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Alma
by William BellAward-winning YA author William Bell's Alma is the captivating story of a quiet girl who builds a friendship with a reclusive stranger.Times have been tough since Alma's father died and she and her mother had to give up their farm and move into town. Luckily, Alma can always retreat into the books of her favourite author, R.R. Hawkins.When Alma's teacher notices her lovely handwriting, she recommends Alma for a job transcribing letters for "Miss Lily," a reclusive old woman who has just arrived from Boston. Eventually, their mutual love of reading creates a strong friendship. Miss Lily lends Alma some of her favourite books, introduces her to calligraphy, and encourages her passion to write stories.But who is this difficult and solitary old woman who reminds Alma of Dickens' Miss Havisham? And why is she so secretive about the part of her life she refuses to share? Could she be, as Alma begins to suspect, R.R. Hawkins herself? Alma is determined to find out.This touching story explores the relationship between a blossoming writer and her mentor, and delves into the complicated dynamics of friendship and trust.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Alma Florescida: Poemas de Amor Total
by Janaina De Oliveira Ribeiro Doobie ShemerAlma Florescida: Poemas de Amor Total, de Doobie Shemer, é uma compilação de poemas de elevação espiritual curtos, que tocará a seu coração e iluminará sua vida. É um livro pequeno, embora poderoso, muito comovente, belamente escrito, que trás conforto, alegria e inspiração para a vida. Alma Florescida é dedicado a todas as mulheres, onde quer que elas estejam. A sua luta contínua é a fonte de inspiração de Doobie e a única motivação para escrever estes poemas. Seu desejo é que compartilhando as palavras dos poemas, cada alma em sofrimento compreenda que não está sozinha e reconheça que unidas são fortes e cheias de esperança.
Alma Gemela: Serie Amor Inmortal Libro 1
by Anna SantosAlma Gemela Libro 1 de la Serie Amor Inmortal Annabel es una cazadora híbrida que busca vengarse del vampiro que mató a sus padres y puso a su hermano en coma. Al llegar a una nueva ciudad con una identidad encubierta que proteger y la misión de encontrar un vampiro de sangre pura para salvar la vida de su hermano, lo último que Annabel necesita es enamorarse del sexy y persistente hombre lobo que cree que es una humana indefensa que necesita un caballero con armadura brillante. Shane es un hombre lobo dominante que también resulta ser el sheriff local. Casi ha perdido la esperanza de encontrar a su otra mitad. Así que cuando su hermosa alma gemela aparece y los vampiros renegados intentan matarla, hace lo que cualquier lobo inteligente haría: la salva y la lleva a casa, con la esperanza de convencerla de que pertenecen juntos. Cuando las chispas vuelan entre ellos, Annabel tiene que decidir si ella le dice quién es realmente o de otra manera corre para proteger sus secretos.
Alma Mater: A Novel
by Rita Mae BrownSex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don’t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . . At the start of senior year at William & Mary, the six-foot-tall, raven-haired beauty Victoria “Vic” Savedge finds her future mapped out in detail. She will marry Charly Harrison, the son of one of Virginia’s most prominent families. Though branded by a fiery streak of independence, Vic hasn’t really considered any other options. Until she meets a woman named Chris. A transfer from Vermont, Chris is new to Southern mores and attitudes. Though instantly captivated by Vic, she is also drawn to the entire quirky but charming Savedge family. But the young women’s friendship is not your basic college-girl variety. For neither can resist their mutual attraction–an attraction that erupts into a passion that will forever change the course of both their lives.
Alma Presses Play
by Tina CaneA lyrical novel-in-verse that takes us through the journey of coming of age in New York during the 80s.Alma's life is a series of halfways: She's half-Chinese, half-Jewish; her parents spend half the time fighting, and the other half silent; and she's halfway through becoming a woman. But as long as she can listen to her Walkman, hang out with her friends on the stoops of the Village, and ride her bike around the streets of New York, it feels like everything will be all right. Then comes the year when everything changes, and her life is overtaken by constant endings: friends move away, romances bloom and wither, her parents divorce and--just like that--her life as she knew it is over. In this world of confusing beginnings, middles, and endings, is Alma ready to press play on the soundtrack of her life?
