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I investigate a murder at a paranormal prison and end up behind bars with four psycho inmates. They will use me in ways I never thought possible. But, they don't know who I really am. What I really am. My family has danced with the devil, and I inherited the darkness. When in danger, when my family is in danger, I don't just bite, I don't just kill, I'm more psycho than all of you, and I won't hesitate to bring the world upside down.

En 1972, se celebra en Reikiavik el mayor duelo de la historia del ajedrez. El mundo entero espera con impaciencia el enfrentamiento entre el estadounidense Bobby Fischer y el soviético Boris Spassky. Con la capital islandesa convertida en un nuevo escenario de la Guerra Fría, nadie parece reparar en el asesinato de un joven en un cine de barrio. En el cuerpo de policía, tan solo Marion Briem intuye la verdadera importancia que esconde el crimen.

"La Breve historia de los gladiadores" narra como en los Ludi (escuelas de gladiadores) fornidos prisioneros de guerra, fugitivos o delincuentes se adiestraban en las técnicas de la lucha a muerte, se enfundaban sus armaduras de samnitas, secutores, reciarios, tracios, etc. y se lanzaban a la arena para conseguir la gloria o la muerte. Asimismo, se narra la historia del Coliseo romano, construido por Vespasiano, con un impresionante aforo para 50.000 espectadores que era abarrotado por hordas de ciudadanos romanos, patricios y plebeyos para aclamar a sus gladiadores preferidos.

Henry Murphy’s parents never told him he was from another realm. They couldn’t, because they have become as unaware as Henry. Everything was forgotten - memories siphoned away by the dark force that stalked them. For the last 17 years, Henry has been living a lie.

Nikki has it all - a great career, a gorgeous apartment, and a boyfriend who is basically perfect. Okay, maybe things have grown a little too comfortable - missionary and an early night, anyone? - but Nikki can handle boring if it means keeping hot and wholesome Bron in her life. But then, the unthinkable happens. Bron walks out one evening before Nikki’s even started her dinner. Left sobbing into her soup, Nikki’s best friends waste no time throwing her back into the deep end of the dating pool.

When Cadence is rescued from a time ripple, she’s pulled into the 13th hour where time is a weapon of both destruction and deliverance. Tutored by the mysterious Tok, leader of the Timekeepers, Cada finds herself on the other side of the time veil where she is taught to use her allotted seconds to right the wrongs caused by dangerous time-stealing siphons. But nothing is as it seems. Someone has organized the siphons and is using them to pursue immortality. All fingers point to one man, yet Cada is drawn inexplicably to his green eyes and damaged soul.

No sé si este audiolibro es una novela, un diario de no ficción o qué. Trata sobre el deseo de morir y de vivir. Sobre el amor y las preguntas que este despierta. Y sobre el dolor, sobre todo sobre el dolor: el de ella, mi esposa, que me pide la muerte, y el mío, que no se la puedo dar. Éste es el diario de un cobarde que superó un cáncer y ahora se enfrenta, escaso de fuerzas, al cáncer terminal de su mujer.

When their best friend is murdered, Angela begs Slater to take the case. Maggie, the little sister he barely remembers, offers to help. It turns out the feisty redhead is one hell of an investigator. As their feelings turn romantic, Maggie and Slater follow a trail of deception and murder, hoping to prove their dead friend innocent of what they fear most. No one is safe, and the men involved will stop at nothing to cover their tracks - tracks that will lead the pair into the bleak world of human trafficking and expose the darkest secrets of Point Road and the Jeffries family.

Driven is a candid and entertaining personal story taking the listener through the little known world of the stuntman. Forty-five years of memories offer a fascinating look that chronicles the rise of a stuntman turned director. With behind-the-scenes tales from such films as Predator, The Warriors, Rollerball, and James Bond, listeners will experience the sheer determination it takes to maintain a career as a stuntman and climb the ranks of the film industry to become a director.

Following a horrific accident, NASA's lead astronaut, Jane “Summit” Lipton, awakens from a coma to an alien world: life in a wheelchair here on Earth. A year later, China is winning the new space race, due to launch the first manned mission to Mars ahead of the United States. Tracked down by a passionate group of misfits, Jane is offered an astonishing proposition. Facing unprecedented challenges, she must train harder than ever before and prove to herself that she still possesses the right stuff. Will she reach the red planet first?

There has perhaps never been an age that set such great store in study as that in which we now live. The unfortunate thing about it is that so much of the study in our day is devoted to books and subjects in which there is little or no profit. Time is squandered on the purely speculative, the uncertain, the unprofitable, the unessential, the unproductive, the irrelevant, and the transitory. The most profitable of all study is wisely ordered Bible study. Its value is incalculable. It is beyond all comparison more profitable than any other study.

