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After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Through teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering, and perseverance, they endeavor to build a colony from scratch. But this island of abundant resources has its secrets. The castaways discover they are not alone. A shadowy, yet familiar, agent of their unfathomable fate is watching. 

L'"Histoire de France" de Jules Michelet est un monument. Littéraire, d'abord, par le style envolé de ce digne héritier de Dumas et par sa puissance d'évocation : Michelet s'était donné pour mission de ressuciter le passé, de faire revivre personnages et coups d'éclat qui ont construit l'identité de la France pour mettre en évidence ce qui fait l'âme d'une nation.

Robur the Conqueror is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story begins with strange lights and sounds, including blaring trumpet music, reported in the skies all over the world. The events are capped by the mysterious appearance of black flags with gold suns atop tall historic landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty in New York, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance", was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael.

Once again, #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn transports her readers to historical romance heaven! Quinn’s Just Like Heaven is the dazzling first installment of a delightful quartet of Regency Era-set tales featuring the romantic exploits of the well-meaning but...

An enthralling story of love and romance, heartache and betrayal, set against the exotic backdrop of Barbados and the stunning Gower peninsula. If Holly can’t trust her own son, who can she trust? Single mum, Holly Wilson, and her twenty-year-old son Harry have an enviably close relationship...

From Julia Quinn, the New York Times bestselling author of steamy historical romances, comes the third seductive installment of the Smythe-Smith Quartet, The Sum of All Kisses. Sarah Pleinsworth can’t forgive Hugh Prentice for the duel he fought three years ago that nearly destroyed her family...

You may feel as if you don't control your emotional energy, that it's an inevitable consequence of the world around you and the forces bearing down on you. But that's not the case. To reach your full potential, you can learn to recognize and harness the energy in your brain. Leading neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi will teach you how through eight "codes." Some of the codes will surprise you. All will fortify you. You will learn why these codes work and how to apply them to your own challenges through exercises and reflections.

Elmo and his sister love playing in the jungle house next door, that is, until mean old Mr Birdsnest moves in. But when it appears that Mr Birdsnest has kidnapped the children's grandma they must sneak back in to rescue her! A delightful and cleverly written story by the Children's Laureate...

Polly has set up a pets' holiday home for the summer and with a house full of greedy guinea pigs, pesky parrots and slithering snakes, Mum is getting more fed up by the day! Especially when Doris the snake goes missing! Can Polly find Doris before the snake finds the guinea pigs?...

Created by star pairing Axel Scheffler and Julia Donaldson, the Gruffalo's Child returns with her very own song to introduce a truly monster musical session! As well as being the UK's most successful picture book author and the 2011-2013 Children's Laureate, Julia Donaldson is a gifted...

A volte l'amore si trova proprio dove te lo immagini... non è questo il caso. Tutti si aspettano che Sybilla, detta Billie, Bridgerton, ormai in età da marito, sposi un Rokesby. Le proprietà delle due famiglie confinano da secoli e lei ha trascorso l'infanzia frequentando Edward e Andrew Rokesby. Sia Andrew che Edward sarebbero dei mariti perfetti... un giorno. Forse. Perché a volte ti innamori proprio della persona di cui pensi che dovresti innamorarti. E a volte no. C'è solo un Rokesby che Billie non tollera ed è George. È il primogenito e sarà lui a diventare conte, ma è arrogante e noioso.

Walking in This World picks up where Julia Cameron's best-selling book on the creative process, The Artist's Way, left off to present readers with a second course, part two in an amazing journey toward discovering our human potential. Full of valuable new strategies and techniques for breaking through difficult creative ground, this is the "intermediate level" of the Artist's Way program.

Read by much-loved actor David Tennant. Meet a clever rabbit in this fun adventure packed full of rhymes from the brilliant Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of What the Ladybird Heard. With funny rhyming verse, The Rhyming Rabbit is loved by children and parents alike – perfect for...

In der Liebe und der Wissenschaft ist alles erlaubt – oder etwa nicht? Rue Siebert musste lange für das kämpfen, was ihr im Leben Halt gibt: wenige, aber gute Freunde, auf die sie zählen kann, jene finanzielle Sicherheit, nach der sie sich als Kind immer gesehnt hat, und eine Karriere als...

A temporada de bailes e festas de 1814 acaba de começar em Londres. Como de costume, as mães ambiciosas já estão ávidas por encontrar um marido adequado para suas filhas. Ao que tudo indica, o solteiro mais cobiçado do ano será Anthony Bridgerton, um visconde charmoso, elegante e muito rico que, contrariando as probabilidades, resolve dar um basta na rotina de libertino e arranjar uma noiva. Ele decide que Edwina Sheffield, a debutante mais linda da estação, é a candidata ideal. Mas, para levá-la ao altar, primeiro terá que convencer Kate de que merece se casar com ela.

Tras la exitosa saga Bridgerton, que Netflix ha convertido en una serie, llega la segunda entrega de la serie Rokesby. Con su estilo inconfundible, Julia Quinn nos ofrece otra divertida serie, llena de diálogos ingeniosos, un colorido elenco de personajes y la cantidad perfecta de secretos y...

Nove pessoas se reúnem em um spa bem distante da cidade. A quilômetros da civilização, sem carro nem celulares, elas não têm qualquer contato com o mundo exterior. Apenas tempo para pensarem em si mesmas e se conhecerem melhor. Algumas estão lá para perder peso, algumas para tentar recomeçar a vida, outras por razões inconfessáveis até para elas mesmas. No meio de tanto luxo e mimo, sucos e meditação, todos sabem que vão precisar se esforçar nos próximos dez dias. Mas ninguém é capaz de imaginar o tamanho do desafio.

Die sehnsüchtig erwartete Fortsetzung von »Fourth Wing« und »Iron Flame« Bist du bereit, der Dunkelheit zu trotzen? Nach fast achtzehn Monaten am Basgiath War College weiß Violet, dass die Zeit für theoretische Übungen vorbei ist. Die Zeit für Unsicherheit ist vorbei. Denn der Krieg hat...

La inigualable Julia Alvarez, autora de En el tiempo de las mariposas y De cómo las muchachas García perdieron el acento, regresa con una extraordinaria e íntima novela que nos recuerda que las historias de vida jamás están realmente acabadas. Ni siquiera cuando llega el final. **Uno de los...