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For years, Aquila Danté has been fighting the Possessed with his dragon, Calon Tân. Together with the human armies they are holding the legions of hell at bay. But when a battle mage goes missing, Aquila and Tân encounter a new and terrifying demon known as Caim, The Cleaver of Souls. Even as Aquila battles Caim, his wife is giving birth to their son, but fate deals a heavy blow, and Aquila begins a new battle against tragedy, grief and the endless machinations of the magi. And all the while, the scales of his beloved dragon grow darker.

Beyond the Aquila Rift: It's shorthand for the trip no one ever hopes to make by accident. The one that will screw up the rest of your life, the one that creates the ghosts you see haunting the shadows of company bars across the whole Bubble. Men and women ripped out of time, cut adrift from families and lovers by an accident of an alien technology we use but rarely comprehend.

Als Nika an einem Sonntagmorgen ziemlic h verkatert in den Badezimmerspiegel schaut, steht dort eine Nachricht. Wer hat sie an den Spiegel geschmiert? Und was hat sie zu bedeuten? Wo sind Nikas Hausschlüssel und ihr Handy? Wo ist Jenny, ihre Mitbewohnerin? Und warum ist ihr heute überhaupt so schlecht, sie hat doch gestern gar nicht viel getrunken? Erst durch die Morgennachrichten im Fernsehen erfährt Nika, dass heute gar nicht Sonntag ist, sondern Dienstag.

Discover timeless lessons applicable to today's marriages from the husband and wife team, Aquila and Priscilla. Although they are mentioned in four different books of the Bible, they were just an “average” couple. They didn’t hold offices in the church and aren’t world-famous today, but God used them to make a difference for eternity.

Silvanus is a young lad intent on becoming a man. When his god Aquila smiles on him, Silvanus finds a cave of precious gems. His dreams of buying a boat and fleeing his island home are that much closer! Instead, a series of events lead Silvanus to the bizarre old hermit Cerbonius. His uncanny wisdom causes Silvanus to question everything he knows about the world, and he discovers his ambitions are far too small.

As a part-time librarian, I cherish the peace of old books, trying to bury a past I'd rather forget. But that peacefulness was shattered one morning with a violent struggle on my porch. I watched in horror as one man ended up dead. Panicked, I fled to the only sanctuary I knew: the newly appointed Captain of the Irish Mafia. I'm just terrified of what he will do when he finds out the truth about who I really am.

Imagine my surprise when I got a phone call demanding to know who TF I was without so much as a hello. I hung up on the prick. A second later a woman called apologizing for him and explaining that my father was in an accident. Problem is, I've never met the man. Not only do I not know him, but I have a half-brother to boot, who is insistent that I come at once. Hopefully, the prick isn't there when I arrive. That is if I go, I haven't decided yet.

De la autora de Circe, una epopeya inolvidable Grecia en la era de los héroes. Patroclo, un príncipe joven y torpe, ha sido exiliado al reino de Ftía, donde vive a la sombra del rey Peleo y su hijo divino, Aquiles. Aquiles, el mejor de los griegos, es todo lo que no es Patroclo: fuerte, apuesto, hijo de una diosa. 

Deirdre always thought she was a human—until her destructive faerie magic was unlocked. Seventeen-year-old Deirdre leaves the orphanage behind to study in Neo-London, a city teeming with conflict between humans and Fae. She crosses paths with two brothers, Iain and James Callaghan. Iain is a soldier in the Iron Guard trying to keep his broken family together. Fourteen-year-old James is fascinated by faeries and plans to run away to find his disappeared mother.

Cuando Aquiles López viaja a Lima para estudiar arquitectura, ignora que esta ciudad caótica no solo le arrebatará su ingenuidad adolescente, sino también la amistad de sus compañeros de infancia que lo acompañan en el mismo hospedaje. Pero, ¿no será el tímido y responsable Aquiles más vengativo y despiadado que los amigos que le acaban de dar la espalda?

What would you do if your father gave away your hand in marriage to settle a gambling debt without your knowledge? Mine did exactly that. But I didn't get married, I conked the guy on the head, kicked my heels off, and hiked up my skirt. 'Chubby legs don't fail me now' is what I muttered just before I fled the little Woodland Church. The only problem is that I may have fled the flames but I jumped right into the fire when I threw myself in the middle of a lonely road into the path of an oncoming car.

