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Julio de 1947. Miquel Mascarell, que lleva ocho años y medio en el Valle de los Caídos, es sorprendentemente indultado y sale en libertad. De vuelta a casa, a una Barcelona casi irreconocible bajo el peso de la dictadura, está solo, no tiene a nadie. Hospedado en una pensión, recibe una misterios nota con dinero, una fotografía y una propuesta que su instinto de policía no puede obviar. Así es como, sin quererlo, vuelve a poner en marcha sus mejores dotes de inspector. Alguien quiere que investigue la muerte de una joven prostituta.

Sind Sie bereit für die Zombie-Apokalypse? Klingt so, als ob Sie den Ninja-Code benötigen. Michael Carter ist 12 Jahre alt und alles läuft schief. Jede einzelne Sache. Ein neues Haus, eine neue Schule, Eltern, die viel zu beschäftigt sind, und eine Schwester, die ein Foltermeister ist. Das einzig Gute, an das Michael denken kann, ist sein treuer Hund Rocky - bis er einen neuen Freund trifft und etwas über den Ninja-Code erfährt. Aber können ihm ein furzender Hausmeister und ein Geheimkodex gegen die Gefahr helfen, mit der er plötzlich konfrontiert ist?

Free-spirited Opal Gilbert seems to have everything she needs to keep living a happy life in Sunset Cove as she refurbishes vintage furniture to sell at her funky ocean-side boutique, Bless This Mess. Until Lincoln Cole, a new-to-town ex-Marine nursing deep wounds and harboring hurts he can't seem to shake, wanders into her shop. Opal knows a person in need when she sees one and offers Lincoln a job in her workshop. But the brooding former soldier has no interest in Opal's offer.

Josie Slater has allowed the circumstances anchoring her in Sunset Cove to become a life sentence. Since her mother’s death years before, she’s spent most of her waking hours helping her dad run the Driftwood Diner. As her best friends, Opal and Sophia, make their dreams come true, Josie watches her own art school aspirations drift on by. But when a French-speaking Southern gentleman from her past moves back from Europe, Josie is launched into a tizzy of what-ifs and I-sure-do-hope-sos.

In Soldiers of a Different Cloth, New York Times best-selling author and military historian John Wukovits tells the inspiring story of 35 chaplains and missionaries who, while garnering little acclaim, performed extraordinary feats of courage and persistence during World War II. Ranging in age from 22 to 53, these University of Notre Dame priests and nuns were counselor, friend, parent, and older sibling to the young soldiers they served. These chaplains experienced the horrors of the Death March in the Philippines and the filthy holds of the infamous Hell Ships.

This is how The Slave Factory begins. It is the story of Tonya's journey of self-discovery as she and an eclectic group of fellow students undergo six-months of focused and brutal reshaping, guided by the Masters and Mistresses of the arts of sex, bondage, discipline, and submission and the love to serve within the walls of a place known only as The Academy.

Richard Nixon said he wanted administration to be "the best chronicled in history". But when Alexander Butterfield disclosed the existence of a voice-activated tapind system to a Senate committee in July 1973, Nixon's White House and its recordings quickly became the most infamous in American history. Only 60 hours were actually made public in the 1970s. Many thousands of hours remained secret and Nixon's hands, and he fought fiercely to keep them that way right up to his death.

Jocelyn Wu has just three wishes for her junior year: to make it through without dying of boredom, to direct a short film with her BFF Priya Venkatram, and to get at least two months into the year without being compared to or confused with Peggy Chang, the only other Chinese girl in her grade. Will Domenici has two goals: to find a paying summer internship, and to prove he has what it takes to become an editor on his school paper.

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With every minute that passes, a new terror is unleashed.... An unwitting antique shopper releases a vicious evil spirit from its ancient prison. A dark ritual turns a woman obsessed with supernatural powers against the people who love her most. A possessed TV proves that old B-Movie monsters can still terrify an unsuspecting audience...Scare Street’s roster of authors brings you 11 new tales of supernatural horror, in one blood-chilling volume. This macabre collection of short stories is guaranteed to get your pulse racing, and send shivers down your spine.

This collection contains five speeches from a millennium shaped by faith and empire.

When Ryann and the Ghost-Runners find themselves at the center of a brutal war, their only chance of survival seems to run and hide. Danger is all around, both without and within. The Defiance is now home to a thousand refugees, and the threat of unrest and betrayal is growing. But unexpectedly, Ryann soon finds himself upon an altogether different journey of discovery, one that threatens to drive him to the very brink of madness.

You negotiate every day of your life. Whether you are asking your employer for a raise or persuading your child to do his homework, everything is a negotiation. Written by Gerald Nierenberg, the world's foremost authority on the subject, and recognized as the Father of Contemporary Negotiation, The New Art of Negotiating is an updated, expanded version of the million-copy bestseller, The Art of Negotiating, which was the first on the subject of negotiating.

A cemetery guard becomes the romantic obsession of a lonely corpse. A cuddly teddy bear savagely protects its young owner. A disturbing clown proves that terror is no laughing matter. And a sinister elevator carries its passengers to new heights of horror. Scare Street returns with a beastly new tome, guaranteed to make your skin crawl. Prepare to lose yourself in the shadows, as you devour each of these 12 ghastly tales with morbid anticipation.

The carnival is back in town, and for Jack Heldon, that's not a good sign. Since the last time it had come to the small and quiet town in Lensfield, Connecticut, he’s been plagued with nightmares of burning walls, raspy chuckles, and fiery red eyes in the dark. Ted Barton’s killing spree is still fresh in his mind, and Jack knows the carnival was behind it all. Now, it’s back for more.

A twisted scientist plots to alter the course of human evolution while another dreams of creating the world's first mechanical thinking machine. A body is found in a secured bank vault and modern day pirates have begun harassing Her Majesty's Royal Navy. Here are five new mysteries that will test the Great Detective's uncanny talents of observation and the courage of his loyal companion.

Zapraszamy Cię na darmowy kurs medytacji. Nauczysz się pięciu starożytnych technik medytacji, przekazywanych przez duchowych nauczycieli od niepamiętnych czasów. Poprawią one Twoje życie na wszystkich poziomach. Pomogą Ci wznieść świadomość na wyższy poziom oraz odnaleźć wewnętrzne szczęście.

Por muchos años, I. C. Robledo, autor más vendido de Amazon, ha estudiado las vidas de personas intelectualmente brillantes. Él ha concluido que las personas inteligentes no nacen inteligentes. En cambio, ellas adquieren hábitos que mantienen el cerebro en forma óptima.

My name is Alex and I am a black man. I am six foot four, I wear size fourteen shoes, and my dick is just over eleven inches. If you are afraid some black man is going to f--k your white wife, I am the one you need to worry about. This is how the story of a man begins. Alex thinks he is the master of all he surveys as women throw themselves on their knees before him. One night, he witnessed a reflection of what he had become and he didn't like what he saw.

Aigües Encantades (1908) se situa en un poble de la part alta i muntanyosa de les comarques tarragonines i planteja el típic conflicte modernista entre l’individu i la societat. El problema de la sequera provoca un enfrontament entre el sector tradicionalista i conservador del poble - que és el que compta amb el poder fàctic - i la visió moderna d’un enginyer vingut de la ciutat que compta amb la complicitat de la filla del cacic local.