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The people of the principality of Liechtenstein have long wished for independence, but the Empire has always had its own plans for the country. The neighboring states, meanwhile, have kept a constant eye on the principality, as if it were their own property. What's more, the internal conflicts between the country's aristocrats have shown no sign of abating. Was it really a good idea to stir up this hornets' nest? Well . . . they only have themselves to blame!

Money, glamour, luxury, power—Ruby Bell couldn’t be less interested in these things if she tried. After being awarded a scholarship to one of England’s most prestigious and expensive private schools, Maxton Hall, all she wants is to keep her head down, work hard, and get accepted to Oxford. She keeps her distance from everyone, especially the arrogant, rich, and extremely handsome James Beaufort, ringleader of the school’s party boys. When Ruby discovers a scandalous secret about the Beauforts, she is suddenly on James’s radar.

The siege of the Brazen City has been lifted and the Paladin Bergen remains free. Following their victory, Ahren and his companions continue on their travels, this time to the Southern Jungles in search of information regarding the whereabouts of the female Paladin, Sunju. The journey is long and dangerous. Not only must they traverse the Nameless Desert and the untamed primeval forest, but hired assassins are hot on their heels along the Spear Path. And to top it all, the consequences of Jelninolan's extended absence from Evergreen could be fatal to her....

War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.

Time is running out for Ahren as he and Khara leave their companions under cover of darkness and make their way to the Eternal Empire. The Pall Cloud is spreading relentlessly, yet the full complement of 13 Paladins have still not gathered together. But the couple are finding it impossible to find a way through to the notoriously draconian and reclusive empress, and all their attempts to enlist her support in the war against the Adversary seem doomed to failure once Ahren falls into the clutches of Quin-Wa's Peace Sentinels.

Ahren can hardly believe his luck. His apprenticeship finally comes to an end, and Khara's interest in him is growing by the minute. He and his companions leave the Southern Jungles and sail westward, this time in search of two Paladins, who are apparently living a peaceful existence on one of the Isles of the Cutlass Sea. Yet their quest proves full of difficulties, for a war among the pirates has transformed the Cutlass Sea into a bubbling cauldron, hiding its own tragic drama.

Ahren's life consists of being beaten up by his drunkard father or bullied by the village lads. But at the annual suitability tests for apprenticeships, the young boy finds himself selected by Falk, the guardian of the forest, to be his apprentice and his world is turned upside down.

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” With this chilling declaration, Niccolò Machiavelli opens the gates to one of the most infamous and fascinating political texts ever written. The Prince is not merely a book—it is a descent into the dark heart of power, ambition, and the forces that shape nations and leaders. Written in 1513, amidst the treacherous landscape of Renaissance Italy—a fractured land torn by war, corruption, and foreign domination—this brief but intense treatise offers a master class in political strategy.

Cuando el Departamento de Policía de Buckeye City recibe una carta de alguien que pretende «matar a trece inocentes y a un culpable» para expiar una muerte innecesaria, la detective Izzy Jaynes no sabe qué pensar. ¿Están a punto de asesinar a catorce personas por venganza? Preocupada, decide acudir a Holly Gibney para que la ayude.

Success at last! Ahren and his companions have revived the alliance of the Jorathian peoples. But there is little time for celebration, for while the defensive ring around the Pall Cloud is being strengthened with Dwarfish assistance, Ahren and his friends are already on their way to answer the Wrath Elves' cry for help in the Forest of Ire, from within whose depths mysterious dangers are threatening to destroy the Elven forest and all life forms within it. Time is running out.

We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life. Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world—a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves.

Things are coming to a head for Ahren and his companions. It is true that they have won the Paladins Fisker and Aluna over to their cause in the campaign against the Adversary, but the Pall Pillar is going through an ominous change.

