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Jack Spirelli, paranormal investigator, public debunker of paranormal frauds, and private fixer for the magic-using community has opened his doors. Jack's in a crunch. Since he went pseudo-public with Spirelli Paranormal Investigations, his business has sky-rocketed. Debunking the scum who prey on vulnerable targets makes up half his business now. And the rest of his time? Jack's on speed dial with the Texas Lycan Pack, the Inter-Pack Policing Cooperative gives him an occasional ring, and anything that goes bump in the night might just call him with a job.

Protagonist Sean Malone's journey begins at 14. He has an IQ north of 200, a full-ride scholarship to the country’s top technical university, and over a million bucks from a winning streak on Jeopardy. However, he wishes he could just be normal. The US government manipulates him, using him as a codebreaker to pursue a covert operation and killing innocent people along the way. When Sean pushes back, the Department of Defense pushes harder. He flees to Europe to build a new life under a new name, hiding his mental gift from everyone.

Claudia, una periodista que abandonó hace años su pueblo natal (Tordevianos) a las afueras de Burgos decide volver para escribir un reportaje sobre una de las tradiciones más bárbaras que tienen, La suelta, con el fin de conseguir un artículo que la promocione como periodista.

Months after stealing two time machines from a madman who wants them back, the Lanes, a family of seven, seek peace and safety in 1927, the latest stop on a journey through time. For a while, each succeeds.

Months after stealing two time machines, the Lanes, a modern family of seven, make a stand against the unhinged software mogul who wants them back. They travel to 1941 Oahu to eliminate the billionaire's mercenary, an assassin who has chased them through time. While son Jordan, a former intelligence officer, stalks his unknowing foe in the streets of Honolulu, his parents, younger siblings, and pregnant wife settle in the village of Laie, where love, friendship, and opportunity await. All seek refuge from the perils of time travel.

In a small town called Burrow Creek Falls, something feels off. The townsfolk are friendly, the streets are clean and the land is plentiful. All thanks to the town's founder. But when a man named Gerald Forger takes the wrong bus into town, odd things begin to happen. But something runs deeper, something that will change one man's beliefs and put him on a path that may lead to madness.

Hotel owner C.C. Dixon has a beautiful fiancée and a mysterious million-dollar debt. Before he can embrace his future, he'll have to sort his past. Or die trying.

Imagine a town where the people perpetually live in the 1950s, a place where time has all but stopped and where everyone loves his family, job, and life. In this strange place, only a select few people ever leave the city limits, and even then they leave reluctantly. This is what 15-and-a-half-year-old Benjamin Granault faces as, through a string of amazing events, he finds himself living in a town where he can never talk about modern technology or current events, a place where being an outsider can cost a person his life, and being part of the community may very well cost more.

"Forse che si, forse che no" è l'ultimo romanzo di D'Annunzio, scritto fra il 1909 e il 1910, ricco di riferimenti autobiografici come la passione per il volo e la storia d’amore dai risvolti drammatici con Giuseppina Mancini, moglie infelice del conte Lorenzo, proprietario di numerosi vigneti in Toscana. Il protagonista maschile, Paolo Tarsis, è un provetto aviatore e uno spericolato automobilista; Isabella Inghirami, bellissima, sensuale e drammaticamente combattuta fra ragione e istinto, finisce per impazzire, come accadde nella realtà all’amante di D'Annunzio.

Per una leadership senza contenuti, la supercazzola diventa l'unica via. La frase fatta come eterno strumento di bugia seriale da non mantenere, con la classe politica italiana attuale che - tranne rarissime eccezioni - dal premier ai ministri fino ai portavoce e portaborse di vario genere, insieme alla relativa pletora di consulenti e dirigenti al loro soldo, tra impreparazione o perseguimento del solo interesse poltronistico personale, naviga a vista e la loro unica speranza, bugia dopo bugia, è quella di confidare sulla memoria corta e/o l'indifferenza dei cittadini.

Famoso per i suoi bellissimi paesaggi, il pittore Sakumat viene chiamato dal burban Ganuan per dipingere le pareti bianche delle stanze in cui vive, isolato dal mondo, suo figlio, che ha una strana malattia. Le figure che nasceranno e vivranno sulle pareti non saranno ornamento, ma avranno il potere di prendere vita. Lo stralisco è la storia di un'amicizia delicata e assoluta, una fiaba sul potere dell'amore.

"Historias de nuestra historia". La historia de nuestra historia, en tiempo presente, pensada desde ahora e interpelando las verdades de manual. Conduce Felipe Pigna.

Il povero hawaiano Keawe pensa di aver fatto il miglior affare della sua vita. Ha comprato una strana bottiglia da un uomo anziano e misterioso, in cui risiede un diavoletto. Gli è stato detto che il diavoletto soddisferà ogni suo desiderio... ma ogni cosa ha un prezzo, e Keawe non era pronto a pagarlo. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) fu uno scrittore scozzese di romanzi, poesie, saggi e libri di viaggio. A causa di problemi di salute, trascorse molto tempo all'estero, dove entrò a far parte di importanti circoli letterari.

Everyone has an opinion about Pino Luongo. To Tony Bourdain, he was the notorious Pino Noir, the shadowy kingpin of a restaurant empire. To Manhattanites, he was either the savior or the scourge of the city's dining scene. To the many fans of his cookbooks, he was the herald of Tuscan cuisine. In Dirty Dishes, Luongo emerges to tell his side of the story. And its quite a story: After an idyllic (and well-fed) childhood in Tuscany, Luongo came to New York as an actor, and, after quickly washing out, fell into the restaurant business....

When the shattered remnants of a planet-killing meteor called "The Fist of God" hits earth, death and destruction threaten to end human civilization, but The Fist of God is only the beginning of Earth’s tribulation. A terrible pale rider leads the dead against survivors in the small town of Orofino, Idaho, killing and converting them. One teenage girl is the key to humanity’s survival, but first she must survive the pale rider and his army of the dead.

A new gang boss is taking over the meat-packing district of Chicago and his tools are murder and intimidation. He calls himself the Butcher and the trail of death and destruction he leaves in his wake is a testament to that moniker. Now it will take all of the Bagman's skills and know-how to unmask this savage foe and save the streets of the Windy City from a new and bloody gang war.

Meet Clara, reluctant spell caster and former member of the Texas Lycan pack. She fled the pack in fear in the 1970s. In the 30 years that pass, she never fully reclaims her life. It takes a loving family and a Christmas visit to give her the courage to open her heart.

During an attack on her home, a young woman must join with a cybernetic suit, and the being inside it, in order to survive.

Logan Braxton faces impossible odds as he attempts a coup against the powerful Alpha of the Texas Pack - his brother, Richard. Ruled by terror and violence, the pack is crumbling and none are powerful enough to challenge the alpha. Logan will risk his life, his honor, and his place in Lycan society to save those dearest to him.

Una caccia all'assassino è più eccitante di una sciocca caccia al tesoro! Sir George e Lady Hattie Stubbs - i ricchissimi proprietari di Nasse House - ne sono convinti e così tra le attrazioni della festa campestre che organizzano nella loro tenuta, mettono in scena una caccia all'assassino con tanto di finto cadavere e finto assassino. Tutto fila liscio fino a quando... compare Hercule Poirot e se c'è lui, la tensione sale... talmente tanto che il più celebre investigatore del mondo si troverà a dover risolvere ben tre delitti.