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Desde que Gabby, Izzie, Billy, Andy y Sean se conocen el primer día de colegio, sienten una conexión y una complicidad especiales. Ajenos a los nubarrones de tormenta que se están formando a su alrededor, compartirán horas de clases y juegos, y poco a poco serán inseparables. La adolescencia vendrá acompañada de conflictos familiares, separaciones, nuevas relaciones y decisiones equivocadas, así como éxitos y fracasos grandes y pequeños. Sin excepción, todos recurrirán a la solidez del grupo para superar los obstáculos, ponerse de nuevo en pie y seguir adelante.

Da ragazza, Winona Farmington sognava di laurearsi, trasferirsi a New York e intraprendere una carriera nel mondo dell'editoria. Ma la malattia della madre l'aveva costretta a lasciare l'università per tornare nella sonnolenta cittadina del Michigan dove era cresciuta. Molti anni dopo, Winnie è ancora lì, incastrata in un lavoro senza prospettive e in una relazione che si trascina stancamente. Per consolarsi, si abbuffa delle puntate di una serie televisiva inglese, Beauchamp Hall, ambientata negli anni Venti. Un giorno, però, la sua quotidianità va in pezzi.

This collection of unabridged, unforgettable tales, written by some of science fiction's most esteemed authors, pays homage to one of the genre's most cherished story types. Whether time travel stories leap forward in time or slip into the past, they remain popular with fans.

Short novels are movie length novels that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This unabridged audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2011, by current and emerging masters of this form. In "The Ice Owl", by Carolyn Ives Gilman, an adolescent, female, Waster, in the iron city of Glory to God finds an enigmatic tutor who provides her with much more than academic instruction while a fundamentalist revolt is underway.

This is an essay from the Favorite Essays collection.

A primer for anyone who wants to become a politician or influence one, The Effective Citizen explains how politicians think and what factors influence that thinking, how to interpret the “non-answer” in political speech, and acknowledges that in politics, bland is safe. Ideal for political neophytes and junkies all the same, Steele’s newest book will have the whole country talking.

Caje Amis and his father are mountain folk, they live off the land and have few interactions with more sophisticated people. But at the onset of an especially harsh winter, the two take shelter with distant relatives. The adjustment to their new life is an easy one for Caje, but impossible for his father, and the elder Amis ends up abandoning his son and vanishing into the cold!

Chris Brabson hates the Union troops. Yankee riders in the Tennessee mountains have stolen his family's newly harvested crops and their only horse. In spite of this, Chris' brother joins the Union army, and his parents refuse to take either side. But Chris has no doubts, he would fight for the Confederacy. The Perilous Road, a Newbery Honor book, powerfully illustrates the senseless waste of war and the true meaning of courage and tolerance.

Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history. In this brilliantly documented biography, the mythology that surrounded that life is disentangled from the truth.

Three months after leaving Earth, the URSS Alabama had just achieved cruise velocity when the accident occurred: Leslie Gillis woke up. His first lucid thought was, Thank God, I made it. His next thought was, Something's wrong. Everyone was still asleep. Everyone except himself.

Seven Skins - two words scrawled above a hit-list. Six names - targets for assassination by bomb, bullet or blade. Three killers - two vicious professionals and an idealistic young terrorist. Two Security Service officers - confused and at each other’s throats. One lost girl - abused and on the run. And Jackie Shaw - outnumbered, disavowed and ready to tear an entire city apart.

Belfast, 1993: Jackie Shaw is a young tearaway running with paramilitaries in Belfast. He treads a fine line keeping psychotic hard-man Rab Simpson in check while sleeping with gang leader Billy Tyrie's beautiful wife on the side. When a bomb claims nine lives, he is given the role of getaway driver in a planned reprisal killing, a key role in a major operation. But Jackie may not be who he seems....

Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Once famous, outgoing, and charismatic, Emma is now a shadow of her former self - without speech, without memory, lost and terrified. But with her Aunt Whitney’s help, along with a team of caregivers and doctors, Emma begins to find her way, starting her young life all over again.  

Annie Ferguson, ventisei anni, brillante architetto di Manhattan, è alle prese con un nuovo lavoro e un nuovo amore. Bella e di talento, ha il mondo nelle sue mani e un luminoso futuro davanti a sé. Finché una telefonata cambia per sempre il corso della sua vita: dalla sera alla mattina, Annie è costretta a mettere da parte aspirazioni, desideri e una promettente carriera per dedicarsi ai tre nipotini rimasti orfani di sua sorella, morta con il marito in un incidente aereo.

Cresciuta fra i privilegi nella dimora di famiglia, in un idillico Hampshire, la bionda e bellissima Alexandra Wickham sembra destinata a una vita di agi. Ma nel 1939 l'Europa va a fuoco e anche la Gran Bretagna entra in guerra. Alexandra si trasferisce a Londra per offrirsi come ausiliaria, ma la sua conoscenza delle lingue la rende perfetta per servire la patria in altro modo. Arruolata dal mitico SOE, Special Operations Executive, impara l'arte dello spionaggio.

Un movimento azzardato, una brutta caduta. Si ferma così, per colpa di un banale incidente nella sua splendida casa-studio di Manhattan, la ruota ben oliata in cui da tempo gira Madison Allen, celebre fotografa. Cinquantotto anni, con i tre figli - che ha cresciuto da sola - ormai lontani, da anni senza una relazione, Maddie vive del suo lavoro, della sua libertà e indipendenza. Apparentemente è appagata e soddisfatta, ma l'imprevisto - accaduto proprio mentre scartabellava tra ricordi e vecchie foto - la costringe a fermarsi e a riconsiderare il suo passato.

En 1939 Liane y Nick se conocen durante un viaje a Francia en el transatlántico Normandie. Ella está acompañada de su marido, un diplomático francés; él, un magnate del acero, viaja con su bella y caprichosa esposa. La fulminante atracción mutua que sienten no impide, sin embargo, que prevalezcan sus convicciones morales y la rectitud de su comportamiento. Su segundo encuentro se produce también en un barco, pero en circunstancias muy distintas: ambos escapan de una Europa devastada por el nazismo, y esta vez se encuentran solos....

Ella es Crystal Wyatt, nacida en un rancho de California, de belleza incomparable y grandes dotes artísticas, que sueña con Hollywood y con llegar a la cima del estrellato. Él es Spencer Hill, un apuesto oficial que, tras intervenir en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se convierte en abogado y alcanza puestos de gran responsabilidad en la Casa Blanca. Ambos están destinados a amarse, pero entre ellos se interponen la política, la guerra, un matrimonio de conveniencia y el sorprendente mundo del cine.

En dieciocho años de matrimonio Liz y Jack Sutherland han formado una familia, un bufete de abogados que goza de bastante éxito y un hogar feliz cerca de San Francisco. Pero la mañana del día de Navidad, la tragedia llega a sus vidas: Jack es asesinado por el marido despechado de una clienta en proceso de divorcio. Empieza un período difícil para Liz, pues no solo ha de sobreponerse al dolor causado por la pérdida del gran amor de su vida para ayudar a sus hijos a comprender la muerte violenta de Jack, sino que ha de sacar adelante el bufete ella sola. 

A sus treinta y nueve años, Tallie Jones, directora de grandes éxitos de crítica y de público, no casa con el glamour de Hollywood, prefiere quedar al margen de los focos. En su vida privada, disfruta de una estabilidad emocional basada en el amor y en la confianza en su pareja y productor, Hunter, y en el cariño de su hija, Maxine, y de su padre, Sam. En el día a día, la cineasta se apoya en un equipo de fieles colaboradores como Brigitte, su mejor amiga desde la juventud, convertida en asistente personal, y Victor, su contable.