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This bestselling, legendary love story is the basis for the beloved film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. If you've ever experienced the one true love of your life, a love that for some reason could never be, you will understand why readers all over the world are so moved by this small...

All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct - and often failing as a result - we'd win more arguments if we learned the timeless art of verbal persuasion, or rhetoric.

Avi Mulvaney is many things. Son. Twin. Owner of the fashion label, Gemini. Murderous psychopath. Together, he and his brother, Asa, make one brutally efficient monster, ridding the world of predators who victimize the innocent. History proves Avi and Asa don’t do well apart, but their father has decided to test that theory. Felix Navarro knows exactly who he is. Baby brother. Fashionista. Vigilante. While he’s not happy that his big brother married a Mulvaney, the union has its perks.

The Classic of Changes (I Ching / Yìjīng / 易經) is one of the oldest and most enduring texts in the Chinese literary tradition, and one of the oldest books on record. The trigrams and method are classically attributed to the culture hero and legendary emperor Fu Xi (c. 2800 BCE), who also...

En este relato de Henry James, una mujer con una personalidad un tanto extraña y misteriosa, que dice guiarse por premoniciones, va a explicar la historia de unos manuscritos que son encontrados por casualidad y que contienen una serie de declaraciones comprometedoras, a un escritor que ignora que a veces la felicidad está tan sólo a la vuelta de la esquina.

Atticus Mulvaney is the eldest son of eccentric billionaire, Thomas Mulvaney - a role he takes very seriously. Atticus takes everything seriously. Like his brothers, Atticus is a psychopath, raised to right the wrongs of a broken justice system. Unlike his brothers, he’s not very good at it. Jericho Navarro is no psychopath, but he is a vicious killer. Like Atticus, he also has a secret life. To most, he’s just a mechanic. But to a ragtag group of social misfits, he’s Peter Pan, teaching them to eliminate those who prey on the weak with extreme prejudice.

Los rumores dicen... Los rumores crecen... Pero ¿qué pasa cuando se convierten en algo real? Rachel acaba de romper con su ex de la peor manera posible. Él, en un acto de venganza, comienza a difundir por toda la universidad rumores sobre una posible relación entre ella y Mark Harvet...

Heirs of the Great Migration is a narrative biography grounded in Dr. James “Manny” Wright’s family journey from Jim Crow-era sharecropping in North Carolina to the promise of manufacturing jobs and greater opportunity in the industrial Northeast. Wright frames his generation—Generation X—as heirs to the aspirations and sacrifices of the Great Migration and among the first generations of Black Americans to come of age with the full rights of citizenship formally guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. Yet the America they inherited was undergoing another profound transformation.

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When Liam Belanger gets a professional tryout with the Miami Caimans, he's hoping to land a roster spot that'll keep him from bussing tables. If he can make the team and score a tryout in bed with Russ Lyons, the veteran defenseman who's appointed himself Liam's mentor, that would be the icing on the sweet hockey cake. Living life by a strict set of rules has worked out well for Russ. He has a great career, great friends, and a great family, even if they do keep setting him up with hometown honey traps.

My entire life has been one steady plan after another. Go to college. Get married. Have a successful career. More than a decade goes by, and my entire world is rocked in more ways than one. Everything I thought I knew is ripped from under me in one fell swoop. Then I meet him: the enticing man behind the camera with the boyish grin and charismatic energy who makes me question everything. He was only supposed to be a means to an end. But what I got was so much more.

James Gleick's groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new audience the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our time. By focusing on the key figures whose genius converged to chart an innovative direction for science, Gleick makes the story of chaos...

The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha, is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Published in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. It regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published, such as the Bokklubben World Library collection that cites Don Quixote as the authors' choice for the "best literary work ever written".

Four classic tales of the undead, read by Bill Wallis, Anthony Head, John Telfer and Cornelius Garrett.

This is a US Army helicopter pilot's candid, firsthand account of his Vietnam experience in the air and on the ground at the height of US troop strength and then again when he returned for a second tour of duty at the very end of the war. It is a nonpolitical description of what life was really like for him and others who served in Vietnam. There is no embellishment or any secondhand stories from anyone else about their experiences in Vietnam.

My only regret is that I shan't be alive to savour my retrospective triumph. But that is of small account. I savour it every day of my life. I shall have done the one thing I resolved to do when I was 12 years old - and the world will know it. Follow the 'Queen of Crime' as she takes us into the mind of a man who has waited decades to enact his patient, ingenious revenge on a school bully.

Durante mais de um século, o trabalho de James Allen sobre o poder do pensamento inspirou pessoas de todos os domínios da vida. Este livro permanece único porque qualquer pessoa pode facilmente compreender e seguir os seus ensinamentos, e pôr em prática os métodos que aconselha. O autor faz a afirmação ousada, mas simples, de que um homem pode ter sucesso se pensar sobre isso, e um homem pode falhar se pensar sobre isso também. Neste audiolivro, irá descobrir como o pensamento molda o comportamento, as nossas relações com os outros e com o mundo ao nosso redor.

Every hero works to soothe the fears of the people during their period in history. Heroes are not only brave, but they’re also able to navigate the convoluted corridors of society, and to see through the respectable pretense of others to detect the evil that lies within. So, who better to take on the foggy, crime-ridden streets and strict social mores of Victorian London than the iconic literary detective Sherlock Holmes? In Sherlock Holmes: Beyond the Elementary, you’ll investigate the history behind Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s whip-smart, charismatic detective.

Chi è realmente Gary Soneji, timido e stimato professore di matematica in una esclusiva scuola di Washington? E perché, senza un motivo apparente, ha rapito Maggie Rose, figlia di una star del cinema, e Michael Goldberg, figlio del ministro del Tesoro? Un caso micidiale per Alex Cross, detective con una laurea in psicologia, che lavora nel ghetto di Washington.

Westly: The fall from NHL superstar to domestic disaster was swift and painful. When I became the legal guardian of my five younger siblings, I had no idea what I was doing. One year later, I'm still lost. Coaching CU's hockey team might be the only thing I'm excelling at. But when our star...