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Nel cuore del barrio de las Letras, il quartiere più bohémien di Madrid, tra stradine pedonali e piazzette ombreggiate, proprio dove si narra che abbiano vissuto Cervantes e Lope de Vega, esiste una piccola oasi verde ricca di fascino e profumi: il Giardino dell'Angelo, il regno fiorito di Olivia. Nel suo negozio, all'ombra di un olivo centenario, si incrociano le vite di cinque donne che comprano fiori.

Año 1889, La Rioja. Hay quien dice que una maldición se ciñe sobre los viñedos, secos desde hace años, de la finca Las Urracas. Mientras las grandes bodegas de la región comienzan su edad dorada, Gloria - la joven hija del propietario - languidece en la vieja mansión familiar, viendo aproximarse otro otoño sin cosecha. Sometida a la autoridad de una tía cruel y un padre ausente, Gloria verá cambiar su vida de un día para otro cuando tenga que ponerse al frente del negocio familiar.

Cuentan que más allá de los Montes de Hielo, más allá de la Ciudad de Cristal, habita la Emperatriz de los Etéreos en un deslumbrante palacio. Dicen que es tan bella que nadie puede mirarla sin perder la razón. Solo los más osados intentan llegar hasta ella. Pero Bipa no cree en los cuentos de hadas. No le interesa nada más allá de las cuevas donde vive su gente. En cambio, su amigo Aer, el hijo del extranjero, parece que cada vez se aleja más de la realidad y va dejándose absorber por el brillo de la estrella azul... donde dicen que vive la Emperatriz de los Etéreos.

A scorned god. A mysterious acolyte. A forgetting drug. A dangerous forest. One girl caught between the freedom she always wanted and a sister she can't bear to leave behind. Under the cover of the Night Forest, will Lucha be able to step into her own power...or will she be consumed by it?

Pat e Isabel O'Sullivan quieren ir al mismo colegio que sus amigas, pero su madre ha decidido enviarlas al Santa Clara. Las mellizas han aceptado el cambio, pero tienen un plan secreto...¡hacer diabluras hasta que las cambien de colegio!

Vampires and merpeople, angels and demons—the stories in this anthology imagine worlds where the only thing more powerful than the supernatural, is love. A girl in a graveyard goes on an unexpected date, a shipwrecked sailor makes a connection on a forbidden island, a piano melody summons a soul mate. Creatures of folktales and legend, of land and sea, of centuries past and life after life, all wrapped into one spellbinding compendium. Once you sink into its story, it’ll never let you go.

Cellphones have become a fact of life, with children as young as eight (yes, eight!) getting their very own “devices.” Such boundless access means our kids are in nearly constant contact with technology that was designed specifically for adults. And they’re doing so without any type of road map. Enter First Phone: the essential audiobook that apprehensive parents can confidently hand to their kids to listen to as they begin their journey into the digital world.

Tres meses atrás aparecieron restos humanos en los vertederos de Pinto y Valdemingómez. Pese a haber dedicado ingentes recursos, no se ha encontrado el cadáver completo y no hay una sola pista de la autoría del crimen. Y lo que es peor: tres meses después sigue sin identificarse a la víctima. Manuela se enfrentará de esta manera al mayor desafío de su carrera como inspectora de homicidios: la Operación Vertedero.

Was gibt es heute zu entdecken? Der Tag hat gerade erst begonnen und schon jetzt scheint eine Idee der nächsten zu folgen. Ein Kinderzimmer wird zum großen Meer und ein Nachmittag mit dem großen Bruder bringt ganz neue Erkenntnisse mit sich. Und was wartet morgen? Die Überraschung wird groß sein, denn auch dort gibt es etwas zu entdecken. Doch was kann das sein?