Alma Salvaje Irlandesa (Libro 3 de La Caleta Mística #3)
by Tricia O'MalleyDe la autora de bestsellers del New York Times y USA Today, Tricia O’Malley, llega una serie romántica ambientada en las costas rocosas de Irlanda. El amor nunca fue su fuerte. Aislinn está acostumbrada a vivir la vida en sus términos. Como artista con un don extrasensorial, permite que sus estados de ánimo y los del mundo natural inspiren sus pinturas para su galería ubicada en la pequeña ciudad de Grace's Cove. Manejando su negocio como le plazca, Aislinn ha esquivado los compromisos serios toda su vida. Cuando el Dr. Baird Delaney traslada su práctica de psiquiatría a la ciudad y se detiene en su tienda para recoger algunas impresiones para su oficina, el mundo de Aislinn se desbalancea. Irresistiblemente atraída por su presencia, pero convencida de que el tenso médico es una pobre pareja para su alma artística que fluye libremente, Aislinn ese siente dividida. Tanto Aislinn como Baird tendrán que suspender sus creencias a medida que caen de cabeza en un amor desordenado e impenitente que los reta a ambos a aceptarse de manera inequívoca. Alma Salvaje Irlandesa se puede leer como una novela independiente y es el libro 3 de la serie La Caleta Mistica.
Alma Speaks Up / Alma habla (Alma's Way)
by G. M. KingA heartwarming storybook based on the hit PBS Kids series Alma's Way, created by Emmy Award-winning actor Sonia Manzano - best known as Maria on Sesame Street.Alma and her friends André and Rafia can't wait to help their neighbor, Mr. Huda, make his storefront beautiful. They are going to paint a mural on the wall outside the store! But when André wants to do the mural his own way, it's up to Alma to talk to him about it. Can she find a way to express herself without hurting Andre's feelings?PBS's "Alma's Way" explores the life of six-year-old Alma, a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx, as she navigates new challenges and solves them through creativity and fun. Kids won't want to miss this bilingual storybook that introduces Alma and her friends and family!Includes a pullout poster of Alma, her family, and all her friends from the neighborhood!
Alma and How She Got Her Name
by Juana Martinez-NealIf you ask her, Alma Sofia Esperanza José Pura Candela has way too many names: six! How did such a small person wind up with such a large name? Alma turns to Daddy for an answer and learns of Sofia, the grandmother who loved books and flowers; Esperanza, the great-grandmother who longed to travel; José, the grandfather who was an artist; and other namesakes, too. As she hears the story of her name, Alma starts to think it might be a perfect fit after all — and realizes that she will one day have her own story to tell. In her author-illustrator debut, Juana Martinez-Neal opens a treasure box of discovery for children who may be curious about their own origin stories or names.
Alma and the Beast
by Esmé ShapiroAlma's beautiful, hairy world is turned upside down by the arrival of a stranger. From the utterly original imagination of the author-illustrator of Ooko comes a story about celebrating differences and making new friends. For fans of Where the Wild Things Are and Wild.Alma lives happily in her hairy world, where she can braid the trees, comb the grass, pet the roof and feed her plumpooshkie butterfly. Until one day . . . a hairless, button-nosed beast appears in the garden! At first Alma is scared but when she realizes the beast is lost and misses her hairless home, Alma offers to help her find her way back. As the two take a fantastical journey through the red-headed woods and the bearded mushroom glen to the beast's bald abode, they discover that they are much more alike than different.This quirky and charming story about friendship, empathy and perspective invites readers into a surreal, fantastical world that evokes Alice in Wonderland, Where the Wild Things Are and The Lorax.
