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En un futuro cercano, la tercera guerra mundial se recrudece a marchas forzadas, y la Tierra, plagada de virus y radioactividad, resulta inhabitable; al menos, eso cree la inmensa mayoría de la población que, confinada en factorías subterráneas, sólo conoce del exterior lo que ve en los informes televisivos. Pero éstos no ofrecen más que mentiras sistemáticas ideadas por profesionales del artificio, guardianes de una realidad radicalmente distinta: la guerra acabó hace años y el planeta es un gran jardín.

In book 10 in the series, Ainsley is hired to find the 12-year-old daughter of a woman who was told by her husband, the baby's father, that their baby had died during delivery. Ainsley could see that the decision her client's husband had made had been a difficult one and that the baby's father had simply been trying to do what was best for everyone, causing conflicting emotions for Ainsley about the job she has agreed to take on.

This is a book about the loss of parentage, rough childhoods, and all of the causes that can lead to a child's upside-down life. This book tackles all of the hot-button issues that many may not be comfortable speaking of in their households or to their loved ones. It's about the rough topics that cause things such as abandonment, childhood trauma, and even adoption from the household. With everything written down in this book, there's definitely a situation for every listener to relate to because real life is filled with real issues.

Erykah was looking forward to junior year at East Prep High. She has a cute boyfriend, gets good grades, and has the best bestie. Money is tight, though that’s nothing new in her world. But everything changes when she gets pregnant. Having a baby at sixteen was definitely not part of the plan.

When Zoe finds the body of the lunch lady on the hopscotch course the week before the new school year, she is pulled into a mystery that will find her volunteering as soccer mom, classroom mom, and PTA board member.

In true Zoe Donovan fashion, Zoe ends up in jail on the second night of her honeymoon after she finds herself the only suspect in the first murder Heavenly Island has seen in a decade. Although she has been ordered to leave the investigation to a man known only as Toad, she can't help but snoop around just a bit while enjoying the tropical paradise with new husband, Zak. In the midst of enjoying days at the beach and moonlit walks under the stars, she discovers a truth about the island that might very well put those she loves in danger.

Shelby decides to clean out the second floor of the building which had been used by the previous owner as a storage area. While clearing out the large dusty space, she finds a stack of boxes with so much dust on them that she is certain that they'd been there for decades. Shelby opens to boxes and finds items left behind from the owner of the garment factory that had utilized the space half a century ago. During the course of sifting through the old treasures, Shelby finds a journal that appeared to have been left behind by a man who lived in the area in the 1960s and '70s.

Now that Zak and Zoe have their house, their lives, and their wedding back, things seem to be on track once again, until a man is found dead and Zoe is once again pulled into a murder investigation. The victim is a well known and liked member of the community, who didn't appear to have any enemies until his secret past caught up with him. Zak and Zoe work together to find the killer while Zoe deals with the fact that Levi and Ellie seem to be imploding before her very eyes.

Our rulers have changed America from the freest and most powerful country with the highest living standard in the world to a country whose military loses wars in faraway places, where inflation ravishes the working class, the homeless roam our cities, and hordes of migrants enter illegally. This book lays out America’s problems in a plain simple-to-digest nutshell, and then provides solutions to fix the biggest issues plaguing the United States today.

It's spring in Holiday Bay, and new guests have arrived to enjoy the plentiful sunshine. Lonnie has begun construction of the four new cottages, and decisions relating to color and design keep Abby hopping. Abby's most recent manuscript has been turned in, leaving time in her schedule to pitch in as a volunteer for the annual spring events, and everything is as it should be with the exception of the disturbing emails Georgia has been receiving.

Life at the Salty Cauldron is going well…right up until a body washes onto the beach. The dead woman, who is 40 years younger than her husband, had a run-in with Hali in her tiki bar the previous day. Authorities assume it was an accidental drowning, but a mark on the dead woman’s neck gives Hali pause. Grayson Hunter finds himself in a pickle when the identity of the body becomes public. Seems he was the one hired by the victim’s husband to investigate her extra-curricular activities. Surprisingly enough, it turns out she wasn’t having an affair.

