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El hada de la calma (Sssu...) nos muestra en este cuento fantástico, a través de las libélulas protagonistas y sus simpáticos amigos, el secreto para convertir el tiempo en calma y bienestar familiar. Incluye variadas actividades de Mindfulness para disfrutar con los niños en casa, en la escuela... y siempre que se necesite un momento de calma interior.

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From Stonewall Award winner Bill Konigsberg, a remarkable, funny, sexy, heartbreaking story of two teen boys finding each other in New York City at the height of the AIDS epidemic. The first thing I noticed about C.J. Gorman was his plexiglass bra. It's 1987 in New York City, and Micah is at a dance club, trying to pretend he's more out and outgoing than he really is. C.J. isn't just out - he’s complete out there, and Micah can't help but be both attracted to and afraid of someone who travels so loudly and proudly through the night. A connection occurs. Is it friendship? Romance? Is C.J. the one with all the answers ... or does Micah bring more to the relationship that it first seems? As their lives become more and more entangled in the AIDS epidemic that’s laying waste to their community, and the AIDS activism that will ultimately bring a strong voice to their demands, whatever Micah and C.J. have between them will be tested, strained, pushed, and pulled - but it will also be a lifeline in a time of death, a bond that will determine the course of their futures. In Destination Unknown, Bill Konigsberg returns to a time he knew well as a teenager to tell a story of identity, connection, community, and survival. Perfect for fans of John Green and Nicola Yoon From Bill Konigsberg, award-winning author of Out of Pocket and Openly Straight A heart-breaking, life-affirming YA novel that sees a tough subject dealt with humour, compassion and unflinching truth.

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From the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse comes a moving story of family, adoption and identityLosing her adopted mother threatens all she's ever had . . .Daisy was adopted. But when her mother dies, she finds her secure existence thrown into turmoil by the discovery of a scrapbook.Inside it is information about her real mother.However, when Daisy drops everything to go in search of her roots, she uncovers a harrowing story of greed, misery and corruption. She also risks hurting her adored Dad, the only true family she has left.Can she cope with the truth about her real parents?And more importantly, who is the real Daisy?___________'With characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail'Lose yourself in this epic saga' Bella'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry' Woman's Weekly

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THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER ''Iconic. Bold. Brilliant. Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. Scalpel-sharp storytelling, trademark twists and characters that feel like family, this series is one of the all-time greats'' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of Sunday Times bestseller All the Colours of the DarkSummoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had a love affair with acclaimed astrophysicist Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship.The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano''s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta''s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the dead''

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Alexis Morgan''s seductive Paladin series continues with a red-hot romance between a powerful warrior sworn to secrecy and the irresistible woman who makes him lose control.... Gwen Mosely''s life changes forever when she stumbles across a handsome stranger, bleeding and left for dead in the woods behind her farm. But the real shock is how his wounds heal overnight -- a trait he shares with Gwen''s teenaged half-brother Chase. Jarvis Donahue can''t keep his eyes -- or his hands -- off the sexy redhead who rescued him. Gwen''s warm smile and lust-filled eyes are impossible to resist...but Jarvis immediately recognizes Chase as a fellow Paladin, a warrior born to defend mankind in the relentless battle against the Others. Although Gwen may hate Jarvis for it, he is dutybound to introduce Chase to the Paladins'' dangerous lifestyle. As the barrier between the two worlds weakens, the threat grows perilously close to Gwen''s farm. Jarvis is determined

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A lens into the unexplored and unseen cosmosA beautiful book showcasing the most stunning images from the first years of the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful infrared space observatory, along with expert insights into their revelations.Discover how these awe-inspiring images enhance our understanding of the Cosmos, and what new mysteries they unlock for astronomers.Learn more about humanity''s mission to explore the far reaches of the Universe. Discover the history and background of the JWST, its technical design (size, optical system, heat shield and orbit), how the incredible observatory''s instruments work, and why its striking images look the way they do.Tom Kerss provides accessible commentary, explaining the images in non-scientific terms whilst introducing the astronomical jargon used by the experts. He presents his own previously unpublished images, processed from real data, and presents both the answers and questions brought to light by the engine of wonder that i

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A word-crazed monologue in the mind of a man flying to his war-torn native country for the first time in years, "Without Origin" explores the ways a family, homeland, friendship, or even a favorite author, can come to overwhelm one's individuality.

