Arthur Conan Doyle

Al capitán Jakab Störr las mujeres siempre le han desconcertado. Razón de más para evitarlas... hasta que irrumpe en su vida Lizzy, la adorable y encantadora Lizzy, la pícara y coqueta francesita por la que el rudo capitán beberá los vientos... y recogerá tempestades. Porque pronto, tal vez demasiado, el matrimonio revelará su calidad de espejismo: la volubilidad de la bella Lizzy, sus medias verdades, su variable estado de ánimo y la convicción secreta del capitán de que su mujer le engaña con otro acabarán sumiendo a Störr en un maremoto de emociones y desengaños que dará...

Whether you call your January 6th celebration El Dia de los Reyes or the Feast of the Epiphany, you're celebrating a day dedicated to the three kings. Sometimes called the three wise men or the magi, these figures are part of the Christmas story and often appear in nativity scenes during this time of year. In some places, they're more important than Santa Claus. In this volume, readers discover the history of the three kings' story as well as how they are celebrated in cultures around the world today.

Christopher Columbus most likely wasn’t the person to discover the Americas. He wasn’t even the first European to do so! Despite that, his three trips to the Western Hemisphere led to many more European explorers heading in that direction. In this volume, readers familiar with Columbus’s travels on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria can learn who Columbus was beyond his travels. Supported by full-color and historic images, interesting main content turns what readers think they know about the life of Columbus on its head while expounding on an important period in the history of the world.

A lot of what many people know about the native groups in the northeastern part of North America comes from colonial history. The Wampanoag met the Puritans as they made their home at Plymouth. The Powhatan group of the Algonquin people had a large role in the history of the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia. However, the history of the native groups living in modern New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, and northern Virginia began long before European settlement! Readers meet several individual groups of native peoples and explore the distinguishing features of northeastern...