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Ever wonder what the possible outcomes of meditating are? Some of the answers can only be found within…

A coming of age story for aspiring celebrities. This audiobook has a positive narrative and brings Nature to life through a detailed account of wonderful trees and their special properties.

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Inspired by a tragically true story, homicide Detective Sergeant Kiki Diaz gets the call early one morning to respond to the McLean District Sub Station where two of her fellow Fairfax County Police officers have been shot and killed in the lobby by a gunman who fled. Paired with her partner, the salty veteran detective Bob Craig, the two start with victimology, motive, and physical evidence. Nothing jumps out at them quickly except this one is going to take time.

Brought to you by Penguin. A revelatory account of the racist conspiracy theory behind the global rise of authoritarian politics – from the prize-winning historian and number-one-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi. Throughout the world, authoritarian movements are...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The acclaimed author of How to Be an Antiracist and the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has become a dominant political idea of our time and ushered in an antidemocratic age. “Kendi argues brilliantly...

Los nuevos poemas de la ganadora de la primera edición del Premio ESPASAesPOESÍA. En sus poemas, como nos tiene acostumbrados, Irene X enseña un universo tan salvaje como íntimo; su mirada, que no claudica ante la vorágine de la realidad, cuenta sus secretos y sus miedos, sus pasiones y...

Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an alternate dimension she refers to as the “spirit realm.” In this other place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States. Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel, Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city.

On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer, brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. He shows that big games have a trickster figure and a master of Black talk whose commentary interprets the game for audiences. The beats of hip-hop and reggae make up the soundtrack, and the ballplayers are half men, half heroes, defying the ghetto's limitations with their flights to the basket.

El concepto de raza siempre se ha utilizado para ganar y mantener el poder, para crear dinámicas que separan y silencian. Esta notable adaptación del libro Stamped from the Beginning, del Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, ganador del National Book Award, revela la historia de las ideas racistas en Estados Unidos y nos inspira a construir un futuro antirracista.

Hector has always minded his own business, working hard to make his way to a better life someday. He's the chess team champion, helps the family with his job at the grocery, and teaches his little sister to shoot hoops overhand. Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother, Chavo, is head of the Discípulos gang, tells Hector that he's going to kill him: maybe not today, or tomorrow, but someday. And Hector, frozen with fear, does nothing. From that day forward, Hector's death is hanging over his head every time he leaves the house.

Tras la elección de Barack Obama, muchos declararon el inicio de una era postracial. Sin embargo, el pensamiento racista, más sofisticado e insidioso que nunca, sigue profundamente arraigado en la sociedad estadounidense. Tal y como argumenta Ibram X. Kendi-la voz más influyente de la lucha antirracista y uno de los referentes actuales del movimiento #BlackLivesMatter-,aunque las ideas racistas se desarrollan, difunden y consagran muy fácilmente, también se las puede desacreditar.

Chi sono gli scienziati che hanno rivoluzionato la storia dell'umanità? Erano davvero dei "geni"? Barbascura X non ha dubbi al riguardo: non solo non lo erano, ma a ben vedere erano anche degli idioti. Pochi sanno delle boiate dette da Democrito, delle folli pratiche alchemiche di Newton, di quante idee si sia fatto fregare quel sociopatico di Tesla o di quanti sbagli abbia commesso Einstein. Quelli che definiamo geni non sono altro che esseri umani appassionati, instancabili ricercatori di conoscenza, con alle spalle un quantitativo inimmaginabile di errori.

'Of a piece with Stephen King's The Stand' Independent 'Lee Child channelling Stephen King - but the vision is unique and, against all the odds, the humanity of the survivors shines through the gloom' Daily Mail --- There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who hear voices, and those...

Time is running out for Dane, Sean, and the Circle to stop the cultists’ dark god from awakening. The cult leader is Michael Branish, Sean’s old boss and nemesis, who still wants to possess Sean in all ways. Branish’s claws dig deep into the city’s police department, and Sean and Dane’s small Circle is the only thing standing in the way of darkness descending.

Welchen Wert hat Weihnachten im 21. Jahrhundert? Diese Frage stellt das musikalisch-textliche Werk "Vergessene Weihnacht", das aus einem Weihnachtsmärchen und weitgehend vergessenen, neu arrangierten Weihnachtsliedern besteht. Sterzl - so der Name des Protagonisten - tritt im Jahre 1000 zum ersten Mal aus seinem heimeligen Wappen. Es beginnt die eindrucksvolle Zeitreise des Sterzl durch ein ganzes Jahrtausend. Fremde Länder, unbekannte Töne und geistreiche Worte begegnen ihm.

When Zorka Circus performs, its big top roars with laughter and cheers, but when it moves on, children vanish from the European towns it leaves behind. Circus security chief Rurik suspects a killer hides among the international performers, but they close ranks - they've always viewed lightning-scarred Rurik as the monster. Nevertheless, he's determined to find the culprit and stop them before anyone else dies and the only place he can call home is ripped apart by the murders.

Hunted by G. X. Todd is the second novel in the Voices series. The battle between Good and Evil continues to play out in a world where the Voice in your head can save or slaughter you. A must-listen for fans of Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. The birds are flying. The birds are flocking. The birds know where to find her. One man is driven by a Voice that isn't his. It's killing his sanity and wrestling with it over and over like a jackal with a bone. He has one goal. To find the girl with a Voice like his own.

The first time Jamie meets Jim, she is a graduate student, and he is a dashing young man embarking on a successful career in pharmaceutical research. They cultivate a mutual affection for each other while pursuing different goals in life. When Jamie meets Jim again years later, she has broken up with her long-time boyfriend, and he is having marital problems. A one-night stand in a remote hotel turns their friendship into a two-decade long love affair. When their liaison becomes too difficult to sustain, it brings a crisis to its head.

A teenager returns home from school to find a gruesome scene: the apartment he shares with his mother in Boston's Chinatown has been ransacked, and she is dead. There is a bottle of Moutai, the most exotic and expensive Chinese liquor, left at the scene and traces of rat poison in one of the two shot glasses on the kitchen counter. This was evidently a homicide, but who could possibly be the killer?