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Nobody knew who started it.

Every week, colorful sticky notes began appearing throughout a small town—inside library books, on park benches, tucked into grocery carts, and hidden in unexpected places. Each carried a simple message of hope, encouragement, or kindness.

At first, they were easy to overlook.

Then people started looking for them.

A grieving father. A struggling teenager. A burned-out police officer. A lonely librarian. A little girl with purple glasses.

One by one, their lives are touched by a few handwritten words from a stranger.

What begins as a mystery soon becomes a movement.…

Tras un divorcio bien habido, el protagonista se embarca en una nueva relación. Ésta lo llevará, casi sin querer, a un torneo de futbol infantil en Punta Cana que coincide con su cumpleaños 45. A él no le interesan mucho los partidos y, mucho menos, los niños. Sin embargo, se encuentra inmerso en la peripecia que le significa ser uno más de los acompañantes del equipo en el que juega el hijo de su nueva pareja.
 Ahí, en lo que es un paraíso tropical, en medio de un torneo lleno de contratiempos, se dará cuenta de tres cosas que lo definen como persona: le da trabajo nombrar ciertos colores, tiene un problema que sólo puede resolver un proctólogo y no es una buena persona.…

Marvin "Merv" Moore was one of the early trailblazers of American baseball coaches relocating overseas to teach the sport to European athletes. The native Texan played a vital role in elevating the game in Switzerland and transformed one of Europe's weakest national teams into a legitimate B-Pool contender. However, while he was achieving success on the baseball diamond, his personal life was in turmoil.

Chronic: A Sick Novel
"If this book were a movie, the cleaners would have to mop up buckets of tears. Of joy. Of laughter. And yes, of sadness. I'm lucky I had a box of tissues close by."
If you want to understand people who are chronically ill, or disabled, but are functional within their limitations, read on...
Paul and Deena are friends with MS and Parkinson's Disease respectively. They've found a wonderful flat renovated for people with disabilities, only they can't afford it. Enter Albert, a former nurse in remission from cancer, and Bolton, a former athlete who is now a paraplegic. They too look at the flat, and love it. But can't afford it. The solution? The four of them move in together. And life happens.…

Tras un divorcio bien habido, el protagonista se embarca en una nueva relación. Ésta lo llevará, casi sin querer, a un torneo de futbol infantil en Punta Cana que coincide con su cumpleaños 45. A él no le interesan mucho los partidos y, mucho menos, los niños. Sin embargo, se encuentra inmerso en la peripecia que le significa ser uno más de los acompañantes del equipo en el que juega el hijo de su nueva pareja.
 Ahí, en lo que es un paraíso tropical, en medio de un torneo lleno de contratiempos, se dará cuenta de tres cosas que lo definen como persona: le da trabajo nombrar ciertos colores, tiene un problema que sólo puede resolver un proctólogo y no es una buena persona.…

In Pollyanna, optimism becomes a kind of magic. When the orphaned Pollyanna arrives in a stern New England town, her sunny “glad game” turns gloom into laughter and melts even the coldest hearts. Through kindness, courage, and unshakable cheer, she teaches everyone around her to find joy in the smallest things. Warm, funny, and full of heart, Pollyanna is a timeless reminder that hope can be the bravest choice of all.

In Five Children and It, curiosity meets chaos when five siblings discover a strange, wish-granting creature buried in a sandpit. The grumpy Psammead can make any dream come true—but only until sunset, when every wish unravels in unexpected ways. From sudden riches to wild adventures gone wrong, the children learn that magic always comes with a twist. Whimsical, witty, and full of heart, this classic tale reminds us to be careful what we wish for—and to enjoy the mischief along the way.

Life is a gamble: unpredictable, capricious, luminous, and brutal.

Within these pages, each card is a story, and each story leads to another: love that hurts, desire that burns, loneliness that lingers, and human beings searching for meaning amid the chaos of everyday life.

Here dwell the woman who slips into someone else’s dress to imagine an impossible wedding; the man who falls in love with the abyss; the princess who flees an inherited destiny; the single woman surviving on chocolates and fantasies; the bastard who promises and slips away; the couple that breaks apart, the one that reinvents itself, the one that lies to itself.…

Something evil is hidden in the woods outside of the beautiful town of Sparkle, PA, the kind of thing Peter Huffy, newly arrived in town, does not believe in. Little does he know that something is happening in Sparkle, something that hasn’t occurred on Earth since the destruction of Camelot a millennium and a half before, and the forces of good and evil are going to collide. Twelve-year-old Derek Windward is the sole keeper of Sparkle’s oldest secret. He is the only one who has witnessed the evil hiding in the darkest part of the forest, and how terrifying the power it wields truly is. It is the Bunyine - a giant, tormented creature born eight-thousand years ago in the Garden of Eden and harboring an ancient grudge for the betrayal of its masters Adam and Eve. One morning, Derek receives…

Tom is a majestic tortoise shell cat resident in the village of Clereford Thwaite, living without a care in the world until he finds himself involved in a fight between a dark raider and a bright wizard. As a consequence he finds himself dubbed 'Sir Screech of Clereford Thwaite' and charged with defending the village. He does get a little magic to help him though...