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In 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children were beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house on fire to cover his tracks. Authorities were eager to make an arrest. Five days later, Anthony Graves was in custody. Graves, then 26 years old and without an attorney, was certain that his innocence was obvious. He did not know the victims, he had no knowledge about the crime, and he had an airtight alibi with witnesses. Yet Graves was indicted, convicted of capital murder, and sentenced to death.

It can't be wrong when it's not hurting anybody - and it feels so good. Now in delicious detail, happy addicts to the solitary vice reveal how, sexually speaking, they take matters into their own hands, whether as a steamy solo performance or a torrid team effort. Share the guilty pleasure with gals and guys, spies and showoffs, fetishists and toy lovers, mile-highers and auto-eroticists. See why in close encounters of the first kind, nobody does it better or hotter than Penthouse. And they're eager to show you how.

Sunny and his kinfolk were content with their way of life. During the dry season, their clan lived alone. They hunted whenever they chose, gathered an array of plants, told stories, and took part in debates. In the rainy season, they united with the rest of their tribe. They formed a temporary city, feasted, held dances, and played games.

Carly Castillo has only ever known Fish Village. Her grandmother claims that they descend from the Karankawas, an indigenous Texas people once believed to be extinct, thereby tethering them to Galveston. But as Carly ages, she begins to imagine a life elsewhere, undefined by her family’s history. Meanwhile, her boyfriend and all-star shortstop turned seaman, Jess, treasures the salty, familiar air. He’s gotten chances to leave Galveston for bigger cities with more possibilities. But he didn’t take them then, and he sure as hell won’t now.

From burning crosses set on the Robinsons’s lawn to a Pennsylvania small town on fire with praise and parades when the athletes return from Berlin, Olympic Pride, American Prejudice is full of emotion, grit, political upheaval, and the American dream. Capturing a powerful and untold chapter of history, the narrative is also a celebration of the courage, commitment, and accomplishments of these talented athletes and their impact on race, sports and inclusion around the world.

Und weiter geht es mit den unheimlichen und blutrünstigen Märchen der Brüder Grimm Teil 2! In einer schaurigen Blutkammer kommt es zu einer lebensgefährlichen Entdeckung, eine Todgeweihte sinnt auf Rache, und ein Geköpfter kehrt zu seiner Mörderin zurück, um die Tat aufzuklären.

Baker extraordinaire Rylee Harris has a recipe for everything—except love. It’s been five years since she lost her husband, but romance is still a struggle for Rylee. In her small hamlet of Honey Hill, North Carolina, Rylee knows she’ll be the talk of the town when she finds someone new. To ease her mother’s worries about her love life, Rylee impulsively invents a fake relationship with the only man who’s caught her eye: the town sheriff, Canten Barnes. It’s supposed to be a secret, but secrets don’t last long in Honey Hill.

El lector tiene por primera vez en sus manos los relatos de Wilmer Urrelo, reconocido novelista de largo aliento. En Todo el mundo cumple sus sueños menos yo los temas y personajes varían, sin embargo se mantiene la voluntad de continuar experimentando con distintos estilos y procedimientos narrativos. Relatos oscuros, de humor negro, melancólicos, en los que desfilan fortachones tímidos, un arlequín de utilería, un chico que habla con Juan Brujo, un par de matones sentimentales, un luchador desenmascarado, una comunidad de termitas homicidas, un matrimonio enemistado.

Cuando el impulso es más fuerte que la razón y el corazón late fuerte y confundido, cuando la sangre corre por las venas y los amores se confunden con la pasión y el deseo, cuando las decisiones se toman desde la emoción y los errores se pagan con sufrimiento, solo queda intentar una vez más luchar por ese amor que te hace levantarte todos los días. Así le pasa a Adrián, un joven solitario que, por causas del destino, conoce a dos mujeres tan diferentes y atractivas que lo llevarán a tomar las decisiones más alocadas y a sufrir las consecuencias de sus resoluciones apasionadas.

