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An incident near the desolate Chhinnamasta temple on the rocky riverbank of Rajrappa leads to the death of Mahesh Chowdhury, the head of a Hazaribagh family. Adding to the mystery are a set of coded diaries, a valuable stamp collection that is missing and a tiger that is roaming the streets of...

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Are you ready for a presidential adventure? Jack and Annie are! They are whisked back to Washington, D.C., in 1861. Jack can’t wait to meet Abraham Lincoln himself!...

"The good old days" aren't all they're cracked up to be . . . at least in Jeanne M. Dams's turn-of-the-century novels. Her woman on the spot, Hilda Johansson, a maid in the Studebaker household in South Bend, sees what's going on among the rich, suffers what's going on among the less fortunate...

Dorothy Martin is fitting in comfortably in her new English home, and now that her policeman husband, Alan, has retired, she’s looking forward to some quiet time with him. But then the letter arrives: an old acquaintance in Indiana has died and left her a small inheritance. It seems an excuse...

St. Therese of Lisieux, largely unknown when she died in a Carmelite convent at the age of twenty-four, became - through her posthumously published autobiography - one of the world's most influential religious figures. No less a luminary than Andre Gide modeled one of his characters after her in...

Vilipendiado por la Iglesia, tergiversado por estadistas y líderes sociales, reconocido como fuente primigenia de la política moderna, Nicolás Maquiavelo goza de ese raro privilegio de no sucumbir a la usura del tiempo. La vida—y sobre todo la obra del florentino—muestra una vigencia creciente. Autor necesario para cualquier curso de teoría política, su obra en conjunto muestra los ángulos clave del precioso arte de la vida en común, por lo que acercarse a él se vuelve una fuente obligada de conocimiento y reflexión creativa.

From the author of the beloved New York Times best-selling The End of Your Life Book Club, an inspiring and magical exploration of the power of books to shape our lives in an era of constant connectivity. Why is it that we read? Is it to pass time? To learn something new? To escape from reality?...

The Studebaker household is in turmoil; the news that President McKinley has been assassinated is more than anyone can stand. South Bend, Indiana, is not a hotbed of anarchist activity, but something is clearly going on. When McKinley's death is blamed on foreign-born anarchists, Hilda Johansson...

Notas al margen, la imagen de tu librero, los libros en tu app de lectura, y esa lista de videos guardados para tu siguiente compra: todos son excelentes compañeros de lectura y los hay tan variados como libros y lectores. Leer no es una cosa, sino muchas, y en ese acto íntimo de echar los ojos a las páginas se forman comunidades.

This audiobook teaches you everything about horary divination through insightful information on the concept of horary astrology and the practical application of knowledge about planetary positions and movements.

Have you noticed how the onion has so many layers? And have you seen your mother's eyes water when she cuts an onion? Here is a remarkable story to tell you why. India's favourite storyteller brings alive this timeless tale with her inimitable wit and simplicity. This gorgeous book is the ideal...

¡Prepárate para luchar con Pizza y Taco en esta divertida novela gráfica! ¡Estos mejores amigos necesitan encontrar un deporte en el que ambos sean geniales! ¿Béisbol? No. ¿Fútbol? Nooo. ¿Fútbol americano? Quizás. ¿Lucha libre? ¡Síííiíí! ¡Estos dos están listos para pelear!...

SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk. Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family. When 13-year-old Dina leaves her small town in Germany to join her...

Una novela perspicaz escrita en verso sobre las alegrías y las dificultades de una niña chicana que es una guerrera por su nombre, su historia y su derecho a elegir lo que ella quiere celebrar de la vida. Celina y su familia son bilingües y siguen las tradiciones mexicanas y estadounidenses...

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A murder in an elevator. A trail of heady perfume. The nanasaheb's priceless naulakha necklace. Feluda, Topshe and Jatayu are in Bombay where Jatayu's latest book is being filmed under the title Jet Bahadur. Soon after Jatayu hands over a package to a man in a red shirt, a murder takes place in...

Visiting the famous hunter and wildlife writer Mahitosh Sinha-Roy in his Jalpaiguri palace, Feluda is presented with a riddle that holds the clue to ancestral treasure. But before he can begin unravelling the puzzle, Mr Sinha-Roy's secretary is found dead in the forest, his body savaged by a big...

LEARN TO READ MORE QUICKLY, AND WITH FULL COMPREHENSION This powerful audio program will help you increase your reading speed, comprehension, and retention in a unique two-part process.In track 1-Technique Workshop-you will learn to same techniques offered in expensive courses. Once you know the...

In early spring, amateur detective Geneva Pomolo receives a wedding invitation from a friend she hasn’t thought about in 10 years. Gladys Button has already been married six times—five of those marriages ended in divorce or annulment and the sixth ended in death. Now she’s getting married again, and she wants Geneva to be there. Baffled by the invitation, Geneva accepts. But when she and her detective partner Iris Reeves drive up to Fort Wayne to meet Gladys, they learn all is not as it seems. Gladys wants Geneva to investigate a murder—her own.

Desde Zona sagrada hasta Terra Nostra, la narrativa de CarlosFuentes oscilaba entre la sobriedad en el relato y la obra como una broma que asaltaba la realidad para trastocarla. En su discurso de ingreso en El Colegio Nacional hizo ver la similitud de obras totalizantes, como Don Quijote de la Mancha de Miguel de Cervantes y Finnegans Wake de James Joyce.