Marina: 920 books

Amid the intrigue and danger of 18th-century Italy, a young woman becomes embroiled in romance and treachery with a rider in the Palio, the breathtaking horse race set in Siena.... It's 1729, and the Palio, a white-knuckle horse race, is soon to be held in the heart of the peerless Tuscan city of...

Are you ready for a weekend away at the Hotel of Seduction? Grace has won the man of her dreams - and her fantasies. Brooding, sensual, wealthy and handsome, their days and nights are filled with pleasure. But can this enigmatic man truly love her? Together they have set up a secret,...

**You are invited to the Dining Club. If you pass the challenges we set, a world of pleasure awaits you.** He is everything she never wanted: brooding, secretive, rich - and far-removed from her care-free artistic lifestyle. Yet David has a power over Grace that she cannot resist, a...

Chi ha inventato la filosofia? Quali sono state le prime domande che si è posto l'uomo alla ricerca della consocenza? Partendo dai suoi primi passi, ripercorriamo qui l'affascinante cammino delle diverse ricerche filosofiche, dalle origini nell'antica Grecia fino ai mutamenti e alle crisi...

El cuento es la forma literaria que recoge la magia de la narración desde tiempos inmemoriales hasta ahora. Este género plasma como pocos la historia de la literatura y su cercanía a la población: el cuento oral, el cuento en las hogueras de la tribu, el cuento en las cocinas de las casas, el...

Written during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed, these poems are suffused with Tsvetaeva's irony and humor, which undoubtedly accounted for her success in not only reaching the end of the plague year alive, but making it the most productive of her career. We meet...

Willkommen zur privaten Sprechstunde in Sachen Liebe! Sie sind ständig in Bereitschaft, um Leben zu retten. Das macht sie für ihre Patienten zu Helden. Im Sammelband "Die besten Ärzte" erleben Sie hautnah die aufregende Welt in Weiß zwischen Krankenhausalltag und romantischen Liebesabenteuern....

In this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli... When part-time model and full-time prostitute Luciana Vetra...

A short story (4,000 words) for lovers of humorous fantasy. Renardo and his brothers are up to their eyeballs in debt, with one last chance to save their merchant business (and their gonads) from the moneylender. The great city of Tebos is holding its Festival of Song in three days’ time, and...

The book consists of Elementary and Pre-intermediate courses with parallel Chinese-English texts. The author maintains learners' motivation with funny stories about real life situations such as meeting people, studying, job searches, working etc. The ALARM method (Approved Learning Automatic Remembering...

The International Contest of Contemporary Drama (ICCD) was set up by Belarus Free Theatre to encourage new writing and to promote Belarusian cultural identity on an international stage with the participation of artists around Europe. Belarusian playwrights, banned within their own country but recognised...

La filosofía nació al aire libre y actualmente vuelve a las calles. Su arrinconamiento institucional, que la expulsa de escuelas y universidades, tiene como contrapartida una nueva vitalidad, un deseo colectivo de cuestionar radicalmente nuestros modos de vivir y de aprender de nuevo a pensar. La...

Ciudad Princesa es un relato en primera persona en el que se cuentan una serie de vivencias políticas entre octubre de 1996 y octubre de 2017, desde el desalojo del Cine Princesa en Barcelona hasta el referéndum del 1 de octubre. El hilo del relato es: ¿qué hemos aprendido? Por eso habla desde...

La motivación despierta un interés universal. Los padres quieren motivar a sus hijos, los docentes a sus alumnos, los jefes a los subordinados, las empresas a sus clientes, los políticos a los votantes… También queremos motivarnos a nosotros mismos; cuando nos sentimos aburridos, cansados, desesperanzados,...