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As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law, the Count Falier, Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count’s best friend, the elderly and childless Gonzalo, to adopt a younger man as his son. Under Italian inheritance laws, this man would become the sole heir to Gonzalo’s substantial fortune, something which Gonzalo’s friends, including the Count, find appalling. For his part, Brunetti wonders why they're so intent on meddling in the old man's business.

If you're tired of working your butt off for nothing, it's time to change your strategy. Written by an experienced and bestselling car salesman, this book will give you all the tools and skills to step up your sales game and move a lot more inventory.

From the co-creators of Slow Burn, Fiasco is a narrative podcast that transports listeners into the day-to-day reality of America’s most pivotal historical events. The fifth season of the show goes deep on the AIDS epidemic in America, with a special focus on the early years of the crisis, when a diagnosis was tantamount to a death sentence. The eight-part series looks at the mystery and missteps around identifying and treating a new, contagious disease, and what it took to get the public — and the government — to care.If you want more Fiasco, be sure to check out the latest season, ...

¿Disfrutas con el terror, la intriga y el suspense? Entonces hablas el idioma del miedo y sin duda, este es tu sitio. ¿Hablas Miedo? es un podcast que ahonda en nuestros temores más profundos y ancestrales a través de una curiosa mezcla de periodismo de investigación, narrativa, excelentes interpretaciones y una impecable realización sonora. Ficciones y casos reales se dan la mano en una experiencia única no apta para cobardes.

The Introvert Dating Playbook is for introverts who want to learn how to open women effectively.

El Reino de Dios Está en Vosotros es un ensayo escrito por Tolstoi en 1893. El título deriva de las palabras de Cristo en el Sermón de la Montaña. Tolstoi lo utiliza para exponer su idea del cristianismo como filosofía de vida; de relación personal y directa con Cristo; el rechazo a la violencia como método para el orden artificial; y para denunciar a las instituciones que promueven el status quo y la diferencia entre los hombres.

It's crass gun porn filled with fanboy pandering action movie references. Do you like action movies? Do you like dark, edgy, hard-boiled heroes? Do you like fully automatic weapons blasting guys' heads off? How about product endorsements that are awkwardly placed between depictions of intense violence? Yeah? Then this book is for you!

Follow the inspirational journey of a former stockbroker who leaves his unfulfilling desk job in search of a meaningful life. He sets out from Los Angeles on a vintage motorbike, determined to circumnavigate the globe surviving only on the kindness of strangers. Incredibly, he makes his way across the U.S., through Europe, India, Cambodia, and Vietnam, and finally to Canada and back to the Hollywood sign, by asking strangers for shelter, food, and gas.

Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Vladimir Lenin. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo. Why fascism was able to conquer only in those countries where social democratic or Stalinist parties blocked the workers and their allies from utilizing a revolutionary situation to remove the capitalists from power.

La historia de la revolución, como toda historia, debe, ante todo, relatar los hechos y su desarrollo. Mas esto no basta. Es menester que del relato se desprenda con claridad por qué las cosas sucedieron de ese modo y no de otro. Los sucesos históricos no pueden considerarse como una cadena de aventuras ocurridas al azar ni engarzarse en el hilo de una moral preconcebida, sino que deben someterse al criterio de las leyes que los gobiernan. El autor del presente audiolibro entiende que su misión consiste precisamente en sacar a la luz esas leyes.

The General’s dysfunctional home life drove him to apply to the Air Force Academy almost 40 years ago, where he was provided with a new family and sense of worth he had never gotten from his own father. This purpose has driven the General throughout his remarkable career, taking him to Alaska, the Pentagon, and Germany; to Florida during Hurricane Opal, and has also allowed him to work alongside Presidents Bush and Obama and Secretaries of Defense Leon Panetta and Ashton Carter. Journey is a book about leadership. It is packed with the General’s lessons from life in the military.

Programa de media noche que comparte relatos e historias de infidelidad, aventuras y experiencias compartidas o prohibidas.

Master storyteller and international best-selling author of Redemption, Trinity, and Exodus, Leon Uris once again brilliantly interweaves historical fact with gripping fiction in this powerful novel of politics, family, intrigue, love, and the passions that rule human lives.

This is Leon Malmed's true story of his and his sister Rachel's escape from the Holocaust in Occupied France. When their father and mother were arrested in 1942, their French neighbors agreed to watch their children until they returned. Leon's parents were taken first to Drancy, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and they never returned.

Schon seit Wochen ist Lena Gruenwald (Yvonne Greitzke) auf der Suche nach der perfekten Story, um endlich als Redakteurin beim Berliner Tagesspiegel übernommen zu werden. Dabei wird die junge Journalismus-Praktikantin von einem Thema ganz besonders angezogen: dem Jenseits. Auch auf Lenas privatem Youtube-Kanal dreht sich alles nur um Geister, Ouija-Boards oder Tarotkarten. Doch eines Tages kommt die Dreiundzwanzigjährige dem Tod näher, als sie geahnt hätte - beginnend mit einer unerwarteten Nachricht aus Heidelberg.

Gingerbread Spiced Daddy is a Christmas romance following one Winter Elf fresh from the North Pole as he finds his HEA in the human world over the holiday season thanks to a little magic called love.

A través de historias entrelazadas, Tolstói explora cómo actos aparentemente insignificantes pueden revelar la presencia de Dios. Ambientado en la Rusia del siglo XIX, este libro despliega la convicción de Tolstói de que el amor verdadero y la bondad hacia los demás son el camino hacia la iluminación espiritual. Con personajes memorables y situaciones emotivas, Tolstói nos invita a reconocer que, en cada acto de amor, encontramos a Dios.

Una oportunidad perdida narra la historia de Iván Scherbakoff, un próspero campesino, y su vecino Gavryl el Cojo, cuya relación se desintegra debido a conflictos menores y malentendidos que escalan a una violenta confrontación. A lo largo de los años, estos desacuerdos entre las familias y la comunidad se vuelven crónicos, resultando en peleas físicas, demandas legales y una tragedia. A través de la perspectiva del anciano padre de Iván, el autor explora temas de orgullo, redención y la búsqueda de la armonía en medio del caos.

Una señora viaja en una diligencia camino de Italia, para intentar curarse de la grave infección tuberculosa que parece. Un cochero de diligencia, afectado de tuberculosis, acepta regalar a un joven sus magníficas botas, a cambio de que éste le lleve una buena lápida sobre su tumba... En este libro Tolstoi nos narra tres muertes conectadas entre sí por un vínculo natural. Tolstoi refleja en este relato, que hasta para morir hay clases. Tres muertes, dos humanas, la tercera la tendras que descubrir.

“Alternate Personalities of a Cosmic Mind” is an existential exploration of reality, consciousness, and identity told through the eyes of Maia Yetta Rose, an EMT whose ordinary life unravels into extraordinary revelations. She is haunted by vivid dreams, persistent déjà vu, and a growing sense that the boundaries separating individuals, nature, and the universe are illusions. This isn’t just in her head—it’s a window into a truth far deeper than science or religion.