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Sister Agatha of the Our Lady of Hope monastery in Bernalillo, New Mexico has become reknowned—and occasionally infamous— for her crime solving skills. Now she must bring her skills to bear on her most important case yet—her friend and ally Sheriff Tom Green is a suspect in the brutal murder of his rival in the upcoming election.

This is not just another bedtime book. Help your child to sleep with expert techniques! When getting your child to sleep can be a nightly challenge, Can You Yawn Like a Fawn? uses clinical sleep strategies for a calming, restful reading experience to tell a story of sleepy animals getting tucked...

From the bestselling author of CAN YOU YAWN LIKE A FAWN? comes the adorable follow-up, CAN YOU SNORE LIKE A DINOSAUR? This stunningly illustrated bedtime book from Monica Sweeney and Lauren Yelvington uses clinical sleep strategies with comforting, soporific language to tell the story of drowsy dinosaurs...

Oil is not pretty, but it is a resource that drives the modern world. It has made fortunes for the lucky few and provided jobs for millions of ordinary folks. Thick and slippery, crude oil has an evil smell. Yet without it, life as we live it today would be impossible. Oil fuels our engines,...

Break-in at the Three Bears family home? It could only be one dame. Wicked witch gone missing from her candied cottage? Hansel and Gretel claim it was self-defense. Did Humpty Dumpty really just fall off that wall, or was he pushed? Here are five fairy-tale stories with a twist, all told from the...

The Old Wizard of Dreams guides us to the blurred and distant past of mankind, where the secrets were tried to be puzzled out by the telepathic abilities of guardians of wisdom, creators of theory and thinkers. Al-Mahmatall, one of the thinkers was assigned to research about the dreams and while wandering inside the mind of a sick child he unexpectedly makes a shocking discovery...

Rafael F. Muñoz publicó tres libros de cuentos: El feroz cabecilla y otros cuentos de la revolución en el Norte (1928), El hombre malo, Villa ataca Ciudad Juárez y La marcha nupcial (1930) y Si me han de matar mañana (1933). La colección que el lector tiene en sus manos incluye todos los cuentos...

Alba Sanz, joven periodista de belleza poco convencional, tiene la oportunidad de su vida: un reportaje para atrapar con las manos en la masa a un capo de la mafia siciliana. Alba piensa en el espaldarazo que significará para su carrera mientras espera oculta en el armario de la suite del mafioso....

Lea de Montreau tenía una elección difícil: casarse, tener un heredero o renunciar a su castillo. Era una mujer orgullosa y estaba dispuesta a hacer lo que fuera preciso por proteger a su gente. Y pareció que el destino se mostraba favorable con ella cuando la reina le envió a un hombre… El...

Desde que dejó la universidad y empezó a trabajar como agente de pasaje en una línea aérea, el día a día de Tesa transcurre entre retrasos y cancelaciones. Los horarios intempestivos del aeropuerto la agotan, apenas tiene vida social, no llega a mileurista y vive colada por Roberto, un piloto...

Siempre al borde de la ironía o la parodia, pero también al filo inquisitivo de las cosas –las diez mil cosas celebradas con acentos melancólicos y firmes–, el rito que Eduardo Hurtado consuma en este hermoso libro de poemas arranca y desemboca en el sustancioso claroscuro de la mirada. Una...

Mayday! Mayday! We're going down! You've crashed in the jungle and you must now find your way to safety, avoiding the wildlife and the drug dealers along the way. Decide if you live or die in this choose-your-own-destiny adventure from real-life explorer Simon Chapman. This book isn't like...

English is a unique language which has innumerable great poets and authors from the past as well as the present, who have contributed profusely to its rich heritage. Nonetheless, we can not ignore the complexities of the English language which sometimes perplex a reader or even a scholar of this language....

The Temple, first published in 1925, is a short nautical story by the master of horror H.P. Lovecraft, with a World War I background.