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Ironically for the time traveling, chief seer of the supernatural world, time has never been on Cassie Palmer's side. There has always seemed to be too much to learn, too much to master, and never enough hours in a day. But the tables have now turned, and the fluctuating timelines of Earth and Faerie are diverging, slowing time in Faerie relative to Earth, and giving humans an advantage for the first time in their war with the fey. It is one they desperately need, for a literal war of the worlds is about to take place. To win, or even to survive, Cassie and her allies, the powerful vampire senator Mircea Basarab and the formidable war mage John Pritkin, will have to pull off their greatest feat yet. And find a way to become more than the sum of their parts. Contains mature themes.

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Learn history easily with The Ultimate Guide To Rebuilding A Civilization. Structured book.The world history ancient civilizations book contains 400 pages with discoveries in main areas: medicine, basic materials, mechanisms, military arts, hearth and home, farming, entertainment, musical instruments, and society. We combined a clear structure, high-quality texts, and detailed images to completely immerse you in the story. Elegant coffee table book.Exhale after a long day of work, open educational and entertaining books for adults on any page, and be carried away to another universe of amazing discoveries. Our interesting books for men look like a masterpiece, so you can hold it in your hands and turn the pages with pleasure. For homeschooling & satisfying curiosity.Learn more about inventions that significantly influenced human history. Use the book of knowledge to study history with your children or to expand your horizons. There's nothing better than immersing yourself in some of the world's best stories after a long day. Inspired by a childish dream.The Hungry Minds history books was born thanks to the tireless interest of a child. What would I make a bow string of if I lived in the Middle Ages? This is one of the questions that came to our founder when he was little. He thought about it before bed and checked the facts in the morning. The book combines research interests, scientific facts, and talented drawings, so that every child, regardless of age, can enjoy history. Perfect gift.If your loved ones are interested in history, and how different mechanisms work, if they like to analyze and read, they will definitely enjoy the inspirational books for men, women, and kids. Our history gifts for men and women are great for any occasion - as birthday or Christmas gifts. Order The Book How to Rebuild Civilization now and learn more about the most important human inventions!

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Special edition copy of Standing In The Sun

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MP3 CD Format Matt Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker are positioned to push the line of battle to the breaking point on an alternate Earth, in the thrilling return to the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. Matt Reddy and his sailors have fought, bled, and died for their Lemurian friends and other allies from across time, but their enemies are still operational. In Africa, the Grik General Esshk has escaped defeat to build a new army and new weapons, and is desperate enough to use them to destroy the world if he can't have it. In South America, the NUS, General Shinya, and the Army of the Sisters have the evil Dominion on the ropes and are closing in on the seat of its blood-drenched power, but the twisted Don Hernan has struck a deal with the fascist League, and Victor Gravois is finally assembling the awesome fleet of modern ships he's always craved. If he's successful, the war will be lost. Undermined by treachery on a stunning scale, Matt Reddy must still steam his battered old ship halfway around the world, scraping up what forces he can along the way, and confront the mightiest armada the world has ever seen in a fiery duel to the death.

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A moderna fábula coreana com 2 milhões de exemplares vendidos que está conquistando corações em todo o mundo. Flora Hen é uma galinha. Flora Hen é carismática. Ela vai fazer você rir e chorar, ela vai surpreender você- mas, principalmente, ela vai lhe ensinar, com doçura e coragem, a ser melhor, mais humano e mais forte, nos insuspeitos e perigosos caminhos da vida. Tão poético e filosófico quanto "O pequeno príncipe". Tão iluminado quanto "Fernão Capelo Gaivota". Tão animador quanto "A arte da guerra". Tão inspirador quanto a Bíblia. Criança ou adulto, pode ler sem susto: a encantadora história de Flora Hen vai tocar seu coração.

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MP3 CD Format Why do some people achieve great personal success, yet never succeed in building a business or making an impact in their organization? John C. Maxwell knows the answer. According to Maxwell, the greatest leadership principle that he has ever learned in over 35 years of leadership is that those closest to the leader will determine the success level of that leader. It's not enough for a leader to have vision, energy, drive, and conviction. If you want to see your dream come to fruition, you must learn how to develop the leaders around you. Whether you're the leader of a non-profit organization, small business, or Fortune 500 company, Developing the Leaders Around You can help you to take others to the limits of their potential and your organization to a whole new level. Learn how to Create an environment for potential leadersIdentify and nurture future leadersEquip and develop leadersForm a dream team of leaders

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Holly Miller is delighted that her grandmother has finally left the Sugar Maple Inn to take a well-deserved vacation. It means that Holly's in charge, but running the inn might be more challenging than she realized. Wagtail's throwing a weekend-long murder mystery game to draw in tourists during the slow season, the inn has a full house, and a blizzard is on the way. Trouble is unleashed the night the game begins, when the storm blows in and the lights go out. It gets worse the following morning when Holly's Jack Russell terrier, Trixie, discovers a body—one that's actually dead. Now Holly, her calico kitten Twinkletoes, and Trixie must play by the rules and find one dirty dog.