Alma de abril: Historias De Amor Y Desamor
by Vanesa SpinelliUna preciosa antología de relatos y cuentos breves sobre el amor y el desamor, sueños y deseos, ternura y pasión. Alma de Abril es la fusión de los retazos del verano, con sus colores, su sol radiante e intenso, y las hojas ocres que se asoman melancólicas en el otoño. La brisa queda atrapada con los primeros fríos, el recuerdo del dulzor y la tarde gris se combinan en estas letras. En este río de historias, microrrelatos y poesías, el amor y el desamor se expresan desde lo más profundo del ser, desde el alma, dejando al descubierto sentimientos que arrasan, que empujan, que se develan, que quieren crecer y quedarse en el corazón de cada lector, convertido en un ramo de emociones que laten para siempre. El amor imposible, el duelo por la separación, la segunda oportunidad, el amor truncado por el destino y el amor que viene desde otra vida; convergen con la alegría, la ternura, la pasión, la tristeza, invitando a resignificar cada historia con el compás trazado en cada corazón.
Alma de gladiador (Jake Djones #Volumen 2)
by Damian DibbenJake Djones y los Guardianes de la Historia se embarcan en una nueva y alocada aventura que nos llevará al corazón del Mundo Antiguo: desde las puertas del Hades en la Grecia clásica hasta las calles de Roma en el momento de máximo apogeo de su glorioso imperio... Jake ha sido admitido en los Guardianes de la Historia, la misteriosa organización dedicada a preservar el pasado. Su misión consistirá en viajar en el tiempo para evitar que nadie cambie nada... Así que, a partir de ahora, su vida será peligrosamente entretenida. Lo que todavía ignora es que no hace falta ir hasta las puertas del Hades o la arena del Coliseo para encontrar a los peores enemigos; están mucho más cerca de lo que parece... Reseña:«Cuando empieces a leer, ya no podrás dejarlo.»The Guardian
Alma embrujada
by María AcostaDos almas unidas a las que la muerte no podrá separar. Hay fantasmas en Brogan's Hall... Al menos, eso dicen. Pero Lucía de Córdoba no cree en fantasmas y en cuanto sus ojos se posan en la pequeña plantación que le han encargado restaurar, la siente como un hogar y no como una mansión embrujada. Sin embargo, el embrujo que pesa sobre la casa es mucho más complicado de lo que nadie se imagina: el amor y la muerte se vieron las caras en ella y la tragedia salpicó con sangre sus muros. Cuando el misterio que oculta la historia sea revelado, el pasado que nunca se fue resurgirá con fuerza para cobrar su deuda. En los blogs...«Alma embrujada es una historia de almas unidas en el tiempo donde hay amor, celos, odios, envidias y mucho más. 100 % recomendable [...] Está muy bien escrito, tiene una pluma ágil, fresca y adictiva.»Blog La puerta de los libros infinitos
Alma germinal: Poemas de la cosecha
by Doobie Shemer Lorenzo Bermejo ThomasAlma germinal: Poemas de la cosecha es una compilación de poesías escritas desde el corazón. Dedicadas a cada hombre y mujer que ha estado en la búsqueda... De paz interior en tiempos de dolor. De gratificante embeleso y creencia renacida. De brotes de esperanza cuando luchamos por soluciones. Para relajar el alma durante las temporadas de caída. Para nutrir y sanar el alma herida. Para iluminar el amor místico, para despertar su propia llamada.
Alma gitana: El que las hace las paga
by Andrea Milano¿Qué puede hacer una joven para conquistar el corazón de un hombre enamorado de otra mujer? ¿Qué le está vedado? Alma gitana es la crónica deliciosa de un amor predestinado. Como solo Andrea Milano lo sabe hacer. Escrita especialmente para dos cautivadores personajes de su exitosa Embrujo gitano -el Payo y Almudena, que se robaron el corazón de las lectoras-, Alma gitana despliega una red imperceptible de pasión y erotismo en la que los enamorados quedarán atrapados por entero sin siquiera advertirlo. El progreso del ferrocarril durante los convulsionados tiempos del asesinato de Urquiza, una venganza serenamente planificada, un niño que no puede hablar, una tentación abrasadora, una herencia insospechada. Y una sentencia proverbial que se cumple inexorablemente: "El que las hace las paga".
