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"Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe tries to make friends at boarding school and settle in. But when she learns that she'll never see her beloved father again, her life is turned upside down. Transformed from princess to pauper, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for drudgery and a room in the attic." --

It's been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son Scott died in a tragic accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief, a grief he can't move past. And maybe his grief has clouded his judgment. Because driving home one night, he makes his first big mistake. A girl drenched in rain taps on his car window and asks for a ride as he sits at a stoplight. Even though...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize–winning novelist Fitzgerald's crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love for the simple Sophie.
The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe among the small towns and great universities of 18th-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of...

"In Game of Mirrors, Inspector Montalbano and his colleagues are stumped when two bombs explode outside empty warehouses-one of which is connected to a big-time drug dealer. Meanwhile, the alluring Liliana Lombardo is trying to seduce the Inspector over red wine and arancini. Between pesky reporters, amorous trysts, and cocaine kingpins, Montalbano feels as if he's being manipulated on all fronts. That is, until the inspector himself becomes the prime...

"Presents the classic allegory on the Christian life, along with personal reflection questions, journaling prompts, study questions, and prayer prompts." --

"Autumn brings a mysterious new guest to Sea Harbor, and when she{u2019}s implicated in a crime, it{u2019}s up to the Seaside Knitters to search out a motif for murder." --

"Things have been quiet in the coastal town of North Harbor, Maine, since Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, solved their first murder. Sarah is happy running Second Chance, the shop where she sells lovingly refurbished and repurposed items. But then she gets dragged into a controversy over developing the waterfront. Most of the residents- including Sarah- are for it, but there is one holdout- baker Lily Carter. So when Lily is found murdered...

Elogiado por la crítica, admirado por lectores de todas las edades, en escuelas y universidades de todo el país y traducido a una multitud de idiomas, La casa en Mango Street es la extraordinaria historia de Esperanza Cordero. Contado a través de una serie de viñetas a veces desgarradoras, a veces profundamente alegres es el relato de una niña latina que crece en un barrio de Chicago, inventando por sí misma en qué y en quién se convertirá.

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Malinche, also known as Malinal, believes the conquistador Hernán Cortés is the savior of her oppressed people, a reincarnation of the god Quetzalcoatl sent to end the barbaric human sacrifices of Montezuma, the Aztec ruler.

En este libro ilustrado para niños, Jorge, un monito curioso, se escapa del jardin zoologico y busca trabajo en la ciudad. Lava platos y limpia las ventanas de rascacielos, pero tambien se mete en lo que no debe. The monkey Curious George escapes from the zoo and looks for work in the city. He washes dishes and cleans the windows of skyscrapers but also gets into things that he shouldn't.