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Olivier Adair, beautiful on the outside, damaged on the inside. One bad decision followed by another leaves him broke and out of options. When propositioned to sell his body, he enters a parallel world of sex for hire. Oliver embarks on a journey that will force him to confront his demons, answer for the sins of the past, and become a man. These are his intimate thoughts.

We all make mistakes. Nobody’s perfect. Not even some of the greatest geniuses in history, as Mario Livio tells us in this marvelous story of scientific error and breakthrough. Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, and Albert Einstein were all brilliant scientists. Each made groundbreaking contributions to his field - but each also stumbled badly. These five scientists expanded our knowledge of life on Earth, the evolution of the Earth itself, and the evolution of the universe, despite and because of their errors. As Mario Livio luminously explains, the scientific process advances through error.

An orphan girl with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of a cult worshipping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent girls into their trunks to serve as wombs. A suburban housewife troubled by her present encounters the sixteen year-old girl she ached to touch in her dreams. These ten stories promise to indulge a listener's sensibilities, their fears and desires.

Based on extensive cultural studies and long years of practice, Livia Kohn creates a new typology of meditation, based on six distinct ways of accessing the subconscious. In a special chapter on each type, she outlines the physiology, world view, and traditional practice as well as its modern medical adaptations and organizational settings. Providing a thorough theoretical framework combined with a comprehensive, analytical overview, the book greatly advances our understanding of meditation.

Astrophysicist and best-selling author Mario Livio draws on his own scientific expertise to provide captivating insights into how Galileo reached his bold new conclusions about the cosmos and the laws of nature. A freethinker who followed the evidence wherever it led him, Galileo was one of the most significant figures behind the scientific revolution. He believed that every educated person should know science as well as literature, and insisted on reaching the widest audience possible, publishing his books in Italian rather than Latin.

Firenze, tredicesimo secolo. La guerra tra Guelfi e Ghibellini distrugge intere famiglie. Tutta la Toscana è sconvolta, ma le due fazioni non sanno che la loro guerra è solo il pallido riflesso di uno scontro che dura da secoli tra i misteriosi abitanti delle lande dello Spirito. Con ogni mezzo a sua disposizione, Kabal, spirito guida della famiglia Cavalcanti, trama per non soccombere e conquistare il potere. Ha un asso nella manica: il suo nuovo capofamiglia umano, il guerriero e poeta Guido Cavalcanti.

Per quale motivo tutti, o quasi tutti, vogliono vivere in città? Le possibili risposte sono molte. Livio Sacchi, da architetto, è convinto che il principale motivo per cui le città piacciono così tanto sia sostanzialmente uno solo: in città ci si sente e si è più liberi che altrove. Affrancando le identità dei singoli dalle aspettative familiari e sociali e permettendo a chi vi abita di provare a diventare ciò che vuole, le città consentono qualcosa di molto prossimo all'autodeterminazione del proprio essere.

Imagine being a 13-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family - life itself. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination. In intimate, excruciating details she recounts what it was like.

An ihrem ersten Collegetag stößt Madison Farneo mit einem jungen Mann zusammen und entdeckt sein mysteriöses Tattoo, um das sich die Gerüchte ranken. Und Darien Verhoefen gibt noch ganz andere Rätsel auf: Obwohl er am College als Herzensbrecher bekannt und sein Interesse an Madison offensichtlich ist, hält er sie auf Abstand. Als sich die beiden doch näherkommen, passieren unheimliche Dinge... denn auf Darien lastet ein alter Familienfluch, dessen Schuld noch lange nicht beglichen ist.

Amara Brown is at the top of her career, interviewing all the hottest athletes at the Olympic Games. However, when she is thrown into a room with the bad boy of swimming - Thomas Clark - things get very unprofessional, very quickly. As they quickly tumble into a hot and naughty affair, several questions loom. Can Thomas win the gold medal he’s always wanted? And can he prove that he also wants to win Amara’s heart?

Clementine Chan believes in the power of the written word. Under the pseudonym Hibiscus, she runs a popular blog reviewing tea shops and discussing larger issues within her Chinatown community. She has a loyal, kind following, save for this one sour grape named BobaBoy888. Danny Mok is allergic to change, and the gentrification seeping into Chinatown breaks his heart. He channels his frustration into his internet alter ego, BobaBoy888, bickering with local blogger Hibiscus over all things Chinatown and tea.

Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world. More than that - mathematics has often made predictions, for example, about subatomic particles or cosmic phenomena that were unknown at the time, but later were proven to be true.

Frascati. Una serie di delitti colpisce la più grande cittadina dei Castelli Romani. Alla caserma locale dei Carabinieri arriva un nuovo Comandante, per la prima volta si tratta di una giovane donna. Il Maggiore Anna Malvasi ha scelto questo luogo perché sa che è il momento giusto per affrontare il passato e tutti i suoi tormenti. La disciplina e gli insegnamenti del rigido padre le hanno condizionato la vita, ma le sue domande dovranno avere una risposta, prima o poi.

En el mundo de Chandra Livia Candiani, donde la palabra es imagen y poesía, meditar es quedarse quieto, seguir con paciencia la respiración y acogerla en silencio y con humildad; es seguir los movimientos de nuestra mente sin detenernos en los pensamientos sobre el pasado y el futuro, y dejar que pasen delante de nosotros como pájaros en un cielo vasto.

When Zivah falls prey to the deadly rose plague, she knows it's only a matter of time before she fully succumbs. Now she's destined to live her last days in isolation, cut off from her people and unable to practice her art - until a threat to her village creates a need that only she can fill. Broken by torture at the hands of the Amparan Empire, Dineas thirsts for revenge against his captors. Now escaped and reunited with his tribe, he'll do anything to free them from Amparan rule - even if it means undertaking a plan that risks not only his life but his very self.

Livia Blackburne gathered sterling reviews for her fast-paced YA debut, Midnight Thief. In this thrilling sequel, Kyra employs her preternatural thieving skills to preserve a shaky alliance with the Palace. Keeping her newly discovered heritage a secret, Kyra must embrace her Makvani blood to save the city from her Demon Rider kin and their bloodthirsty wildcats.

Growing up on Forge's streets has taught Kyra how to stretch a coin. And when that's not enough, her uncanny ability to scale walls and bypass guards helps her take what she needs. But when the leader of the Assassins Guild offers Kyra a lucrative job, she hesitates. She knows how to get by on her own, and she's not sure she wants to play by his rules. But he is persistent - and darkly attractive - and Kyra can't quite resist his pull.

The mission was a failure. Even though Zivah and Dineas discovered a secret that could bring down the empire, their information is useless without proof. Now, with their cover blown and their quest abandoned, their only remaining hope is to get home before Ampara brings the full might of its armies against their peoples. As Shidadi and Dara alike prepare for war, Zivah and Dineas grapple with the toll of their time in the capital.

On a sweltering summer day in 2007, having just lost her brother to illness, Livia Manera Sambuy finds herself standing before a 1924 photograph of a stunningly elegant Indian princess at a museum in Mumbai. What's written in the caption will change her life forever. This gorgeous Punjabi princess, it's said, sold her jewels in occupied Paris to save Jewish lives, only to be arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp, where she died within a year. Could it be true? And if so, how could such a sensational story have gone unnoticed?