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A terrible disease threatens the lives of an entire population. The townsfolk are from a diverse range of religions; Christian, Jewish and Muslim. The tale tells how despite their different beliefs the community is able to come together in order to overcome the deadly disease.
A unique and really beautiful book based on the universal legend of Saint George and the Dragon. In this title from the Happily Ever After collection, Sonia Alins' amazingly beautiful illustrations in black, red and silver breathe life into the legend of a princess and her people saved from the jaws of a terrible dragon by the knight St. George of Cappadocia.
In a Native American village, activity comes to a halt when Shep slices off the tip of his thumb with a blade. No one disputes that this happened by accident: neither the men nor the women who resignedly perform roles that no one questions; nor does young Shep. No one asks questions.
'He was not a trouble-loving gentleman, nor so very particular perhaps about some of the company he kept.' So Henry James descibes the Master of Bly, the negligent and largely absent character who, in the immortal novella 'The Turn of the Screw', unwittingly initiates the drama in which the two innocents -- Flora and Miles, the nephew and niece the master was charged with lookin
Intrigue, action, corruption, bad deals, lawyers on the margins of the law. Trails and evidence that gradually unravel to reveal a twisted plot which confounds with every chapter. The equal of the American greats of the genre, Spanish author Carmen Gurruchaga takes on the legal thriller to show that Spanish reality can be as, or more, enthralling than the life beyond its borders.
The mutilated body of Mayra Cabral de Melo, a well-known stripper, is found, and the detective Edgar 'Left-Hand' Mendieta is chosen to investigate the case. He has personal reasons for finding the culprit. The investigation will bring him even closer to the world of the 'narcos', who have started a war against the Mexican state.
Manel Loureiro surprises us with a thriller set in Galicia, a mysterious land of legends. The body of a young woman is discovered at the foot of the mythical Puerta de Alén (the Alén Doorway), and, disconcertingly for the investigating officers, she has apparently been killed in an ancient ritual.
“The Door with Three Locks” is attractive, accessible, entertaining, fascinating, surprising and by turns exciting and cute. It is a great introduction to the astonishing subject of quantum physics. (Catherine Forrest)
After receiving a mysterious message, Niko takes a new route to school and discovers a house he's never seen before. By solving a puzzle he is able to enter what turns out to be a strange place where universes are born. There's a cat that appears and disappears, and it has teleporters.
Two forty-something Colombians meet in a street in Paris and launch themselves immediately into a frenetic conversation, which, against the backdrop of the revolutionary movements of the 60s, particularly the Colombian Freudo-Sartro-Marxist variant which has never before brought into narrative, provides the reader with a vision of the fleeting nature of things, the doubling of life and death, t