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Here is a bluesy, neo-noir crime thriller that pits an Iraq war vet against the Chicago mob.

A veteran of the war in Iraq, where he suffered extreme injury, and a refugee from a sad Kentucky family history, Tommy McClain places his faith in a beat-up blue Chevy and his future in the city of Chicago. He's got a friend there he can count on. What he doesn't count on is Lisa DePietro. She's pretty and openhearted, with dark eyes you could drown in. . .and she's being stalked.

Danny Kelly cares only for rock 'n' roll and fast cars. Too bad he's stuck in the capital of country music and he's banned from driving until he turns 21. Plus he likes other boys, a secret that he's vowed to keep until he graduates high school. When his stepdad's new truck roars off on its own, Danny discovers a secret that is endangering cars and drivers across America. It almost kills Danny, too, until he's saved by 17-year-old Kevin Clark.

“Sam, could you do me a favor?” Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true-crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga - the story of a young lawyer fresh from the public defender's office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation's history. This is a gripping true crime narrative that reenacts the gruesome killings and the famous trial that shocked a nation.

While many volumes devoted to the punk and hardcore scenes in America grace bookstore shelves, Canada’s contributions to the genre remain largely unacknowledged. For the first time, the birth of Canadian punk - a transformative cultural force that spread across the country at the end of the 1970s - is captured between the pages of this important resource. Delving deeper than standard band biographies, this book articulates how the advent of punk reshaped the culture of cities across Canada, speeding along the creation of alternative means of cultural production, consumption, and distribution.

For the first time ever, the complete founding documents of the United States of America are here in one unabridged recording. Sam Fink, award-winning author of the highly acclaimed illustrated book of The Declaration of Independence, provides concise introductions.

Der Müllersohn Raffael verdient seinen Lebensunterhalt mit vielfältigen Gaunereien - stets darauf bedacht, nicht einer Hand oder eines Kopfes verlustig zu werden. Denn nur die Strafen für Diebstahl sind noch härter als das Leben. Eine verhexte Landkarte, sein treues Pferd Diego und sein handzahmer Regenwurm Borsti begleiten ihn auf seinen Abenteuern. Der alte Söldner Brocken gilt als lebende Legende, seitdem er als einziger Streiter die große Schlacht im Nebelmoor überlebt hat. Seine Grantigkeit wird nur von seiner Garstigkeit übertroffen.

Er ist der Einzige, der ihn verhindern kann. Den Verlust, den Umbruch, den Niedergang. Nur weiß das niemand - nicht einmal er selbst. In Nabenstein steigt der Preis auf Aross' Kopf von Tag zu Tag. Ausgerechnet in höchster Gefahr kommt sie dem Geheimnis ihrer Herkunft näher. Ritter Emicho lässt sich auf ein Spiel ein, das er nicht gewinnen kann. Er verliert es.

Im mittelalterlichen Dorf Haufen lebt der 18-jährige Farin. Der Junge ist ein Außenseiter, denn als Sohn des Totengräbers wird er von den anderen Dorfbewohnern geächtet und geprügelt. Dennoch hat er keine andere Wahl, als den Beruf des Vaters zu übernehmen, der zunehmend dem Alkohol verfällt.

Der Abschluss der Bestseller-Saga! Der Kampf gegen die Nekorer führen Farin und Ritter Emicho in die Hauptstadt Nabenstein. Dank Ekels dämonischer Zutaten steigt der Totengräbersohn zu der Attraktion am königlichen Hof auf. Allzu schnell muss er sich zwischen Machenschaften und Intrigen beweisen. Der andere Kontinent verlangt Aross mehr ab, als sie zu geben bereit ist. Ihr Weg führt sie zu einer geheimnisvollen Gilde in einem alten Kloster. Je mehr sie über ihre Magie lernt, desto weniger möchte sie wissen.

Wie viel Hass passt in ein Leben? Sie ist ohne Namen, ohne Kindheit, ohne Skrupel. Während andere zaudern, noch überlegen, was gut, was schlecht oder was richtig, was falsch ist, handelt sie bereits. Meistens schlecht und falsch. Eine verlorene Herkunft, tief in ihr brodelnd, sucht sich seinen Weg an die Oberfläche.