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[ MP3CD Format ] Beloved actress, Food Network personality, and New York Times bestselling author Valerie Bertinelli reflects on life at sixty and beyond. Behind the curtain of her happy on-screen persona, Valerie Bertinelli's life has been no easy ride, especially when it comes to her own self-image and self-worth. She waged a war against herself for years, learning to equate her value to her appearance as a child star on One Day at a Time and punishing herself in order to fit into the unachievable Hollywood mold. She struggled to make her marriage to Eddie Van Halen -- the true love of her life -- work, despite all the rifts the rock-star lifestyle created between them. She then watched her son follow in his father's footsteps, right up onto the stage of Van Halen concerts, and begin his own music career. And like so many women, she cared for her parents as their health declined and saw the roles of parent and child reverse. Through mourning the loss of her parents, discovering more about her family's past, and realizing how short life really is when she and her son lost Eddie, Valerie finally said, "Enough already!" to a lifelong battle with the scale and found a new path forward to joy and connection. Despite hardships and the pressures of the media industry to be something she's not, Valerie is, at last, accepting herself: she knows who she is, has discovered her self-worth, and has learned how to prioritize her health and happiness over her weight. With an intimate look into her insecurities, heartbreaks, losses, triumphs, and revelations, Enough Already is the story of Valerie's sometimes humorous, sometimes raw, but always honest journey to love herself and find joy in the everyday, in family, and in the food and memories we share. "This thoughtful, big-hearted book is sure to be a hit with Bertinelli fans and those with an appetite for stories of hard-won self-acceptance. A warmly intimate memoir." -- Kirkus Reviews "In a series of brutally frank essays, Bertinelli looks back on the emotional struggles and triumphs of her life. By turns raw and inspiring, this contains a little bit of wisdom for everyone." --Publishers Weekly

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Rhonda and Ann are touched when they learn members of a small book club have saved for a long time to be able to spend a week at the Beach House Hotel. They arrange to put the five women in one of the two private homes on the property and promise to give them all the bubbles each one has requested as a surprise for the others. Things become complicated when Vice-President Amelia Swanson requests the use of the other house for two of her staffers who need time to rest and write up reports for her. Ann and Rhonda continue to survive surprises good and bad in both business and in their private lives by working together to keep their guests happy. Another of Judith Keim's series books celebrating love and families, strong women meeting challenges, and clean women's fiction with a touch of romance-beach reads for all ages with a touch of humor, satisfying twists, and happy endings.

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Durante muchos años, Gawdat estuvo interesado en diseñar una fórmula que le permitiera desarrollar un verdadero estado de felicidad permanente. Después de incontables horas de investigación, por fin descubrió una ecuación basándose en la comprensión de cómo el cerebro absorbe y procesa la alegría y la tristeza. Años más tarde, el algoritmo de Mo fue sometido a una durísima prueba cuando su hijo, Ali, murió de manera repentina. Él y su familia pusieron en práctica la ecuación y pudieron salir de la desesperación y recuperase de la tragedia. Después de vivir esta experiencia, Gawdat decidió que compartiría su algoritmo con el mundo y ayudaría al mayor número de personas posible a ser más feliz. En El algoritmo de la felicidad, el autor nos explica las razones subyacentes al sufrimiento y nos enseña, paso a paso, cómo despejar la fórmula para lograr una felicidad para toda la vida enseñándonos a disipar las ilusiones que nublan nuestro pensamiento.

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Susan Scott reads her newly revised and updated New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller to achieving success one conversation at a time. As the master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants you to succeed. To do that, you must transform everyday conversations in effective ways to get your message across. In this guide, Susan teaches you how to: -Overcome barriers to meaningful communication -Expand and enrich relationships with colleagues, friends, and family -Increase clarity and improve understanding -Handle strong emotions—on both sides of the table -Connect with colleagues, customers, and family at a deep level By mastering the Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, you will begin to change your life—one conversation at a time.

