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Alex has her hands full with a Freshborn Gabe. His memories are gone, and his squeamish demeanor makes her want to shove him back into the Sulfur Pools. Gabe questions whether he’s better off without his memories when a secret about Alex is uncovered, putting their partnership at risk. As if that weren't complicated enough, Gabe faces an impossible choice. Should he go against Judas’s direct orders and risk losing himself to powers so dark that Heaven and Hell combined cannot stand against them?

I made a potion to fix my mum’s broken mind but only time will tell if it will succeed – or if it will fail like all my previous attempts. As her condition worsens, I’m doing everything I can to save her, but when there’s an attack at the Other circus my priorities have to shift. The circus is the Other realm’s equivalent to a witness-protection programme, and I’ve hidden two of my witches there. When one of them is nearly killed, I realise there is a mole in my coven. I need to find out who the traitor is before it’s too late.

Książka obejmuje kilkanaście najlepszych rozmów z podcastu "Making Sense", z gośćmi takimi jak Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom czy Glenn Loury. Zakres tematów jest bardzo szeroki: od natury świadomości i wolnej woli, przez politykę i ekstremizm, aż po etykę w życiu codziennym. Nadając sens tym zjawiskom, rozmówcy pokazują, jak można się odnaleźć w nowoczesnym świecie.

Una mala racha. Así es como podría llamarse a lo que está viviendo Sookie. Primero, su compañero de trabajo es asesinado y a nadie parece importarle. Luego se encuentra cara a cara con una criatura sobrenatural y casi muere en el ataque. Afortunadamente los vampiros le salvaron la vida, así que cuando le piden que busque a uno de ellos, desaparecido en Dallas, Sookie no lo duda ni un momento: les debe un favor.

The gripping story of James Harris, following the journey of his life altering Traumatic Brain Injury, that ended his promising Military career and tells of his path to recovery in a journey of self discovery. When he was told by the medical world, that he would never read or write or even work again. Rather than accept this, he looked for an alternative path to walk and during this recovery, found out that true inspiration lies within. From that moment when his skull cracked off the concrete and his world went black and he though this is it “I am dying”.

Siete años han pasado desde que Clarice Starling, agente especial del FBI, se entrevistara con el doctor Hannibal Lecter en un hospital de máxima seguridad. Y siete años desde que Hannibal el Canníbal burlara la vigilancia y desapareciera dejando una sangrienta estela de víctimas. Sin embargo, cuando Clarice cae en desgracia en el FBI, el doctor Lecter sale a la luz para ponerse en contacto con ella. Así se reanuda la persecución de la codiciada presa, y Clarice, que no ha olvidado su encuentro con la brillante y perversa mente del doctor, es encargada del caso.

Undercover: Mobbed Up is the third book in the thrilling Detective Carlo D'Scenzi Series. Posing as Vincent, a small-time buyer of stolen goods, Carlo infiltrates the notorious Detroit Mafia. Stand shoulder to shoulder with Carlo as he is thrown into a vicious civil war within Detroit's underworld.

The normal American has far more than they need, yet still feel incredibly insecure, needing to grasp it all tightly and continue to gain more. This isn’t just true with our acquisition of things, but also in the way we approach all resources that God has given to us: our time, gifts and talents, our families, and our lives themselves. What is the solution to this problem?

Una promesa a su madre lo mantuvo con vida en medio del horror del Holocausto. Cuando Abram y su madre llegaron al campo de exterminio de Auschwitz el 29 de agosto de 1944, se dieron cuenta de que sería su final. En los últimos instantes juntos, ella le pidió que hiciera todo lo humanamente posible para sobrevivir y para contarle al mundo entero lo que pasó con los judíos. Minutos después, fue asesinada en la cámara de gas. A pesar del dolor y de las dificultades, Abram siguió adelante, motivado por aquella promesa.

From Lord’s to the Fjords is the uproarious tale of cricket in Iceland: how the national press believed a stag party from Oxford were the official England team, how Sky Sports accidentally sent a crew to televise an Icelandic Cricket Cup final that didn’t exist, how the lead singer of Iron Maiden flew a passenger jet into a match under the midnight sun, how Henry Blofeld umpired in a blizzard on top of an ice cap, how the Iceland team was sold to the world’s public and became a viral Twitter sensation (incurring the wrath of Jofra Archer)....

Well, slap me with a pancake flipper! Ever wake up wonderin' why yer socks have turned into a pretzel or how yer hat ended up on tha dog? Them leprechauns are at it again! Now, listen up, 'cause Old Man Farmer's got tha lowdown on thems pint-sized troublemakers'n a yarn-spinnin', knee-slappin' journal-turned-book.

Judge Knott has never lived in a city that transformed into one, or gigantic racecourse. Where the only rule is to race as if your life depends on it, because here, it truly does. All Judge knows is a miserable life at the orphanage with his horrible caretakers Mrs. Stiddums and Ms. Himhim. Most days he goes without eating. But all this changes when he's invited to Race Island.

Luke Madson, an assassin with a private International Intelligence agency, experiences a chance meeting with the daughter of a man targeted for assassination during a flight to New York. The meeting evolves into a personal and business relationship that opens opportunities for Madson and his organization to destroy the gun running operations of this group.

Orphaned by a devastating house fire, Ida's past is shrouded in mystery. Her only lifeline is her friendship with her closest friend, Darci. But when Ida is attacked by an Ashen, her world shatters, thrusting her into an extraordinary place called Sanctuary. Within Sanctuary's protective walls, long-buried secrets and truths are revealed that redefine her world. As loyalties blur, bonds shift, and unlikely alliances form, Ida confronts the demons of her past.

Someone paid the vampire king’s creepy son to turn me into one of the bitey undead. I’m not hanging about to find out who or why. The vampires want me to stay with them for one hundred years of indentured servitude but I have this thing about following orders so I ran from the streets of London to the wilds of Alaska. I have an eidetic memory and a can-do attitude. I can-do anything to get away from the vampire king. So when the Sheriff of Portlock, a hidden paranormal town, invites me to be his assistant, I say sure thing. It beats servitude hands down.

From Charles Chesnutt's The Marrow of Tradition to Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Black writers, some of whom worked as maids themselves, have manipulated the stereotype in a strategic way as a figure to comment on Black-white relations or to dramatize the conflicts of the Black protagonists. In fact, the characters themselves, like real-life maids, often use the stereotype to their advantage or to trick their oppressors.

Don't miss this witchy series if you like humor, heart, and a strong heroine with a slow burn, enemies to lovers, fade-to-black romance.

When I’m arrested for killing a member of the Coven Council, I’m pretty sure we’ll get things straightened out quickly–after all, my victim was a black witch, and she was trying to kill me too. Like most things in my competitive life, I just got there first.

The noble Belasona family has ruled the county of Belstone without incident for over a quarter of a century. Things, however, are changing as new family members, new servants and a new love has put a strain on the normally quiet life of the great manse and its inhabitants.

Things go from bad to worse when I get a summons to attend the vampire king’s court, where I get my marching orders. I’m given one lousy week to get my affairs in order, and then I’m to present myself to the conclave to commence my hundred years of indentured servitude, where I get to learn Vampire 101.