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Las aptitudes paternales de Darth Vader, sobre todo cuando toca ir a dormir, vuelven a ponerse a prueba en esta secuela de Vader e hijo y Vader y su princesita. En este episodio, el Lord Sith debe calmar a sus revoltosos gemelos, Luke y Leia, quienes no quieren ir a acostarse e insisten que papá les lea una historia. A medida que Vader va leyendo el libro, aparecen sus personajes favoritos, como Yoda, R2-D2, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Maul o Boba Fett. Y los pequeños se van relajando, bostezando y cerrando los ojitos hasta quedarse dormidos. Como es habitual, las encantadoras ilustraciones de Brown y su sentido del humor brillan, jugando con las convenciones de los cuentos infantiles, para encantar a grandes y pequeños por igual

De forma divertida e interactiva, tus pequeños aprenderán cuáles son los vehículos para la construcción y sus usos.

"Spider-Man se une a Ant-Man y Wasp para proteger la feria escolar de Ciencias contra el malvado Doctor Octopus. ¡No pararán hasta que todo vaya viento en popa!"-- Back cover.

Es un mundo distinto para las tortugas... El grupo está dividido mientras Rafael vaga por las calles de la ciudad de Nueva York en busca de comida y refugio. sus hermanos y el maestro Splinter lo están buscando, pero hasta ahora lo único que pueden encontrar son problemas... ¡en la forma del gato de callejón mutante llamado el viejo Job y u pandilla de criminales! ¡El núcleo mismo de la familia de las tortugas está en juego al rebelarse el nuevo origen de las TMNT! ¡Acompañen a Tom Waltz, Dan Duncan y al creador de TMNT Kevin Eastman para el inicio de un viaje ajetreado!

"Yukiteru Amano, un estudiante que tenía como pasatiempo un diario, cierta mañana descubre su propio futuro escrito desde su celular, sin embargo, al continuar leyendo encuentra la palabra "Muerte". Sin darse cuenta, nuestro amigo se encuentra involucrado en un juego de supervivencia, donde no sabe con seguridad si la chica stalker llamada Yuno es su aliada o enemiga. Se trata de un juego mortal donde 12 participantes con capacidades de ver el futuro compiten a muerte." -- Back cover.

In a stunning move, Eleventh, none other than the mayor of Sakurami, arms every cititzen with their own future diaries! But in the midst of this dramatic turnabout, Yuki and Yuno disappear, leaving Minene Uyru, Ninth, alone in her efforts to ake Eleventh down. That is, until officer Nishijima decides that he wants to be on Ninth's side permanently ... a promise he backs up with a wedding ring! Will Ninth accept his amourous offer ...? -- amazon.com

It's a battle of love between two couples - the madly smitten Marco and Ai, and dysfunctional Yukiteru and Yuno. The power of true love seems to overpower all as Marco and Ai continually foil Yukiteru and Yuno's best plans. Just when things couldn't get any more confusing for Yuki, his long-absent father returns, promising to remarry his mother! But his real goal is far more sinister, and Yukiteru's life is in serious danger ... -- amazon.com

Via the scheming of his new friend Aru, Yukiteru and Yuno share an unexpected date at a free 'wedding trial' program. When they get back to Yuno's house, the room in which Aru expected to find dead bodies has been replaced by a giant hole in the ground. Not only that, but Yuno seems to have willfully tampered with her own memory so that she's forgotten that Yukiteru ever even visited her. -- amazon.com

In the next volume of diary holders and deceit, even the most seemingly innocent can't be trusted. Yukiteru, Yuno, and Kurusu have been attacked by Tsubaki, another diary holder and Priestess, at her temple. Yuno manages to open up an escape route, but they run out of energy and are captured. As Tsubaki orders Yuno to be killed, nothing is less certain for our trio than the one thing they had learned to trust - the future. Rated: T+

A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she can't forget. Disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who left the community decades before to minister to deprived women in Thailand - then disappeared, presumed murdered. Finally, a troubling visitor to the monastery pulls the narrator further back into her past. With each of these disturbing arrivals, the woman faces some deep questions. Can a person be truly good? What is forgiveness? Is loss of hope a moral failure? And can the business of grief ever really be finished?

"Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology. The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there, including his abusive father, Carlyle, and the farm that loomed so large in memory, forever. But neither Nick nor his brother Joshua, disowned for marrying Emilia, a woman of Asian descent, can ignore such summons from their father, who hopes for a deathbed reconciliation. Predictably, Joshua and Carlyle quickly warm to each other while Nick and Emilia are left to their own devices. Nick puts the time to good use and his flirtation with Emilia quickly blooms into romance. Though not long after the affair turns intimate, Nick begins to suspect that Emilia's interest in him may have sinister, and possibly even ancient, motivations. Punctuated by scenes from Nick's adolescent years, when memories of a queer awakening and a shadowy presence stalking the farm altered the trajectory of his life forever, Sacrificial Animals explores the violent legacy of inherited trauma and the total collapse of a family in its wake"-- Provided by publisher.

When a persistent mutual friend conspires to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse, until they discover exactly what they've been looking for.

Journalist Mike Hixenbaugh tells the story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America.

This box set brings the Bard's timeless tales to life for a younger generation. Samantha Newman's cleverly reworked text retains many of Shakespeare's own inimitable turns of phrase, while simplifying and clarifying the language and plots to make stories accessible to children.

In 2001, after a disease decimates the sheep population of northern England, two neighboring shepherds who lost everything turn to sheep rustling. But the heists lead to more difficult decisions involving the wife of one of the shepherds and the increasing influence of a lawless outsider. And the struggles of this land of moors and mountains are never far away.

Tom Lee's life changes forever the day he meets a talking tiger named Mr. Hu and discovers that he has magical powers and great responsibilities that he never imagined. Despite his doubts and fears, Tom joins Mr. Hu's ragtag band of creatures in their fight to keep an ancient talisman out of the hands of the worst possible enemy.

In this slim volume of spiritual introspection, they ask us to share in their practice, posing nine questions that focus our minds and hearts on who we are, who we can become. Throughout we hear the words of the Kogi elders, wisdom that offers revelations, inspiration, and direction for our everyday lives.

Sinopsis: Clara nació en el seno de una familia modesta en Madrid. Su madre era costurera y su padre contable. Con tan solo diez años, al morir el padre, tuvo que dejar sus estudios y ponerse a trabajar. Con 35 años se licenció en Derecho convirtiéndose en la segunda mujer abogada en España. Fue una acérrima defensora de la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres y dedicó su vida a luchar por el derecho de las mujeres al voto. Gracias a su gran labor política, en 1933 se celebraron las primeras elecciones en las que las mujeres pudieron votar. Pero en 1936 estalló la Guerra Civil y tuvo que exiliarse. Siempre será recordada por su valentía y determinación en la lucha por los derechos de las mujeres.

"Lee Jun-Fan nació el año del Dragón en San Francisco pero se crió en Hong Kong. Actuó desde pequeño en una veintena de películas. A los 12 años empezó a practicar artes marciales y posteriormente fue campeón de chachachá. Para sacarle del ambiente de las peleas de bandas, sus padres decidieron enviarle a Estados Unidos. Allí estudió la carrera de Filosofía. Abrió su propia escuela de artes marciales y creó un estilo propio llamado jeet kune do: una mezcla de kungfú, esgrima, boxeo y filosofía. Poco después empezó a aparecer en series de televisión y a protagonizar películas que batieron récords de taquilla. Gracias a su popularidad, Bruce Lee consiguió extender su pasión por las artes marciales por todo el mundo."--Casadellibro.com.