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As Christian women, we desire to put Jesus first. We want to prioritize him above all, knowing instinctively that when we do, everything else in our lives will fall into alignment. Yet life feels complicated, and the demands of our daily lives leave our priorities out of order and our hearts longing for more. Author, speaker, and Bible teacher Lisa Whittle is passionate about helping people pursue Jesus for life, grow deep roots of faith, and walk strong in a world that so often seems to have gone crazy. In Jesus Over Everything, Lisa shares eight statements of choice to help us grow in our understanding of what it means to put Jesus first amid the craziness our days bring, including choices such as commitment over mood,steady over hype,holiness over freedom,service over spotlight,and more. Jesus Over Everything is a practical, compelling picture of what we crave yet struggle to define as we seek to give God his rightful place in our everyday lives.

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MP3 CD Format A guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story John Truby. Most people think genres are simply categories on Netflix or Amazon that provide a helpful guide to making entertainment choices. Most people are wrong. Genre stories aren't just a small subset of the films, video games, TV shows, and books that people consume. They are the all-stars of the entertainment world, comprising the vast majority of popular stories worldwide. That's why businesses--movie studios, production companies, video game studios, and publishing houses--buy and sell them. Writers who want to succeed professionally must write the stories these businesses want to buy. Simply put, the storytelling game is won by mastering the structure of genres. The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works is the legendary writing teacher John Truby's step-by-step guide to understanding and using the basic building blocks of the story world. He details the three ironclad rules of successful genre writing and analyzes more than a dozen major genres and the essential plot events, or "beats," that define each of them. As he shows, the ability to combine these beats in the right way is what separates stories that sell from those that don't. Truby also reveals how a single story can combine elements of different genres, and how the best writers use this technique to craft unforgettable stories that stand out from the crowd. Just as Truby's first book, The Anatomy of Story, changed the way writers develop stories, The Anatomy of Genres will enhance stories' quality and expand the impact they have on the world.

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A leitura desta obra torna-se uma tarefa imprescindível para todo aquele que se propõe a mesma pergunta que orientava Bonhoeffer: "O que é o cristianismo ou, ainda, quem é de fato Cristo para nós hoje?". Para ele, ficou evidente a necessidade de criticar o que chamou de "graça barata", que, "em vez de justificar o pecador, justifica o pecado". Ou seja, a postura que a Igreja assume ao inverter todo o esforço dos reformadores sintetizado na doutrina da justificação pela fé mediante o sacrifício na cruz de Cristo. Justamente por isso, "a graça barata é a inimiga mortal de nossa Igreja". Foi contra esse tipo de graça que os esforços de Bonhoeffer se direcionaram, reiterando enfaticamente a verdadeira vida em comunidade, na qual o discipulado é visto como compromisso radical de obediência a Cristo - mesmo que implique a morte, não apenas do velho ser humano, mas do próprio discípulo. Pedro Dulci

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"Barbara Freethy is a master storyteller!" Romance Reviews Today Emmalyn McGuire has finally found her rhythm as a kindergarten teacher-but the once-in-a-lifetime love she reads about in her favorite books? Still missing.Enter Hunter Kane, a brooding military pilot recovering from a life-altering accident. Grieving, injured, and reeling from the loss of his closest friend, Hunter retreats to Ocean Shores-only to find himself the temporary guardian of his late buddy's young daughter.Overwhelmed and out of his depth, the fiercely independent Hunter turns to Emmalyn for help. She's sweet, steady, and far too easy to fall for. Despite her nerves around the grumpy, guarded pilot, Emmalyn's heart goes out to the little girl who suddenly needs them both-even if it's only for now.As they fumble through the chaos of makeshift parenthood, the sparks between them get harder to ignore. Hunter wasn't looking for love. Emmalyn wasn't planning to share her secrets. So how did they end up here-falling for each other when they least expected it? Don't miss this charming, emotional, and heart-melting romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Barbara Freethy. Perfect for fans of grumpy sunshine, slow-burn chemistry, and stories where love shows up in the most unexpected ways. MOONLIGHT FEELS RIGHT is part of the OCEAN SHORES series by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author, Barbara Freethy. In the sun-soaked paradise of Oceanside, California where the ocean pounds the shore, surfers ride the early morning waves, and the local military base sends roaring jets into the sky, sits a large apartment building filled with interesting and quirky tenants, possible love connections, and more than a few secrets! Once you come to visit, you'll never want to leave! PRAISE FOR THE OCEAN SHORES SERIES... "Ocean Shores is the kind of apartment complex we'd all want to live in, where the neighbors are all friendly and look out for each other. The cautious financial planner and laidback Australian surfer wouldn't seem to have much in common at first glance, other than physical attraction. But leave it to the talented Barbara Freethy to bring these two together in a way that is believable, entertaining and hopelessly romantic." Mary - Goodreads on Hopelessly Romantic

