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Sharon Stone, una de las actrices más reconocidas en todo el mundo, sufrió un ictus grave que le costó no solo su salud, sino también su carrera, su familia, su fortuna y su fama mundial. En "La belleza de vivir dos veces", Sharon Stone relata sus esfuerzos por reconstruir su vida y el lento y arduo camino que recorrió para recuperar la plenitud y la salud.

The system isn’t done with Jake Long.After the biggest payday of his life, Jake thought he’d finally won, until Amazon lobbied the government to money-print his fortune into scraps. Right across the street they built the Feminist Tower of Babel: a gleaming monument where men are quarantined...

Kennedy’s Horror Collection series continues with Book 15. Once again, he has collected stories from authors from all over the world, and this time, they have been selected specifically from the LGBTQIA+ community. As always, only the best made the cut, and have been gathered here for your listening pleasure. Sit back, relax, and get ready for some of the best scary stories you will listen to this year.

Great powers no longer fight great wars. But how exactly did countries like the United States go from confronting powerful adversaries in 1914 and 1939 Europe to waging lengthy counterinsurgency campaigns in places like Iraq and Afghanistan? The answer lies in the profound geopolitical and technological changes that came in between.

All great athletes get injured. Only the best of them use those injuries to come back to their sport better—fitter, faster, and stronger than before. Through Dr. Stone’s revolutionary approach to sports medicine, you’ll discover how injuries can lead to a lifetime of high-performance fitness and athleticism. Learn how the musculoskeletal system can be repaired through cutting-edge therapies, then honed and strengthened through semiannual fitness tests, preseason education and training programs, and regular in-season tune-ups.

There have been a lot of scientific studies dedicated to studying emotional intelligence and how it affects our lives. In the past, the focus was more on IQ as the gold standard for predicting performance. Intelligent people are those who are often described as having high IQs. But recent studies have shown that the more capable, competent and effective individuals are actually those that have a high emotional quotient. In fact, researchers have discovered that people with average IQs outperform those with high IQs 70 percent of the time.

A young teenager named Red and the old prospector who raised him arrive in Baker's Gap, anxious to start a new life, having struck a glory hole of gold. Much to Red's horror, however, the prospector is gunned down in the street. Suddenly alone in a strange town, the boy is angry and distrustful, but fortunately Tom Harrison, the local sheriff, is willing to accept responsibility for his care if he can convince him to stay. A strong bond soon develops between the two, and in exchange for Red agreeing to attend school, the sheriff pledges to pass down all he knows about law enforcement.

Owen Burke is at loose ends in the Mexican town of San Rafael. While at the local cantina, he overhears a conversation between two Mexican vaqueros seated nearby and decides to introduce himself. The two men work for Don Enrique Hernandez de Allende at a horse ranch some distance south. The don is planning a horse drive to the north and then west to California, where the don's brother-in-law has a ranch. Owen knows those trails and hopes the don, who has never made the trip before, might be in need of a guide.

New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card founded the online magazine Intergalactic Medicine Show in 2006. It has been a big success, drawing submissions from well-known science fiction and fantasy writers, as well as fostering some amazing new talents. This collection contains some of...

From 1953 to 1969, the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren brought about many of the proudest achievements of American constitutional law. The Warren Court declared racial segregation and laws forbidding interracial marriage to be unconstitutional; it expanded the right of citizens to criticize public officials; it held school prayer unconstitutional; and it ruled that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they can't afford one. Yet conservative critics have fiercely accused the justices of the Warren Court of abusing their authority....

The first time the Donovan twins, Lucas and Jamie, saw a Canadian Northwest Mounted Police officer, they knew that's what they wanted to be when they grew up. Years later, Lucas Donovan, now a member of the force, is on a mission to bring a ruthless serial killer to justice. For years, Jack Emerson has eluded capture in the vast Canadian wilderness, but now Donovan has vowed that nothing on earth will stop him from seeing this man caught and punished. The oath is both personal and professional, since one of the men Emerson killed was Constable Jamie Donovan, Lucas' twin brother.

Retired US Army sergeant Thaddeus McCallum joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency, where he makes enough money to purchase the ranch he's always wanted. But just as McCallum begins to settle in to his new life, he receives an urgent letter from a former comrade in arms, whose son Jeff has gone missing. The men soon learn that Columbus, New Mexico, was the site of an attack by Pancho Villa and his army of revolutionaries, and young Jeff has been taken prisoner.

Your search for something new and different in sci fi and fantasy ends here. Presenting this year's collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters. Each year, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future contests' blue-ribbon judges search the world to discover and introduce to you the very best new talent in sci-fi and fantasy.

Badger Kershaw was becoming a familiar figure on the frontier after the War between the States. Riding an Appaloosa with Lobo, his dog-wolf hybrid, often by his side, he was feared by most outlaws on the dodge on whom there was a bounty. It was not a savory profession, perhaps, but Kershaw was honest about what he did. Frontier lawmen for the most part were accustomed to dealing with Kershaw. When the fugitive was willing to surrender, Kershaw would bring in an outlaw alive, but it was not an option he encountered very often.

The grandson of a US senator has been brazenly kidnapped out of a hotel room in St. Louis. His life has been threatened if the senator cannot raise the ransom money, an exorbitant amount that even he can’t scrape together. Ultimately, the boy’s fate falls into the hands of a select group of undercover agents known for their discretion, cleverness, and bravery - the Pinkertons. When Allan Pinkerton realizes the confidential nature of the kidnapping, he calls in his best field agents, a group of five professionals with specialized skills and unconventional backgrounds.

Some stories don’t explain themselves. They stay with you. A Voice From the Road is a quiet, unsettling true account of a night spent camping in a remote canyon—a place so familiar it felt safe. Until it wasn’t. Late at night, a calm voice drifted out of the darkness, calling for help. There were no headlights. No footsteps. No sign of anyone on the road. And yet, the voice was real—heard by two men who knew the land well and knew it shouldn’t have been there.

Along with the expected Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Easter, HellBound Books are delighted to present, among others, tales of terror involving Bastille Day (viva la Revolucion!), Saint Lucy Day (a Christian feast day celebrated on December 13th - St. Lucy is the saint patron of the blind and mentioned in The Nun 2!), Earth Day, and the delectable White Day (celebrated in Japan on March 14th - one month after Valentine's Day - in which folks return gifts presented to them on Valentine's Day).

Addie has known Hanna Hilson and her father most of her life. He had been like an adopted father to her growing up, but now she was all grown up and ready to show Mr Hilson all the new things she had learned to do.

Last spring, Dawn found her older brother dead in a pool of his blood. His killer stood over him, wearing a smile as sharp and ghastly as his knife. Last summer, she tracked the killer down. He’s a student at Necromancer Academy and part of a secret fraternity known as the Diabolicals full of bullies determined to make her life hell.

After falling into mage’s oblivion, Dawn wakes to a nightmare. All of Amaria’s magic is out of balance from Ryze’s return, and at Necromancer Academy, unruly magic could mean death. That’s one constant Dawn is prepared for, though. What she isn’t prepared for is how far Ryze’s minions will go to protect The Staff of Sullivan. It’s hidden in the academy’s catacombs, and it must be important. But how? With the skin-walker thwarting her every step, Dawn must find the staff and stop the skin-walker once and for all. Unless it stops her first.