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Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo y Diesel: los Víboras. Controlan la ciudad y todo el mundo lo sabe. Sus pactos son tan sórdidos como el resto de su actividad criminal, y les basta con la reputación que los precede para que hasta el más valiente se ponga de rodillas y suplique clemencia. Nadie se atreve a contrariarlos, pero mi padre lo hizo. El viejo se armó una deuda con ellos y me vendió para compensar lo que había perdido. Sí. Me vendió. Ahora les pertenezco.

They run this town and everyone in it. Ryder, Garrett, Kenzo, and Diesel - The Vipers. Their deals are as sordid as their business, and their reputation is enough to bring a grown man to his knees, forcing him to beg for mercy. They are not people you mess with, yet my dad did. The old man ran...

Phil Knight, director general de Nike, nos cuenta por primera vez la auténtica historia detrás de la empresa que fundó en 1962, que hoy en día factura más de 30.000 millones de dólares al año, y cuyo logo ha llegado a ser un símbolo global, el icono más ubicuo y reconocido en todo el mundo.

Cinco viejos amigos se reúnen en una idílica casa a orillas del río para celebrar una fiesta en honor a Henry, su antiguo compañero de la universidad, fallecido durante aquellos años. Caro, la anfitriona, es tan perfecta como siempre. Tímida y torpe, Lily es ahora una autora de bestsellers. A George, el rey del deporte, le encanta su nueva faceta como padre. Travis, el chico malo, encuentra una vía de escape en la meditación. Y Elle, la alternativa del grupo, sigue metiéndose en todo. Distanciados durante años, con la ayuda de varios martinis comienzan a recordar los viejos tiempos.

In the third installment of the Grace “the Hit Mom” Mysteries, a field trip to the New Haven Aquarium ends in disaster when a creepy chaperone falls to his death in the beluga whale tank… when Grace was the one who was supposed to kill him. Per usual, Grace Adair is juggling it all—being a full-time mom, part-time lawyer, freelance editor, divinely-contracted assassin—and now, school chaperone. Her son’s field trip to the local aquarium takes a dive when Eric Egan, a district curriculum administrator, is unceremoniously thrown off the aquarium’s Sea Otter Express into the beluga whale tank.

Hit Mom Grace Adair returns to court to help her lawyer husband Michael defend Sherri Romano, the widow and accused killer of Nicky the Used Car Czar. When Michael introduces Grace to their new client, Sherri, and her purse dog, Precious, Grace is less than thrilled to be working with a "Karen at volume eleven." But that bad feeling immediately gets worse when Grace recognizes the name of Sherri’s first husband… because Grace killed him.

I've been pretending so long, I almost forgot what I was hiding from. Seven years ago, my parents handed me a bottle of suppressants and told me a comfortable lie: Being a Beta is easier, sweetheart. No one needs to know. So I swallowed the pills. Buried the Omega. Built a life in my small...

When university student Amelia and her best friend Lucas travel to a remote Scottish cabin to search for their missing professor, they expect loneliness. They don't expect the suffocating silence, the blood on the floor, or the way the forest seems to breathe. Something is watching them from the shadows, something that wears their faces and waits in a glassy black lake that shouldn't exist. As Professor Anderson's diary unravels a descent into madness, the line between reality and nightmare dissolves. Tapping at the windows grows louder. Reflections twist into grinning, inhuman masks.

A wounded warrior. A defiant lady. And a traitor who could destroy Scotland from within. Lachlan MacLeod, known across the Highlands as the Wolf of Skye, has built his reputation on loyalty, discipline, and ruthless skill in battle. Fiercely devoted to Robert the Bruce and feared by enemies...

They broke out for me. Now the past is no longer our biggest threat… the future is. Wren I thought escaping would be the hardest part, but the world outside those walls is more dangerous than I ever imagined. The men who once existed only in my letters are now the center of every heartbeat I...

Sweet artist omega Bailey-Rose is dumped by the only man she thought would love her because of her congenital heart condition. Cut off from being able to participate in the national Scent Matching services Bailey-Rose has decided she will be single for life. In a surprising turn of events, who should show up in the middle of her pity party but her brother's best friend? Unbeknownst to her, Ulysses has moved back to town after years of traveling for work. Not only is Bailey-Rose stunned to find him in her room looking like a broken-hearted trash panda—but discovers they are a scent-match.

Recently graduated at twenty-six, and two months behind on rent, Oliver Barnes is desperate. So desperate, in fact, that he applies for a job in the Greed district of Hell's Pentagram. But when he misses his train and, subsequently, his job interview, he stumbles, instead, upon a strange little coffee shop in the middle of Purgatory's barren desert—and into an unexpected opportunity. It isn't the job he came to Hell for, but maybe it's exactly the job he needs.

At twenty-four, Cody has already lost hope of having a life of his own. All his time is spent playing nurse to a dying, spiteful stepfather and maid to his bully half-brother. His only escapes are playing his favorite online fantasy game, Black Oasis, and talking to the strange, unearthly presence under his bed that may or may not actually exist. Everything changes when his nightly visitor, who introduces himself as Nor, starts talking back. As their connection deepens, Nor invites Cody into the surreal world existing just beyond his nightmares.

For fifteen years, Darla has been stranded alone on a deserted island. When three strange men crash-land there, she watches from the trees, terrified they'll be just as cruel as the last men who came. But these men are different. They laugh, they share, they're kind to the wildlife. And despite every instinct telling her to stay hidden, Darla finds herself drawn to them. She begins helping in secret, leaving food and small gifts, until the line between fear and curiosity begins to blur. When she must choose between staying hidden and saving their lives, the answer is clear. 

De la autora que ayudó a 65.000 lectores en México a arreglar su desmadre y a relajarse un chingo. Basta de quedar bien con todos menos contigo. Alguna vez aceptaste la invitación a un evento al que no querías ir? ¿Compraste algo que no necesitabas solo porque no pudiste negarte? ¿Estás...

Since its release in 2006, Financial Intelligence has become a favorite among managers who need a guided tour through the numbers, helping them to understand not only what the numbers really mean but also why they matter. This new, completely updated edition brings the numbers up to date and continues to teach the basics of finance to managers who need to use financial data to drive their business.

I thought I had the upper hand, but I was wrong. From the moment he saw me, this god was determined to make me his… but his life is filled with death and is no place for the living. Trying to survive his world might just turn me into one of the lost souls that surround him. But I have my own secrets, my own past. What happens when a god and a mistake meet? What happens when neither will back down?

Bailey-Rose once believed she would forever be alone, packless, and seen as broken… but all that's changed. Randall, Bailey-Rose's ex-boyfriend, tries to steal her away but only ends up sending her to the hospital in need of life-saving surgery. While the situation was dire, the outcome has given Bailey-Rose a second chance to grab life by the horns and experience what it truly means to be an Omega. Her new lease on life is bittersweet as Randall is still eluding police, leaving her on edge.

My father is a genius. A scientist determined to unlock human potential. Only his experiments? He conducted them on me. I managed to escape his cruel, painful control, and for years I hid. Until one day, news comes of his death. Along with the fact his experiments are still being carried out. This time I cannot run, I cannot hide. I must stop them once and for all. He thought he was invincible…. but me? I'm unstoppable.

Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean, Karen Berman and Joe Knight present the essentials of finance specifically for entrepreneurial managers. Drawing on their work training tens of thousands of people at leading organizations worldwide, the authors provide a deep understanding of the basics of financial management and measurement, along with hands-on activities to practice what you are learning.