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Atlanta, Georgia. Present day. A young woman is brutally attacked and left for dead. The police investigate but the trail goes cold. Until a chance assignment takes GBI investigator Will Trent to the state penitentiary, and to a prisoner who says he recognizes the MO. The attack looks identical to the one he was accused of eight years earlier. The prisoner's always insisted that he was innocent, and now he's sure he has proof. The killer is still out there. As Will digs into both crimes it becomes clear that he must solve the original case in order to reach the truth. Yet nearly a decade has passed -- time for memories to fade, witnesses to vanish, evidence to disappear. And now he needs medical examiner Sara Linton to help him hunt down a ruthless murderer. But when the past and present collide, everything Will values is at stake

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Más de 4.500.000 de ejemplares vendidos. «Elísabet Benavent es la voz masiva de una generación». Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, El País Amor, enredo, cocina, sexo y una amistad inquebrantable se dan cita en el final de la bilogía «Horizonte Martina» de @BetaCoqueta, dos novelas que te harán vibrar y disfrutar del amor en estado puro. ¿Estás preparada para dejarte llevar? Si te llamas Martina y te has enamorado perdidamente de Pablo Ruiz... Si te has dejado llevar y te has soltado la melena... Si juntos habéis hecho y dicho cosas que jamás imaginasteis... Eres la protagonista de esta historia y tu vida está a punto de ser otra. Quedarás a la deriva, perderás el norte, y poco a poco estarás más lejos de tu hogar en tierra firme. Elísabet Benavent, la autora de las sagas «Saga Valeria», «Saga Silvia», de la trilogía «Mi elección», la bilogía «Canciones y recuerdos» y las novelas Mi isla, Toda la verdad de mis mentiras, Un cuento perfecto, El arte de engañar al karma, Todas esas cosas que te diré mañana, Los abrazos lentos, Cómo (no) escribí nuestra historia y Esnob, pone el broche de oro a su bilogía «Horizonte Martina» con Martina en tierra firme, una historia de amor imparable, con luces y sombras, con secretos y contradicciones, un final de vértigo que te dejará sin palabras. Original, arriesgada, arrebatadora, desternillante, hípster, macarra, sexy, 100% @BetaCoqueta, Martina en tierra firme te enloquecerá. En los blogs... «En definitiva, Martina en tierra firme es el broche de oro para una bilogía que me ha encantado, un libro que apenas podrás saborear debido a un ritmo vertiginoso y una historia que te calará hondo. Muy recomendable.» Blog Buscando un dandy «Me ha enamorado, posiblemente por lo duro que es. De hecho, afirmo, sin dudarlo, que es uno de mis libros favoritos de la autora.» Blog Adicta a los libros «El encanto que tienen los personajes de Elísabet Benavent nos hace devorar con ansia sus páginas para darle un sentido completo a las historias que nos cuenta.» Blog Strindice Las lectoras han dicho: «¿Qué puedo decir que no hayan dicho ya? ¡Que me encanta! He reído, he llorado, ha habido momentos en los que me he quedado sin respiración... ¡¡¡maravillosa!!!» «Elísabet Benavent ha sabido mantener el listón alto. Historias divertidas, románticas, eróticas. Desde Valeria soy una fiel seguidora de su obra.» «Cien puntos, Elísabet, ¡¡eres un genio, una gran escritora!! ¡Desde que empecé no he podido parar de leer!» «Maravillosa. Como siempre esta autora nos hace soñar. Nunca decepciona. Simplemente nos enamora y nos hace vivir la historia como si fuera nuestra.» «Esta escritora me encoge el corazón. Describe como nadie los sentimientos y te deja con ganas de más. Muchas gracias, Elísabet, por escribir. No dejes nunca de hacerlo.» «Genial, como todo lo que escribe Elísabet. Me encantan sus personajes: mujeres fuertes, decididas, atrevidas. Digamos que son una fuente de inspiración.»

