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The beautiful Princess Ileana is virtually ruler of Zokala because her father the King, has been in a coma for over six months. Enjoying the freedom her fathers illness allows her, she is shaken when the Prime Minister informs her that a large number of brigands under the leadership of General Vladilas have entered the country uninvited and are camping in the mountains. To her horror the Princess discovers that the Zokalan Army and its aged Generals have no intelligence of this potential threat, and no strategy to protect their people. A fearless rider and experienced mountain climber, Ileana sets off to see if she can spy on the camp and find out what the brigands are doing. With only one mountain guide to protect her, she bravely determines to discover whether the peaceful land of Zokala is under threat. To her dismay her worst fears are confirmed when she finds that the valley is filled with the latest and most up-to-date guns and weapons of war. Convinced that the brigands intend to invade, she desperately tries to formulate a plan. But before she can alert anyone to raise the alarm she is captured and taken before the General. How the Princess is, for the first time, confronted with a man who is stronger than she is and how she finds herself a victim and captive of a formidable, and relentless enemy is told in this exciting, dramatic and passionate 350th book by Barbara Cartland._,

The Duke of Ravenstock is the most attractive and elusive bachelor in London - and the most notorious.His exploits and romantic escapades keep the salons of the Social world buzzing - but never more so than when he announces that he will marry. His friends soon realise that what has captured the Duke',s heart is the purity and innocence of his intended bride.The wedding date has been fixed when the Duke discovers by accident that his fiancé,e has taken a lover, a close friend of his.Shattered and disillusioned, the Duke plots a cruel revenge. When he reveals to his sister, the Mother Superior of a Convent in Paris, that he seeks the most innocent girl he can find for his bride, she introduces him to Anoushka, a novice in her care at the Convent.Anoushka has a mysterious background, having been brought secretly and anonymously to the Convent as a child.n Somewhat reluctantly Anoushka agrees to marry the Duke, but, to his amazement, her beauty and innocence prove more of a challenge than he could possibly have imagined._,

Bereaved of her beloved father at sixteen, and now her mother, Belinda Wyncombe',s only comfort is that she still has the family',s home. Until she finds her irresponsible stepfather, Captain D',Arcy Rowland, has squandered their money and fraudulently mortgaged the house. This means he faces jail while Belinda faces penury, unless she complies with her stepfather',s shameful scheme to gain and ruthlessly exploit the trust of the famed adventurer ',Lucky', Logan, who has made a fortune with his legendary ability to find diamonds, gold and other precious metals wherever he travels. Every fibre of Belinda',s being recoils from such deceit, more so when she finds that Marcus ',Lucky', Logan is not the greedy fortune hunter of her imagining but a generous, handsome and heroic man. When murderous thugs come for Marcus in the dead of night, it is Belinda who raises the alarm and saves his life. And when he kisses her, Belinda is suddenly, utterly, in love  ,but surely her love is doomed by her deceit._,

Anthea Forthingdale and her sisters Thais, Chloe and Phebe have all been named after famous poems. All very beautiful, after their father',s death at Waterloo the girls and their lovely mother, Christobel, are alone and isolated, living in poverty in a small Yorkshire village. Struggling for money and appropriate suitors for her daughter, In May 1819 Lady Forthingdale writes to an old friend, the Countess of Sheldon in London and asks if she will have her Godchild Anthea to stay for the rest of the London Season. The Countess is delighted to have Anthea as her guest because otherwise her husband wishes her to leave for the country. How Anthea meets the handsome Duke of Axminster in her Godmother',s house, how he appears bored and contemptuous with her when they dance at Almack',s, how Anthea caricatures the Duke with far-reaching and dramatic results and how she learns never to laugh at love, is told in this 182nd book by Barbara Cartland. Published 1976_,

