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Una colección de historias muy queridas para brujas y hechiceros de todas las edades, Los cuentos de Beedle el Bardo son los cuentos de hadas de los hermanos Grimm del mundo mágico. Esta edición fue traducida de las runas originales por Hermione Granger, y contiene notas útiles del Profesor Dumbledore y de J. K. Rowling.

Ally está en la recta final del embarazo y atada a la cama a raíz de un accidente. Depende de la ayuda de Frieda, quien dice ser enfermera. Y, efectivamente, no la deja de vista ni un solo segundo. Dice hacerlo por el bien suyo y de su hijo nonato. Al comunicarle a Adam, su marido, sus dudas, este la toma por paranoica. Ally cree haber encontrado en Hope, la chica au pair, a una aliada. Pero hay un problema: Hope no habla su idioma. Ally se da cuenta de que no tiene a nadie, y lo descubre cuando es casi demasiado tarde ya.

Jared Diamond comenzó su carrera académica como naturalista: observaba a los pájaros y deducía reglas de su comportamiento. Cuando cambió de foco y empezó a estudiar organismos complejos como las sociedades humanas, no cambió de método, y en este breve libro explica cuánto se puede aprender a través de este procedimiento.

Sarah Bain and her friends Lord Hugh Staunton and Mick O'Reilly are crime-scene photographers for the Daily World newspaper. After solving a sensational murder, they're under pressure to deliver another big story. On a foggy summer night, they're called to the bank of the River Thames. The murder victim is an unidentified woman whose face has been slashed. But as Sarah takes photographs, she discovers that the woman is still alive.

Presley Windsor is preparing for the new season of American Ninja Champions, leaving her zero time for anything as frivolous as a boyfriend. When someone posts a picture of her trying on a diamond ring with a mystery man, they assume she’s getting engaged. Instead of telling the public it was all a misunderstanding, Presley’s publicist decides this is the perfect launch for her career. Things escalate quickly, and the network wants to reveal her fiancé on national TV, leaving Presley scrambling to find someone to play the role long enough for the special to air.

On New Year’s Eve, Professor Frederick Latham—renowned antiquarian and self-professed treasure hunter—gathers friends and rivals at his ancestral home. At midnight, he promises he will soon reveal the discovery that has defined his life’s work. But before the sun rises on the first day of the new decade, Latham is found dead at the heart of his beloved maze. The only witness: a marble statue of the horned god Cernunnos, looming silently over the body.

In Think Long Term, best-selling author Thibaut Meurisse shows you why the ability to think years into the future is the ultimate predictor of success—and how you can cultivate it to create a meaningful, fulfilling life.

Step into the visionary imagination of Ray Bradbury with this powerful collection of classic science fiction and speculative tales that helped define the Golden Age of the genre. The Selected Works of Ray Bradbury brings together seven unforgettable short stories that explore humanity’s hopes, fears, and moral crossroads against the vast backdrop of space, time, and the unknown.

The little piece of almost heaven I carved out for myself ain't bad. I've got my truffle pig, Rampy, and my farm, and my work. It ain't much, but it's honest work, and a peaceful existence. There ain't nothin' else I really need. But every year when the moth mating call comes along, I'm reminded of how lonely my life can be.

"Sebastian King, spending this Christmas with you has been truly amazing." Emily Kane is a college student at Silverleaf University coming back home for Christmas after a long time away. She is met by Sebastian King, the science nerd from back in high school who took over the yardwork to help her mother. Sebastian King is a science education major over at the University of Meadow Cove, who has liked Emily since high school. Will Sebastian finally get his chance at love? Will Emily give him the chance he wants?

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today's often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.

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A curse from birth has doomed Vivi to die when she turns eighteen. She’s a masterful runesmith, and if she could just convince arrogant ether hunters that her family has solved runeswords’ fatal flaw, she might earn enough ether to save herself. When a rebellious spirit defies his handler to bond with Vivi, she becomes a fugitive, escaping capture only to land in an inescapable demonic prison.

Was braucht ein Meister-Erbauer, nachdem er eine Gefahr für die Zukunft des Imperiums beseitigt hat? Nichts als die Gelegenheit, seinem Handwerk endlich in Ruhe und Frieden nachgehen zu können. Ich habe es geschafft, den Tod selbst an der Nase herumzuführen. Jetzt bin ich zur herrlichen Stadt Newa zurückgekehrt, zu der Stadt, die wir gemeinsam mit dem Zaren erbaut haben. Seitdem sind 300 Jahre vergangen, und alles hat sich verändert. Ich erwache im Körper eines jungen Grafen mit einem Hang zu Skandalen.

El apocalipsis ha obsesionado a gente de tantas culturas y épocas que solo cabe decir que viene sucediendo hace demasiado tiempo. Pero pocas oportunidades fueron tan propicias para que el imaginario colectivo albergara pronósticos de una catástrofe definitiva como aquel 2012 en el que Ignacio Padilla publicó este ensayo.

Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) è stato un profeta dell'era elettronica. La sua ricerca ha posto gran parte delle basi per i moderni sistemi elettrici e di comunicazione, e le sue impressionanti realizzazioni includono lo sviluppo del sistema elettrico a corrente alternata, la radio, il trasformatore a bobina di Tesla, la trasmissione senza fili e l'illuminazione fluorescente. La ricerca di Tesla era così innovativa che molti dei suoi contemporanei non sono riusciti a capirla, e altri scienziati sono ingiustamente accreditati per le sue innovazioni.

Lying northeast of Massachusetts, just south of Hell, Arkham County is somewhere you find yourself, not somewhere you ever mean to go. Once you do find it though, you'd better get used to living there, as you may be there for however long you have left to live.

One of Dickens' early works, Nicholas Nickleby combines comedy and tragedy in a tale of triumph over adversity that is interspersed with Dickens' moving condemnation of society's mistreatment of children and the cruelty of the educational system. Young Nickleby struggles to seek his fortune in Victorian England, yet succeeds despite social injustice, in a story that mirrors Dickens' own rise from poverty to great success.

Gray Nolan's biggest problem in life was the torch he carried for his closeted coach. He was just another happy-go-lucky dude, a college student and hockey player, when his ordinary existence was interrupted, and he became a human trafficking statistic. He and seven other young men were taken aboard a luxurious yacht, where they were to be auctioned off to the highest bidder. Gray was beaten, shattered, and almost defeated by the time his buyer stepped out of the shadows in a swirl of his own cigarette smoke.

Nearly 80 years have passed since a meteor struck the Earth, sending plumes of dust into the atmosphere to create the Great Eclipse. Generations of survivors have grown up without the sun, their days barely brighter than their long, cold nights. Information travels from Citadel to Citadel, changing with each retelling, like a childhood game of telephone. Archivists toil to piece together fragments of truth from the myriad of rumors that blow into town, selling the truth to the trade guilds for a profit.