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"Cómo Ganar Amigos e Influir Sobre las Personas" es una obra clásica de autoayuda y desarrollo personal escrita por Dale Carnegie. Publicado por primera vez en 1936, este libro ha sido un éxito atemporal, con millones de copias vendidas en todo el mundo, y ha ayudado a innumerables personas a mejorar sus habilidades sociales y liderazgo. El objetivo principal de Carnegie en esta obra es proporcionar a los lectores una guía práctica para mejorar...

"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young--but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about...

Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.

While continuing to help his classmates solve their problems, Humphrey, pet hamster of Longfellow School's Room 26, faces many surprises, like rolling in a hamster ball, a substitute janitor who might be an alien, and the possibility of Mrs. Brisbane retiring.

A dangerous, volatile rebel, hands stained bloodred. A woman whose very existence has been erased. A love story so dark, it may shatter the world itself. A deadly price that must be paid. The day of reckoning is here.

Zoey Miller, a smart computer major who thinks she has love all figured out, has her life turned upside down when Zach, a popular college soccer player, gets amnesia and mistakes Zoey for his girlfriend. Before revealing the truth, she meets Zach's cousin, Miles, with whom she has much in common. Pretending to be Zach's girlfriend, she realizes she has feelings for both and is forced to confront her fears to make an impossible decision.

"Families include one child and one parent, multiple parents and grandparents with many children, and everything in between. Explore diverse families and the many ways that they care for one another"--

Nagatoro, a freshman, teases her older classmate Senpai to no end, yet she can't stay away from him. Senpai gets embarrassed by Nagatoro, yet he can't stop thinking of her when they're apart.

"David Hedges is having an unusual midlife crisis. His boyfriend, Soren, has left him for an older man. His job is exasperating. As his life reaches new lows, his weight reaches new highs. Across the country, Julie Fiske isn't having a much better time herself. Carol, the woman (younger, of course) that Henry, her second husband, left her for, is downright likable--more likeable than Henry was. Her sullen teen daughter adamantly refuses to apply to...

The story of the unforgettable Reed women continues in the fourth season. Following the lives of Alex, Georgie, Frankie, and Teddy; four very different women forever connected by the bonds of family.