Warren Wood is handsome, loyal and devoted to Magnolia. However, the one thing he lacks is a title and Magnolia betrays him in a heartbeat for the opportunity to be engaged to the Marquis of Buckwood. For beautiful and beguiling as she is, behind her perfect exterior lies a scheming manipulative personality that is desperate for wealth and standing in Society. Distraught and vowing to eschew love for evermore, Warren seeks solace in the African jungle, determined to forget the woman whose lovely face has nearly driven him to madness. But now the wheel of fate has turned and suddenly a legacy is calling him home to take up responsibilities he never dreamt would be his, and the chance to be reunited with Magnolia who surprisingly begs his forgiveness. Determined not to answer her siren',s call, he leaves for England taking with him the sweet but mysterious Nadia, another young person desperate to leave behind the past. Together they concoct a charade that should free Warren from Magnolia',s clutches and offer Nadia a new life. As the time for Warren to meet Magnolia again grows closer, he begins to feel nervous. Will he be able to resist the seductive charms of the woman he once loved to distraction? For above all else Magnolia is determined to marry well and she is not going to let a little thing like Warren',s heart stand in her way._,

Joyas de plata nos cuenta la historia de unos personajes atrapados en una sociedad de la China antigua en la que las apariencias se anteponen ante cualquier deseo. Los amoríos de un joven platero y una mujer casada con el hijo de un funcionario de alto ra

Garrido no tiene escrúpulos. Hizo que se los extirparan cuando decidió ser paparazzi. Acude al velatorio de un empresario de medio pelo para ver si caza algo que vender y es testigo de una escena que nunca debio haber visto: la viuda del difunto una pelirroja voluptuosa dejandose querer por un desconocido. Dispara su camara dos veces y sale de alli sin saber la identidad del amante de la pelirroja. Ya en su apartamento, comprueba que no ha logrado captar la escena, que las fotos no valen. Ha apretado el disparador demasiado tarde; pero la pelirroja no lo sabe y le ofrece una gran cantidad de dinero y todo lo que quiera. Poco a poco, el paparazzi se va dando cuenta de que el tipo desconocido es alguien con mucho poder.

The plot of The Empty Region takes the reader from the military camps of holy warriors in Pakistan, to the security corridors of the CIA and the FBI. It s a fascinating puzzle inhabited by historical characters, including Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush, as well as officials aware of the tragedy s secrets. Szichman leads us along the terminals where the air pirates of al-Qaida consummated their tragic ritual, makes us travel on the airplanes, turned into guided missiles, and recreates the 102 minutes when the burning towers of the World Trade Center became hell on earth. Although violence and destruction are the background of the novel, is the common citizen who is brought to the story s foreground. Infused with glimpses of humor and irony, The Empty Region is also a love story, and a song of life, populated by unforgettable characters. Szichman [ ] Has the accuracy of an entomologist, shows rhetorical display, scary emotion, poignant suspense. The narrative interest consists in the vertigo of the events and in the performances of their main character s. Fernando Rodriguez Lafuente (Cultural Suplement. ABC of Madrid)

El pájaro azul Como un rayo de luz se cuela en nuestras vidas ese pájaro azul de la mañana llenando de melodía ña estancia. Apenas se ha posado aleteando busca una salida y se nos aleja por esa venta

Costanera es una sorprendente historia desarrollada en el Chile de los años treinta. Tiempos de furor ideológico excluyente y violento. Sus personajes son gente normal que intentan seguir con sus vidas e ilusiones en medio de la adversidad y la barbarie;

Con una huella autobiográfica que se infiere del diseño de personajes y sus interrelaciones, Enrique Sacerio-Garí ha logrado una novela distinta con respecto a las ficciones del proceso histórico cubano-norteamericano. El Instituto San Carlos de Cayo Hue

Michal Kaniowski, joven polaco, hijo de un noble va a estudiar a San Petersburgo y conoce al terrorista Necháyev (descrito por Dostoievski en Los endemoniados). Huye de Rusia y combate en la Comuna de Paris. A su regreso ingresa en las filas de Tierra y Libertad. Participa en el intento de liberacion del escritor Chernishevski y en la preparacion del atentado contra el zar Alejandro II. Arrestado y encarcelado en la famosa fortaleza de Shlisselburg escribe sus memorias.

