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Brett, Blake, and Gavin meet Stanford the seagull on the beach when Stanford cleverly snatches a piece of Blake's sandwich. As wisecracking Stanford informs the boys it is in his nature to steal, he is distracted when a little canary flies by. Stanford has a crush on the pretty yellow bird and goes to any length to impress her. Meanwhile, the boys build a sandcastle with their new friend Laney. The lifeguard puts out flags to warn everyone that the surf is dangerous right now. When the sandcastle is finished, Laney insists on going swimming despite the warning from the lifeguard. She is a...

An annotated cosmology of Anne Rice's Vampiredom from A(kasha) to Z(enobia)--all fifteen books of the Vampire Chronicles detailed, by a longtime Anne Rice reader and scholar; the who, what, where, why, (and often) how of her beloved characters, mortal and 'im', brought together in a book for the first time. Illustrated by Mark Edward Geyer. An Alphabettery of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles gathers together, from all fifteen of the books in the series, the facts, details, story lines, genealogies of her characters, vampiric subjects, geographical influences, and cultural and individual...

El buen soldado es una de las grandes obras literarias del siglo XX, y una obra singular en la carrera de Ford Madox Ford. En esta obra se narra las relaciones de un grupo de personajes de la alta sociedad cosmopolita en el período de entreguerras, en unos llamados felices veinte que están empezando a dejar de serlo. Una obra de implacable crítica a esta sociedad y una conmovedora exploración acerca de la naturaleza humana que nos invita a la reflexión sobre las relaciones entre hombres y mujeres y a la importancia que las mentiras tienen en ellas.

Eighty-two photographs by an unknown photographer, of unidentified women, taken probably between 1900 and 1915, and originally produced for stereoscope (3-D) viewing. The women were photographed nude, some in a bordello, others outdoors, in a non-pornographic style that evidences considerable rapport between subject and photographer and a naturalness virtually non-existent in European nude photos of the same era. The 1928 massacre of striking banana workers made famous in Garcia Marquez' One hundred years of solitude was recast by the late Cepeda Samudio (1926-1972), a friend of Marquez and...