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In the future, there are many parallel Earths - but only one of them has time travel. Known as Primetime, its criminals break into the pasts of other worlds, far beyond the reach of conventional police. Blake Din is the top agent of the Cutting Room, the group tasked with stopping these trespassers. After a mission to undo the murder of a young boy, he uncovers extensive damage to another world's timeline - and a conspiracy that reaches all the way back to Primetime.

Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the “we of me,” and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.

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.

Many people know how frustrating it can be when you spend a lot of time learning something without seeing results. This book is prepared to get the best results in the shortest time without learning advanced grammar and trying to memorize many unused words from the dictionary. Learning with stories in from our perspective the best way to immerse yourself in the language.

A serial bomber is wreaking havoc throughout Europe. Former New York City cop Michael Finnigan and former Spanish assassin Katalin Fiero - the brains behind St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking, a covert bounty-hunting operation based in Cyprus - may be the only ones who can stop the carnage. The partners have a reputation for tracking down the worst of the worst in international crime while staying firmly under the radar. But as they draw ever closer to the bombers, and as the terrorism sweeps up Katalin’s own family, the two must decide if they can continue to operate in the shadows.

La noche del 30 de julio de 1994, la apacible población de Orphea, en la región de los Hamptons, asiste a la gran apertura del festival de teatro. Pero el alcalde se retrasa... Mientras tanto, un hombre recorre las calles vacías buscando a su mujer, hasta hallar su cadáver ante la casa del alcalde. Dentro, toda la familia ha sido asesinada. Jesse Rosenberg y Derek Scott, dos jóvenes y brillantes policías de Nueva York, resuelven el caso. Pero veinte años más tarde, en la ceremonia de despedida de la policía a Rosenberg, la periodista Stephanie Mailer lo afronta.

A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is colonial history, if one takes a broad enough definition and goes far enough back. Stephen Howe interprets the meaning of the idea of "empire" through the ages, disentangling the multiple uses and abuses of the labels "empire" and "colonialism," etc., and examines the aftermath of imperialism on the contemporary world.

Fearsome Gray Box operative Gideon Stone is devoted to his work and his team. He's never given reason to doubt his loyalty...until he's tasked with investigating Willow Harper, a beguiling cryptologist suspected of selling deadly bio-agents on the black market. He knows she's innocent. He knows she's being framed. And he knows that without him, Willow will be dead before sunrise. Thrust into the crossfire of an insidious international conspiracy, Gideon will do anything to keep Willow safe...even if that means waging war against his own.

The neighborhood of the Little East is a collision of cultures, languages, and traditions, hidden away in the city of Maradaine. A set of streets to be avoided or ignored. When a foreign dignitary is murdered, solving the crime falls to the most unpopular inspectors in the Maradaine Constabulary: exposed fraud Satrine Rainey, and Uncircled mage Minox Welling.

The paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an enormous price.

Sex, suspense, sheer entertainment - Mcnally's Luck is Lawrence Sanders' seductive game of cat and mouse (and murder). Playboy/lover/sleuth Archy McNally is back - and the secrets of the filthy rich have never been filthier.... What begins with a kidnapped cat leads to ransom and homicide. And if a sensuous psychic makes a believer out of McNally, he'll learn that humans don't have none lives...but scandals do.

Dos hermanos, un padre, una madre muerta y otra viva, una foto… una pareja, un viaje y un personaje intermitente que, sin saberlo, conspira en la sombra. La radical diversidad de las relaciones humanas y los extraños códigos que presiden la más impredecible de todas: el amor.

Un miembro del ejército cubano desaparece y todo indica que ha desertdo. El capitán Morales es el sabueso ideal para dar con él: no sólo porque se especializa en olfatear el rastro de los traidores, sino porque lo tuvo bajo sus órdenes y… entre sus brazos.

Ambientada en una zona rural, se centra en las vivencias de una familia desolada por la muerte de Angélica, una de las hijas. La madre no ha podido superar la desaparición de la joven y ello afecta al día a día del resto de los hijos y del Abuelo. Un día aparece por la casa una Peregrina que lo cambiará todo.

Un libro muy particular sobre Barcelona, compuesto de una selección de artículos periodísticos que nos brinda una visión caleidoscópica del mundo de Enrique Vila-Matas, mezcla de paradoja e ironía, literatura y vida.

Entre los años 2003 y 2006 aparecieron, en solitarias habitaciones de la Ciudad de México y víctimas de una particular saña, los cadáveres de mujeres de la tercera edad. Uno de los símbolos más venerados por la idiosincrasia mexicana se había convertido en presa de una escurridiza cólera. Con autoridades incapaces de poner un alto a esta sucesión de asesinatos, la indignación y el miedo se extendieron por toda la urbe. Así surgió la leyenda de la Mataviejitas, ente creado por la nota roja y el folclore urbano como responsable de los misteriosos crímenes.

¿Cuántas veces has comunicado algo y los demás lo han interpretado de forma diferente a la que esperabas? ¿Sabes expresar tu desacuerdo mostrando firmeza y respeto? ¿Eres capaz de interpretar correctamente lo que otros expresan mediante sus gestos, su postura o su mirada? Los seres humanos necesitamos comunicarnos constantemente y el éxito de tu vida profesional y personal depende de que sepas hacerlo de forma adecuada. Aprender a comunicar con claridad y efectividad es una necesidad que requiere conocimiento y experiencia específicos.

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.

Esta novela narra la historia de una saga de campesinos sin tierra del Alentejo portugués desde 1910 hasta el día levantado y principal de la Revolución de los Claveles. Con el ingenio y la ironía que caracterizan su obra, Saramago nos sumerge en una forma de estar en el mundo que ha sido la de los trabajadores rurales de Portugal—y también la de los españoles—«gente de poco tener y mucho sentir» sobre la que recayeron todas las obligaciones sin gozar de ningún derecho.

Dungeon Party links a fantasy world and the people playing in it. When longstanding personality conflicts erupt, the volatile Randall Keller secedes from Alan Crandall's gaming group. In pursuit of a coveted prize at an upcoming convention, Alan replaces Randall with two female recruits who reinvigorate the campaign. Randall chooses a darker path by spreading infectious cynicism through the gaming community while plotting his revenge. When the Middle Mirth convention gets underway, Alan's group must stop Randall and his avatar.