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What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

This is an audio summary of Skin in the Game, a provocative book that redefines the modern way of understanding the world and offers critical insight into the best ways people can contribute to a fair and just society while influencing each other for the better.

Tandis que le détective Xavier Martel tente de camoufler l’acte terrible qu’il a commis, un ressortissant russe est trouvé mort dans un conteneur au port de Montréal. Qui est-il? Et pourquoi la structure atomique du Krokodil, cette drogue dévastatrice, est-elle tatouée sur son corps? Forcé de reprendre du service comme freelance à la demande de la GRC, Martel mène l’enquête tel qu’il l’entend et doit se frotter à la dangereuse mafia russe montréalaise.

Lambda Award and American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award-winning author Dorothy Allison is known for her bold and insightful writing on issues of class and sexuality. In Skin, she approaches these topics through 23 impassioned essays that explore her identity - from her childhood in a poor family in South Carolina to her adult life as a lesbian in the suburbs of New York - and her sexuality.

I first saw the Folk when I was a little boy, when they started appearing in my garden, with their unnatural, cruel beauty and honeyed words and veiled taunts. I grew up with big green eyes watching me from the forest. Whispers from the trees. Shimmering skin darting between the bushes. Black creatures always lurking in the shadows. While they were here, I thought nothing of them. It wasn’t until they were gone that I realise it wasn’t…normal. But it isn’t until I’m twenty-one, when my life is in ruins, that they come back to take me away.

Nel primo volume della saga, "Winter", un killer silenzioso e freddo come l’inverno, si muove tra le opprimenti pareti di metallo delle colonie orbitali in cui gli esseri umani hanno dovuto esiliarsi. Non sa nulla del suo passato, gli scienziati del Progetto Newman gli hanno tolto tutto, anche il suo nome, per trasformarlo in una macchina di morte... July e Peter, compagni di Winter, sono braccati dal Newman e utilizzano un'astronave per fuggire in un luogo sicuro, abbandonando la claustrofobia della colonia spaziale e immergendosi nella vastità dello spazio.

My lips are white. Sixteen-year-old Sep stares into the bathroom mirror. It’s not some weird lipstick (she never wears lipstick). Her lips are just - white. In a panic, she digs up an old lipstick and smears it on her colorless lips. But soon, more and more white spots begin to bloom, spreading their chalky tendrils across her olive brown skin. Does she have a disease? Is she turning into some kind of freak?

Brianda, a young engineer, leaves her comfortable life in Madrid to learn more about her ancestors. When she travels to a cold, isolated village high in the Pyrenees to explore her roots, Brianda discovers a family secret - and a new love interest. The mysterious Corso, who is challenging destiny by restoring the neglected manor he has inherited, offers to help Brianda in her research. Together they uncover another woman named Brianda in the family archives, a woman who lived four centuries ago.

Are you tired of feeling self-conscious about your skin imperfections? Do you wish your skin had a smooth, healthy glow to it naturally? Get the beautiful, healthy complexion you’ve always wanted just by using this hypnosis program from Erick Brown. Healthy Skin will help you relax and melt away acne and wrinkle-causing stress and tension, promoting healthy and smooth skin. Subliminal suggestions for deep relaxation and positive change will be received by your subconscious, reducing your stress.

All kinds of animals have skin - even humans! Compare the many features of skin.

Zara ha vent'anni, i capelli rossi come il fuoco e una bellezza rara. Lei, però, quando si guarda allo specchio vede solo e soltanto "la goffa lentigginosa", come i compagni di scuola la chiamavano quand'era bambina. Frequenta l'università senza slancio, non sentendosi mai all'altezza delle aspettative né della madre, donna tanto in carriera quanto assente, né della nonna materna, esigente e severa, che non perde mai occasione per criticarla. Non vede suo padre da molti anni, non sa perché se ne sia andato.

Something evil is living under Nick's skin. Where did it come from? What does it want? With the help of a dead kid's diary, a nun, and a local professor, Nick slowly finds out what's wrong with him. But there's still one question that Nick must face alone: how do you destroy an evil that's inside you?

When moonlighting medical students harvesting skin from a corpse for temporary use accidentally take it from the wrong donor, the results are catastrophic: A New York City hospital ward is destroyed in a bloodbath, and an elderly professor, admitted for a routine skin graft, is suddenly the city's most wanted fugitive. While the police hunt the fleeing professor, Mulder and Scully track the skin that was grafted onto him, a trail that leads from the morgue to the headquarters of a cutting-edge biotech company to the jungles of Thailand.

Angela is a woman trying to get by in this bewildering new world. Though she still lives with her husband and children, they lead separate lives. Confined to their rooms, they communicate via their computers and phones. In some ways, very little has changed. That is, until she spots a mysterious stranger walking through town without even a face mask for protection. A man, it seems, immune to this disease. A man unlike anyone else she knows. A man it might just be safe to touch.... 

Spring has come, and with it the dragons, using tactics they've no right to know. Not without a more experienced mind leading them. As suspicions around King Orin's state of humanity deepen, Aaron steps foot into the wider world for the first time. And oh, there are so many plots to be plotted, out here.

Private Investigator Jim Bean has worked hard to create his new identity in Vegas. He doesn't have a great life, but it's his. When his ex-fiancée, Erica Floyd, walks into one of his investigations looking for her missing sister, the tragic past he wanted to leave behind comes flooding back. Despite serious reservations, Jim agrees to search for Erica's sister. Clues lead him to a human-trafficking ring and one of Vegas' most influential mobsters.

Literatura queer, novela metaficcional, texto autobiográfico, narrativa que dialoga con los discursos cinematográficos e historiográficos, El filo de tu piel puede denominarse de todas estas maneras. Pero, más allá de cualquier clasificación, lo que cautiva al oyente de manera irresistible es la fluidez con que transcurre la narración; el modo en que José Ignacio Valenzuela hace de la palabra escuchada el medio más eficaz para transformar, relatar y reinventar la realidad.

スキンケア瞑想は、お肌のケアをしながら、潜在的な生成循環や活性を促し、インナービューティーと身体的な美に対して効率的に働きかけます。アンチエイジング編は、加齢や年齢によるお肌コンディションの劣化を感じるとき、お肌を生成するエイジング構造を解放し、歳月や年齢にとらわれない新意識にリセットします。ナンバーカウンティングの誘導は、時間の概念を解き放つでしょう。フェイスパックシートを乗せながら瞑想体験したり、おやすみ前のお顔の手入れ後に行うのがオススメです。

スキンケア瞑想は、お肌のケアをしながら、潜在的な生成循環や活性を促し、インナービューティーと身体的な美に対して効率的に働きかけます。ストレスや生活の不摂生がお肌のトラブルに出やすい、コスメや基礎化粧品ではなかなか改善しない肌質であるなら、深層レベルからのデトックスで、心身ともにリラックスしながらデトックスタイムをとりましょう。フェイスパックシートを乗せながら瞑想体験したり、おやすみ前のお顔の手入れ後に行うのがオススメです。

Traditional tales are a well-established part of all cultures. Retold from the originals, these lively stories will captivate listeners.