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For nearly a century, the Rikers Island jail complex has stood on a 413-acre manmade island in the East River of New York. Today it is the largest correctional facility in the city, housing eight active jails and thousands of incarcerated individuals who have not yet been tried. It is also one of the most controversial and notorious jails in America. Part on-the-ground reporting, part deep social and architectural history, These Walls is an eye-opening look at Rikers Island and the American justice system—and a challenge to our long-held beliefs about what constitutes power and justice.

She’s my sworn enemy. And she just totaled my motorcycle in the middle of a record-breaking blizzard. Now I’m snowbound in a freezing cave with none other than Ruby, the protected princess of the Silver Dawn pack. She’s also sassy, sexy, and an assault on my senses. Being trapped with her is dangerous in ways I don’t know how to fight. Turns out, it’s an attraction neither of us can deny. Except those stolen hours can be nothing but a momentary lapse. Pups are going missing. Livestock is being slaughtered. The trail of death and destruction must be stopped. As a tracker, I’ll ...

When Lois Grover moves into the Beacon of Hope Assisted Living Center, she fears boredom will consume her, but a fellow resident soon invites her to a secret meeting of the Twilight Society. This quirky group of elderly residents, with a variety of skills, talents, and expertise, helps lost souls, tethered to the world of the living, by solving the mysteries keeping them from moving on. The center itself—a historic colonial mansion that has functioned as a hospital, a school, and a sanitarium—possesses mysteries of its own that both help and hinder the society's investigations.

After her mother’s death, Eva Taylor discovered an astounding collection of documents, photos and letters from her time as a resistance fighter in Nazi-occupied Holland. Using the letters, she reconstructed her mother's experience in the underground resistance movement and then as a prisoner in the Amersfoort, Ravensbruck and Mauthausen concentration camps.

Aurora Williams trabaja hace un año como criada en el castillo McCord. Sus días son un tormento al servicio de lady Siena, la antipática heredera del castillo.Todo cambiará cuando el señor regrese a sus tierras. Keitan McCord, conde del castillo, vuelve después de años de ausencia. Un hombre misterioso que hará temblar a Aurora con su exquisita presencia. Peligroso y atractivo, tentador y justiciero; Keitan esconde también un secreto que puede ser mortal: Desciende de un antiguo linaje de criaturas inmortales y monstruosas. Una gárgola. ¿Podrán Aurora y Keitan ser felices? ¿...

Just when it seemed I'd overcome the biggest obstacles my fae mates and I could face, I find myself in the hands of their greatest enemies. Enemies who have more power than we ever imagined. I have to escape, and not just to warn the men I love and defend the home I've made with them. The longer I remain, the more these villains can use me to destroy everything I care about. If I fail now, the entire faerie world will crumble. I don't know if I can do it alone — but where will I find an ally among the cruelest of the fae?

Adjusting to life in peacetime isn’t easy for Major Duncan McCameron. Escorting a lady on her journey north seems like the perfect chance to give him some much-needed purpose. That is, until he learns the woman in question is the beautiful, bold, reckless Lady Farris. She makes his head spin, and being alone together will surely end in disaster. Beatrice, the dowager countess of Farris, is finally free of a stifling marriage, and she has no plans to shackle herself to any other man.

Jessica McGale’s family business desperately needs investors, and she’s determined to succeed at any cost. But she knows London’s elite will never look twice at a humble farm girl like herself. Posing as “Lady Whitfield”, however, places her in the orbit of wealthy, powerful people - most notably the duke of Rotherby. His influence and support could save her company, but Jess never expected the effect he’d have on her.

Award-winning long-form journalist Eva Holland had always felt that her deepest fear was the death of a loved one. When her mother suddenly passes away, she’s sent spiraling into an odyssey of confronting fear itself. Along with investigating the science of fear, Holland uses herself as a test subject, jumping out of airplanes, rock climbing, and delving into her fears of loss to better understand what her research in the science, medicine, and history of fear reveals.

