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What I thought was my pre-destined path was very much an illusion. Living seven years with regret, I realized too late that I was broken and that I only had myself to blame. I thought love could wait.... but it didn't. We'd had it all those years ago, and then I foolishly left it behind. She was all that mattered. She was all there ever was. There was no life without Dallas, no reason... except her.

Se acerca el invierno y a Jack Reacher lo buscan desde el corazón mismo del poder: el Servicio Secreto de los Estados Unidos lo necesita. La misión es tan secreta como urgente, y el más mínimo fallo puede poner en riesgo la democracia más sólida del planeta. Entre pistas ambiguas, profundas desconfianzas y la presencia fantasmal de su hermano, Reacher deberá afinar al extremo sus sentidos y mantener su cabeza despejada –si su corazón se lo permite– para investigar las intrigas de Washington y de las fuerzas de seguridad.

Sergeant Major John Phillips lives two lives. In one, he teaches cadets at the United Entities Mechanized Warfare Academy how to pilot massive war machines. In the other, he is the Voice of the Fall, stealing government secrets and writing revolutionary doctrines for the Harbingers of the Fall, an organization bent on bringing down civilization so that humanity can rebuild from the ashes.

How can we live our lives when everything seems to fall apart—when we are continually overcome by fear, anxiety, and pain? The answer, Pema Chödrön suggests, might be just the opposite of what you expect. Here, in her most beloved and acclaimed work, Pema shows that moving toward painful situations and becoming intimate with them can open up our hearts in ways we never before imagined. Drawing from traditional Buddhist wisdom, she offers life-changing tools for transforming suffering and negative patterns into habitual ease and boundless joy.

Two gods, one stubborn mate, a shadow friend, and a war I can't stop. Choosing love seems impossible. Especially when I'm not the only one who wants my dragon king. My name is Serendipity Fall, and I've unleashed a fallen god who will stop at nothing to destroy everything I love. The Wolven gods want me to kill my mate… and I can't. Not now, not ever. With the mysterious witch lord's help, I have to find a way to escape them and save Nakoa from my mate. Once, a long time ago, a goddess spoke of a prophecy before she was killed… and it's going to destroy us all.

Scarlett Lattimore arrives at Lilith House, an abandoned mansion built in 1876, that later housed a reform school for troubled girls, to start a new life with her seven-year-old daughter. But between the nearby town with the strange, disconcerting feel, the deputy sheriff who is equal parts intriguing and suspicious, and the discovery that their new home holds a dark and violent past, Scarlett soon begins to question her rash decision.

When Olivia Anderson gets left at the altar, she decides to do what all modern women do—hit up Google. When a couple of searches land her in a support group for jilted brides, she immediately takes the reins and decides they all deserve revenge on their exes.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in Hyperion, Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secrets they contain mean that nothing - nothing anywhere in the universe - will ever be the same.

My name is Serendipity Fall, and I'm one of the only wolf shifters living with a bunch of immortal dragon shifters in a city I can never leave. I'm the fated mate of the dragon king—Draycian of the house of Mnemosyne—and on the first full moon after my nineteenth birthday, I will be bound to him in a mating ceremony. But I don't want a mate. I don't want the dragon king god who rules my hometown from his golden castle. I don't even know what he looks like. All I know is anytime I mention his name, everyone blanches in fear. He is a monster.

Since its publication in 1960, William L. Shirer’s monumental study of Hitler’s German empire has been widely acclaimed as the definitive record of the 20th century’s blackest hours. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich offers an unparalleled and thrillingly told examination of how Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded in conquering the world. With millions of copies in print around the globe, it has attained the status of a vital and enduring classic.

Un retrato del Berlín de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un asombroso thriller sobre la resistencia de la gente contra el Tercer Reich. Berlín, 1940, la ciudad está dominada por el miedo. Cuando la cartera Eva Kluge llega a casa de los Quangel en el número 55 de la calle Jablonski, con una carta que les anuncia la muerte de su único hijo en un campo de batalla francés, el golpe es terrible, insoportable. Es el principio de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y toda la ciudad, todo el país y pronto media Europa, vive bajo el yugo del régimen de Hitler.

Small-town police officer Silas Sloane knows every resident of O'Leary, New York. He's earned the love and respect of its citizens, though living under the small-town microscope grates on him. But though he's good at his job, there's one thing he's not good at: commitments...until Everett Maior, widower and O'Leary's newest citizen.

Una crítica vehemente y documentada al modo en el que entendemos hoy la economía. En su búsqueda de certidumbres científicas, la economía ha acabado imponiéndonos una visión del mundo demasiado estrecha y ha creado una ortodoxia que no es sana. Muchas de las decisiones más relevantes para nuestras sociedades se toman siguiendo premisas falsas y modelos económicos erróneos. La manera en que se enseña en la universidad no transmite a los estudiantes qué es lo más importante y verdadero de la vida humana.

I'm their alpha female. After escaping King Cenwyn and his court, I find myself back with my alphas, who are now my mates. I have everything I've ever wanted and more, but the gods have a different idea of freedom for me. Persephone's using the soul bond to connect to my mind and control it, but none of us know what she truly wants. King Cenwyn's armies are at our borders, and he isn't alone.

Ragnar Fall was a trick played perfectly by the angel king, and he almost destroyed the Fall Mountain Pack... until he was fooled by me. Now I'm in his world, at his side, and I'm going to get the alliances my pack needs to build an army against him. I was once a rejected wolf, but now I'm fighting to be their queen. My four mates. My dark alphas. My Hades.

The story follows the unnerving experience of a nameless narrator who is summoned to care for a reclusive friend and his sister in an old, haunted mansion. Both are mentally and physically unwell, their paranoia and agitation being exacerbated by strange happenings in and around the property. Soon, the narrator himself begins to experience the eerie old house and its ghostly inclinations. Poe ties themes of madness, mystery, suspense, death and the ethereal together into one of the most gripping short stories ever published.

She is only 19. She is his new stepfather’s daughter. She is still nave and innocent due to spending the last three years taking care of her sick mother. But for 24-year-old Rush Finlay, she is the only thing that has ever been off limits. His famous father’s guilt money, his mother’s desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no.

Dos médicos en la misma ciudad pueden dar diagnósticos diferentes a pacientes idénticos; dos jueces pueden dictar sentencias distintas ante delitos similares; nosotros mismos podemos decidir una cosa u otra según sea por la mañana o por la tarde, o según se acerque o no la hora de comer. Estos son ejemplos de ruido: el sesgo que conlleva variabilidad en juicios que deberían ser iguales.

Strap in for the opening salvo of the ARISEN: Operators epic—the biggest and most explosive ARISEN adventure yet and the untold story of the pipe-hitting operators of the Unified Special Operations Command during the first two years of the Zulu Alpha. To have any chance of reaching safety in Fortress Britain, Master Sergeant Yaël Sion must first escape the collapsing gravity well of Israel as it's devoured from within by merciless jihadi fighters, striking in the chaos of rampaging hordes of infected civilians, all in a global pandemic spiraling out of control.

Every parent wants two things for their children: One is to have a rich, imaginative life; the other is to have everything they need to be physically healthy. Well, as far as colorful lives and staying healthy are concerned, Short Stories or Kids by Kids Club is just the thing! Using the most famous children's stories—including Aesop's Fables, The Three Little Pigs, Hansel and Gretel, and many more—this book will help your child enrich their life through the magic of storytelling and provide a wonderful, gadget-free sleep routine to help them recover from long, hectic days!