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La Prometida del Dragón (Los Destinos Draconianos, #4) (eBook, ePUB)

Su beso podría destrozar reinos... El dragón y herrero artesano Hadrian está determinado a fortalecer a sus compañeros guerreros Pyr para la batalla contra las hadas al forjar unas zarpas de acero para ellos. No será seducido por la sensual promesa de una tormenta de fuego que debe ser un hechizo (incluso si es para ayudar a una hermosa guerrera a escapar de las garras de la Reina Oscura). Rania es una doncella cisne y una asesina de las hadas que ha hecho un trato con la Reina Oscura para romper la maldición que ha caído sobre sus hermanos. Todo lo que debe hacer es matar a Hadrian, pero este dragón no muere fácilmente. Es algo más que su vitalidad de dragón lo que lo ayuda a sobrevivir a su beso mortal, aunque Rania se niega a rendirse a sus poderosas caricias cuando hay tanto en juego. Pero la traición de la Reina Oscura empuja a Rania a aliarse con aquel dragón tan lleno de vida en un esfuerzo de última hora por salvar a sus hermanos y a sí misma. ¿Podrá Hadrian revelar los dolorosos secretos del pasado de Rania para darles un futuro? ¿Podrá Rania ayudar a Hadrian darse cuenta de que el poder de su propio legado es derrotar a las hadas? Cuando las barreras entre reinos son destruídas, ¿puede el amor superar los obstáculos entre parejas destinadas... y crear un nuevo mundo para su futuro hijo?

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The Vanishing

'A tragic portrait of a disappearing world, created with passion and literary grace' SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Janine di Giovanni is a humane and persistent witness' HISHAM MATAR 'Profoundly moving' MARK TULLY _______________________ The Vanishing reveals the plight and possible extinction of Christian communities across Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine after 2,000 years in their historical homeland. Some of the countries that first nurtured and characterized Christianity - along the North African Coast, on the Euphrates and across the Middle East and Arabia - are the ones in which it is likely to first go extinct. Christians are already vanishing. We are past the tipping point, now tilted toward the end of Christianity in its historical homeland. Christians have fled the lands where their prophets wandered, where Jesus Christ preached, where the great Doctors and hierarchs of the early church established the doctrinal norms that would last millennia. From Syria to Egypt, the cities of northern Iraq to the Gaza Strip, ancient communities, the birthplaces of prophets and saints, are losing any living connection to the religion that once was such a characteristic feature of their social and cultural lives. In The Vanishing, Janine di Giovanni has combined astonishing journalistic work to discover the last traces of small, hardy communities where ancient rituals are quietly preserved amid 360 degree threats. Full of faith and hope, di Giovanni's riveting personal stories make a unique act of pre-archeology: the last chance to visit the living religion before all that will be left are the stones of the past.

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Beautiful Country

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK, OBAMA 2021 BOOK PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hunger was a constant, reliable friend in Mei Guo. She came second only to loneliness.' In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn her family is 'illegal.' Qian is just seven when she moves to America, the 'Beautiful Country', where she and her parents find that the roads of New York City are not paved with gold, but crushing fear and scarcity. Unable to speak English at first, Qian and her parents must work wherever they can to survive, all while she battles hunger and loneliness at school. Thus begins an extraordinary story that describes, in vivid colours, days labouring in sweatshops and sushi factories, nights scavenging the streets for furniture, and the terrifying moment when the family emerges from the shadows to seek emergency medical treatment for Qian's mother. Qian Julie Wang's memoir is an unforgettable account of what it means to live under the perpetual threat of deportation and the small joys and sheer determination that kept her family afloat in a new land. Told from a child's perspective, in a voice that is intimate, poignant and startlingly lyrical, Beautiful Country is the story of a girl who learns first to live - and then escape - an invisible life. 'A powerful, gripping insight into the world of an undocumented migrant in New York . . . beautifully written, with vivid scenes that linger in the mind long after finishing it' Helena Merriman 'A story that needs to be heard. Moving, beautiful, heartbreaking and even funny . . . I never wanted it to end' Philippa Perry 'Deeply compelling . . . I was moved by the love and resilience of this family thrust into darkness. The book casts an urgent light on a reality that extends way beyond America's borders' Hisham Matar, author of A Month in Siena and The Return 'Astonishing . . . In restrained but beautiful prose, Wang honours her family's sacrifices, but alerts us to the urgent realisation that they should not be necessary' Nesrine Malik

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