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Socrates is a burrowing spider with a very big secret. No one knows his secret until he has a conversation with a little beetle. Will Socrates ever tell his secret? Will he ever find a friend?

In Nest. Flight. Sky: On Love and Loss, One Wing at a Time, award-winning memoirist Beth Kephart returns to the form for the first time in years to reckon with the loss of her mother and a slow-growing but soon inescapable obsession with birds and flight. Kephart finds herself drawn to the startle of the winter finch, the quick pulse of hummingbirds, and the hungry circling of hawks. She discovers birds in the stories she tells and the novels she writes.

The perfect romance for any holiday or for when you just need one. Get caught up in this sexy romance that's told over a year of holidays. Shannon Quinn is the small-town girl who runs Holiday Quinn--a holiday-themed inn/resort based in scenic Door County, Wisconsin. One winter evening a wealthy Minneapolis businessman, Bram Hartwick, blows into town along with the fast-falling snow.

Cherity's birthday is near, and she always wanted a puppy as her gift from her parents. She studied how to properly take care of a dog and took notes leaving them all places her parents would see them. On her birthday they went to their farm and celebrated her birthday. Would she get the gift she is wishing for?

Although she is most famous for her bestselling fiction, Erica Jong started her publishing career as a poet and has an international reputation for her verse. Becoming Light includes early poems previously uncollected in book form, selections from her previous books and many new poems. Erica Jong's poetry exhibits her rare gifts for inventiveness, wit, vigor, honesty and accessibility.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

This is a story from the Andersen's Fairy Tales collection.

La Odisea se llama asi por las fantasticas e increíbles desventuras de Odiseo ocurridas entre su partida de los campos troyanos y su arribo en Itaca 33 años después. Junto con la Illiada, La Odisea constituye una de las piedras angulares de la cultura occidental. El relato que hace Homero de las aventuras de Odiseo en su camino de regreso desde Troya hasta su patria, Ítaca, ha sido desde siempre una mina inagotable de motivos e imágenes para escritores y artistas.

Esta apasionante obra de 1897, escrita en forma de novela epistolar, plasma de modo artístico las investigaciones de Bram Stoker acerca de los vampiros en el folclore europeo. Así vemos como el letrado británico Jonathan Harker emprende una fatigosa jornada hacia la región de Transilvania, en los montes Cárpatos, para dar consejo legal al tenebroso conde Drácula, quien pretende comprar tierras en Gran Bretania como paso inicial de un malévolo plan de dominación del mundo.

El clásico de Alejandro Dumas El Conde de Montecristo cuenta la historia de un hombre inocente injustamente encarcelado, que elabora un brillante plan para vengarse de los que le traicionaron. El joven marinero Edmond Dantés (Jim Caviezel) es un hombre honrado y cándido que lleva una vida tranquila. Entre sus planes está casarse con la hermosa Mercedes, pero todo se complica repentinamente cuando su mejor amigo Fernando, deseoso de conquistar a Mercedes, lo traiciona.

Cameron's Law has made all supernatural creatures legal citizens, and the boy next door has suddenly become the werewolf next door. With Sadie Stanton, vampire and one of the public faces of the legislation, calling the little town of Adelheid, Connecticut, home, it can't help but be a focal point for these once-mythical beings. But when vampires start attacking werewolves without provocation, Adelheid draws the attention of those that would seek to have Cameron's Law repealed and would send the preternaturals back into the shadows they used to hide in, but without the safety of their anonymity and their law.

Whitney Anderson is a fifth grader and president of a mystery club. She and her friends help find a missing boy, but soon Whitney is headed to a strange country- Monaco - full of adventure and a man who follows her, leaving her expensive presents. Mystery follows Whitney to the Congo, in the heart of Africa, where she must find her kidnapped baby brother before time runs out.

Freddie “the Cheerleader,” Phyllis “the Class President,” and Renetta “the Fat Girl” ended their friendship back in high school. So it’s a surprise to all of them when they end up connecting at their 30-year high school reunion. They’ve all changed since those harsh yet tender high school years, and each one of them has her own deliciously scandalous secret. But when those secrets threaten to come to light—and possibly tear apart their less than perfect, but generally content lives—they band together in their sisterhood to stand and fight to keep what’s theirs

Carolina, sedici anni, preda di una storia d'amore che non è andata proprio secondo i suoi desideri, non aveva mai pensato a sé stessa come a una drogata. È la sua mamma a insinuare il sospetto, anzi, la certezza: ma sì, è proprio così. La sua mamma, preoccupata per lei a tal punto da mostrarle una sorta di inquietante decalogo di anomalie, un ritaglio di giornale in cui si elencano gli effetti della droga sui ragazzi. Cambio delle abitudini, sbalzi d'umore, isolamento, insofferenza, cambi di orari, scomparsa di oggetti da casa, disturbi del sonno...

A soli 19 anni Adele ha già rinunciato ai sogni. Mentre la sua famiglia va catastroficamente a rotoli, lei si rimbocca le maniche e si barcamena tra due lavori, sforzandosi di mantenere una parvenza di normalità. Per fortuna a colorare le sue giornate c'è Angi, il suo migliore amico, fotografo eclettico e pieno di idee. Il giorno in cui Angi la coinvolge in un originale esperimento sociale, in cui dei perfetti sconosciuti accettano di baciarsi di fronte al suo obiettivo, Adele non può immaginare il terremoto che sta per travolgerla.

Tessa, diciassette anni, ha atteso a lungo il ragazzo perfetto, il momento perfetto, il bacio perfetto. Pensava di avere ancora molto tempo davanti a sé, prima di scoprire che a causa di un difetto cardiaco le restano poche settimane di vita. Stordita, arrabbiata, disperata, aspetta di morire chiusa nella sua stanza. È un'attesa amara, la sua, perché sa di non aver vissuto a pieno. Pensa a sé stessa come a una "ragazza soprammobile", che morirà "vergine e senza patente". Fino a quando non incontra Oskar e tutto sembra di nuovo possibile.

Lloyd Bunker's obsession with avoiding stoplights has run him and his '67 Pontiac GTO off the road, maybe for keeps. As they race to figure out what happened to Lloyd, T&A recruits Allie's former nemesis, Officer Tony Valerio, plus her best friend and ex-landlady, Margo, and television reporter Lisa Cole to help them follow a lethal trail of escalating crimes ranging from scrapping to pushing opioids to multiple murders. It's no longer just about Lloyd.