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From Johns Hopkins medical expert Dr. Marty Makary, the New York Times-bestselling author of The Price We Pay-an eye-opening look at the medical groupthink that has led to public harm, and what you need to know about your health. More Americans have peanut allergies today than at any point in history. Why? In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a strict recommendation that parents avoid giving their children peanut products until they're three years old. Getting the science perfectly backward, triggering intolerance with lack of early exposure, the US now leads the world in peanut allergies-and this misinformation is still rearing its head today. How could the experts have gotten it so wrong? Dr. Marty Makary asks, Could it be that many modern-day health crises have been caused by the hubris of the medical establishment? Experts said for decades that opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid crisis. They refused menopausal women hormone replacement therapy, causing unnecessary suffering. They demonized natural fat in foods, driving Americans to processed carbohydrates as obesity rates soared. They told citizens that there are no downsides to antibiotics and prescribed them liberally, causing a drug-resistant bacteria crisis. When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when modern medicine is interpreted through the harsh lens of opinion and edict, it can mold beliefs that harm patients and stunt research for decades. In Blind Spots, Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackling the most urgent yet unsung issues in our $4.5 trillion health care ecosystem. The path to medical mishaps can be absurd, entertaining, and jaw-dropping-but the truth is essential to our health.

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Adaptación de la obra maestra de Orwell en la que se alertaba de totalitarismos y la amenaza de un "gran hermano" que controlase al individuo constantemente 1984, en un Londres futuro, parte de una región que alguna vez fue llamada Inglaterra o Britania, integrada a su vez en un estado llamado Oceanía. Allí gobierna un partido único, acaudillado por el omnipresente y vigilante Gran Hermano. La civilización ha sido devastada por una Tercera Guerra Mundial en la que se han usado armas nucleares, y que ha tenido lugar a principios de los años cincuenta. Se han producido conflictos civiles y una revolución, tras la cual el Partido Único ha tomado el poder y manipula a los ciudadanos y la historia a su antojo. Winston Smith, funcionario del Ministerio de la Verdad que reescribe el pasado según las consignas establecidas, ve crecer en él un deseo de libertad y rebeldía contra el asfixiante Estado. Una adaptación del clásico de la literatura distópica publicado en 1949 en la que se mantiene el estilo y mensaje de George Orwell.

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In a memoir where heroism meets humor, NBC News anchor and correspondent Vicky Nguyen tells the story of her family's daring escape from communist Vietnam and her unlikely journey from refugee to reporter with laughter and fierce love. Starting in 1975, Vietnam's "boat people"--desperate families seeking freedom--fled the Communist government and violence in their country any way they could, usually by boat across the South China Sea. Vicky Nguyen and her family were among them. Attacked at sea by pirates before reaching a refugee camp in Malaysia, Vicky's family survived on rations and waited months until they were sponsored to America. But deciding to leave and start a new life in a new country is half the story...figuring out how to be American is the other. Boat Baby is Vicky's memoir of growing up in America with unconventional Vietnamese parents who didn't always know how to bridge the cultural gaps. It's a childhood filled with misadventures and misunderstandings, from almost stabbing the neighborhood racist with a butter knife to getting caught stealing Cosmo to read the answers to Do You Really Think You Know Everything About Sex? Vicky's parents approached life with the attitude, "Why not us?" In the face of prejudice, they taught her to be gritty and resilient, skills Vicky used as she combatted stereotyping throughout her career, fending off the question "Aren't you Connie Chung?" to become a leading Asian American journalist on television. She delivers a uniquely transparent account of her life, revealing how she negotiated her salary in a competitive industry, the challenges of starting a family, and the struggle to be a dutiful daughter. Funny, nostalgic, and poignant, Boat Baby is a testament to the messy glue that bonds a family. In the tradition of We Are Dreamers by Simu Liu and Dear Girls by Ali Wong, Vicky Nguyen offers an optimistic story full of heart that illuminates the promise of what America can be.

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An enduring theological classic now available in paperback This complete edition of Louis Berkhof’s magnum opus includes both his Introductory Volume to Systematic Theology and his classic Systematic Theology. In his monumental treatment of the doctrines of the Reformed faith, Berkhof covers the full range of theology in traditional systematic fashion, examining the doctrines of God, anthropology, Christology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and eschatology. The result is a comprehensive work written in a scholarly yet simple style. The foreword by Richard A. Muller explains the relation and importance of Berkhof’s prolegomena to the rest of his systematic theology, while complete indexes, thorough bibliographies, and questions for further study make this edition ideal for students. Since its original publication in 1939, Berkhof’s Systematic Theology has remained the most influential twentieth-century compendium of Reformed theology.

