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When Nostradamus is hired to find a foreign spy by Venice's ruling Council of 10, the only clues they can offer him are the spy's intercepted messages, encoded in a seemingly unbreakable cipher. Nostradamus turns to his able apprentice, the young swordsman Alfeo Zeno, whose unique talents may prove essential to unraveling the truth.

Nola and Tina are both girls with problems. They don't know each other yet, but they will, because each is a Creator, with the magical ability to turn dreams into reality. It would be a great gift and a great power - if either knew she had it. But this world is hard on dreamers, whether they dream true or not.

Will Burleigh is a hard-nosed, no-nonsense M.D. totally dedicated to the health and welfare of the patients in his practice. But when he himself is diagnosed with throat cancer, he can’t bear the idea of undergoing massive radiation and radical surgery that will leave him permanently disfigured - all with no guarantee he will live at all.

Be careful what you wish for. A year earlier, with the help of enigmatic industrialist Michael Walker, all of Penelope Drayton Spence’s dreams had come true. Now, as one of the country’s top journalists, she has discovered what she thought would make her happy was only making her busy. After months of avoiding her, Michael Walker burst back into her life with an outlandish plan to launch his controversial “Hermes” satellite into space. But she soon learns someone just as resourceful and well-financed is willing to go to any lengths to stop the launch.

Dans son appartement de Rio, une femme commence sa journée, seule face à une tasse de thé. Sa bonne l'a quittée le matin même. Il y a une première rupture du rythme quotidien de cette femme. C'est pourquoi elle entame une interrogation sur le cours habituel de ses jours. Après avoir décidé de faire le ménage dans la chambre de la bonne, elle découvre qu'elle a vécu de longs mois à côté de quelqu'un resté totalement étranger.

Big bugs, cloned cats, and feral star-children play leading roles in the seven stories that make up Fast’s unconventional and thought-provoking collection. The Edge of Tomorrow is a significant foray into science fiction by one of the 20th century’s most prolific novelists. In looking beyond our universe, Fast reveals much about the America of his time - where the Cold War and a nascent civil rights movement stoked unconscious fears and desires.

Hari, a remarkably well-set-up young lad, has spent his entire life in a small village with his pious widowed mother, and the purity of his soul is largely uncorrupted by worldly sophistication. But now, poised on the brink of manhood, he feels himself moved by strange new urgings - urgings that will lead him far from the quiet life he has known. Though these strings are unfamiliar to him, virtuous Hari recognizes them for what they are: a hunger for spiritual enlightenment.

Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as “a magical tale...

Un accidente de moto, un transplante de corazón y la vida de Lucas dará un giro maravilloso e inesperado.....El accidente de Lucas con la moto que le acaban de regalar, aunque casi le cuesta la vida, le va a meter de lleno en un nuevo mundo de sensaciones increibles, en el que rodeado de un grupo de nuevos amigos, y con la ayuda de Oriana, tendrá que asumir la responsabilidad de buscar el símbolo que puede salvar a una raza que está a punto de desaparecer y para ello será fundamental que consiga la plena comunión con la naturaleza.

The conclusion of the Amazon and Audible best-selling Halfhero series. When The Deterrent comes out of hiding and kidnaps the titans, it triggers the biggest manhunt in history. On one side, the military might of the United States and Air Commodore Fiona Bardock, Britain’s most talented investigator. On the other, three halfheroes, one human and a puddle of slime. Daniel Harbin hopes to get through this alive and track down the children he never knew existed. What no one realises is they’re about to confront the greatest danger of all.

Nel Medioevo leggendario del cattolicesimo monastico si snoda la storia dell'amicizia fra il dotto e ascetico Narciso, destinato a una brillante carriera religiosa al riparo dalle insidie del mondo e della storia, e Boccadoro, l'artista geniale e vagabondo, tentato dall'infinita ricchezza della vita e segretamente innamorato anche della sua caducità.

Qui si narra di un Viaggio trascendente, intrapreso dall'Io per conoscere l'essenza del sé e del Tutto. Il percorso si svolge alla ricerca della Libertà e Felicità, passando attraverso Ricordi, Sogni, Speranze, Illusioni, Delusioni, Incanti, Disincanti, Sentimenti e Prove vissute dall'Io. Il Viaggio riserverà una sorpresa, che culminerà in un incontro con un'Anima singolare: Figura intramontabile, tra i massimi autori della letteratura italiana e universale di tutti i tempi.

Paulo es un joven que sueña con ser escritor, se deja el cabello largo y sale al mundo en busca de la libertad y para darle un significado profundo a su vida. Una jornada que va desde el famoso "Tren de la muerte a Bolivia", después Perú, Chile y Argentina, hasta el encuentro con Karla en Ámsterdam, quien lo convence de viajar juntos en el Magic Bus, un autobús que viaja por Europa y Asia Central hasta Katmandú. En el camino, Karla y Paulo no sólo vivirán una extraordinaria historia de amor, sino también conocerán a maravillosos compañeros de viaje.

This is the compelling story of two women, born centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Ella Turner tries hard to fit into the small, close-knit community of the French town that she has moved to. She even changes her name back to Tournier, and knocks the rust off her high-school French. However, isolated and lonely, she is drawn to investigate her Tournier ancestry, with heart-wrenching results.

Nathaniel Moon is the reluctant messiah. He has powers that define the word miraculous. But when he used those powers to help others, he brought about a world of trouble. Now Nathaniel lives a life of quiet obscurity, performing anonymous miracles. But, his anonymity has to end, because evil is coming to Middle Falls, Oregon, and threatens the people Nathaniel loves most. It's going to take a reluctant messiah to put things right.

In the unabridged audio version of his first novel, psychic medium John Edward weaves a deeply moving and poignant story about a close-knit family and their way of dealing with life, love, and death over the generations. John draws upon his spiritual experiences with people throughout the...

Al más puro estilo de los relatos de enigmas de Javier Sierra. El maestro del Prado presenta un apasionante recorrido por las historias más desconocidas y secretas de una de las pinacotecas más importantes del mundo, el Museo del Prado. Una historia fascinante de cómo un aprendiz de escritor...

A community of quirky, mismatched, and endearing women struggle to find meaning and purpose on a ramshackle monastery in upstate New York. Having spent their lives in service to a church that seems to no longer serve them, they are confused about their own futures and the future of the entire monastery.  

En los cuentos de Pía Barros hay un crudo realismo y una mágica sorpresa. Maestra del relato, deja caer en sus cuentos toda la vitalidad que ilumina y guía su propia vida. Personajes del mundo corriente adquieren fisonomías especiales en las historias crudas, donde el dolor, la sorpresa y la tragedia, entretejen con ironía desenlaces sorpresivos, como debe ser en todo cuento.

Was, wenn man in die Zukunft reisen könnte? Was, wenn man Zeit und Raum durchdringen und in weit entfernte Zeitalter vordringen könnte? Wie weit würde die Menschheit es bringen? Diese Fragen stellen sich der Zeitreisende sowie seine Freunde. Und als der Zeitreisende behauptet, er könnte die Zeitebenen durchdringen, glaubt ihn niemand. Bis er eines Tages, plötzlich und unerwartet, zerrissen und sichtbar gebeutelt zu einem Treffen seiner Freunde zurückkehrt und eine Geschichte erzählt, wie sie fantastischer nicht sein könnte.