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Benny's friend Ray come up with his craziest invention idea yet: a machine that grants wishes. But when Benny realizes he has some wishes that need granting, he starts to wonder if it might just work. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

My life was dull, lacking in excitement. All that changed when a group of bikers turned up at the diner where I worked. They were dangerous; a bad influence, and all the hotter for it. I gave them my body to use as they pleased. They changed my life when they took me, one by one, hard and unprotected. And that's not even the best part: the next day they came back for more, and I was eager to give it to them.

Norman Mailer Fellow Alex Gilvarry delivers a witty satirical gem with his debut novel From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant. Boyet Hernandez aspires to be a high-end fashion designer. But the night before he’s set to make it big, he hears a knock on his door. Shortly after, he finds himself in a Gitmo prison cell - locked up as a suspect in a deadly terrorist plot.

Meet Maqil - also known as Mike, Mehmet, Mikhail, and Miguel - a chancer and charlatan. A criminally clever man who tells a good tale, trading on his charm and good looks, reinventing himself with a new identity and nationality in each successive country he makes his home, abandoning wives and children and careers in the process. He's a compulsive gambler - driven to lose at least as much as he gains, in games of chance, and in life. A damaged man in search of himself. From the day he was delivered in Lahore, Pakistan, alongside his stillborn twin, he proved he was a born survivor.

Gregor Samsa, el protagonista, se despierta una mañana sintiendo extraños dolores. Asustado, se percata de que sus miembros no le responden, y además nota que su cuerpo pesa en exceso. Gregor vive con sus padres y hermana, y piensa en ellos y en su trabajo, cuando aquella mañana descubre que ha dejado de ser humano para convertirse en un bicho.

El Profeta, un repositorio rico en sabiduria y alegría que ha inspirado a generaciones de personas. Con poesia frugal y bellamente resonante, El Profeta ofrece inolvidables palabras de esperanza y consolación sobre los temas del nacimiento, amor, del matrimonio, de la muerte y de los otros hitos de la vida.

El petróleo: el combustible por excelencia de la sociedad industrializada de este siglo. Composición del petróleo y su formación. Extracción del crudo. Refinado del petróleo. Productos que se obtienen del petróleo. La energía es el constituyente más fundamental del Universo. La materia es una forma de energía concentrada. Todo nace o se crea a partir de la energía y todo acaba disipándose en forma de energía.

From the Chelsea House Galaxy of Superstars series, this is an exciting biography of one of today’s hottest stars.

Sebastien was a modern day playboy. He had more money than he knew what to do with, and he lived for pleasure. Up in the North of England to start a new business enterprise, he discovered a gold mine in Hull in the form of all the young single mothers. They combined his favourite pleasures in one package; young, innocent, persuadable woman who expressed milk. He decided to start a new game: collecting these delicious treasures and he started with Chantelle.

Mike was seven when his father was killed in mysterious circumstances in Afghanistan. Eight years later, the family still hasn't recovered: Mike's mom is overworked and overprotective; his younger sister, Mary, feels no connection to the father she barely remembers; and in his quest to be "the man of the family", Mike knows he's missing out on everyday high school life. Then, out of the blue, Mike receives a letter from his father - the first of a series Dad wrote in Afghanistan, just in case he didn't come home, meant to share some wisdom with his son.

Esta versão em áudio da empolgante história de Júlio Verne ganhou um interesse especial graças aos efeitos sonoros e à trilha musical desenvolvida especialmente para a obra. A frieza e tranquilidade do inglês Phileas Fogg, interpretado pelo ator Guilherme Lopes, contrapõe-se ao som eletrizante de trens, navios, movimentos do mar, tempestades e outros elementos de ambientação sonora.

A versão em áudio de Moby Dick é marcada por uma trilha sonora intensa, desenvolvida por Sandra Branca a partir de um tema original de Richard Wagner. Vários efeitos sonoros ajudam a criar o ambiente de insegurança e trabalho duro da vida no mar, que é intensificado pela ira do capitão Acab em busca de fazer sua vingança contra Moby Dick. Os efeitos sonoros acompanham o crescendo de emoções na perseguição cega e desenfreada que o capitão impõe aos seus subordinados. Vozes.

Este audiolibro recoge: - El gusto y el olfato - El oído humano - El sentido de la vista - La respiración - Los riñones.

Tony Baloney is a rambunctious macaroni penguin with a tremendous imagination. The middle child in his family, Tony always has to take orders from his big sister and watch out for his younger siblings. But with his trusty stuffed friend Dandelion around, Tony is sure that he won’t get ignored in his family - even if it means getting into a little bit of trouble first.

Esta adaptação do romance Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, para o formato de audiolivro é marcada pela densidade do áudio. A trilha sonora, composta por uma variada gama de sons e temas remixados, acompanha a ambientação do texto com passagens súbitas de climas de romance e leveza para situações de suspense, terror e medo.

Blown helplessly off course by a sudden gale, 14-year-old Andy Galloway is washed ashore on Admiralty Island, an immense wilderness known as the "Fortress of the Bears". As he struggles to survive, Andy discovers an unlikely ally in a large dog running with a pack of wolves. The dog leads Andy to food: but also to the strange cave of a mysterious, and almost certainly dangerous, hermit.

Los insectos son el grupo más numeroso del reino animal. Información general sobre las abejas. La colmena: características, zánganos, abejas reina, obreras, funciones. Las abejas y el ecosistema.

La geometría está muy ligada a nuestras vidas. Muchos objetos diarios tienen formas geométricas precisas, aunque no pensemos en ello. La circunferencia, curva cerrada de anchura constante. La isoperimetría. La Naturaleza adopta con frecuencia formas circulares. Las curvas cónicas se obtienen de la intersección de un cono y un plano. Elipse, parábola e hipérbola. Clotoide, cicloide, catenaria y hélice. El arte islámico.

Orígenes de las diferentes especies animales. Evolución de Darwin. Los animales. Protozoos o animales unicelulares. Características de los protozoos. Animales pluricelulares o metazoos. Características de los metazoos: funciones, movimiento, zonas donde viven, estructura... La cría de animales para la obtención de carne, huevos, leche, y derivados; productos esenciales en la cadena alimenticia. Lugar destacado dentro del sector económico primario.

Este audiolibro recoge: El cerebro, El corazón, El esqueleto, El hígado, La piel y Los músculos.