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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.

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.

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.

Una historia de cuatro mil años - de Abraham a la consolidación del Estado de Israel - en la que se ha forjado una cultura que ha ejercido una influencia innegable en la formación del mundo moderno.

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, authors George Lakoff and Mark Johnson explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"—metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.

Rick is just a normal guy, wanting to do normal things. He wants to go to school and tell his crush that he likes her. Granted, that seems to be harder than he was anticipating. It also doesn't help that he finds himself caught between new friends and a mafia run by the infamous "Skeleton Man," Meanwhile, Maralyn Rayne is working hard to earn her place in the Explorer's Guild. She has a lot to prove, and the Oasis Spark is still out there. She has to find it, because it may be the spark that sets the broken world ablaze.

Your miracle isn’t the end of the story—it’s the beginning of your call. Healed to Heal is for the one still aching, still asking, still hoping Jesus still heals today. Through true stories of men and women who were radically healed and then sent out to change the world, Kathleen Johnson reveals a powerful pattern: healing is not only personal—it is often a calling. These are not just survival stories. They are commissioning stories.

Marking a milestone for women in state government, Marlene M. Johnson became Minnesota’s first woman lieutenant governor under Rudy Perpich’s gubernatorial administration in January 1983. That same year, she met her husband, Peter, and their deeply loving relationship profoundly sustained her for twenty-seven years. Rise to the Challenge weaves these personal and professional stories together in a courageous portrait of dedication and leadership.

Germany lost twice. Then it did something rare. It learned. This book tells the story of a nation that burned down its own future, twice, and then chose to remember. From the rise of the Iron Chancellor to the ashes of Berlin, Blitzkrieg to the Berlin Wall, and Hitler to Merkel, Germany’s story is not one of endless conquest. It’s a story of collapse, reckoning, and slow, deliberate reconstruction. Through war, guilt, genius, division, and reinvention, Germany became something almost impossible: a world power that leads quietly. A country that doesn’t hide from its ghosts.

Poker isn’t a game of cards. It’s a game of pressure, timing, and control. From ancient Persian bluffing games to the neon battlegrounds of Vegas to the precision solvers of the online age, POKER: The Game That Outsmarted Luck is a walk through the full evolution of poker. The people, the tactics, the psychology, and the shifting edge. JJ breaks the game down without romanticizing it. No gimmicks. No guru talk. Just the real history, the real mind games, and the real skills it takes to survive at the table in 2025.

You didn’t create it. You didn’t agree to it. But it controls your life. This is the story of credit, not as a convenience, but as a control system. Behind every mortgage denial, sky-high car loan, or job rejection, there’s a silent judge pulling the strings: your credit score. And it doesn’t just follow you. It defines you. In this book, JJ breaks open the black box. You’ll see how private companies like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion turned your financial behavior into a commodity.

Der Tagelöhner Robert Grainier, 1886 im Norden Amerikas geboren, erlebt hautnah die großen Umwälzungen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Mit dem Einzug der Technik in den Alltag der Menschen verändert sich seine Welt unwiderruflich. Als Eisenbahnarbeiter ist Grainier Teil dieser Modernisierung, die jedoch auch ihre Opfer fordert. Eine persönliche Tragödie erschüttert sein Leben in den Grundfesten und stürzt ihn in tiefe Verzweiflung. In poetischer Sprache zeichnet Denis Johnson in seiner Novelle das eindringliche Bild einer Gesellschaft im Wandel.

Mike Reed, Assistenzprofessor an einer Universität im Mittleren Westen, lernt auf einer Party eine beschwipste Schönheit kennen: eine rothaarige Kunststudentin in einem blauen Samtkleid. Doch er nimmt sie kaum wahr, denn noch immer ist er gefangen im Tunnel seiner Trauer. Vier Jahre zuvor hat er bei einem tragischen Verkehrsunfall Frau und Tochter verloren. Einige Zeit später kreuzt die geheimnisvolle Rothaarige erneut seinen Weg – als Nackttänzerin, Performancekünstlerin und Sängerin einer Sekte.

Denis Johnsons Storysammlung Jesus' Son, 1992 in den USA erschienen, berichtet von Verwirrung, Leiden und Heilung eines jungen Drifters und hat den Autor zur lebenden Legende gemacht. Dies ist eines der herausragendsten Bücher der jüngeren amerikanischen Literatur; es schuf einen Ton, der in zuvor nie gehörter Weise Grauen und Komik, Schrecken und Zärtlichkeit einschließt.

Friseur und Barbershop-Sänger Jimmy Luntz steckt in Schwierigkeiten. Weil er seit Jahren das Geld zwielichtiger Kredithaie verspielt, sind ihm nun skrupellose Geldeintreiber mit großkalibrigen Waffen auf den Fersen. Auf der Flucht wird die schöne Indigene Anita seine Gefährtin – und plötzlich geht es nicht mehr nur um ein paar Riesen für Lotterie und Poker, sondern um sein Leben, Sex und 2,3 Millionen Dollar. In Keine Bewegung! entführt Denis Johnson die Leser in die abgründige Welt eines Kleingangsters.

Paul Johnson, the most celebrated popular historian of our time, takes a scalpel to Stalin, whom he considers "one of the outstanding monsters of history." Johnson sets forth the essence of Stalin’s life, character, and career. "It has been a hateful task, which has caused me much pain and disgust," he writes with characteristic candor. "But it has been a duty I have performed not without a certain grim satisfaction."

New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson weaves a delicate tale of murder and mystery in the first book of a striking new series, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and E. Lockhart. Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and...

Bill Johnson es el pastor de una iglesia donde los encuentros sobrenaturales con Dios son la orden del día, los milagros son comunes y la congregación tiene una contagiosa pasión por el crecimiento espiritual. En Cara a cara con Dios, Bill Johnson le ayuda a buscar de Dios de una manera que reciba una mayor presencia en su vida, al compartir los principios que ha aprendido, así como las historias verídicas de su iglesia y ministerio.

Tras veinticuatro años como sheriff del condado de Absaroka, Wyoming, las esperanzas de Walt Longmire de terminar en paz sus días como agente de la ley se ven frustradas cuando Cody Pritchard aparece muerto cerca de la reserva cheyene junto a una pista muy simbólica: una pluma de águila. Dos años antes, Cody había sido uno de los cuatro chicos de instituto que fueron puestos en libertad provisional tras violar a una chica cheyene.

Gemma Summers is unlucky in love. She's known it since third grade, when her first crush blew a spitball into her hair, and a decade-long string of bad dates, boring sex, and abysmal morning afters has done nothing to improve her prospects. But when a random radio call-in contest lands her courtside tickets to the hottest playoff game of the season, Gemma's luck may finally be on the upswing, even if it doesn't exactly seem like it when the dreaded Jumbotron kiss cam lands on her and her date.