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Ideal

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NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHEDIn print for the first time ever, author and philosopher Ayn Rand’s novel Ideal.Originally conceived as a novel, but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused of murder, she is on the run and turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her, each telling her that she represents their ideal—a respectable family man, a far-left activist, a cynical artist, an evangelist, a playboy, and a lost soul. Each reacts to her plight in his own way, their reactions a glimpse into their secret selves and their true values. In the end their responses to her pleas give Kay the answers she has been seeking.Ideal was written in 1934 as a novel, but Ayn Rand thought the theme of the piece would be better realized as a play and put the novel aside. Now, both versions of Ideal are available for the first time ever to the millions of Ayn Rand fans around the world, giving them a unique opportunity to explore the creative process of Rand as she wrote first a book, then a play, and the differences between the two.INCLUDES AN INTRODUCTION BY LEONARD PEIKOFF

Paul Faber, Surgeon

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Paul Faber, Surgeon by George MacDonald is a publication of The Electronic Classics Series.

Quando all'alba saremo vicini

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««Una storia che insegna come l’amore sia più forte del tempo e del destino. Nessun ostacolo può fermarlo.» »«People»« «Kristin Harmel è una scrittrice premiata dalle classifiche italiane.» »«Vanity Fair»«Il nuovo romanzo di Kristin Harmel colpisce nel profondo e dimostra che è possibile trovare la felicità nonostante le ferite del cuore.»«Booklist»«"Quando all'alba saremo vicini" di Kristin Harmel è un romanzo con un tocco fantasy, che farà innamorare quelle che credono ancora nei sentimenti.»Lavinia Capritti, Oggi.it«Kristin Harmel è una scrittrice premiata dalle classifiche italiane.»Vanity FairCon il suo primo romanzo, Kristin Harmel si è affermata come una delle più grandi rivelazioni degli ultimi anni.Finché le stelle saranno in cielo è stato un successo mondiale senza paragoni ed è ancora fra i bestseller più venduti nelle classifiche italiane. Adesso Kristin Harmel torna con un nuovo attesissimo romanzo, Quando all’alba saremo vicini. Un libro emozionante e pieno di speranza che la conferma una scrittrice capace come nessun altro di leggere nel cuore umano. Un inno all’amore che supera ogni confine.Devi lasciare andare le stelle per amare la luce di un nuovo giorno.È quasi sera, l’aria è tiepida e le sfavillanti luci della Quarantottesima strada si stanno accendendo una per una. A Kate sembra quasi che stiano indicando il percorso del suo cammino. Non le manca proprio niente per essere di nuovo felice: ama il suo lavoro di musicoterapeuta e, a casa, il suo compagno Dan la sta aspettando per portarla alla grande festa che ha organizzato per festeggiare il loro fidanzamento. Ma anche se non riesce a confessarlo nemmeno a sé stessa, Kate non ha ancora superato il dolore che si nasconde nel suo passato. Perché dodici anni prima l’uomo che amava più di tutti al mondo, Patrick, suo marito, se n’era andato, all’improvviso, proprio prima di confidarle un segreto che avrebbe cambiato per sempre la loro vita. Kate non è mai riuscita a scoprire di cosa si trattasse. Eppure adesso, quando tutto sembra lontano, Patrick inizia ad apparirle in sogno. È insieme a una bambina, e stanno cercando di dirle qualcosa. All’inizio Kate crede sia solo un incubo. Ma quando per caso conosce una bambina identica a quella del sogno, capisce di non potere più ignorare il passato. Perché negli occhi di quella ragazzina si nasconde una rivelazione sconvolgente, un segreto lontano, forse lo stesso che Patrick avrebbe voluto rivelarle anni prima. E che forse adesso può far guardare Kate al futuro con occhi nuovi. Occhi pieni di luce e gioia, come quelli che brillano di fronte a una nuova alba.

