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Welcome to my own personal hell. Name: Heathcliff. Occupation: Vampyre Warrior - one of the deadliest in the world. I plan. I fight. I win. Always. However, it's never taken me this damned long to get what I want before. Only I would be blessed with a Vampyre mate I'd have to chase for two centuries. The chemistry between us is steamy, and the sex is sizzling, but I want more - I want it all. Now, just as I'm finally wearing Raquel down, I find I have competition, not for my mate's hand but for her very existence.

The Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest surviving literary work in the world. The epic poetry describes the ancient King Gilgamesh and his journey to discover the secret to eternal life.

At the center of The Hooligan's Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America. But while Norman Manea's book is in many ways a memoir, it is also a deeply imaginative work, traversing time and place, life and literature, dream and reality, past and present. Autobiographical events merge with historic elements, always connecting the individual with the collective destiny.

En este extraordinario primer volumen de sus esperadas memorias presidenciales, Barack Obama narra la historia de su sorprendente evolución de ser un joven en busca de su identidad a convertirse en líder del mundo occidental, describiendo con increíble detalle tanto su formación política como los momentos cumbre del primer período de su histórica presidencia, una época de una gran conmoción y de profunda transformación.

Para crear o modificar una imagen pública se necesita algo más que corazonadas...¡Se necesita saber! Este libro le ayudará a: Conocer la percepción que los demás tienen de usted, Descubrir su esencia y respetarla, Hacer de su realidad una buena historia que contar, Influir en los demás para que lo apoyen, Construir una buena reputación, Aplicar la Imagología para triunfar en la política, los negocios... y la vida misma.

Después de décadas de guerras intestinas, las tribus de los Tiste Edur al fin se han unido bajo el mando del Rey Warlock. Hay paz, pero el precio ha sido terrible: un pacto hecho con un poder oculto cuyos motivos son, en el mejor de los casos, sospechosos, y, en el peor, mortales.

Senhor das Moscas é um dos romances essenciais da literatura mundial. Adaptado duas vezes para o cinema e traduzido para 35 idiomas, o clássico de William Golding já foi visto como uma alegoria, uma parábola, um tratado político e até mesmo uma visão do apocalipse.

At a time when so many disaffected Christians are trying to recreate the church from scratch, Fr. James offers a clear and accessible apology for simply returning to what Christ’s church was always meant to be.

El cazador y veterano de Vietnam Llewelyn Moss descubre por casualidad la sangrienta escena de una carnicería entre narcos en algún lugar de la frontera entre Texas y México. Entre los cuerpos y los paquetes de heroína, descubre también algo más de dos millones de dólares. A partir de este momento comienza la violenta carrera de Moss por escapar de los que quieren darle caza.

Two ancient tribes. Two precious children. One wicked foster mother who really is a witch. A desperate escape. An evil spell. Three transformations. A kind and generous warrior. A powerful medicine woman. an insightful course of action.... A timeless tale of injustice and redemption, spun together from the sentiments of an old German folk tale, an ancient indigenous legend, and some not so ancient misguided historical events.

The seductive story of a dangerous love triangle, inspired by the infamous Nabokov marriage, with a spellbinding psychological thriller at its core. In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies.

Mai 1942. Reinhard Heydrich se meurt dans un hôpital de Prague. À moins que... Le monde est à feu et à sang, l'humanité se consume dans les affres d'une guerre comme elle n'en a jamais connu. Dans le chaos du conflit qui déchire le monde d'hier s'esquisse déjà celui de demain, mais les véritables enjeux de cette boucherie planétaire se dévoilent enfin - bien plus cruciaux que tout ce qu'il était possible d'imaginer.

San Francisco Noir lashes out with hard-biting tales exploring the shadowy nether regions of scenic "Baghdad by the Bay". In this superb collection, virtuosos of the genre meet up with the best of SF’s literary fiction community to chart a unique psycho-geography for a dark landscape. From inner city boroughs to the outlands, each contributor offers an original story based in a distinct neighborhood.

In an exposition reminiscent of crossover works such as Gödel, Escher, Bach and Fermat's Last Theorem, Andrew Smart weaves together Mangarevan binary numbers, the discovery of LSD, Leibniz, computer programming, and much more to connect the vast but largely forgotten world of psychedelic research with the resurgent field of AI and the attempt to build conscious robots.

Un milliard de Martiens, hâbleurs, exaspérants, mal embouchés, d'une familiarité répugnante, révélant tous les secrets, clamant toutes les vérités, envahissent la terre sans autre but apparent que de compliquer la vie des hommes. Mais comment s'en débarrasser ?

When Mark Victor Hansen had to conquer his own setbacks in order to seize success, he discovered how to harness and leverage the power of the human mind and then to fuel it with enthusiasm and passion. His explorations took him beyond the normal confines of human thought, into the realms of imagination and possibility. Mark now travels the world in high demand as a keynote speaker, coaching people to wake up, to recognize their power to make a difference, and to re-create their reality by living their dreams.

In A Part of the Heart Can’t Be Eaten, award-winning author, sex educator, filmmaker, and podcast host Tristan Taormino shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how her radical sexuality and unconventional career grew out of an extraordinary queer father-daughter relationship. Raised by a hard-working single mother on Long Island, Tristan got her sex ed from the 1980s TV show Solid Gold and The Joy of Sex. She spent summers at drag shows in Provincetown with her father, Bill, who had come out as gay in the mid-1970s.

Amelia Hanlon has worked hard to perfect her new life after tragedy destroyed her old one. When a single night ends her relationship and reunites her with the past she's been running from for years, it's all she can do not to panic as her world shatters around her. Again. Nicolas Silva is perfectly content with his bachelor lifestyle. Books, boxing, and nameless women warming his bed are all he cares about—until a red-haired wildfire waltzes into his life and burns everything he thought he knew to the ground.

A lifestyle guide for the curious and the conscious. Created by YouTube and Instagram sensations That High Couple, The Art of the High Life is a vibrant invitation to embrace a more intentional lifestyle—infused with humor, creativity, and connection. Whether you're planning a cozy night in, an adventure-filled weekend, or a moment of personal reflection, this guide is packed with mood-boosting rituals, creative experiences, and conversation-sparking prompts.

Fresh out of law school, London Vaughn discovers there's no room in Denver's prominent law firms for a middle-of-the-class graduate. While barely making ends meet as a waitress, she encounters a beautiful woman who engages her services irrespective that she has no experience, no office and no reputation. Almost immediately, London and her client are thrust into the deadly throes of a high-stakes international thriller of unimaginable scope.