Popular Literature

The Cocaine Chronicles contains tough tales by a cross-section of today's most thought-provoking writers. Featuring brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Lee Child, Laura Lippman, Ken Bruen, Jerry Stahl, Nina Revoyr, Bill Moody, Emory Holmes II, James Brown, Gary Phillips, Jervey Tervalon, Kerry E. West, Donnell Alexander, Deborah Vankin, Robert Ward, Manuel Ramos, and Detrice Jones.

Ann Bannon was designated the “Queen of Lesbian Pulp” for authoring several landmark novels in the ’50s. Unlike many writers of the period, however, Bannon broke through the shame and isolation typically portrayed in lesbian pulps, offering instead characters who embraced their sexuality. With Beebo Brinker, Bannon introduces a butch 17-year-old farm girl newly arrived in Beat-era Greenwich Village.

Mark certainly knows Bill Cromwell, whom he meets officially when his father volunteers him for manual labor at the school. Bill is his polar opposite: outgoing, gregarious, athletic. But when a massive snowstorm traps the two boys together for three days, Mark learns that being popular doesn't mean you can't be bullied or abused - or gay. And that bullying doesn't stop at the school doors. And that bullying doesn't stop at the school doors.

Cet enregistrement réunit une dizaine de contes d'origines très diverses (Grèce, Mésopotamie, Pawnees du Nebraska, Égypte, Chine etc.) qui offrent, chacun de manière très différente, une vision poétique et fantastique de la genèse du monde ou de l'univers. Chaque conte est précédé d'une très brève introduction par un astronome qui définit scientifiquement et très simplement pour des enfants le phénomène ou l'élément central de l'histoire (voie lactée, tâches solaires, étoiles doubles etc.)

Paloma has finally settled in at her new school with her new friends. Her mom is actually talking to her about the psychic abilities that run in their family. And her little sister has been maybe slightly less annoying than usual. Everything is going great... until Rafaela de la Cruz comes to town. Rafaela is part of a family of “ghost hunters” with their own reality show—and Paloma’s newest classmate. Paloma’s family has always dismissed the de la Cruzes as having no real psychic abilities, but that hasn’t kept the show from becoming a hit. Suddenly, Paloma’s seances are old news.

FEAT DESCDescubre con tus hijos los 25 cuentos más mágicos de Perú. Una selección de las historias más entrañables para prosperar mirando al pasado y al futuro. Lo mejor de las tradiciones y las costumbres peruanas para los más pequeños con música de banda sonora, voces de cine y efectos de sonido. Son perfectos tanto para escuchar en casa antes de dormir como en el coche.

Meet Fisher Bas: a 12-year-old, growth-stunted, geeky science genius who is the son of Nobel Prize–winning parents. Despite his outsized IQ, Fisher is far from the most popular kid in his middle school — he’s actually tormented daily by overgrown goons he calls the Vikings. Holed up in his home lab over a long weekend, Fisher uses his mother’s revolutionary Advanced Growth Hormone to clone himself.

With more than 80 of the most popular and loved poems in the English language, this collection is one of the most comprehensive anthologies of its kind. It covers a remarkable range, from the striking visions of Blake and Shelley and the insights of Keats to lighter but equally memorable verse by Tennyson.

Dustin Kiskaddon draws on his own apprenticeship with Matt, the owner of Oakland's Premium Tattoo, and takes us behind the scenes into the complex world of professional tattooers. We join people who must routinely manage a messy and carnal type of work. Blood and Lightning brings us through the tattoo shop, where the smell of sterilizing agents, the hum of machines, and the sound of music spill out onto the back patio.

The Lord of the Rings is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain, and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits, and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in the actual world.

Mandy Harper, una de las niñas más repelentes del mundo, era la única que podía poner las normas en el colegio. Ella decidía quién era popular y quién no. Hasta que Kayla Littlebe decidió oponerse a ella. Un día, Mandy descubrió que necesitaba gafas. ¿Podría seguir mandando en la escuela con sus gafas nuevas, o tendría que darse cuenta del error que cometía comportándose como lo hacía?

Este audiolibro recoge los siguientes cuentos populares: “La cruz del diablo”, “El aguinaldo”, "El alfiletero de la Anjana”, “El hombre del saco”, “El laud maravilloso”, “ El príncipe Tomás”, “El puente de San Martín”, “El río Zapardiel”, “El vado del moro”, “ Hernando el halconero”, “Juan bobo”, “La brecha de Roldán”, “La campana Beneta”....

Cassie is a popular girl, and she knows it. In fact, when she's asked to define the person who she is for her school yearbook, she ends up choosing that very word. But popularity can be a fickle thing. When Cassie starts to learn this, she realizes everything she had built for herself is about to come crashing down around her.

All of her life Brittney Ellis has been the overweight, unpopular girl at school, longing to be a part of the popular crowd. When she makes up her mind to reinvent herself, Brittney discovers that being a part of the "cool kids" might not be as awesome as she dreamed it would be. This is a story of young love, friendships, and triumph over difficult odds. If you enjoy books about women overcoming their shortcomings to find their true selves, you'll love I Want To Be Popular.

Robert Musil: Über die Dummheit Ein Vortrag, gelesen von Moritz Brendel. Robert Musil hält seinen legendären Vortrag Über die Dummheit erstmals gehalten auf Einladung des österreichischen Werkbunds am 11. März 1937 in Wien – auf den Tag genau ein Jahr vor dem Anschluss Österreichs an Nazi-Deutschland. In seiner Rede formuliert er das Paradox der Dummheit, "dass jeder, der über Dummheit sprechen oder solch einem Gespräch mit Nutzen beiwohnen will, von sich voraussetzen muss, dass er nicht dumm sei und also zur Schau trägt, dass er sich für klug halte, obwohl es allgemein für ein Zeichen von Dummheit gilt, das zu tun!"

Cassie is a popular girl, and she knows it. In fact, when she’s asked to define the person that she is for her school yearbook, she ends up choosing that very word. But popularity can be a fickle thing. When Cassie starts to learn this, she realizes that everything she had built for herself is about to coming crashing down around her.

"This book is an absurdity. How do you collect something of which there is nothing to collect?" So begins The Essential Guide to Collecting Calvin and Hobbes. At once a requisite collector's guide and a pursuit of meaning within storytelling, The Essential Guide to Collecting Calvin and Hobbes also offers a critical appraisal of Watterson, as well as a deep examination of the most obscure Calvin and Hobbes relic: "a miraculous artifact unlike any other collectible in the world."

El presente audiolibro está compuesto de los siguientes cuentos: "El rey del frio", "Basilisa la Hermosa", "El corredor veloz", y "El pez de oro".

"El Sol, la Luna y el Curevo", "El Gato y la Zorra", "El Soldado y la Muerte", "El Zarevich Iván y el Lobo Gris", "La Bruja Baba-yaga", y "La Vaquita Parda".

A fictional account of a future woman president's tenure, this funny satire imagines a president who stops war, gets rid of the IRS, and then gets down to work on handling illiteracy, illegal drug abuse, and other social ills. She has an attitude, and she's determined. Maybe you'll find some ideas that could be put into use today.