Die Gegensätze könnten größer kaum sein: Auf der einen Seite der Islamkritiker Hamed Abdel-Samad, der Mohammed für einen Terroristen hält, und auf der anderen Seite der muslimische Theologe Mouhanad Khorchide, der für einen liberalen Islam wirbt. In dem vorliegenden Buch ringen die prominentesten Akteure der aktuellen Debatte miteinander. Persönlich schätzen sie sich, doch inhaltlich könnte der Konflikt größer nicht sein.

Sam Ryder's life already sucks, and it's about to get worse when he's fired from his dead-end job as a programmer. He's about to head home to escape into his favorite RPG, Alien Civilization, when he's offered a thrill ride on a death machine by a gorgeous woman straight out of one of his games. Before Sam can say "WTF?", he's been whisked away to a dark world of monsters and goddesses, his body transformed from Outcast to Warrior, the second level on a ladder that may eventually carry him all the way to Demigod.

My name is Sam Ryder. I was abducted from Earth and brought to a planet called Tor, a world of dying goddesses and monsters. I was leveled up - thrice now - turning me from a slightly overweight gamer into a chiseled fighter with spidey senses who gets more play with the goddesses than an Xbox. At this point I've already faced two of the massive demons known as the Morgoss, those who are responsible for the overthrow of the Three goddesses and the theft of their powerful hearts.

A nuclear blast has transformed the world into a barren wasteland. Survival depends on your ability to kick ass and take names. Radiation transforms select humans into mutated creatures who are banished from society - Enders. The males are libido-less wild animals incapable of satisfying the females, who are hot, forward and badass. Cutter has kept to himself for 10 years, avoiding the conflict with a sharp tongue, stiff drink and his two best friends, his six-shooters, Alpha and Beta. But the perils of the wastelands won't leave him the hell alone.

Early in May 1861, 21-year-old Sam R. Watkins of Columbia, Tennessee, joined the First Tennessee Regiment. He fought in all of its major battles, from Shiloh to Nashville. Twenty years later, with a "house full of young 'rebels' clustering around my knees and bumping about my elbows," he wrote the remarkable account of "Co. Aytch," its common foot soldiers, its commanders, its Yankee enemies, its victories and defeats, and its ultimate surrender on April 26, 1865.

This book is considered to be the best account of the Civil War ever written from the Confederate point of view. It is also the one most frequently cited by historians of the Western campaigns. Sam Watkins, a high private in the Army of Tennessee, brings a vividness and detail to his story unmatched in the genre.

Una de las líneas más citadas dentro de la historia de los Estados Unidos es el derecho que todos los hombres tienen a "la vida, la libertad y la búsqueda de la felicidad". Es en los documentos fundadores de los Estados Unidos de América que este país encuentra su gran espíritu. Escuche estos documentos en su totalidad traducidos al el español. La Declaración de Independencia (1776), La Constitución de Los Estados Unidos de América (1778) y La Declaración de Derechos (1791).

The Dirty Parts of the Bible is a humorous adventure across America during the Great Depression - a rollicking tale of love and liquor, preachers and prostitutes, trains and treasure, sure to appeal to fans of O Brother Where Art Thou?, Water for Elephants, Mark Twain, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash. It's 1936, and Tobias Henry is stuck in the frozen hinterlands of Michigan. Tobias is obsessed with two things: God and girls. Mostly girls, of course. But being a Baptist preacher's son, he can't escape God.

Things are looking up for Millie Thorn. She's finally enjoying life as a witch, and she's even taken a part-time job teaching cookery in a school for paranormal children. She's come to terms with the fact that the local policeman, Sergeant David Spencer, is her father, and she's accepted that it might be better to wait a little longer until she drops that bombshell at his feet. When a trouble-making werewolf is murdered while in police custody, and the magical poison is traced back to cakes that Millie may or may not have helped bake, things begin to go wrong. Quickly.

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