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As with many of Ostrovsky's plays, the target of the author's satire is the merchant class and the inevitable corruption associated with mercantile endeavors. In Ostrovsky's bitterly realistic world, all personal encounters end in transactions, some humourous and some tragic.

Ten-year-old Miranda Stevens approaches the fifth-grade classroom with trepidation. She must face the same snobby classmates that she met when she came to Montana at the end of the last school year to attend this small rural school, and worst of all, Christopher Bergman, the classroom bully who takes special delight in making Miranda's life miserable. Friendship, loyalty, courage, and lesson's learned the hard way are all part of Miranda's story as she lives with her grandparents on their dairy farm. If only she had a horse of her very own, she thinks, nothing else would matter.

Un recorrido histórico por los aspectos del arte y la sociedad azteca más destacados. La historia de sus dioses, sus templos, costumbres, mitos...

When Matt Reed returns from Vietnam, eager to get back to the Wyoming family ranch and forget the horrors of war, he finds the ranch stripped of livestock and his father a mere shadow of his former self. The new bank president, Paul Pringle, is a former high school nemesis and the man who married Matt's girlfriend after Matt was sent to a distant and unpopular war. Determined to foreclose - and gain access to the Reed Ranch's rich mineral deposits - Pringle gives Matt a very short time to raise a whole lot of money.

El embarazo es un momento especial en la vida de la mujer en el que se dan muchos cambios de forma acelerada. El cuerpo va adaptándose para acoger y permitir el desarrollo de una nueva vida que crece día a día, pero también cambia la mente de la madre, que se prepara para proteger y cuidar a su bebé. Un proceso en el que es normal que surjan dudas y temores.

A pesar de su apariencia de verdad objetiva, científica e indiscutible, la economía está plagada de falsedades. Sus medias verdades o patentes mentiras, sin embargo, no se dicen por error ni por gusto, sino para causar un determinado efecto en quien las escucha. En nuestro tiempo, ese efecto es evidente: justificar y propiciar la mayor concentración de ingresos y riqueza en unas pocas manos y hacer que la gente se resigne al silencio mientras se restringen sus derechos y se le impone un modelo económico, además de injusto, ineficiente.

Est-il possible de reprendre la course une fois qu'on a tout laissé tomber? Après un arrêt complet de la course à pied, l'ultramarathonien Joan Roch entreprend un long retour vers son sport. Il raconte son parcours, cinq années semées de doutes, de douleurs et de joies. Le point culminant: son arrivée triomphale au sommet du mont Royal, à Montréal, au terme d'un périple improvisé de 1135 km amorcé en Gaspésie.

Un crimen enigmático. Una conspiración para derrocar al califa. El secuestro de un niño de diez años. Y el hallazgo de una primitiva versión del Corán distinta de la oficial, que podría hacer temblar los pilares de la religión islámica. Acompaña a Theobald, un monje cristiano venido de Occidente, en su viaje a la Bagdad del siglo IX, capital del califato abasí y epicentro mundial del saber y la cultura, mientras trata de esclarecer un extraño asesinato en el que se verá involucrado de forma accidental.

Durante su estancia en Nueva York (entre 1929 y 1930), Federico García Lorca escribió "Poeta en Nueva York", su poemario más famoso. Lorca se sintió profundamente impresionado por la forma de vida de la sociedad norteamericana y desde que llegó a Nueva York empezó a sentir un odio creciente por el capitalismo y la industrialización de la sociedad moderna. Le parecía repulsivo el degradante trato que la mayoría blanca daba a la minoría negra.

Diagnosticada con Bipolar 1 en 1999, Allison tomó medicamentos durante 20 años. A través de su fe en Dios, ha superado los síntomas del Bipolar 1 y ha estado libre de medicamentos durante más de un año. Nunca ha estado más feliz. Todo está encendido!!! Ese es el lema y ortografía de la Artista Marcial de la Fe, la pastora Allison Joan Hall, de 55 años. Tiene un Cinturón Negro en El Karate Kenpo y un Cinturón Azul en Taekwondo.

Juggling single motherhood and her job as deputy sheriff of Teton County, Sarah Barndollar hasn't lost hope of solving two cold cases of missing young women. When a third vanishes, all hell breaks loose - because, she's the illegitimate daughter of Texas scion Clay Blackthorne and the granddaughter of his mortal enemy King Grayhawk.

Climate change wiped out planet Earth in 2054. However, the richest and most powerful one percent of society did not hesitate to escape to a space station. But what would that new society become if classism and fascism were what prevailed among them at the time our world died?

Diagnosed with Bipolar 1 in 1999, Allison took medication for 20 years. Through her faith in God, she has overcome symptoms of Bipolar 1 and has been medication-free for over a year. She has never been happier. All is on! That is the spelling and motto of 55-year-old, recently ordained Martial Artists of the Faith, Pastor Allison Joan Hall. She holds a Black Belt in Kenpo Karate and a Blue Belt in Taekwondo. She taught high school Spanish and Art for Baltimore City Public Schools for 22 years from which illness forced her into early retirement.

Boomtown San Diego, in 1888, erupts in murder. Retired marshal and hero of the O.K. Corral Wyatt Earp is involved. What's really going on? Award-winning, best-selling mystery author James Musgrave takes issues from the present and turns them into ingenious puzzles for listeners to solve. In the 19th century, the same human foibles existed, but the problems happened at a much slower pace.

Desde el momento en que nacemos, las relaciones nos marcan, en nuestras familias, en el campo de juegos, en la escuela y en nuestros trabajos. Maxwell, un comunicador maestro y experto en estudio relacional, hace que el aprendizaje sobre las relaciones sea algo accesible para todos. Los líderes más sofisticados y los vendedores podrán asirse de habilidades que los harán progresar y los novatos en relaciones aprenderán técnicas que los transformarán en unos verdaderos dínamos de sus relaciones.

Emily Fredrickson is left devastated after her husband, Matthew, is arrested for doing meth at their daughter's third birthday party. Her small town of Hibbing turns on her quickly as rumors circulate and the accusations and judgment get her fired from the job she loves. Greenrock Road is a story of heartbreak, hidden family secrets, and a mother's quest to make peace with the decisions of her past.

As a former Green Beret, I know how to follow orders and obey rules. I’ve learned to be patient, to look at a situation from every angle, and to live by a code of honor most men know nothing about. But when a motorcycle club puts a target on not just my hometown, but the five-foot-nothing blonde who unknowingly holds my heart in her hands, obeying the law takes a back seat to keeping my woman safe. I’ve never had something so precious to protect, and I’ve never been willing to cross so many lines to get a job done.

Destiny Lawson cannot believe her luck. On a run in the middle of the woods her freshman year of collage, she meets the man of her dreams, Bryan Fredrickson. He is sweet, handsome, and everything she dreamed of. Their relationship continues to strengthen and then one day he takes her back to the bridge where they met and asks for her hand in marriage.

Nora and Travis are quickly forced back on the hunt for their primary target as the stability of the military continues to disintegrate, giving rise to a daunting force that threatens to change everything about the American way of life.

With three bossy, overprotective brothers looking over her shoulder, Tate Whitelaw was finding it impossible to become a woman. They still thought of her as a pigtailed little girl. So Tate hightailed it off the homestead - right into the manly arms of Adam Philips. She’d show everyone just how grown-up she was! The last thing that hardened rancher Adam Philips was looking for was a damsel in distress. He’d had enough of stray women! But his protective urges overrode his instincts to run. Soon he was comforting Tate in his arms...and his bed.