The Radleys

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From the bestselling author of The Midnight Library, an “irresistible...full of clever turns, darkly hilarious spins...Even if you're suffering from vampire fatigue...The Radleys is a fun, fresh contribution to the genre” (Associated Press). Just about everyone knows a family like the Radleys. Many of us grew up next door to one. They are a modern family, averagely content, averagely dysfunctional, living in a staid and quiet suburban English town. Peter is an overworked doctor whose wife, Helen, has become increasingly remote and uncommunicative. Rowan, their teenage son, is being bullied at school, and their anemic daughter, Clara, has recently become a vegan. They are typical, that is, save for one devastating exception: Peter and Helen are vampires and have—for seventeen years—been abstaining by choice from a life of chasing blood in the hope that their children could live normal lives. One night, Clara finds herself driven to commit a shocking—and disturbingly satisfying—act of violence, and her parents are forced to explain their history of shadows and lies. A police investigation is launched that uncovers a richness of vampire history heretofore unknown to the general public. And when the malevolent and alluring Uncle Will, a practicing vampire, arrives to throw the police off Clara’s trail, he winds up throwing the whole house into temptation and turmoil and unleashing a host of dark secrets that threaten the Radleys’ marriage. The Radleys is a moving, thrilling, and radiant domestic novel that explores with daring the lengths a parent will go to protect a child, what it costs you to deny your identity, the undeniable appeal of sin, and the everlasting, iridescent bonds of family love. Read it and ask what we grow into when we grow up, and what we gain—and lose—when we deny our appetites.

Galloway

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Louis L’Amour tells the story of two brothers who must struggle to survive in a wild and beautiful land to build themselves a ranch and a future. Trouble was following Flagan Sackett with a vengeance. Captured and tortured by a band of Apaches, he escaped into the rugged San Juan country, where he managed to stay alive until his brother Galloway could find him. But the brothers were about to encounter worse trouble ahead. Their plan to establish a ranch angered the Dunn clan, who had decided that the vast range would be theirs alone. Now Galloway and Flagan would face an enemy who killed for sport—but as long as other Sacketts lived, they would not fight alone.

The Tale of Samuel Whiskers

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The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, Beatrix Potter. Re-encoded from http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/15575 .

What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales

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It is a strange thing, that when I feel most fervently and most deeply, my hands and my tongue seem alike tied, so that I cannot rightly describe or accurately portray the thoughts that are rising within me; and yet I am a painter: my eye tells me as much as that, and all my friends who have seen my sketches and fancies say the same.

Querido México

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Éste es un libro que nace de la amistad y del amor, si es que son cosas diferentes. Una declaración de veinte amigos —escritores, ilustradores, editores— enamorados de México, y que tras el terremoto del pasado mes de septiembre decidimos mandar un abrazo, enorme, cálido y fraternal a nuestros inmejorables amigos mexicanos.Todos los que aquí aparecemos recordamos el cariño, profundo y desinteresado, la generosidad, el entusiasmo con que siempre se nos ha recibido, y nos pareció que era necesario corresponder, siquiera a una mínima parte de ese afecto, con este libro que no es más que una confesión pública, Querido México, de nuestro amor a ese país.

Din og min verden

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Hvis du elsker at læse bøger af Melanie Harlow, Amber Kelly eller Jojo Moyes, vil du med garanti tage varmt imod Abby Jimenez!Efter et uventet motorstop langt ude på landet får den ambitiøse Alexis Montgomery sit liv vendt på hovedet. Det, der begynder som et vovet væddemål med den ti år yngre tømrer Daniel Grant, antænder en gnist, de begge må kæmpe for at kontrollere. Det skulle kun være en flygtig affære, men snart bliver deres stjålne øjeblikke til noget mere …Alexis står på tærsklen til en lovende karriere som kirurg, en fremtid, hvor der ikke er plads til et idyllisk liv på landet. Samtidig kaster fortiden sine skygger, og Daniel må se i øjnene, at Alexis hverken er parat til at lukke ham ind i sit liv eller blive en del af hans.Midt i et virvar af lidenskab og pligt, står de nu over for den ultimative prøve: Kan de forene deres radikalt forskellige liv, eller er de dømt til at vælge mellem hjertet og den verden, de kender? "Jimenez er et ægte talent." – Emily Henry, New York Times-bestsellerforfatter til Strandlæsning”En opløftende og smuk påmindelse om, at vi altid bør forsøge at leve det liv, der gør os mest lykkelige.” – Ali Hazelwood"En følelsesmæssig rutsjebane om kærlighed som en kilde til styrke og selvstændighed." – Publishers Weekly"Din og min verden er en følelsesladet oplevelse, der har alt, hvad lidenskabelige romance-fans kunne ønske sig. Et must-read." – Kirkus"Jimenez er en fremragende historiefortæller, og hendes særlige blanding af humor og indlevelse er poleret til perfektion i Din og min verden." – Bookpage

My Man Jeeves

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My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the UK in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Wooster.— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Jodi Picoult Collection #2

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Three of bestselling author Jodi Picoult's compelling novels together in this ebook collection!Perfect MatchIn the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well. In a heartbeat, Nina's absolute truths and convictions are turned upside down, and she hurtles toward a plan to exact her own justice for her son—no matter the consequence, whatever the sacrifice.Second GlanceSecond Glance, an eerie and engrossing work, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history—Vermont's eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s—to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt us—literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?My Sister's KeeperMy Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.

