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Max Wolff is a committed soldier of the Reich. So when he is sent home wounded, only to discover that his mother is sheltering two young Jewish women in their home, he is outraged. His mother’s act of mercy is a gross betrayal of everything Max stands for. He has dedicated his life to Nazism, fighting to atone for the shame of his anti-Hitler father’s imprisonment. It’s his duty to turn the sisters over to the Gestapo. But he hesitates, and the longer Max fails to do his duty, the harder it becomes.

Fall in love nine times over with this collection of toe-curling romances. Each story is the first book of a different shifter series. Bear Protector After escaping a desperate situation, I have to trust a man who has dark secrets of his own. Fae in the Realm I was born a human, but this is my world now—filled with shifters, witches, fae, and other creatures that shouldn't exist. It's as terrifying as it is mesmerizing. Wolf’s Prisoner Enemies clash. Sparks fly. Dark pasts that catch them by surprise. Wild Wolf A battle rages between two rival shifter packs, and I’m caught in the ...

El 8 de enero de 1982, la escultora colombiana Feliza Bursztyn murió en un restaurante de París. Tenía cuarenta y ocho años. En el momento de su muerte repentina la acompañaban su marido y cuatro amigos. Uno de ellos, el escritor Gabriel García Márquez, publicó días después un artículo que incluía tres palabras en apariencia simples, pero misteriosas en el fondo: «Murió de tristeza».

When award-winning actor, producer, and international icon Gabriel Byrne was a young boy, his grandmother brought him to the cinema for the first time. There, Byrne fell in love with the transporting power of the big screen. Growing up in 1950s and 60s Dublin within a family of eight, Byrne's formative childhood years were both carefree and challenging, spent between home, the church, school, and the streets of his ever-changing city.

The “Salton Riviera” was a desert playground in the 1950s. Private boats and skiers dotted the clear blue waters. Celebrities drove in from Hollywood and mingled with upscale tourists at the resorts. Fast forward several decades. The Salton Sea is drying up, leaving the rotting skeletons of birds and fish in its wake and the only ones left are outsiders, outlaws, and those too poor to move. Howling desert winds carry toxic dust from the retreating tidelands.

On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur.

¿Quieres aprender sobre la Bolsa, pero no sabes por dónde empezar? ¿Tienes miedo de perder todo tu dinero? No te preocupes. Debes saber que todas las personas que se acercaron por primera vez a la Bolsa han tenido las mismas dudas que tu. La buena noticia es que es un problema que tiene solución: debes educarte, y para eso, este libro te ayudará a empezar tu camino despejando esos miedos tan comunes.

A town held together with secrets. A wealthy widow looking for an heir. One choice could shame high society into submission. Eighty-year-old Southern aristocrat Iris Temple’s health may be failing, but her wit is as sharp as ever. Before she joins her ancestral ghosts, she must pick an heir to take over her sprawling estate - and the book of secrets that's kept her family in power for generations. This audiobook includes two novels in one volume: Temple Secrets and Gullah Secrets.

The Complete Book of Grant Writing is the ultimate grant book that shows you how to write a grant proposal if you're seeking funding through government grants, foundation grants, and specialty grants. Grant proposal writing is an intricate process where any bits of misinformation or formatting errors can mean the difference between securing funding or not. Professional grant writer Nancy Burke Smith and philanthropy consultant and grant maker E. Gabriel Works unveil the secrets behind how to find and successfully apply for grants.

In these 12 masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience.

¿Buscas una solución efectiva para combatir la inflamación y perder peso de forma saludable? ¿Sientes que tu salud ya no es la misma, que se deteriora día a día y que necesitas ponerle freno cuanto antes? Sigue leyendo… La revista U.S. News & World Report ha clasificado la dieta antiinflamatoria del Dr. Weil como una de las mejores opciones para la salud. Incluso una celebridad como Anne Hathaway ha recurrido a esta dieta para prepararse para sus papeles más exigentes.

Trace the growth of communism from Stalin’s consolidation of power to the establishment of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere in Communism in Power: From Stalin to Mao. These 12 half-hour lessons shed intriguing light on a revolutionary movement that played an outsized role in the 20th century and continues to shape 21st-century geopolitics.

In this influential sequence of linked interviews, Ranciere explores the interplay of art and politics. The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible.

Living to Tell the Tale spans Gabriel García Márquez’s life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to the woman who would become his wife. A radiant, powerful, and beguiling memoir, Living to Tell the Tale gives us the formation of Gabriel García Márquez as a writer and as a man.

À la fin du XIXe siècle, dans une petite ville des Caraïbes, un jeune télégraphiste pauvre et une ravissante écolière jurent de se marier et se promettent un amour éternel. Durant trois ans ils vivent l’un pour l’autre, mais Fermina épouse Juvenal Urbino, un brillant médecin. Alors Florentino, l’amoureux trahi, se mue en séducteur impénitent et s’efforce de se faire un nom et une fortune pour mériter celle qu’il ne cessera d’aimer, en secret, cinquante années durant.

1937. Katya Komarovsky is studying medicine in Glasgow, living among friends and eager to begin her career as a doctor. But when her spendthrift parents announce that they’ve run out of money and are facing ruin—and that she’ll now have to support them by working as a governess in Vienna—the life she’s dreamed of goes up in smoke. Furiously resentful, Katya rages at her wealthy employer, Thor, for stealing her future—and saddling her with twelve-year-old Gretchen, a deeply troubled child who has only a blazing musical talent to redeem her.

Ryo was a chef, an extremely good one at that. That was until the entire universe as he knew it changed. After his spaceship is attacked and destroyed by an enemy armada, he finds himself in a situation he never could have imagined. Sent back in time and to an alternate reality, he has quite a few choices to make. Especially considering that the ruthless Kublai Khan and his Mongol Horde are just a few years away.

Una colección excepcional que reúne todos los cuentos de Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel.

Este libro excepcional reúne la novela corta que le otorga su título y otros seis relatos más, de los que todos menos uno pertenecen a la etapa de plena madurez del autor. Fueron los años en los que Macondo le abrió las puertas del realismo mágico: la frase se hace más larga y caudalosa, la realidad se expresa mediante fórmulas mágicas y legendarias, los milagros se insertan en la vida cotidiana.

Eastern Europe has long been thought of as the "Other Europe", a region rife with political upheaval, shifting national borders, an astonishing variety of ethnic diversity, and relative isolation from the centers of power in the West. It has also been, and continues to be, pivotal in the course of world events. A History of Eastern Europe offers a sweeping 1,000-year tour with a particular focus on the region's modern history.