Was bedeutet Familie? Was heißt jüdisch sein? Wie umgehen mit Alter, Krankheit, Tod? Yasmina Rezas neuer Roman kreist um große Fragen. Die Geschwister Popper: Serge, verkrachtes Genie und homme à femmes, Jean, der Vermittler und Ich-Erzähler, und Nana, die verwöhnte Jüngste mit dem unpassenden spanischen Mann. Eine jüdische Familie. Nach dem Tod der Mutter entfremdet man sich immer mehr. Zu ihren Lebzeiten hat keiner die alte Frau nach der Shoah und ihren ungarischen Vorfahren gefragt. Jetzt schlägt Serges Tochter Joséphine einen Besuch in Auschwitz vor.

Mit SUP-Board und Laufschuhen die Elbe hinunter: Erlebnisbericht einer einzigartigen Reise. Sie sind Extremsportler, wie sie im Buche stehen: Philipp Jordan läuft gerne mal 100 Kilometer am Tag, Timm Kruse paddelt mit dem SUP nach Feierabend von Kiel nach Lübeck. Jetzt haben sie gemeinsam die Elbe bezwungen, der eine an Land, der andere auf dem Fluss. Jeden Tag legten sie mindestens eine Marathon-Strecke zurück und trafen sich abends am Lagerfeuer, um sich über ihre Erlebnisse und schmerzenden Füße auszutauschen.

Las noches de Reikiavik ocultan más miserias de las que se ven a simple vista. En una vivienda céntrica de la capital islandesa han encontrado el cadáver de un hombre joven en medio de un enorme charco de sangre. A pesar de lo espectacular de la escena del crimen, no parece haber signos de violencia en el apartamento. Tan solo hay dos cosas fuera de lugar: un chal de mujer en la cama y unas pastillas propiedad del fallecido. La policía tiene muy claro que tras esos indicios puede ocultarse algo bastante más perturbador que un asesinato.

Whispers of war, cryptic warnings, and new dangers await... Plunging into the second year of training as a squire, everything is looking up for Will. He gets to train with his best friends, work a new mentor, and learn to become a knight of Alamore. Though the war of the winter is a raw memory, Will is doing his best to push the secrets he's uncovered about who he truly is to the back of his mind. As long as he never speaks of his relation to King Tollien, he hopes he will never have to consider its consequences.

Está acostumbrado a conseguir todo lo que quiere. Y ahora él la quiere a ella. Teléfono celular perdido, una vergüenza en el karaoke publicada en YouTube y vomitar en los zapatos de un chico hermoso. Fue una noche de fiesta para la, por lo demás, bastante tímida Adele, quien acaba de mudarse a San Francisco desde una pequeña ciudad. Afortunadamente, el chico tuvo la amabilidad de llevarla a casa de todos modos. Pero cuando comienza su nuevo trabajo el lunes, Adele se sorprende. ¡El hombre de la fiesta es su nuevo jefe, Logan Steel!

Los campos de concentración fueron la primera pata de un sistema represivo, un holocausto ideológico, que convirtió a toda España en una inmensa cárcel repleta de fosas. En ellos, presos políticos y prisioneros de guerra fueron asesinados, murieron de hambre y enfermedades, padecieron todo tipo de torturas y humillaciones.

For years, China's spy agency has been watching the United States rack up trillions of dollars in debt, waiting for the right moment to weaponize that debt to collapse the American government and install a Communist puppet regime. At the same time, suburban accountant Andrea Gartner has been an outspoken critic of the debt as a leader in the South Carolina state Republican Party. When the United States elects President Earl Murray, he brings Andrea into his government as budget director to solve America's debt problem.

Set in the heart of global finance, Shadow Banking follows the lives of City hopefuls, as they try to wheel, deal and backstab their way to billions. Remember: lifes a trade. It is 1994. Al Denham turns up to his first day at City banking giant Trenchart Colville, he thinks hes there to start a job. But in fact, he's at the beginning of a journey that will change his life forever. Al is joined by a ragtag combination of the brash and the charming, the box-tickers and the risk-takers.

Imagine joining a senior class at a prestigious Ivy League university led by a famous professor who doesn't care about political correctness and bending to the whims of a biased education system. Professor Robert Bartz directs the small group of last-term seniors who will be retaught how to study, investigate, and think for themselves after four years of brainwashing. The class is highly sought after by students unafraid of education elites and bullies who want to rewrite history. Take the tests in later chapters.