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Violet Edwards is painfully shy with a terrible stutter. Despite her mother's threats to send her away, she has plans of her own to win a husband. She enrolls herself in the infamous School for Spinsters, where she hopes to be transformed from a wallflower into a breathtaking debutante. The only problem is that the headmistress hired a gorgeous, notorious rake to give her lessons.

Henry Crichton, der sich jetzt Dr. Noah Lund nennt, kontrolliert die nukleare "Omega“-Weltraumwaffe, und er will sie einsetzen. In großer Eile ersinnt Commander Smith vom UNO-Geheimdienst "Infinity“ eine hochriskante Strategie, um Lunds Vernichtungsplan zu vereiteln. Weil ein Schlag aus der Luft nicht möglich ist, bricht Jack Chance gemeinsam mit der Attentäterin Fatima Jansen und einem Einsatzkommando der Schweizer Gebirgstruppen auf, um Lunds schwer zugänglichen Schlupfwinkel auf dem Schattenhorn anzugreifen.

Gabriel Gómez es un joven y guapo arquitecto que deja Barcelona huyendo de la atracción que siente por la prometida de su hermano Iván. Otoño en Manhattan es la primera entrega de la saga «Loca seducción», una novela sobrecogedora, intensa, sensual, emocionante, con increíbles pinceladas de suspense y que en muchas ocasiones te robará mil sonrisas.

Después de que una tormenta de nieve deja su vuelo en tierra, Lucy hace un último intento desesperado por llegar a casa para Navidad usando una aplicación de viajes compartidos. Ella piensa que hará un viaje por carretera con un desconocido ... pero el chico que aparece es alguien que conoce demasiado bien. Es el ligue que dejó plantado hace unos meses, y ahora estará atrapada en un coche con él en el viaje por carretera más incómodo de su vida.

Remordimientos y temores, deseo y pasión. El conflicto es inevitable... El tango nace en el barrio porteo de La Boca a principios del siglo XX y un amor imposible crece en sus calles. La famosa soprano Micaela Urtiaga Four, conocida en Europa como la divina Four, decide regresar a Buenos Aires, su ciudad natal, después de años de ausencia.

Boxing legend Christy Martin was a trailblazer in the ring and continues to be an inspiration to female fighters across the globe. She is without a doubt the most important woman in the history of female combat sports. But behind the scenes Martin was in a losing battle, unable to express her true sexual identity and struggling to survive sexual and domestic abuse at the hands of her husband. In Fighting for Survival: My Journey Through Boxing Fame, Abuse, Murder, and Resurrection, Christy Martin recounts her harrowing yet inspiring story.

The first victim is attacked in her home. Tied to her bed. Forced to watch every unspeakable act of cruelty - but unable to scream. The second murder is even more twisted. Signed, sealed, and delivered with a message for the police, stuffed in the victim's throat. A fractured nursery rhyme that ends with a warning: "There will be more". For detective Jack Murphy, it's more than a threat. It's a personal invitation to play.

Back on Earth with nothing more to show for his long, strange trip through time and space than a ratty towel and a plastic shopping bag, Arthur Dent is ready to believe that the past eight years were all just a figment of his stressed-out imagination. But a gift-wrapped fishbowl with a cryptic inscription, the mysterious disappearance of Earth’s dolphins, and the discovery of his battered copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all conspire to give Arthur the sneaking suspicion that something otherworldly is indeed going on.

Have you ever envisioned yourself engaging in fluent Spanish conversations while traveling across Mexico? Are you looking to master Mexican Spanish quickly and easily? Embark on a transformative linguistic journey with this comprehensive guide. Designed specifically for beginners, this resource bridges the gap between basic phrases and eloquent conversations, allowing learners to fully immerse themselves in the nuances of Mexican Spanish.

Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of rapid and sometimes violent change during this pivotal period in Japan's history. Emperor of Japan conveys in sparkling prose the complexity of the man and offers an unrivaled portrait of Japan in a period of unique interest.

