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13161) Mujeres mitológicas
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Descubre el lado más femenino de la mitología con esta completa guía de diosas superpoderosas, heroínas que pueden con todo y criaturas mágicas.
Las historias de la mitología están repletas de apasionantes personajes femeninos, pero no siempre se les ha reconocido el protagonismo que merecerían. Teseo nunca habría logrado escapar del laberinto del Minotauro sin la ayuda de Ariadna, ni Jasón habría conseguido el vellocino de oro...
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Stories about princesses have fascinated children for many years! This classic princess story tells the tale of Snow White. Read along with this exciting story of forest friends, poisoned apples, and a magic mirror to see if Snow White is able to escape the clutches of her evil stepmother and live happily ever after.
13163) Twenty-Five Ghost Stories
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Excerpt: "This collection of ghost stories owes its publication to an interest that I have long felt in the supernatural and in works of the imagination. As a child, I was deeply concerned with tales of spooks, haunted houses, wraiths and specters and stories of weird experiences, clanking chains, ghostly sights, and gruesome sounds always held me spellbound and breathless Experiences in editorial offices taught me that I was not alone in liking stories...
13164) Confessions from a Hotel
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Ice-cream, donkeys, and all those lovely bikinis - oh I do like to be beside the seaside! Available for the first time in eBook, the classic sex comedy from the 70s. Timmy and Sidney are running a sea-side hotel. But their guests are having a few, erm, unusual problems: one lovely lady needs a little help on her wedding night; another bunch are rugby widows, keen to 'try' it on with just about everyone. And what about the Pendulum Society, the genteel...
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Las Tribulaciones del estudiante Törless es un estudio intenso del desarrollo psicológico de un adolescente acosado por emociones conflictivas que provienen de su modo particular de buscarse a sí mismo y de percibir el mundo.
En un internado para jóvenes aristócratas austríacos, los estudiantes Reiting, Beineberg y Törless descubren que uno de sus compañeros, Basini, ha robado dinero. En lugar de entregar al ladrón a las autoridades del...
13166) L'Héritage: Nouvelle
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Extrait : "Bien qu'il ne fût pas encore dix heures, les employés arrivaient comme un flot sous la grande porte du Ministère de la marine, venus en hâte de tous les coins de Paris, car on approchait du jour de l'an, époque de zèle et d'avancements. Un bruit de pas pressés emplissait le vaste bâtiment tortueux comme un labyrinthe et qui sillonnaient d'inextricables couloirs..."
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13167) Disney Mis Primeros Cuentos La fiesta perfecta de Tinker Bell (Disney My First Stories Tinker Be
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Now in Spanish-Tinker Bell plans the perfect surprise party for Peter Pan! My First Stories, featuring classic Disney characters, are just the right length for little ones!
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A short story by Emma Donoghue from the collection Reader, I Married Him: Stories inspired by Jane Eyre. 'Since First I Saw Your Face' reimagines a relationship between two notable Victorian women. Edited by Tracy Chevalier, the full collection, Reader, I Married Him, brings together some of the finest and most creative voices in fiction today, to celebrate and salute the strength and lasting relevance of Charlotte Brontë's game-changing novel and...
13169) The Weight of the Evidence
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An erudite Scotland Yard detective investigates after a professor meets a hellish end with a heavenly body in this classic British mystery.
When Professor Pluckrose is found dead in his deckchair on the campus of a provincial English university, it looks as though the eminent biochemist was struck by a falling meteorite. But this was no act of God-the stone was dropped from a nearby tower.
With the local authorities baffled, Scotland Yard's...
13170) The Velveteen Rabbit
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The Velveteen Rabbit (1922) is a children's book by Margery Williams Bianco. Illustrated by renowned British painter William Nicholson, The Velveteen Rabbit has endured as a children's classic for nearly a century. Adapted numerous times for film and television, Bianco's heartwarming story is beloved for its universal and timeless morals by children and adults alike.
Gifted to a young boy on Christmas day, the velveteen rabbit is soon cast aside...
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An action-packed collection of Conan the Barbarian's wild adventures. In this unparalleled collection from a literary mastermind, swordsman Conan the Barbarian faces powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves. With his character Conan the Barbarian, author Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. In this volume are eighteen Conan stories, including a classic of dark...
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"Christmas Stories by L. Frank Baum: Illustrated" is a delightful compilation of enchanting tales that bring the magic of Christmas to life. This collection features three cherished stories by L. Frank Baum, the beloved author of "The Wizard of Oz" series: "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus," "A Kidnapped Santa Claus," and "Little Bun Rabbit."
In "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus," readers are invited into the timeless origin story of...
13173) Holy Terrors
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This vintage book contains a collection of chilling and macabre stories by Welsh author and mystic Arthur Machan. The stories include: "The Brightest Boy", "The Tree of Life", "Opening the Door", "The Marriage of Panurge", "The Holy Things", "Psychology", "The Turanians", "The Rose Garden", "The Ceremony", "The Soldiers' Rest", "The Happy Children", "The Cosy Room", "Munitions of War", "The Great Return", and more. These unsettling supernatural tales...
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Elizabeth Bennet had not considered what might happen if someone made an offer of marriage. Mr. Collins had tried, but his attempt had been more insulting than anything, and it did not count. A journey to London and a simple evening at a society ball should have been enough to make pleasant memories-but a chance meeting with a gentleman unlike anyone she had ever met before would change the course of her life forever. What should have been a simple...
13175) The Telegram
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Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky was a Russian writer nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature in 1965, 1966,1967,1968.
Paustovsky began writing while still in Gymnasium. His first works were imitative poetry but he restricted his writing to prose after Ivan Bunin wrote in a letter to him: "I think that your sphere, your real poetry, is prose. It is here, if you are determined enough, that I am sure you can achieve something significant."
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Extrait : "Me voici, moi, Jock Calder, de West Inch, arrivé à peine au milieu du dix-neuvième siècle, et à l'âge de cinquante-cinq ans. Ma femme ne me découvre guère qu'une fois par semaine derrière l'oreille un petit poil gris qu'elle tient à m'arracher."
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A Beautiful Classic Revived by Stunning New Illustrations Created in the Golden Age Style.
Racehorse for Young Readers' Children's Classic Collections is a new series that offers readers timeless compilations of children's literature. Handsomely packaged and affordable, this new series aims to revitalize these enchanting works and continue the tradition of sharing them with the next generation.
Not to be confused with Beatrix Potter's storied rabbit,...
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A Match Made by the Musgroves... When Anne Elliot goes to stay with her sister and brother-in-law at Uppercross, little does she realise that she's been the subject of discussion between Charles and Mary, who have both decided to spend the winter finding Anne a suitable husband. Neither know her heart was lost long ago... Captain Frederick Wentworth is happy to stay with his sister at Kellynch Hall if Anne Elliot is gone, although being back in Somerset...
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She was not prepared for the journey that awaited for her... Elizabeth and Jane Bennet are bound for America aboard The Holiday, summoned to an unknown country by a distant cousin who needs their help. However, what was meant to be an uneventful voyage turns becomes anything but when the sisters discover Fitzwilliam Darcy is also a passenger on their ship. How will Elizabeth and Darcy survive weeks together at sea when they can barely tolerate one...
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Geared toward young readers, the classic retellings of stories from ancient myth presented in this volume center on the Argonauts' quest for the golden fleece. Generations have thrilled to compelling renditions of the adventures of heroic Jason and the sorceress Medea, mighty Heracles, the minstrel Orpheus, and other legendary figures. Author Padraic Colum, who was active in the Irish literary renaissance and a founder of Dublin's Abbey Theatre, was...
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