Banished from Mount Olympus, Dionysus wanders the earth until he finds solace in a magical vineyard on Naxos. Heartbroken by Ariadne, he immerses himself in wine and dancing, inadvertently creating a band of bloodthirsty companions and becoming the lord of the vampires. His hopes of using this new purpose as a means for respect is dashed when the vampires destroy Athens and become the scourge of the human race. Dionysus neglects the vampires and spends his time drowning his sorrows with wine and dancing until.

Nothing’s more magical than going down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass with Alice. There, in worlds unlike any other ever created, conventional logic is turned upside down and wrong-way round to enchanting effect. Children will love listening to Carroll’s many humorous nonsense verses and meeting such unforgettable characters as the Mad Hatter, the Knave of Hearts who steals some tarts, and the grinning Cheshire Cat (in Alice in Wonderland) and Tweedledee, Tweedledum, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwock (in Through the Looking Glass).

In 2008, after recovering from a few years of hard drinking and harder drug use, after building back up a life as a successful and happy New York writer, Eva Hagberg woke up dizzy. She spent the next five years searching for a diagnosis, a treatment, and most of all an answer. In February 2013, an MRI revealed a mass in her brain. A blood test revealed an elevated tumor marker: A sign of cancer. And that’s when the second journey started - one grounded in physiology, in steadily rising marker numbers, and in the brutal invasion of a brain biopsy.

1890. Bastian y Hugo Fortuny parten a Tahití en busca de una oportunidad después de perder su trabajo como sopladores de vidrio en su Mallorca natal. Durante la travesía conocen a Laia Kane, la hija de un cónsul inglés corrupto en Menorca al que han desterrado a la isla de la Polinesia. Este encuentro marcará la vida de los hermanos Fortuny y de Laia para siempre.

Heckie is not just a witch. She's a good witch who wants to make the world a better place. So, with her Toe of Transformation and her Knuckle of Power she turns unpleasant people into animals. But to her surprise, Basil's parents want their son back.

Discover the secret to aging gracefully and regaining your vitality in just a few minutes a day, without leaving the comfort of your own home! Are you seeking a safe, gentle, and effective exercise form tailored for seniors? "Gentle Wall Pilates for Seniors: Building Strength and Flexibility for a Healthier Aging Process" is your go-to guide for embracing exercise in your senior years. Discover over 25 senior-specific exercises that enhance strength, flexibility, and balance, all while being low-impact and safe.

Christopher “Kit” Ellingsworth, war veteran and newly minted earl of Blakemere, buries his demons under every sort of pleasure and vice. His scandalous ways have all but emptied his coffers...until a wealthy mentor leaves him a sizable fortune. The only stipulation? He must marry within one month to inherit the money. Kit needs a bride, and the bold, mysterious Miss Tamsyn Pearce seems perfect.

With interviews, confessions and diary entries, three women reveal how good sex made them stupid.

Actress Glenn Close narrates this story, accompanied by original music by Mark Isham. The Emperor and his court in ancient China discover a little grey bird with an enchanting song. But when the Emperor is presented with a jewel-encrusted, artificial singing bird, he banishes the nightingale from his court. Years later, he realizes that the song of the real nightingale is the true treasure.

Under Platform 13 at Kings Cross Station there is a secret door that leads to a magical island. It appears only once every nine years. And when it opens, four mysterious figures step into the streets of London. A wizard, an ogre, a fey, and a young hag have come to find the prince of their kingdom, stolen as a baby nine years before.

El abogado Benjamin Booker ha cometido un error humillante... y se promete a sí mismo que no volverá a confiar en una mujer bonita. Que el socio senior del bufete en el que trabaja le proponga investigar el asesinato de su mejor amigo es la oportunidad que esperaba para dejar Londres. Durante la investigación, las pistas le llevan hasta una oscura isla del Támesis, rodeada de niebla y misterio. Allí, tropieza por segunda vez con la misma piedra: empieza a enamorarse de la principal sospechosa, una mujer que asegura no haber salido de la isla desde hace diez años...