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Las personas tóxicas existen. Te guste o no. Lo aceptes o no. Y su característica principal es, básicamente, que intoxican, invalidan, empequeñecen y destruyen. Pueden estar en cualquier área de tu vida: en la familia, en las amistades, en el trabajo o en la pareja. Pero lo más importante es que, si no te alejas de ellas, pueden acabar desequilibrando tu vida por completo.

I have a billion-dollar inheritance waiting for me, but instead of working for my family, I joined the navy, became a SEAL, and devoted myself to my career. Then I met Matteo. From the moment he joined my platoon, I couldn’t take my eyes off him. Once I let him touch me, I was lost. He tormented me—in bed and out—and all I did was ask for more. Our illicit fling endangered everything I’d worked for, but I couldn’t stop, not until he joined our enemies and betrayed me.

Cameron didn’t realize how much he loved his grandparents’ bakery until Angelo Marchesi, a man he’s hated since high school, threatened to take it away. But Cameron owes Angelo a debt. A debt he can’t pay...Unless he accepts Angelo’s indecent proposal and risks finding out how thin the line between love and hate really is.

I used to be CIA. Now I'm a tattoo artist and a vigilante. When a new hire at my shop gets too curious about my less-than-legal activities, he needs all the protection I can give him. He wants a lot more. More than I should be willing to give. And yet, the longer I keep him close for his own safety...the more I want him in my bed.

In this four-in-one audiobook, you'll learn about voodoo and the power of African spirituality.

"In almost any culture, at any time, you can find food writing,” writes guest editor Mark Bittman in his introduction. “Food means growing and hardship, and health and medicine, and work and holiday. In its abundance it is a gift and a joy, and in its absence a curse and a tragedy. If a culture has writing, that culture has food writing.” The stories in this year’s Best American Food Writing are brilliant, eye-opening windows into the heart of our country’s culture.

¿Estás atrapado en una relación de pareja en la que no eres feliz? ¿Crees que has perdido el control de tu vida y que estás condicionado por tu pareja? ¿Sientes que te has perdido a ti mismo o que ni tan solo recuerdas cómo eras antes de conocerle? Si es así probablemente sufres dependencia emocional. Sabemos que en una relación de pareja nunca hay garantías, pero algunas personas se enganchan, generan vínculos tóxicos con el otro y, sin darse cuenta, empiezan a perder el control de su propia vida.

¿Se ha sentido alguna vez atraído por la palabra “chakra”? ¿Qué significa y por qué es tan popular en el mundo moderno? ¿Qué efectos positivos pueden tener los chakras en su vida? ¿Le desconciertan estas preguntas? ¿Le intrigan los misterios y secretos del mundo de los chakras? Si su respuesta a alguna de las preguntas anteriores es afirmativa, entonces ha llegado al lugar adecuado. Este libro es una recopilación exhaustiva de toda la información relevante sobre los chakras individuales y el sistema de chakras en conjunto.

Sie ist mein Alles. Meine erste Liebe, meine Ehefrau, die erste und letzte Königin der Unterwelt Hades, der König der Unterwelt, will Persephone endlich offiziell zu seiner Braut machen. Doch ihre Mutter Demeter stellt sich ihnen in den Weg und straft New Greece mit zerstörerischen Schneestürmen, solange sie ihre Hochzeitspläne nicht aufgeben. Und nicht nur sie gefährdet das zukünftige Bündnis, denn auch der Halbgott Theseus verfolgt mithilfe der Triade, einer Gruppe, die unter dem Vorwand der Rebellion für Chaos sorgt, seine ganz eigene Agenda.

Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol. An outcast who assists Dr. Moreau with his experiments, which are financed by the Lizaldes, owners of magnificent haciendas and plentiful coffers. The hybrids: The fruits of the doctor’s labor, destined to blindly obey their creator and remain in the shadows.

I should never have approached Remington's car. I knew he was dangerous, but he needed help, and I was sure he could pay well for it. When he offers me an astronomical sum to stay with him for two weeks, I can't say no. Even then, I know when our time is up, I'll wish we had forever. Remington cares for me like no man ever has, and I can’t help falling for him. But how could a crime boss be my Prince Charming or give me the fairytale happily-ever-after I’ve always dreamed of?

La potenza narrativa di Silvia Avallone torna con una storia di condanna e salvezza, scandagliando le profondità di una storia d'amore tra due solitudini che sa farsi portatrice di una promessa, seppur remota, di redenzione. Un romanzo potente e umano che riafferma come la luce più pura possa crescere anche al centro di un abisso di disperazione. Il giorno in cui Bruno assiste al misterioso arrivo di Emilia nel borgo della piccola comunità montana di Sassaia non sa ancora che quell'evento è destinato a stravolgere, di lì a poco, la sua esistenza.

She is the adventurer of the family. Her brother, the gentle dreamer. Even as they bond over folktales and hold each other close, their world has never felt so dangerous. Revolutionaries and pelones are in conflict, soldiers have turned into scavengers, and an escaped tiger has slipped up the mountain, looking for easy prey. As the darkest of legends becomes real, a young girl will do anything to save her brother’s life.

I was the one straight Theriot cousin. At least I thought I was. Then an annoying, clean-cut sheriff came into my life and started making me feel things I didn't want to feel. I wanted to protect him; I wanted to be good enough for him. I wanted to kiss him.

Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman—and journeying deeper into Leonora’s secret life of student radicals and dissidents.

Como culminación de cincuenta años de estudio e investigación sobre la antigua Roma, Mary Beard, profesora de la Universidad de Cambridge, nos ofrece una magistral visión de conjunto de su historia: una historia que, nos dice, «al cabo de dos mil años, sigue siendo la base de nuestra cultura y nuestra política, de cómo vemos el mundo y nuestro lugar en él».

Es sumamente importante saber leer en otros el significado de estos mensajes no verbales. Sin embargo, el verdadero cambio viene cuando tenemos el autoconocimiento suficiente para transformar los nuestros de manera activa.

Cuando fue secuestrado, a plena luz del día, en mitad de una de las ciudades más pobladas de México, la vida del empresario Alberto de la Fuente cambió para siempre. Esta es la crónica de nueve meses de infame cautiverio dentro de una diminuta celda prefabricada. Los 290 días para elegir, una y otra vez y a pesar de todo, continuar viviendo para volver a abrazar a su familia.

Henry es bibliotecario y padece una extraña disfunción genética que le hace viajar involuntariamente en el tiempo; Clare, su mujer, es artista. Su amor es apasionado y solo aspiran a llevar una vida normal. Sin embargo, los viajes al pasado y al futuro de Henry, que a veces producen situaciones comprometedoras y otras divertidas, son un desafío a su relación.

Learn more about the two main pantheons of gods, the Aesir and the Vanir, and the Jotnar. Discover how the Norse world was created and the fascinating history of each god through archaeological and etymological sources.