Alma viva: La gurú del desamor
by Ava CleytonLa nueva novela de Ava Cleyton que hará las delicias de los lectores. Una historia sobre como el amor y los recuerdos pueden ablandar hasta los corazones más duros. A veces una vida entera no basta para olvidar lo que significa temblar si me miras. Alma Viva decide montar su propio bufete sin imaginar que su destino como gurú absoluta del desamor en Madrid tiene los días contados. Una mañana cualquiera se asoma al balcón de su despacho y se encuentra con Jacobo Arias, su primer novio del instituto, al que apartó de su vida por su ambición profesional. Desde entonces algo dentro de su corazón se ha removido. ¿Será capaz de volver a su caparazón de abogada fría e insensible o, por el contrario, resurgirá en ella esa Alma Viva primigenia que flotaba sobre el suelo cuando Jaco le susurraba al oído aquello de ¡¡¡Ay, Alma mía, voy a comerte entera!!!
Alma's Great Idea / La gran idea de Alma (Alma's Way)
by Sonia ManzanoThis English-Spanish bilingual picture book is a heartwarming, interactive story from Emmy Award winner and Sesame Street icon Sonia Manzano! Based on Manzano's hit animated show Alma's Way.Alma misses her Granny Isa's warm, mushy hugs! Granny is her favorite person to play her guessing game with, but Granny hasn't arrived yet. Alma knows just what Granny would say if she were here, though: "Don't hang around with nothing to do. Find someone else to play with you!" / "No andes por ahí sin hacer nada. ¡Búscate a alguien con quien jugar!"Alma tries to find another family member to play with, but everyone is busy. Even her friends in the park are busy! But then, Alma has a way, way, way great idea! Will you play with her?Written by Alma's Way creator and Sesame Street star Sonia Manzano, this adorable book is like a playdate with your child's favorite character. Alma's lively story and game help kids remember: "When you don't know what to do or say, think about it -- that's Alma's Way!" / "Cuando no sabes qué hacer o decir, piénsalo: ¡eso hace Alma!"With the text appearing in both English and Spanish on every page, this bilingual story is perfect for bilingual readers as well as Spanish speakers learning English and vice versa.
Alma. Ciudad de tempestades (Amor en la tormenta #Volumen 1)
by Valeria NayaPrimera entrega de la bilogía «Amor en la tormenta». Un hombre que regresa a Argentina en busca de respuestas. Una tormenta que arrasará con todo. El amor más fuerte y puro... y ya nada será igual. Todo puede suceder en una ciudad plagada de diagonales cuando una tormenta acecha y el nivel del agua en las calles sube sin miras a detenerse, incluso encontrar el amor. Las pérdidas no son fáciles de superar, sin embargo, Alma, con la ayuda de su familia, logra salir adelante y encausar nuevamente su vida. Pero la muerte parece esperarla a la vuelta de la esquina cuando una tormenta poco inusual se desata en su ciudad. Dispuesta a entregarse a ella, pronto descubrirá que ese no era su destino. Paulo, madrileño de nacimiento e hijo de un desaparecido durante la dictadura militar argentina, suele visitar el país de su padre una vez al año. Y su profesión como periodista lo lleva allí también para realizar una investigación en el gobierno de turno. Todo parece ir en orden con su trabajo y su vida, no obstante, el diluvio con el que se encuentra lo hará descubrir que el hilo rojo invisible del que le habló su madre es real. La tormenta los une y el amor los atraviesa. Pero ambos deberán enfrentarse a los temores y los peligros que los acechan.
Almanac of the Dead
by Leslie Marmon SilkoAn ancient manuscript predicts the end of the white man's rule of North America and the second coming of Quetzalcoatl.
Almanac: A Murmuration (Excelsior Editions)
by Christine GelineauFrom the sanctuary of her one-hundred-and-twenty-acre horse farm in the upper Susquehanna River Valley, essayist and poet Christine Gelineau takes stock of what it means to care for a farm, a nation, a planet—a home—and of how the stories we tell impact our lives.Decades into life on a Morgan horse farm in upstate New York, Almanac author Christine Gelineau focused on the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and one another, about the planet we all share, and on how these narratives shape our own identities, our communities, and our attitudes and actions toward the environment. Framed by the seasons, Gelineau speaks to these vital conversations about what it can mean to be human in ways that are lyrical, practical, spiritual, and life-affirming. Almanac combines observations of iced-in alligators and newborn foals with prose poems evoking the natural world, gardening techniques learned from the Haudenosaunee, personal resilience in the face of long COVID and brain surgery, and urban versus rural perspectives on water rights and wind-turbine siting. It charts one person's journey into the inner and external worlds that will resonate with all readers dealing with these life-changing times.
