, and human flesh. Meanwhile, the Virginia-bound Sea Venture was shipwrecked on Bermuda, the dreaded, uninhabited “Isle of Devils”. Bermuda became England’s second New World colony in 1612. A Tale of Two Colonies examines the existing sources on the colonies, sets them in a transatlantic context, and weighs them against circumstantial evidence.

Reynard Drake, solitary cybersecurity expert and curator of the Drake family fortune, would rather be chucked in the midden than forced to bed an omega, but as the selected Amethyst candidate for the mating experiment, he has no other choice. Resigned to his unhappy fate, he takes solace in the fact that one thing will never change -his virtual rival, Magpie, will always be there to keep him on his toes, even if he has been strangely absent from the internet lately...And now, with a faceless threat closing in on his cloister, quite possibly the only one capable of saving his life.

Anne Virginia Culbertson who was born in Ohio in 1864, traveled around Virginia and North Carolina in the post-war years interviewing black Southerners to collect and publish their folk tales. The Woman Who Married an Owl is such a folk tale, written in dialect, about a woman’s encounter with an owl. It is told as a bedtime story by Aunt ‘Phrony to three children, and contains references to Cherokee words.

While on a business trip to Las Vegas, Lauren Bradley’s coworker is murdered - and she’s identified as the police’s number one suspect. With a shaky alibi and the evidence mounting against her, she places a desperate call to her boss. She and Brent set out to find the real killer, but nothing is as it seems in this city. Their only lead is a chance encounter with a troop of entertainers. Together, Lauren and Brent uncover an illegal operation that stretches all the way back home to Atlanta. Can they expose the desperate killer before one of them becomes the next victim?

This is the story my mom, Helen Kaczor, told her six children. We then went on to tell her 17 grandchildren. We each had fun embellishing the details, but the moral stays the same.