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1381) Tides of the sovereign
Author
Series
The lost wells trilogy volume 1
Publisher
FriesenPress
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A centuries-old rebirth curse, an otherworldly Celtic prince, and an inescapable prophecy. Thirty-year-old magic Bearer Julia Harrison had never given the notion of past lives or grand destinies any real credence or thought. She has knowledge of magic, and the power she shares with the women of her bloodline. She's aware of the difference between Druids and Sorcerers, Wielders and Bearers, and so on, but regardless of all of that... her everyday life...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Se suponía que iban a ser unas vacaciones relajantes y soleadas en compañía de mi hermano, pero descubrir un cadáver en nuestra casa de alquiler ha acabado con nuestros planes de broncearnos. Ahora un cazarrecompensas impertinente ha llegado en su moto para atrapar al asesino, pero se niega a creer que yo pueda ser útil, a pesar de las innumerables horas de pódcast sobre crímenes que he escuchado... Por no mencionar mi exitosa carrera como...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Incisive linked stories about a lesbian couple moving from San Francisco to the Cannery Row, the heart of Steinbeck country, wonderful profiles of their new neighbors and the challenges of being strangers in a new place. A narrator, raised in a working-class Croatian American fishing family and immigrant community, enjoys an early career in labor-oriented jobs. Years later, she unexpectedly finds herself in an academic position in a white-collar...
1384) Maybe she'll stay
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A daughter's return home opens old wounds in a novel of family, love, and emotional rescue by the author of Paper Doll Lina. After three disastrous marriages, a series of bad dates, and a tumultuous relationship with an emotionally abusive mother, psychology professor Nancy Jewel is through with love and commitment. Romantic or familial, the notion is a waste of her time. Content with being alone, she's starting to feel normal-ish when she learns...
1385) A champion's heart
Author
Series
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
1935. Champion Bates left poky old Winslow, Georgia when he was seventeen years old. He had promised to elope with his childhood sweetheart, but pressured by other influences, he took an earlier train leaving his Delie behind. The pain at leaving her behind has tormented him for the seven years he fought as a ham and egg boxer, trying to make himself worthy of her. He had no chance for the big time until now. He has a fight with a contender boxer--a...
Author
Publisher
"Ė"
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Russian
Description
"Anna Akulova - matʹ-odinochka i prepodavatelʹ algebry i geometrii v kolledzhe. Ee boi︠a︡tsi︠a︡, ei︠u︡ voskhishchai︠u︡tsi︠a︡, ee uvazhai︠u︡t, no storoni︠a︡tsi︠a︡. I lishʹ starshekursnik Sashka Dronov taĭno i bezotvetno vli︠u︡blën v molodui︠u︡ uchitelʹnit︠s︡u. No on znaet, chto shansov u nego net... I vot v kolledzhe poi︠a︡vli︠a︡etsi︠a︡ novyĭ zavkhoz, byvshiĭ ofit︠s︡er v otstavke,...
1387) Lo que ella dejó
Author
Publisher
Panamericana Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
En una fría mañana de febrero, un hombre encontró el cuerpo sin vida de la joven periodista Alice Salmon, flotando en el río Dane. ¿Se trató de un suicidio? ¿De un trágico accidente? ¿O tal vez de un asesinato? Jeremy Cooke, un profesor de Antropología que está a punto de jubilarse, decide emprender una investigación y empieza a recolectar todas las huellas que dejó la joven para reunirlas en un libro: cartas, diarios, entradas de Facebook,...
1388) El sendero del amor
Author
Publisher
Rocaeditorial
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
Description
"Devastated by the death of his wife in a hit-and-run accident, Miles, deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, discovers new meaning in his life when he meets Sarah Andrews, a woman struggling to rebuild her own life"--
"La vida de Miles Ryan pareció acabar en el mismo instante en que su mujer murió en un accidente de tráfico hace ya dos años. Missy había sido su primer amor y Miles cree que sin duda será también el último. Como policía...
