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On a cloudless summer day, ghostwriter Phyl Long and educator Virgie Campbell meet as they wait for a private boat to Castaway Island. The attraction between the two is immediate, as is the excitement of a relaxing weekend getting to know each other. But once they arrive on the island, Phyl and Virgie discover things aren’t what they should be. After meeting the other guests, they realize the staff are confused, there’s no Wi-Fi, and the phone coverage is spotty. And there’s no way to leave the island. A charged accusation. A death. Another death, and then another…and another… As their fellow island occupants are murdered one by one, Phyl and Virgie realize their only hope of escaping is to work together to unmask the killer. But how does each know that the other isn’t using their budding romance as cover for a very twisted plan?
Nola learns that Alta Donna City is more important than she imagined, and that her storytelling ability is the key to saving her world, the world of stories, and her friends Damiano and Inés.
Trapped in the Master of Justice’s arena, Jolan still believes in the possibility of peace between Vikings and Magnus’s people. But to achieve it, first their rulers need to work together. And that is proving extremely difficult, even with a common enemy ... Meanwhile, Kriss must escape from the silver mine once again and resume her ascent of the Mountain of Time in order to catch up to Aniel. No matter the cost to herself ...
Liberte o seu lado sombrio nesse mundo mágicoJade é uma jovem universitária que perdeu a memória aos doze anos de idade. Até aí tudo bem, mas a cada dia que passa sente-se mais agressiva enquanto coisas estranhas acontecem ao seu redor. Desejos de vingança, frascos de ácido que explodem, superforça. Não pode ser só a puberdade, afinal nem todo adolescente tem tanta força assim, certo?Quando retorna à biblioteca onde foi encontrada ferida há muitos anos, a cena se repete, mas desta vez Jade é sugada para dentro de um mundo que parece ter saído de um conto de fadas.Lá um feiticeiro explica que há uma rainha vivendo dentro dela. Mas é uma rainha cruel e muitos virão tentar m...
Action, adventure, romance … in the heart of the Alps. The mountains are his life. Whether it's climbing, off-piste skiing, or paragliding, Rémy's always been happiest in the mountains. That's why living in Mont Blanc suits him, and why he's never needed more. Until he meets Sierra, who comes from a different world. Their love of the mountains may bring them together, but too much keeps them apart. She's ready to stand on her own two feet. Sierra's had a privileged upbringing, but not one that prepared her for real life. Now, she's feeling stronger than she's ever felt before, and ready to make her own way forward. Then she meets Rémy, a one-night stand who becomes a lot more, and who ma...
After a successful mission, Laura Black and her colleagues finally feel free to live the “normal lives” they have desired for so long. But, after only eight months of an ordinary existence, team members discover they are still in danger. Apparently, their mission is far from over. Banding together to confront their hidden foe, the misfit group prepares to fight the war of their lives. The battle will be bloody, the losses great, but Laura and the team are determined to find their happily ever after. Whatever it costs.
This essential reference work provides an alphabetic listing, with an extensive index, of studies on women in China from earliest times to the present day written in Western languages, primarily English, French, German, and Italian. Containing more than 2500 citations of books, chapters in books, and articles, especially those published in the last thirty years, and more than 100 titles of doctoral dissertations and Masters theses, it covers works written in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; art and archaeology; demography; economics; education; fashion; film and media studies; history; interdisciplinary studies; law; literature; music; medicine, science, and technology; political science; and religion and philosophy. It also contains many citations of studies of women in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Tras asistir a una cena de reencuentro de antiguos alumnos a la que Gael no tenía ningunas ganas de acudir, Tomás, uno de estos excompañeros, aparece brutalmente asesinado a cuchilladas. Al mismo tiempo, de forma casual, Gael comienza a citarse con Ana, la hermana gemela de un antiguo amor de juventud. Inevitablemente, estos acontecimientos hacen aflorar fantasmas del recuerdo que nunca quedaron suficientemente enterrados. El sargento Álvarez, un treintañero solitario, será el encargado de poner luz sobre la trama. Ecos del pasado es un thriller narrado con una fuerte carga emocional donde la verdad cobra facetas diferenciadas en función de la perspectiva desde la que se observe y donde pasado y presente se confunden dándose forma el uno al otro.
In the last decade, Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar has grown from critical darling of the film circuit scene to mainstream success. Frequently comic, often deadly serious, always visually glorious, his recent films range from the Academy Award–winning drama Talk to Her to the 2011 horror film The Skin I Live In. Though they are ambitious and varied in style, each is a distinctive innovation on the themes that have defined his work. Desire Unlimited is the classic film-by-film assessment of Almodóvar’s oeuvre, now updated to include his most recent work. Still the only study of its kind in English, it vigorously confirms its original argument that beneath Almodóvar's genius for comedy and visual pleasure lies a filmmaker whose work deserves to be taken with the utmost seriousness.