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Daniel Ponce de Leon's hard-fought journey to Major League Baseball and recovery from a near-death injury, followed by his astonishing big league debut, will inspire listeners to trust God in all circumstances.

Tres grandes poetas de América, Neruda, León de Greiff y Silva (leídos por ellos mismos) se reúnen en esta antología única, que permite apreciar matices incluso desconocidos de la obra de ellos. Este audiolibro se agrega a la serie de poemas leídos, con nombres atractivos e indispensables para los amantes de la poesía.

Billionaire CEO Vitaly Chekov needs a new secretary. As he interviews potential intern candidates, one particular blonde woman catches his eye. At first glance, he knows he must hire her for his personal pleasure. Upon meeting Vitaly, Sarah tries to keep things professional. But when an after-hours meeting turns into a passionate encounter, things get complicated....

Command next - einige Jahre später. Thomas Koch hat seine Ghostbox im Labor der Heidelberger Uniklinik zerstört und ist in China untergetaucht. Dort forscht er im Auftrag eines Start-Ups weiter an seiner Technik: Ein virtueller Friedhof soll es Hinterbliebenen ermöglichen, ihre Verstorbenen zu besuchen. Doch bei den Probanden tauchen plötzlich gefährliche Nebenwirkungen auf, die sich wie ein tödlicher Virus verbreiten. Thomas möchte das Projekt sofort stoppen, aber es ist zu spät. Seine Auftraggeber haben ihn hintergangen und die Technik schon in die ganze Welt verkauft.

In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession - eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second child, and make it his mission to help the museum become a reality.

FINALIST! in 2018 Romantic Novel Awards: Lady Gwendolen Ashworth is an outspoken young woman, with strong opinions on social justice and a cynical view about marriage, which she eschews. She is an embarrassment to her brother, the Earl of Middleton, who is disappointed that none of the eligible young men in Regency society seem willing to take her off his hands. When one of his stable-hands is arrested, Gwendolen secretly hires the handsome Sir Thomas Carnforth, a highly successful barrister with a mysterious past, to defend the boy. This unleashes a chain of events Gwendolen did not ...

Emerson Isles has come a long way in a short time and is now one of television's highest paid actresses. Loved by her fans and the industry, Emerson was enjoying her success until a "friend" from her past threatens to expose a secret they share. Determined to protect the innocent, Emerson didn't expect to fall for stuntman Jacobi Janssen along the way. A good man who had no idea how their worlds really connected.

Oregon, 1983 - nach einer grausamen Serie mysteriöser Morde scheint in dem kleinen Küstenstädtchen Harmony Bay endlich wieder Normalität einzukehren. Zumindest, wenn es nach Bürgermeister White geht. Doch Deputy Landers traut dem Frieden nicht, denn zu viele Fragen sind noch immer ungeklärt: Warum und wohin sind Sheriff Cody und seine beiden Kinder verschwunden? Wieso war die Regierung hinter dem Nachtmahr her? Was hat es mit dem ominösen Manila Club auf sich?

Charlotte Milford is passionate for justice. It’s twenty-five years since her father died in mysterious circumstances at an army base in India, her whole lifetime. Determined to discover what actually happened, she sets out on a journey that will place her in considerable danger. It will also throw her in the path of Ingram Sinclair, a cynical undercover army major who thinks Charlotte would be better to keep her mouth shut and go home. She has other ideas… This is the third of Ms Fisher’s Victorian stories based on society scandals of the time (the first two being Fair Play & Foul ...

"Hadjí Murat" es una novela histórica escrita de primera mano, ya que Tolstói conoció a algunos de sus protagonistas durante su permanencia en el Cáucaso. La acción transcurre en torno a 1850, bajo el reinado del zar Nicolás I, que se caracterizó por llevar a cabo una política expansionista y de absolutismo represivo. De hecho, el retrato que del zar se hace en la obra nos le describe como un hombre arbitrario, poco justo y demasiado orgulloso.

