Marina: 920 books

Devoured 50 Shades? Now you're ready to enter the Haven of Obedience. Twenty-something Londoner Natalie Bowen is envied by many, but her personal life is a disaster. Then she hears about an exclusive weekend retreat called The Haven, a place that specializes in introducing people to...

Cómo recuperar y transmitir a los niños y los jóvenes la pasión y las ganas de leer. Leer es una urgente necesidad pública y privada. La vida humana transcurre entre palabras. Nuestra inteligencia es lingüística y nuestra convivencia, íntima y política, también. Este libro es una...

Set in the mysterious landscape of the bogs of rural Ireland, Carr's lyrical and timeless play tells the story of Hester Swane, an Irish traveller with a deep and unearthly connection to her land. Tormented by the memory of a mother who deserted her, Hester is once again betrayed, this time by the...

Venice, 1681. Glassblowing is the lifeblood of the Republic, and Venetian mirrors are more precious than gold. Jealously guarded by the murderous Council of Ten, the glassblowers of Murano are virtually imprisoned on their island in the lagoon. But the greatest of the artists, Corradino Manin, sells...

Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.

Wild meets Endless Love in this multilayered story of love, survival, and self-discovery McKenna Berney is a lucky girl. She has a loving family and has been accepted to college for the fall. But McKenna has a different goal in mind: much to the chagrin of her parents, she defers her college...

"You forget. You forget you don't really exist here, that this isn't your home." Since emigrating from Bangladesh, fourteen-year-old Nadira and her family have been living in New York City on expired visas, hoping to realize their dream of becoming legal U.S. citizens. But after 9/11, everything...

Ce livre regorge de vieux loups de mer, de mousses maudits et de pirates zombies. Attends-toi à découvrir des aventures pleines de danger, de canons rugissants, de trésors étincelants et de perroquets bavards. Ce livre regorge de vieux loups de mer, de mousses maudits et de pirates zombies....

Emilia nos invita a descubrir en qué consiste la práctica de mindfulness. Emilia está preocupada porque aún no sabe atarse los cordones y además está por empezar primer grado. Pero muy pronto, y muy cerca, descubrirá un secreto maravilloso, de esos que cambian la vida de los niños (y...

Esta é a historia dunha carta que nunca chegou ó seu destino. Tamén é a historia de dúas nenas, Harmonía e Rosa, exiliadas en Rusia, de dous amigos que se atopan en bandos opostos, dunha muller loitadora, dun carteiro namorado, dun rapaz empeñado en borrar a tristeza dos ollos dunha rapaza....

On a remote planet, a military boarding school is about to get a new headmistress. Her charges will include Ebie, a girl desperately trying to keep a secret, Kim, a boy desperately trying to keep his friends from dying, and Vrei, a girl who just wants to make it to the end of the day. Will any of...

A Publishers Weekly "Best Books of 2017" pick! A Kirkus Reviews "Best Books of 2017" pick! A B&N Sci-Fi and Fantasty Blog "Best SFF of 2017" pick! With nods to Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howey’s Wool,...

Artist, anatomist, architect, botanist, cartographer, engineer, mathematician, musician, scientist, sculptor – the word ‘polymath’ cannot provide the full measure of Leonardo da Vinci’s extraordinary talents. If you only know Leonardo as the painter of the famous, much copied portrait, the...

Set design takes the world of dreams onto an architectural scale and for a moment this allows the time of the theatrical production to coincide with that of reality. It is an immersive environment in which architecture and scenery are merged with one another, producing ideas of places in which inhabited...