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The true story of the corrupt and violent town of Borger, Texas, in 1927―and the legendary Texas Ranger tasked with taming it. Just a year after the town of Borger, Texas, was founded, the press called it "the wickedest in the state" for good reason. The town, sprung into existence overnight...

Lovers of classical fiction will enjoy viewing life through the lens of Jane Ward as she grapples with the meaning of love in this 1931 Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Generational pressures are on full display over the course of four decades, as we see her struggle with her upbringing by Victorian parents, yet strain to understand her own children’s life choices, as the Roaring 20’s boasts dramatic changes in societal norms.

Ivil Antagonist has everything a woman could want. Power enough to blanket out suns and turn worlds into molten hells, a fleet of warships at her command, and the fear of an entire space-faring nation. But she's silently growing tired of being at the top. There is no place more lonely for someone who has killed all of the competition, and she knows that it will be impossible to find an equal.

When twenty-seven-year-old Ingrid Lourdes receives a series of ominous messages, the mysteries of her past quickly unravel, and the nightmares she suffered from all her life are made flesh. She is catapulted into a new world full of immortals, wraiths, cursed monsters, a raging religious war, and a secret society of beings just like her called world-walkers—living on Earth, but driven from their home world of Ealis. With the help of Dean Crassus, one of the leaders of this secret army of world-walkers, she is forced into a Homeric series of misadventures.

Morrigan has finally found peace with who she is. Now she has to prove she belongs. Back in the capital of Doppelta with her father, the Demon King, Morrigan discovers her older sisters have only grown more powerful in her absence. To claim her place as heir, she must succeed at the Nachtstern Festival, a grand celebration where every race of the Underworld competes in magic, strength, and skill. But the festival is more than dazzling contests.

Había una vez dos ratoncitos y dos hombrecillos que vivían en un laberinto. Estos cuatro personajes dependían del queso para alimentarse y ser felices. Como habían encontrado una habitación repleta de queso, vivieron durante un tiempo muy contentos. Pero un buen día el queso desapareció... Esta fábula simple e ingeniosa puede aplicarse a todos los ámbitos de la vida.

Absaroka, Wyoming, es el condado menos poblado del estado menos poblado de los Estados Unidos, así que encontrar el cuerpo sin vida de una joven asiática en la carretera del Oso Solitario, cerca de la Ruta 249, es cuando menos desconcertante. Así comienza un nuevo caso para el sheriff Longmire, con un gigantesco indio de turbulento pasado como único sospechoso.

Gerard Ploilaux, a 17th-century violin enthusiast, makes a rare find in a unique violin, which produces the most incredible sound he has yet experienced. Seeking to replace the strings, he is driven on a quest that takes him to places few have ventured and he meets people he wished he had not. The excursion leaves him wishing he had not ventured from the familiar sanctuary of his life into terror-striken realms he did not know existed.

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.

Craig Johnson logra en esta quinta entrega de la serie del sheriff Longmire una magnífica combinación de policiaco clásico y temas de actualidad, siempre con el inhóspito paisaje de Wyoming como telón de fondo. Wade Barsad, un hombre de pasado oscuro y una pasmosa facilidad para crearse enemigos, prende fuego al establo de los caballos de su esposa, Mary. Ella, como venganza, le descerraja seis tiros a quemarropa. 

Erica Shaw spends her week babysitting the country's bestselling authors for one of the top publishing companies in New York City. But on Friday nights, she escapes to DC, where her sexy-lipped musician boyfriend, Warren Prince, works and performs. Their connection is fierce, and the couple promises never to miss a weekend together. But when real life walks in—an overbearing father, an alcoholic mother, office politics, and a lucrative job contract—the couple starts unraveling at the seams. Tempers flare, violence breaks, while new lovers eagerly wait in the wings—to claim both of them.

Madeline and Cooper have had bad blood since junior year when she beat out his sister for the lead in the school play. Ever since, it’s been one petty escalation after another—plastic-wrapped cars, glitter bombs, and even a derogatory viral video. When their latest prank lands them in the principal’s office with their single parents in tow, Madeline and Cooper are shocked to find that their parents have hit it off and now have plans for a dinner date.

Cuando encuentran a la anciana Mari Baroja envenenada en la residencia de ancianos de Durant, el sheriff Walt Longmire se ve envuelto en una investigación realizada cincuenta años atrás. La conexión entre la víctima y la comunidad vasca de Wyoming, la lucrativa industria de la extracción de metano y la vida privada de Lucian Connally, el antiguo sheriff... todo conduce a una intrincada red de medias verdades y turbias alianzas. 

Una vez más, con su característico estilo simple y profundo, Spencer Johnson continúa la historia de Hem y Haw, los dos hombrecitos encerrados en un laberinto a los que les han movido el queso de lugar. Ahora, junto con una nueva amiga llamada Esperanza, comenzará un proceso de descubrimiento que lo llevará a pensar fuera de la caja o, mejor dicho, fuera del laberinto.

As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then, on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man. When a shuttle crashes into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that there was more than trimonite deep in the caverns.

Slipping into a silk bridesmaid’s dress for one glittering night, single mom Paige feels like someone else entirely—confident, radiant… seen. When the elusive and impossibly handsome Italian surgeon Valentino Lombardi asks her to dance, she dares to let go. Just for one night. But reality doesn’t stay at the ball. As dawn breaks, Paige quietly disappears, returning to the life that revolves around her young daughter, Lily, whose hearing impairment has upended everything. She never expects to see Valentino again—until he arrives at her hospital, a renowned cochlear implant surgeon.

¿Dónde buscas a alguien que en realidad nunca está? Siempre en una escalinata, pero nunca en la escalera... Los sugerentes acertijos que se ocultan tras los asesinatos de Ellingham siguen esperando que alguien sepa resolverlos, y Stevie sabe que está muy cerca. Pero el camino hacia la verdad tiene más entresijos de los que se imagina... y continuar avanzando implica hacer daño a alguien que quiere. En la segunda entrega de la trilogía El caso Vermont de Maureen Johnson, todo tiene un precio, y alguien pagará la verdad con su vida.

Walt Longmire lleva como sheriff del condado de Absaroka casi un cuarto de siglo, impartiendo justicia con chispeante sentido del humor. Es hora de tomarse un descanso y decide emprender un viaje con su buen amigo Henry Oso en Pie a Filadelfia, donde le espera una desagradable sorpresa: su hija, Cady, será víctima de un violento ataque que la dejará a las puertas de la muerte. Comienza entonces una investigación que provoca una reacción en cadena de violencia y muerte, y revela oscuros intereses políticos.

Bringing home a small pet is exciting, but knowing how to properly care for them can feel overwhelming. Rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and gerbils may be small, yet their needs are very specific. The Small Pet Handbook is a practical, beginner-friendly guide that helps you confidently provide safe feeding, daily care, and a healthy environment from day one. This easy-to-follow guide breaks down everything you need to know about small pet nutrition, habitat setup, and daily maintenance routines.

El miedo a la magia pulula por el reino de Anwyvn, en el que la guerra ha hecho estragos. A los medianos como Rhya Fleetwood se los ejecuta al instante. Sin embargo, la ejecución de Rhya se ve interrumpida gracias a un salvador inesperado, aunque mucho más aterrador que sus supuestos ejecutores: el comandante Scythe, un misterioso mercenario. En las garras de este nuevo enemigo, Rhya se encontrará luchando por su vida en los extremos yermos de las Tierras Septentrionales.