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A sadistic vamp lord. A rebellious fae. A vicious hunt. The first term of Nocturnal Academy is over. Majors have been assigned. I’ve made choices that brought me closer to the guillotine. But the fight isn’t over, not yet. I must get through the spring term. Not an easy feat when the vamp students are planning a sacrifice and have a bone to pick with me. But even if I survive the prison academy, someone will be buying my contract after school is out, and rumor has it that the king of sadists is interested in me. Whatever he wants, he gets.

El Primer Ministro de Gran Bretaña es secuestrado en vísperas de una importante cumbre internacional. Se exige un rescate exorbitante y se plantea un grave dilema político. El detective privado Hercule Poirot es llamado para resolver el caso. Poirot y su amigo el Capitán Arthur Hastings investigan y se encuentran con múltiples sospechosos, incluyendo a miembros del gobierno y del personal del Primer Ministro.

Full-cast, unabridged performance with comprehensive commentary and analysis for any student to fully understand and appreciate the play. The poetry of Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers is poignantly performed and expertly explained in this unique production: "Passion lends them power."

Have you ever been told to toughen up or stop taking everything so seriously? Or do you feel that in a harsh world - where the way to get noticed is to shout the loudest - your heartfelt approach just doesn’t cut it? Some of us are born sensitive. We live our lives vividly through the lens of emotion and with our senses perpetually on high alert.

London, 1853, and the sedate religious publishing house of Spavin and Spavin is about to experience a radical shake-up. Vivacious actress Cordelia is on the hunt for a husband and has her eye on Gerald, one of the firm's partners, while her son, Primus, has ambitions to take over the firm. And when he does, it'll be out with the Bibles and in with the best sellers - starting with Charlotte Brontë's latest blockbuster.

Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose - because, she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk.

Hasta el momento, en todos los casos que yo he relatado, las investigaciones de Poirot se iniciaron partiendo del factor central, ya fuese crimen o robo, y fueron siguiendo un proceso de deducciones lógicas hasta llegar a la solución final. En los acontecimientos que ahora voy a relatar, una curiosa cadena de circunstancias tuvo su principio en ciertos incidentes aparentemente triviales que atrajeron la atención de Poirot y culminó en los siniestros sucesos que constituyeron uno de los casos más extraordinarios.

Marie Wilson stars as the blonde, beautiful, and bewildered Irma Peterson in the hit postwar sitcom My Friend Irma. Cathy Lewis and Joan Banks co-star as her level-headed roommate Jane Stacy, with John Brown as her deadbeat boyfriend, Al. Here are 16 fun-filled episodes featuring Hans Conried, Leif Erickson, Gloria Gordon, and Alan Reed. Get ready to slap your knee - and your forehead!

Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious, Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey’s child and he would have nothing to do with her, and before long Elizabeth, too, turned her back on her daughter. It was left to Polly Ford, widow of a dock labourer, to bring Alicia up, to teach her to say ‘Yes, Mama’ and to give the child the love she so desperately needed.

La aventura de Vasco de Gama que le llevó a las Indias através del cabo de Buena Esperanza abrió una guerra por el control de las especias y por el control estratégico mundial que concluiría con la gesta de Magallanes y Elcano: la expedición que dio, a ciegas, la primera vuelta al mundo.

As an ex-star of a hit teen detective show, Maizie Albright gets the youth demographic. Or so she thought. Now that she’s adulting, today’s kids make Maizie feel out of date. At least the teen Youtube stars of Bigfoot Trackers who want to hire her to look into the disappearance and possible murder of their producer. A murder the police find as likely as Bigfoot.

Does the word menopause bring a moment of fear in your body, or does it give you a feeling of power and greater possibility? Joan Borysenko believes that if you knew the truth about menopause, you would look forward passionately to this adventurous stage of your life. Now, with Menopause, you have an unprecedented course to begin your initiation into power.

Society bachelor and former army sniper Ben Benedict moves between two worlds - from high-society Washington to the mean city streets, from tuxedos to Glocks. His powerful Virginia family wants him out of harm’s way, but Ben stays on the job, determined to make amends for a past that haunts him.

The adulterous son of a Florida hotel owner steals money from his family and departs for Paris, where he takes up with a young woman and finds himself outsmarted in turn. Fools ponders the circle of winners and losers, dupers and duped, and the price we pay for our beliefs. Fools is a luminous, intelligent, and rewarding work of fiction from the author for whom the Boston Globe said, "No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power."

One minute, Mac Macready was a living legend in Texas - every kid's idol, every man's envy, every woman's fantasy. The next, his fiancée dumped him, his career was hanging in the balance, and his future was looking mighty uncertain. Then, there was the matter of his scandalous secret, which didn't stand a chance of staying secret where he was headed now. So, it was either succumb to Jewel Whitelaw's shocking proposal - or take cold showers for the rest of the long, hot summer....

Exciting new 6 book character-led series for 7+ girls who love adventure! On her tenth birthday, tomboy Sophie learns she is the Guardian of a magic gateway between our world and the Shadow Woods. She must keep the human world safe from mischievous goblins, sprites and elves Each book sees...

El rancio abolengo de la tradición aristocrática británica, se enfrenta a su peor enemigo: una familia americana.....El gran fantasma de Canterville que había llevado durante más de 500 años una vida tranquila, aunque triste, se va a ver de repente enfrentado a la peor de las pesadillas que se podia imaginar: los Otis.El respeto al terror tradicional, provocado por los fantasmas medievales, el pánico generado por esos espíritus ancestrales.

Has sentit a parlar mai de Guguengol? És un continent o una illa? No se’n sap gairebé res. Tret d’una cosa: a Guguengol qualsevol feblesa és condemnada, i no hi ha pietat per als dèbils. El Notlits està a les portes de l’edat adulta, però abans de ser considerat tot un home s’haurà de sotmetre a unes proves que li poden costar la vida.

Mientras Poirot está de visita en la campiña inglesa, tiene un problema mecánico con el motor de su automóvil. Se llama el reparador Ted Williamson, quien le confía que se enamoró de una joven, llamada "Nita", doncella de una bailarina de ballet rusa. Pero esta joven ha desaparecido misteriosamente, para su consternación. Hercule Poirot promete hacer todo lo posible para encontrar a la joven de forma voluntaria

Murder doesn’t set much colder than on the icy shores of Lake Ontario, where Jesse James is hot on the trail of a real estate scam that really has the feisty reporter steamed. This sleazy operation is behind a string of costly accidents - but it's no accident when Jesse wakes up, bandaged head to toe, in a hospital where everyone insists she’s Daphne Malcross, a young socialite with more connections and cash than common sense.