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Dangerous sex, family secrets, irresistible power, mega money and two murders equal one reckless week in New York. Lovers and Players takes you on a high-powered trip from Park Avenue to Brooklyn. In Lovers and Players, the Diamond family's power extends from coast to coast. Max—a real estate tycoon; Chris—a Hollywood lawyer; and Jett—a handsome young ex-druggie, now a successful model in Italy, must finally come face to face with their tyrannical father, Red, who has been controlling their world for as long as they can remember.

A heartbreaking and darkly funny depiction of the intricacies of family, Unquiet is an elegy of memory and loss, identity and art, growing up and growing old. Linn Ullmann nimbly blends memoir and fiction in her most inventive novel yet, weaving a luminous meditation on language, mourning, and the many narratives that make up a life.

Ni testigos, ni pistas, ni cadáver. Josy, la hija de doce años del prestigioso psiquiatra Viktor Larenz, ha desaparecido en misteriosas circunstancias y nadie sabe qué ha sido de ella. Dos años más tarde, Viktor vive atormentado y recluido en la remota casa donde solía veranear. Pese a ello, ha conseguido llegar hasta él una bella desconocida que padece alucinaciones en las que ve a una niña que después desaparece sin dejar rastro, igual que Josy. Viktor acepta tratarla, pero la terapia se va convirtiendo a cada paso en un tenso interrogatorio.

Botulism, anthrax, smallpox, plague: as medical producer for television's highly-rated morning news program, Annabelle Murphy makes her living explaining horrific conditions to the nation. So when a KEY News colleague dies with symptoms terrifyingly similar to those of anthrax, she knows the panic spreading through the corridors of the Broadcast Center is justified. As one death follows another, Annabelle's co-workers look to her for assurance, but she finds it hard to give comfort. To her, the circumstances surrounding the infections suggest diabolical murders.

Fonolibro se enorgullece en presentar El Conde de Saint Germain de Conny Mendez, fue un enigmático personaje que ha sido descrito como cortesano, aventurero, inventor, alquimista, pianista, violinista y compositor aficionado, pero es mejor conocido como una figura recurrente en varias historias de temática ocultista.

Eliza Blake, host of the top-rated KEY News morning show, has witnessed tragedy and danger in her career. But nothing the accomplished professional has experienced has prepared her for when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is snatched from summer camp.

In Tough Cases, judges from different kinds of courts in different parts of the country write about the case that proved most difficult for them to decide. Some of these cases received international attention: the Elián González case in which Judge Jennifer Bailey had to decide whether to return a seven-year-old boy to his father in Cuba after his mother drowned trying to bring the child to the United States, or the Terri Schiavo case in which Judge George Greer had to decide whether to withdraw life support from a woman in a vegetative state over the wishes of her parents.

As a biomedical sciences student, Isabel Brown never anticipated finding herself immersed in a world of leftism, silenced by the thought police, and afraid to speak up for conservative values, but this is the reality that defined her college experience. Isabel's story is a compelling memoir about the current state of affairs on America's college campuses - unveiling the truth that university administrators don't want you to hear - and a reminder of the need for true ideological diversity.

Eliza Blake, veteran of the morning show and now the anchor of the KEY Evening Headlines is suddenly thrust into the spotlight when Constance Young, the undisputed star of morning television, is found at the bottom of her swimming pool. Eliza is committed to finding out who wanted Constance out of the way, and why.

As KEY News film and theater critic, Caroline Enright knows her opinions have influenced the box office habits of millions of Americans. She has taken her fair share of irate phone calls, and even an occasional threat, from disgruntled movie producers and agents angered over her reviews. But she is unprepared when her trip to the Warrenstown Summer Playhouse is interrupted by murder. Traveling to the rolling Berkshire mountains to do a piece on the prestigious summer acting festival, Caroline discovers that someone in this quaint college town has a secret worth killing over.

