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Surely it can't be hard to stay peaceful at one of the oldest yoga and mindfulness retreats in the Algarve, surrounded by sea, sun and serenity? Mostly, owner Layla Garcia manages it—with the help of meditation and plenty of camomile tea, of course. But keeping her grandparents' legacy alive is stressful, and Layla has become so shackled to the work that, for her, The House on the Hill is fast becoming 'The Fortress on the Hill'. Then writer Luke Mackie moves to the villa next door, bringing with him a healthy dose of chaos to disrupt Layla's plans.

De Carolyn Wells escritora y poetaDe Carolyn Wells escritora y poeta estadounidense, es un clásico de la Edad de Oro de la ficción detectivesca. "La pista" se inscribe de lleno en la tradición de dos de los subgéneros de misterio favoritos: el misterio de la casa señorial y el misterio de la habitación cerrada. El detective Fleming Stone es frío y metódico, muy al estilo de sus antepasados más famosos en la ficción, Hércules Poirot y Sherlock Holmes.

When Lily’s husband dies, she moves to the edge of a tiny village, settling into a solitary life, her only real company her brother and his family. A quiet life becomes her safe space, with no risk of getting hurt. When her brother offers her spare room to his oldest friend, Jack, Lily’s reluctant—but knowing how much she owes her family, can’t say no. A lodger takes some getting used to but to her surprise, Lily begins to enjoy Jack’s company. Slowly but surely, Jack encourages Lily to step outside her comfort zone.

La mirada de un niño, en principio de ignorancia y dulzura, se vuelve perdida y siniestra. Su madre le ha Internado en un hospicio que será como entrar en el mismo infierno, donde las monjas parecen obedecer al mismo Satanás. Los demás niños son como miembros de una secta que siguen a la Madre Superiora para no caer en sus despiadados castigos. Juan, como así se llama el niño, descubre la presencia de un ser que le incitará a vengarse de todo ese sufrimiento que le hace agonizar y que no entiende cómo puede venir de la mano de una sierva del Señor.

On the death of her aunt Gwyn, Lowri returns once more to Gwyn’s home on the remote island of Anglesey, Wales, with young daughter Ruby in tow. Lowri hadn’t seen her aunt in years, but this beautiful island offers a fresh start. Yet right away, strange things begin to happen. Ruby insists an old woman is visiting her when no one else is watching, and a tattered old doll keeps being left for Ruby to find. Then Ruby goes missing. Desperately seeking answers no one seems to have, Lowri looks to her dark family past for clues.

Owen Marshall has always dreamed of hitting the open ocean and looking for buried treasure. He’s been a pirate fanatic practically since birth, but living in Santa Fe, New Mexico hasn’t provided him with many opportunities to live out his dream. Instead, he writes about the adventures he wishes he was having in his books. Then one day, he’s had enough. He puts his books on hold and travels south, looking for a diving instructor and a boat to charter. His plan? To go out looking for old shipwrecks and buried treasure.

Penelope Woods has just lost her father. It had been only the two of them her whole life and they had been closer than most. Now that's he's gone, she feels more alone than ever before and heads back home to figure out what to do next. It’s there, cleaning out his room, that she finds his yeti research. Her and her father have been fascinated by yetis for years. When she was a little girl, her father had grown tired of reading her bedtime stories about princesses and princes and had started making up his own tales.

Brexly Vos just has to finish one more semester and she’ll have her degree. Then she can start her own business and finally help out her parents. All that stands between her and her bright future is a film class. She's at a loss for a subject when she remembers the local lore that Bigfoot lives in the woods bordering campus. She doesn't really believe the legend but she figures it will be an interesting subject and easy enough to film.

It's a running joke that she can never make up her mind on anything, and she'd be the first to admit that she has a hard time making decisions or trusting her gut. The only thing she's ever been sure of is that she and Milo Colt are soulmates. Or so she thinks. When he breaks up with her out of the blue, she's heartbroken. She gets a little bit tipsy and decides that what she needs is a vacation. She thought she had found the perfect man, a unicorn if you will, but now that she knows that's a lie, she's determined to go out and find herself a real soulmate.

Her mom, unable to support them both, had kicked her out when she turned 18, and she’s been bouncing from town to town and job to job for a few years until she finally lands in the tiny town of Thorp, Washington. She’s trying to stay positive, but she’s run out of money, has nowhere to live, and no real options. She’s so desperate that she applies to any job that she can find that’s hiring and finally gets an interview at Stratton Lumber.