Wer Mensch sein will, muss fühlen. Der Psychologe Leon Windscheid begibt sich auf eine bewegende Reise durch unser Innenleben. Gefühle bestimmen unser Leben, und doch wissen wir wenig über sie. Windscheid geht den Fragen nach, ob Angst auch eine gute Seite hat, ob es die ewige Liebe gibt, und wofür wir eigentlich Langeweile brauchen? Er zeigt, was gerade so starke Emotionen wie Trauer und Wut besonders wertvoll macht und wie sie uns als Menschen helfen. Am Ende gewinnen wir ein neues Verständnis von uns selbst und verstehen, wieso Fühlen unsere größte Stärke sein kann.

This is Leon Malmed's true story of his and his sister Rachel's escape from the Holocaust in Occupied France. When their father and mother were arrested in 1942, their French neighbors agreed to watch their children until they returned. Leon's parents were taken first to Drancy, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and they never returned.

Anna Karénine est une jeune femme mariée à Alexis Karénine et mère d'un jeune garçon. Elle se rend à Moscou chez son frère Stiva Oblonski. En descendant du train, elle croise le comte Vronski. Anna tombe amoureuse de Vronski, cet officier brillant, mais frivole. Elle lutte contre cette passion et finit pourtant par s'abandonner avec un bonheur coupable. Puis Anna tombe enceinte. Elle décide d'avouer son infidélité à son mari.

When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when she is found murdered, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is suddenly no longer simply Paola's student, but Brunetti's case ...

In this book author Leon James argues that the First Advent was accomplished by Jehovah Himself, the God of the Old Testament, Who incarnated physically as Jesus, becoming God’s Divine Human of the New Testament, and that the Second Advent was a mental Advent that took place in the 18th century in the Writings of Swedenborg. These prophetical Writings constitute the Third Testament that reveals the inner spiritual sense of the Old and New Testaments. From then on, every person of all religions is admitted into heaven following the three-day dying-resuscitation procedure of the afterlife ...

Over ten years have passed since Joanna fled her Yorkshire home in distress and shame. Now aged twenty-eight, she is established in London society. But she also has a secret life known to few. How unfortunate that she should come to the notice of Detective Inspector Matthew Harcourt, a senior member of the Metropolitan Police Detective Branch. His all-seeing eyes miss nothing. How long can she deceive him as to her real identity? If he discovers the truth, her work is over, along with her means of support and her claims on the neat Georgian house that is her home. When he commissions her to...

Lo inesperado las condujo a lo eterno. Isabela ha decidido cerrar el capítulo de su pasado, llevándose consigo el dolor que ha dejado en su corazón. Convencida de que no permitirá que nadie más juegue con sus sentimientos, se adentra en un camino marcado por la amargura, el despecho y la vergüenza. Sin embargo, una sorprendente proposición llega justo a tiempo para ofrecerle una salida inesperada. Una oportunidad que podría sanar las heridas de su corazón. Aunque incrédula y desconfiada, las circunstancias la obligan a convertirse en la protagonista de una serie de eventos ...

A marte en virgo Una docena de atajos para llegar al único destino. Mía Simón está por cumplir sus 34 años. En un poco más de tres décadas de existencia, conoció la pérdida, el desamor, la nostalgia y aún conserva a una amiga a la que conoce demasiado bien: La Soledad. Cuando siente que una ilusión ha llegado a su vida para cobijarle el corazón y mostrarle de nuevo el sendero del amor, una premonición podría cambiarlo todo: una carta, un signo, un ciclo solar que traerá sorpresas, con la promesa de que se avecina un cambio trascendental en su solitaria existencia. Hechizos; ...

¿Qué tan lejos irías por un sentimiento? ¿Prometerías amar por siempre? ¿Y qué harías si la vida te empuja a romper con ese acuerdo? Una noticia devastadora. La necesidad de transformar la realidad para estar a gusto con ella. La llegada de alguien que amenaza con ponerlo todo de cabeza... ¿Cómo pueden cada una de estas situaciones tejerse entre sí para llevarnos, a su vez, a una verdadera madeja de historias y sentimientos? En esta novela sáfica contemporánea, la vida nos va llevando de la mano por caminos que parecen flanqueados por ortigas, sin imaginar que más allá de las...

Learn the art of Jujitsu, a family of Japanese martial arts that includes throws holds and paralyzing attacks against the enemy.