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Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When a jaded female detective is recruited to escort them to safety, all three begin a journey into the nature of difference, and belonging, and the shadowy edges of the monstrous. What follows is a story of wonder and betrayal.

Agrigento, Sicily, 1883. With the orsine destroyed, Cairndale lies in ruins, and Marlowe has vanished. His only hope of rescue lies in a fabled second orsine—long-hidden, thought lost—which might not even exist. But when a body is discovered in the shadow of Cairndale, a body wreathed in the corrupted dust of the drughr, Charlie and the Talents realize there is even more at stake than they'd feared. For a new drughr has arisen, ferocious, horned, seemingly able to move in their world at will—and it is not alone.

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The dwarfish, fetally damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii Free Mercenary on an unauthorized mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson's Whole, things get really messy.

Seeking and living a life worthy of our humanity. Theological insight, cultural analysis, and practical guidance for personal and communal flourishing. Brought to you by the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.

¿Cuál es el tipo de chico con el que siempre has soñado? A veces, nuestro amor ideal se parece muy poco a lo que habíamos imaginado. Tommy es un chico muy especial, aunque tímido y un tanto inseguro. Valeria, por su parte, es una joven guapa y popular. ¿Tendrán algo en común? ¿Se cruzarán sus vidas de algún modo? Tommy cada vez que la ve, mete la pata sin saber cómo. Nada parece indicar que el destino tenga pensado unirles en el camino.

Miroslav Klose war einzigartiger Torjäger und selbstloser Teamspieler. Einen wie ihn wird es im Profifußball nicht mehr geben: Mit 20 spielte er noch in der Bezirksliga und wurde dann Weltmeister und bester Torschütze in der Geschichte der Nationalmannschaft. In enger Zusammenarbeit mit Miroslav Klose erzählt Ronald Reng von einem Mann, den jeder aus dem Fernsehen kennt - über den die wenigsten aber etwas wissen: Mit acht kam er aus Polen, lernte Zimmermann und wurde Weltstar. Er spielte als Kopfballspezialist und Techniker in europäischen Topclubs.

1974. Solomon es un niño etíope de ocho años que vive en Addis Abbeda. Huérfano de padre y madre, acabará embarcando en el puerto de Assab, en el mar Rojo, rumbo a Cuba... Muna es una niña india huérfana de once años que teje alfombras en Bombay y no puede olvidar a su hermana pequeña, de quien la separaron a la fuerza...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Words of Radiance, coauthor of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series and creator of the internationally bestselling Mistborn Trilogy, Brandon Sanderson comes Mitosis, a short story set in the action-packed world of Steelheart: the Reckoners series, exclusively available in the digital format. Epics still plague Newcago, but David and the Reckoners have vowed to fight back.

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.

Tennis has been very good to sports agent Myron Bolitar. He represents two of the hottest young stars in the game. But when his female player is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and his male player becomes the prime suspect, Myron's got a whole new match to win. His investigation leads to an old murder, the mob, a crooked senator, a jealous mother, and someone who's determined to shut down his search for good.

What if the Evil Queen poisoned the prince? Following her beloved mother’s death, Snow White’s kingdom falls into the hands of her stepmother, commonly referred to as the “Evil Queen” by those she rules. Snow keeps her head down at the castle, hoping to make the best of her situation. But when a plot to kill her goes awry, everything changes for Snow. With the help of a group of wary dwarfs, a kind prince she thought she’d never see again, and a mysterious figure from her past, Snow embarks on a quest to stop the Evil Queen and take back her kingdom.

Poemas escritos entre 1983 y 1986. El poeta mira, imagina, evoca la profecía apocalíptica cumplida durante los dos grandes terremotos de 1985. La desastrosa mañana de aquel septiembre de 1985 "la tierra que destruimos se hizo presente". Un fatídico terremoto demostró "hasta qué punto nos aborrece la tierra: / nos ve como insectos / torturadores que la roen por dentro". Su devastadora venganza puso en evidencia que "es el nombre profundo de la muerte". Los sobrevivientes "¿vamos a hacer / otra ciudad, otro país, otra vida? / De otra manera seguirá el derrumbe".

In Mitochondria and the Future of Medicine, naturopathic doctor Lee Know tells the epic story of mitochondria - the widely misunderstood and often-overlooked powerhouses of our cells. The legendary saga began over two billion years ago, when one bacterium entered another without being digested, which would evolve to create the first mitochondrion. Since then, for life to exist beyond single-celled bacteria, it's the mitochondria that have been responsible for this life-giving energy.

The daughter of rich but neglectful parents, Terisa Morgan lives alone in a New York City apartment, a young woman who has grown to doubt her own existence. Surrounded by the flat reassurance of mirrors, she leads an unfulfilled life - until the night a strange man named Geraden comes crashing through one of her mirrors, on a quest to find a champion to save his kingdom of Mordant from a pervasive evil that threatens the land.

When Sonya MacTavish inherits the huge Victorian mansion on the coast of Maine, she has no idea that the house is haunted. The footsteps she hears at night, the doors slamming, the music playing, are not figments of her imagination. In her dreams she sees glimpses of the past. In the present she finds portraits of brides. And when she has visions of an antique mirror, she is drawn to it, sensing it holds dark family secrets.

What makes a good life? The question is inherent to the human condition, asked by people across generations, professions, and social classes, and addressed by all schools of philosophy and religions. This search for meaning, as Yale faculty Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ryan McAnnally-Linz argue, is at the crux of a crisis that is facing Western culture, a crisis that, they propose, can be ameliorated by searching, in one’s own life, for the underlying truth.

A nature therapy session for the soul—encounter the benevolence of the living world through 12 essays on the Earth-healing powers of self-compassion and empathy.

Fast nahtlos haben Andie und Miro mit ihrem ersten Gast aus Folge 25., die Katrin, eine weitere Folge aufgenommen. Diesmal geht es viel um das Thema "Umarmungen" und um das "Erste Mal". Es wird aber auch ernster ... wie viel Dankbarkeit sollte man in sich tragen und wie oft lohnt es sich wirklich sich über tägliche Nichtigkeiten aufzuregen? Aber hört selbst ...

Me and my friends escaped certain death in our universe and are now stuck in Orbem. Though I wonder, is it better to fight a super-powered CEO or psychotic evil sorcerer?