"It’s late spring in Juliet's charming hamlet, Ashland, Oregon. Spotted deer are nibbling on lush green grasses in Lithia Park, the Japanese maples are blooming, and Torte is baking a bevy of spring delights - lemon curd cupcakes, mini coconut cream pies, grapefruit tartlets, and chocolate dipped almond Tuiles. Meanwhile, her friend Lance, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is taking center stage with his new theater troupe - the Fair Verona Players. Their performance in Uva's vineyard promises to be a modern, gender-bending twist on "The Taming of the Shrew," but as the curtain rises, so do the strange occurrences. Stage mishaps and internal bickering threaten to derail the production. But as the curtain rises, the real show begins when the leading actor, Jimmy Paxton, meets his final curtain call. Now, Jules is not only in the mix, but she's going to need to craft the perfect recipe for solving this theatrical whodunit." -- Back cover

It's been over a decade since Nash Rollins recruited a brilliant, talented, but disaffected young man named David Webb to join Treadstone. Webb became the agent known as Cain - and later took on the identity of Jason Bourne. That violent winter - which included Cain's first mission for Treadstone - was also a story of betrayal in ways that David never knew. So after the injury that erased Bourne's whole life, Nash lied about the circumstances of David's recruitment to Treadstone. He was afraid that learning the truth might drive Bourne out of the agency forever. But now, when Bourne meets a woman who recognises him as David Webb, the secrets of those days begin to come out - and Bourne is forced to confront the dangerous ghosts of a past he doesn't even remember.

It's never easy working fire scenes. Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysterious arson attack, Tempe quickly finds her misgivings justified. The fire site is in Foggy Bottom, a neighbourhood with a colourful history, and as the pieces start falling into place, the property's ownership becomes more and more suspicious. Sensing a good story, Tempe teams up with a new ally, telejournalist Ivy Doyle. Delving into the past, the duo learns that back in the '30s and '40s the home was the hangout of a group of bootleggers and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting, this fact seems irrelevant - until the son of one of the gang members is shot dead at his farm in Virginia. When another Foggy Bottom Gang-linked property burns to the ground, claiming one more victim, what might have been coincidence starts to look more like targeted attacks. As she and Ivy dig deeper, Tempe's instincts point towards the obvious - somehow, her every move since coming to Washington has been anticipated in advance. And every path forward brings with it a lethal threat.

"1920s, Blue Moon, Montana. The small cattle town is alight with the excitement of cars, telephones, and airplanes. But as new inventions and new roles for women collide with Prohibition and the rising battle between gangsters and the FBI, Blue Moon finds itself--and some of its most infamous residents and powerful families--at a crossroads, and in battles of their own, between hearts and minds... Heir to the Hollister Ranch on his mother's side, Mason Dollarhide is back home after a five-year prison sentence for smuggling bootleg liquor. Cynical and daring, he's already up to his old tricks, having his goods trafficked to him by plane... Until the pilot is injured in a crash and captured by federal agents. Ruby Weaver learned to fly from her smuggler father. To keep him out of prison, she agrees to take over his route and go undercover to help the Feds break up a bootlegging ring. Mason is only one part of that large operation, but he's the rugged, rebellious, and tantalizingly irreverent part that makes an impression. Against her better judgement, Ruby finds herself falling for him, fighting an attraction that could jeopardize them both, while harboring a secret that could destroy any hope of a future together... Mason has never met a woman quite like Ruby. Not only is she brave and beautiful, but she somehow understands his ways--and may even inspire him to change them. The first step will be trusting her enough to open his heart... While the fire between Ruby and Mason smolders, other star-crossed Blue Moon romances blaze, as old family rivalries between the Dollarhides and the Calders continue. But when tables unexpectedly turn, some dreams may go up in smoke ..."-- Provided by publisher.

"It's a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she's actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn't here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she's dreamed of coming for years--she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she's here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan--which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can't stop confiding in each other. In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach's The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined--and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us" -- Provided by publisher.

"Everyone loves dogs, including your favorite PBS KIDS friends! In a special collection, Arthur's dog Pal takes advantage of the special treatment he gets when he has to wear a cone. Pinkalicious helps her friend train his dog for the Pinkminster Dog Show. And Tooey must choose a puppy to train as a sled dog. Plus, Alma recruits her friends and their pets for an animal show, the Kratt brothers go to India to find the Dhole, aka "The Red Dog" and many more canine capers!" -- Container.

