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Londres, 1943. Las bombas caen sobre la ciudad y el rey y la reina deciden enviar a su hija menor a vivir en el campo con una familia de confianza. Tercera en la línea de sucesión al trono, Charlotte, de diecisiete años, acepta a regañadientes usar un nombre falso a su llegada a Yorkshire. Pronto, la joven princesa empieza a disfrutar de su nueva libertad y de su pasión por los caballos, y comienza a sentirse atraída por el hijo de sus protectores....

Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her priorities as she prepares for the biggest culture shock of everyone's...

An elderly bachelor and his spinster sister adopt an orphan and are mistakenly sent a girl instead of a boy. The orphan, Anne, remains with the couple, moves from one mishap to another, succeeds academically, and finds love.

La Tierra es un lugar extraordinario. Fluye con vida en todas direcciones, y nadie aprecia la alegría de estar vivo más que Dioni Sedano, un huérfano adolescente cuyas mayores pasiones incluyen su amor por aprender, su deseo de vivir todas las aventuras que el mundo tiene para ofrecer, y las maravillas que se encuentran en la Tierra de la Eterna Primavera. Pero el equilibrio natural del mundo está en peligro. Los seres responsables del bienestar...

Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...

Huérfanos desde que era un bebé, Signa ha crecido con una serie de tutores, cada cual de ellos más interesado en su fortuna que en su bienestar. Y todos han tenido un final prematuro. Los únicos familiares que le quedan son los esquivos Hawthorne, una familia excéntrica que vive en Thorn Grove, una finca tan reluciente como sombría. Su patriarca lamenta la pérdida de su mujer celebrando fiestas salvajes, mientras que su hijo lucha por controlar...

After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Conde Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetoligist with whom they life happily for an all-too-brief time.

Chicago. Another town, another innocent scam for vagabond Bill Dancer and the curly-topped orphan he's cared for since infancy. This time, however, Bill hits the jackpot and his newest con whisks them both from the poorhouse to the penthouse with lots of laughs along the way.