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The Global Citizen Vocabulary Mastery audiobooks are intentionally and judiciously structured for vocabulary definition and pronunciation learning, retention, and recall for individuals who are completely new to the language!

Brought to you by Penguin. An invitation from an old friend draws Jack Morgan into a deadly conspiracy . . . On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the...

Viena, 1938. Samuel Adler es un niño judío de seis años cuyo padre desaparece durante la Noche de los Cristales Rotos, en la que su familia lo pierde todo. Su madre, desesperada, le consigue una plaza en un tren que le llevará desde la Austria nazi hasta Inglaterra. Samuel emprende una nueva etapa con su fiel violín y con el peso de la soledad y la incertidumbre, que lo acompañarán siempre en su dilatada vida.

Actor, writer and comedienne Olga Thompson shares her story of growing up in the 80s, in her vibrant family hair salon, El Greco Of Hornsey. A quirky, yet candid account of ‘growing up Greek’, in a post immigrant Britain. Join Olga as she sweeps up the Split Ends of her life, reflecting on her childhood, navigating the ups and the downs of motherhood and getting real about menopause (with every hairdressing pun intended).

In recent years, Olga Khazan had been spiraling toward an existential crisis. Though she treasured her loving, long-term relationship and her dream job, she often caught herself snatching dissatisfaction from the jaws of happiness. Her neurotic overachieving had always been a professional asset...

Nueva York, 1936. La pequeña casa de comidas El Capitán arranca su andadura en la calle Catorce, uno de los enclaves de la colonia española que por entonces reside en la ciudad. La muerte accidental de su dueño, el tarambana Emilio Arenas, obliga a sus indomables hijas veinteañeras a tomar las riendas del negocio mientras en los tribunales se resuelve el cobro de una prometedora indemnización.

Olvidado Rey Gudú es la obra maestra de Ana María Matute y una de las grandes novelas del siglo XX. Repleta de fábulas y fantasías, narra el nacimiento y la expansión del Reino de Olar, con una trama llena de personajes, aventuras y de un paisaje simbólico: el misterio Norte, la inhóspita estepa del Este y el Sur, rico y exuberante, que limitan la expansión del Reino de Olar, en cuyo destino participan la astucia de una niña sureña, la magia de un viejo hechicero y las reglas del juego de una criatura del subsuelo.

"Challenging and readable...will help mothers understand the implications of pushing boys out of the family before they're ready to go."—The Los Angeles Times Book Review...

¡Coge a tus hermanas y apretaos los corsés! Esta es una nueva versión, distinta a todas, de la entrañable novela de Jane Austen Orgullo y prejuicio. Interpretada por un extraordinario elenco y con banda sonora original de la compositora nominada a un Grammy Morgan Kibby. Elizabeth Bennet no piensa conformarse con cualquier hombre ni, para el caso, con cualquier vida que no se adapte a sus gustos. Se casará por amor, bailará cuando le apetezca y —a poder ser— buscará un lugar tranquilo donde leer sin que la interrumpan.

192 d.C. Varios hombres luchan por un imperio, pero Julia, hija de reyes, madre de césares y esposa de emperador, piensa en algo más ambicioso: una dinastía. Roma está bajo el control de Cómodo, un emperador loco. El Senado se conjura para terminar con el tirano y los gobernadores militares más poderosos podrían dar un golpe de Estado: Albino en Britania, Severo en el Danubio o Nigro en Siria. Cómodo retiene a sus esposas para evitar su rebelión y Julia, la mujer de Severo, se convierte así en rehén.

Is it really possible to change your entire personality in a year? An award-winning journalist experiments with her own personality to find out—and reveals the science behind lasting change. Olga Khazan was spiraling toward an existential crisis. Though she treasured her loving relationship...

Fifty-something Shona McMonagle is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name. Impeccably educated and an accomplished martial artist, linguist and musician, Shona is thrilled when selected by Marcia Blaine herself to travel back in time for a one-week mission in 19th-century Russia: to pair up the beautiful, shy, orphaned heiress Lidia Ivanovna with Sasha, a handsome young man of unexplained origins — and all in a gorgeously Tolstoyan setting.

Max Sall is powerful, wealthy, and utterly ruthless. A man without a past. Max's women are very different, but they all demand his attention. While Amber and Paola are growing up in the 1970s, their mothers somehow find a way to share Max between them. But when Amber and Paola fall in love with the same man two decades later, they're determined that this time there will be no sharing.

En arbejdspladsroman. Fra der 22. Århundrede. Besætningen på Det sekstusinde skib består af menneskelige og menneskelignende ansatte. Da skibet får en række genstande ombord fra planeten Nyopdagelsen, begynder de ansatte at udvikle dybe forbindelser til genstandene, men uden helt at kunne forstå hvorfor. Snart ser besætningen sig selv i et nyt lys, og enhver ansat må spørge sig selv om arbejdsgangen kan fortsætte som før. Opbygget som en protokol med vidneudsagn forsøger den litterære science-fiction roman "De ansatte" at undersøge, hvad forskellen er på et menneske og en ting, og hvad det vil sige at være i live.

Comedian Olga Koch has a masters degree in the social science of the Internet and can turn almost any file into a PDF. In these three series, she looks at life through the eyes of a computer scientist, taking the universal truths you hold dear and tearing them to shreds using logic. With the help of her sassy digital assistant ALGO (played by Sindhu Vee and Tia Kofi), she uses stand-up and storytelling to unpack concepts such as Nationality, Beauty, Health, Privacy, Fun, Intelligence, Friendship and Family.

Este audiolibro es la recopilación de las mejores técnicas y consejos que Teresa Baró ha ofrecido durante más de veinte años a miles de mujeres profesionales y directivas de todos los ámbitos. Aquí tienes herramientas prácticas para detectar tus barreras psicológicas y creencias limitantes y conocer tu propio estilo de comunicación. Te darás cuenta de que, en gran medida, tu futuro profesional está en tus manos: tú decides dónde quieres llegar y sabrás cómo conseguirlo. Las palabras y frases que utilizamos, el uso de la voz y del lenguaje corporal condiciona la imagen.

Learn how to speak the basics of the Ukrainian language with this book. Whether you have friends who are Ukrainian or you are planning a visit to the country, this is a simple guide that will help you do just that quickly and easily. With useful information about the history and traditions of Ukraine, you will be taken on a journey through topics from the basics of the alphabet and numbers to greetings, food and drink, and shopping.

Intrepid fifty-something librarian Shona McMonagle, erstwhile Marcia Blaine Academy prefect, finds herself in an isolated French mountain village, where she must solve a mystery involving the mayor, the cheesemonger, the soprano Mary Garden, and even Count Dracula himself. Shona has been personally selected by school founder Marcia Blaine to travel back in time for this important mission in fin-de-siècle France – a curiously Gothic setting. But she finds it all very confusing.

Fifty-something librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name. Impeccably educated and an accomplished martial artist, linguist and musician, Shona is selected by Marcia Blaine herself to travel back in time for a crucial mission involving Macbeth, the weird sisters and a black cat.

Fifty-something Edinburgh librarian Shona is a proud former pupil of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, but has a deep loathing for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which she thinks gives her alma mater a bad name. Impeccably educated and an accomplished linguist, mathematician, martial artist, and musician, Shona is selected by Marcia Blaine herself to travel back in time for a crucial mission in Venice.