He aquí una presentación inteligente, divertida y sensata de la enseñanza liberadora del budismo. Una guía que invita a reflexionar sobre nosotros mismos sin tomarse el camino espiritual como una losa ni colocar al budismo en pedestal. El autor no pretende que el lector inicie un drástico camino de transformación personal, encuentre la iluminación o cambie radicalmente de estilo de vida, sino simplemente que viva con un poco más de compasión, con más sosiego y disfrute más.

Armando Silva, director de la colección sobre ciudades imaginadas, se propuso —en esta, su primera novela—descifrar una de las primeras ficciones transgénero donde el actor pierde la certeza del sexo, y su búsqueda angustiosa se convierte en una trama policíaca que persigue por ciudades icónicas, sagradas o cosmopolitas, como si se tratase de un botín o un secreto que se puede encontrar y recuperar.

Die Person, die dir begegnet, ist die richtige. Jeder Moment, in dem etwas beginnt, ist der richtige Moment. Mit dieser Weisheit ihrer indianischen Vorfahren macht sich Grace auf den Weg nach New York, um ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Eigentlich hatte sie dafür der Männerwelt abgeschworen, doch sie hätte sich denken können, dass das nicht gutgeht. In ihrem neuen Job, als Osteopathin bei den Footballern der Tigers, hat sie es schließlich mit den heißesten Typen der Stadt zu tun.

FBI Agent Alexander King has a special gift for catching vicious predators. He gets inside the twisted minds of psychopaths and hunts them down. However, this case in a small Georgia town is challenging his skills. A serial killer named the Angel Maker has kidnapped and killed six little Black girls. Local police did a lackluster investigation, thinking the girls were initially runaways. The Black community believes the case is racially motivated and that the force ignored all the clues. Tensions rise on both sides of town, threatening riots and more unrest.

Slave traders are peripheral figures in most histories of American slavery. But these men - who trafficked and sold over half a million enslaved people from the Upper South to the Deep South - were essential to slavery's expansion and fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States. In The Ledger and the Chain, acclaimed historian Joshua D. Rothman recounts the shocking story of the domestic slave trade by tracing the lives and careers of Isaac Franklin, John Armfield, and Rice Ballard, who built the largest and most powerful slave-trading operation in American history.

Brian is 22 years old and lives in California. He's finishing his MBA at Stanford. Brian has planned out his life with his girlfriend, Sarah. But suddenly, she leaves him. Now, he feels the world is over. Until his friend Jeff sends him an email. He lives in Spain and travels the world. Jeff suggests him travelling to other countries. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

Summer, 1941. When a German plane is shot down over the woods, Peter rushes to the crash site to find something exciting to keep. But what he finds instead is someone: a young and injured German airman. The enemy. Here. And in trouble. Suddenly, helping him seems like the right thing to do.

Every Friday for the last 25 years of her life, I had lunch with Charlotte and each week she told me more of her extraordinary story. To all appearances, she was a strong and dignified survivor, with old-world courtesies, a twinkling sense of humor, and a lilting Austrian syntax. Yet deep within, she'd been scarred by a profound personal trauma.

In this Very Short Introduction, Philip N. Jefferson explores how the answers to these questions lie in the social, political, economic, educational, and technological processes that impact all of us throughout our lives. The degree of vulnerability is all that differentiates us. He shows how a person's level of vulnerability to adverse changes in their life is very much dependent on the circumstances of their birth, including where their family lived, whether it was peacetime or wartime, whether they had access to clean water, and whether they are male or female.

When the office lotto pool lands the winning ticket for four friends, each will embark on journeys that change their lives forever. After years of stringing her along, Terrance has reluctantly married his longtime girlfriend, Sheray...just days before winning the lottery. When the money drives a wedge between them, Sheray leaves and Terrance learns the hard way to be careful what you wish for. Angelique has been overweight since she was young. When she uses some of her winnings to get weight loss surgery, her new body and new attitude could cost her the man she loves.

Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of Black intelligentsia, veteran journalist Ed Gordon creates hope and a timeless new narrative on what the future of Black leadership should look like and how we can get there.