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Jean-Pierre’s relentless pursuit of Eden has paid off. But can he keep her safe? Russians lurk within the shadows. Dead bodies pile. There are new enemies on the board, and it all goes down in Paris.

Demyen stole my freedom to lock me in the worst cell imaginable—His bed. I get it: I'm the liar who put his brother behind bars. And I'm paying for my betrayal, one moan at a time. He promises he's going to ruin me. So why does he pull me into his bed every night? I see the truth behind those icy eyes: He's addicted. Unfortunately for me... So am I. And unfortunately for both of us, there's no ending this now. No clean break. No walking away.

Forced to flee her lover, the witch Wren Nocturne knows she still owes a debt. She must exact vengeance for those who resurrected her. Alone, and masquerading as an abused Firefly, she struggles to satisfy the blood curse threatening to tear her soul apart. With nightmarish beasts blocking her way, Wren’s search becomes a cat and mouse game with another powerful witch. Summer Helsdottir has returned, and this time, she's hunting Wren.

Who is Samantha Brooks without her violin? Fear lives in the silent spaces. Love does, too. There's a battle being waged in her heart, and Liam North is determined to win. He'll use every weapon in his arsenal. His body. His heart. Except the spotlight puts her in the crosshairs of dangerous men.

One of the world’s greatest novelists, Leo Tolstoy was also the author of a number of superb short stories, one of his best known being “The Kreutzer Sonata.” This macabre story involves the murder of a wife by her husband. It is a penetrating study of jealousy as well as a piercing complaint about the way in which society educates men and women in matters of sex - a serious condemnation of the mores and attitudes of the wealthy, educated class.

De Moor has built her latest novel around the Kreutzersonate by the Czech composer, Leos Janácek, who, in turn, based his string quartet on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy. In Tolstoy’s story, a man and a woman are playing the sonata Ludwig van Beethoven composed for the French violinist and composer Rudolphe Kreutzer. The two fall in love as they play, which poisons the husband’s mind with jealousy, so that he kills his wife.

Lady Emma Thornton has lived with her grandmother since the fateful accident that led to her parents’ passing, leaving her blind. With only her cousin to keep her company, she is resigned to knowing she will never find love, until she bumps into a handsome stranger in one of her walks downtown. Nathaniel Harrington, the Duke of Pembroke, has changed from ton’s sweetheart to recluse after the riding accident that weakened not only his body, but his spirit as well. When he returns Emma’s lost dog to the shy, young lady, tension brews even if sparks fly. Could this otherworldly beauty ...

Darren Pellegrini despertaba siempre a la medianoche. El lamento lejano de un violín lo sacaba del sueño para regalarle la paz que su alma necesitaba. Tras el accidente que le robó las ganas de sonreír, las conmovedoras melodías nacidas de aquellas cuatro cuerdas comenzaron a devolverle la esperanza.

The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture 10,000 years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new and almost infinitely more rich and complex existence.

Marta Ribas tenía un futuro prometedor cuando conoció a Antonio, pero una lealtad mal entendida trastocará sus vidas. Cuando Antonio cae enfermo, Marta se ve obligada a ponerse a trabajar, exponiéndose a las murmuraciones del vecindario y a la indignación del esposo, humillado en su hombría. Pero a Marta se le presenta una inesperada oportunidad que le permitirá salvar su propia supervivencia y la de su hija, y encontrar, por fin, su lugar en el mundo.

In the early days of the new millennium, pages of a worn and weathered original sonata manuscript - the gift of a Czech immigrant living out her final days in Queens - come into the hands of Meta Taverner, a young musicologist whose concert piano career was cut short by an injury. To Meta's eye, it appears to be an authentic 18th-century work; to her discerning ear, the music rendered there is commanding, hauntingly beautiful, clearly the undiscovered composition of a master. But there is no indication of who the composer might be.

A rake with a mission... A lady with a secret... A scheme that threatens to destroy them both... She's always lived in her sister's shadow. When Augusta Thornton agrees to chaperone her sister during a visit to the esteemed estate of Hugh Seymour, Earl of Westhead, she enters a world of scandal and intrigue. Unbeknownst to Augusta, Seymour has enlisted the help of the charming rake Anthony Windham to test the virtue of the women vying for his hand in marriage. He's determined to secure his future. In a bid to gain a patron for his musical talents, Anthony agrees to Seymour's scandalous ...

Valle-Inclán nos presenta en estas cuatro sonatas la vida de su inigualable personaje: el Marqués de Bradomín, un Don Juan «feo, católico y sentimental». Esta historia, heredera de la mejor tradición literaria española y europea y que marcó un hito para la producción de escritores posteriores, resultó una conmoción para los lectores de la época.

A revolutionary man living in a revolutionary time, Beethoven used the piano as his personal musical laboratory. The piano sonata became, more than any other genre of music, a place where he could experiment with harmony, motivic development, the contextual use of form, and, most important, his developing view of music as a self-expressive art.Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas include some of his most popular works as well as some of his most experimental.

Tres mujeres, tres heridas que las han marcado de por vida. Tres historias que se entrelazan en un viaje hacia la sanación y la aceptación de uno mismo. Una mujer solitaria que escucha una melodía que la transporta a un pasado que creía olvidado. Un hombre que lucha por superar la pérdida de su esposa. Juntos emprenderán un viaje de redescubrimiento y reconciliación. Dos novelas que exploran la complejidad de las relaciones humanas y la búsqueda de la sanación interior.

Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem only a distant echo. An only child, he lives alone with Emilie, the mother he adores but who treats him with bitter severity. He begins an intense friendship with a Jewish boy his age, talented and mercurial Anton Zweibel, a budding concert pianist.

ch novelist de Moor (Duke of Egypt) traces narrative arabesques around the terrible romantic jealousy suffered by a blind music critic in this spare, delicate novel. In a series of chance encounters at European airports over the years, the musicologist narrator meets the famous blind patrician music critic, Marius van Vlooten, and extracts his history of tortured love. The first encounter elicits the desperate tale of unrequited love that drove Marius, as a student years before, to shoot himself in the head, thus blinding himself.

In 2025 America, it's hardly news when a renowned octogenarian scientist dying of cancer disappears from a local hospice, but when Kansas City Star reporter Rich Azadian begins to dig, he discovers that other elderly scientists around the world have also vanished recently - all terminally ill and receiving the same experimental treatment from a global health company.

When a small boy spends Christmas in the snowy Minnesota countryside, he becomes the official scout for his young bedridden cousin, Matthew, who is running out of secrets to explore. Matthew already knows there is no Santa Claus, and he knows his life is ending. As Christmas Eve approaches, the boy worries that he will be unable to find something magical for Matthew. But when that hopeful night arrives, the two are joined in a miraculous surprise that changes their lives forever.

No había entrada ni salida del cuarto. Se encuentran símbolos satánicos en el piso. El ama de llaves de la víctima jura haber escuchado a tres músicos tocando allí antes del crimen. Y todos los sospechosos hablan de un violín supuestamente tocado por el mismo diablo. Las circunstancias de la muerte sugieren también la presencia de un imitador de Jack el Destripador. Temiendo una oleada de pánico, la policía escocesa envía a los inspectores Ian Frey y Adolphus "Nueve-Uñas" McGray.