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The Kalevala is the signature work of traditional Finnish culture. In story after story, it explores the human and divine world as understood by the traditional runic singers of the north. It sings of how the universe came to be, how the natural world works, how divine and supernatural worlds relate to the world of humankind, how human beings relate to each other, how good and evil and life and death function in the world.

The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists from the capital's finest jewellers. Featuring a roster of Scotland Yard's meticulous best, a cohort of daring doctors and a cadre of characterful private investigators, this new selection by Martin Edwards includes 18 vintage mystery stories which showcase the city's most compelling classic cases.

Jessi knows a secret language! She learned it from Matt Braddock, the BSC's newest charge. Matt's been deaf since birth, and he uses sign language to speak. Since Jessi is Matt's baby-sitter, she's been using sign language, too. Soon all the kids in Stoneybrook want to learn to sign...which keeps the baby-sitters busy. Jessi's the busiest of all: she working on another secret just for Matt. Will she be able to keep the secret and pull off her special event?

The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin's The Dead Don't Dance. After slipping into a four-months-long coma following the tragic loss of their son in childbirth, Dylan's wife, Maggie, finally awakens--but can the young couple pick up the broken pieces of their lives and move...

En 1940, Blanca es la única heredera de una de las más prestigiosas familias de joyeros de Barcelona, la desaparecida joyería Amat, y la joven y su madre tratan de sobrevivir en plena posguerra. Blanca recibe unas joyas de estilo Art Nouveau diseñadas por su prima Elsa, de la que solo sabe...

Tanto la "inteligencia emocional" como la "resiliencia" son conceptos controvertidos dentro de la psicología académica pero ampliamente manejados en los libros de autoayuda. Este trabajo, de principio a fin, se plantea el reto de equilibrar el rigor con la utilidad cotidiana. Los hombres gais somos uno de los colectivos que sufrimos mayores exigencias emocionales a lo largo de la vida. Es necesario entrenar muy bien nuestra resiliencia para dejar atrás las marcas del acoso homofóbico y la discriminación.

On the day after Pearl Harbor, shocked Americans gather around their radios to hear Franklin Roosevelt declare war. In Los Angeles, a German agent named Martin Browning is planning to kill FDR on the night he lights the National Christmas Tree. Who will stop him? Relentless FBI Agent Frank Carter? Kevin Cusack, a Hollywood script reader who also spies on the German Bund of Los Angeles, and becomes a suspect himself? Or Vivian Hopewell, the aspiring actress who signs on to play Martin Browning's wife and cannot help but fall in love with him?

The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing - 20 years old, a literature student all clogged up with the English novel - is struggling to twist feminism and women's ascendency toward his own ends.

La danza de los tulipanes nos sumerge en la ría de Urdaibai, un lugar mágico donde el mar y la tierra se abrazan al compás de las mareas que mecen las tranquilas vidas de sus habitantes, que se ven repentinamente sacudidas por la brutal irrupción de un asesino complejo e inteligente, capaz de rivalizar con los ritmos de la naturaleza que desde siempre han gobernado la comarca.

Marco ist ein Künstler Anfang dreißig. Das Gehalt seiner Freundin Camilla reicht knapp für sie beide. Camilla jedoch hat sich mehr vom Leben erhofft, weshalb sie sich von Marco trennt. Es ist eine Kopfentscheidung, doch wann, wenn nicht jetzt, soll sie ihre Zukunft in die Hand nehmen? Um seine verlorene Liebe zurückzugewinnen, ist Marco zu allem bereit. Als eine ältere Dame ihm die Chance bietet, zu einem Vermögen zu kommen, lässt er sich auf den zweifelhaften Deal mit ihr ein.

Best friends Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft have stumbled upon an unexpected visitor, a new doll named Tilly May. She arrived in a mysterious package . . . but she looks so familiar. Could she be Annabelle’s long-lost baby sister? It'll take a runaway adventure to find out for sure. Are...

Martin Walker’s novels starring Chief of Police Bruno Courrèges are a boon to Francophiles and mystery lovers around the world. In The Crowded Grave, Bruno is up to his ears in trouble after a local archaeological dig unearths a corpse with a bullet in its head. Further complicating matters are a meddlesome local magistrate, animal rights activists, and a missing professor - not to mention two lovely ladies vying for Bruno’s affections.

Fans of the Percy Jackson series and John David Anderson will love this sequel to the acclaimed novel Float, in which inconveniently invisible Hank must find a way to save Camp Outlier from a saboteur—and win the camp-wide challenge. Hank, Emerson, and their friends have returned to Camp...

The first of three novels, Into the Fury follows Ethan Brodie, who's contracted as extra security for La Belle Lingerie when their top 10 models receive threatening letters. His job: to protect the ladies - and maybe find the culprit. The one rule: no fraternizing with any of the models. Having sworn off women indefinitely, he thinks he'll be able to handle it. Then he meets Val, one of the threatened models, who's just trying to make some money, go back to school, and finish her veterinary degree.

Three abandoned cowboys, born in heartbreak and bonded by brotherhood, are brought together by the fierce love of the grandparents who took them in and the ranch that’s the only home they’ve ever known… Surly cowboy, Ford Lassiter, named after the truck his dad was driving when he’d left him and his mother, has only known abandonment and doesn’t trust relationships—until he shares an intimate weekend at a wedding with a woman he met by chance. Now he can’t stop thinking about her and what could have happened if she hadn’t driven away from him too. Tall and curvy, Elizabeth ...

Darcy Davenport is ready for a fresh start. Determined to leave a string of disastrous jobs and relationships behind her, she can't wait to explore White Cliff Bay and meet the locals. When Darcy swims in the crystal clear waters of the bay, she discovers the charming Rose Island Lighthouse. But it's not just the beautiful building that she finds so intriguing....

El cerebro permanece activo unos diez minutos después de que el corazón deje de latir. Durante ese lapso, mientras el cuerpo de Leila yace en un contenedor de basura a las fueras de Estambul, el tiempo fluye y, minuto a minuto, le trae un nuevo recuerdo: la infancia con su padre y sus dos madres en una casa grande y antigua de una apacible ciudad de Turquía; los chismorreos de las mujeres cuando los hombres están en la mezquita; la huida a Estambul para escapar de los abusos y las mentiras familiares y de un matrimonio concertado.

During a Christmas shopping spree, Mary Anne racks up a large debt on her father's credit card. Baby-sitting won't cover the charges, so she takes a secret job as a department store elf to pay her father back.

Conquer the CFRN Exam: Your Guide to Certified Flight Registered Nurse Certification from BCEN is a concise yet comprehensive overview created for nurses preparing to earn their CFRN credential. This guide is tailored for flight nurses who must deliver high-acuity care in fast-paced, high-risk environments. Covering essential topics like trauma management, respiratory and cardiovascular emergencies, ventilator care, pediatric and obstetrical transport, and toxicologic exposures, this book reinforces the foundational principles needed for real-world performance and exam success. Each chapter...

La menopausia se asocia a la pérdida de la belleza, del apetito sexual, de la vitalidad, del buen humor, de la juventud… Pero ha llegado el momento de derribar este mito, dejar de considerarla el final de un ciclo y valorarla como lo que es: una renovación en la vida de la mujer, la puerta de entrada a una época que puede ser satisfactoria y plena.