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"Bertram ile üç arkadaşı Jack, Kasper ve Felix okulu yeni bitirmiş ve Atmacalar adını verdikleri küçük bir çete kurmuşlardır. Müşterilerinden aldığı siparişler doğrultusunda pahalı tasarım mobilyalar çalmak için soygunlar yapan "Usta" adını verdikleri adam için belirli bir pay karşılığında çalışırlar. Bertram, bir restoranda garsonluk yapan ve oğlunun gazete dağıtarak para kazandığını zanneden annesiyle birlikte yaşamaktadır. Babası cinayetten ömür boyu hapis cezası alıp tutuklandığında yalnızca yedi yaşında olan Bertram, babasıyla ilgili pek bir şey hatırlamaz.

Sent away for their own protection when they were very young, Azemar and Azalaïs become separated when they flee from the band of outlaws who served as their supposed protectors. Armed only with fleeting memories, their names, and the wits and intelligence that have helped them survive brutal conditions, they struggle to find each other again and discover the mysterious past that links them across distance and time.

Dicembre 1946, l’inverno più freddo del secolo. A Berlino comincia faticosamente la ricostruzione. Riaprono teatri e cinema, ma viveri e combustibile scarseggiano, e la battaglia per la sopravvivenza è quotidiana. Tra cumuli di macerie e muri pericolanti, l’unico a prosperare è il mercato nero. Per tenersi alla larga dal fuoco incrociato degli Alleati, l’ex commissario Oppenheimer non è rientrato in servizio e, seduto a una scrivania dell’Ufficio Ricerche, smista le schede delle persone scomparse.

Noah and Allie fell in love as teenagers, with the purest sort of love, only to be kept apart by Allie's mother. Their feelings survived in spite of everything - and they recounted their romance in the pages of a notebook. Now, years later, Allie suffers from Alzheimer's, and her memory has been wiped clean. By reading the story of their relationship and the passion they shared, Noah hopes to break through the barrier of his wife's illness. This poignant first novel from Nicholas Sparks rivals any love story ever written.

Él era Oskar Schindler. Un empresario alemán, miembro del partido nazi, que, con osadía e ingenio, se convirtió en un héroe en medio del horror de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. En este gran hito de la literatura sobre el Holocausto, Thomas Keneally recrea magistralmente sus peligrosas proezas y cómo utilizó su fortuna para comprar una fábrica cerca de un campo de concentración y así salvar la vida de más de 1.300 judíos.

Folly Beach, South Carolina, has survived despite hurricanes and war. But it's the personal battles of Folly Beach's residents that have left the most scars, and they are why a young widow has been beckoned there to heal her own. To most people, Folly Beach is simply the last barrier island before reaching the great Atlantic. To some, it's a sanctuary for lost souls, which is why Emmy Hamilton's mother encourages her to buy a local bookstore, Folly's Finds, hoping it will distract Emmy from the loss of her husband.

The wilderness--forest, desert, glacier, jungle--has been the scene of the past century's most exciting stories, inspiring many of its greatest writers, including Jack London, Norman Maclean, Evelyn Waugh, Redmond O'Hanlon, Sir Wilfred Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson and Algernon Blackwood. Selections from these authors' most gripping works are delivered by equally compelling narration producing an audiobook experience ideal for people who are fascinated by the beauty, insight and danger that awaits us all in the wild!

In 1918, a fearless 22-year-old arrives in bohemian San Francisco from the Northeast, determined to make her own way. Renaming herself Dorothea Lange, she is soon the celebrated owner of the city’s most prestigious and stylish portrait studio. By the early 1930s, determined to expose the horrific conditions of the nation’s poor, she takes to the road with her camera, creating images that inspire, reform, and define the era. And when the US enters World War II, Dorothea chooses to confront another injustice - the incarceration of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans.

The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. With writing from Greg Child, David Roberts, Stephen Venables, Alfred Lansing and others, Epic is a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world’s most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions!

Inglaterra, 1820. Rosalind Newbury quiere a su familia y haría por ella lo que fuera. Así que, cuando nada menos que un duque pide su mano, ella dice sí sin pensárselo. De ese modo asegurará su futuro y el de los suyos. Pero un día todo se tambalea cuando encuentra una lista de deseos que había hecho cuando era jovencita.

Es ist Ballsaison und der begehrteste Junggeselle Londons sucht eine Gattin. Mr. Jeremy Malcom hat einen genauen Plan, um die perfekte Frau zu finden. Eine Frau, die alle Bedingungen seiner Liste erfüllt. Das anspruchsvolle Projekt droht zu scheitern, doch dann kommt Selina Dalton in die Stadt. Malcolm ist Feuer und Flamme. Aber warum reagiert Selina nicht so recht auf seine Avancen? Als er erkennt, dass die Frau seiner Träume ebenfalls eine Liste führt, muss er alles daransetzen, ihre Auswahlkriterien zu erfüllen.

London's East End heaves with child prostitutes, hawkers, beggars, and thieves. A solution is offered that sounds perfect - Canadian farmers need workers, their wives want housemaids. Shipping children to this land of plenty offers them a future. Widow Mary Trupper is wary, but the promise of a good life for her children is strong.

When Lena Manning finds herself widowed after World War I, she must build a new life for herself and her infant daughter. With the help of her church, she finds stability and contentment until the arrival of a new pastor turns her quiet life upside down. Turned out of her job at the church, Lena is offered employment and a home with a wealthy family. When the son of the house pursues her, she is drawn into the seductive world of wealth and power. Can she survive the secrets of that world, or will fear drive her back to her church where she can no longer be sure of her welcome?

In the fall of 1953, during the surface calm and prosperity of post-World War II America, the privileged West Texas Randolph family suffers a terrible blow. As a result, a disparate group of strangers become inextricably linked to the family, and to each other, for the four decades to follow. In the aftermath of their life-altering event, the deep-rooted Randolph clan is left vulnerable not only to threats from the outside, but to more sinister ones from within its own ranks.

In this mystical short story, the author recalls frequenting a Broadway cafeteria where he would meet other Polish and Russian immigrants. In the fifties, a woman named Esther became part of their group. Although she had been in a Russian prison camp and now had taken a menial job to support her cripple father, she was cheerful and outgoing. She and the author became good friends, but each time he saw her, she looked more disenchanted; her father died, she was often ill, and she worried about her sanity.

The Mysterious Stranger is a novel by the American author Mark Twain. It tells the tale of three boys, Theodor, Seppi, and Nikolaus, who live relatively happy simple lives in a remote Austrian village called Eseldorf in 1590, and their meeting with a handsome stranger who, unknown to the boys, is Satan incarnate.

Anne Elliot is engaged to Captain Frederick Wentworth. Her father and sisters along with a family friend, Lady Russell, frown on Anne's engagement to Captain Wentworth - whom they perceive to be nothing more than a lowly captain.

She'd inherited Jack Manning's bold heart, tempered once in a very great while by her stepfather's gentle upbringing and her mother's practical nature. But as far as Jackie Manning Bradshaw is concerned, she'll need that bold heart to work her way onto the Broadway stage, the only place she's ever wanted to be.

October, 1917 - Lena Garson, 19 years old, daughter of an old-fashioned banker and his wife, thinks of herself as a very well brought up young lady leading a quiet life with a predicable future. When Clarence Muldoon, son of the richest man in town, begins to court her, Lena feels her life is now going in the direction her parents want for her.

Ambientada en el mítico Salvaje Oeste Americano, un vaquero envejecido monta su caballo de confianza tratando de huir del paso del tiempo, mientras recuerda el singular momento que definió su vida con una mujer de su juventud.