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Minoru Aose es un arquitecto de mediana edad cuya carrera y familia se desmoronaron con el estallido de la burbuja económica de Japón y que ha acabado refugiándose en la mediocridad. Sin embargo, su vida da un vuelco cuando recibe un encargo muy peculiar: diseñar una casa a su antojo en el espléndido terreno que sus clientes, los Yoshino, poseen en las montañas.

Un manuscrit ancien traverse le temps, unissant le passé, le présent et l’avenir de l’humanité. Véritable déclaration d’amour aux livres, aux lecteurs et aux bibliothèques, La Cité des nuages et des oiseaux a été nommé Grand prix de la littérature américaine en 2022.

Teagan Bianchi has survived a road trip with rambunctious toddler twins and a large mutt named Garbage Disposal. She clings to a tattered scrap of hope that moving into her late grandmother’s house is the best way to repair her failing business—and the sad shreds of her life—after the man who promised her forever lost everything they had. But she’s barely arrived when she finds herself face to face with her teenage crush, now an irresistible man—who still happens to live next door...

A biography of Alexander Pushkin (1799 – 1837), who is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Included is a brilliant work of the great Russian poet Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva, "My Pushkin". Please note: This audiobook is in Russian.

During the 19th century the demographic and socio-economic landscape of Mauritius was irrevocably transformed by the immigration of around half a million men, women and children, brought to service the island’s burgeoning sugar industry under the indenture system. The vast majority of indentured immigrants were Indians, although a few thousand Chinese, Malagasies and Liberated Africans also arrived as labourers during this period, and were contracted into estate employment on similar terms. The indenture period for Mauritius is calculated as beginning in 1834 and terminating in 1923 with ...

Sie hat die Grenzen der Kunst gesprengt: sich gepeitscht, mit einer Glasscherbe ein Pentagramm in den Bauch geritzt, ein Messer in die Finger gerammt. Sie ist 2500 Kilometer auf der Chinesischen Mauer gegangen, zwölf Jahre in einem umgebauten Citroën-Bus durch die Welt gefahren und hat ein Jahr bei den Aborigines in Australien gelebt. Spätestens seit "The Artist is Present" - ihrer berühmten Performance 2010 im New Yorker Museum of Modern Art - gilt Marina Abramović in der ganzen Welt als Kultfigur.

Muriel es una mujer independiente. Tanto que, no está dispuesta a contraer matrimonio para poder tener un hijo. Pero eso sería un escándalo. Aún así, está dispuesta a arriesgarse cuando surge la oportunidad al convertirse en la única dueña de la plantación de café que posee la familia en Kenya. Chaz Layton es el hombre perfecto . Atractivo, inteligente y lo más importante, odia el matrimonio y las responsabilidades. Muriel lo seduce y logra su sueño. Sin embargo, Chaz resulta no ser ese hombre tan perfecto que ella pensaba y regresa a su vida para desbaratar todos sus planes.

Are you planning a trip to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah? You probably know it’s a great place for hiking but would you rather stick to the comfort of your car and still enjoy this magical place with incredible landscapes and amazing views? Look no further! With so much land to cover, what are the best road trips to see the most possible especially if your travel time is limited? That is what the Top 3 Road Trips in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Travel Guide will show you. What’s included in this quick-read travel guide: 3 epic trips that take...

What is a sensitive classical pianist doing in a sleazy WWII Parisian cabaret? Why is he keeping his Chopin sheet music inside the piano bench every night? Which two people from his past have scarred his soul forever? Winter Pale, a young beautiful foreigner, a girl with a painful past of her own, recounts his story and, with it, delves deep into her own soul.

In this haunting novel, a young nurse forms an unlikely connection with the elderly man she cares for, and finds herself confronting the guilt she carries from her past Marguerite Demers is twenty-five when she leaves Paris for the sleepy southern village of Saint Sulpice to take up a job as a...

Welcome to Tell Me Your Story. This podcast is an invitation to understand your story, your past, your family and make peace with it. It’s an invitation to bring back together what was once separated. It’s an invitation to reconcile with « what happened » in your life, in order to fully embrace « what is possible» in your present life. It’s about reclaiming your freedom and your destiny, so you can begin to write the story that you are meant to live. Let yourself be guided by Marine Selenee who is passionate about exploring family systems and offering her insights that might be ...

Es sind sechs Monate vergangen, seitdem die Königin der Vampire sich in Schweigen gehüllt hat, und das Schicksal der Welt befindet sich seither auf Messers Schneide. Schließe dich den furchtlosen Dunraven Schwestern bei ihrer Mission an, die Vampirapokalypse in einem sonnenfinsteren und endlos-eisigen Winter zu überleben.

CAROLINE ES UNA MUCHACHA CAPRICHOSA. PERO TODO CAMBIARÁ CON LA MUERTE DE SU PADRE. AHORA SU TUTOR ES SCOTT. UN HOMBRE QUE CAMBIARÁ SU VIDA PARA SIEMPRE.

Maine, 1997. As the people of Fort Meadow Beach celebrate the Fourth of July, four-year-old Daisy Wright disappears and is never seen again. Maine, Present Day. Fired from her job and heartbroken, Peyton Winchester moves back home for the summer. Bored and aimless, she finds a renewed sense of purpose when an ad for a journalism course reminds her of a path not taken. Returning to life in her hometown brings back all kinds of memories—including Daisy's vanishing when she was a young girl herself.

Cecilia Carboni ha venticinque anni e per buona parte della vita si è ritrovata a seguire, suo malgrado, i diktat imposti dal padre Alberto, uno dei più quotati avvocati milanesi. Proprio per volere suo, si è laureata in Giurisprudenza e ha iniziato il praticantato nello studio legale di famiglia. Il suo futuro sembra già delineato, quando un giorno le viene rivolta una proposta allettante: lavorare nel prestigioso showroom di Franco Sartori, uno degli stilisti più celebri al mondo.

For fans of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, a lyrical memoir and “engaging, endearing, deeply felt” (David Coggins) ode to the art of fly fishing and how it can shape a life—by renowned female angler and conservationist Marina Gibson. As her twenty-first...

El cerebro es una máquina muy poderosa y dinámica. Nunca deja de modificarse y adaptarse al contexto medioambiental. Lo necesitamos para casi todo lo que somos y seremos y, si empieza a fallar, las secuelas inmediatas harán que nuestra calidad de vida se resienta.

"Staying On Track" is a practical guide on how to grow your business. It provides real-world examples of how the author’s company went from one office and eighteen people to a global operation with staff in six countries and thirty-four US states. Frank Marini shows the true definition of customer focus in all aspects and departments of a company in this pragmatic explanation of how he guided Railbookers Group, where he serves as president and CEO, through a rapid period of growth and achievement.

An in-depth study by Marina Vaizey explores the lives and art of David Hockney and Vanessa Bell, drawing on exhibitions at the Tate and Dulwich Picture Gallery.

Es una recopilación de los escándalos de corrupción cometidos en República Dominicana en el periodo 1963-2019. Relata en detalles las responsabilidades de los principales actores políticos, económicos, sociales y religiosos. Incluye los gobiernos de Juan Bosch, Joaquín Balaguer, Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Salvador Jorge Blanco, Leonel Fernández, Hipólito Mejía y Danilo Medina.