In a cave in the Shenandoah National Park, two bodies are discovered, wrapped in the tattered remains of a lover's knot quilt. In Washington, D.C., Isaac Taylor inherits a nearly identical quilt from a grandmother whose name he never even knew. After narrowly escaping death, newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor retreats to a cabin nestled in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to heal and sort out her feelings about her troubled marriage.

The Vikings and sainthood are not concepts normally found side by side. But Norway’s King Olaf II Haraldsson (c. 995-1030) embodied both to an extraordinary degree. As a battle-eager teenager he almost single-handedly pulled down London Bridge (as in the nursery rhyme) and took part in many other Viking raids. Olaf lacked none of the traditional Viking qualities of toughness and audacity, yet his routine baptism grew into a burning missionary faith that was all the more remarkable for being combined with his typically Viking determination and energy—and sometimes ruthlessness as well.

Explore how seduction transcends attraction, becoming a tactical approach employed by female murderers who navigate their targets' emotional and psychological landscapes. Through an examination of history and psych profiles, we can understand how these women wield seduction as a shield and a sword.

Por que existem pessoas que sabem o que querem, enquanto outras definham na confusão? Segundo os japoneses, o segredo é encontrar seu ikigai, conceito que pode ser traduzido como razão para viver. Ter um ikigai claro e definido proporciona a satisfação e o propósito que justificam nossa existência, sendo, para muitos, também a chave da longevidade.

Whether you’re the boss, the deputy or on your way up, the way we’re working in a post-pandemic world is forever changed and it’s important to make your work work for you. This is a book about how to do work differently, by the host of the award-winning Financial Times ‘Working It’ podcast. Packed with expert analysis and ahead-of-the-curve workplace trends, this book looks at the big ideas shaping the world of work today and the old habits we need to lose, examining these pressing topics in depth and bringing in expert opinion and personal experience.

When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, the lovers are cast into slavery and transported from Africa to the colony of Surinam. Oroonoko's noble bearing soon wins the respect of his English captors, but his struggle for freedom brings about his destruction. Inspired by Aphra Behn's visit to Surinam, Oroonoko reflects the author's romantic view of native peoples as noble savages in 'the first state of innocence, before man knew how to sin'.

Das epische Finale der fünfbändigen Reihe um Lena Minz und Tim Sandhofen wartet auf dich! Lena und ihre Verbündeten steuern auf einen einzigen, alles verändernden Showdown zu: Während Kharak Thulu seine Armeen entfesselt und die Ursuppen mit Gift verseucht, greift Tim in München verzweifelt nach den letzten Fragmenten seiner Quantenkräfte. Kann Lena zur Weltenbauerin aufsteigen und den Fluch des Schicksals brechen, bevor sowohl das Computerspiel »Heirs of the Phoenix« als auch die Realität im Chaos versinkt?

Claire Matchett vive uma grave crise no casamento e está se sentindo totalmente sobrecarregada pela criação dos dois filhos. Com a viagem de férias que se aproxima, ela vê uma chance de resgatar a cumplicidade com o marido e ter um respiro da rotina estressante. Junto com dois casais de amigos, eles vão passar uma semana em uma pousada de luxo isolada e cercada pela natureza. A apenas três quilômetros do destino, em uma estrada de terra deserta, o carro de Claire morre. Como não há sinal de celular, os casais são obrigados a seguir a pé.

Este libro es la recopilaci n de la conferencia dictada por Conny Mendéz en Caracas en 1969, donde expone a la luz p blica la verdad que por siglos ha permanecido oculta del dominio de la raza humana. Explica muy claramente el significado de la palabra Metafisica, que muchas veces fue considerada como espiritismo o "brujer a," también cuenta la verdadera historia de Enoch, el Principio del Mentalismo, la Verdad, y otros elementos que constituyen la base de la Metafísica.

Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild creatures of field and forest, have remained the same since medieval times. But the words used to name and describe them have often changed beyond recognition, starting with the Old English word for “animal” itself, deor (pronounced DAY-or). In The Deorhord, Hana Videen presents a glittering Old English bestiary of animals real and imaginary, big and small, ordinary and extraordinary—the good, the bad, and the downright baffling.