European Life

It’s been fifteen years since Rosamunde last lived at the vicarage in Potter’s Cove, the pretty coastal village where she grew up, experienced her first true love - and a heartbreak that changed her life forever. But now Potter’s Cove is calling her back: it’s time to make peace with the past and go home. Rosamunde’s return to the vicarage in the days before Christmas is a whirlwind of festive cheer and heartwarming reunions with friends, family and her loving father, the vicar.

In this one-of-its-kind book by the late Alyque Padamsee, he invites us to re-examine and think afresh about some of our most deeply held beliefs, from love, marriage, terrorism, leadership, money, gender, faith to education. Let Me Hijack Your Mind is Alyque's parting gift to Indians, exhorting...

"Coleshanger people are pretty bad," said Uncle Edward. "They won't cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherwise they think that they'll be turned into baboons and apes. They also worship the flea." Written in 1952, Coleshanger is a humorous, whimsical, and charming recount of English village life in the early part of the last century, a tale waiting 70 years to be heard but still very much the story of us today.

From the acclaimed biographer of Jane Jacobs and Srinivasa Ramanujan comes the first full life and work of arguably the most influential classical scholar of the twentieth century, who overturned long-entrenched notions of ancient epic poetry and enlarged the very idea of literature. In this...

On Your Case gives women the tools they need to prepare anything the law might throw at them. From dating, marriage and kids to retirement and aging parents, this is the book every woman should have when trouble strikes—or before! In On Your Case, Lisa Green finally fills a gap in women?s...

The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father and three...

Claude ist ein unbeständiger Verehrer. Erst lässt er seinen Charme spielen und verführt Dominique mit Champagner und Chanel N° 5, dann wieder ist er unnahbar und abweisend. Gemeinsam haben sie eine Tochter, Épicène, die mit ihrem extravaganten Vornamen früh lernt, eigenständig zu denken und zu handeln. Sie weiß auch sofort, was zu tun ist, als die Mutter in einem Pariser Stadtpalais den Launen des Vaters auf die Schliche kommt.

Арчибальд Кронин — шотландский врач и писатель, пожалуй, самый успешный и высокооплачиваемый романист 1930-х годов, которому в этот период удалось по популярности превзойти саму Агату Кристи. Повесть Женщина Земли публикуется на русском языке впервые.

Los caídos narra la descomposición moral y el distanciamiento radical entre los miembros de una familia cubana que aún comparte el mismo hogar. La corrupción espiritual de un país inmerso en el hambre y la privación actúa como detonante, aquello que lleva al padre comunista, a la madre gravemente enferma, a la hija resignada y al hijo resentido a convertirse en enemigos irreconocibles, aunque ninguno de ellos entienda realmente cómo y por qué todo aquello ha sucedido.

Ellen acaba de cumplir once años y cree haber cometido un acto atroz: ha suplicado a Dios la muerte de su padre. Su mayor deseo se ha cumplido, pero a cambio enmudece por temor al poder de sus pensamientos. Sus padres estaban divorciados, pero las visitas de su padre alcohólico y colérico se volvieron cada vez más recurrentes. Antes habían sido una familia feliz: su madre es una de las actrices más famosas de Suecia, un dechado de alegría, y su padre era un hombre... diferente.

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A king was dying. An old man told his sons that the water of life would save him. Each one set out in turn. The two older ones, setting out in hopes of being the heir, were rude to a dwarf on the way and became trapped in ravines. When the youngest son went the dwarf asked where he was going, and he told him. The dwarf told him it was in a castle, and gave him an iron wand to open the gates and two loaves to feed to the lions inside. Then he had to get the water before the clock struck 12 when the gates would shut again.

The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor when she died on February 23, 2014. A Century of Wisdom is the true story of her life—an inspiring story of resilience and the power...

La vie n'est pas une comédie musicale. Une femme et deux enfants, un emploi, une maison dans un lotissement où s'organisent des barbecues sympas comme tout et des amis qui vous emmènent faire du paddle à Biarritz... Axel pourrait être heureux, mais fait le constat, à 46 ans, que rien ne ressemble jamais à ce qu'on avait espéré. Quand il reçoit un courrier suspect de l'Assurance maladie, le désenchantement tourne à l'angoisse. Et s'il était temps pour lui de tout quitter ? De vivre enfin dans une comédie musicale de Broadway ?

The opening story in this collection follows Vinny, Kevin, and a mourning family from Liverpool on a journey to Wales. What should be a simple trip turns into something much darker. A cross between Roddy Doyle and Ken Follett, this political storytelling meets you wherever you are on life’s journey, and stays with you.

After discovering her mother’s secret life, Cara doesn’t have much faith in marriage. So when the love of her life, Simeon, proposes, she struggles to say "I do." She adores him, but why risk the perfect relationship by signing on a dotted line that could ruin everything? If her parents’ marriage taught her anything, it was that a gold ring doesn’t equal happiness, and she has no desire to follow in their dysfunctional footsteps.

La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades, de autor anónimo, es una de las mejores obras de la picaresca española. En ella, Lázaro de Tormes nos relata su niñez y su adolescencia, los diferentes amos a los que sirvió, y lo que aprendió en su lucha por sobrevivir. Una novela llena de crítica a la sociedad de su tiempo, de penas y alegrías...y, sobre todo, de ingenio. Literaudio te ofrece las obras cumbres de la literatura española e hispanoamericana en formato audiolibro.