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This thrilling novel from the son of iconic Western author Zane Grey captures the spirit of the elder Grey's most popular and acclaimed book, Riders of the Purple Sage. That book's hero, Lassiter - a softspoken loner with a fierce sense of morality and unsurpassed skill with firearms - helped establish the Western gunman archetype in fiction. Lassiter's tale continues in this action-packed yarn that serves up a hearty helping of frontier justice.

Como líderes, seremos recordados por nuestra capacidad de gestionarnos a nosotros mismos y a los demás en momentos de dificultad. Crisis anteriores nos aportan valiosas lecciones sobre el liderazgo efectivo en tiempos convulsos y nos ayudan a encarar el futuro.

Hay muchos indicios que invitan a pensar en la concentración y la atención como los nuevos superpoderes que se buscarían en los profesionales del siglo XXI. El continuo uso de las tecnologías en nuestra sociedad ha configurado un cerebro al que le cuesta poner el foco en un asunto concreto durante un tiempo continuado. La optimización del tiempo empleado en un número limitado de actividades digitales y el entrenamiento de la atención se hacen cada vez más necesarios para el bien común.

Tras No digas nada y El imperio del dolor, Patrick Radden Keefe explora los límites, a menudo imperceptibles, entre lo legal y lo ilegal, a través de doce retratos reales protagonizados por maleantes de medio mundo.

This smart guide will help you navigate modern life, enabling you to save money and time. Sali Hughes offers striking good sense on: home; food and drink, fashion; health and beauty; life and finances; friends, relationships and family. From useful, everyday tips such as how to cut your own fringe and how to buy great second-hand clothing, to the less talked about, agonising questions like how to split finances with your partner and how to grieve, Guardian beauty editor Sali Hughes has advice on the big and the small, and everything in between.

The UFO Chronicles collector’s series discloses information you were never meant to know. Dr. Michael E. Salla explores the sociopolitical ramifications of extraterrestrial life on planet Earth. Learn about the diversity of alien species currently visiting us, the role of the "greys", the agenda of the industrial military complex, ET technology dissemination and how it affects our daily lives.

E. M. Forster’s novel Howards End (1910) deals with codes of conduct, social conventions, and complex relationships in turn-of-the-century England. The tale involves three families: the Wilcoxes, wealthy merchants who made their fortune in the colonies, the Basts, an impoverished young couple from a working class background, and the vibrant Schlegel sisters Margaret, Helen, and Tibby, whose cultural endeavours resemble those of the literary Bloomsbury Group in their love of art, books, and travel.

In Stone Work, critically-acclaimed author John Jerome describes the back-breaking but soul-strengthening task of building a stone wall on his New England farm. Equipped only with gloves, elemental tools, and the sense to get out of the way of rolling boulders, Jerome tries to reconstruct a wall in a year. The job begins on a whim - he decides to move a stone wall hidden in the woods on his property for the sheer pleasure of seeing it from his house. Philosophical, yet almost giddy with the excitement of doing something extraordinary, Stone Work is a delight.

General Sherman's Christmas opens on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24, 1864, one month before Christmas. Sherman was relentlessly pushing his troops across Georgia, reaching Savannah days before Christmas. His methodical encroachment of the city from all sides eventually convinced Confederate general W. J. Hardee to slip away in darkness across an improvised causeway toward South Carolina to the north.

Roma se prepara para una de las mayores expediciones de su historia: el emperador Nerón, a sugerencia de su consejero el filósofo Séneca, planea remontar el Nilo en busca de sus fuentes. Será un viaje más allá de los límites del mundo conocido, una gran maniobra militar que extenderá los dominios del imperio. Voreno y Varea participarán en ella.

Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, O. Henry Award and Edgar Awards, the 19 writers in this 2005 edition are not just considered some of the best Southern writers, but among the best American writers period. With works by such writers as Dennis Lehane, Moira Crone, Robert Olen Butler, Cary Holladay, Tom Franklin, and Rebecca Soppe, this collection provides an electrifying current of deep, dark subjects set in the brutal, but charming south.

Lassiter and his partner Borling are sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of a killing they had no part in committing. But with some daring ingenuity they manage to escape from behind bars: only to see their efforts thwarted by treachery.

David Robbins continues the proud tradition of Ralph Compton's Western novels with enough hardscrabble heroes, blazing gun fights, and twisted villains to fill a corral. Bluff City is a booming silver mining town full of pigeons to pluck. When two of its wealthiest citizens devise plans to rob their neighbors legally and illegally, only Clay Adams stands in their way.

"Landor’s Cottage" is a characteristically vivid and detailed description of Poe’s family home and the surrounding valley. Poe describes the natural beauty of the setting with elegance and emotion and gives us the opportunity to delve deeper into Poe as a person as he writes candidly about the beauty that surrounds him.

Marta es una chica gallega que vive en París cuando, un domingo cualquiera al amanecer, estalla la noticia: el mundo se acaba en 48 horas. Contaminación, pandemias, olas de calor, sequías... El planeta Tierra ha alcanzado un punto de no retorno. Perdida y confusa, Marta se lanza a la calle de manera atropellada. Solo sabe que tiene que huir de la capital francesa. Pero los transportes no funcionan y las comunicaciones están fuera de servicio.

Young Slim has always dreamed of being a cowboy. That's why he quivers with excitement on his first day at the WJ Ranch. The sights, sounds, and smells of cowboy life thrill him so that he stays awake that night, writing beautiful poetry.

En esta colección de 22 relatos, Ray Bradbury demuestra una vez más su maestría al crear personajes y situaciones con rápidas pinceladas y dar un giro fantástico a las situaciones más cotidianas.

¿Sabías que aún existen cazadores de cabezas humanas? ¿Qué país es el mayor productor de drogas del mundo? ¿Quién es el minero de Vorkutá que vivió en la época del Gulag? Historias peligrosas, historias increíbles, historias apasionantes... El mundo está repleto de historias que ni te imaginarías, y Rubén Díez -creador de Lethal Crysis, el canal de viajes extremos más importante de España- ha recorrido un sinfín de países para que todos podamos conocerlas.

Emma parece llevar una vida tranquila: no le gusta planchar, apenas cocina, no tiene tiempo para hacer deporte y vive con Nico desde hace nueve años. Se siente cómoda en su zona de confort y no se hace preguntas para ignorar que los primeros síntomas de una gran crisis asoman tibiamente. Hasta que se cruza en su camino un hombre que lo hace tambalear todo: Alexis, doce años mayor que ella, atractivo, seductor, poco convencional y casado. Él comienza a flirtear, ella acepta el reto, y se produce la combinación perfecta para que surja una relación imperfecta.

With this book, you won’t need any technical background to access and understand this amazing reality, and if you are a beginner, you will find all the information you need to start investing in the NFT market in the best way possible, and you’ll learn all the best tips, practical examples, and strategies that will actually make you profit from this constantly evolving activity.