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"Marie-Laure es una joven ciega que vive con su padre en Paris, donde él trabaja como responsable de las mil cerraduras del Museo de Historia Natural. Cuando los nazis ocupan la capital, padre e hija deben huir a la ciudad amurallada de Saint-Malo, llevándose con ellos la que podría ser la más preciada y peligrosa joya del museo. Werner es un muchacho huérfano criado en un pueblo minero de Alemania y fascinado por la fabricación y reparación...

Kate y Tully son mejores amigas inseparables, dos mujeres jóvenes que, a pesar de sus vidas muy diferentes, han jurado estar allí para siempre, han sido fieles a su promesa durante treinta años, hasta que los eventos y elecciones en sus vidas las separan. Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years,...

LILA EMERSON tiene dos profesiones que se complementan perfectamente: cuidadora profesional de casas y escritora freelance. Sus clientes le encargan el cuidado de sus casas, plantas e incluso mascotas cuando se ausentan y mientras que vive en el hogar prestado, ella aprovecha para soñar con las vidas de otros y escribir novelas. Todo cambia cuando una noche es testigo de lo que parece ser el asesinato de una chica y un suicidio. De repente se ve...

"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence."--Pub.desc.

What is the value of human relations, the connection between souls? In Silas Marner, George Eliot explores this question in the story of a reclusive weaver in a small English town who learns to trade his love of gold for the love of those around him. Though he started life as a religious man, a heartbreaking betrayal drove Silas Marner to become a recluse whose only companions were his gold coins. But one day, his gold is stolen and a golden-haired...

Marrying Glenn Lambert was either the smartest thing Maggie Kingsbury has ever done or the craziest mistake of her life. Best friends as children, they went their separate ways until a chance encounter at a wedding inspires this spontaneous leap of faith. How could she resist the sweet spell of a moonlit night and whispers of devotion guaranteed to melt her heart?

Two stories in one volume Bonus story by Marie Ferrarella entitled Finding happily-ever-after. Ready for marriage (℗♭1994) "Three years ago, Mary Jo Summerhill fell completely and utterly in love with Evan Dryden. But she was a kindergarten teacher, and he was a Boston blue blood with political ambitions. His family said she was not the right kind of wife for Evan. Mary Jo agreed--she didn't belong in his world. So she lied, and broke his heart....

Bewitching: Hannah Marsh's family was loyal to each other, and to the memory of their ancestor, Priscilla Marsh, who'd been wrongfully executed three hundred years ago. Hannah knew her enemies--Judge Cotton Harling, who'd sentenced Priscilla to death, and every Harling who'd lived since then. But then she met Win Harling. The handsome businessman was everything Hannah didn't want, and yet somehow, he was everything she needed. But he was a Harling,...