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La anodina vida de Sofía y Daniel cambia radicalmente cuando él recibe una carta anónima en la que se le dice que Sagrario, a la que venera, no es su verdadera madre y que si quiere conocer la verdad de su origen debe ir a París esa misma noche. Intrigado, pregunta a su padre por esta cuestión y él le recomienda que lo deje pasar, que no remueva el pasado. Sin embargo, hay preguntas que necesitan una respuesta y esta búsqueda desencadenará una sucesión de terribles acontecimientos y encuentros inesperados de infortunado desenlace que trastocará su vida y la de su mujer, Sofía, para siempre. Madrid, París y su mayo del 68, el muro de Berlín, la Stasi y la KGB, los servicios de contraespionaje en la España tardofranquista y tres personajes en busca de su identidad son las claves de esta fantástica novela con el inconfundible sello de Paloma Sánchez-Garnica.

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The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look at the real man behind the myth. Sharing never-before-told stories and insights, his closest friends, confidantes, lovers, classmates, teachers, and colleagues paint a vivid portrait of one of the most beloved figures of the 20th century, revealing how the boy who saluted became the man America came to know and love who still captures public imagination twenty-five years after his tragic death. Born into the spotlight, John F. Kennedy Jr. lived a short but remarkable life filled with expectation, ambition, family pressures, love, and tragedy. JFK Jr. dives deep into his complicated psyche and explores the what-ifs, illuminating both the cultural and political moment he inhabited and the way this son of a president, so full of promise and possibility, embodied America's most cherished hopes.

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This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of mythical shamanic hallucinogens, they encounter a host of unusual characters--including a mushroom, a flying saucer, pirate Mantids from outer space, an appearance by James and Nora Joyce in the guise of poultry, and translinguistic matter--and discover the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language.

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The classic text describing Ancient Egyptian beliefs about death and the afterlife, presented in a high-quality, Chinese-bound format. Ancient Egyptians imagined the afterlife as a kind of journey you had to make to get to paradise. It was quite hazardous, so you needed help along the way. Spells and magic formulas written on papyrus were placed in coffins and burial chambers in order to protect and aid the deceased in duat, or the underworld. These funerary texts were developed over many centuries into individualized collections known as the Book of the Dead. One of the best-known versions, the Papyrus of Ani, is featured here. Some 192 spells are known, although no single manuscript contains them all. The spells are designed to give the dead mystical knowledge in the afterlife, offer incantations to help preserve different parts of the deceased, and protect the dead from hostile forces. Some of the spells are to make sure you can control your own body after death. Presented in a high-quality format with accompanying illustrations, The Egyptian Book of the Dead is an ideal resource of esoteric wisdom for anyone interested in Ancient Egyptian notions of death and the path to the afterlife.

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The Fairy Tale Cupcakes crew helps two professional football players in knead when the athletes are suspected of murder and their dream of opening a bakery is crushed, from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay. Professional football players Keogh Graham and Tyler Matthews want to open a Fairy Tale Cupcakes franchise. They're spending the off-season in Scottsdale working in Mel's bakery, learning about the business and how to bake show-stopping cupcakes. The popular athletes bring a boom of customers to the store as football fans flock to see the friends mixing batter and piping icing. Everyone's excited the athletes are pursuing their dream of owning a bakery—except for those who fear the players will ditch football for fondant and retire early from professional sports. The angry naysayers include their team owner and Keogh's sports agent, along with some very vocal fans. When the owner of their team, the Arizona Scorpions, is found dead on the floor of their new bakery following an argument with Keogh, the pros become prime suspects. As the investigation heats up, Mel and the rest of the cupcake bakery crew must step up and prove their franchise owners are innocent before it's game-over for the new bakers.

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas . . . For most people, that means a time of celebration, relaxation and inebriation, but not for the staff of The Stranger Times. While a book club meeting ending in a triple murder isn’t unprecedented, it is at least noteworthy. It quickly emerges that this is no ordinary book-club-triple-murder either, as it features a librarian possessed by a chaotic entity who has broken through from another dimension and is hellbent on vengeance. He’s made a list, but he’s not checking it twice as the whole of humanity is on it. Who would want to summon such a thing? And how is anyone going to be able to send it back? As if that wasn’t enough to be dealing with, a shocking revelation about a member of The Stranger Times team’s past brings family together, but not in a way that’s ever going to make it into a Hallmark movie. Featuring demonically possessed Santas, blood-thirsty books and the ghost of a legendary nightclub, it’s beginning to look a lot like a Christmas apocalypse . . .

