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Hugo Burel se entrega en las págilas de "La misteriosa muerte de Eleanor Rigby" a su faceta más juguetona y beatlemaníaca. En la historia se zambulle de lleno en la famosa canción de los Beatles, y pone al servicio de la historia todos los dejes consabidos de la trama clásica de novela policial para ahondar en los últimos días del personaje de Eleanor Rigby, su relación con el padre McKenzie y toda una caterva de guiños tanto a la canción en sí como a toda la trayectoria de los Beatles.

James Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and only the prospect of a particularly challenging mission can draw him out of his deep depression. Determined to restore 007 to his former effectiveness, M sends Bond to Japan, where a criminal mastermind is using a poisonous garden inside a rocky island fortress to lure people to their deaths. Bond will have to infiltrate and destroy this mysterious Castle of Death in exchange for top secret Japanese intelligence.

Sembra un mattino qualsiasi: spegni la sveglia, ti versi il caffè e ti prepari per affrontare la giornata. Ma, quando apri la porta d’ingresso, trovi una scatoletta di legno sul pianerottolo. Non sai chi l’abbia mandata. Non sai che cosa contenga. Apri. Dentro c’è soltanto un pezzo di filo. In tutto il mondo, ogni persona che abbia compiuto ventidue anni riceve la stessa scatola misteriosa. E, nel giro di un istante, tutto cambia per sempre: quel filo rappresenta il tuo destino. La sua misura, diversa per ciascuno, indica con precisione quanto tempo ti resta da vivere.

It's 1753, the golden age of piracy is dead along with its famous Pirate Captains, still pirates are sailing the seas and Pirate Captain Nathanael Blackthorne is "out there" doing what he does best captaining, the Ciara Morganse, seeking revenge, when Providence dumps a treasure on his deck, Cate Mackenzie, a Jacobite War criminal. It's a story of people, scared of both spirit and flesh, coming to grips with that ol' demon, Trust. It's the story of what a man will do to preserve his most treasured. It's the story of what a woman will risk to gain what she desires most.

Crater City, New Mexico, is a bustling mining town brimming with the stench of men hungry to get rich the old fashioned way - killing the competition. Dennis Conroy is the owner of the biggest saloon in town, and he needs a few good sharpshooters to help protect surveyors laying out a route for a spur rail lie before his rival Hugh Thornton beats him to it. Jo Buckhorn’s handy with a gun so he takes the job.

When archaeologist Dr. Isabel Grant arrives in a remote Cornish village to study an ancient quarry, she’s drawn into a chilling mystery. Locals warn her of “The Silent Ones,” spirits bound to the quarry’s shadows. But as whispers start calling her name and shadows shift in the mist, Isabel realizes the quarry has marked her—and it won’t let go without a price. Can she uncover its secrets before becoming an echo in the stones?

Pollyanna is a kind novel advocating an optimistic outlook, which is summarized in a famous quote 'When you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will'. Pollyanna, a young orphan, is living with her stern aunt, who is taking care of her out of 'sense of duty'. Under any circumstances Pollyanna prefers to see only their best side, taking joy in simplest things, she affects everyone around her. Hence a popular term 'Pollyannaism', or the Pollyanna Principle, a subconscious bias towards the positive.

For Bobby Miracle, the job at Hipposync was supposed to be a dream internship. But when a trans-dimensional lockdown freezes time, she is trapped with a terrifying enemy who has a very sharp axe to grind. With survival at stake and secrets lurking in every corner, Bobby must bring her A game to the party and hope that her surname finally, finally, kicks in. Because though she may dress like one, even gets called one, no way is she a witch…right?

Read by Eleanor Matsuura BOND TAKES ON A DEATH-DEFYING NEW MISSION TO SECURE KEY JAPANESE INTELLIGENCE James Bond is shattered by the murder of his wife at the hands of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and only the prospect of a particularly challenging mission can draw him out of his deep depression...

Along with her mother, a woman who, in the cosmic sense, is completely out of time, Priya Mani might be the only person in the galaxy with the power to stop a madman bent on rewriting the laws of physics and destroying the universe, and all other universes, just to get his way. Join Priya and a band of intergalactic misfits as they drink their way across the galaxy and stumble upon the greater meanings of life: to drink good rum and maintain a healthy bowel movement.

Twenty-year-old Jessie Warfield is branded a disgrace for riding as a jockey on her father's racehorses, wearing men's clothing, exposing her skin to the sun and, in general, not acting like a lady at all.

It's the mid-1960s and James Bond's beloved Miss Moneypenny combines forces with him to smoke out a mole that she is convinced is buried deep in the heart of MI6.