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Anne Rice, creator of the Vampire Lestat, the Mayfair witches and the amazing worlds they inhabit, now gives us the first in a new series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead. The novel opens in present-day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is two thousand years old, a Child of the Millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life.

A partir de casos reales y contemporáneos, la ganadora del Premio de la Paz de los Libreros Alemanes 2024 y del Premio Pulitzer 2004, Anne Applebaum, demuestra en Autocracia S.A. que no hay un único líder al frente de las dictaduras, sino unas sofisticadas redes compuestas por estructuras financieras cleptocráticas, dudosos servicios de seguridad y propagandistas profesionales.

Life isn’t linear, and yet we try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. What if instead we approached life as a giant playground for experimentation? Based on ancestral philosophy and the latest scientific research, Tiny Experiments provides a desperately needed reframing: Uncertainty can be a state of expanded possibility and a space for metamorphosis. Neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff reveals that all you need is an experimental mindset to turn challenges into self-discovery and doubt into opportunity.

Dos Estados Unidos e Grã-Bretanha à Europa continental, Ásia e América do Sul, as democracias liberais estão em risco, enquanto o autoritarismo está em ascensão. Em O crepúsculo da democracia, Anne Applebaum, ganhadora do Prêmio Pulitzer e uma das primeiras jornalistas a soar o alarme das tendências antidemocráticas no Ocidente, expõe o magnetismo do nacionalismo e da autocracia. Ela afirma que sistemas políticos com crenças radicalmente simples são por natureza atraentes, sobretudo quando beneficiam os que são leais a eles e excluem todos os demais.

Here is the gorgeous and sinister story of Marius, patrician by birth, scholar by choice, one of the oldest vampires of them all, which sweeps from his genesis in ancient Rome, in the time of Emperor Augustus, to his meeting in the present day with a creature of snow and ice. Thorne is a Northern vampire in search of Maharet, his maker, the ancient Egyptian vampire queen who holds him and others in thrall with chains made of her red hair, 'bound with steel and with her blood and gold'.

Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When Facebook made "Move fast and break things" an informal company motto, it fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the other. That a certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for inventing the future. Leadership experts Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that this belief is deeply flawed—and that it keeps you from building a great company.

Reverta! é o primeiro programa cientificamente comprovado que ajuda a reverter doenças crônicas, assim como prevenir, tratar e reduzir os sintomas de doenças como: câncer, hipertensão arterial, diabetes, obesidade, depressão, ansiedade, demências, doenças autoimunes, doenças cardíacas e até mesmo retardar o processo de envelhecimento das células, aumentar a longevidade e otimizar as quatro áreas mais importantes para a sua qualidade de vida: alimentação, vida sentimental, gerenciamento de estresse e prática de atividades físicas.

"Este libro pertenece a “Cartas de un estoico”, también conocido como “Cartas a Lucilio”, la cual es una colección de cartas y notas que el famoso filósofo Romano, Séneca, envió a su amigo Lucilio para dar sus primeros pasos en el camino del estoicismo. Con estas cartas Séneca buscaba ayudar a su apreciado amigo a controlar sus emociones, ser más disciplinado y, en el proceso, aprender a vivir mejor."

When last the vampire Lestat was seen, he was rising from the dead in present-day New Orleans to walk again among Anne Rice's unforgettable undead. Now Lestat lives again but in a twilight world of music and memory. His charismatic friend Louis de Pointe du Lac is tortured by the memory of the child vampire, Claudia, whom he loved and lost. He calls on Merrick, a young and gorgeous mixed-race by-blow of the rich New Orleans Mayfair clan. To save Louis' sanity, Merrick must use her black witchcraft to call up the ghost of Claudia - however dangerous this may be.

Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling.

The Most Holy Rosary is one of the greatest prayers in the history of the Church. Garnished as it is with the testimony of saints and popes for the last thousand years, the only greater prayers are the Mass and the Divine Office. It is a prayer for the people, to be said over and over, and yet many still seek ways to enter into the deeper mansions of spiritual richness to be found in this devotion. If you seek to reap the full harvest of this bountiful prayer, focus on the mysteries to better follow the life of our Lord through the eyes of Our Blessed Lady.

Mark Haddington is losing his memory. Not years, just fragments. Minutes, hours. He turns around and forgets where he is. But something inside him is changing. His hands glow. Demons recognize him. And the angel he finds behind a club called Mores Pub warns him that deals with the devil are never made by accident.

Emma needs to make sure she’s prepared for whatever disasters may lie beyond the front door. A ladder to escape from exploding volcanoes? Check. Garlic in case a bloodthirsty vampire is poised to attack? Check. Extra socks for . . . well, just in case? Check! When Emma is faced with a situation she is not prepared for, she learns the most valuable survival skill of all: to accept that it doesn’t have to be scary when some things are out of her control.

¿Te has detenido a pensar alguna vez en cómo vives tus días? ¿Sientes que el tiempo se te escapa, que la vida parece correr sin detenerse a esperarte? Ese sentimiento de que el tiempo se nos resbala entre los dedos, de que la vida nos empuja a un ritmo vertiginoso, es tan antiguo como la humanidad misma. El libro que tienes en tus manos, Sobre la brevedad de la vida, escrito por el filósofo estoico Séneca hace casi DOS MIL AÑOS, es un texto que desafía al lector a confrontar, sin rodeos, este incómodo dilema de la existencia: ¿qué hacemos con el tiempo que se nos ha dado?

Dee, Lizzie, and Mare Fortune are three enchanting sisters that spend an unforgettable and exceedingly amorous weekend with their true loves after they appeared one day.

Vivace has committed murder to help his country win a war. But will he ever be able to live with himself? How can he have a normal life after such a heinous deed? And surely, no one could ever love a monster like him…

In Cultivating Audacity, three-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and keynote speaker Anne Marie Anderson challenges you to stop putting your dreams on hold. Anderson shows you how to overcome the all-too-common barriers that stand in your way—whether it’s fear, lack of resources, or self-doubt. It’s time to break through these hurdles and take the bold risks that lead to a life you’re excited to wake up to every day.

For fans of Supernatural and American Horror Story, USA Today bestselling authors Meg Anne and K. Loraine are thrilled to bring you the final installment in the Mate Games Universe.

C'est bientôt l'été. Killiok se lève et pense à la journée qui s'étend devant lui. Il fait beau, il boit son café dehors. Pendant de longues heures, Killiok trace des plans. Puis le Chat Mystère arrive en barque et ils discutent. À l'heure du coucher, Killiok se glisse sous sa couette, heureux et tranquille.

Two months after her exile from Elysia, Sylvia is adrift in a world both strange and exhilarating. As she journeys toward Aelthorin with Jon and Cliff, every step is fraught with uncertainty. Though she promised her mother she'd reunite with her family, Sylvia finds herself drawn deeper into a forbidden bond with Jon. Jon struggles to suppress his growing feelings for Sylvia, determined to help her obtain a powerful gemstone that could grant her the impossible–a power that might allow them to be together.