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Claire just lost her husband to a blizzard, and she’ll need a man before spring. With two children to raise, she wants out of the farming community and picks a man who she hopes will take her and her family to civilization. Ethan has lived in the city all his life and works as a librarian, but his dream is to be a pioneer farmer. His chance comes when he answers an ad looking for men to come to Nebraska. Though he’d wanted to marry for love, he figures he’ll settle for a mail-order wife if it gets him out of the city.

Here is a collection of 41 favorite classic children's poems by some of our best loved writers, including Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling, and others.

It is wartime and Carrie and her little brother Nick have been evacuated from their London home to the Welsh hills. In an unfamiliar place, among strangers, the children feel alone and find little comfort with the family they are billeted with: Mr Evans, a bullying shopkeeper and Auntie Lou, his kind but timid sister. When Carrie and Nick visit Albert, another evacuee, they are welcomed into Hepzibah Green's warm kitchen. Hepzibah is rumoured to be a witch, but her cooking is delicious, her stories are enthralling and the children cannot keep away.

If only the dangers of light travel could be contained within one world. It was easier and safer that way, when our families and the ones that we love were not at risk. But after nearly a year's time, back on Earth, these dangers are beginning again, with a deadly malice. “They” are after Timothy and the rest of the group of light travelers: an unknown enemy who could be anyone or everyone, and all that Timothy has to go on is a note given to him by a mysterious vanishing boy.

Three manuscripts in one audiobook. Everything you need to know to develop your “superpowers” as an empathic person (and get rid of the downsides of your personality type) lies in this guide. As an empath, you have both superpowers (such as an unusual intuition) and downsides (for example, you tend to be too emotional).The thing is, your downsides prevent you from developing your superpowers. This guide provides you with the best instruments (straight from psychology and ancient wisdom) to do that.

Un gran talento que los niños tienen y los adultos parecen carecer es la capacidad de imaginar. Imaginar tierras distantes y extrañas, pobladas de personajes extravagantes, simpáticos o traviesos. La imaginación de un niño no conoce fin, pero para la pequeña Alicia, esta imaginación sin fin se tornará realidad cuando un conejo blanco pasa en frente de ella, revisando un reloj de bolsillo.

Four haunting classics, filled with mystery and suspense, abridged especially for young listeners: Frankenstein, The 39 Steps, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre....

If Timothy Hayfield had known the mysterious secrets his grandmother had kept quiet all these years, and if he'd known the peril that would await him during a seemingly average summer's holiday in Mayfield, then he might have stayed behind. In the undiscovered corners of his family's estate, he would find the fates of kings, and of worlds, that are hung in the balance.

Iris vive de los números. Lo único que falta en su vida es una pareja, y no por falta de intentos. Después de décadas de decepción, Iris prácticamente tiene un doctorado en citas on line. Kim está demasiado ocupada siendo el alma de la fiesta para buscar el amor. Sus terribles citas son excelentes historias para sus amigos y compañeros de trabajo. Connie, la madre de Kim que enviudó recientemente, está soltera por primera vez desde la década de los 70. El juego de las citas ha cambiado mucho desde sus días.

Nothing ever happens in World's End Close. So when Stevie discovers a runaway girl in her coal shed, the first thing she does is fetch her best friend, Ray. Both are dying for a bit of adventure, and when the girl begs for help, they readily agree. Yet they soon realise they've taken on more than they bargained for. The girl, Anna, reveals she's on the run from people who are trying to poison her. Meanwhile, on the news, the Americans and Russians are arguing over missiles in Cuba. As the threat of war grows, Anna's behaviour becomes more mysterious.

The book portrays a parallel, mirrored world where Alice enters through a mirror and find all the fascinating lives of people living a completely opposite life to what Alice’s world had. Here, backward is forward, people know about the future, and the past is a mystery and logic is a complete opposite. Alice gets to meet Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, sings along to all the rhymes (including the nonsense rhymes of the Jabberwocky), and lives as a pawn in a living game of chess. She has to become a chess queen in order to get back home, and for that, she must play!

In this sequel to Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland, Alice enters another fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror. Just like her reflection, everything there is reversed – the nursery rhyme characters are real, running helps one stay still, walking away from something brings it closer. From the Red King to the White Queen, the cowardly brothers Tweedledum and Tweedledee and Humpty Dumpty, Alice meets a cast of characters who are familiar and eccentric.

From the day I was born, I was brought up to believe that Gaelic games were invented for people too stupid to understand the laws of rugby. Little did I know that one day I would become a legend of Kerry football. But then my life has taken a lot of unexpected twists and turns.

The four children of King Lir are happy when their father marries again. Aoife, their new stepmother is very kind to them. But, in her heart, she is jealous of the children and uses her secret magic powers to cast a spell on them, changing them from children into swans. They spend long years on lonely lakes and frozen seas, until one day the spell is broken, and they are human again. Though everyone they loved is long gone, they know they are home at last.

In a world of ancient gods and monsters, two sisters must step up to save mankind. Lucia and Isabel's summer camp is going from bad to worse. Camp is full of bullies, the hotdogs are stale, the proctors are horrible- what more could go wrong? But a deadly warning arrives in a vision- a malevolent god threatens an ancient peace and mankind stands on the brink with the girls on a collision course with destiny. This world is not what it seems and behind the veil of ordinary lives are scheming monsters and gods, creatures that should only exist in fantasy worlds and epic hero sagas. The ...

OVERVIEW: For over seventy years an ongoing, and at times heated and emotional, debate over the origins of Basketball has persisted. Though the official historical records state the game was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian educator from Almonte, Ontario who was teaching at Springfield YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, there are those who believe otherwise. Counter to the Naismith narrative, the research and development of this book provide irrefutable evidence of the game being played a year earlier in the Village of Herkimer, New York, as ...

Timothy and Ata were not sure what they would find when they went searching through the old dusty volumes of the true Histories of Earth, but now they seem to have created an unstoppable chain of events, and they and Barbara are now stuck in the middle. The Worlds are not as they should be. There is a new danger brewing that will bring the Light Travelers to the outer reaches of our galaxy and back again. All the Worlds of Men are now at risk, and not just Earth.

Non ci sono regole certe, né punti di arrivo nel vasto mondo di sogno e avventura in cui precipita Alice. Là dove l'imprevedibilità regna sovrana, la bionda bambina di sette anni imparerà a destreggiarsi tra gli ordini bislacchi del Coniglio e gli strambi indovinelli del Cappellaio, tra una partita di croquet con la terribile Regina di Cuori e il tè matto della Lepre Marzolina.

Presentamos una edición de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas, clásico imprescindible tanto para niños como para adultos. La historia nos introduce en un mundo subterráneo, anárquico y maravilloso. Abundan los personajes insólitos, los juegos de lógica, los dobles sentidos en las palabras empleadas y las situaciones absurdas.