Almanac: Poems (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets #63)
by Austin SmithThe "memorable" (Stephanie Burt, Yale Review) and "impressive" (Chicago Tribune) debut from a remarkable new voice in poetryAlmanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while the poems are all involved in some way with the rural Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the northwestern Illinois dairy farm where Austin Smith was born and raised, they are anything but merely regional. As the poems reflect on farm life, they open out to speak about childhood and death, the loss of tradition, the destruction of the natural world, and the severing of connections between people and the land.This collection also reflects on a long poetic apprenticeship. Smith's father is a poet himself, and Almanac is in part a meditation about the responsibility of the poet, especially the young poet, when it falls to him to speak for what is vanishing. To quote another Illinois poet, Thomas James, Smith has attempted in this book to write poems "clear as the glass of wine / on [his] father's table every Christmas Eve." By turns exhilarating and disquieting, this is a remarkable debut from a distinctive new voice in American poetry.From Almanac:THE MUMMY IN THE FREEPORT ART MUSEUMAustin SmithAmongst the masterpieces of the small-townPicassos and Van Goghs and photographsof the rural poor and busts of dead Greeksor the molds of busts donated by the ArtInstitute of Chicago to this dyingtown's little museum, there was a mummy,a real mummy, laid out in a dim-litroom by himself. I used to goto the museum just to visit him, a pharaohwho, expecting an afterlifeof beautiful virgins and infinite foodand all the riches and jewelshe'd enjoyed in earthly life,must have wondered how the hellhe'd ended up in Freeport, Illinois.And I used to go alone into that roomand stand beside his sarcophagus and say,"My friend, I've asked myself the same thing."
Almanacs: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 6 (The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part One #Vol. 6)
by Alan S. WeberAlmanacs were highly influential on popular opinion during the early modern period. They were the least expensive kinds of books and had a practical use as a calendar, literary miscellany, weather guide and advertising medium. The almanacs in this volume contribute to our understanding of women's participation in popular culture, astrology, medicine and prophecy. Sarah Jinner's almanacs for the years 1658, 1659 and 1664, and Mary Holden's almanacs for 1688 and 1689 show a conscious effort to distance themselves from other female religious prophets of the period by relying on the status of astrology as a rational science. The other works in the volume are all attributed to writers who were probably pseudonymous. Dorothy Partridge's The Woman's Almanack for the Year 1694 includes several short articles on chiromancy. The Prophesie of Mother Shipton concerns the prediction of the deaths of Cardinal Wolsey and Thomas Cromwell. The final works in the volume comprise two texts by Shinkin ap Shone which satirize the Welsh people and language, and The Woman's Alamanack by Sarah Ginnor which uses sexual humour to parody the medical advice offered in Jinner's almanacs.
Almanegra: Trilogía del perdón 2 (Trilogía del perdón #2)
by Florencia Bonelli¿PUEDE EL VERDADERO AMOR PERDONAR UNA TRAICIÓN?Emanuela ha abandonado la seguridad de la misión jesuítica en la que se crió entre guaraníes y se ha refugiado en la casa de la familia del padre Ursus, en Buenos Aires.Agobiada por la pena que significa la traición de su único amor, Aitor Ñeenguirú, intenta reconstruir su vida sin saber que en la ciudad la acechan peligros, como el del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición, que la perseguirá por sus dotes de sanadora.Aitor solo vive para volver a ver a Emanuela y pedirle perdón. La esperanza del reencuentro lo ayuda a levantarse cada mañana. Pero los meses pasan y se convierten en años, y Emanuela no aparece.En la segunda entrega de la Trilogía del Perdón, los corazones de los lectores palpitarán junto al de estos dos personajes que una vez creyeron que su amor resistiría todas las pruebas. ¿Finalmente les demostrarán la vida y sus trampas que eso no es verdad?
