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Meet Clara, reluctant spell caster and former member of the Texas Lycan pack. She fled the pack in fear in the 1970s. In the 30 years that pass, she never fully reclaims her life. It takes a loving family and a Christmas visit to give her the courage to open her heart.

"Siamo tutti nati da cose imperfette. Siamo tutti incerti, in equilibrio precario. Qualsiasi bellezza di cui possiamo risplendere è scavata dentro questa fragilità." Pietro Zangheri, paleoantropologo, ama la precisione. Che si tratti di organizzare una cena o di datare un reperto preistorico, non vuole che nulla sia lasciato al caso. Ama anche le imprese difficili, e infatti sogna di superare il temutissimo esame per l'ottavo dan di kendo. Infine, ama Selene, una giovane traduttrice che ha gli occhi neri e sembra fatta di fuoco: lui progetta, lei scombina.

Un classico della divulgazione, un libro che coniuga completezza e semplicità, nel quale lo storico dell'arte Ernst Gombrich è stato in grado di riassumere la favola vera del progresso dell'umanità in poco più di trecento pagine: un'impresa che richiede coraggio e una non trascurabile conoscenza della materia. L'abilità di Gombrich è rivolgersi all'ascoltatore, più o meno giovane, dandogli del tu e mettendosi nei panni del "fratello maggiore".

An urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time - and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.

Get the third box set of the best-selling Extreme Medical Services medical urban-fantasy series, and grab your discount on three books at once! This set includes books 7 through 9.

C'era una volta una casa nel bosco in cui vivevano tre orsi: uno era piccolo, uno era medio e uno era grosso. Il piccolo aveva una scodella piccola, il medio aveva una scodella media e il grosso aveva una scodella grossa. Lo stesso accadeva per le sedie, i letti, anche qualche altra cosa... Produzione Istituto Barlumen. Regia: Gaetano Cappa.

The Tao Te Ching is a compilation of meditations, comprised of 81 short chapters. Each chapter reflects on the beauty and mystical nature of the Tao (the Way). Tao Te Ching (Book of the Way) is one of the oldest written works that provides advice and guidance on perspective, inner strength, divine power, and moral excellence, among other principles of the universe. This 21st-century edition has been translated so that ancient text (originally written in classical Chinese in the fourth century BC) can be understood and enjoyed by the average listener.

Un quartiere di vicoli a Napoli: Montedidio. Un ragazzo di tredici anni va a bottega da Mast'Errico, il falegname. È l'inizio della sua vita nuova, la vita che a sera, a casa, in una casa vuota per l'assenza del padre e per la malattia della madre, il ragazzo va scrivendo su una bobina di carta avuta in regalo dal tipografo di Montedidio. Ha anche un altro regalo, che porta sempre con sé, un "bùmeran", un legno nato per volare che il padre ebbe a sua volta da un marinaio di passaggio. Così passano i giorni: Mast'Errico gli insegna il mestiere e Don Rafaniello, uno scarparo che Mast'Errico tiene ospite a bottega, gli insegna a pensare sugli uomini e sulle cose.

People often think that when you live in a small house, it's because you don't have the means to live in a larger home. In most cases this couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is that small house living typically equates to a much more fulfilling life. Through the process of downsizing your life in regards to material possessions, clutter, and the size of your dwelling, you come to understand a new ideal in which freedom is the name of the game.

You can travel back through time to the Christmas season during the Victorian era with Charles Dickens’ cast of characters in the Charles Dickens Complete Christmas Collection. It includes A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, and Dickens' original biography The Life of Dickens.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is a Gothic novella written during the late 19th century. The story explores the duality of human nature through the contrasting figures of the respectable Dr. Jekyll and the malevolent Mr. Hyde, and delves into themes of morality, identity, and the struggle between good and evil.

Quando Percival Theodore Waldeck è costretto a tornare a Montfort, sa che sta per diventare lo studente più odiato del campus. La sua famiglia è sul lastrico. La sua reputazione è devastata. Come ultimo Waldeck rimasto in gioco, ha un unico obiettivo: riabilitare il suo cognome nel college di lusso che frequenta. L'unica speranza per riuscirci? Avere lei dalla sua parte.

Oasis, the last habitable area on post-apocalyptic Earth, is meant to be a paradise, a place where everyone is content. Vulgarity, violence, insanity, and other ills are but a distant memory, and even death no longer plagues the last surviving humans. Theo, a 23-year-old Youth, has never fit in with the serene, age-divided Oasis society. But it's only when he starts hearing a girl's voice in his head that he realizes that nothing is what it seems.

Audiolibro de Vive el Tiempo. Los Sentimientos de la Nación son sin duda la más relevante formulación sintética de la visión de la insurgencia en su momento cumbre. Manifiestan el pensamiento político de Morelos en su fase culminante, compartido entonces por la mayoría de la dirigencia insurgente. Al mismo tiempo esos principios señalan ya una pre-constitución del nuevo Estado Nación que se gestaba.

Um homem deixa misteriosamente sua vida pregressa rumo a uma comunidade litorânea. Relato incisivo sobre a desagregação física, familiar e social, A segunda morte traz uma singular descrição da velhice e do encontro humano com a morte. "Ele vê a mata escura da serra acender no retrovisor, rajada pelo vermelho das luzes quando pisa no freio, e outra vez o mundo atrás de si desaparece no breu." Assim começa este breve romance, numa descida, espécie também de fuga, com um personagem que deixa uma vida para trás.

In Nothing Lasts Forever, Kameron Watson brings you a seductive, emotionally raw short story where one bachelor leaves unforgettable marks on four very different women: a married lover, a curious soul, a hopeless romantic, and a guarded divorcee. But when one woman doesn’t fall like the rest… she turns his whole game inside out.

Frankie is recovering, taking a rest from his last escapade. Claudia suggests a vacation. And all signs point to Las Vegas. Frankie is dazzled at first at the Adonis Hotel and Casino on the Sunset Strip, but then he crosses paths with shady characters and a two-faced Casino Boss with a nose for sniffing out hustlers and cheaters. Before long, Frankie is up to his neck in poker chips and trouble. There's only one way to leave this game of gambling, conspiracies and close calls; Cash out your chips or go home in a body bag.

Uncle Chip Proctor thought he had it all under control. After years of protecting Sadie and Addy, two royal half-Fae teens, he’s starting to believe they might just make it to Sadie’s coronation after graduation. But when a fiery portal erupts on the soccer field, his quiet role as their stay-at-home human guardian is about to be put to the ultimate test.

Summer Rain is a steamy, short erotic listen designed to hit fast and stay with you longer. Perfect for lovers of quick, emotional heat, unexpected tenderness, and scenes that just might make you squirm. This isn’t a love story. It’s a moment. A spark. A storm. When a summer downpour leaves her stranded and soaked to the skin, she never expects the stranger who saves her to feel like a fever she never wants to break. He’s quiet. Strong. And watching her like he’s starving.

Moon Jae-young can read minds, and most of the time, it’s a very useful skill. But when he’s assigned to protect the son of an assassin, it becomes something short of torture because Caleb’s thoughts run hot and dangerous. When his assassin family is attacked, razorback shifter and bar owner Caleb Brammer narrowly escapes. His mother calls in a favor to ensure that he is protected. Now he’s stuck with a bodyguard who is all sharp words and cold glares. The only thing they can agree on is finding the killer before they strike again.