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‘I have to draw a new map. I have to be seen. For her. For all of us!’ Since her ordeal five years ago, nineteen-year-old Nene rarely leaves home. Secure within her mum's embrace, Nene now keeps the outside world securely on the other side of her bedroom window. But weekly visits from her best friend start to fill the void and on one unexpected day, when Nene is finally beyond the walls of her sanctuary, a long-forgotten spark is powerfully reignited in her, one which will change her direction forever… A poignant and life-affirming play, Chinonyerem Odimba's Unknown Rivers is a testament to the extraordinary powers of female friendship – where there's turmoil, trauma and hardship, there's also love, bravery and hope, making it possible to go with the flow… and live. Unknown Rivers premiered at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs, London, in October 2019.

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ONE OF TEN LONGLISTED IN THE 2021 SHELF UNBOUND BEST INDIE BOOK COMPETITION1993. For 18-year-old Beth Adamski, life is just starting to take shape. She's set to attend Indiana University in the fall, her boyfriend and her best friend are like family, and the graveyard shifts she works at Walmart will help her save up for an apartment of her own. But when her parents die in a tragic car accident, Beth not only discovers that she has a sister; she also finds that her parents weren't exactly who she thought they were. Determined to find her sister, Beth sets out on a journey that leads her to discover more about herself than she could have ever imagined.1953. Every day, Milwaukee-born Jim Robinson watches his mother wait for his MIA father to return home from the Korean War. As the years pass and his father never appears, young Jim grows lonely, resigned to a life of solitude, until Sal Conti—a crusty, old, Italian stone carver living nearby—takes Jim under his wing. As Jim grows older, his life's journey takes him from a sheltered and secure life in Milwaukee, to the war-torn jungle of southern Vietnam. Back in the U.S. after his service ends, Jim searches for a place to call home and the one thing he longs for most: connection.Spanning decades and continents, Whereabouts Unknown links two unlikely characters who may just have what the other one is looking for. Insightful, captivating, and timeless, Whereabouts Unknown is about the bonds of family—the family we're born with and the one we create.

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THE THRILLING NEW KAY SCARPETTA MYSTERY FROM THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER''Iconic. Bold. Brilliant. Identity Unknown is hauntingly original, impossibly clever and devilishly daring. Scalpel-sharp storytelling, trademark twists and characters that feel like family, this series is one of the all-time greats'' CHRIS WHITAKER, author of Sunday Times bestseller All the Colours of the DarkSummoned to an unnerving, abandoned theme park to retrieve a body, Dr Kay Scarpetta is devastated to learn that the victim is a man she once loved. While teaching in Rome during the early days of her career, Scarpetta had a love affair with acclaimed astrophysicist Sal Giordano that led to a lifelong friendship.The murder scene is bizarre, with a crop circle of petals around the body, and Giordano''s skin is strangely red. Scarpetta''s niece Lucy believes he was dropped from an unidentified flying craft. Scarpetta knows an autopsy can reveal the

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The stimulus for these poems is a collection of photographs taken of the poet’s father, originally from colonial Sri Lanka, who was serving as a radio operator in an otherwise all white platoon in the 1939-45 desert war in North Africa. As for so many who came back from war to start or resume a family life, there was a great gulf of silence, an unwillingness to speak of those experiences. The collection begins and ends in an imaginative recreation of the life suggested in those photographs, many reproduced in this collection. There is connection with a much-loved father, but also a sense of the unknowable. Speaking in the voice of the father and of the unknown photographer, poems explore the mix of male camaraderie and casual racism of that experience, but also the deep affection hinted at in the way the photographer has framed “Snowball” in his lens. From this imaginative core, poems move out to make connections with the remembered and known life of a father who died too soon, to self-reflections on the poet as remembrancer, creator and actor in the world. There are moving poems on the meaning of inherited objects – a paper-knife, letters – and inherited ways of being – the birdwatching that provides a rich source of imagery. The personal moves out to the resonances of what was, in its origins, a story of migration. Here the father’s success in finding of a home in Yorkshire is seen to contrast sharply with the tragedies of migrant deaths in the face of fortress Europe. This is a work of great beauty, whose lucid simplicity of language is married to a rich complexity of structure and the bird-flight of images that connect poem to poem. There is humour, too, in the revenant voice of the mother who inserts herself into the poet’s memory and demands in her “broad Yorkshire vowels […] ‘Why is your dad getting all the attention?’”

