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Una verdadera guía para emprender el viaje emocional que es la crianza. En la relación con nuestros hijos e hijas, ponemos a prueba nuestra capacidad para escuchar, dar apoyo, tener paciencia o mantener el control. Pero sobre todo asumimos el reto de aceptar que los niños son seres...

En estas páginas encontrarás desde el opulento Diamante Hope o la terrorífica Muñeca Annabelle hasta el español Sillón del Diablo. Son objetos malditos, y todo lo que necesitan para desatar una ola de desgracia es tu participación… Leerás relatos que tienen lugar a lo largo de muchas...

Un chico malo jugador de hockey es justo lo que ella nunca quiso Hayden Houston pasó su infancia viajando por todo el país con su padre, entrenador de hockey, y ahora quiere tomarse un tiempo para planificar su futuro. Queda por ver si ese futuro incluirá a su novio, con quien mantiene una...

Planet Earth burns in nuclear flame. But The System was kind and wise enough to transfer all its little humans into a new world. Everyone has been granted a new name, a starting bonus, and a rousing kick up the backside. Some got a sword, some a crown, and me . . . A potato?! How am I supposed to take over the world with this thing? System, are you sure you're so kind and wise after all?

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct - and often failing as a result - we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion, or rhetoric.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Brought to you by Penguin. A heart warming and irresistible novel about the rejuvenating power of pottery, for fans of Before The Coffee Gets Cold and What You Are Looking For Is In The Library. She rubbed the spoiled clay with her fingertips. Like a wound as it heals, the traces faded, and had...

YOU ESCAPED. BUT HE WILL NEVER LET YOU GO. THE NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Chilling, original and mesmerising. Hausmann is a force to be reckoned with' David Baldacci 'A peerless exercise in suspense' Financial Times 'Claustrophobic, terrifying and fiercely compelling' Daily Mail...

On the day Stockholm police officer Hanna Ahlander’s personal and professional lives crash, she takes refuge at her sister’s lodge in the Swedish ski resort paradise of Åre. But it’s a brief comfort. The entire village is shaken by the sudden vanishing of a local teenage girl. Hanna can’t help but investigate, and while searching for the missing person, she lands a job with the local police department. There she joins forces with Detective Inspector Daniel Lindskog, who has been tasked with finding the girl. Their only lead: a scarf in the snow.

Nanako Hanada's life is in crisis. Recently separated from her husband, living in youth hostels and internet cafes, her work is going no better. Book sales at the eccentric Village Vanguard bookstore in Tokyo, which Nanako manages, are dwindling. Fallen out of love in all aspects of her life, Nanako realises how narrow her life has become, with no friends outside of her colleagues, and no hobbies apart from reading and arranging books. That's when Nanako joins a meet-up site where people meet for 30-minute bursts to find romance, build a network, or just share ideas.

Synkät ajat ovat koittaneet Tylypahkassa. Ankeuttajien hyökättyä hänen Dudley-serkkunsa kimppuun, Harry Potter tietää, että Voldemort ei anna minkään estää tätä löytämästä Harrya. Monet kiistävät pimeyden lordin palanneen, mutta Harry ei ole silti yksin: salainen järjestö kerää voimiaan Kalmanhanaukiolla taisteluun pimeyden voimia vastaan. Harryn täytyy antaa professori Kalkaroksen opettaa häntä suojautumaan Voldemortin rajuilta hyökkäyksiltä hänen mieltään vastaan. Ne muuttuvat päivä päivältä pahemmiksi, ja Harryn aika on käymässä vähiin....

Harry Potters sommer har inkludert den verste bursdagen noensinne, skremmende advarsler fra husnissen Noldus og vennen Ronny Wiltersen reddet ham fra Dumlingene i en magisk, flyvende bil! Harry er tilbake på Galtvort høyere skole for hekseri og trolldom for sitt andre år, og hører hvisking som gir gjenklang i de tomme korridorene – og så starter angrepene. Det blir funnet elever som er forvandlet til stein... De skremmende spådommene til Noldus ser ut til å gå i oppfyllelse.

Yuki Hirano is just out of high school when his parents enroll him, against his will, in a forestry training program in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. No phone, no internet, no shopping. Just a small, inviting community where the most common expression is “take it easy.” At first, Yuki is exhausted, fumbles with the tools, asks silly questions, and feels like an outcast. Kamusari is the last place a city boy from Yokohama wants to spend a year of his life. But as resistant as he might be, the scent of the cedars and the staggering beauty of the region have a pull.

Gogol's great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata but especially the devious complexities in Russia, with its landowners and serfs. We are introduced to Chichikov, a businessman who, in order to trick the tax authorities, buys up dead 'souls', or serfs, whose names still appear on the government census. Despite being a dealer in phantom crimes and paper ghosts, he is the most beguiling of Gogol's characters.

*The Sunday Times Bestseller* ‘Extraordinary Insects is a joy’ The Times A Sunday Times Nature Book of the Year 2019 A journey into the weird, wonderful and truly astonishing lives of the small but mighty creatures who keep the world turning. Out of sight, underfoot, unseen beyond fleeting...

From Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg, the Swedish author of the smash-hit The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules, comes the third hilarious yet tender title in this much-loved series, The Little Old Lady Behaving Badly. Introducing the League of Pensioners – a unique blend of exuberance...

Crestfallen, dejected and spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance, a solicitor, seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious...

Det sista sommarlovet från Hogwarts är snart slut och Harry Potter väntar otåligt på Privet Drive. Medlemmar ur Fenixorden ska komma och hämta honom och föra honom till en säker plats, utan att Voldemort och hans anhängare får reda på vart han tar vägen. Men när han väl kommit i säkerhet - vad ska han göra då? Hur ska Harry kunna utföra den livsfarliga och omöjliga uppgiften som professor Dumbledore har gett honom?

“IT’S SHOWTIME.”The news has made headlines-"Korea and Japan join hands to exterminate the terrifying magic beasts on Jeju Island once and for all!” It’s a monumental moment for the people of the country…and it has absolutely nothing to do with Jinwoo. Instead, the newest S-rank...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Number One bestselling author of The Order of Time is back with a stunning book about the enigma of quantum physics In June 1925, twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg, suffering from hay fever, retreated to a small, treeless island in the North Sea called...