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Apophys, il serpente gigante, dio del caos, sta per essere liberato dalle forze del male. Vuole distruggere il mondo e per questo è determinato a inghiottire il dio sole, Ra, il più antico e potente degli dei egizi. Il mito vuole che Ra, minacciato da Apophys e Isis, abbia lasciato il suo trono di fuoco a Osiris e si sia lasciato cadere in un sonno eterno. Per non essere svegliato ha diviso in tre parti il Libro di Ra, un antico papiro che contiene i suoi segreti e le formule magiche per svegliarlo.

"Cuentos a los cuarenta" es una colección de nueve relatos en los que la autora Laura Freixas reflexiona sobre la entrada en la mediana edad para una mujer escritora, sobre las renuncias, desencuentros y certezas a las que una tiene que enfrentarse una vez ha pasado definitivamente el tiempo de soñar qué se hará cuando llegue la edad adulta. Un cruce entre imaginación y verdad, entre lo antiguo y lo nuevo, desde en pasado que mira hacia el futuro.

Hace once meses, Roxy y el agente Reece Anders tuvieron un rollo de una noche. Ella lleva enamorada de él desde los quince años, y él desearía que la noche que compartieron jamás hubiera sucedido. Por eso, aunque Roxy renuncia para siempre a Reece, el pasado y el futuro se entrelazan y la obligan a confiar en el único hombre que le ha roto el corazón no una, sino dos veces.

Selling real estate full time, raising two young daughters, clinging to a slipping marriage—Audrey’s life is definitely a balancing act. But when a tumble down the stairs leaves her with more than just a bump on the head, she wakes up five years in the past, before the first tear in her marriage threatened her trust in Travis.

Donald Trump is not a big thinker, but his 2016 presidential victory presented a grand opportunity for people who are, and it set off a radicalization and reconfiguration of the American conservative intellectual world. In Furious Minds, Laura Field, who spent close to a decade in conservative academic circles, chronicles the rise of the New Right—the network of academics, public intellectuals, and influencers who provide ideological fuel to Trumpism.

As a professional matchmaker, my biggest job this holiday season should be simple: find a date for the sexy single dad hockey player—aka my brother’s best friend—for his team’s fancy Christmas Eve gala. Sure Rowan’s hot as a crackling fire and spicier than a gingerbread man, but he hasn’t just sworn off romance. The Christmas hater has made a bet that I can’t find him a holidate.

Mare Internum, 75 v. Chr. Ein Handelsschiff steuert die Insel Rhodos an. An Bord: Julius Cäsar, begleitet von seinem Getreuen Titus Labienus. Von seinen Feinden ins Exil getrieben, ist er auf dem Weg zu Apollonius Molon, einem der bedeutendsten Rhetoriklehrer der damaligen Zeit, um seine Redekunst zu verfeinern und so gewappnet zu sein für seine nächsten Schritte auf seinem Weg an die Spitze der politischen Macht. Ein monumentaler Roman, der uns den wahren Preis der Macht vor Augen führt: Julius Cäsar muss erfahren, dass Rom alles dafür verlangt, sogar sein wertvollstes Gut.

For more than two thousand years, tea has awakened, calmed, and connected people across continents and cultures. In A History of Tea, you'll travel with this extraordinary beverage on its global journey—from the tea houses of ancient China and the Zen temples of Japan to the colonial plantations of India and Sri Lanka, and into the teacups of Britain and beyond. Along the way, discover how tea shaped empires, sparked revolutions, and inspired rituals that still endure today.

Kansas Harris - Sas for short - has the potential to be the best agent at her father’s sports agency, and she’s figured out exactly how she’s going to prove that: by giving disgraced football star Colton Quinn an image overhaul. Colton may have got himself in hot water during the off season, but only he knows the real story behind what happened. Regardless, he needs to pick up his game or risk getting left off the active roster - or worse. Leaving behind all she knows in New York, Sas arrives in Texas with a surefire plan to save Colton's career as quickly as possible.

