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In Inadvertent, internationally best-selling author Karl Ove Knausgaard reveals his beginnings as a writer and his literary influences, as well as his creative development and his struggles. But this audiobook is more than a window into the writer's frame of mind. It's also a glimmering meditation on literature and creativity - on its limitations and its freedoms.

It should have never happened. But it did. It should have been left alone. But it wasn’t. No one should have gone in. But someone did.

As an Afghan girl, Zarifa Adiba has big, unfathomable dreams. Her family is poor, her country mired in conflict. Walking to school in Kabul, Zarifa has to navigate suicide bombers. But Zarifa perseveres, nurturing her passion for music despite its “sinful” nature under Taliban law. At sixteen, she gains admission to the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, and at eighteen she becomes the lead violist, conductor, and spokesperson for Zohra, the first all-female orchestra in the Muslim world.

La enfermera Alyssa Cappellucci no necesita más fetiches. De hecho, con su favorito le basta: no hay nada como los hombres enmascarados a los que sigue online. Y, aunque a menudo fantasea con encontrarse a uno esperándola en su dormitorio, jamás se habría imaginado que bastaría un mensaje para hacerlo realidad. Joshua Hammond se ha pasado la vida escondiéndose, pero su identidad en redes es otra cosa: allí se pone una máscara y publica vídeos para sus millones de fans. Sin embargo, una seguidora en particular le ha llamado la atención: Aly.

Cuando Maeve desaparece sin dejar rastro, su hija Sloane no se sorprende: si su madre tenía que desaparecer, solo podía ser en extrañas circunstancias. Sin embargo, esta vez es distinto: al cabo de unos días de la desaparición de su progenitora, Sloane recibe un paquete que esta misma le ha mandado, con varios miles de dólares, la escritura de su casa y un arma. También hay una nota con las siguientes palabras: Vén delo todo. Quédate la pistola. Practica. Huye. Ahora.

I used to be the greatest Earth Mage in my world. The head of the entire Order of Architects. But the older you get, the more you come to realize that at some point, you need to retire, so that you can have the chance to enjoy a peaceful life and to cede your place to the young, some of whom have already turned two thousand years old . . .So that's what I did. But I failed to account for one thing: during the course of my long life, I'd accumulated too many enemies, and they had decided to spoil my retirement. So they died along with me. And I hope their deaths were final. But mine was not!

Things haven't gone so well for Ulysses, Cassie, and Professor Castillo since their return from the Amazon jungle. The story of their adventures in the Black City is so unbelievable that they're reviled by the public and branded as frauds, turning what should have been a great triumph for them into a dramatic setback. In order to prove they're telling the truth and get their lives back, Ulysses and his two companions are forced to embark on a new journey into the unknown in search of irrefutable evidence that will corroborate their story.

Reporter Kate Kilroy accepts an assignment to travel on the Valkyrie, a German ship veiled in secrecy for decades after it was discovered adrift in 1939 with only one passenger aboard, a baby boy named Isaac Feldman. Obsessed with understanding his origins, Feldman has spent a small fortune restoring the Valkyrie to try to solve the mystery. Assembling a team of experts and sparing no expense, he aims to precisely recreate the circumstances of the Valkyrie's doomed final voyage.

For more than four decades, Bernard-Henri Lévy has been a singular figure on the world stage - one of the great moral voices of our time. Now Europe's foremost philosopher and activist confronts his spiritual roots and the religion that has always inspired and shaped him - but that he has never fully reckoned with. The Genius of Judaism is a breathtaking new vision and understanding of what it means to be a Jew, a vision quite different from the one we're used to.

Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami (The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of 10 remarkable women who have loved him. Each woman has succumbed, even if only for an hour, to that seductive, imprudent, and furtively feline man who drifted so naturally into their lives. Still clinging to the vivid memory of his warm breath and his indecipherable sentences, 10 women tell their stories as they attempt to recreate the image of the unfathomable Nishino.

Kazu knows something odd is going on when he sees a girl in a white kimono sneak out of his house in the middle of the night - was he dreaming? Did he see a ghost? Things get even stranger when he shows up to school the next day to see the very same figure sitting in his classroom. No one else thinks it’s weird, and even though Kazu doesn’t remember ever seeing her before, they all seem convinced that the ghost-girl Akari has been their friend for years!

A mad priest, a vagabond playwright, a social-climbing soldier, and a deformed bell-ringer—all are captivated by a gypsy girl's beauty and charm. Two of them will betray her, but the others will remain loyal, even in the shadow of the gallows. These outlaws find sanctuary within the walls of medieval Paris' greatest monument, the grand Cathedral of Notre Dame.

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.

¿Qué harías si estuvieras sentado en silencio en tu sala y una misteriosa pareja surgiera de la nada, y luego te dijera que son "maestros ascendidos", que han venido a revelar algunos impactantes secretos de la existencia y a enseñarte los poderes milagrosos del verdadero perdón? Cuando dos maestros así se presentaron ante Gary Renard en 1992, él decidió escucharlos (y formular un montón de preguntas impertinentes).

Thanks to the silversmith Fran, Lawrence now has a map of the North. But Lawrence's gladness at the thought of finally being able to take Holo back to her home is short-lived, as upon revisiting Lenos he is embroiled in the strife surrounding a forbidden text. It is said that this mysterious book contains details of methods that threaten the land of Yoitsu itself. But in trying to get his hands on the book, Lawrence, who must return to the marketplace, finds himself running out of time to head for Yoitsu with Holo.

Faye Adelheim is living a delicious lie. She is wealthy beyond imagination, she is the Chairman of her self-made global cosmetics brand, and her ex-husband, the monster who killed her beloved daughter Julienne, is living out the remainder of his days behind bars. But unbeknownst to journalists, police officers, and investors, and even the lovers she occasionally invites to her bed, Faye has a secret: her daughter is, in fact, alive and well and so is her mother, the woman Faye’s father was sentenced for allegedly killing years ago.

En Japón, los gatos son símbolo de buena suerte y dicen que, si eres amable con ellos, algún día te devolverán el favor. Pero resulta que si, además, te portas bien con el felino adecuado, puede que este te invite a entrar a una cafetería que no es como las demás, ya que no tiene una ubicación ni un horario fijo y se muestra solo a las personas que se encuentran en un momento crucial.

Life in the Great Pulha Woodlands is the very definition of stillness and tranquility—and Acer's had enough of it! That's right. Acer isn't quite like the other high elves of the forest. For starters, he remembers living a past life as a human in another world . . . meaning he's got a taste for meat, adventure, and plenty of other decidedly un-elven things! He's also bored out of his skull after 120 years of the peace and quiet of their serene sylvan lifestyle.

Hace quince años, Mitch McDeere esquivó a la muerte. Y a la mafia. Tras hacerse con diez millones de dólares y desaparecer, vio cómo sus enemigos acababan en la cárcel o en la tumba. Ahora Mitch y su mujer, Abby, viven en Manhattan, donde él se ha abierto camino hasta convertirse en socio del bufete más importante del mundo.

Publicada en 1901, Los Buddenbrook narra la decadencia de una familia burguesa alemana a lo largo del siglo XIX. En un gran fresco que va desde 1835, cuando aún se recordaban las guerras napoleónicas, hasta 1877, poco antes de la fundación del Imperio Alemán, Mann no solo captura un descenso social, sino también las fuerzas históricas que trastocaron la existencia decimonónica y alumbraron las incertidumbres de los tiempos modernos. Basada en su propia novela familiar, la historia anuncia además temas esenciales de su obra posterior.