The Case of the Missing Elf [a Diz and Dee mystery]

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Christmas comes early for private investigator Dee and her partner, the grumpy but drop-dead-gorgeous elf Dizzy G, when Santa's elves hire Diz and Dee to find Santa's missing stand in. Santa's taken a sabbatical, and only one elf at the North Pole can fill the big man’s shoes. An elf who’d rather compete in professional food-eating contests than spend one more holiday in Santa’s sleigh.THE CASE OF THE MISSING ELF by award-winning author Annie Reed is a heart-warming mystery filled with the holiday spirit that readers of all ages are sure to enjoy.“I love these Diz and Dee stories.” —Kristine Kathryn Rusch, author of THE RETRIEVAL ARTIST series"The appearance of a new Annie Reed story is a treat. Try one and you'll be hooked." —Dave Hendrickson, author of CRACKING THE ICE

Swept Away

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The emotional story of a young woman's journey as she leaves behind all the things she thought she wanted only to discover who she really is. #1 New York Times bestselling author ROBYN CARR explores the challenges facing women today as they are valued for what's on the outside rather than the inside.Jennifer Chaise is proud of her life. Coming from nothing, she's used her beauty to her advantage and is swept up in a glamorous world of wealth and privilege as the mistress of a high-flying businessman. But when she walks in on a violent scene in their Las Vegas hotel room, Jennifer knows she can no longer ignore the truth about her boyfriend and she flees. Desperate to escape the men searching for her, she invents a whole new persona—with a new look and a new name—as she hides out in a small Nevada town.Working as a waitress in the local diner, she finds a mentor in Louise, a retired professor who takes her in. As Jennifer begins to embrace a new life, she realizes how much was missing from her old one: a sense of community and purpose… But it's not easy to simply disappear. Her neighbor Alex is a cop, and while he's friendly enough, he may also suspect that Jennifer is not what she seems.Although she is under constant threat of being discovered, Jennifer is surprised to realize that, for the first time, she's genuinely happy. Suddenly this real world is all she wants. But will it be enough when her past catches up with her?"Classic women's fiction, illuminating the power of women's friendships, is still alive and well. "—Booklist on Four FriendsPreviously Published as THE RUNAWAY MISTRESS.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

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The classic work “hailed as one of the great comic novels of English literature and author Henry Fielding’s masterpiece” (HistoryNet.com). Both a picaresque and Bildungsroman, The History of Tom Jones follows the life of its hero from his discovery as a foundling on the property of Squire Allworthy in England’s West Country to his banishment from the estate and subsequent journey to London to escape an arranged marriage. Tom’s many dalliances and misadventures throughout add to the charm of this bawdy romantic comedy. Written in the eighteenth century, it is “a classic English novel that captures the spirit of its age and whose famous characters—Squire Western, the chaplain Thwackum, the scheming Blifil, seductive Molly Seagrim, and Sophia, Tom’s true love—have come to represent Augustan society in all its loquacious, turbulent, comic variety” (The Guardian, “The 100 Best Novels”). “Incredibly complex, with a huge cast of characters, plot twists too numerous to relate and humor sharp enough to cut a finger.” —HistoryNet.com

Cazadores de sombras 5. Ciudad de las almas perdidas. (Edición mexicana)

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Jace es ahora un sirviente del mal, vinculado a Sebastian por toda la eternidad. Solo un pequeño grupo de cazadores de sombras cree posible su salvación. Para conseguirlo, deben desafiar al Cónclave, y actuar sin Clary, porque ella está jugando a un juego muy peligroso por su propia cuenta y riesgo. Si pierde, el precio que deberá pagar no consiste tan solo en entregar su vida, sino también el alma de Jace. Clary está dispuesta a hacer lo que sea por Jace, pero ¿puede seguir confiando en él? ¿O lo ha perdido para siempre? ¿El precio es demasiado alto, incluso para el amor?