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Considerada la persona viva más lista, Catherine Allingham es la investigadora privada más famosa del mundo. Afectada por un tumor cerebral y con una esperanza de vida de solo seis meses, la única forma que Cat encuentra para afrontarlo es resolver el mayor misterio de todos: qué ocurre cuando morimos?Junto a su ayudante James Doyle, un testarudo ex-gorila de bar, Cat se mete de lleno en el mundo del misterio y lo macabro.Un épico relato de suspense escrito por Mark Waid, el legendario autor de la múltiple ganadora del premio Eisner KINGDOM COME, y dibujado por el artista internacionalmente reconocido Minck Oosterveer. Con una introducción de la escritora de WONDER WOMAN y SECRET SIX Gail Simone.

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A young woman with nothing to live for is persuaded to embark on a suicide mission to find a missing scientist… When a number of leading scientists disappear without trace, concern grows within the international intelligence community. Are they being kidnapped? Blackmailed? Brainwashed? One woman appears to have the key to the mystery. Unfortunately, Olive Betteron now lies in a hospital bed, dying from injuries sustained in a Moroccan plane crash. Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her an altogether more thrilling way to die…

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Con esta estructura se ha conseguido una obra muy completa como manual de consulta, que contiene capítulos clásicos actualizados, de importancia básica, complementados con otros que, bien por ser habitualmente de interés para determinados grupos de profesionales, bien por tratarse de temas de reciente desarrollo, lo diferencian de otras obras publicadas.

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Todas las estrellas son para tiInés lleva diez años viviendo en Noruega, donde ha erigido una nueva vida: el trabajo de sus sueños, un apartamento decente y Björn, el hombre con el que intenta construir un futuro. Una noche recibe una llamada inesperada. Su padre acaba de fallecer y debe regresar a Sevilla para el funeral. Aquel era el hombre con el que ella había medido a todos los demás, y es entonces cuando descubre una vieja carta escrita por él, en la que declara su amor a una mujer que no es su madre. Confundida, Inés recurre al único que puede ayudarla, un viejo amigo que es ahora inspector de policía.Un lugar donde olvidarteTras atravesar un episodio difícil, Elena empieza de cero y emprende su propia búsqueda personal y profesional. Ha decidido reencontrarse a sí misma y desechar la imagen anodina de un pasado incierto y desdibujado. En su nueva lista de deseos se cruzarán Tomás, el magnético y atlético médico que vela por su bienestar, y Alejo, un fotóg

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Es evidente, que a las víctimas de un delito no les es indiferente la forma en la que el victimario cumpla la condena que le fue impuesta por el delito cometido, en la medida que les puede afectar positiva o negativamente, tanto a sus expectativas de reparación del daño causado, como a su seguridad personal, por ello es razonable que la voz de éstas sea audible en la fase del cumplimiento de la condena impuesta al victimario. Por estas y otras razones, la presencia de la víctima en esta fase del cumplimiento de la condena no debe considerarse un cuerpo extraño en el Derecho penitenciario, antes al contrario, debe entenderse, incluso, como parte esencial de la sanción penal, porque con el reconocimiento material y moral a la víctima durante el cumplimiento de la pena se cumplen todos y cada uno de los fines de la misma: prevención general, especial y retribución. Esta concepción del cumplimiento de la pena que permite compatibilizar los intereses del victimario con los de las víctimas,

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