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Behind the shining windows and rose-bedecked gardens of Summer Street, there are lots of secrets. Theres the one that hard-working single mother, Faye, hides from her teenage daughter, Amber. And theres the one that thirty-year-old Maggie hides from herself.
Meet Julia, a wildly successful television producer who appears to have the picture-perfect life. But beneath the surface, things are not as perfect as they seem. Stuck in a loveless relationship with her boyfriend, Mark, Julia thinks a baby is the answer . . . but she may want a baby more than she wants her boyfriend. Maeve, on the other hand, is...
Quinces youthful adventures begin with his first sexual encounter, a night with a girl named Moomie in a one-room cabin in Virginia, and end with the twenty-four-year-old veteran settling down to his postwar future. In between, he falls in and out of love with dozens of women, drinks and drugs his way through two years of college and four years of...
The Return of the Native is the sixth published novel by Thomas Hardy. It first appeared in the Belgravia magazine, a publication known for its sensationalism, and ran in twelve monthly installments from January to December 1878.
Where Angels Fear to Tread is a novel by E. M. Forster. The title comes from a line in Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism: "For fools rush where angels fear to tread." The BBC adapted the novel for television in 1966 as Play of the Month.
Pocahontas is the daughter of Powhatan, the chief of a North American Indian tribe. One day he sees the arrival of a group of English settlers, led by the ambitious Governor Radcliff and the brave Captain John Smith.
A bittersweet contemporary love story chronicles the romance and marriage of Oliver Barrett, IV, a wealthy Harvard ice hockey player from a stuffy aristocratic family, and Jenny Cavilleri, a poor Radcliffe music student from a working class background.
Brilliant anti-heroine Becky Sharp will do anything to climb to societys loftiest heights and couldnt be more different from her rich, sweet-natured schoolmate, Amelia Sedley. Their parallel lives are marked by love, lust, marriage, fortune and loss, in all their different guises, as they navigate the corrupt circus of upper-class Regency England.
The sixth suspense thriller in an award-winning series finds Dr. Kay Scarpetta matching wits with a sadistic killer who infiltrates the FBI's top-secret artificial-intelligence system and closes in on Scarpetta herself.
The Body Farm - a research institute that tests the decomposition of corpses. Black Mountain, North Carolina: a sleepy little town where the local police deal with one homicide a year, if they're unlucky, and where people are still getting used to the idea of locking their doors at night. But violent death is no respecter of venue, and the discovery of...
The book recounts the author's experiences living on a remote island with a man she barely knew.
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PROFESSOR BOFFIN´S UMBRELLA Stage 2 Longman Structural Readers
Alexander,L.G.
Editorial: Longman
Editorial: Longman
4,50 €
Cuento para aprender inglés.
Sir Simon de Canterville murdered his wife around three hundred years ago, and since his death, his ghost has haunted the house. Mr Otis doesn't heed the ...
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A SCRIPTURAL ROSARY
Anónimo
Editorial: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Editorial: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
15,00 €
Cantos del Rosario en inglés.
Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Devastated by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep.
Freddy's dance card is filled with partners who twirl him around, step on his toes, and sometimes break his heart. In "Family Album," a six-year-old Freddy unknowingly unearths the source of his mother's hidden despair; twenty years later, she reaches through her drunken haze to comfort her son against the fear of AIDS. In "Cigarettes," Freddy does some...
Something terrible happened at Kirkston Abbey school for boys during the bleak winter term of 1954. Now, more than forty years later, journalist Tim Webber is determined to find out the truth. He uncovers a disturbing tale of a seemingly innocuous friendship between two fourteen-year-old boys who embark on a series of psychological power games which...
Novel set in India two hundred years ago at a time when the traditional Mogul rulers were beginning to give way to the British empire-builders. Muslims and Sikhs warred among themselves, adventurers fought for whoever would pay them - and they all fought the British. The author was born and raised in India and was living there at the time this book was...
Visionary, scholar, idealist, poet and author of a momentous epic and other timeless works, Wishart's Virgil is a man of contradictions: celibate but capable of great love; stuffy, sometimes prudish but often extremely warm and open; shy but with a talent for friendship and a certain magnetism. Through his eyes we gain an oblique view of great historical...
My primary aim in writing this book is to demonstrate the importance of individual human beings in modern warfare. In the battle to drive the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, Coalition forces used every form of high-technology weapon available; yet in the end success depended on the performance of individuals, whether they were pilots, divers, tank drivers,...
A new state is forming in America, carving out land across other state boundaries to form a secure sanctuary for the law-abiding who have lost the fight against the spiralling crime and decadence of the late 20th century. Known to the authorities but not to the populace, a serial killer has managed to by-pass the strict controls and is operating...
