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Tras la muerte de su padre, un joven recibe un gato como única herencia. Ante el desconsuelo de su amo, el gato le pide unas botas y un saco con cordones. ¿Podrá confiar el hombre en la astucia de su extravagante felino?

Acclaimed Southern author Dennis Covington was a National Book Award finalist. Redneck Riviera is the true story of Covington’s bizarre encounters with a lawless band of gun-toting swamp-dwellers in Central Florida who’ve illegally claimed the two-and-a-half acres of land he inherited from his father.

Grizz Brickbottom is one tough cowboy. But even the toughest cowboys, those who floss their teeth with barbed wire as Grizz does, can use some companionship. So Grizz adopts a dog that will help out with the cattle rustling and the mountain lion chasing. But somehow Grizz ends up with a pretty, pampered poodle, not a fierce, brave canine. John Frank delights in this tale filled with vivid imagery and loveable cowboy characters, who end up getting tamed by a little poodle named Foofy.

Stevie Salas was one of many boys coming of age in the 1980s—when the American dream was rock superstardom. As lead guitarist for a San Diego band, Salas played backyard parties and school dances and even scored the music for the cult classic Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. When he auditioned for Rod Stewart—where he was the youngest band member by a decade—Salas’s life truly hit a turning point.

Someone is killing the unwanted in the small town of Dayton, Tennessee. As Deputy Sheriff Trent Tyson trails the murderer, his town erupts in a storm of publicity as Clarence Darrow changes the face of American education.

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.

¿Cómo logró el hijo de unos pobres inmigrantes eslovacos, criado en Pittsburgh, convertirse en el artista más famoso de su generación? ¿De qué manera pasó de ser un niño enfermizo, víctima del acoso de sus compañeros de clase, a erigirse en padre del pop art? ¿Es Warhol un genio del arte contemporáneo?

Young Abe Lincoln is all dressed up in his best suit and on his way to deliver an important speech. As he walks along, he finds a pig stuck in a mudhole. Abe hates to see any animal suffer. If he helps the pig, his clothes will get muddy. What would people think of a mud-covered speaker? Abe doesn’t want to leave the pig stranded, but he has no other nice clothes to wear. So, he continues down the road toward town, feeling guilty. He knows a pig isn’t a person, yet it still seems wrong not to help.

En un relato conmovedor que une el pasado y el presente, "Susurros del Pasado: Ecos de una Revelación a Medianoche" sigue a Luis, un niño de doce años, mientras descubre un tesoro familiar escondido con la ayuda del espíritu de su abuela fallecida.

Sal Di Leo returned after 30 years to the Catholic orphanage outside Chicago that he and his siblings called home in 1963. This is the beginning of a journey of discovery and remembrance as Sal is forced to reconstruct his life as it really happened, including some of his most difficult years at Boys Town in Nebraska.

The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) is a political economy book by Thorstein Veblen which examines the growing corporate domination of culture and the economy. At its core, The Theory of Business Enterprise is an analysis of two intertwined but clashing motivations: that of business and that of industry. Business is the making of profits. Industry is the making of goods.

What is considered an autographical piece, the story centers around a young couple in love in a wonderful and isolated valley of beauty, until illness changes everything and the valley, too, begins to lose its luster.

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.

Imagínate que te ofrecen el trabajo de tus sueños en el paraíso. Imagínate que todo depende de que un desconocido, con sonrisa pícara, acepte hacerse pasar por tu novio unos días. Prepara el pasaporte y sumérgete en esta gran mentira para descubrir si está «todo incluido», o no.

Sumérgete en "Casa de Lavanda", donde el suspense se encuentra con la transformación detrás de la fachada deslumbrante de un santuario de drag queens. Cuando Alex Masters es testigo de un asesinato y se convierte en un objetivo, su refugio improbable entre las drag queens flamantes y feroces de la Casa de Lavanda no solo le ofrece protección sino también una familia inesperada.

¿Cómo pueden los CEO de hoy sacar más provecho de sus equipos? Actuando más como CBO (‘chief behavioral officers’, o directores de comportamiento): adoptando prácticas de liderazgo positivo, diseñando buenas experiencias para los empleados y proporcionando formación en comportamiento. Después de todo, el capital humano es la clave para lograr los objetivos financieros.

Los datos hablan por sí solos: apenas un tercio de las empresas familiares llegan a la segunda generación; de ellas, solo el 10 % accede a la tercera y las que aún sobreviven a un cuarto estadio representan alrededor del 5 %. Son varias las causas que están detrás de este elevado índice de mortalidad. Saber detectarlas a tiempo ayudará a la continuidad del negocio.

Érase una vez un reino muy, muy lejano donde un príncipe premió a un mago por ayudar a rescatar a una joven en apuros. Encantador. Lástima que nada de esto sea verdad. En realidad, el príncipe sueña con gloria y venganza; el mago, con que sus hechizos no sean siempre un desastre y la joven en apuros, con huir de un pasado que la atormenta...y del recuerdo del hombre al que ha matado.

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.

Esta obra de Christophe André está concebida como un manual de iniciación al mindfulness o plena consciencia, el más fascinante de todos los métodos de meditación, sobradamente validado por estudios científicos. "Meditar día a día" es un manual práctico y a la vez poético que consta de 25 lecciones. Cada una incluye textos para aprender y cultivarnos, acompañados por cuadros de grandes pintores para sentir.