Leon: 1324 books

Esta nueva aventura del comisario Brunetti se inicia con el brutal asesinato de una anciana odiada por sus vecinos. Las sospechas se ciernen sobre su criada rumana, desaparecida la tarde del crimen. Acosada, la joven muere durante la persecución policial, llevando consigo una considerable cantidad...

Un cadete de una academia militar de élite aparece ahorcado. Todo indica que se trata de un suicidio, pero el comisario Brunetti empieza a sospechar del muro de silencio que levantan ante él todos los miembros de la academia, sea cual sea su graduación. El célebre detective está convencido de...

Life is a Circle Life isnt stagnant. Life doesnt stand still. Life is a constant car-ou-sel. Everything changes for better or for worse Life turns in circlesin our universe. Light breaks darkness and heat warms cold War ends peace and youth turns old Food cures famine and water quenches thirst Rain...

"Darkening Stars - A Novel of the Great War" is about a young law student who was drafted to serve as a platoon commander in the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps sent to Flanders in 1917. What happened to him and the men under his command, the small and great miseries of their life in the trenches,...

Éxodo da nombre al barco en el que un grupo de judíos supervivientes de los campos de concetración nazis intenta llegar a Palestina para encontrar la libertad. Desafortunadamente, este barco es interceptado por los británicos y son enviados a otro campo de concentración, esta vez británico....

Where there has been fighting or the threat of fighting since the end of the Second World War, the United Nations has ahnost al­ ways been involved. Frequently that involvement has taken the concrete form of a field commission or a team of observers, made up of nationals of several countries and...

  This book is a story about the good and bad times that took place during my life. A will to never give up on life even when life looked hopeless to everyone except me. Remembering the terrible pain in the hospital when my only thought was to breathe-in and breathe-out, and the many good things...

This is a semibiographical story of events in my life where Jesus intervened to save me from injury and death.

‘A book that is a joy to pick up and page through – one that will always take me back to where I’ve been.’ Such is the intention behind this book, a description of the lush rainforest area of the Garden Route and the paradox of its proximity with the semi-desert of the Little Karoo. The author...

WHEN THE NEWS CAME No, said the Princess. No. I'm – dashed if I do. My darling child! exclaimed the Grand Duchess. You're impossible. If any one should hear you! It's he who's impossible, the Princess amended. I'm just trying to show you – Or to shock me. You are so like your grandmother. That's...

First published in 1963. Matthew Arnold grew up under the personal as well as literary influence of Wordsworth, when Keats, Shelley, and Byron were dominant poetic forces and Coleridge a seminal thinker on social and religious problems. However, the great Romantics were not always positive influences....

What is truth? Are facts necessary for something to be called true? Is it enough that the majority believes in something for that thing to be considered truth? The book proposes the mathematics of life as the ultimate truth, the truth which everything must be based on. As written in the beginning...

This brief presents a new approach to the study of bullying and prejudice in school settings, analyzing the particularities of these two forms of violence and relating them to the hierarchies that distinguish students based on academic performance and popularity. Analyzing data gathered by surveys...

MY LIFE: POETIC LITERATURE is a compilation which derives from my many thoughts over a span of thirteen years. My poetic words speak to the multitude of those who encounter hardship and encourage all to overcome the adversities that one faces. I aim to have my words reverberate from a mental realm;...