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When Isabel Williams moves to Liverpool, she criticises seemingly everything in Eloise Byrne’s life – her city, her accent, her trademark boldness – so if, when she catches Isabel staring, Eloise feels her pulse race, it must be because they hate each other. It surely couldn’t be for any other reason, could it?

Con su estilo único y sensibilidad inigualable, León Krauze comenta las noticias y las historias más importantes del día para ti.

Hay lecciones que la vida nos enseña de las formas más crueles. Y luego, después de todo eso, está la posibilidad de volver a amar. Con dibujos delicados y expresivos, Eloísa Castro retrata una cotidianidad extrañada por el dolor que, trenzada con los poemas de Virginia, nos lleva en un viaje de sanación.

"Ma vie" est l'autobiographie du révolutionnaire russe Léon Trotsky, écrite durant son exil et publiée en 1929. "Je ne puis nier que ma vie n'a pas été des plus ordinaires. Mais il faut en chercher les causes plutôt dans les circonstances de l'époque qu'en moi-même. Bien entendu, il fallait aussi qu'il existât certains traits personnels pour que j'aie rempli la tâche, bonne ou mauvaise, que j'ai remplie."

Au printemps 1598, le jeune Aurelio quitte la ferme de ses parents pour la plus belle et décadente ville du monde : Rome. Depuis qu'il est enfant, il n'a qu'un rêve, devenir sculpteur et travailler avec il gigante, le génie, Michel-Ange. Mais l'artiste a dû abandonner son art, contraint par le puissant pape Jules II à se consacrer à un autre projet, peindre le plafond de la chapelle Sixtine. Engagé comme modèle et apprenti, Aurelio assistera aux tourments quotidiens du maestro, aux terribles luttes de pouvoir qui agitent Rome et à la création du plus grand chef-d'œuvre.

Deux pêcheurs de palourdes sont retrouvés noyés dans les débris de leur bateau, leurs corps lardés de coups de couteau. Le commissaire Brunetti doit mener l'enquête au sein d'une communauté unie par un code de loyauté et une méfiance instinctive vis-à-vis des étrangers. Loin du monde raffiné de la Sérénissime, dans cette ambiance digne d'un village sicilien, la loi du silence est de mise. Pour tromper la méfiance des insulaires, Brunetti a l'idée d'envoyer sur place sa secrétaire, la signora Elettra.

Writing in the heat of struggle against the rise of fascism in Germany, France, and Spain in the 1930s, communist leader Leon Trotsky examines the class origins and character of fascist movements. Building on foundations laid by the Communist International in Lenin's time, Trotsky advances a working-class strategy to combat and defeat this malignant danger.

Donna Leon’s bestselling series featuring the principled, warmhearted Venetian Commissario Guido Brunetti has won her countless fans, critical acclaim, and international renown as one of the world’s best crime writers. In A Question of Belief, Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. With his hometown beset by hordes of tourists and baking under a glaring sun, Brunetti’s greatest wish is to go to the mountains with his family, where he can sleep under a down comforter and catch up on his reading.

Vivian Barrera, a professional woman focused on her company's success, doesn't know what to think when her sometimes-lover and long-time business partner Jack hires someone without her permission. The only thing she does know is that she doesn't like the newcomer. April Hawkins is determined to make her new job work. Left as the sole provider for her niece, she just wants to keep her head down and collect her paycheck. That proves to be difficult when one of her bosses seems to hate her and the other seems to like her a little too much.

This book contains the fundamental works of Marxism, Anarchism and Bolshevism: The Communist Manifesto, originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg; The Conquest of Bread by the Russian anarcho-communist Peter Kropotkin; Anarchism: What it Really Stands For by Emma Goldman; The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin; Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It by Leon Trotsky.

Blake was searching for simplicity, but fate had other plans. After an unexpected turn of events lands him in the fantastical world of Ylege, he's endowed with extraordinary physical abilities and inherits an unclaimed farmstead at the world's edge. Things seem to be falling into place until he encounters the gorls—beautiful, magical, sentient slimes.

Follow the inspirational journey of a former stockbroker who leaves his unfulfilling desk job in search of a meaningful life. He sets out from Los Angeles on a vintage motorbike, determined to circumnavigate the globe surviving only on the kindness of strangers. Incredibly, he makes his way across the U.S., through Europe, India, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and finally to Canada and back to the Hollywood sign, by asking strangers for shelter, food, and gas.

La septième enquête du commissaire Brunetti. Dans un champ en friche de la campagne vénitienne, on découvre un cadavre décomposé. Seule sa chevalière permet de l'identifier : il s'agit de Roberto Lorenzoni, fils d'une des plus grandes familles de Venise, kidnappé deux ans plus tôt et jamais retrouvé.

Few novels have made a more shattering impact on their society than El Filibusterismo - and its predecessor, Noli Me Tangere, by Jose Rizal. And surely no writer has paid a higher penalty for self-expression. Rizal was executed by firing squad mainly because of these two books.

Donna Leon's Death at La Fenice, the first novel in her beloved Commissario Guido Brunetti series, introduced listeners to the glamorous and cutthroat world of opera and one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to Venice and La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca.

Guido Brunetti faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joyriding in the Laguna with two young Italians. However, Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it?

Accompagné de son épouse Paola à la Fenice, le grand opéra de Venise, le commissaire Brunetti assiste à une représentation de la Tosca, avec la célèbre diva Flavia Petrelli qu’il n’a pas vue depuis fort longtemps. Le spectacle, grandiose, s’achève par une pluie de roses jaunes tandis que Flavia est ovationnée. Mais des centaines d’autres roses jaunes attendent aussi la soprano dans sa loge. Un admirateur secret se cache derrière ces envois excessifs depuis qu’elle a démarré sa grande tournée en Europe et Flavia commence à s’inquiéter.

This is the story of Dan—a high school dropout who plays guitar in a heavy metal band and has a minimum wage job wearing a mouse costume. He's not exactly destined for great things. Then Dan wakes up in another world—a world where science never progressed past the Middle Ages, and the laws of physics have been replaced by role-playing game rules. Dan makes some mistakes—some big mistakes. Dan becomes a Death Knight: a walking personification of death and darkness. Now, Dan must fight monsters, zealots, and demons just to survive, and he must do it all alone.

Oregon, Sommer 1983 - eine Serie mysteriöser Todesfälle rüttelt das Küstenstädtchen Harmony Bay aus seinem friedlichen Schlaf. Sheriff Cody, den es nach dem Tod seiner Frau dorthin verschlagen hat, wird bereits kurz nach seiner Ankunft zur Pflicht gerufen, denn es geschehen merkwürdige Dinge: Ein Gefangenentransport zerschellt an einer Klippe, ein russischer Spion ist wie vom Erdboden verschluckt und es tauchen immer mehr Leichen auf, die merkwürdige Einstiche im Rücken aufweisen.

El juez Iván Ilich ha muerto. Sus colegas se enteran de la infausta noticia, pero en lugar de lamentarse se preguntan quién ocupará su puesto. ¿Qué es el ser humano después de morir? Esta es la pregunta que Tolstói —auténtico genio universal— intenta responder a través de este apasionante relato.