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Asesinos sin rostro: El inspector Kurt Wallander atraviesa uno de los momentos más sombríos de su vida cuando tiene que ponerse al frente de una ardua investigación: el asesinato de un matrimonio de ancianos en una granja de Lenarp. El marido ha sido horriblemente torturado y la mujer agoniza poco a poco, con el tiempo de pronunciar antes de morir una sola palabra: «extranjero». Wallander y sus colegas deberán enfrentarse a una comunidad irascible, presa de insospechados prejuicios ra­ciales. El inspector sabe muy bien que la pacífica apariencia de algunas personas oculta a veces un auténtico monstruo.

Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of civilization. Not only did he bring Christianity to Ireland, he instilled a sense of literacy and learning that would create the conditions that allowed Ireland to become “the isle of saints and scholars”—and thus preserve Western culture while Europe was being overrun by barbarians. In this entertaining and compelling narrative, Thomas Cahill tells the story of how Europe evolved from the classical age of Rome to the medieval era. Without Ireland, the transition could not have taken place. Not only did Irish monks and scribes maintain the very record of Western civilization — copying manuscripts of Greek and Latin writers, both pagan and Christian, while libraries and learning on the continent were forever lost—they brought their uniquely Irish world-view to the task. As Cahill delightfully illustrates, so much of the liveliness we associate with medieval culture has its roots in Ireland. When the seeds of culture were replanted on the European continent, it was from Ireland that they were germinated.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Shari Lapena's new thriller, AN UNWANTED GUEST, is available now! "The twists come as fast [as] you can turn the pages." --People "Provocative and shocking." --Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Find Her "I read this novel at one sitting, absolutely riveted by the storyline. The suspense was beautifully rendered and unrelenting!" --Sue Grafton, New York Times bestselling author of X It all started at a dinner party. . . A domestic suspense debut about a young couple and their apparently friendly neighbors--a twisty, rollercoaster ride of lies, betrayal, and the secrets between husbands and wives. . . Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all--a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora. But one night, when they are at a dinner party next door, a terrible crime is committed. Suspicion immediately lands on the parents. But the truth is a much more complicated story. Inside the curtained house, an unsettling account of what actually happened unfolds. Detective Rasbach knows that the panicked couple is hiding something. Both Anne and Marco soon discover that the other is keeping secrets, secrets they've kept for years. What follows is the nerve-racking unraveling of a family--a chilling tale of deception, duplicity, and unfaithfulness that will keep you breathless until the final shocking twist.

La presente edición ofrece la más célebre recopilación de cuentos tradicionales del Oriente Medio. Relatos llenos de aventura y fantasía en los que encontraremos increíbles genios, mago de una maestría excepcional, espíritus fantásticos, efrits con terroríficos poderes, lugares, ciudades y palacios increíbles, viajes inauditos, criaturas insólitas, héroes inmortales, tesoros indescriptibles, tragedias y leyendas inolvidables, enseñánzas didácticas... y todo ello en historias narradas admirablemente que ya son célebres en la cultura occidental: Simbad el Marino, Aladino y la lámpara maravillosa, Alí Babá y los cuarentas ladrones.

Mark Twain was one of the nineteenth century's greatest chroniclers of childhood, and of all his works his beloved novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer most enchantingly and timelessly captures the sheer pleasure of being a boy. Tom Sawyer is as clever, imaginative, and resourceful as he is reckless and mischievous, whether conning his friends into painting a fence, playing pirates with his pal Huck Finn, witnessing his own funeral, or helping to catch a murderer. Twain’s novel glows with nostalgia for the Mississippi River towns of his youth and sparkles with his famous humor, but it is also woven throughout with a subtle awareness of the injustices and complexities of the old South that Twain so memorably portrays.

Recreando vividamente la segunda venida y detención de Jesucristo durante la época de la Inquisición española, esta parábola relatada en Los hermanos Karamazav es una profunda y delicada exploración de la fe, el sufrimiento, la naturaleza humana y la libre voluntad. Se incluyen también los impactantes y perturbadores escritos de Dostoyevski durante el tiempo que estuvo exiliado en un campo de prisioneros de Siberia.