Isabel: 1027 books

HE GREAT WOODS “Well! this would be the very day for a long tramp up into the woods. Tooraloo! I feel just in the humor for that.” Colin Estey stretched his well-developed fourteen-year-old body among the tall feathery grasses of the broad salt-marsh whereon he lay, kicking his heels in the September...

Un título inédito de romántica, con elementos de thriller que sorprenderán a las lectoras. Cuando Ana Alcázar acude a comisaría a denunciar el asesinato de una adolescente bajo su tutela y explica que está segura de ello porque ha tenido una visión, el inspector jefe Nuño Macnamara...

It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age-old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship...

The Window-Gazer is one of the masterpieces by Mackay. With brimming emotions the work portrays the twists and turns of fate. Through an array of amazing characters the virtues of steadfastness and sincerity are sketched in the work. Ups and downs of life and turmoil that have to be faced are depicted in a manner that makes the work realistic and engrossing.

El cuento es la forma literaria que recoge la magia de la narración desde tiempos inmemoriales hasta ahora. Este género plasma como pocos la historia de la literatura y su cercanía a la población: el cuento oral, el cuento en las hogueras de la tribu, el cuento en las cocinas de las casas, el...

Cuando Sol abre los ojos en el hospital de la base militar de Rota, se encuentra cara a cara con el pirata que la persigue en sus sueños. Pero, en realidad, el enigmático teniente Jay Farrell no es un pirata, sino un miembro del NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) muy interesado en hallar...

Si no hubiera sido por la oportuna intervención de Kors Van Dijken, aquella misteriosa mujer habría muerto ahogada al llegar la pleamar, pero aún es pronto para cantar victoria. En medio de una de las peores tempestades a las que se ha enfrentado en su vida, el veterano lobo de mar se ve...

Veintitrés relatos de amor y violencia secretamente entrelazados por un fino hilo narrativo y un rico lenguaje que recrea azarosas peripecias en un mundo exuberante y voluptuoso. Una niña solitaria se enamora del amante de su madre y practica misteriosas ceremonias rituales; una mujer permanece...

SHELLEY'S WORK HAS BEEN CRITICIZED FOR ITS DIDACTICISM AND UNDISCIPLINED EMOTIONALISM. BUT ESSENTIALLY HE WAS A POET OF IDEAS AND IN HIS SEARCH FOR TRUTH AND ORIGINAL HUMAN PERFECTION, SHELLEY WAS INSPIRED AS MUCH BY THE GREEK POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS, PARTICULARLY PLATO, AS BY THE RADICALISM OF HIS...

Muhammad Ali, nacido Cassius Marcellus Clay, fue uno de los deportistas más influyentes del siglo XX, el mejor boxeador de la historia y el primero en ganar tres veces el título de los pesos pesados. Activista político e ídolo de masas, su figura trascendió el mundo del boxeo al convertirse al...

It's the start of one of the hottest summers on record with soaring temperatures and weeks without rain; the summer of Abba, T-Rex, David Bowie and Demis Roussos; of Martinis, cheesecake and chicken chasseur; of the Montreal Olympi and the Notting Hill riots - the summer Big Ben stopped dead. Luke...

Where the eye sees the brushstroke, the heart sees the truth. At thirty-five, Gabriella “Ella” Graham is a successful portrait artist in London. She captures the essential truth in each of her subjects’ faces—a tilt of the chin, a glint in the eye—and immortalizes it on canvas. But...

A passionate tale of love, freedom, and conquest from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende. Born into a poor family in Spain, Inés Suárez, finds herself condemned to a life of poverty without opportunity as a lowly seamstress. But it's the sixteenth...

Senior year is not shaping up to be the picture perfect movie Em Katsaros had imagined. Her super hot leading man is five thousand miles away. Her dad just got laid off. And Em can kiss her first-pick university goodbye if she doesn't snag a scholarship.   To turn this Shakespearean...