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Amelia, la protagonista de la serie, es la antiheroína por excelencia: su curiosidad la mete en líos de los que sale gracias a su instinto. Esta vez la encontramos en Miami, nuevo destino de su esposo, diplomático. La pareja se ha dado una segunda oportunidad, pero Amelia...

With Prejudice is a romantic yet harsh action story of runaway soldier Michael Carver and a young Cherokee woman called Little Deer who find each other when their worlds collide in 1838 America. Amid the destruction of the Native tribes and their forced migration out west to the new Indian Territory, Michael becomes disillusioned with the army and the treatment of the indigenous people and decides to leave it all behind and return to his farm in Virginia.

Questo memoir, scritto nella lingua ispirata e inconfondibile di Tea Ranno, si apre con un risveglio in ospedale: Tea ha quarantacinque anni ed è appena stata operata d'urgenza per un'infezione che, partita dall'utero, è arrivata a infuocarle l'intestino, il fegato, i polmoni. Soffre di endometriosi da quando è giovanissima. Ma questa volta ne è quasi morta. L'endometriosi è una malattia cronica che colpisce molte donne. Le cause non sono ancora del tutto chiare, la diagnosi spesso è complessa e non esiste una cura definitiva.

Una ragazza è seduta su una ruota di scorta bucata, in mezzo al nulla della campagna novarese. I suoi capelli, un tempo rosa zucchero filato, ora sono un garbuglio di colori improbabili. Pochi riconoscerebbero in lei Cloro, celebrità di internet con milioni di follower in tutto il mondo. Insieme a lei, a tentare di riparare un'auto che ha macinato migliaia di chilometri, c'è Leo, trentaquattrenne disilluso, che dalla vita non ha avuto nulla di ciò che si aspettava - e dire che non si aspettava molto.

"Kannst du mir dein Herz zeigen?"– Ausgerechnet diese Frage muss die junge Anthropologin Paula beantworten, nachdem sie im Amazonas lebensgefährlich von einer Giftspinne gebissen wird. Geschwächt trifft sie in einem fernen Urwalddorf auf das wissbegierige Mädchen Aya, die schnell zu einer wertvollen Freundin wird. Dort lernt sie auch den Stammeskönig und schließlich eine weise Schamanin kennen. In nur wenigen Tagen erkennt sie, dass tiefe Verbindungen zu anderen Menschen die größten Abenteuer von allen sind und dass diese Verbindungen nur mit offenen Herzen entstehen und wachsen können.

Caffè in der Wüste: Giulia Caminito erzählt vom italienischen Leben in Eritrea, von einer starken, übergroßen Mutter – und von einer jungen Frau, die sich ihre Freiheit erst nach und nach erkämpft. Ein historischer Roman von herber Schönheit. Die Lombardei im Zweiten Weltkrieg: Die Menschen suchen Zuflucht vor ständigen Bombenangriffen, deutsche Besatzer jagen Partisanen, das Essen wird rationiert. Die 13-jährige Giada wohnt bei ihrer Tante, einer gläubigen Faschistin, Gewalt und Entbehrung prägen den Alltag.

Unlucky in love, Julia takes a radical step and travels solo to a spiritual retreat in Kefalonia. With an agenda to avoid men, work on healing her inner rage, balance her chakras and eat lots of Greek food, the Mediterranean heat is exactly what she needs. But before she leaves the airport, Julia meets Vincent, a handsome Spanish architect, who challenges her spiky aura in more ways than one.

In a world ravaged by climate change, a mysterious time travel agency known as the Program sends carefully selected Heroes back in time on missions to prevent environmental damage before it happens. Sloane Burrows secretly longs to be a Hero and restore the natural world of her childhood—a world she can envision with absolute clarity because of her superpower memory. But her father raised Sloane to believe her “freak memory” is a shameful flaw that should be hidden from the world. Sloane stuffs her dream of being a Hero and conceals her memory to the point of making herself sick.

In the murky underbelly of the Spanish criminal world, a brutal battle rages for control of the cocaine trade. Caught in the crossfire is Joseph, a boy who's deaf and haunted by a strange gift - the ability to communicate with the dead. Torn from the only life he's known, Joseph's English mother, sends him on a perilous journey along the Camino de Santiago, to her estranged father, Fish - an ex-squaddie and Chief Warder of the Tower of London, a fortress, like Fish, steeped in history and dark secrets.

O verão chegou e, com ele, a temporada de casamentos em Nantucket, uma ilha paradisíaca localizada em Massachusetts. Véus e grinaldas preenchem a praia junto com o pôr do sol no azul do mar. É nesse cenário de sonho que acontecerá o evento mais aguardado do ano: a união de Benji Winbury e Celeste Otis. E ela promete ser inesquecível, afinal a família milionária do noivo não poupou despesas para receber os convidados em sua enorme propriedade à beira-mar.