Author
Publisher
Boréal
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Français
Description
"Romain, professeur de philosophie à la retraite, est veuf. Irène est une actrice célèbre désormais confinée aux rôles de reine mourante. Ils ne le savent pas encore, mais un être les relie : Jérémie. Irène a l'habitude d'attendre le jeune itinérant dans la ruelle derrière le théâtre quand elle va fumer une cigarette entre deux scènes. Il lui récite Dostoïevski, qu'il semble connaître par cœur, ou bien des poèmes qu'il improvise...
1390) Le cerf-volant: roman
Author
Publisher
Bernard Grasset
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Français
Description
"Après le drame qui a fait basculer sa vie, Léna décide de tout quitter. Elle entreprend un voyage en Inde, au bord du Golfe du Bengale, pour tenter de se reconstruire. Hantée par les fantômes du passé, elle ne connait de répit qu'à l'aube, lorsqu'elle descend nager dans l'océan indien. Sur la plage encore déserte, elle aperçoit chaque matin une petite fille, seule, qui joue au cerf-volant. Un jour, emportée par le courant, Léna manque...
Author
Publisher
Titiana
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
La vida de Ally Hughes es un caos. Con una niña que requiere toda su atención, una madre controladora que sigue cada uno de sus pasos y unas largas jornadas como profesora en la Universidad de Brown ... Bastante tiene con organizarse ella sola, como para pensar en hombres ... ¡O en tener sexo! Y entonces aparece Jake, un alumno diez años más joven que ella, que le hará vibrar como nunca en toda su vida. Pero Ally no está preparada para...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This first volume in the Library of America Don DeLillo edition presents three indispensable novels from the 1980s, published here with new prefaces from the author. The Names (1982) was DeLillo's breakthrough novel, a book that, as he reflects here, spanned a "broader expanse" than his earlier novels. James Axton, a "risk analyst" tasked with assessing dangers for his corporate clients from terrorism and other forms of political upheaval, uncovers...
1393) Youth without God
Author
Series
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years. This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century's great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience. An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with "a safe job with a pension at the end of it." But, when he reprimands...
1394) Enlightened end
Author
Series
Lotus House novel volume 7
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"My world ended the day I received an eviction notice for Lotus House Yoga. Teaching yoga is all I've ever known. I've been doing tree pose since the age of two. The studio is my home, my legacy. My mother and her best friend left Lotus House to me so that I could carry on spreading goodness and light to everyone who enters our door. Now I'm faced with the very real possibility that it will all go up in smoke...unless I can convince Grant Winters--the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Waterhouse Press LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Misadventures with a professor: Zandy Lynch is headed to the English countryside for a summer internship under some crotchety professor, but Professor Oliver Graeme isn't crotchety at all. He may be cold and reserved by day, but he's wildly passionate at night. It's not long before Zandy finds herself falling for both versions of him. But summer only lasts so long, and Zandy's plane ticket home signals the end of Oliver's fiery mentorship--unless...
1396) Almas de acero
Author
Series
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Dominic Lomazzi tiene una obsesión: encontrar a su hermana pequeña. Desde que Charlene desapareció siendo una adolescente ha dedicado su vida a buscarla. Por ella se hizo Carabinieri, por ella ingresó en la Interpol, por ella se infiltró durante cinco años en una de las organizaciones criminales de tráfico de mujeres más peligrosa de todas, los Diamond Hearts, donde conoció las mayores atrocidades de las que es capaz un ser humano, antes...
1397) Tu admiradora secreta
Author
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Español
Description
"Hallie Welch se enamoró perdidamente de Julian Vos a los catorce años, cuando estuvieron a punto de besarse en los viñedos de su familia. Ahora el atractivo Julian ha regresado al valle de Napa, y cuando contratan a Hallie para renovar los jardines de la finca familiar, ella se pregunta si por fin podrá conseguir ese ansiado beso. Pero el rígido profesor poco tiene que ver con el adolescente que ella recuerda y sus personalidades, ahora radicalmente...
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