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Transformation is the exciting second book in the Euphoria Z Trilogy. Cooper has found his sister, Ellen, and her boyfriend, Taffer, who survived the infection. But there's something not quite right about him now. Cooper must leave Ellen and Taffer behind with a new companion to go on a critical mission to find the one person that might be able to help him. Weed, the surviving member of the Wild Rebels MC, has infiltrated the parking garage as a harmless old man, but he's not fooling everyone.

Si possono ricordare i dettagli di quella foto. 1968 Città del Messico, Tommie Smith e John Carlos sul podio. Pugno destro Smith sinistro Carlos, sguardo in basso. Smith ha una scatola nella mano sinistra tutti e due sono scalzi... Poi c'è quello che è arrivato con loro... di solito non ricordiamo il nome, ma è quello senza guanto. Un bianco in mezzo a due "negri", come si diceva senza le virgolette una volta. È Peter Norman. È prima di uscire dal tunnel indossa la coccarda dell'Olympic Project for Human Rights.

È il 25 marzo 1972 al Cross-Country Championships di Hillingdon. A vincere è un certo Kirk Dumpleton. Di lui non si parlerà mai più. Di altri due che arrivano al traguardo invece si. Secondo è un sedicenne di nome Stephen Michael James Ovett. Più indietro, in decima posizione, un quindicenne: Sebastian Newbold Coe. Sebastian Coe e Steve Ovett. Ovvero la rivalità perfetta. Non c'è sceneggiatore al mondo che avrebbe potuto immaginarla altrettanto bene. Il nice boy e il bad boy.

1790, French Caribbean: Biracial plantation owner Patrice Beaumont is known as a "kinder" slave master, but his trusted friend reminds him that is no cause for pride. He claims to be committed to ending slavery, but his actions don't back up his words. Is being the "best of the worst" all he's capable of? 1863, New York City: Giant Irish street fighter Patrick Allen is days away from battling it out with a similarly oversized Black fighter.

Jack Spirelli describes the Coven of Light as a cult-like organization, with dangerously powerful members and no love for mundane humanity. He was also on record as categorically refusing to involve himself in a case that took him anywhere near the Coven. Why then had Jack agreed to take the case of a defecting Coven member? His dragon side-kick Marin may not speak to him again - ever. But sometimes the right thing to do isn't convenient, comfortable, or safe. And there was that stash of magical potions he'd been promised for taking the case.

Marcus Freling is working as a mail carrier enjoying life. His pride and joy is his 13-year-old niece. Innocence is lost when her young life is snuffed out by a senseless random drive-by shooting in Harlem, New York. Over the next several months, Marcus's sorrow turns to anger. Anger gives way for a yearning to inflict vengeance on Troy, the drug dealer, whom fired the kill shot - Troy was questioned by Detective Rodgers about the murder, but he was released due to a lack of evidence.

"Non è morto ciò che può giacere in eterno e in remoti eoni anche la morte può morire." Nella sua dimora il morto Cthulhu attende sognando, ma il suo richiamo è incessante, penetra nei sogni, ispira le menti corrotte, distrugge quelle sensibili. Un richiamo sospeso nel tempo e nello spazio che proviene da abissi dimenticati dall'eternità. La sua voce è sempre più violenta, sempre più presente, sempre più reale e si spinge lì, in quei luoghi dove anche la scienza ha deciso di dimenticare.

She stands at the edge of immortality, torn between terror and temptation. The portal will close on All Hallows’ Eve, and once the pact is made, there’s no turning back. Will she choose power or face what waits beyond? A dream vacation spirals into survival when tomb robbers strike. What began as an escape becomes a deadly game no guidebook could prepare her for. Can she outwit a threat that plays by no rules? Loyalty is tested when a crew’s biggest heist becomes their final reckoning. As greed poisons trust, betrayal is the only certainty. Who will survive when no one is on your side?

The story of how tragedy and sudden fame can affect everyone involved in the event. It is the story of David, a reporter, whose live newscast of young Maisie Hughes' death becomes a viral sensation. His guilt is in conflict with his desire to use the event to further his career. At the same time it is a story about the Hughes family: mom, dad, and middle sister.

He trusted the wrong hands, and now his work is gone. Betrayal cuts deep, twisting friendships into threats as suspicion takes hold. And when the shadows close in, he learns too late that no one is truly safe. She returns home searching for peace, but the past awakens in whispers and screams. Some horrors never died, and now they want her to remember. Can she survive what waits in the dark?

Jeremy Stone, a renowned, almost Zelig-like figure in the world of public interest activism offers his antic, wry and moving memoirs of a life spent trying to make the world a better place. There probably isn't another human being who's been involved with more issues as an activist than Jeremy Stone. During his tenure as head of the 2,000 member Federation of American Scientists, Stone has been involved with just about every major activist issue of the past quarter century.

What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be real? I thought we were out of danger. I thought we'd outwitted our enemies. I was wrong. As my world is torn apart, survival may not be what I expected.

Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. Her people have been rounded up in reconcentration camps, where there is always too little food and too much illness. Rosa knows how to heal sickness with medicines made from wild plants. But with a price on her head for helping the rebels, Rosa dares not go out in the open. Instead, she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her.

Imagine a town where the people perpetually live in the 1950s, a place where time has all but stopped and where everyone loves his family, job, and life. In this strange place, only a select few people ever leave the city limits, and even then they leave reluctantly. This is what 15-and-a-half-year-old Benjamin Granault faces as, through a string of amazing events, he finds himself living in a town where he can never talk about modern technology or current events, a place where being an outsider can cost a person his life, and being part of the community may very well cost more.

Finding his new roommate dead in their apartment has search dog handler Seth Beauregard on the run. Certain he was the intended victim, he isn't sure who he can trust or where he can turn for help. But self-reliance may be more of a trap than a solution as Seth attempts to elude the killer hot on his trail.

Ever get laid off while wearing a costume? Forced to get over a fear in less than 10 hours? Hey, we've all been there, right? These are just a few of the weird woes that writer and blogger Roberto Scarlato has to face. A collection of six humorous essays of true events that happened in his life. It tackles subjects like apartment hunting, traveling, acting, Halloween contests, and scammers.

Somewhere in an impoverished desert shantytown there's a life devoid of all things human. Yet from this loveless, hopeless, and altogether barren existence comes fiery hope and unexpected love. As brutal as a Tarantino movie and as tender as a sure-fire chick flick, Bizarro Love drags the listener through the loneliness and ugliness of the character's world. Amidst an utter absence of humanity comes the greatest of human conditions, love and hope.

Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mama, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an education, young Juan still showed an exceptional talent for poetry. His verses reflect the beauty of his world, but they also expose its hideous cruelty.

Lies and love. This is how a war starts. A life for a life. That's the mafia way. Damian Rossi owes his life to a man who is ready to collect. That payment comes in the form of an arranged marriage to the daughter of another leading family in the Chicago Outfit. He's ready to follow through, even if that means making sure Lily knows she's his.

Hotel owner C.C. Dixon has a beautiful fiancée and a mysterious million-dollar debt. Before he can embrace his future, he'll have to sort his past. Or die trying.