The epic stories of our planet's 4.54-billion-year history are written in strata―ages-old remnants of ancient seafloors, desert dunes, and riverbeds striping landscapes around the world. In this brilliantly original debut work, science writer Laura Poppick decodes strata to lead us on a journey through four global transformations that made our lives on Earth possible: the first accumulations of oxygen in the atmosphere; the deep freezes of "Snowball Earth"; the rise of mud on land and accompanying proliferation of plants; and the dinosaurs' reign on a hothouse planet.

"I loved this profound, practical, and generous book." —Oliver Burkeman A transformative guide to rethinking our approach to goals, creativity, and life itself from a neuroscientist and entrepreneur, and the creator of the popular Ness Labs newsletter Life isn’t linear, and yet we constantly...

Kay Scarpetta, l'anatomopatologa più famosa al mondo, si trova a essere la riluttante testimone chiave di un processo per omicidio di grande risonanza mediatica: quasi un anno prima, il cadavere di April Tupelo, ex reginetta di bellezza, era stato ritrovato orrendamente sfigurato su una spiaggia della Virginia. Viene accusato del suo omicidio Gilbert Hooke, il fidanzato.

Sienna Blake knew attending her brother's wedding meant facing the past she left behind—the old friends who chose sides, the city that never really felt like home, and the ex who moved on without looking back… who is now the best man. She can handle it. What she can't handle? The endless questions about why she's still single. Enter Nathan Calloway. A chance encounter at an airport bar turns into an impulsive deal. For one week, he'll be her perfect fake boyfriend. The rules are simple: convince everyone, survive the wedding, and walk away unscathed.

Wiesbaden, 1959. Hilde, la hija de la familia, dirige ahora el Café del Ángel y ha llevado un soplo de aire fresco al tradicional establecimiento. Además, el nuevo pastelero resulta ser todo un descubrimiento y sus tentadoras creaciones reposteras atraen cada vez a más clientes. Pero Hilde y su prima Luisa tienen motivos para temer por su felicidad personal: Jean-Jacques, el marido de Hilde, pasa mucho tiempo con la guapa francesa que trabaja en sus viñedos, y Fritz, el esposo de Luisa, parece ocultarle algo.

Cuando Maeve desaparece sin dejar rastro, su hija Sloane no se sorprende: si su madre tenía que desaparecer, solo podía ser en extrañas circunstancias. Sin embargo, esta vez es distinto: al cabo de unos días de la desaparición de su progenitora, Sloane recibe un paquete que esta misma le ha mandado, con varios miles de dólares, la escritura de su casa y un arma. También hay una nota con las siguientes palabras: Vén delo todo. Quédate la pistola. Practica. Huye. Ahora.

¿Se puede volver a vibrar por amor? Volver a mí retrata la vida de una mujer que cumplió todos los mandatos sociales: ser profesional, esposa y madre, pero que a fuerza de lograr los sueños ajenos olvidó los propios. A veces, perderse es la única forma de encontrarse.

Die Tradition, zur kalten Jahreszeit Spukgeschichten zu lesen, hat sich über die Jahrhunderte hinweg bewährt. Denn was gibt es Schöneres, als es sich an langen, dunklen Winterabenden bei Kerzenlicht mit Geistergeschichten gemütlich zu machen? In Wintergeister hauchen sechs hochgelobte Autor*innen und Expert*innen des unheimlichen Erzählens der Tradition des Schauermärchens neues Leben ein. Ein heimgesuchtes Herrenhaus, ein unheilvolles Theaterstück und eine Geisterbeschwörung zaubern eine wohlige Gänsehaut.

" Il faut toujours avoir confiance et suivre sa route comme le font les tsiganes, sans souci des frontières. " L'histoire bouleversante d'un garçon pris dans les tumultes du Caucase. Lorsque les douaniers trouvent Blaise Fortune, douze ans, tapi au fond d'un camion espagnol à la frontière française, il est seul. Il a vécu les douze premières années de sa vie dans le Caucase, entre la mer Noire et la mer Caspienne. Jeanne Fortune, sa mère, l'a confié bébé à Gloria Bohème.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes an “insightful, honest, funny, and moving collection of captivating stories” (BuzzFeed). “Graham is fast and furiously funny. . . . Where Graham...

Based on the real-life adventures of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Town on the Prairie is the seventh book in the award-winning Little House series, which has captivated generations of readers. In Little Town on the Prairie, the young town of De Smet has survived the long, harsh winter of...