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Reina y Marlon, una joven pareja colombiana, emigra a Nueva York huyendo del destino al que los condena la historia de su país. Reina, joven y seductora, es la impulsora del éxodo, y Marlon, enamorado perdidamente de ella, la acompaña.

La sociedad en la que vivimos parece funcionar con el botón de avance rápido. Caminamos con prisa, estrés y siempre pendientes del móvil. Estamos tan sumergidos en los avances tecnológicos que pasamos por alto detenernos, mirar a nuestro alrededor y respirar con calma. Nos olvidamos de los beneficios que propicia desconectar. «Es fácil ser feliz si sabes cómo», nos dice el autor. Apreciar la naturaleza y todo lo que nos da es sinónimo de alegría. Desconéctate y vive es para la gente que está cansada de vivir con prisas.

Platón, Aristóteles, Sócrates, Epicteto, Epicuro, Pitágoras, Esopo: las reflexiones y enseñanzas de los filósofos de la antigua Grecia han perdurado a través de los siglos y permanecen vigentes. Los autores han destilado la sabiduría intemporal de estos y otros filósofos griegos, convirtiéndola en diez reglas fáciles de comprender y recordar cuya observación ayudará a los oyentes de nuestros días a llevar una vida más rica y significativa.

Llueve desde hace días. Madrid, víctima de una devastadora epidemia, está a punto de convertirse en un cementerio. Para impedir que se consume el Plan de la Sociedad Hermética, los protagonistas de la novela habrán de recorrer palacios y museos saqueados por una muchedumbre furiosa, túneles del alcantarillado, un laberinto llamado el infierno....

Covering essential curriculum areas such as human geography, physical geography, geology and ecology, First Earth Encyclopedia is a comprehensive introduction to the world around us and answers questions including: how does our planet work; what shapes it; and how do people use Earth's resources? Children can explore fascinating topics including where and how people live, weather, world environments, how to use maps and the way our planet is changing. 

This audiobook features an eight-year-old boy telling, in his newly learned Spanish, about his love of salmon fishing. This is A FLY Young Author Book. Advanced students have the opportunity to write a story in their new target language and become a published FLY Young Author.

Constantinopla, año 389, una soleada mañana de marzo una larga comitiva sale de la iglesia de los Santos Apóstoles portando un féretro. Su destino, Carranque. A la cabeza, Achantia, la viuda, cumple la última voluntad de su marido: regresar a Hispania. Así comienza esta novela en la que Bernabé Mohedano recrea la vida y el larguísimo viaje de uno de los hombres más influyentes del Imperio y mano derecha del emperador Teodosio, Materno Cinegio, quien murió cuando iba a ser elevado a cónsul de Oriente.

When it first happened, the euphoria was palpable. The masses rejoiced in the new reality of no longer having to grow old or die, but brotherhood and good will was soon lost somewhere in the blurred line between infinite and finite and in those who chose differently. Those who still believed that life was meant to have a natural progression with a beginning and an end became destined to live their lives out on the streets. Those who accepted the glorious gift of "Foreverlife" lived interminably in their bliss - or so it seemed.

As I walked around the city to find a job, I ended up frustrated in the park bench, and I never thought that there would be a man who would hear my long sigh. He introduced himself as Matthew Barnett. He is the CEO and the owner of Global Industries and Corporation. He gave me his business card and told me to call him if I wanted a job, so I did....

Stone Peterson was as cold and hard as his name implied. Tossed from one foster home to the other is what gave Stone his cruel edge. He trusted no one. Men were for his pleasure only. Owning a leather bar, he had the choice of many. A guy would kill to have one night with Stone. But his method of f--king was rough and crude. He didn't care who he hurt. That is, until he met Ian.

It is the 22nd century and technology has reached epic heights. Cures to most diseases have been found and people are living perpetually thanks to the influx of prosthetic augmentations. Crime also has been at a record low until a grisly homicide case lands on Detective Jack Payne's desk. Jack Payne is from the old generation and has lost his edge since being in his prime. He will have to put his career, life, and sanity on the line to catch a cyber serial killer of tomorrow....

Alex's first day of work proves to be a real pain in the ass. Cleaning a gigantic mansion isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Thankfully, Alex's master is willing to take things nice and slow while teaching him the more intimate duties of the job.

Vidal es un apuesto joven colombiano que invita a su amiga Perla a irse de Colombia para reunirse con él en París y hacerla partícipe de su plan: lograr que ella, maleducada y rebelde, se case con el viejo conde Adolphe de Cressay. Así el conde cumplirá lo que le prometió: hacer de Vidal el legítimo heredero de ambos. Educada por Vidal, Perla logrará ocupar su sitio junto al conde y el plan parecerá tener éxito.

¿Será usted capaz de cambiar su vida a pesar de los engaños de su cerebro? Nuestro cerebro es bromista, nos confunde; nos engaña dándonos la ilusión de lo que es la alegría y la felicidad. La habituación a la felicidad es un fenómeno que nos desgasta y nos acostumbra hacia lo que nos genera felicidad o gozo. En este libro, conocerá los mecanismos que regulan nuestro cerebro, para entender por qué nunca estamos satisfechos. En resumen, se trata de descifrar los engranajes de la frustración, de los cinco elementos efímeros para el cerebro.

When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too big for his 25-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby. Growing up in South East London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his school for disabled children, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay; at his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs.