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Toni Montero fue sentenciado a la edad de diecisiete años a cadena perpetua por un asesinato que no cometió. Recluido en la prisión de San Quintín conoce a un recluso influyente: Marc Lecury, acusado de homicidio. Lecury y su socio, el abogado Leko Tabone, se valen de la Proposición 47 y logran la libertad de Toni Montero después de dieciocho años.

Elle avait tout gagné… elle avait tout perdu… elle va tout donner ! Le retour de l’inoubliable mercière d’Arras, gagnante du gros lot à l’Euromillion, héroïne si profondément humaine de La Liste de mes envies.

FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro La Lista de Bibiana Riccardi. Una sexóloga obsesionada con explorar toda una gama de experiencias sexuales con Horacio, cirujano plástico con el que compartió vida, nos envuelve en una atmósfera de asombro, magnetismo y oscuridad, que concurren a lo largo de la obra. El deseo sexual excesivo de Estela es abrumador para ambos personajes. En su erotismo exacerbado, navega en las profundidades de una intimidad carente de descanso; y al unísono miden, en una tensión permanente, la fuerza de sus emociones.

"Flush of Gold" is a short story by Jack London, set during the Klondike Gold Rush. It follows the journey of Lon McFane, a grumpy musher, as he travels with his companion, who tells him the story of a woman they encounter. The narrative is a blend of personal and historical elements, showcasing London's storytelling prowess and his ability to weave complex narratives.

This is your life Penny Nichols...Penny Nichols is a historical researcher working on a big-budget film in the south of France when she gets an urgent call. Her Aunt Penelope has just died, and Penny's presence is required in London for the reading of the will. With only a slim recollection of her eccentric aunt, Penny is astonished to learn that not only is she the bona fide heiress - but she's also been invited to put her research skills to work.

Geoffrey Childs, born in 1946, sketches this fictional scene: When a pair of climbers does not return, two sets of rescuers set out—one for experience, and the other one to save friends. In the aftermath of the event, the motives and feelings are just as divided.

"The Man Who Liked Dickens" is the tale of an upper-class Englishman who, in an effort to win back his unfaithful wife, joins an expedition to follow the Uraricoera River in South America. When things quickly go awry and he is rescued by an English-speaking man living among Shiriana Indians, he considers himself lucky... at first.

Accidents happen. But only when a Marine says so.

Every member of the Force Recon team is absolutely vital, so the loss of men has taken quite a toll on Team 2400. But the replacements keep coming in. So do the mission orders. This time, Team Midnight is getting sent into the heart of the Iranian desert to inflict maximum casualities on a terrorist group responsible for bombing a U.S. warship. The mission is complicated and more dangerous than anything they've seen before. Let's just hope the new guy can hold his own.

Despite the success of their last mission, the Marine Corps put one of Team Midnight's finest men on trial and sentenced their best shooter to a mental hospital. With half the team out of commission, Swayne and Greiner are sent to Afghanistan on a research operation, one that turns fatal when a CIA agent is captured by terrorists. Now it's up to this two-man team to get him back...and the clock is ticking.

"The Red-Headed League" was the second of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories to be published in The Strand magazine. Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his 12 favorite Holmes stories. It was first published in August of 1891 and was later the first of the stories collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 1892.

Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, and Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid. Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine.

An engineer, Victor Hatherly, attends Dr. Watson's Surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherly had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherly was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "rust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth.

After the daring theft of the DeBeers diamond in the small mining town of Kimberley, South Africa, Inspector Lipinski is brought in to solve the impossible crime. George Griffith (1857-1906) was a Welsh explorer, journalist, and writer, best known today for his airship science fiction adventures and Inspector Lipinski mysteries.