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" Set in a picturesque Cape Cod town, the latest in this cozy mystery series by the Agatha Award–winning author will delight fans of Lorna Barrett's Booktown series and Kate Carlisle's Bibliophile mysteries, as bike-shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her fellow book club sleuths solve a bookstore murder. Everyone loves a festival, though Mac has a few concerns about the Spring equinox event organized by the new Chamber of Commerce director, Wagner Lavoie. After all, March weather is unpredictable. Still, there's plenty to enjoy, between flower-shaped candies at Salty Taffy's, spring rolls at the Rusty Anchor, and a parade of decorated bicycles. But the festivities soon take a stormy turn … Mac glimpses conflict between Wagner and other locals during the festival, but it's a shock when he's found dead in the Book Nook, pinned beneath a toppled bookshelf. It's an irresistible case for Mac's book group. She and the rest of the Cozy Capers will have to use all their sleuthing skills to bring the killer's story to an end … "

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In the next explosive novel in this New York Times bestselling series, Evan Smoak, having lived his life by the assassin's Ten Commandments, finds himself at odds with his oldest friend in the world, where principles are in conflict with honor, no rules hold—and no one may get out alive. Evan Smoak was once a highly successful black ops assassin known as Orphan X, dedicated to a rigid set of operational rules. Even after going deep underground and remaking his life, Evan remains dedicated to his unbreakable code. But for the first time in his life, those principles have put him on a collision course with the man who might be his best friend in the world, Tommy Stojack. Stojack, a gifted gunsmith who has created much of Evan's own weapons and combat gear, has apparently crossed one of Evan's sharply delineated lines. When Evan decides to have it out with Tommy, Evan is ambushed by a skilled crew of killers determined to take him down. But Evan is hard to kill and the dispute explodes into open warfare between Evan and Tommy. Now Evan has no choice but to track down and face his only friend. In the meantime, Tommy has already left town in order to honor an old promise to a Navy friend who died in his arms. His mission is to help his dead friend's son. In a depressed rural area, with conflicts flaring up everywhere, that son could be responsible for the death of an innocent. And while Tommy is trying to keep him and his friends alive, Evan arrives with vengeance in mind. But as deadly as the former Orphan X is, Evan isn't even the most dangerous threat to arrive on the scene.

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La traducción íntegra del Quijote al castellano actual, de la mano de Andrés Trapiello, escritor y reconocido experto en Cervantes. ¡8.ª edición a la venta! “En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, vivía no hace mucho un hidalgo de los de lanza ya olvidada, escudo antiguo, rocín flaco y galgo corredor.” Con estas palabras, Andrés Trapiello presenta el que es, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los más ambiciosos proyectos literarios de los últimos tiempos: la primera traducción impresa en castellano actual del Quijote. El Quijote, la novela acaso más original e influyente de la literatura, es también una de las menos leídas por los lectores españoles e hispanohablantes, a menudo buenos y cultivados lectores, abrumados o desalentados por la dificultad de un castellano, el del siglo XVII, más alejado ya del nuestro de lo que se cree. Sólo pensando en ellos y en hacer que el Quijote vuelva a ser esa novela “clara” en la que no haya “nada que resulte difícil”, para que, como decía el bachiller Sansón Carrasco, los niños la manoseen, los mozos la lean, los hombres la entiendan y los viejos la celebren, Trapiello se ha decidido a adaptarla íntegra y fielmente, sin alejarse nunca del maravilloso lenguaje cervantino. Como dice Mario Vargas Llosa en el prólogo a esta singular edición, “la suya ha sido una obra de tesón y de amor inspirada en su conocida devoción por el gran clásico de nuestra lengua”.

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La colección De la cuna a la luna está dirigida a niños y niñas de 0 a 3 años, para quienes se han diseñado especialmente estos pictogramas poéticos o poegramas; un término que designa una modalidad de poesía pictográfica basada en la búsqueda de un ritmo de lectura que ayude a “educar el ojo y endulzar el oído” del pequeño lector, en palabras del poeta Antonio Rubio. Esta nueva edición de gran formato -“Luna” y “Cocodrilo” son los primeros títulos disponibles- es ideal para su manejo por parte de mediadores y docentes, mientras que la edición convencional de 16x16 cm. está dirigida al público infantil.