Los poetas que aparecen cuando el reciente fin de siglo suelen jugar con los crepúsculos y con Emily Dickinson. María Elena Hernández Caballero asombra con misteriosos diálogos postreros desde su primer libro. Siempre se esta yendo. Esa es la esencial caracteristica orfica que transmite. Una urgente intranquilidad, a la expectativa siempre, señala que el mundo es una esfera que Dios hace bailar sobre un pinguino ebrio. Y el lector de inmediato busca la matriz. La encuentra y se le pierde una y otra vez, uno y otro poema, entre derrotas y ramas rotas. Es un payaso que observa las desesperanzas. Y claro que rie. Ahi es donde su voz se singulariza, al menos entre sus coetaneos, para irse a Amherst, simbolizarse en dos versos: We outgrow love, like other things // and put it in the Drawer ( Sobrevivimos al amor, como a otras cosas // Y en el Cajon lo guardamos , 887). No importa el tema. Es el viaje quien decide desde las aporias existenciales. Las adherencias ambientales cubanas o no-- se subordinan al logro de sus palabras: transmitir falacias, lo que se pierde aunque trate de rescatarse. Pero alegremente, sin pesadumbres quejumbrosas porque nunca se llega a aprehender nada, salvo las elipsis. Sus poemas tratan, al hacernos coautores, de involucrarnos: Convertirnos en elipsis. Y a la vez sonreir. ¿Acaso Cioran decae ? se pregunta. Ella no responde. Silencio. Porque dentro de su bala hay un desasosiego que sirve de antidoto contra los bienpensantes de siempre, los decorosos indistinguibles... Aleteos verbales para despertar desde luego que con una picara mirada sardonica de efebo que recrudece las seducciones en su Cajon de versos. Jose Prats Sariol (marzo y 2016)

El subcomandante de Auschwitz, Karl Hocker, encontró en la música de un violín la parte humana que la SS le arrebató. Por las noches, los vibrantes sonidos del violín de Halina envolvían el Solarium, mientras a unos centenares de metros, miles y miles de semitas morian por mandato de Hocker. ¿Como podia una judia amar al hombre que estaba aniquilando a su pueblo?

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Un zapatito de cristal para Cenicienta cuenta con una na- rradora que dialoga con la protagonista desde su infancia hasta su madurez. Teje un susurro materno, una nana que nos conduce a lo largo de los lugares que evoca de su Alcala de Henares. Maria ha de vencer, desde su tierna infancia, una realidad adversa con solo las armas de la sensibilidad y ensoñacion, a pesar de que sus primeras cuartillas acaben en el cubo de la basura... Una vez casada, estas se revelan futiles ante un principe al que espera y nunca llega. El maltrato traza, durante la friolera de veinte años y de forma terrible, las lineas del relato. Desarmada, se aferra a sus hijos, a sus retoñitos, con solo la luz del amor. No se nos evita ninguna coma, ningun ay desgarrado, con todo el dramatismo de estos hechos. Maltrato que no rinde a la protagonista, quien se aferra a sus sueños, a sus soles, a la busqueda de su zapato de cristal...

emorias de un Sargento de Milicias narra la agitada vida de Leonardo, desde su nacimiento hasta la edad adulta. Es la única novela de Manuel Antonio de Almeida, escrita para el folletín del diario carioca Correio Mercantil en 1853, cuando solo contaba veintidos años, se ha convertido en fundamento de la narrativa realista de Brasil. Novela picaresca, novela de la vida pobre en el Rio de Janeiro de Juan VI, novela del movimiento continuo, novela de una galeria caricaturesca de tipos populares, donde se detalla, casi a modo de cronica, sus tradiciones, comportamientos, modos de vida, profesiones y demas.

Un monje del monasterio de San Pedro de Cardeña recibe la misión secreta de encontrar un viejo manuscrito redactado por fray Guillermo de Ávila, quien acompañó en muchas ocasiones al Cid Campeador. El citado manuscrito tiene un especial significado, ya q

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"""Este é o terceiro libro que escribo sobre unha estancia de toda a miña familia na illa de Corfú, antes da última guerra mundial. A algúns estrañaralles que aínda atope material para escribir sobre esa epoca da miña vida. Permitaseme sinalar que naqueles tempos eramos relativamente podentes, ricos sen ningunha dubida para o nivel de Grecia; ningun de nos traballaba no sentido habitual da palabra, e polo tanto dedicabamos a maior parte do tempo a pasalo ben. En cinco anos de semellante rexime, calquera pode acumular moitas experiencias. ()""A triloxia que se completa con esta obra, despois dA miña familia e outros animais e Bechos e demais parentes, retrata unha infancia ""verdadeiramente feliz e luminosa""."