Discover how Meghan Truman, Sandy Bay's bakery owner, navigates her way through three murder mysteries as she gets to know the quirky characters in her adopted hometown after failing to make a career as an actress in Hollywood. She's finally started a relationship with Jack Irvin, a detective, but will she find time to build a romance while she has to deal with betrayals, ungrateful staff, culture clashes, and murder? Three complete best-selling cozy mystery stories in one boxset!

Discover how Meghan Truman, Sandy Bay's latest resident and new bakery owner, navigates her way through three murder mysteries as she gets to know the quirky characters in her adopted hometown after failing to make a career as an actress in Hollywood. She's finally started a relationship with Jack Irvin, a detective, but will she find time to build a romance while she has to deal with betrayals, ungrateful staff, culture clashes, and murder? Three complete best-selling cozy mystery stories in one boxset!

When Tracy agreed to offer her services at the Presidential Dog Show, she thought it would open her business to a new client base. After all, the eyes of the country would be focused on Fern Grove during the event. She's left frustrated and disappointed when the organizer of the event refuses to pay her. Things take a turn for the worse when she discovers that this person has been found murdered.

Realizing he was not able to handle all of the niceties of his office, due to the tensions he was constantly under, Pius IX had handed over most of the diplomatic chores of his Papacy to Cardinal Atonelli, but he died in 1877, and Pope Pius IX died the following winter. It is fair to say that the Vatican was in a diplomatic shambles after the death of Pope Pius IX. So who was the Lord going to choose to put in the hot seat of the Papacy? He chose a very strong, but very peace-loving Cardinal from Perugia, Gioacchino Vincenzo Raffaele Luigi Pecci, to be known as Pope Leo XIII.

To study the history of the world, especially Europe, is to discover the history of the Church. For, the Church has always played an integral part in the annals of history, as she continues to follow her master Jesus Christ, who told the apostles, “I will be with you till the end of the world.” For, since the children of God are living in the world, then so must the happenings of the world be intertwined with Mother Church as her children are affected by the world they live in.

St. John Bosco, better known as Don Bosco, is one of the great apostles of the 19th century. His ministry was to the children of Turin in Northern Italy, victims of the Industrial Revolution in that country at that time. Don Bosco was God's gift to the Church of that century. The magnetism of Don Bosco reached out and touched souls all over the world. He was one of the most multi-faceted diamonds the Lord has ever given us.

The history and account of the miraculous image of Our Lady that is known as Our Lady of Czestochowa.

Radiospektakl' "Lebedinoe ozero" - muzykal'no-literaturnaja kompozicija Z.Chernyshjovoj po baletu Petra Il'icha Chajkovskogo. V osnovu sjuzheta polozheny mnogie fol'klornye motivy, v tom chisle starinnaja nemeckaja legenda, povestvujushhaja o prekrasnoj princesse Odette, prevrashhjonnoj v lebedja prokljatiem zlogo kolduna - rycarja Rotbarta.

Wren Davenne can't forget those two nights he spent with his raven-haired beauty. And now, after going MIA for over two weeks, Bella Stone is suddenly back in his life. Only she's all business, while he's all play...mostly. But when her life is threatened, the games are off and he'll stop at nothing to save her.

What may be hiding behind the closed doors of a house? What is the true relationship of family members? How people face their fellow human beings who have a disabilities? What is right and what is wrong? In the early '70s, Zoe, looks after her son Stavros who was born with mental retardation in an era without social support and possibilities of integration and special education.

Spektakl' po ostrosjuzhetnoj drame velikogo russkogo pisatelja L'va Nikolaevich Tolstogo (1828-1910), "Vlast' t'my, ili Kogotok uvjaz, vsej ptichke propast'" (1886). Osen'. V prostornoj izbe zazhitochnogo, boleznennogo muzhika Petra - zhena Anis'ja, Akulina, ego doch' ot pervogo braka, pojut pesni. Sam hozjain v kotoryj raz zovet i rugaet, grozjas' rasschitat' Nikitu, shhegolevatogo parnja let dvadcati pjati, rabotnika lenivogo i guljashhego.