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La boca del Nilo ficciona la expedición que el emperador Nerón mandó en el año 60 o 62 de nuestra era al corazón de África con una doble misión: indagar sobre el poder del reino de Meroe y llegar hasta las legendarias fuentes del Nilo. Sin embargo, la novela comienza años después, durante una fiesta que el potentado Africano da en su casa de Asia. Esta parte se narra en presente. En la fiesta se encuentra Agrícola, un mercader que participó en aquella expedición, cosa que el anfitrión conoce.

World History is the most accessible guide to the history of human civilisation, covering the Neanderthals, the Assyrian Empire, Chinese dynasties, Vikings, World War I, apartheid, the rise of ISIS, and everything in between. This remarkable audiobook offers the most up-to-date coverage of global history, up to and including the Arab Spring, global terror, Russia and Ukraine, and the rise of populism in the EU.

The fourth action-packed quest in an exciting new six book character-led series for 7+ girls who love fantasy, adventure, and high-kicking heroines! On her tenth birthday, tomboy Sophie learns she is the Guardian of a magic gateway between our world and the Shadow Woods. She must keep the human world safe from mischievous goblins, sprites and elves. Each book sees Sophie having to outwit weird and terrifying creatures from the Shadow Woods, starting with the gruesome Goblins!

All 18-year-old Celeste Garrett wants is to head off to college and make those fun, yet ill-advised, choices college kids are known for. And maybe to spend some time with the hot cameraman she just met. Instead, because of a pact her ancestors made in the 17th century with a mythical creature, she has to save the world.

Whether you're an investment veteran or just starting out, this concise finance-focused guide will unpick risky "get rich quick" myths, explain proven investment strategies using real-life case studies, and grow your confidence in the markets. Refreshingly honest and accessible, The Investor's Mindset is a much-needed antidote to the bad investment advice peddled online, instead helping you develop the confidence and resolve to build wealth sustainably and achieve financial freedom.

For years, Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now-grown daughters. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined.

There’s something Allie can’t remember, hidden memories that refuse to surface. Until one day, when something brings back images of a forgotten night. A year after graduating from Emsworth University, Allie receives a mysterious email asking a single question. Someone wants her to remember, and they are getting closer. As forgotten memories gradually surface, Allie has to come to terms with her dark past, and a revelation she could have never imagined. What really happened at 1414 Kalorama Road?

This radio dramatization of the classic movie originally aired on January 27, 1950.

Los poemas de este libro están escritos la ciudad de Nueva York en el año 1929-1930, curso académico durante el cual Federico vivió como estudiante en Columbia University. Después de la lectura de cada poema, se hace un comentario sobre el mismo para facilitar al oyente la comprensión del mensaje que Federico García Lorca nos quiso comunicar con sus surrealistas visiones.

Barcelona, primavera de 1941. Martín Marín és un jove falangista extremeny que arriba a la ciutat per incorporar-se al cos de policia. Va ple d’ideals i de projectes, i està decidit a participar activament en la construcció de la Nova Espanya. Però allò que troba Marín és una ciutat en runes, miserable i amb les ferides de la guerra encara obertes. Esgarrifat, es topa amb l’estraperlo i la prostitució, que omplen els carrers, i alhora intueix que els vencedors no posen prou energia en el redreçament de la moral.

Recently widowed Venetia Hamilton Hargreaves is left with a huge house, a bank balance to match and an uneasy feeling that she's been sleepwalking through the last fifty years. Determined to live fully again, she embraces life with an enthusiasm and purpose she'd forgotten she could muster. Buying the dilapidated Phoenix Ballroom and with it a drop-in centre and spiritualist church could be seen as reckless, but Venetia's generosity, courage and kindness provide a refuge for a touching cast of damaged and lonely people who find their chosen family.

Un poemario sobre el amor, el sexo y la palabra

Mientras Poirot está de visita en la campiña inglesa, tiene un problema mecánico con el motor de su automóvil. Se llama el reparador Ted Williamson, quien le confía que se enamoró de una joven, llamada "Nita", doncella de una bailarina de ballet rusa. Pero esta joven ha desaparecido misteriosamente, para su consternación. Hercule Poirot promete hacer todo lo posible para encontrar a la joven de forma voluntaria

The Somme, 1916. James Falconer, once a barrow boy on a London market, stands in the trenches, awaiting the command to go over the top. Away from his business empire in London, he is simply a soldier, war the great leveller. But, unlike his men, and unknown to them, deep down, Falconer doesn’t care if he lives or dies. When a face from the past offers James the chance to repair his fractured relationship with his estranged daughter, Leonie, he must decide if he can hold different things dear – and make space in his life for love.

En la historia, Miss Marple se encuentra en una conversación con Sir Henry Clithering, un ex comisionado de Scotland Yard. Durante su charla, Sir Henry relata a Miss Marple el caso de un agente secreto alemán que fue encontrado muerto en una villa inglesa. A pesar de la evidencia circunstancial, no se pudo probar la culpabilidad de nadie en particular. Sir Henry menciona que hay cuatro sospechosos principales en el caso.

Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, 11-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious and wildly eccentric plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the 'little witness', eavesdrops underneath the tables of tearooms and behind the curtains of the dance halls of the city's elite, watching everything but rarely being watched herself.

Does the word "menopause" bring a moment of fear into your body or does it give you a feeling of power and greater responsibility? Author, cellular biologist and clinical psychologist Joan Borysenko believes that if you knew the truth about menopause, you would look forward passionately to this adventurous stage of your life. In this meditation session, she helps you bring awareness and appreciation to your entire body, the foundation for harnessing that energy of your next metamorphosis.

En medio de los bailes, de los galanteos, de las intrigas y de las discusiones del Congreso de Viena, la noticia aterradora cae y estalla como una bala de cañón: Napoleón, el león prisionero, ha destrozado su jaula de Elba. Uno tras otro van llegando los mensajes: ha conquistado Lyón y ha expulsado al Rey; las tropas de fanáticas banderas corren a su encuentro; ya está en París, en las Tullerías. Han sido inútiles Leipzig y los veinte años de una guerra homicida.

Alicia Woodman was born into a home that should have been filled with comfort and joy. Her mother Elizabeth was bright and vivacious, Humphrey Woodman was a prosperous businessman. But Alicia was not Humphrey’s child and he would have nothing to do with her, and before long Elizabeth, too, turned her back on her daughter. It was left to Polly Ford, widow of a dock labourer, to bring Alicia up, to teach her to say ‘Yes, Mama’ and to give the child the love she so desperately needed.

Decir que el mundo avanza a pasos agigantados es una frase trillada pero real. Todavía los autos no vuelan y no vacacionamos en el espacio, pero el siglo XXI va a dejar su huella en la historia gracias al desarrollo de las tecnologías emergentes. Aunque la ciencia ficción y la filosofía imaginaron todos estos adelantos, se está generando una nueva revolución que va más allá de lo industrial porque también involucra aspectos sociales, económicos y culturales.