Hay pocos lugares en Inglaterra tan evocadores y misteriosos como New Forest, una vasta zona boscosa situada junto a la costa del sur de Inglaterra. A lo largo de los siglos, este bosque ha sido el escenario de las actividades más diversas: sus tierras acogieron la brujería y el contrabando, pero también sirvieron como coto de caza a los reyes sajones y normandos, y sus robles se emplearon para la construcción de la armada de Nelson.

Since the first day of high school, Simon and I have competed. Top grades? Simon wins. Better manners? Simon wins. Irresistible stare? Simon definitely wins. So when the bossy billionaire suggests an enemies with benefits arrangement, I dive in headfirst. No feelings. No strings. No falling in love. It's perfect...in theory. Only the Simon who shares my bed isn't cutthroat and arrogant.

Lo que no supimos decir nos dolerá eternamente y sólo el valor de un corazón abierto podrá liberarnos de esta congoja. Nuestros encuentros en la vida son un momento fugaz que debemos aprovechar con la verdad de la palabra y la sutileza de los sentimientos. Viendo inminente el final de su vida, Olga decide escribir a su nieta una larga carta para dejar constancia de lo que ninguna de las dos ha sabido ni decir ni escuchar. Cuando la nieta regrese, sólo encontrará la relación de los pensamientos, sentimientos, delicadeza y esperanza, soledad y amargura que la vida ha ido tejiendo.

There is an unspoken agreement between the racially divided towns of Bayside and Hamilton: no one steps over the train tracks that divide them. Or else. Not until Zach Whitman anyway, a white boy who moves in from Philly and who dreams of music. When he follows his dream across the tracks to meet his idol, the famous jazz musician who owns The Sunlight Record Shop in Hamilton, he’s flung into Capri Collins’s path.

Sydney Whitmore, a forensic psychologist, moves to Shipwreck Island and renews her relationship with Ezra Reinhold, a reclusive billionaire who enjoys poking around in cold cases. In book four, Arden Haynsworth has been kidnapped after being sentenced to death for her part in the death of the kidnapper's daughter Daisy. Arden insists she’s innocent of the crime she’s been accused of and is certain she was set up to take the fall. With only five days to prove the woman’s innocence or watch her perish, the team jumps into action.

La obra de una de las grandes maestras de la literatura norteamericana con prólogos actualizados. Los relatos más significativos de la singular y sutil narrativa de Carson McCullers, que han accedido ya a la consideración de clásicos de la moderna literatura norteamericana. Prólogo de Paulina Flores.

Maddie Graves-Winters should be preparing for the biggest day of her life–she’s going to become a mother in three months after all–but that’s impossible without the right crib. That means an outing to nearby Shadow Lake with her husband, Nick, that turns into a nightmare she wasn’t expecting when a local author is struck in the middle of the road and left for dead.

After a year and a half of on-again-off-again relationship status, Zak and Zoe are finally getting married. Not only has her own mother morphed into Momzilla, but Zak’s mother shows up a month before the wedding with plans to stay until the big day. When the moms gang up to undo all of Zoe’s wedding plans, things become tense. When Zak has to go out of town two weeks before the wedding, things get even worse. But when the assistant to the wedding planner Mother Zimmerman hired ends up dead in the pool, things become outright hilarious.

Ambicioso, lúcido y poseedor de una ironía incisiva y precisa como un escalpelo que disecciona los vicios de su sociedad y, por extensión, de la condición humana, Jonathan Swift escribió algunas de las páginas más ácidas y divertidas -pero también amargas- de la prosa inglesa. Esta antología recoge los principales textos en los que el autor abordó de manera recurrente la cuestión de la mentira política. Esta antología recoge los principales textos en los que el autor abordó de manera recurrente la cuestión de la mentira política.