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Primary Colors is the riveting story of a governor-from-a-small-state's quest for the presidency, and a jaded Beltway insider's search for a leader to believe in. Spending nearly a year on the New York Times best-seller list, this blockbuster novel has sold well over one million copies. Primary Colors offers a richly detailed look at life on the political stump. As former congressional aide Henry Burton is dazzled and lured into presidential hopeful...
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Originally written in Icelandic in the thirteenth century AD by an anonymous author, The Story of The Volsungs is a legendary saga based on Norse mythology. The epic describes the legendary history and heroic feats of several generations of mythic Viking families and derives from many sources, including preexisting Edda, or heroic poems, Norse legends, historical events, and orally transmitted folklore. The saga is imbued throughout with themes of...
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The truth only fiction can tell.
This is a novel about aspiration and delusion, set during the presidential election of 2012 and written by an anonymous author who has spent years observing politics and the fraught relationship between public image and self-regard.
The novel includes revealing and insightful portraits of many prominent figures in the political world-some invented and some real.
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El joven Aladino solo pensaba en divertirse.
Un día, un astuto mago lo convenció para que lo siguiera hasta el campo, encendió un fuego y le echó unos polvos mágicos.
Apareció una enorme puerta de piedra y el mago dijo: Solo tú puedes levantar la puerta y encontrar el tesoro: pero no te lleves nada, excepto la lámpara.
La colección Cuentos de bolsillo reúne los cuentos y fábulas de toda la vida relatados con una visión muy actual y acompañados...
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Editorial Fonolibros
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ALI BABA Y LOS 40 LADRONES - HISTORIA DE CHAFAR, LA ESCLAVA - HISTORIA DE DALILA, LA TAIMADA. El sultán ha sido engañado por una esposa y condena a muerte a cuanta mujer se case con él después de la noche de bodas. Sherezada aplaza su destino contándole cada noche un cuento que se interrumpe en el momento culminante y hace que el sultán, interesado, le vaya perdonando su vida para que ella continúe con la historia. Esta es la base de la bella,...
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In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, this heart-wrenching story chronicles a girl's fatal experience with testing her moral limits and the dangers of addiction.
Bailey welcomes a fresh start at the prestigious boarding school, Prescott Academy, far away from the painful memories of her mother's death and the unendurable happiness of her father and his new wife. She expects rigorous coursework and long hours of studying-what she doesn't...
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A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal.
The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, and Berkeley-bound older brother. She was a good girl, living a good life . . . but one party changed everything. One party, where she took one taste-and liked it. Really liked it.
Social drinking and...
12) Go Ask Alice
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Life at 15 isn't easy for a girl if she's shy and hates the way she looks. Each day is heaven or hell, depending on who talks to her, or who doesn't. So when she's finally accepted by a group, she doesn't refuse their party games, even if it means taking LSD. Soon she's taking little pills to wake up and others to go to sleep, and the days begin to blur. Leaving the secure, middle-class circle of her family, she travels into a nightmare realm of hustlers...
13) Jay's Journal
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Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambitions. He was happy. And he thought he could handle anything.
He was wrong.
When Jay falls in with a crowd that's dabbling in drugs and the occult, he finds himself in over his head and doing things he never thought possible. Fascinated by the dark arts and in love with a dangerous girl, Jay falls deeper and deeper into a life he no longer recognizes...
14) BuchstabenBande, Spaßhase, Pfeffernase, morgen kommt der Osterhase! - Schräge Geschichten für den
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Da lachen ja die Hühner - und wir gleich mit! Denn beim Hören dieses Osterhörbuchs bleibt garantiert kein Hühnerauge trocken! Mit schrägen Geschichten über das Osterschwein oder das goldene Drachenei im Osternest und spannenden Funfacts über die Osterzeit wird das Warten auf den Osterhasen zu einem tierischen Vergnügen!
Zum Geschichtenschmökern laden u. a. Mara Andeck, Lucy Astner, Akram El-Bahay und Gesa Schwartz ein. Ein toller Osterspaß...
18) Letting Ana Go
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In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction.
She was a good girl from a good family, with everything she could want or need. But below the surface, she felt like she could never be good enough. Like she could never live up to the expectations that surrounded her. Like she couldn't do anything to make a change.
But there was one thing she could control completely: how much she ate. The less...
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It is the story of Jack's house, or even of Jack who built the house, and shows how the house is indirectly linked to other things and people, and through this method tells the story of "The man all tattered and torn", and the "Maiden all forlorn", as well as other smaller events, showing how these are interlinked.
20) BuchstabenBande, Advent, Advent, die Tanne brennt - Schräge Geschichten für die schönste Zeit des
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Hier steigt das Stimmungsbarometer zu Weihnachten bis in die Tannenspitzen. Mit schrägen Geschichten wird die Zeit bis Heiligabend unterhaltsam verkürzt.
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