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In Being Oscar,one of America’s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys recounts the stories and cases of his epic life. The Mafia’s go-to defender, he has tried an estimated 300 criminal cases, and won most of them. His roster of clients reads like a history of organized crime: Meyer Lansky, Nicky Scarfo, and "Lefty" Rosenthal, as well as Mike Tyson and boxing promoter Don King, along with a midget, a dentist, and a federal judge. After 35 years as a defender, he ran for mayor of Las Vegas, and America’s greatest Mob lawyer became the mayor of its sexiest city.

Los jefes (1959) fue el primer libro publicado por Mario Vargas Llosa, con el cual obtuvo su primer reconocimiento literario, el Premio Leopoldo Alas. Según su autor, «Los jefes es un pequeño microcosmos de lo que vendría a ser el resto de mis libros».

Side effects they don't list with a heart transplant: Lusting after a man you've never met before. On the verge of losing my life, I'm doing my best to accept my fate. Then I receive a message from the hospital. A second chance, an organ donor. A man who has a zero chance of waking up from a bad...

Skylar arrives in the Inner Kingdom, but the danger of the trials is only half the battle she will have to face. The courts of the High Fae are as treacherous as they are mysterious to a foreign outsider. Skylar will have to navigate obstacles in the trials, along with the politics and mind games of the other fae creatures living in the Inner Kingdom. The ever-watchful Daxton never wavers from his promise to protect Skylar with all he is, alongside his cunning brother Castor and new allies of Crimson City.

Un texto brutal y necesario, que cuenta lo que casi nadie quiere oír y reflexiona sobre los riesgos, la ética y la necesidad del oficio de periodista. Hay tres cadáveres con nombre y vida en Los muertos y el periodista. Hay más, pero tres son esenciales. Tres hermanos salvadoreños pobres cuyos cuerpos aparecieron desfigurados (como poco) en un cañaveral. Este libro cuenta su historia. ¿Los tres hermanos han muerto realmente en un enfrentamiento entre pandilleros rivales? ¿A quién se protege no investigando las pruebas?

Stir is book five in The Sizzle TV Series, a series of interconnected standalone novels. You may spot some familiar characters along the way. This book includes a stubborn bodyguard with trust issues, a lawyer in love at first sight, and a woman brave enough to go after what she wants. HEA guaranteed!

As a Hungarian immigrant working as a studio hack writing monster movies in 1950s Hollywood, George Curtis must navigate the McCarthy-era studio system filled with possible communists and spies, the life of closeted men along Sunset Boulevard, and the inability of the era to cleave love from persecution and guilt. But when Madeline, a famous actress, offers George a writing residency at her estate in Malibu to work on the political writing he cares most deeply about, his world is blown open.

En abril de 2023, Byung-Chul Han viajó por primera vez a Portugal e impartió unas conferencias en Oporto y Lisboa. Días después ofreció, también por primera vez, una conferencia musical en Leipzig. La tonalidad del pensamiento nace de estas conferencias. La conferencia musical de Leipzig, «La tonalidad del pensamiento», que contó con la interpretación al piano de las piezas favoritas del autor, da título a esta obra y en ella Han expone los tonos y temas que atraviesan su filosofía y repasa la importancia de la música en su obra.

What do you do when your grandma wants to set you up on a date? You fake it. Simple. At least, that’s what I thought ten years ago. It was a little lie: I’m dating Heathcliff Spearman. Tall, dark, and incredibly handsome Heath Spearman. My best friend. I never thought things would get out of hand. But things snowballed, and my grandparents think he’s my fiancé. Oops!

Dulce has spent her entire life avoiding… Love, happiness, and the things that make her feel alive, weren't on the table. That all changes when she meets fate, and they come in the form of an ancient Saephyn, a himbo Orukna, and a summer queen. Three mates to change the course of her life forever, if she lets them. One who convinces her to accept fate. Another who forces her to fight for her happiness. Finally, one who reminds her what sacrifice looks like. All three have her best interests at heart. Will she allow them to show her what love is really like or will she fight it at every turn?

Este relato anónimo abarca todas las perversiones sexuales que anidan dentro de la cabeza de nuestro narrador, un individuo que empieza sintiéndose atraído por una joven del sexo opuesto, para acabar poco después entregándose a todo tipo de desenfrenos sexuales, actos morbosos, voyeurismo y un largo etcétera. Un catálogo escandalizador de perversiones sexuales.

Novela realista sobre bullying, superar el pasado y aceptar las consecuencias de nuestros actos. Parece que nada en una piscina de fuego. A cada brazada, Bruno le gana segundos al reloj, mejorando su marca. No está entrenando para ninguna competición, sol.

When Aumont and Darling join forces to help Teddy, they’re not expecting to risk their hearts as well as their lives. Darling’s striking looks remind Aumont quite painfully of the man he’s lost, and Aumont’s title reminds Darling he has no right to desire a nobleman. But the rising threat soon drives them to flee with Teddy to the country–a journey that puts them face-to-face with their pasts while showing them a chance for happiness is within reach, if only they’re courageous enough to grab it.

"Diario de un seductor" es uno de los primeros escritos del filósofo Søren Kierkegaard, centrados en el apego a lo mundano y a las pasiones humanas. Narra la historia de Johannes, trasunto heredado del Don Juan arquetípico, y sus técnicas de engaño y manipulación a la hora de seducir mujeres. A través de la relación de Johannes con la inocente Cordelia, Kierkegaard reflexiona sobre la estética en la mente humana.

Twelve years after abandoning me when I needed him most, Lucas Adler is back in Sun River. The boy I thought would be my forever is now a man on a mission to make things right. He wants to meet my son. I’d rather introduce him to my fist. Then Lucas makes an offer I can’t refuse: help him reopen the idyllic Camp Wild Lake for a new generation of kids. It’s my dream come true, and he knows it.

La suerte de los Silva Romero es el logro de un padre físico que lee el futuro y una madre abogada que libra a los suyos de las bajezas de la política. Pero su pasado está lleno de fantasmas: Romero Buj, el tío, asesinado por fanáticos de la lucha comunista, y Romero Aguirre, el abuelo, un destacado líder liberal que va de la gloria a la decadencia, son dos sombras que los siguen.

Just when Torr and I had our first passionate night together, our undercover mission went t*ts up. For all I know, he might be lost to me forever. So after staggering alone through the desert, I’m calling on reinforcements for help. Dead or alive, I’m avenging Torr. I’ve been in love with my brother’s best friend for too long to let him go...and Santos. The deadly gladiator also has an iron grip on my heart, and to fail him would cut me deeper than his machetes.

As Soulden learns to be still for the first time in his life, Fernside wonders if perhaps it’s time to spread his wings a little. They can only hide from the outside world—and from their pasts—for so long before the secrets they’ve uncovered about each other strain the growing attraction between them. Each man must decide whether a life of comfortable lies is preferable to one full of difficult truths. And whether the sanctuary they’ve created together is something worth fighting for.

Two worlds tied together by one fate. Only one trial remains. Skylar returns to Solace to challenge the current alpha and claim the final key to the Heart of Valdor. However, tensions between humans and shifters run high, and home is no longer the safe haven she remembers. To succeed, Skylar...

In this dark and sultry enemies-to-lovers romantasy, a mermaid battles hatred and lust for the wretched warlock who once bargained her life away - now he must be the one to save it. Mermaid Zephyra dreams of freedom. On the run from a dangerous captor, she's shed her tail and hidden herself on...