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Pierre Glendinning is the nineteen-year-old heir to the manor at Saddle Meadows in upstate New York. Engaged to the blonde Lucy Tartan in a match approved by his domineering mother, Pierre encounters the dark and mysterious Isabel Banford, who claims to be his half-sister, the illegitimate and...

Step through the portal and into a wholesome journey of self-discovery. A cozy fantasy adventure filled with making new friends, facing our mistakes, and figuring out who we are truly meant to be. All while enjoying a few drinks along the way. Not everyone is destined to save the world... Emma...

One of the great works of American literature, Moby-Dick is the epic tale of one man’s fight against a force of nature. The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the...

Autor de gran renombre en los Países Bajos -su anterior novela, La cena, fue Libro del Año y ganó el Premio del Público de ese país-, Herman Koch vuelve con otra estimulante historia de suspense donde una trama tejida a la perfección es el soporte para explorar sin ambages temas tan actuales como la ética profesional, la falsedad de las relaciones sociales o la difícil comunicación entre padres e hijos, así como los límites de la libertad sexual o el sentido de culpa en el seno de una sociedad permisiva y autocomplaciente.

La conmovedora historia de un vigilante de museo que encuentra consuelo y significado en su día a día entre los pasillos del Museo Metropolitano de Arte. Una obra imprescindible para los amantes del arte. Millones de personas suben cada año la gran escalinata de mármol para visitar el Museo...

Brought to you by Penguin. A groundbreaking tour of the overlooked science of human diversity Real diversity isn’t skin deep. Over the past 100,000 years, as humans expanded into every biome on the planet, our bodies have been fine-tuned to our local environments. Our ability to adapt is at...

The Corpus Hermeticum: Adapted for Modern Readers offers direct access to the most influential esoteric philosophy in the Western world. Attributed to the enigmatic Hermes Trismegistus, these ancient texts explore the intimate connection between humanity, the universe, and the divine mind. This contemporary edition removes the barriers of archaic language, allowing spiritual alchemy and classical mysticism to resonate with absolute clarity in the present day.

Tras No digas nada y El imperio del dolor, Patrick Radden Keefe explora los límites, a menudo imperceptibles, entre lo legal y lo ilegal, a través de doce retratos reales protagonizados por maleantes de medio mundo.

John Sellars, uno de los mayores especialistas en la filosofía estoica, nos ofrece una introducción a esta escuela de pensamiento de la antigua Roma que ofrece herramientas para aprender a vivir y no dejar que nos desborden las emociones negativas. El estoicismo fue una de las escuelas...

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues here in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - and all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives of a single American family drawn into the very center of the war's maelstrom.

Birds, Boughs, and Belonging invites listeners into a quieter America—where meaning is discovered not in noise or ambition, but through attentive companionship with nature. Across gardens, forests, seashores, and mountain vistas, classic American writers—including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa...

The Novella Masterworks Collection gathers seventeen classic short novels and novellas from world literature.

A vast ocean, a single obsession, and a hunt that consumes everything in its path. Moby-Dick from Herman Melville draws the listener into one of literature’s most powerful and relentless voyages. Told through the eyes of sailor Ishmael, the story follows the doomed expedition of Captain Ahab...

Hay solo una persona que te impide desarrollar todo tu potencial: tú, y hay solo una persona que te puede ayudar a desbloquearte. Esa persona está dentro tuyo, es tu alter ego. Después de trabajar durante más de veinte años con deportistas de élite, altos ejecutivos y líderes de distintos...

A bored school teacher seeks adventure as a whale hunter. He has no idea that the mad captain of the Pequod is interested in pursuing only one whale - the enormous white beast that bit off his leg! Now it's too late to turn back.

Ismael un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero. El joven entabla una amistad con el arponero Queequeg, con quien se enrolan en el Pequod, dirigido por el misterioso y autoritario capitán Ahab, un viejo lobo de mar con una pierna construida con la mandíbula de un cachalote. Ahab revelará a su tripulación que el objetivo del viaje, más allá de la caza de ballenas en general, es la persecución tenaz a Moby Dick, enorme ballenato que lo privó de su pierna.

The Essential Classics: Volume 3 brings together 5 of the greatest classics ever written, perfectly read by an esteemed cast including Lucy Scott, Kristin Atherton, Peter Noble, Robert G. Slade, and Olivia Dowd. Spanning British, German, and American literature, this collection includes stories of the high seas in Moby Dick, small town comedy in Queen Lucia, as well love, honour, and betrayal in Far From the Madding Crowd, and more.

The classic political study of how elite forces shape mass media. Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky investigate how an underlying elite consensus structures mainstream media. Here they skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news...

La lucha de un hombre obstinado contra una ballena Moby Dick es considerado por la critica como una de las novelas mas importantes de la literatura universal ya que aunque aparentemente es la simple historia de un marinero obsesionado por cazar una elusiva ballena, es un inmenso poema lirico que tiene como fondo el ansia de triunfo de todo ser humano.

The blockbuster co-writing debut of Amanda Foody and C. L. Herman, All of Us Villains begins a dark tale of ambition and magick... You Fell In Love With The Victors of The Hunger Games. Now Prepare To Meet The Villains of The Blood Veil. After the publication of a salacious tell-all book, the...