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Grief fresh and emotions raw, Gus Hawthorne is forced to return to life long before he’s ready or willing. His up-and-coming band, Rook, is set to commence a postponed European tour, their debut album is blowing up worldwide, and all he wants to do is hide.

When aging cowboy Gus Matthews gets fired from Rocking-C ranch for laying out the mean-spirited, know-nothing foreman, he heads north for Oklahoma, where he finds work with the Aronsons, an elderly couple whose ranch has seen better days. What should be easy work for kindly employers quickly turns sour when Gus discovers that the neighboring Slash-M ranch have been rustling the Aronsons’ cattle. Even worse, Gus becomes the corrupt sheriff’s main suspect in a string of violent crimes plaguing the county.

Stanford White was a louche man-about-town and a canny cultural entrepreneur―the creator of landmark buildings that elevated American architecture to new heights. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was the son of an immigrant shoemaker, a moody introvert, and a committed procrastinator whose painstaking work brought emotional depth to American sculpture. They met when Stan was walking down the street and heard Gus whistling Mozart in his studio.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning, is set in a near-future Kolkata, India in which two families seeking to protect their children must battle each...

With Schwarzkopf is Gus Lee's remembrance of his mentor and friend H. Norman Schwarzkopf, and his firsthand account of how Schwarzkopf shaped his life. In 1966, Lee, a junior-year cadet at West Point, was bright, athletic, and popular. He was also on the verge of getting kicked out. Nearing the bottom of his class due to his penchant for playing poker and reading recreationally instead of studying engineering, he was assigned a new professor: then-Major Norman Schwarzkopf.

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind is a seminal work on crowd psychology by Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), a French social psychologist. He observes that a crowd forms when an influential idea unites a number of individuals and prompts them to act towards a common goal. In a crowd, the conscious personality of the individual is submerged and dominated by the collective mind. Furthermore, every sentiment becomes contagious to a degree that individuals readily sacrifice their personal interest to the collective.

Before marrying, Emma Bovary believed she would enter a life of luxury and passion like the sentimental stories she'd read in her novels and magazines. Now married to an ordinary country doctor her life is not the romantic ideal she imagined and seeks an escape through having extra-marital affairs. This devastating spiral into deceit and despair leads to catastrophic consequences. Emma Bovary continues to be enjoyed to this day because of its profound humanity, still as fresh today as when it was first written.

Twelve-year-old Gloria St. Romain, Glory to everyone who knows her, has always loved mysteries. She spends her time solving puzzles and reading Agatha Christie books, comforted by the knowledge that truth can always be found for those who look closely enough for it. But when her mom suddenly leaves without a word, Glory is finally faced with the one mystery she can't crack: Why did her mom leave, and where did she go?

Toleras una vida que desde afuera parece funcional, pero en el fondo sospechas que estás viviendo por debajo de tu potencial. El tiempo avanza rápido mientras tus propias excusas dictan tus resultados. Este material es un manual de métricas brutales enfocado directamente en la ejecución. Te obliga a mirarte con honestidad para que asumas el control consciente de tu situación actual. Al aplicar sus principios, vas a evaluar tu progreso utilizando únicamente datos reales. Diseñarás sistemas personales que garantizarán tu avance a través de una disciplina estructurada.

When his friends aren’t successful at spooking the children who visit the haunted house, Gus must present his unique superpowers to give them a scare!

Gus is a livestock guardian dog with one job—protecting his farm from coyotes and foxes. He likes keeping the sheep, the chickens, and his humans safe, and he’s very good at it. One day, Diego and his dad come to visit the farm, and Gus immediately connects to the small boy. They both like to sit still and enjoy the quiet, and Gus can tell that Diego likes being around a gentle giant of a dog, that it helps relieve the boy’s constant worry. When Gus detects the scent of a bear in the woods, he rushes to protect his flock, injuring his leg in a fight with the dangerous beast.

José Arcadio Buendía y Úrsula Iguarán se aman, pero son primos hermanos, y sobre ellos cae el presagio de que sus hijos podrían nacer con colas de cerdo. La maldición los atormenta día y noche sin descanso. Cuando se les aparece el fantasma de un hombre a quien José Arcadio Buendía asesinó, él y su mujer deciden huir de su propio destino. Se van a la selva y fundan el pueblo de Macondo, el mítico escenario donde se desarrollan las aventuras de esta saga familiar a lo largo de siete generaciones.

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator The 40th anniversary edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning classic of the American West, with a new foreword by Yellowstone cocreator Taylor Sheridan. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last...

Ex Airforce mechanics and pilots buy Sweet Briar Ranch in North Dakota and find their forever loves in the Flyboys of Sweet Briar Ranch series. Get swept away in this sweet romance collection featuring the first eight books of the series!

Transform your daily routines into dynamic Korean learning sessions without extra time commitment. This innovative guide is designed for those looking to effortlessly integrate Korean mastery into their daily lives by leveraging typically underutilized moments. Whether you are navigating through your daily commute or settling into the evenings calm, this book equips you with the tools to effectively absorb and retain Korean.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history. Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient...

¿Quién es Dylan Carbonell? ¿Ese chico indescifrable, de sonrisas invisibles y miradas impactantes, que copa las revistas y los medios de comunicación? ¿Un genio de la música? ¿La nueva promesa del rock and roll español? "Subí las escaleras que daban acceso al escenario y me di de bruces con los miles de rostros que me esperaban, impacientes por escuchar el concierto de su vida. Todos ellos me deseaban de alguna manera. Mi cuerpo. Mi mente. Mis manos en los trastes de la guitarra.

Sorority life is about to get a little old-fashioned. 75-year-old Gus MacDonald is a man of simple faith, stubborn habits, and a heart etched with the memories of his late wife, Mary. After twelve years of providing dedicated care for Mary during her illness, Gus finds himself adrift in a quiet Midwest town, his days measured by the morning commodity reports and the solitary ritual of waxing his 1958 Chevy pickup. When a chance encounter at the post office leads him to an opening for a "house mom" at the University’s Zeta Tau Epsilon sorority, Gus decides it’s time for a change—one ...

In The Courage Playbook: Five Steps to Overcome Your Fears and Become Your Best Self, Gus Lee, bestselling author and leadership expert, delivers an astonishing reveal that with moral courage, we can overcome our fears. This is a practical guide to gaining your courage to live rightly, treat others without bias, and lead inspirationally.