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En una oscura versión del futuro próximo, doce chicos y doce chicas se ven obligados a participar en un reality show llamado Los Juegos del Hambre. Solo hay una regla: matar o morir. Cuando Katniss Everdeen, una joven de dieciséis años se presenta voluntaria para ocupar el lugar de su hermana en los juegos, lo entiende como una condena a muerte. Sin embargo, Katniss ya ha visto la muerte de cerca y la supervivencia forma parte de su naturaleza.

Gregor is summoned back to the Underland by the terms of a second prophecy. Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. Recognizable by its tremendous size and snow-white coat, the Rat King is destined to bring a World War to the Underland. Gregor eventually comes face to face with the Rat King, and to his surprise, he finds he is unable to kill this creature. His heart tells him he's making the right decision.

Aquí no solo aprenderás a usar las habilidades sociales y el lenguaje corporal de forma estratégica, sino que también comprenderás los principios de la psicología social que hay detrás de la persuasión y del deseo humano. Desde romper esas creencias limitantes que te frenan, hasta leer con sutileza las señales no verbales de quien te interesa, cada capítulo te guiará paso a paso hacia la conquista de tus objetivos, tanto sentimentales como profesionales. Con un enfoque práctico y ejercicios que podrás aplicar en tu día a día, este libro transforma la teoría en resultados tangibles...

Rosie Lachlan wants nothing more than to find The One. A year after she was dumped in her wedding dress, she’s working at her parents’ bridal salon, anxious for a happy ending that can’t come soon enough. After receiving a life-saving heart transplant, Rosie knows her health is precious and precarious. She suspects her heart donor is Daphne Thorne, the wife of local celebrity author Morgan Thorne, who she begins messaging via an anonymous service called DonorConnect, ostensibly to learn more about Daphne. But Rosie has a secret.

Ben, Chloe, Mark, and the others are off on another adventure, back where they had just stopped one interplanetary war. Now, they are searching for the mystery ship. What could it be up to? They rescue two new beings, but things go awry as their planet doesn't even want them back. Then they discover some more refugees, only some are not what they claim to be, and they land in the middle of another war, all while planning a wedding between Meera and Dylan. After that, the ship finds a derelict that looks like it came out of a 1950s campy movie, only one that someone shot full of holes.

At birth, Violet and Rose Flowers were identical, save for a tiny bluish-purple mark gracing Violet’s slender neck. By nineteen, their temperaments distinguish them, as different as the flowers their mother named them for—Violet, wild and outgoing, and Rose, solitary and reserved. Still, they are each other’s world. Then, on a sweltering, terrible August night in 1928, an explosion rocks Lamb’s Dance Hall in Possum Flats, Missouri, engulfing it in flames, leaving one twin among the dozens dead, and her sister’s life forever changed.

Everyone has been trying to keep Gregor from seeing the final prophecy, The Prophecy of Time. It says something awful: It calls for the warrior’s death. The warrior being Gregor, of course. Now, an army of rats is quickly approaching and Gregor’s mom and little sister, Boots, are still in Regalia. The entire existence of the Underland is in Gregor’s hands and time is running out. There is a code that must be cracked, a new princess to contend with Gregor’s burgeoning dark side, and a war designed to end all wars.

For generations, rats have run the mice out of whatever lands they've claimed, keeping them constantly on the move. But now the mice are disappearing, and the young queen Luxa, who credits them with saving her life, is determined to find out why. Gregor joins her on a fact-finding mission, and when the true fate of the mice is revealed, it is something far more sinister than Gregor or Luxa have imagined.

Published in instalments in 1859, The Woman in White is often considered to be one of the very first detective novels. Although critics weren’t impressed at the time, the novel proved to be a hit with the public and has since gone on to become one of the timeless classics of the Victorian era. Following the adventures of Walter Hartright, this is a story of sleuthing, inheritance, ghosts and mistaken identity and was recently the subject of a hit TV adaptation by the BBC.

October, 1982. Forced to move to the quiet seaside town of Tasker Bay by her mother, the only thing on high schooler Andi’s mind is saving up enough money to return to her old stomping grounds in Silicon Valley. Her self-taught skills with all things electronic make her a perfect fit for a job at the dingy local arcade. When Polybius—a new game of unknown origin arrives—the shop is suddenly overwhelmed with players fighting for time on the machine. Seemingly overnight, a virus-like epidemic grips Tasker Bay while a violent coastal storm rolls in, isolating it from the outside world.

“Neighbors can be a real killer . . . and I, Abby Knight Salvare, am digging through the dirt to find out who pulled the trigger.” In the quaint town of New Chapel, Indiana, where flower shops bloom and barstools creak with secrets, Abby Salvare has spent twenty-five cases proving petals can hide more than thorns. A florist with a knack for unraveling mysteries, she’s back alongside her ex-Ranger husband Marco in A Vase in the Window, Kate Collins' 26th installment of this beloved cozy series. This time, a single gunshot shatters the stillness of an early summer night, leaving a ...

Pressured by her family to marry a wealthy man, and unsure of her own feelings, lovely, bookish Elisa Parker flees to a remote northern Canadian settlement. Elisa hopes that a few months of teaching indigenous children will permit her time and space to decide whether to marry Lord Cavendish, of whom she is very fond, but ... nothing more. However, the family fortunes rest on Elisa's marriage -- and the sudden appearance of a handsome, virile, half-Indian Mountie Brandon Walker makes Elisa's decision even more difficult!

All it took was one encounter... And it was enough to have Nix and Ashton, both stars for the same adult site, hooked on each other... The touches they had exchanged heated enough to bring their audience to tears with how emotional and urgent their joining had been.. The two of them dancing around each other as neighbors longing to be lovers...

Could you wait thousands of years for a lover to be reincarnated, only to realize he has no memories of you, only dreams of before his last life ended? You spent your endless life sealed within his tomb dutifully watching over a corpse lovingly while waiting for his soul to reappear so you could once again claim your mate and have him by your side...but will he allow himself to be wooed and taken in by your old bonfire of a spirit.. or will you bend to his rekindled flame?

His hair... His eyes.... The way he smiles at me all shy behind his tray when he tries to scoot past my section every time we see each other... something about Micah just refuses to let my mind wander away from anything that doesn't have to do with making him mine... I just havent managed to figure out how yet. Not with how shy he is...

Dragons... Mythical beings of old ruled by one King and one King only, his Queen the only temperament to be found to the lava coursing through his veins. Prince Emrys finds himself of age to take the throne, but in order to replace his father, he must first find a bride... The one person in the world who can cool his intensity to tolerable levels for the rest of the consumption of the world. What will befall Emrys when he realizes that the soul that resonates most with his own is that of an orphaned runt taken in by one of the branch families that serves his father's court?

With the promise children on the horizon, Alpha Silas Ashwood is feeling more than protective over his Luna, Adrian... Unfortunately, his book worm has other matters on his mind... Like wondering if Silas, as caring and gentle as he is when it's just the two of them... If his big strong mate will really be accepting of their kids if they end up being born runts... Omegas just like he is. With the pressure of not knowing when Adrian will go into his next heat, Silas is dead set on finally building his Sweetheart the library that had been promised so that it'll be finished before baby... Only...

Barbara Bridgett is the powerful CEO of Sweet Squeak, a shrinking dating app. After striking up a relationship with her lawyer, Harvey, the two build upon a playful, if not tense, relationship. Harvey wishes he was a little bigger--but Barbara loves him less than two inches tall!

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Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendence.