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After Edwin witnesses his parents’ death in a fire at sea, his uncle sends him to an academic boarding school. An unexpected encounter with climbing boys, Smudge and Jake, leads to an adventure beyond his wildest dreams. Informative and heart-warming, the story gives an intriguing insight into chimney sweeping in 18th-century London.

¿Es posible convertir las crisis en oportunidades? Algunos de los descubrimientos e innovaciones más importantes de la humanidad han nacido a partir de crisis o contratiempos, lo que nos demuestra que es posible levantarnos después de las caídas y reinventarnos para aplicar lo mejor de las experiencias difíciles. Somos nuestro mejor prototipo y podemos formarlo las veces que sean necesarias hasta encontrar ese propósito que nos mueve. Podemos levantar un modelo de negocios a partir de nuestra persona y hacer de nuestra vida un emprendimiento.

"The quintessential Jack London is in the on-rushing compulsive-ness of his northern stories," noted James Dickey. "Few men have more convincingly examined the connection between the creative powers of the individual writer and the unconscious drive to breed and to survive, found in the natural world... London is in and committed to his creations to a degree very nearly unparalleled in the composition of fiction." This collection includes famous works of Jack London: Call of the Wild ; White Fang ; Love of Life.

Nikita Koroleva es la primera Vor v zakone mujer de Rusia, y acaba de tomar la decisión más difícil de su vida. R es el primogénito de Massimo Capuleto, y ha hecho una promesa que no puede romper.

En un mundo donde nada es lo que parece, con bandas rivales enfrentadas, dos personalidades opuestas se verán condenadas a entenderse. Donde hubo fuego, siempre habrá pecado, prepárate para arder en él.

Julián Walker, hijo del despiadado Silas Walker, se encuentra con una mujer americana en una noche parisina. Ella le confiesa que es su última noche en la ciudad y que le encantaría vivir una noche sin ataduras, sin detalles de identidad. Solo sexo. Esto es justo lo que Julián quiere tener en París, la ciudad donde él se permite ser cualquier cosa, excepto el príncipe del imperio Walker.

How is it that the toxic personality of one individual is allowed to impact the lives of so many? How is it that unrestrained destructiveness and ill-gotten gains are never called into question, and their purveyors never suffer any consequences? Certainly, such behavior did not start with just one person or the family before them. It most certainly has to have begun all the way back amid a contaminated culture—in part, from an Appalachian aristocracy.

Have you ever wondered what may happen if you were ever to happen upon a notorious serial killer while going about your daily life – before they earned their notoriety? Jane Nightshade’s Serial Encounters brings you 18 chilling tales of mayhem and murder that tackle that very question from some of the edgiest indie horror authors in the business.

Are you overwhelmed, stressed, or on the verge of a nervous breakdown? Are your projects stalled? Breathe, the author gives you her magic wand - her book. If only I were more confident! Who hasn't wanted this before? People who have strong self-esteem have a good opinion of themselves, are optimistic, and are on an equal footing with their fellow human beings.

A handsome stranger with steel-blue eyes makes love to Kristen Cole each night in her dreams. She presumes the men in her life are manifesting her nightly erotic experiences. But when Kristen awakes one morning to see the stranger vanish from her bed, she fears she is losing her mind. Confident that poor sleep caused her hallucination, she gives up alcohol, takes up exercise, and adopts a guard dog to watch over her. This morning, after a wild night with her boyfriend, Kristen awoke to find his lifeless body on her bathroom floor.

The unseen resident of 515 Cambria Pines Road is alive...and he will not be ignored. Kristen Cole, a clinical psychologist, is shaken by misfortune when her retired father falls victim to a terrible accident. She journeys to the seaside hamlet of Cambria, California, where she lays his body to rest. Distraught and faced with the need to sell her father’s house quickly, Kristen employs a local contractor to renovate it for sale. When Kristen falls in love, she learns why her heart must not be given to any other man.

When Erin buys a strange plant from a bizarre flower shop, she's unaware of the power it possesses. Her college friends, Kristen and Wes, come over for the evening, but little do they know what the plant has in store for them. Will Kristen get taken? Will Wes get probed? Will Erin get seeded hard?

Essence best-selling author and winner of the Nubian Literary Award, Karen E. Quinones Miller was also named Author of the Year by Turning Pages Book Club. Passin' introduces Shanika Ann Jenkins - a light-skinned black woman who decides to remake herself. Shanika is blonde and beautiful. But after being rejected for a job she makes an incredible choice: to use her God-given assets to become the white woman she always imagined she could be.

This is an equal opportunity recording! No race, sex, ethnic group, religion, profession or recreational activity escapes the slings and arrows of this outrageous compendium of jokes, barbs and fabricated anecdotes. From mother superiors to ventriloquists, from hat-check girls to senators, everybody gets a dose of not-so-gentle humility in the course of this merciless, raunchy performance.

If I Could Crawl Inside Your Mind for 24 Hours, Would I Have a Good Day? Your thoughts may not always reflect your true identity. Through the transforming power of this book, you will discover who you really are and finally see yourself through God’s eyes—as one outrageously loved, totally accepted, and completely forgiven.

Your Eyes Will Be My Window reclaims the two erasures of Esta Plat. Murdered in Ukraine by Nazi troops in 1942, evidence of the life of Esta Plat was preserved in a bundle of her letters until the letters were tossed into a dumpster and destroyed. Haunted by the inheritance of survivor's guilt and shame in a family that kept no Old World keepsakes except her grandmother's one-sentence memory of Esta Plat, Jodi Varonis compelled to sift through records of Europe's genocidal past.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Hurlbut's Bible Lessons for Boys and Girls and learn about biblical stories.

En el bosque hay un ataúd de cristal. Está en el suelo, y en su interior duerme un muchacho con cuernos en la cabeza y orejas puntiagudas… Hazel y su hermano Ben viven en Fairfold, donde los humanos pueden coexistir en armonía con los habitantes del aire. Desde que eran niños, Hazel y Ben se han estado contando historias sobre el chico del ataúd de cristal en las que este es un príncipe y ellos son sus valientes caballeros. Creen que este príncipe es diferente de otros feéricos, los que hacen tratos crueles, se ocultan entre las sombras de los árboles y llevan a la perdición a los turistas.

Estamos en las postrimerías del siglo XIX, cada vez más mujeres se interpelan sobre su papel en una sociedad gobernada por hombres. Marjorie lleva un año en Nueva York, nuevos amigos y nuevas experiencias, aunque eso no hace que se olvide de Henrietta y Robert. En casa de la condesa se va a celebrar una fiesta de cumpleaños y se espera la llegada de William para las próximas semanas. Marjorie se prepara para volver a Worthington a pasar el verano, pero no se imagina lo que se va a encontrar a su regreso.

Ehli-nikkalu, eldest daughter of the Hittite emperor, is married to a mere vassal of her father's. But despite her status, her foreignness and inability to produce an heir drive a wedge between her and the court that surrounds her. When her secretary is mysteriously murdered while carrying the emperor a message that would indict the loyalty of his vassal, Ehli-nikkalu adopts the dead man's orphaned children out of a guilty sense of responsibility.