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Este elegante estuche de lujo reúne la trilogía de thriller más impactante de los últimos años. Déjate seducir por el fenómeno de la novela negra que ha conquistado ya a más de 4.500.000 de lectores. Reina Roja Antonia Scott es especial. Muy especial. No es policía ni criminalista. Nunca ha empuñado un arma ni llevado una placa, y, sin embargo, ha resuelto decenas de crímenes. Pero hace un tiempo que Antonia no sale de su ático de Lavapiés. Las cosas que ha perdido le importan mucho más que las que esperan ahí fuera. Tampoco recibe visitas. Por eso no le gusta nada, nada, cuando escucha unos pasos desconocidos subiendo las escaleras hasta el último piso. Sea quien sea, Antonia está segura de que viene a buscarla. Y eso le gusta aún menos. __________________________________________________ Loba Negra Antonia Scott no tiene miedo a nada. Solo a sí misma. Pero hay alguien más peligroso que ella. Alguien que podría vencerla. La Loba negra está cada vez más cerca. Y Antonia, por primera vez, está asustada. __________________________________________________ Rey Blanco Cuando Antonia Scott recibe este mensaje, sabe muy bien quién se lo envía. También sabe que ese juego es casi imposible de ganar. Pero a Antonia no le gusta perder. Después de todo este tiempo huyendo, la realidad ha acabado alcanzándola. Antonia es cinturón negro en mentirse a sí misma, pero ahora tiene claro que si pierde esta batalla, las habrá perdido todas. La crítica ha dicho: «Lo que está haciendo Gómez-Jurado es, sencillamente, el mayor truco de magia de la historia del thriller.» ABC «A Juan Gómez-Jurado le leen en cuarenta países y ha vendido millones de libros. Diviértanse y lean a muerte.» El País «Juan Gómez-Jurado atrapa irremediablemente al lector.» Booklist «Respira hondo antes de empezar a leer. No volverás a tener tiempo hasta el final.» Javier Sierra «Gómez-Jurado es el mejor escritor de thriller de Europa.» Gorka Rojo, Zenda

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Using a time-tested approach that has helped millions of students around the world, Fundamentals of English Grammar blends direct grammar instruction with carefully sequenced practice to developspeaking, writing, listening, and reading skills. The fifth edition has been extensively revised to keep pace with advances in theory and practice, particularly from cognitive science. Now more than ever, teachers will find an extensive range of presentations, activities, and tasks to meet the specific needs of their classes. New to This Edition - A pretest at the start of each chapter allows learners to assess what they already know and orient themselves to the chapter material. - Practice, spaced out over time, helps students learn better. Numerous exercises have been added to provide more incremental practice. - New charts and exercises show patterns to help learners make sense of the information. - Meaning-based practice is introduced at the sentence level. Students do not have to wait for longer passages to work with meaning. - Frequent oral exercises encourage students to speak more naturally and fluidly. - Step-by-step writing activities promote written fluency. All end-of-chapter tasks include writing tips and editing checklists. - A wide range of contextualized exercises, frequently including life skills vocabulary, encourages authentic language use. - Updated grammar charts based on corpus research reflect current usage and highlight the differences between written and spoken English in formal and informal contexts. - The BlackBookBlog focuses on student success, cultural differences, and life-skills strategies. - End-of-the-chapter Learning Checks help students assess their learning. - A Pearson Practice English app with end-of-chapter learning checks, Student Book audio, and guided PowerPoint videos. - Revised MyEnglishLab for a fully blended program.

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Cuando los dioses callan y los reyes mueren, la historia la escriben los que sobreviven. Un thriller lleno de conspiración, pasión y peligro. Aristóteles es el filósofo más prestigioso de Grecia y el maestro de Alejandro Magno, el conquistador invencible que ha sometido todas las ciudades griegas y la mayor parte del mundo conocido. La relación de Aristóteles con el poderoso rey hace que muchos atenienses deseen acabar con él, pero el aura de Alejandro lo protege. Sin embargo, eso está a punto de cambiar. En medio de una época que llega a su fin, el ateniense Prometeo y la espartana Penélope se ven arrastrados por los peligros que se ciernen sobre Aristóteles. Mientras luchan por sobrevivir, la sombra de un antiguo secreto alterará sus destinos en un mundo que comienza a desmoronarse.

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