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Ethan, the accidental Goblin King, faces his greatest challenge as the Goblin Emperor's army marches on Skrulgara. With war looming, he must forge alliances at a grand summit, uniting goblin tribes, elves, and dweorgar against a common foe. But diplomacy isn't Ethan's only battle. The brilliant inventor Cinda holds the key to Skrulgara's defenses, and Ethan's heart. Meanwhile, the goblin archivist Zirka harbors a secret that could change... everything.

Fed up with her married Miami boyfriend, savvy Dulce has no problem stealing his drug-dealer stash and fleeing to the Caribbean. Between her special skills - and an eye for very rich and/or very smokin' men - Dulce stays a hustle ahead of trouble and makes her new life one endless party in Puerto Rico. Until she's caught in Hurricane Maria - and witnesses both the heartbreaking disaster of climate change, and the international vultures who plunder the tragedy for a financial killing, making shady use of relief funds to devastate the island even more....

Leona is cast into bewildering disgrace and poverty with a baby, a violent husband, and shattered faith. She hacks through the bones of her Mennonite naiveté to confront harsh realities. This riveting and morally unflinching memoir, recommended by Ms. Magazine, delivers intense suspense, humor, and unusual wisdom.

Married and alone... These are the musings of an unfit Wife.

There Plant Eyes probes the ways in which blindness has shaped our ocularcentric culture, challenging deeply ingrained ideas about what it means to be “blind”. For millennia, blind­ness has been used to signify such things as thoughtlessness (“blind faith”), irrationality (“blind rage”), and unconsciousness (“blind evolution”). But at the same time, blind people have been othered as the recipients of special powers as compensation for lost sight (from the poetic gifts of John Milton to the heightened senses of the comic book hero Daredevil).

Samstagabend auf dem Campo Santa Margherita. Nach einem Drink lassen sich zwei Touristinnen von ein paar Einheimischen zu einer Spritztour in die Lagune verführen. In der Dunkelheit rammt das Boot einen Pfahl, und die Amerikanerinnen enden bewusstlos auf dem Steg des Ospedale. Warum alarmierten ihre Begleiter nicht die Notaufnahme, wenn alles nur ein Unfall war? Je hartnäckiger Brunetti ermittelt, desto näher kommt er einem Monstrum, vor dem sich selbst die Mafia fürchtet.

Asian American Christians need to hear and own our diverse stories beyond the cultural expectations of the model minority or perpetual foreigner. A team from East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian backgrounds explores what it means to learn our names and be seen by God. They encourage us to know our history, telling stories of the Asian diaspora in America who have been shaped and misshaped by migration, culture, and faith. As we live in the multiple tensions of being Asian American Christians, we can discover who we are and what God may have in store for us and our communities.

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.

On a cold Venetian night shortly before Christmas, a man is killed in a scuffle in Campo San Stefano. The closest witnesses to the event are the tourists who had been browsing the man's wares before his death - fake handbags of every designer label. Officially termed a venditore ambulante or extracomunitario, the dead man was working as a vu cumpra, one of the many Black Africans purveying goods outside normal shop hours and without work permits. Arriving on the scene, Commissario Brunetti's response matches that of everybody involved: why would anyone kill a vu cumpra?

A luminous spring day in Venice, and Commissario Brunetti and his sidekick Vianello play hooky from the Questura along the Grand Canal to rescue Vianello's friend Marco, who has been arrested during an environmental protest. They get him released, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, who owns a glass factory on Murano. The old man is seething with rage, and his daughter shares her fear with Brunetti that he will actually hurt her husband.

Seventeen year old Jane Waterford quits her step-mother’s house in Ireland after the sudden death of her father and takes a ship to England to get away from the threat of an arranged marriage. A friendly widow takes Jane under her wing, but their carriage overturns on the road and after that things never go quite as Jane intended. Unwittingly she takes a job as secretary to the grandmother of the Duke of Grantley, the mysterious stranger who rescued them after the accident. When Jane at last realises who he is she clashes with him over a number of things, since they are poles apart ...

Antes de que el chef Aaron Sánchez saltara a la fama, era un niño, un mexicoamericano travieso, criado por una mujer con una determinación incansable y de invaluable talento, chef y restauradora de éxito por derecho propio. De niño pasaba las noches en el comedor de su casa rodeado de algunos de los chefs y restauradores más influyentes de Nueva York. En sus memorias, Sánchez se adentra en sus años de formación con gran sinceridad, inyectando adrenalina en su historia y revelando cómo se enamoró de la cocina y comenzó una carrera en el trepidante mundo culinario.

Ambientados es el podcast de la Dirección de Cultura y Educación Ambiental de la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente de Nuevo León, conducido por Hiram Bernal Pérez. En cada episodio, expertos abordan temas ambientales actuales desde locaciones representativas del estado, explorando su riqueza natural y sus desafíos ecológicos. Acompáñanos en este recorrido y mantente informado sobre el presente y futuro de nuestro entorno. ¡Suscríbete y síguenos para no perderte nada!

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.

In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession - eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second child, and make it his mission to help the museum become a reality.

El milagro de ser próspero te invita a un viaje de amor y reconocimiento para trabajar tu conciencia de prosperidad y construir la vida que siempre has deseado. La prosperidad es algo innato en todos los seres humanos, es el camino que te conecta con tu destino y tu misión de vida; simplemente tienes que conectar con ella y reconocerla para que comiences a fluir en abundancia plena.

Historia de un caballo es una parábola sobre la humildad, el valor interior y la libertad espiritual. Desde un enfoque de autoayuda, nos invita a vivir con autenticidad, a no permitir que los juicios externos definan nuestro camino, y a encontrar dignidad incluso en los momentos más silenciosos de nuestra existencia.

Dimitri, joven comerciante y padre de familia, es condenado injustamente por un crimen que no cometió. A pesar de ser condenado y colocado en una prisión de Siberia, se propone reforzar su fe.

Esta fascinante fábula inicia con el hallazgo de un grano gigantesco en la Rusia rural. Este descubrimiento lleva al protagonista a reflexionar sobre cómo los granos eran más pequeños en el pasado.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Temptation of Forgiveness by Donna Leon, read by David Sibley. When important information is leaked from inside the Venetian Questura, Commissario Guido Brunetti is entrusted with the task of uncovering which of his colleagues is responsible. But before Brunetti can begin his investigation, he is surprised by the appearance in his office of a friend of his wife's, who is fearful that her son is using drugs. A few weeks later, Tullio Gasparini, the woman's husband, is found unconscious with a serious head injury at the foot of a bridge.