A young mother is found butchered, with a coded inscription printed in blood on her head. It is identical to the code found on Bishop Rushman, who had been dismembered by Aaron Stampler. The same Aaron Stampler whom Martin Vail saved from the electric chair, and is now in a security prison.
Wilson Capp is an honorable man in a dishonorable profession. While the others involved in the notorious Gateway scandal that toppled a President told all and made their fortunes, Wilson Capp kept the faith, kept his silence... and was rewarded with prison. Now Wilson Capp is free. And he's out to make his former associates pay the ultimate price for...
The Sigli had been just an old passenger launch, but when the Japanese invaded Singapore during World War II everything that could float was pressed into service. And so, crammed with refugees, harried and bombed by enemy planes, the Sigli had struggled south in a desperate attempt to escape - Rupert Blair's family had been among the passengers on that...
A tense and topical thriller featuring crime writer Molly Cates, whose search for the truth behind her own bestseller leads to grisly killings in gripping detail.Eleven years ago, women driving on the desert interstates were terrified by the thought of breaking down and falling victim to the Texas Scalper. But now he's safely behind bars, and one-time...
Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in Norway and Finland. When Giles Denison of Hampstead wakes up in an Oslo hotel room and finds the face ...
An indomitable woman. A driven man. A glorious sweeping epic novel of the American past.
A selective compendium of catch phrases, colloquialisms, format phrases, idioms, nicknames, sayings, slogans and stock phrases, current or recalled at the start of the 1990s. It explains what they mean, gives details (where possible) of their origins, and provides illustrative examples. It includes many phrases never documented before and contains...
Keegan Allen is the international breakout star of MTV's hit television series, Pretty Little Liars. A gifted photographer and writer-and a dazzling film, television, and stage actor now counting millions of fans across the globe-Keegan Allen brings tremendous talent and energy to his first publishing project. Keegan tells a unique story with his...
Foundations of Modern Genetics Series
. The Sierra Nevada region, covering an enormous section of California ...
The book will be of great interest to botanists, who are particularly concerned with plant physiology.
This is a text for fungal physiology courses with a nutritional emphasis, discussing fungal nutrition and its implications for growth, development, and metabolite production. Chapters on dormancy, germination, growth and reproduction, metabolism and protein synthesis are also included.
Regression, analysis of variance and experimental designs.
This book discusses biochemical adaptation to environments from freezing polar oceans to boiling hot springs, and under hydrostatic pressures up to 1,000 times that at sea level. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the...
A textbook of autoecology
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MICROBIOLOGY OF ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GASES
Murrell,J.Colin/Kelly,Donovan P.
Editorial: Springer
Editorial: Springer
85,00 €
The chapters making up this volume are based on the presentations given by their authors at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) , also entitled "The Microbiology of Atmospheric Trace Gases: Sources, Sinks and Global Change Processes", held between 13-18 May 1995 at II Ciocco, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Tuscany, Italy. Four reports of Working Group...
During the 1990s there have been changes in the ecological landscape. There is increased awareness of the importance of scale, the role of disturbance, the necessity for conservation, the potential for restoration, and the power of genetics in understanding relationships among organisms. Building on traditional foundations - evolution and adaptation,...
Esta obra presenta la teoria estadistica en el contexto de la solucion de problemas practicos y aplicaciones reales. Analiza la naturaleza de la estadistica y su importancia en la investigacion cientifica. Requiere un curso previo de calculo. Antes de presentar la teoria de la probabilidad, define claramente el objetivo de la estadistica (inferencia...
Like everyone, Nancy finds that as life goes on, she has to adapt. Shes learning to hone her respectable image as the wife of investment banker Matt, cooking fashionable meals and taking his shirts to the cleaners, while turning a few tricks on the side. Volume is down, but the sex is kinkier. And she finds herself pulled into the discreet subculture of...
Bernard Cooper recalls his 1960s adolescence in Los Angeles and the emotional rollercoaster of puberty in this painfully honest memoir. He recounts the schoolboy crushes, the family strife, and the ebb and flow of youthful desire, all with a "humor that animates just about every sentence" (New York Times Book Review).
This novelization of the life of James Dean uses actual events as a basis for understanding: the early death of a doting mother and the broken relationship with an unfeeling father; his "apple pie" adolescence in Fairmount, Indiana, raised by a wholesome aunt and uncle; and his sexual awakening.
There are noises in Regan's room, an odd smell, the displacement of furniture, and an icy chill. Easy explanations are offered, but then frightening changes start in the 11-year-old girl. Medical tests shed no light on her symptoms. Is it possible that a demonic force is present in her?
Joey One-Way says that there is one way he is getting out of prison and that's in a box. That is, until hot-shot TV and film producer, Markie Mann, pulls strings to spring Joey after he'd served 17-and-a-half years in the joint for murdering his wife. Joel Rose is the author of "Kill the Poor".