90 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.I)

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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of the greatest works of literature written by the masters of the craft: Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman) Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) Middlemarch (George Eliot) The Madman: His Parables and Poems (Kahlil Gibran) Ward No. 6 (Anton Chekhov) Moby-Dick (Herman Melville) The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky) The Overcoat (Gogol) Ulysses (James Joyce) Walden (Henry David Thoreau) Hamlet (Shakespeare) Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare) Macbeth (Shakespeare) The Waste Land (T. S. Eliot) Odes (John Keats) The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire) Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott) Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Emma (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) Lorna Doone (R.D. Blackmore) The Lady of the Camellias (Alexandre Dumas) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Vanity Fair (Thackeray) Dangerous Liaisons (De Laclos) The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot) Dona Perfecta (Benito Pérez Galdós) Swann's Way (Marcel Proust) Sons and Lovers (D. H. Lawrence) David Copperfield (Charles Dickens) Great Expectations (Charles Dickens) Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy) The Wings of the Dove (Henry James) The History of a Scoundrel or Bel-Ami (Guy de Maupassant) Two Years in the Forbidden City (Princess Der Ling) Les Misérables (Victor Hugo) The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) Pepita Jimenez (Juan Valera) The Way We Live Now (Anthony Trollope) The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) A Room with a View (E. M. Forster) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) The Blazing World (Margaret Cavendish) The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) The Republic (Plato) The Golden Ass (Apuleius) Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) Art of War (Sun Tzu) Candide (Voltaire) Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes) Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass) Dream Psychology (Sigmund Freud) The Einstein Theory of Relativity by H. A. Lorentz The Science of Being Well (Wallace D. Wattles) As a Man Thinketh (James Allen) The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie) A Study in Scarlet (Arthur Conan Doyle) The Sign of Four (Arthur Conan Doyle) Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) The Call of Cthulhu (H. P. Lovecraft) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving) Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) The War of the Worlds (H. G. Wells) The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe) The Black Cat (Edgar Allan Poe) The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum) Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgersson (Selma Lagerlöf) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain) The Call of the Wild (Jack London) White Fang (Jack London) Journey to the Centre of the Earth (Jules Verne) Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll) The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) A Little Princess (Frances Hodgson Burnett) The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling) Tarzan of the Apes (Edgar Rice Burroughs) The Complete Fairytales of Brothers Grimm The Complete Fairytales of Hans Christian Andersen Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw) Botchan (Soseki Natsume) The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Christmas of the Red Chiefs

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller enchants readers with a spark of sensuality in Christmas of the Red Chiefs, a romantic holiday novella.In this bittersweet tale, a young woman can't hide her broken heart—or her past—when she returns to her hometown for the holidays. But a sexy widower may just help her discover the true meaning of home this Christmas season.

La hija del Caníbal

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Lucía lleva diez años con Ramón. Sus vidas transcurren sin pasiones ni tropiezos, hasta el día en que deciden pasar el fin de año en Viena y Ramón desaparece en el aeropuerto.PREMIO NACIONAL DE LAS LETRAS 2017Lucía no se conforma con que sea la policía quien resuelva la misteriosa desaparición de su marido y, gracias a la ayuda de Adrián, un extraño joven, y del anarquista Fortuna, investiga por su cuenta el paradero de Ramón...De esta forma, algo que en principio parecía un drama, se convierte en una oportunidad para vivir con más intensidad.** Premio Leyenda 2019 concedido por la Asociación de Librerías de MadridEl crítico literario Santos Sanz Villanueva dijo...«Estamos en la más novelesca de las novelas de Montero, a la vez que, aunque parezca una paradoja, en la más realista, en la que cala con mayor hondura y verdad en los fantasmas, complejidades, limitaciones y grandeza de la existencia.»

Estampas bostonianas y otros viajes

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Rosa Montero nos regala estas estampas, relatos de sus viajes a lugares que parecen estar en el fin del mundo. Un verdadero viaje por Irak, Boston, Australia, el Polo Norte, el Sahara con la mejor de las compañías. PREMIO NACIONAL DE LAS LETRAS 2017«Viajar es enfrentarse a la fugacidad. Los que amamos viajar somos como ese criado de Las mil y una noches que, asustado tras haber visto a la Muerte en el mercado, pide prestado un caballo a su amo y escapa (viaja) a Basora, sólo para reunirse allí con la Parca, con quien tenía una cita sin saberlo; es decir, solemos ser personas que intentamos correr más que nuestras propias sombras. Huimos del tiempo que nos persigue, en fin, sólo para dirigirnos ciegamente hacia la última frontera.»Rosa Montero** Premio Leyenda 2019 concedido por la Asociación de Librerías de Madrid

Mischief in the Autumn Air

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Eli and Martha don’t seem like a match, but solving a mystery may uncover their true feelings.When items start going above market value at his auction house, Eli Wittmer is first thrilled, and then puzzled. But when the house is broken into, Eli and his new bookkeeper, Martha Beiler track down a trail of clues. Will they solve the mystery before the fall festival ends—and discover an unexpected new love?

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