El diablo pelirrojo quiere ser duquesa

Isabelle Catherine Hutting likes to spend time in the library before going to the dance hall in search of a husband. When she finds out that a space opened up in the house in town for single women, she decides to set aside her marriage plans. She will first have to speak to Marcus, the Duke of Hart, owner of the property, in order to move in. He turns out to be the most attractive man she has ever seen . He is immediately attracted to her, but he is not interested in relationships. An old curse weighs heavy on his mind that no duke in his family will live long enough to see an heir born....

A história de O Presidente Negro, único romance adulto de Monteiro Lobato, passa-se nos Estados Unidos e aborda temas como a segregação racial, aculturação, feminismo e ainda profetiza o surgimento de uma rede pela qual as pessoas se comunicariam e trabalhariam à distância, semelhante à internet. Através das lentes do “porviroscópio”, aparelho capaz de prever o futuro, Lobato leva os leitores para 2228, ano em que o personagem norte-americano Jim Roy, um negro, concorre à presidência.

La historia de la Inquisición Española es mucho más que la narración de los instrumentos de tortura o de la agonía de los que la sufrieron. El Santo Oficio era, ante todo, un Tribunal con su regulación jurídica, aspectos administrativos y organizativos, por lo que es un tema que compete directamente a los estudiosos de Historia del Derecho. En España se han hecho importantes trabajos de investigación acerca de este tema, aglutinados sobre todo en torno al Instituto de Historia de la Inquisición, con sede en la Univesidad Complutense de Madrid. Menos frecuentes han sido los estudios...

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.