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En 1535, un objeto perteneciente a Ah Puch, el temible dios maya del inframundo, llegó a la ciudad más importante del Imperio Español, pero, a pesar de ser relegado al olvido por la Iglesia durante quinientos años, la amenaza que supone para la humanidad no fue eliminada. En diciembre del año 2012, el Códice de Fray Bernardino llega a manos de la jefa del departamento de restauración del Archivo de Indias, Ireri Dávila. Aunque aún no lo sabe, el viejo manuscrito es la clave para que la peor de las profecías mayas se haga realidad.

Najwa Zebian, EdD, has been grappling with the concept of letting go for years, both in her own journey and in her interactions with community members, students, and friends. More and more, Najwa has observed that while our problems are personal, the themes surrounding them are universal. She concluded that letting go is a topic that deserves specific attention and consideration. Wanting a tool that is practical for as many people as possible, Najwa used her considerable platform to solicit questions from longtime followers.

Murderers and monsters, shape-shifters and the unquiet dead, cryptids and clowns. Dangerous Toys explores a world of small horrors from the subtle to the brazen, the serious to the slapstick.

Gone are my dreams of being the most powerful leader of the vampire clans... and all because I failed to Turn on my twenty-first birthday. I'll be paraded in front of every male vampire in the area and sold off to whoever wants to use my body until they're bored with me. I have no hope of a happily-ever-after.

Do you believe in ghosts? Addie didn’t. Not until he met one. Israel, a ghostly white cat, has travelled from the distant past with a message for him. He has to save a friend he hasn’t made yet. In a sleepy English village, a group of evil ghosts are scheming to recreate a 100-year-old experiment that will bring them back from the dead. They have recruited the perfect power-crazy scientist to help them implement their plans. She’s evil, cunning, and will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Addie has his own problems.

Tres mujeres, tres siglos y la misma chocolatera de exquisita porcelana blanca: Sara: propietaria de un apellido que en Barcelona es sinónimo de chocolate, se enorgullece de dar continuidad a la tradición heredada de sus padres. Aurora: hija de una sirvienta de una familia burguesa del siglo XIX, para quien el chocolate es un producto prohibido. Mariana: esposa del fabricante de chocolate más famoso del siglo XVIII, abastecedor de la corte francesa e inventor de una máquina prodigiosa.

Dani shares how she has broken generational cycles of self-sabotage and living on the breadline to becoming the creator of her own destiny and leader of a movement that has seen thousands of people all over the world stepping up into their own versions of success. Using her inimitable combination of straight-talking, humor, and genuine love for her audience, I Am the Queen Bee is an uplifting and informative audiobook that is guaranteed to have you fired up and equipped with all the tools you need so that you, too, can fly anyway.

Seventeen-year-old Seelie Stanton never wanted to kill anyone. She never wanted to be invisible in her own family; she never wanted to crush on her best friend, Alyssa, and she definitely never wanted to know how effectively a mallet could destroy a human head. But the universe doesn't care what she wants and neither does Shane Mayfield. When the former high school basketball star attacks her, she has no choice but to defend herself. She saves her own life, but she can't bring herself to talk about what happened that night.

¿Has tenido alguna vez la sensación de que te estás equivocando de camino? ¿Piensas que tu vida podría servir para algo más importante? Este libro despierta la conciencia y te demuestra que todas las respuestas están en tu interior. Estás a punto de comenzar un maravilloso viaje interior que te permitirá tomar conciencia de las limitaciones que te atrapan y superar los obstáculos que te alejan de la vida que deseas.

Si la intuición tuviera dientes hace tiempo que me habría comido el mundo. Menos mal que las hadas no me siguen el rollo, porque a mí las indigestiones me sientan fatal. Esa soy yo, Lucía la fantástica: impulsiva, impaciente, impertinente, a veces infantil, muchas veces deslenguada, siempre díscola y muy a menudo obstinada. ¿Qué le voy a hacer? El melodrama me pone. Altamente histriónica.

Twelve-year-old author-in-training and gadget-making enthusiast, Issy Garcia, dreams of bringing her steampunk inventions to life. If only she could convince her scientist parents to share space with her in their backyard barn lab. But they won't let Issy near their precious "real science" experiments. That is until they end up stuck in one. When a mysterious storm hovers over her family's new home in Cornville, Arizona, and rogue lightning streaks through the house, Issy's parents go missing.

No one can remember, when it was different. When there were no walls, surrounding the small town of Glen Falls, protecting it from the creatures who rule the night. The creatures who cower in the lights but strike fear in the darkness of the night. Hunter, a boy becoming a man, wonders why this must be so. He will challenge why the town hides the tall walls. In the it may be, more dangerous inside the walls...than out.

Descended from a line of powerful witches, Courtney Wellington embodies the Wiccan Goddess who must fulfill an ancient prophecy to keep the growing powers of evil at bay. At the Summer Solstice, she must marry, and she has chosen Robert McGregor for her mate. But Courtney's plans never included falling in love with him.

An orphaned sea witch named Lorelei and her seagull familiar have grown up living far inland at a magic reclaimer mage's castle never having seen the beach or ocean. Gavin the apprentice sorcery recycler and supernatural estate liquidator takes over their master's trading wagon caravan after his mysterious death and sets out on a journey of discovery. A Hydromancer may work with any liquid and a chance encounter with a Squonk and its tears creates unusual magical possibilities for a water witch.

After buying her favourite rum distillery and settling down, she thought she'd heard the last of her arch nemesis, Evanrute Saarien. But Saarien, fresh out of prison for his misdeeds in Windswept, has just fabricated a new religion, positioning himself as its holy leader. He's telling his congregation to go on strike, to fight the system. And unfortunately, they're listening to him.

Tras una vida dedicada al fútbol como profesional, llega el momento de colgar las botas para Joan. ¿Cómo afrontar esta nueva etapa después de tantos años dedicándose en cuerpo y alma al deporte? Sin esperarlo, Joan conoce a alguien que le hace replantearse su manera de entender la vida. ¿Conseguirá dar respuesta a esa pregunta que lleva asaltándole durante años?

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

A suspicious truce. An unsolved murder. To clear her name, she'll need more than the skills of her ancestor.... Methusal is willing to work harder than any man for the sport she loves. The 18-year-old has trained for years for a chance to win the Kaavl Games and bring victory to her hometown. But before the competition against the worthy Behran can begin, her best friend is tragically murdered.

Le haiku, poème traditionnel japonais, "sorte de balafre légère tracée dans le temps", comme dit Roland Barthes, réussit à exprimer en peu de mots ce que l'encre suscite en quelques traits de pinceau dans la calligraphie ou la peinture : un moment privilégié, un instant de lumière, un éveil. L'un et l'autre naissent d'un même souffle, d'un même élan, au terme d'un intense recueillement.

Dani Dyer stole the nation’s heart with her genuine warmth and honest personality when she won Love Island this summer. She proves that you don't need to succumb to peer pressure, be swayed by all too perfect Insta-images or behave in a way that's not true to who you are. Her first book shows she is wise beyond her years as she shares her experiences around growing up, bullying, relationships, insecurities and being Danny Dyer’s daughter.