Almarina
by Valeria Parrella'One of the most beautiful books published in recent years: an intense, poignant story' Caterina BonviciniCan a prison free those who enter?Nisida, moored like a boat in the Mediterranean, is a small island nestled between Capri and Bagnoli, off the coast of Naples. Each day, through the early morning light, Elisabetta Maiorano travels across the city, passes by the guards on the way into the detention centre, hands over her bag and arrives at her classroom. All thoughts are suspended once inside. Usually Elisabetta hasn't spoken to anyone since the day before; her only reason for living to teach mathematics to the group of young inmates who arrive not long after she does. But one day, Almarina shows up and everything changes. She is Romanian and bears the signs of her personal history on her body. Together, closed up in a small classroom, a true island within an island, Elisabetta and Almarina discover a possible pathway to freedom. Warm and intimate, intense and political, Valeria Parrella touches our emotions, giving voice to a loneliness that is universal. Almarina is about finding love in unexpected places, about atonement, forgetting and starting over. But mostly it is about two women learning how to live again.Translated by Alex Valente
Almarina
by Valeria ParrellaAn Italian novel in translation about the relationship between a teacher and a young Romanian girl serving time on Nisida, Naples juvenile detention centre.'One of the most beautiful books published in recent years: an intense, poignant story' Caterina BonviciniCan a prison free those who enter?Nisida, moored like a boat in the Mediterranean, is a small island nestled between Capri and Bagnoli, off the coast of Naples. Each day, through the early morning light, Elisabetta Maiorano travels across the city, passes by the guards on the way into the detention centre, hands over her bag and arrives at her classroom. All thoughts are suspended once inside. Usually Elisabetta hasn't spoken to anyone since the day before; her only reason for living to teach mathematics to the group of young inmates who arrive not long after she does. But one day, Almarina shows up and everything changes. She is Romanian and bears the signs of her personal history on her body. Together, closed up in a small classroom, a true island within an island, Elisabetta and Almarina discover a possible pathway to freedom. Warm and intimate, intense and political, Valeria Parrella touches our emotions, giving voice to a loneliness that is universal. Almarina is about finding love in unexpected places, about atonement, forgetting and starting over. But mostly it is about two women learning how to live again.(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Almas Abrasadas (Elegida #3)
by Jeff Altabef y Erynn AltabefSobrevivir no es suficiente. Se formarán alianzas, se probarán las lealtades y se tomará una decisión. Mi nombre es Juliet Wildfire Stone, y me guste o no, el destino de la Tierra está en mis manos. Cuando finalmente me encontré con el Primer Elector, no era para nada como me esperaba. Se supone que era nuestro enemigo mortal, un monstruo al que tenía que destruir para cumplir mi destino, pero resultó que no era nada de eso. Ahroa, los Elegidos estamos en medio de un conflicto entre dos antiguos enemigos, uno que amenaza con destrozar la Tierra. Como la Alfa Elegida, tengo que hacer lo que es correcto a toda costa. Más me vale... o toda la gente en la Tierra será esclavizada para siempre. EVOLVED PUBLISHING PRESENTA el tercer y último emocinoante libro de la serie de fantasía y suspense juvenil ganadora de múltiples premios "Elegida". [Sin DRM] LIBRO POR JEFF ALTABEF Y/O ERYNN ALTABEF: •UN THRILLER DE NEPHILIMS - Libro 1: La Guarida del Diablo •UN THRILLER DE NEPHILIMS - Libro 2: La Danza del Diablo •UN THRILLER DE NEPHILIMS - Libro 3: El Trato del Diablo •UN THRILLER DE NEPHILIMS - Libro 4: El Día del Diablo •PUNTO THRILLER - Libro 1: Punto de Fractura •PUNTO THRILLER - Libro 2: Punto de Ruptura •MUERTE ROJA - Libro 1: Muerte Roja •MUERTE ROJA - Libro 2: El Rey Fantasma •MUERTE ROJA - Libro 3: Los Inmortales •ELEGIDA - Libro 1: Atrapavientos (with Erynn Altabef) •ELEGIDA - Libro 2: Borde del Amanecer (with Erynn Altabef) •ELEGIDA - Libro 3: Almas Abrasadas (with Erynn Altabef)