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Boudica's wrath leads her to revolt against Rome’s claim on her lands and lives. Rome’s consul—Suetonius Paulinus—must annihilate her and her uprising, however, can he? While reputations and loyalties are at stake, Rome’s newest tribune—Gnaeus Julius Agricola and Boudica’s youngest daughter—Rhianna, and her betrothed—Calgacus—are hurled into their opposing worlds intent upon destroying each other. Who will survive this furious revolt?

A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman pushing against the grain in her style and attitude, a Black punk artist before her time. Despite her unconventional looks, Opal believes she can be a star. So when the aspiring British singer/songwriter Neville Charles discovers her one night, she takes him up on his offer to make rock music together.

Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra León takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon - and to recognize the privilege it is to dream at all.

Die Zukunft - trotz aller Errungenschaften so ungewiss wie nie zuvor. Im 22. Jahrhundert hat die Menschheit Raumstationen in der Unendlichkeit errichtet und erforscht das Sonnensystem - bemüht, im Weltall das zerbrechliche Gleichgewicht aufrechtzuerhalten, das auf der Erde zwischen den zwei Machtblöcken existiert: der "Union" und den "Republiken". Mark Brandis leitet die Raumnotretter, eine unterfinanzierte kleine Truppe von Raumschiffen, die dann zum Einsatz kommen, wenn die Not am Größten ist.

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This creates confusion and disagreement not only among medical, legal, and insurance professionals but also within families faced with difficult decisions concerning their loved ones.

Art dealer Lorenzo Baldi will lose his prestigious career if his anarchist father's paintings are revealed to the art world. He's determined to persuade the paintings' eccentric owner to sell them to him, even if to pull it off, he'll have to blackmail his daughter's nanny—a woman with the sexy curves of a Botticelli masterpiece—into being his fake fiance. The gorgeous island of Capri inspires some major misbehaving. But even as the loan shark breathes down Alice's neck and the paintings move closer to the art scene, Lorenzo drops one more bomb that will change everything.

“Lo que importa es la historia dentro de la Historia”, asegura uno de los personajes de esta novela histórica con tintes románticos que Toño Malpica desarrolla en tres diferentes épocas y que sobrevive gracias a un manuscrito que ha pasado de mano en mano, manuscrito que narra la amistad y las andanzas de un grupo de chicos que está dejando atrás la infancia en la Ciudad de México de los inicios del siglo XX, la vida pintoresca de la capital y el descubrimiento del amor que experimentan el Pegote y Ofelia.

The aftermath of near eradication at the hands of an alien race has left humanity blanketed in fear. Fain Jegga has suffered a demotion of epic proportions. Now, instead of being captain of Sodenia, he is the captain of a small recovery boat. Only Kya and a few high-ranking ESAF officers are still fighting to have Fain and his flight crew reinstated to serve on board Sodenia. And now it is more important than ever, as a new alien ship carrying a grave message has appeared in Earth’s skies.

A journey that started without the intention of a transformation results in seismic change and growth. Buckle in and take a wild ride down the path of creating habits and changing mindsets.

Charles Adams is a product of the Minneapolis’s North Side, the city’s poorest neighborhood, and of North High, the state’s poorest school. After graduation he joined the Minneapolis Police Department, overcoming racial prejudice within its ranks to become his alma mater’s resource officer. Then something magical happened. Adams stepped in as football coach, and transformed a winless team into state champions. As North High began to thrive, Adams was hailed as a model of what a Black man from a Black neighborhood might be. That lasted until Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd.

Serenity Ward must come to terms with her role in Kaycie's flawed society. The Establishment is corrupt, but there are those pushing for change from within. Division isn't exclusive to the elite group, though. The islands splinter in the wake of the uprising as webs of lies are untangled.

A veces, la verdad permanece oculta en la oscuridad y sólo se ilumina al abrir una ventana. Una historia de mentiras, secretos, engaños y falsas apariencias que pone el dedo en la llaga sobre mitos incuestionables. Un relato apasionante que disecciona la hipocresía de la sociedad española moderna. Una denuncia valiente de los abusos sexuales en la infancia, sus devastadoras consecuencias y su invisibilidad en este acomodado mundo nuestro.

Giulias Leben scheint auf den ersten Blick perfekt. Sie hat in Süditalien nicht nur ihren Traumjob, sondern in dem attraktiven Lorenzo auch die Liebe gefunden. Als die junge Frau jedoch erfährt, womit er sein Geld verdient, zögert sie, seinen Heiratsantrag anzunehmen, denn ein Leben an der Seite eines Mafioso will sie sich nicht vorstellen. Bevor sie sich entscheiden kann, überschlagen sich die Ereignisse: Der Tod eines jungen Mannes bringt ihr Leben in Gefahr.

In the 1930s, in the wake of the Nazi ascendancy in Germany, a wave of vicious anti-Semitism swept Europe, as Jews became outcasts in their own lands. As they clamored to escape persecution, the world turned a blind eye to their plight. One man, Isaac Steinberg, had a vision of leading his people from the holocaust to a new paradise on the other side of the world. His enthusiastic and resolute efforts to realize his vision left large cracks in the smug Anglocentrism that guarded his unpromised land.

People Magnet: Crack the Code to Charisma offers you a new opportunity to transform your social skills and become the life of any party!

A major part of this audiobook was originally written and compiled in 1929 by Mrs. Jean (Augusta) Graham. She passed from this world in October of 1977 in her home town of Osceola, Missouri, after a long illness. She had retired in 1947 and was a member of the Osceola Presbyterian Church. She was active and much loved in the community.

Harlow ha viajado a Las Vegas junto a sus dos mejores amigas, Mia y Lola, para celebrar su reciente graduación. Después de una noche fantásticacon Finn y de un matrimonio tan inesperado como alocado que ha durado apenas 12 horas, su intención es seguir adelante con su vida. Tanto Finn como Harlow saben que es muy probable que vuelvan a verse ocasionalmente, puesto que tienen amigos en común, pero lo que ninguno de los dos sospecha es que lo que sienten el uno por el otro va más allá de una divertida e irrefrenable pasión.

In this second volume of Dante Alighieri's ageless classic, the *Comedie* (*Commedia*), Vergil and Dante emerge from their upward climb out the lower depths of Hell, at the center of the earth, to find themselves at the shores of the Mountain of Purgatory, exactly opposite Jerusalem in the Hemisphere of Water, where it is the only land below the Equator. Here they encounter other newcome souls and those who are awaiting entry into the punishments.

Risas, amor, salseo, cuatro hermanas muy locas y un highlander de ensueño. A sus veintisiete años, Faith Ryan ha logrado dos de sus sueños: vivir en Manhattan, aunque ello la obligue a compartir un piso de un solo baño con sus tres hermanas, y trabajar en una de las más prestigiosas agencias de marketing y publicidad de Nueva York. Bueno, eso último aún no lo ha conseguido del todo. Está a prueba. Y para superarla necesita encontrar un highlander para un anuncio de colonia. Uno de esos con los que sueña toda mujer; con voz profunda, mirada intensa y cuerpo de infarto.

Legends of Ogre Gate is the story of Sunan and Bao. He comes from a fishing village, she is from a noble family in the capital city. The invasion of the Demon Emperor throws the lands into chaos, and brings Qi into the world, allowing for superhuman martial arts to develop. In many stories, the main characters discover ancient fighting methods, but in Legends of Ogre Gate, Sunan and Bao are the ones who invent martial arts cultivation.