What if you had the opportunity to meet your ancestors? Emma Davis, an overlooked historian struggling in a male-dominated world, receives a cryptic package containing an antique silver mug from beyond the grave. Little does she know, this heirloom harbors a staggering secret. With one sip, Emma is catapulted into the lives of her ancestors, and what begins as a curious exploration into her Bancroft lineage soon becomes a harrowing journey through history's darkest and most perilous moments.

Sot, rescued as a child from the brutality of Danish slave markets, grows up under the fierce protection of Roar Bjornsson, a famed warrior and trader. Known for her dark skin and amber eyes—marks of a distant land she cannot remember—Sot is both admired and feared, called witch and warrior in equal measure. But beneath her poised exterior, she wrestles with a restless heart and an aching desire for identity. When she leaves the comfort of Roar’s protection to follow the enigmatic Saxon warrior Eadric, Sot plunges into a world fraught with treachery and bloodshed.

Bárbara Medina de Palacios es la esposa del canciller de Colombia, madre de sus hijos y una mujer que no conoce el placer sexual. Después de treinta y cinco años de un muy infeliz matrimonio, regido por la hipocresía de la sociedad bogotana, decide tomar el control de su vida y penetra en un mundo prohibido para mujeres como ella. En esta aventura, llena de peligros y desafíos, descubre que la sexualidad es la llave para muchas otras libertades.

"La mañana que debía devolverme a la vida, pero me envió al sueño de la muerte, arrancó helada y ventosa." Enero de 2007. La joven Ela huye en del maltrato y la adversidad, del dolor de una pérdida sin consuelo, de la irrupción inesperada de la violencia a manos de quien menos hubiera podido imaginar, del poso oscuro de demasiados secretos. Alrededor de su presencia en duermevela, desfilan los protagonistas del grupo familiar, cada uno con su parte inconfesa de la historia, su carga y su trama de silencios, sospechas, culpa y afectos. 

Danielle Hering's spellbinding debut, "An Undefended Heart," weaves a tale of mysticism, healing, and self-discovery. This breathtaking odyssey will leave listeners questioning the very nature of reality and the untapped power that lies within us all.

Cinco antiguas amigas de un internado vuelven a reunirse quince años después de su graduación. Ahora son mujeres muy bellas de treinta años con buena posición social. Tres de ellas se han casado y las otras dos solteras han logrado por méritos propios un...

Soley hat alles, was sie sich je erträumt hat: Erfolg, Geld, einen gutaussehenden Freund. Doch obschon von den Fans bejubelt, fühlt sich die Sängerin auf der Bühne so allein wie noch nie. Als nach dem Tod ihrer Großmutter Rose auf dem Familienanwesen das Ölgemälde einer Frau auftaucht, die aussieht wie sie, glimmt eine Sehnsucht in ihr auf. Sie muss herausfinden, wer diese Frau war und was sie mit ihr zu tun hat. Auf eigene Faust folgt sie den Spuren des Bildes nach Island, und sie taucht ein in die Geschichte eines Landes, mit dem sie tiefer verbundener ist, als sie es je hätte ahnen können.

Renata tiene catorce años y la certeza de que es feliz por la muerte de su madre: Sabina. Los lectores desconocemos sus impulsos y precisamente esa incógnita es la que nos mantiene enmarañados en esta historia que muestra personajes complejos, trazados con una pluma que sin duda sabe contar historias. El origen de todos los males muestra de lo que es capaz un ser cuando los celos se convierten en su mayor motivación.

Quattro universitarie degli anni Ottanta. Quattro amiche disposte a fare qualsiasi cosa l'una per l'altra. Una di loro sta per sposarsi, ma ha uno scheletro nell'armadio. Come aiutarla a liberarsene? Compiendo un'azione sconsideratamente folle che le porterà a vivere una straordinaria ed indimenticabile avventura sulla strada tra Roma ed Oslo, a bordo di una FIAT Panda vecchiotta, ammaccata ma impareggiabile. Il racconto di un momento di crescita con i suoi comici riti di passaggio ed un pizzico di magia, in un'epoca in cui i social network erano le automobili.

When Carrie loses her job and boyfriend during the opening weeks of the pandemic, she’s determined to reset her life in a positive direction. The answer? A solo, two-month, cross-country bicycle trip from Virginia Beach to Mendocino, California. Yet dangers lurk that she’d never anticipated. During Carrie’s idyllic journey across the continent, her greatest danger comes not from her encounters with angry animals, road hazards, or the elements. Something much worse stalks her—something much too human.