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"Vicente Rosenberg est arrivé en Argentine en 1928. Il a rencontré Rosita Szapire cinq ans plus tard. Vicente et Rosita se sont aimés et ils ont eu trois enfants. Mais lorsque Vicente a su que sa mère allait mourir dans le ghetto de Varsovie, il a décidé de se taire. Ce roman raconte l'histoire de ce silence - qui est devenu le mien."

Per gli Eredi di Atlas un'intera vita è trascorsa in una sola notte: la seconda linea temporale corrotta creata dall'Eletto è stata annullata ma non tutti sono riusciti a tornare indenni dalla SacraScozia e la minaccia rappresentata da Desmond e la Guida grava ancora su OgniDove e su tutto il pianeta. Mentre Dominique e gli abitanti dell'isola cercano di trovare alleati in vista dello scontro imminente, gli Eredi seguiranno le orme dell'ultimo Custode di Atlas alla ricerca dell'unica arma in grado di battere il nemico: i Manoscritti del Destino.

"Alle soglie della Tempesta del Tempo si troveranno e la trama della storia sgretolar faranno..." La Scozia non esiste più. Un ragazzino con gli occhi neri come la perdizione è salito al potere, nominando Primo Duca il suo braccio destro: Trevor O'Connor. Nel giorno di Beltain a StoneWall si celebra l'anniversario della venuta dell'Eletto e della nascita della SacraScozia: sarà l'occasione per il Rampollo di essere ammesso nella cerchia dorata del potere.

Non è stato facile per Duncan, Aisha, Dean e Aurora accettare di essere gli Eredi dei Reggenti di Atlas e contenere il potere elementale che ne deriva. Con l'aiuto degli abitanti di OgniDove sono riusciti a salvare il quinto elemento ma gli Altri Eredi non sono stati sconfitti e rappresentano ancora una minaccia. Una visione di Aisha mostrerà l'avvento di un'imminente catastrofe e ad OgniDove riprenderà l'addestramento.

The Turkish Lover, the third installment of Puerto Rican writer Esmeralda Santiago’s memoirs, is the story of her love affair with Ulvi Dogan, a Turkish man 17 years older than her. Initially he provides an escape from her family home but soon winds up being even more demanding than her mother. The story begins in Brooklyn, passes through Miami, and finishes in Massachusetts, where Santiago graduated magna cum laude from Harvard.

Jimmy Santiago Baca's brilliantly received memoir, A Place to Stand, earned him the prestigious International Prize and offered a keyhole view into the brutal personal history that shaped - and continues to inform - his raw, incisive voice. In C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans, he trains his hallmark lyrical intensity on the dark underbelly of addiction and takes us on an unforgettable guided tour of the darkest corners of a brutal, unjust world.

Ein riesiges Imperium. Ein blutiger Machtkampf. Und eine Frau, die über alle triumphiert. 192 n. C.: Das Römische Reich leidet unter der Herrschaft von Kaiser Commodus, der als grausam und wahnsinnig gilt. Als er einer tödlichen Intrige zum Opfer fällt, kämpfen die mächtigsten Männer Roms um die Herrschaft. Unterdessen schmiedet Julia Domna, Gattin des Statthalters Septimius Severus, eigene ehrgeizige Pläne: Sie will eine neue Dynastie begründen. Kaum jemand ahnt, dass die bildschöne Julia die Mechanismen der Macht besser durchschaut als all ihre Rivalen.

The Porters are a family of young goons who have mastered every aspect of the game. From robbery to drugs to extortion, there is nothing that the infamous band of siblings hasn’t been involved in. They devise a plan to escape to Mexico and retire at the height of their career - but then the feds come in. With the authorities hot on their heels, the Porters take listeners on a wild ride as they make their way to Mexico to avoid the death penalty.

A Place to Stand is Jimmy Santiago Baca's memoir of childhood on the small farms of New Mexico, his adolescence spent in orphanages and detention centers, his years as a drug dealer in San Diego and Arizona, and his extraordinary personal transformation under the harrowing conditions behind bars. Life in prison was often brutal, and Baca describes the extreme measures he had to take to survive, which endowed him with an indomitable will to resist the dehumanization of prison life. The act of writing offered a powerful means of transcending his surroundings.