Twelve-year-old Wednesday discovers she is not the only one at her new school who can see ghosts.

Yellow Bird can create all sorts of thing with his tiny wings, but he cannot fly. His friend Teo tells him he should invent something that would help him fly. He not only does this; he shares his invention with other animals. This picture book about sharing introduces children to the names of many species.

"Mucho antes de salvar Arendelle... ¡Anna buscaba una amiga!Los padres de Anna están de viaje y ella se siente terriblemente sola. Entonces se imagina a una niña de su misma edad, Astrid, y decide mandarle una carta. Para su sorpresa, ¡Astrid responde! Conforme las dos se vuelven amigas, Anna se pregunta si Astrid no estará más cerca de lo que creía."--Back cover.

"Las vacaciones de Dipper y Mabel en Gravity Falls cada vez son más raras. Además de trabajar en la Cabaña del Misterio de su tío Stan junto con Soos y Wendy, los gemelos están haciendo nuevos amigos, incluyendo un cerdito llamado Pato y a una figura histórica que ha resucitado. También están experimentando con la clonación y los viajes en el tiempo. Únete a Dipper y a Mabel mientras se aventuran en el mundo de misterio de Gravity Falls. Adaptada de la serie popular de Disney XD y con más de mil imágenes del programa, Gravity Falls. Cómic 3 es la novela gráfica ideal para acompañar la serie, llevando a los fans a un mundo de intriga y locura. La novela gráfica ideal para acompañar la serie."-- Amazon.com.

"University of Oxford tutor and bestselling author Jason Verdoodt has it all: acclaim, women, money . . . and an enemy or two. When he's found dead at the bottom of the stairs during a celebratory reception at St Rumwold's College, many wonder if seething jealousy of his literary success has turned someone's mind to murder. Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just becomes inescapably drawn into an investigation that takes him down the historic streets of Oxford and into the hallowed halls of its university. Alongside his fiancée, crime fiction writer Portia De'Ath, he uncovers several motives for murdering the celebrated but insufferable Jason - whose next novel may be a threat to many in his orbit - and no shortage of suspects who are nursing a grudge from the first novel. Has someone decided to write revenge into the plot?"--Back cover.

"An intimate glimpse into the life of a teenager whose coming of age will herald a new age for her world. Set in the universe Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first introduced in the World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death, this is the first in the She Who Knows trilogy"-- Provided by publisher.

From a young age, Beyonce had a beautiful voice. When she saw her favourite singers hit the stage, she knew that she wanted to be a performer, too. She became part of the chart-topping group Destiny's Child, and as a solo artist inspired fans from her empowering music. With her mission to bring joy to the world, Beyonce is irreplaceable. This incredible story of the legendary superstar features a fact and photo section at the back.

"For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Nightingale: an elderly woman recounts her Dutch family's survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations. Eighty-year-old Mieke Geborn's life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from her home on the New Jersey shore, visits with friends, and tai chi at the local retirement community. But when her beloved grandson, Will, and his wife, Teru, show up for a visit, things are soon upended. Their marriage is threatening to unravel, and Will has questions for his grandmother-questions about family secrets that have been lost for decades and are now finally rising to the surface. But telling Will the truth involves returning to the past, and to Mieke's childhood in coastal Holland. There, in the last years of World War II, she survived the Hunger Winter, a brutal season when food and heat were cut off and thousands of Dutch citizens starved. Her memories weave together childhood magic and the madness of history, and carry readers from the windy beaches of The Hague to the dark cells of a concentration camp, through the bends of eel-filled rivers, and, finally, to the story of Will's father, absent since Will's childhood. Our Narrow Hiding Places is a sweeping story of survival and of the terrible cost of war-and a reminder that sometimes the traumas we inherit come along with a resilience we never imagined"-- Provided by publisher.