Basándose en la biografía de Carlos Pizarro, uno de los jefes del movimiento guerrillero M-19, el autor dio forma en esta novela a un personaje carismático, lleno de luces y de sombras. Un Aquiles que, como los protagonistas de los poemas homéricos, se siente llamado a pasar a la acción y acaba enfrentándose a un destino inexorable que le esperaba paciente.

Troya: la ciudad más codiciada de la Antigüedad Héctor siempre fue el héroe que Troya necesitaba: un guerrero leal, un hijo ejemplar, un esposo devoto. Pero antes de la guerra que lo cambiaría todo, vivió un amor secreto con Pentesilea, la princesa de las amazonas, que encendió en su espíritu un anhelo de libertad. Años después, con Troya sitiada por los ejércitos griegos y la leyenda de Aquiles creciendo día a día, Héctor deberá enfrentarse no solo a sus enemigos, sino también a una elección imposible: entre el amor y el deber, entre la valentía y el miedo, entre la vida ...

Erica My mom and I had to run from them. If they find us, we're as good as dead. I wanted to be something other than a mafia queen and obey their rules. I want to go to college and live my life. Everything was going smoothly until Jared came walking into the diner that day. He is the opposite of the man who held me captive after he murdered my father. Jared is so sexy in his leather jacket with tattoos up his neck. He is the president of the Viper MC and has my heart in his hands. All six foot three of this male perfection came barreling into my world, and I couldn't help but think what I ...

In the early 1960s, the nation was on track to fulfill its destiny in what was being called "the American Century." Baby boomers and rock & roll shared the country's optimism and energy. For "one brief, shining moment" in the early 1960s, both President John F. Kennedy and young people across the country were riding high. The dream of a New Frontier would soon give way, however, to a new reality involving assassinations, the Vietnam War, Cold War crises, the civil rights movement, a new feminist movement, and various culture wars.

At the age of seventeen, I woke up Christmas morning to gunshots instead of presents. My life already sounds morbid, and yes, that's how it starts. The one good thing that came out of moving in with my aunt was, meeting Cade Teller. I felt my heart pump out of my chest when I locked eyes with him. My entire world came to a halt at that moment. He was my cousin's best friend and my new crush. Little did I know, my love life was the least of my worries. My aunt was up to something, and I would do about anything to find out what it was. She was my mother's sister; they hated each other for a ...

Langhe, 1935. La fuliggine delle fabbriche lascia il posto al dolce profilo delle colline infiammate dai colori dell’autunno. Mentre guarda il paesaggio che scorre dal finestrino del treno, Anita sa che ad attenderla non è una vacanza, ma una trasferta di lavoro per la rivista di gialli «Saturnalia», in compagnia dell’immancabile Sebastiano Satta Ascona. Per lei è così raro lasciare Torino che tutto le sembra meraviglioso. Inoltre è il periodo della vendemmia, il momento ideale per visitare le Langhe.

Equus Insanus, son of Aquila, has been missing for three years on his quest to bring the vile Time Criminal to justice. His Roman half brother, Lucius, nephew to Caesar, fears him dead - until he begins receiving strange messages from the lost Lacoti warrior. Then Lucius learns that Equus has been captured by the Time Criminal, who plans to use him as the instrument which will destroy their world. Discovering that the secret to Equus’s salvation may lie in the pyramids of Giza and in the riddle of the Sphynx, Aquila and Lucius set out for Egypt.

Me encantan las criptomonedas, especialmente Bitcoin, ya que me gusta el riesgo y me encantan los juegos de azar. Podría ser el futuro de las finanzas si las finanzas tradicionales se fusionan con la Web 3.0. Me encanta la idea de las acciones tokenizadas, ya que sería fantástico unirse a un grupo de negociación para inyectar y extraer capital rápidamente a través de potencia informática bruta para enriquecerse rápidamente. Sólo hay un problema; Lo poco que tengo en este mundo está denominado en dólares y mis escasos ahorros están asegurados por la FDIC, pero nada de esto existe...

On this alternate Earth, Rome rules all...including the New World, known in other dimensions as America but here as Terra Novo. General Titus Papinianus is governor of that untamed land, and Aquila, chief of the savage Lacoti nation, is a Roman senator. But official titles aside, their duty is to Caesar. So when Caesar sends them on a quest for the fabled land of China, thought to be somewhere in Terra Novo, off they go.