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Big Cats opens with "Charlotte", in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away from Me, David", a bank manager tries to overcome his haunted past as he deals with the aftermath of a minor earthquake and the body of a customer who died in the lobby.

It's the year 1910 in Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend, Arthur, must leave school and go to work on the looms in the mill. Together they write a secret letter to the Child Labor Board about underage children working in their town, and a few weeks later a man with a camera shows up. It is the famous reformer Lewis Hine, undercover, collecting evidence for the Child Labor Board.

It’s finally time for Smitty to settle down after all of his trips on the Oregon Trail. He has Lynn and a houseful of orphans, but he also had a wife who he’s always been faithful to. Brenda lied and said she was with child, Smitty’s child, over ten years ago. It’s time to dissolve their marriage. Upon arriving at Brenda’s house, he finds Brenda and her mother May dying of tuberculosis and just as ornery as ever. Lynn knows Smitty is married and respects the vows he took.

Wealthy were-bear Zeke Croasdell was in an incredibly urgent need of a wife. His billionaire father was threatening to cut him off from the family inheritance if he did not find a mate soon. So Zeke paid 23-year-old Charlie Harrison to be his wife for long enough for him to claim the money. However, Charlie had no idea what being with a billionaire were-bear would be like. And she was set to be in for the shock of her life when she found out....

Former Marine Colton Brody is trouble with a capital T. One night with him and good girls go bad. Real bad. But he's not going to let sweet Olivia Page end up another name on his hit it and quit it list. His little sister's best friend is off limits, even if her killer curves inspire an endless supply of wicked fantasy fodder. With only a few weeks until he leaves town, this bad boy is determined to resist temptation. But then innocent Olivia makes him a not-so-innocent proposal.

Annabelle seems to have it all. The perfect house, a successful husband, a darling son. But Annabelle is troubled. Trapped in an unhappy marriage, failing at motherhood, and at odds with her new privileged lifestyle, Annabelle begins to self-harm, a habit resurrected from her traumatic past.

Choosing Glory considers the LDS doctrine of celestial, terrestrial, and telestial realms, suggesting that here on earth, we deal with all three kinds of individuals, behaviors, institutions, and ways of life.

Sabrina Carlson misses the old days. When her scenic coastal hometown was as a peaceful as could be. When she spent her afternoons managing her family's coffee shop. When the idea of a murder taking place in her neighborhood seemed completely impossible. Unfortunately, those simple days are long gone. As a matter of fact, after the dead body of a local drug dealer is discovered one morning, Sabrina quickly realizes that her hometown of Treasure Cove is more dangerous than she ever realized.

After two failed marriages and countless relationships, Sandra Holiday thinks she's met the man to end her years of less than perfect choices; choices that not only derailed her travel-related career plans but also left her single and broke. Carson Holiday, a Las Vegas country crooner with swoon-inducing good looks, spent his adult life pursuing a recording contract and love, never holding on to either. After 18 years, he drops back into Sandra's life, reigniting an attraction he can't deny. When Carson reappears, Sandra must choose again. Only this time, nothing's as it seems.

Dragon Knight Sir Thrax was one of the finest males on the planet of Lacerta. In fact, he was perfect. Demand to be his mate was so high that entering into a lottery was the only way to decide which lucky woman would bear his babies. That lucky woman was Agena Morrow. However, Agena was set to get more than she bargained for. Especially when it became apparent that while Thrax was happy to participate in the act of making a baby, he had no true intention of ever producing one....

Adelita tendrá un hermanito y eso la irrita. Todo empeora cuando nace una niña con síndrome de Down. Aunque al principio la vida en la familia es difícil, Lucero se gana el cariño de todos.

En los años noventa del siglo XX surgió la que estaba llamada a ser la máxima estrella de rock nacional... Pero no lo fue. Priscila, ejemplo de mujer desparpajada (y, sí, un poco malhablada), siempre aspiró a ser la nueva Janis Joplin, o de perdida la heredera de Alejandra Guzmán. De espíritu combativo y libre, terminó eligiendo un camino que la alejó cada vez más de los escenarios, la música, sus amigos, sus sueños. Esta es la crónica sin censura de su impetuosa juventud...

Emilia está en el limbo. Para armar el relato de sus dieciocho años acude a las instantáneas que conforman su memoria: su abuela postrada para rezar. Ella misma sentada en las piernas de un sacerdote. El día que conocía a Matías. La noche en que logró escuchar a Júpiter. Emilia quiere salir del coma pero su única vía de contacto con el exterior es también su mayor fobia: una mariposa. Ella ha visto ya tres simulacros del fin del mundo pero los jinetes del apocalipsis tienen que completar el número cuatro.

Vanessa lo tiene todo: una familia increíble, grandes amigos y las comodidades propias de una niña consentida. Sin embargo, a sus apenas 26 años se siente agobiada, aburrida y más encerrada que un animal salvaje en la vitrina de un zoológico, por lo que decide dejar México e irse a vivir a Miami en busca de aventuras. Ahora Vanessa tendrá que lidiar con las consecuencias de sus actos en lugar de salir corriendo, de manera que pueda probarse a ella y al mundo que no sigue siendo la misma chica mimada con diferente geografía.

Camisas azules, manos negras es un crudo testimonio que comprende nueve años de investigación de una periodista dedicada a escrutar la corrupción en Pemex, soportada con fuentes vivas y documentales de alto nivel, expedientes de auditorías clasificados como confidenciales; así como decenas de entrevistas, testimonios y recorridos por las regiones petroleras en tierra y en plataformas, además de las revelaciones de altos funcionarios de los gobiernos de Vicente Fox y Felipe Calderón, que desnudan los negocios privados de los hombres públicos.

A partir de la nacionalización de la industria petrolera, por ochenta años Pemex fue el principal sostén de la economía mexicana, una maquinaria generadora de billones y billones de dólares por la producción y venta del oro negro y sus derivados, sólo que, a pesar de ser un bien público, sus ganancias y beneficios se repartieron entre pocas manos.

Cada año 470 miembros del ejército ingresan en hospitales por diagnóstico de enfermedades mentales. ¿Qué hay alrededor de esa rotunda estadística? Este libro intenta trazar algunas respuestas a la luz del violento presente que vive el país.

Tras el éxito de Camisas azules, manos negras (caso Oceanografía) y El cártel negro, Ana Lilia Pérez regresa con el que tal vez sea el trabajo más ambicioso de su carrera: Mares de cocaína, una estremecedora investigación acerca del tráfico de drogas que se lleva a cabo en cientos de rutas náuticas a escala internacional, donde incluso algunos cárteles mexicanos ya han impuesto el pago de piso.

My life has sucked for as far back as I can remember. My folks didn’t want me, so I was thrown into foster care. Let me just say lots of fun. NOT. Then one day, my life took a dramatic change. My circumstances improved greatly. I met The Grimm Wolves MC, and they took me under their wing. I became not only a prospect, but also part of their brotherhood.

Durante los gobiernos de Vicente Fox Quesada y Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, se desarrolla el "cártel negro", un conglomerado de funcionarios, trabajadores, empresarios, contratistas, inspectores, contralores, agentes aduanales, dirigentes y miembros del sindicato petrolero, políticos, ordeñadores, tapineros, huachicoleros, extorsionadores, defraudadores, contrabandistas y lavadores de dinero que, alineados con los traficantes de droga, se consolidan como una organización empresarial paralela a Pemex.