Shipton Abbott continues to keep DI Humphrey Goodman and his team busy, with a baffling crime each week, from a death on a steam train to a missing teacher. Meanwhile, Humphrey and Martha's journey to find their own version of a family continues as they explore the possibility of fostering. Martha's mother Anne throws herself into the world of online dating. And a well-meant gesture from Esther's daughter Zoe threatens to uncover a long-held secret.

"If Charlie and Sage are meant to be, why can't Sage stop kissing Charlie's brother? And why can't Charlie stop thinking about kissing the new boy at school? Everyone at the Bexley School believes that Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael are meant to be. Even though Charlie seems to have a new girlfriend every month, and Sage has never had a real relationship, their friends and family all know it's just a matter of time until they realize that they are actually in love. When Luke Morrissey shows up on campus his presence immediately shakes things up. Charlie and Luke are drawn to each other the moment they meet, giving Sage the opportunity to spend time with Charlie's twin brother, Nick. But Charlie is afraid of what others will think if he accepts that he has much more than a friendship with Luke. And Sage fears that if she lets things with Nick get too serious too quickly, they won't be able to last as a couple outside of high school and miss their chance at forever. The duo will need to rely on each other and their lifelong friendship to figure things out with the boys they love." --Amazon.

"Sixteen-year-old Charlie Frith has problems. His crush is dating someone else, his sisters have glitter-bombed his prosthesis (again), and he's a seer-of-spirits in York, the most haunted city in England, and all his friends are ghosts. To make matters worse, it seems that famous spirits are mysteriously vanishing from York's haunted streets and alleys. Charlie is determined to stay out of it, but Sam, the irritating new seer in town, expects him to track down who -- or what -- is responsible and uncover the dark purpose behind these disappearances. But when one of Charlie's ghostly friends vanishes, he has no choice but to face the shadows -- and his growing feelings for Sam. The boys must be willing to risk it all to save York's spirits, because this adversary will stop at nothing to complete their devastating plan. Afterlives are at stake, and Charlie is running out of time ..."--Amazon

Ruben Montez and Zach Knight are two members of the boy-band Saturday, one of the biggest acts in America. Along with their bandmates Angel Phan and Jon Braxton, the four are teen heartbreakers in front of the cameras and best friends backstage. But their once-easy rapport is straining under the pressures of fame, and Ruben confides in Zach that he's feeling smothered by management's pressure to stay in the closet. On a whirlwind tour through Europe, with both an unrelenting schedule and minimal supervision, Ruben and Zach come to rely on each other more and more. Their already close friendship evolves into a romance, but when they decide they're ready to tell their fans and live freely, Zach and Ruben know they will never have the support of their management-- adapted from jacket

"Un recorrido que muestra dónde y cómo disfrutar la naturaleza en el territorio chileno. Un cielo estrellado, una puesta de sol, un pájaro cantando en tu ventana, un árbol con hojas amarillas, el olor a bosque húmedo, una estrella de mar en la playa. La naturaleza está en todas partes, solo debes tener todos tus sentidos bien despiertos para poder apreciarla y explorarla. Un libro para que los niños y niñas descubran la naturaleza en el cielo, en las montañas, en sus casas, en sus balcones, donde sea que estén y donde sea que vayan. Animales, plantas, árboles, microorganismos, todos cuentan y todos están relacionados. Un llamado a cuidar y valorar el medio ambiente que nos rodea."-- Publisher's description.

"Después de conocer al Gran Conrad, Hipólito quedó estupefacto. A partir de ese momento decidió dedicarse de lleno al arte de hipnotizar. Quiso aprenderlo solo, así, como si fuera fácil. Pero pronto entendió que para conseguir ser el mejor, más le valdría estudiar a los grandes hipnotizadores del mundo: Ojos Dulces, el Gran Vladimir y Chu-Tse-Tse fueron sus maestros de vida. Su familia y amigos, un experimento personal".--Page 4 of cover.