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In an impatient world of infobesity, people don't want more information - they want to be intrigued and they want to be intrigued fast. After all, goldfish have longer attention spans than humans - nine seconds to our eight. So, right now, people want to know, "How is this relevant and useful to me? Why are you worth my valuable time, mind, and dime?" Bestselling author and ace communication strategist Sam Horn reveals her "secret sauce" for truly connecting with people - whether it's one or one million.

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.

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.

Growing up, I had nothing but my good grades and them: the Vanguard brothers. They are the golden boys of our school, destined to be the alphas of our pack. They’re possessive, scaring away everyone else who might get close to me—until the night of their first shift. I’d been told over and over I could never be their mate, but the boy’s wolves had other ideas…. So, I’m whisked away, told to forget them—and I do, right up until they walk in through my door, telling me all the things I’d secretly dreamed of.

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.

OPERACIÓN KERMAN narra las peripecias de Vera y Cloe, dos amigas que, por curiosos avatares del destino, comparten algo más que una simple amistad. Hartas de ver sus ilusiones, su trabajo y su orgullo pisoteados por los más pudientes de la sociedad, así como de ver cómo las desigualdades entre la clase alta y la clase media-baja parecen abismos insalvables, deciden tomar cartas en el asunto y robar a millonarios sin escrúpulos como actividad laboral "complementaria".

One girl, two lives. Dutiful daughter of the Duke of Elverston, on the one hand, a willful girl who learns to fight on the other. Her father has let her run wild as long as she never embarrasses him. And if she does? Consequences are likely to be swift and brutal. The wargen are fierce men who wear two faces: one wolf, one human. They're the monsters mothers warn their children about in Grania, and now four wargen princes have been sent there to strike a deal with the duke. But when they catch sight of the wild Darcy, everything changes.

The supercilious cow who just hired me for my dream job didn't do so because of my impeccable filing or my ability to type 80 words per minute. She did so because she took one look at my plus-size body and assumed my smoking hot billionaire bosses wouldn't look twice at me. I assumed the same. But when I meet the big alphas running Dacian Enterprises, we're all in for a shock. Their eyes turn silver the moment they take me in, looking for all the world like the big bad wolves that want to eat me up. One of them already has—a Howlr hookup that I ghosted after the hottest night of my life.

In What God Has to Say about Our Bodies, Sam Allberry explains that all of us are fearfully and wonderfully made, and should regard our physicality as a gift. He offers biblical guidance for living, including understanding gender, sexuality, and identity; dealing with aging, illness, and death; and considering the physical future hope that we have in Christ.

Annie’s life looks perfect on the surface. Peaceful mornings in her beautiful tumbledown cottage, working from home while looking out over the daisies in the bottom of the garden. But there’s a reason Annie never ventures into town, a secret she’s hiding about where she’s from. A secret...

Max is living the screenwriter dream. He's not even thirty, he's just won an Oscar, and he's dating the gorgeous star of his movie. But after that one magical night, everything crumbles. The movie star dumps him, and his latest screenplay is a blank document that stubbornly refuses to write itself. So Max decides to disappear into the middle of nowhere and maybe obscurity. He's just getting settled into his new life when suddenly someone is trying to kill him.

Der junge Ritter Otto von Linn ringt mit der Last der Führung, der Knappe Wenzel mit der Angst auf dem Schlachtfeld und die Novizin Magdalena mit ihrer Berufung und ihren Sehnsüchten, die ihr Leben in eine völlig andere Richtung lenken könnten. Eine Todesprophezeiung und ein Mordanschlag vergiften das kaiserliche Lager. Zwischen Wahrheit und Verrat weiß bald niemand mehr, wem er den Rücken zukehren darf. Hunger, Hitze und Seldschuken fordern zahllose Opfer. Ein Triumph lässt Hoffnung aufglimmen. Kurz. Dann kommt der Tag, der alles nimmt.

The traits that make Sam Zell one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs also make him one of the most surprising, enigmatic, and entertaining mavericks in American business. Self-made billionaire Sam Zell consistently sees what others don’t. From finding a market for overpriced...

Poppy had always loved the night, so it wasn't too much of a bother to wake one evening in an unfamiliar home far from London, weak and confused and plagued with a terrible thirst for blood, to learn that she could no longer step out into the day. And while vampirism presented several disadvantages, it more than made up for those in its benefits: immortality, a body that could run at speed for hours without tiring, the thrill of becoming a predator, the thing that pulls rabbits from bushes and tears through their fur and flesh with the sharp point of a white fang.

Max has settled nicely into life in Welling. He's got the best boyfriend ever born and a life he never imagined he could have. He's also written his new screenplay, and the hottest director in Hollywood has snapped it up enthusiastically. Things take a turn for the worse when one of the actors is murdered, and the best suspects are Max, his family, and his houseguests. The sheriff is no help at all, so Max needs to discover who the killer is before someone ends up behind bars.

Este libro está diseñado para el profesional moderno que reconoce que la IA no está aquí para reemplazar la experiencia humana, sino para amplificarla. Ya sea que sea un CEO que busca optimizar la toma de decisiones, un consultor que busca mejorar los resultados de los clientes o un empresario que construye la próxima gran cosa, Claude puede servir como su socio inteligente para lograr el éxito profesional.

Life’s tough when you’re trapped in an eight-year-old body on another world. His name is Eight. Not really, but that’s what the System decided after a slip of the tongue. One moment, he was stepping out the office door on the way home, and the next waking up on a hillside below a town wall. Oh, and the gate guard drove him off, because he thought Eight was a monster. What’s a boy to do in a world full of magic and so many, many hungry creatures searching for their next meal? Well, there’s an old man inside that body, and he'll use everything he’s learned to survive.

The prospect of Irish unification is now stronger than at any point since partition in 1921. Voters on both sides of the Irish border may soon have to confront for themselves what the answer to a referendum question would mean - for themselves, for their neighbours, and for their society. O'Toole and McBride each argue the case for and against unity, questioning received wisdom and bringing fresh thinking to one of Ireland's most intractable questions.