In an effort to enlighten a new generation about its growing reliance on psychiatry, this illuminating volume investigates why psychiatry has become the fastest-growing medical field in history; why psychiatric drugs are now more widely prescribed than ever before; and why psychiatry, without solid scientific justification, keeps expanding the number of mental disorders it believes to exist. This revealing volume shows that these issues can be explained by one startling fact: in recent decades psychiatry has become so motivated by power that it has put the pursuit of pharmaceutical riches above its patients' well being.

In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare launched by the masters of capital to maintain and even enhance the features of a dog-eat-dog society to the unprecedented mobilization of millions of people against neoliberal capitalism, racism, and police violence.

En la Revolución de Mayo un amor lucha por sobrevivir.Buenos Aires, 1810. Cuando palpita la Revolución de Mayo en el campo y en la ciudad, contar con las huestes del gaucho Artemio Furia puede significar la victoria.Artemio Furia no es un hombre común. Es un gaucho cuyo nombre se pronuncia con respeto y temor en todas las esferas de la sociedad. Entre 1806 y 1807, sus centauros le sirvieron en los ejércitos de Juan Martín de Pueyrredón para expulsar a los ingleses.

The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated, aloof, buttoned-up Americans. They have nothing in common…except for the fact that their daughters are married. When a nearby volcano erupts during their short vacation to a remote tropical island off the coast of Queensland, the two families find themselves stranded together for six weeks. With only two island employees making up the rest of their party, everyone is forced to question what—or who—they really want.

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit–and immediately all hell breaks loose.

Internacional Falls, Minnesota, 4 de julio, una mujer es encontrada inconsciente y cubierta de sangre en el Parque Nacional de Voyaguer. El resto de su familia ha desaparecido y ella no parece recordar nada. El doctor Sullivan, director del centro psiquiátrico de la ciudad, y Sharon Dirckx, ayudante del Sheriff, intentarán que recuerde todo lo sucedido aunque sin saberlo pondrán en juego sus vidas, su idea de la cordura y los llevará hasta dudar de lo que la paciente le está contando.

Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the contents can only be meagre. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave, except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter that can only bring further disgrace to the family name.

Nahe Familienmitglieder sterben, der Welt geht es auch nicht so gut, das letzte Glas Alkohol wird getrunken und die letzte Zigarette geraucht. Und doch färbt Martin Suter sich noch immer nicht die Haare. Wer auch in schwierigen Situationen und Kippmomenten des Lebens noch lacht, meint es wirklich ernst mit dem Humor.

Prag 1910. Kisch ermittelt in seinem ersten Fall Prag ist in Aufruhr. Der Weltuntergang steht bevor. Im Mai 1910 soll die Erde den Schweif des Halley'schen Kometen kreuzen - ein jeder blickt zum Himmel, und die Verbrecher auf Erden haben leichtes Spiel. Egon Erwin Kisch, berühmt-berüchtigter Reporter der "Bohemia", ermittelt auf eigene Faust in seinem ersten Fall. Er lässt sich sogar als Schwerverbrecher ins Gefängnis sperren, um mit dem Kopf der Prager Unterwelt Portwein zu trinken.

Als die Brandermittler Klara Larson und Sebastian Vinther zu ihrem jüngsten Tatort kommen, ist bereits klar, dass es sich hier nicht um einen gewöhnlichen Hausbrand handelt. Ein Teenager wurde in einen Schrank gesperrt und kam in den Flammen ums Leben. Von seinem jüngeren Bruder fehlt jede Spur. Je weiter die Ermittlungen voranschreiten, desto mehr Geheimnisse kommen in der kleinen Stadt ans Tageslicht. Doch die Bewohner sind nicht die einzigen, die etwas zu verbergen haben. Während Klara und Sebastian einander näher kommen, drohen die Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit sie langsam einzuholen ...