Peru, the 1980s and 1990s: It was a cruel, bloody and terrifying era. The rebels of Sendero Luminoso ("Shining Path"), founded by philosophy professor, Abimael Guzman, slaughtered vilagers in the mountains and hung dogs from power lines, their carcasses canvases for Maoist slogans. The government responded with a corrosive mix of assasination, bribery and intrigue which brought down the rebel leader but triggered the fall of the president.

Playing on High Ground is a book for athletes desiring to grow in their relationship with God and improve their mental game in order to give their all for the one who gave his life for all, Jesus Christ.

This audiobook contains many unreleased and internationally published pieces of Joseph A. Santiago (Mr. Joe). This books represents a decade's worth of works from Mr. Joe's life. The work utilizes creative nonfiction, fiction writing, poetry, essays, and showcases collaboration from the World Voice Project. Mr. Joe utilizes the digital media environment to connect the audience to him and continue conversations beyond what's possible in traditional publishing.

This is the true story about discovering the furry community in Rhode Island with the help of a guide, who shares her experiences and the stories of others from across the US. Their lives create a rich and informative scene about different relationship forms, sexual expression today, personal identity, coming out in society, and how each of us is seeking others that share our values and beliefs.

In Almost a Woman, Esmeralda Santiago continues narrating her memoirs, which pick up five years after debut When I Was Puerto Rican left off. In this volume, “Negi” tells the listener all about her teenage years amidst the turbulent mid-'60s. In a small Brooklyn apartment, Negi leaves her childhood behind and starts to become a woman. But she’s still surrounded by 10 siblings and a mother who relies heavily on her on account of her being the eldest.

De día juegan al fútbol, de noche son superhéroes. En Nakatomi, se inaugura la central nuclear más grande (y peligrosa) de Europa. Para celebrarlo, el alcalde ha tenido una idea estrambótica: Organizar el mejor torneo de fútbol infantil jamás disputado en nuestro país.

Un thriller absorbente protagonizado por una mujer inteligente pero acabada, brillante pero autodestructiva, única. Descubre "Ana Tramel", la novela que ha inspirado la serie de RTVE. Años atrás, Ana Tramel fue una brillante penalista a la que se disputaban los mejores despachos. Un oscuro suceso en su pasado cambió su vida y ahora pasa sus días entre recursos administrativos en un mediocre bufete, ahogándose en un vaso de whisky. Pero su vida da un vuelco cuando su hermano Alejandro, con el que no habla desde hace cinco años, la llama angustiado.

Como una mañana cualquiera, Rachel deja a su hija en la parada del autobús. Pero una llamada de un número desconocido lo cambia todo: una mujer le informa que tiene a Kylie secuestrada y que, si quiere verla de nuevo, deberá seguir sus instrucciones al pie de la letra: primero, pagar un rescate; segundo, secuestrar a otro niño. Quien llama es también una madre cuyo hijo ha sido secuestrado, y si Rachel no cumple con las reglas, el niño morirá, y su hija también.

192 d.C. Varios hombres luchan por un imperio, pero Julia, hija de reyes, madre de césares y esposa de emperador, piensa en algo más ambicioso: una dinastía. Roma está bajo el control de Cómodo, un emperador loco. El Senado se conjura para terminar con el tirano y los gobernadores militares más poderosos podrían dar un golpe de Estado: Albino en Britania, Severo en el Danubio o Nigro en Siria. Cómodo retiene a sus esposas para evitar su rebelión y Julia, la mujer de Severo, se convierte así en rehén.

Julia está en la cúspide de su poder, pero la traición y la división familiar amenazan con echarlo todo a perder. Para colmo de males, el médico Galeno diagnostica que la emperatriz padece lo que él, en griego, llama karkinos, y que los romanos, en latín, denominan cáncer.

Una persona sufre en promedio quince pérdidas importantes a lo largo de su vida. La muerte siempre ha sido nuestra mayor certeza, aunque nos empeñemos en rechazarla o si quiera mencionarla. Este libro nos invita a aceptarla como lo que es: parte de la vida. Pues ambas, la vida y la muerte, son caras de una misma moneda. Y al entenderlo así estaremos en capacidad de vivir con mayor intensidad y valorar cada instante de nuestro presente, que es la única realidad que existe.