The Heritage Bakery is finally getting the makeover it deserves, with sisters Jade and Celeste modernising the place and putting their own stamp on it while retaining all the charm of days gone by. But Jade has far more planned than a brand-new kitchen and fancy cake designs. She’s ready for an even bigger change in her life. It’s almost time to take the next step and she knows just what to do to make that happen.

Livia y Floronia, dos vestales que se aman, son separadas en un juicio injusto. Livia se verá obligada a huir apoyada por Casio, un gladiador que se arriesga por salvarla, dejando atrás la pasión que siente por Floronia. Tras ser convertida Livia en objeto de deseo de Marcia, la peligrosa mujer de Léntulo, un próspero hombre de negocios, Livia no olvida a su único amor. Embarazada de Casio, da a luz una hija que despierta los celos de Marcia.

When Sophie and Maddie are summoned to a mysterious, top-secret meeting by their best friend Kate's partner, and told that he's planning to whisk Kate away for a surprise wedding in Gibraltar, it's immediately clear that bubbly florist Sophie is a total romantic. And that freewheeling, purple-haired Maddie is not. Soon, Maddie finds herself reluctantly organising venues, planners and ceremonies; trying not to think of her own memories of Andalucia, and those she's lost touch with there.

Manual básico de escritura con el que aprenderás qué elementos imprescindibles debes incluir en tu novela o relato y cómo debes trabajarlos para que tu obra no tenga agujeros de guión. Incluye seis relatos de autoras españolas especialistas en CiFi, Terror y Fantasía, analizados en profundidad a modo de ejemplos: Nieves Delgado, Nieves Mories, Yolanda Camacho, Carmen Moreno, Cristina Jurado y Nahikari Diosdado.

La pequeña Natalia sale del orfanato para reunirse con un padre que para ella es un completo desconocido. Lo que podría ser el comienzo de una vida feliz es el comienzo de una auténtica pesadilla. A través de los diarios de su madre muerta descubrirá una realidad que llevaba oculta durante mucho tiempo.

Some days Bee feels invisible. Most days Bee does not feel as if she is ‘living her best life’. Sure she has a loyal group of friends, a job she’s good at and a small London flat to call home, but a lot of the time, Bee feels as if no one actually ‘sees’ her. Her best friend, the unfeasibly handsome and successful Luca Donato, does not have that problem. People are practically falling over themselves whenever they see Luca, but one thing the two friends do have in common is they haven’t yet found the ‘One’.

When Harlow Sands arrives on an idyllic Greek island to work on a big budget movie, it should be the opportunity of a lifetime. But her uncertainty over the direction of her life and the high expectations of Maeve Fennimore-Bell, her domineering Hollywood producer mum, threatens to ruin her summer on beautiful Skopelos. Location manager Tyler Reed has his fair share of demons. His and Harlow’s lives have been entwined for over a decade, and now forced to work together, their complicated past begins to unravel.

¿Te atreves a enfrentarte a la verdad? ¿Y a la muerte? ¿Qué le pasó realmente a la familia Aguirre? ¿Y a David? ¿Y a Natalia? Interrogantes y acertijos que creías sin respuesta, pero a veces la realidad es más terrorífica de lo que creemos, y Ángela lo sabe...

En la línea de obras como "El Marciano" o "2001: Una odisea en el espacio", esta sobresaliente novela de ciencia ficción nos lleva al proceso de terraformación de Marte. Usha Leber es la primera colona del Planeta Rojo, pero lo tiene todo en su contra: soledad, aislamiento y unas condiciones hostiles para la supervivencia. En sus manos descansa la posibilidad de conseguir que la humanidad vuelva a dar un paso enorme en su camino a las estrellas. ¿Lo conseguirá? ¿Dará comienzo con ella la era de Marte? La respuesta está al final de esta historia.

In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and a pandemic of racial injustice that, together, revealed deep fault lines in our culture, Gloria Feldt shows how we can seize the opportunity created by massive disruption to build back stronger with diverse women at the center of the recovery. A New York Times best-selling author, speaker, commentator, international leadership expert, successful CEO, and feminist icon, Feldt unveils vital next steps in advancing gender parity in all spheres of business and life, and in the overall advancement of our economy and civilization.