El futuro de Scadrial pende de un hilo en la conclusión de la segunda era. Waxillium Landra lleva años intentando dar caza a la organización conocida como el Grupo. Y cuando Marasi y Wayne encuentran un alijo de armas con destino a la ciudad exterior de Bilming, se abre ante ellos una nueva pista. Wax descubre un explosivo capaz de desatar una destrucción sin precedentes y comprende que el Grupo ya debe de tenerlo en su poder. Por si fuera poco, un kandra inmortal le revela que Bilming ha caído bajo la influencia de un nuevo dios, Trell.

Anna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital "creatives" exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored.

In the virtual city of Alegria, fantasies are made real, innumerable lifetimes are lived, and even death itself is a survivable experience. An escape from reality that changed the landscape of artificial intelligence, it is home to more than one hundred million people. Though it’s been six years since Alegria’s creator—revolutionary tech genius KC Kim—died of cancer, his legacy is alive in the pinnacle of KC’s genius: an AI named Allen who surges with KC’s memories.

Otaki, Isla Norte, 1880. Aroha crece felizmente en la escuela que dirige su madre Linda. Pero, un día de septiembre, su existencia cambiará radicalmente cuando se convierta en una de las víctimas del gran accidente de tren de Nueva Zelanda y sufra una horrorosa experiencia. En Rat Station, la granja de ovejas de su familia, se restablecerá y recuperará la ilusión. Con ayuda del soñador Robin y de su prima, la temperamental March, se atreverá a dar un gran paso y conocerá a alguien que dará un giro insospechado a su vida.

In this intense detective thriller instilled with philosophical, religious, and social commentary, Dostoevsky studies the psychological impact upon a desperate and impoverished student when he murders a despicable pawnbroker, transgressing moral law to ultimately "benefit humanity".

"天國與地獄"不僅在探討靈魂的歸宿, 也進入了史威登堡深邃的基督教神學與聖經詮釋. 他並非只是哲學家或秘宗學者, 而是一位以獨特方式解讀聖經的靈視者. 他的思想超越了傳統神學, 並以親身體驗和靈性洞察, 揭示天堂, 地獄, 以及靈魂的最終命運. 史威登堡在本書中提出了一個革命性的觀點, 天國與地獄並非上帝強制審判人送往的領域, 而是靈魂依其內在選擇自動進入的境界. 他強調聖經的象徵性認為其文字背後蘊藏著更深層的靈性意義. 例如, 聖經中提到的"新耶路撒冷", 在他的詮釋中並非一座地理上的城市, 而是一個象徵人類靈性提升的境界. 此外他認為天使並非上帝特別創造的靈物, 而是那些在世時選擇慈善行並愛神的靈魂之自然轉化. 這與基督教的傳統觀點形成鮮明對比. 史威登堡也探討了基督教的核心概念, 靈魂的重生, 他認為真正的信仰並不是口頭的信念或宗教的儀式, 而是人內在的轉變. 只有透過善行與愛, 靈魂才能與天堂的光輝相契合. 他的神學思想在某種程度上與儒家"格物致知"的理念產生共鳴. 人的道德選擇直接影響靈魂的昇華與終極歸宿. 他的神學也與道家"人法地, 地法天, 天法道, 道法自然" 的理念相呼應. 對於華人聽眾, 這本書不僅是基督教神學的啟示, 也是一場跨文化的靈性對話. 當你聆聽史威登堡的靈視世界, 你會發現天國與地獄並非遙遠的概念, 而是我們每一天的選擇所塑造的最終歸宿.

There’s nothing too unusual about a father asking his son for a favor—unless, of course, the father in question has been dead for five years. Thomas, a young virtuoso pianist living a quiet, carefully structured life in France, is stunned when his late father, Raymond, suddenly appears in his home. He’s not a ghost in the traditional sense—he’s real enough to ask for help. His request? That Thomas travel with him to San Francisco to find Camille, the long-lost love of his life.

Hatred is typically characterized as ugly, destructive and, above all, the political tool and dominant emotion of intransigent right-wingers. But is something important lost in this simplistic depiction? Don’t those engaged in anticolonial, feminist, or class struggles—the very people who, in mainstream narratives, are usually portrayed as victims and objects of hate—have just reasons for feeling hatred?