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Roger and his family escape a rocky financial situation when he inherits his crazy uncle’s Christmas Tree Farm. But what looks like a gift has strings attached…strings pulled by a sinister figure in the dark. When dread-filled dreams and frightening supernatural encounters strike, terror threatens to rip the family to shreds like bloody tinsel.

En el panorama profesional actual, acelerado y en constante evolución, es esencial mantenerse a la vanguardia. Microsoft Copilot, un innovador asistente impulsado por IA, está diseñado para ayudar a profesionales como tú a alcanzar nuevos niveles de productividad y eficiencia.

1933. A body has been found on a luxury airship en route from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro. Police Detective Bruno Brückner, travelling on board, is immediately asked to investigate—and soon discovers that the murdered man was not the proud Nazi he claimed to be. What's more, he was carrying a stash of banned 'degenerate' material. As Brückner interviews his fellow passengers—a wealthy baroness, an antisemitic doctor, a debonair Englishman—he realizes that each of them has something to hide.

I was the Rift Magus, master of space and time, protector of worlds. Reborn in a broken body with only my knowledge intact, I rebuilt myself from nothing. Now the reckoning has come. House Delamere, the architects of my abduction and the force behind demonic pacts and soul-warping corruption, has taken Adrian. My cousin. My friend. They believe they understand power. They are wrong.

Epictetus (c. AD 50-135) was a former Roman slave (he was also lame in one leg, and walked with a crutch) who went on to become a great teacher. His philosophy, Stoicism, was practical, not theoretical - aimed at relieving human suffering here and now. The Manual is a collection of Epictetus' essential teachings and pithy sayings, compiled by one of his students.

I used to fantasize about meeting a masked madman who would love me endlessly and obsessively. He would look after me in a world where no one else did. He would manipulate all the strings that held up my life until I had exactly the one I wanted. And then one night, I met him. Only he wasn't the hero I always imagined he would be. When we left the forest together that night, I thought I'd escaped the villains relatively unscathed, but my true villain was the man whose arms I felt safest in.

Ha llegado por fin el momento de desvelar el secreto mejor guardado de la historia. Nadie sabe de dónde procede la Sábana Santa ni cuándo fue creada. Pero el mayor misterio religioso del cristianismo alberga la clave para comprender los motivos de un asesino en serie que crucifica a sus víctimas. Y solo dos policías, siguiendo una pista que va de California al Vaticano, pueden revelar el secreto de la Sábana Santa.

Reino Unido, época actual. Ocho días antes del solsticio de verano, es hallado el cadáver de un hombre en los alrededores del monumento de Stonehenge. En la piel tiene las marcas de unos extraños símbolos. Unas horas más tarde, un famoso cazador de recompensas se suicida en su propia casa, dejando una críptica carta a su hijo, el arqueólogo Gideon Chase. Tras el revuelo mediático, una policía y Chase se verán inmersos en una trama de sociedades secretas y una antiquísima logia, devota, durante siglos, de Stonehenge.

Tiffenie may be three hundred years old, but she’s still a hot mess. The vampire is tragically single, works a dead-end job at a blood bank, and spends her nights marathoning Hallmark Channel movies with her cat. When Tiffenie inherits a fixer-upper home in Valentine, Vermont, thanks to a case of mistaken (okay, stolen) identity, she seizes the chance to get her life back on track. With her newly undead neighbor (it was an accident!) in tow, Tiffenie is determined to live out her holiday rom-com dreams in this picture-perfect town.

La chispa de la imaginación: una introducción a la energía ficticia Energía. Es la corriente invisible que anima nuestro mundo, el motor silencioso que impulsa el progreso, la esencia misma del dinamismo y el cambio. En nuestra vida diaria, dependemos de ella, debatimos sus fuentes y buscamos formas cada vez más sostenibles de aprovechar su poder. Pero, ¿qué sucede cuando la energía trasciende los límites de nuestra ciencia conocida, cuando salta del laboratorio a los reinos ilimitados de la ficción?

As organizations shift from monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices, distributed systems have become more fine-grained. But developing these new systems brings its own host of problems. This expanded second edition takes a holistic view of topics that you need to consider when building, managing, and scaling microservices architectures. Through clear examples and practical advice, author Sam Newman gives everyone from architects and developers to testers and IT operators a firm grounding in the concepts.

For the millions of Americans who want spirituality without religion, Sam Harris’s latest New York Times bestseller is a guide to meditation as a rational practice informed by neuroscience and psychology. From Sam Harris, neuroscientist and author of numerous New York Times bestselling books...

What do you do when your mother is determined to get you married? Create not one… not two… but three pretend boyfriends. It was supposed to be a lie so ridiculous she'd never bother me again. I never expected Mother Dearest to call my bluff and insist on meeting them. Luckily, my bestie is ready to help and volunteers her three gorgeous brothers for the role of fake boyfriend.

Susy Branch (Tavi Gevinson) and Nick Lansing (Adam DiMarco) aren’t into each other, but they share a similar problem. Susy is a down-on-her-luck socialite who doesn’t want to get a real job, and Nick is a struggling writer who’s tired of tutoring the kids of the one percent. All of their wealthier friends are getting married, to seemingly lucrative results. So, Susy and Nick devise a plan: have a wedding.

I'm the girl next door who looks for love in all the wrong places. Until the day my smoking hot neighbors who've always treated me like a little sister rescue me from the men who hurt me. They tend my wounds. They care for me. They make me whole again. Now the gloves are off. They're my fated mates, and they won't give me up for anyone. My enemies are determined to find and enslave me, but my three possessive, dangerous, and slightly unhinged alphas will lay waste to an entire city if that's what it takes to keep me safe. And they may just have to.

As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled and sustained by lies. Acts of adultery and other personal betrayals, financial fraud, government corruption - even murder and genocide - generally require an additional moral defect: a willingness to lie. In Lying, bestselling author and neuroscientist Sam Harris argues that we can radically simplify our lives and improve society by merely telling the truth in situations where others often lie.

Questo audiolibro spiega in modo semplice, ma in maniera approfondita, le basi e la metodologia di lavoro per capire e attuare una campagna di web marketing legata alla vendita di un prodotto. Il lettore è accompagnato passo dopo passo in ogni singolo aspetto della promozione sul web per aiutarlo a capire i tanti strumenti a sua disposizione nel variegato mondo del marketing online.

Born in a bookstore in a blighted 1960's Boston neighborhood, Firmin the rat miraculously learns how to read by digesting his nest of books. Alienated from his family and unable to communicate with the humans he loves, Firmin quickly realizes that a literate rat is a lonely rat. Following a harrowing misunderstanding with his hero, the bookseller, Firmin begins to risk the dangers of Scollay Square, finding solace in the Lovelies of the burlesque cinema. Finally adopted by a down-on-his-luck science fiction writer, the tide begins to turn.

Por primera vez en milenios vivimos en un mundo sin imperios formales. Pero esto no significa que no sintamos su presencia reverberando a través de la historia. El legado de los imperios examina cómo esa herencia sigue latiendo tras los problemas más espinosos que hoy enfrentamos. Desde las injerencias rusas en Ucrania hasta el Brexit, desde el América primero de Trump a las incursiones de China en África, desde la India de Modi hasta el avispero de Oriente Próximo, Samir Puri proporciona un marco nuevo y audaz para descifrar las complejas rivalidades.

Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.