By Doris Cramer
Amberes, 1520. El padre de Mirijam y Lucia van de Meulen está agonizando, por lo que las hermanas se ven obligadas a emprender un peligroso viaje a Andalucía, donde han de iniciar una nueva vida en casa de unos parientes.
Pero en alta mar caen prisioneras y son trasladadas a África. Mientras que Lucia es confinada en un harén, Mirijam sufre torturas tan horrendas que pierde el habla. Sobrevive gracias a l. a. ayuda de un médico morisco, con el que emprende un viaje a Mogador, l. a. ciudad de los moluscos de l. a. púrpura.
Allí Mirijam no solo se convierte en tintorera, sino que adquiere conocimientos de medicina y abre los ojos al amor. Pero… ¿acaso el destino de las jóvenes hermanas estaba escrito? ¿Acaso las ricas herederas fueron víctimas de un merciless traidor?
Read Online or Download La luz de las islas púrpuras PDF
Best fiction books
Dexter Is Delicious (Dexter, Book 5)
America’s most-read, most-watched, and most cherished serial killer—Dexter Morgan—is again. After promoting multiple million copies and encouraging the wildly well known number 1 Showtime sequence and ideal crime drama on pay-cable tv, long island instances bestselling writer Jeff Lindsay returns together with his such a lot hilarious, macabre, and in basic terms pleasing novel but.
While good, refined flowers Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she makes a decision her in basic terms selection is to descend upon family in private Sussex. on the aptly named chilly convenience Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin Judith, heaving with regret for unstated wickedness; Amos, preaching fireplace and damnation; their sons, lustful Seth and despairing Reuben; baby of nature Elfine; and crazed outdated Aunt Ada Doom, who has stored to her bed room for the final 20 years.
The second one crime novel through the world over bestselling author Eoin Colfer is a gritty and totally compelling follow-up to the severely acclaimed Plugged In Screwed, Colfer provides and fully new bankruptcy to the adventures and misadventures of Daniel McEvoy, the down-on-his-luck Irish bouncer at a seedy New Jersey bar who, with the aid of a motley team of not likely characters, solved a extraordinary string of murders--including the single of the woman he enjoyed.
The Diary Of An Expectant Father (The Diary Of A ... Father, Book 1)
Not just is Graham Peterson unfortunate in his number of careers, he’s additionally been negative with ladies all through his grownup lifestyles. That alterations whilst he meets Alison on a piece evening out. regrettably for Graham, even though, issues swap so tremendously that inside a month of relationship Alison he will get the scoop that he’s approximately to develop into a father for the 1st time.
- Stillwatch
- Honour Among Thieves
- Tom Swift Among The Diamond Makers
- The Guns of the South
- First Shift - Legacy (Part 6 of the Silo Series)
- The Key-Lock Man
Additional resources for La luz de las islas púrpuras
Sample text
His mother doesn’t seem to hear it for the first mile or so, but it must have had a cumulative effect on her nerves because when we were almost there, she reached down and pinched his leg so hard that he gasped and tried to holler, but he couldn’t make another sound and didn’t for the rest of the trip. Once he shut up, the girl started muttering to herself like we weren’t even there. “Muthafucka just lying. He know he my baby daddy. Look at his damn face. Look just like him. Nigga know I ain’t been fuckin’ nobody but him since his ass got here and he can’t give me five dollars a week?
She was wearing a pale blue polyester pantsuit and white sandals with stockings. Her hair, which was pressed and hot-curled within an inch of its life, was elaborately styled and piled like Mahalia Jackson’s when she sang her solo at the end of Imitation of Life. Hardly anybody asks for that kind of hard press anymore. Sister seems to have missed the moment when we decided it was okay for the hair to move. A thin white scarf was loosely tied under her chin to protect this well-sprayed helmet of hair from even the possibility of a breeze.
I wasn’t expecting to see anything like that up here,” I said. He looked at me and smiled. ” I remembered how fast he had moved back there. The kid never saw it coming. ” “Army,” he said. “He’ll be all right as soon as he catches his breath. ” 20 what looks like crazy on an ordinary day . . • “An important distinction,” I said, realizing my hands were shaking. I kept seeing that girl’s head flopping around when the guy was slapping her. “I know that kid,” Eddie said. I was surprised. ” He nodded.