Elvira

To Knit or Not to Knit is a unique Dear Abby/mini-knitting essay collection, offering humorous tales of triumph and terror on the needles, with a witty nod to the famous and infamous throughout history. As Mrs. Wicks happily quotes everyone from William Shakespeare to Beatrix Potter, she adds her own wit and wisdom to answer a variety of questions on knitting ranging from, Is there a quick fix for dropped stitches? to My boyfriend says my passion...

"On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. But she survived. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. While her sisters...

Welcome to the first book in the Speaking Russian Fast-Track series. It is a simplified and concise version of the Speaking Russian Podcast and especially attractive to those who want to learn Russian words and phrases in less than 3 minutes, as well as for those who listen to the full version of the podcast and want to revise the new words introduced in each episode of the Speaking Russian podcast. Speaking Russian Fast-Track 1 includes lessons...

Nick Andrews is back in England. He is a broken man, living on the streets and trying to cope with everything he's been through. Nick thinks that his life is over, but then Tom comes along. Tom, who is handsome and wealthy and intent on making his acquaintance. Nick ends up as Tom's valet, a position that brings him to the remote estate of Ravensleigh. At Ravensleigh, he soon realizes that Tom and his family have a past laden with shadows. Nick regrets...

Eran libros que se publicaron en pequeñas tiradas y que hasta hoy resultaban inencontrables. Poemarios dispersos, escritos entre los 70 y los 90 principalmente, que parecían escabullirse de los lectores, aunque en realidad se escabullían de la censura, y que ahora se recopilan en Actas urbe, de Elvira Hernández (1951). Libros urgentes, que la autora de La Bandera de Chile iba escribiendo en esos años, rápido, escapando de los censores, pero...

"Se suponía que tenía todo lo que cualquier mujer desearía para ser feliz: una familia sana, un trabajo, la casa de mis sueños, un coche... pero sin embargo podía sentir que no lo era. Me encontraba atrapada en un bucle en el que no me reconocía. ¿Dónde se encontraba aquella Emily del pasado que tenía las ideas muy claras y la que conseguía todo aquello que se propusiera Me había olvidado totalmente de mi misma para dedicarme a los demás....

A provocative new novel from the author ranked among Granta's "Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists" Globally acclaimed as a relentless innovator and a meticulous explorer of the psyche's most obscure alleyways, Elvira Navarro here delivers an ambitious tale of feminine friendship, madness, a radically changing city, and the vulnerability that makes us divulge our most shameful secrets. It begins as Elisa transcribes the chaotic testimony of her...

Nick Andrews has grown up in poverty in a tiny village. All his life he's been told that he's useless. After getting one scolding too many he decides to go far away, off to sea. But his experience as a farmhand has done little to prepare him for the hardships of a sailor's life. When his ship is attacked by pirates, Nick's life is miraculously spared by the notorious pirate captain, Christopher Hart-a man in charge of a crew feared for their brutality....