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If Rupert Murdoch isn't making headlines, he's busy buying the media outlets that generate the headlines. His News Corp. holdings - from the New York Post, Fox News, and most recently The Wall Street Journal, to name just a few - are vast, and his power is unrivaled. So what makes a man like this tick? Michael Wolff gives us the definitive answer in The Man Who Owns the News.

Jamison Matthews has lusted after Ryder Montgomery since she was a preteen. But now that Ryder and her brother's band, Shaken Dirty, has made it huge, she's just one of many pining for the brooding lead singer. Too bad Ryder still sees her as a little sister. Not that it matters. Her brother would never allow it, and the last thing Jamison wants is to be another notch on a rock star's bed post. Even if it's Ryder's.

Nadie sobrevivió ileso a la última batalla. Flint está enfadado con el mundo, Jaxon se está convirtiendo en algo que no reconozco, y Hudson ha levantado un muro que no estoy segura de poder romper. Ahora se acerca una guerra y no estamos listos. Necesitaríamos un ejército para tener alguna esperanza de ganar. Pero antes de eso necesito encontrar respuestas a las incógnitas sobre mis antepasados. Respuestas que podrían revelar quién es el verdadero monstruo entre nosotros.

Von Walter Isaacson, dem Autor des Millionenbestsellers über Steve Jobs: Die ultimative und hochaktuelle Biografie über Elon Musk, den faszinierendsten und umstrittensten Innovator unserer Zeit. Heute gilt Elon Musk als Visionär, der sich über alle Regeln hinwegsetzt und der unsere Welt ins Zeitalter der Elektromobilität, der privaten Weltraumfahrt und der künstlichen Intelligenz geführt hat. Dabei waren seine Anfänge weitaus bescheidener.

Running a successful inn is hard work. There are customers to check in, food to prepare, horses to stable, and much more for Lucia to juggle. The crystal elf spends her days working 16-hour shifts to keep the Flying Filly in business. There's little time for a life outside of work beyond what quiet moments she finds before bed to crack open a book. And if there's no time for hobbies or social events, Lucia definitely has no room in her schedule for romance.

A History of the Middle Ages is the amazing story of European man in transition. It is a dramatic chronicle of 1,000 years of political, social, and economic transformation beginning with the dissolution of the classical Mediterranean civilization and ending with the first flowering of the Renaissance. It is also the story of two new religions, Christianity and Islam, both of which were destined to dominate the mind of every person in those new civilizations arising in their wake.

M. Wolf traveled to the Czech Republic, birthplace of her great-grandmother, for further insight into this remarkable story. Someone Named Eva is the devastating tale of a young girl whose identity is threatened by the allconsuming sweep of Nazi aggression. Before she loses everything, Milada is a normal, happy girl. But then come the Nazis, tearing her from her family’s arms and leaving her with little but her grandmother’s lingering words: “Remember who you are.”

Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor, and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.

Harry Crews grew up as the son of a sharecropper in Georgia at a time when “the rest of the country was just beginning to feel the real hurt of the Great Depression but it had been living in Bacon County for years.” Yet what he conveys in this moving, brutal autobiography of his first six years of life is an elegiac sense of community and roots from a rural South that had rarely been represented in this way.

He vuelto al Instituto Katmere, pero me siento extraña, me atormentan cosas que no recuerdo haber vivido, y sigo luchando por comprender quién o qué soy realmente. Cuando empiezo a sentirme segura de nuevo, Hudson reaparece con sus ideas de venganza, insiste en que hay secretos que no conozco, secretos que pueden abrir una brecha entre Jaxon y yo para siempre. Pero enemigos mucho peores nos están esperando...

The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future. In this unique collection of over 50 essays, The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself, Richard D. Wolff argues clearly that "returning to normal" no longer responds adequately to the accumulated problems of US capitalism.

Diamond tycoon Marc Durand knows not to trust his ex-fiancée, Isabella Moreno. Years ago her father stole Durand gems...and she lied for him. Marc hasn't forgiven her, but he can't forget her either. So, when his company comes under fire, he demands her help. She owes him. And until he uncovers the truth, he wants his enemy by his side - and in his bed....

Für Harry ist der Moment gekommen, endlich seine Geschichte zu erzählen. Es war eines der berührendsten Bilder des 20. Jahrhunderts: Zwei Jungen, zwei Prinzen, die hinter dem Sarg ihrer Mutter gehen, während die Welt voller Trauer und Entsetzen zusieht. Beim Begräbnis von Prinzessin Diana fragten sich Milliarden von Menschen, was die Prinzen in diesem Moment dachten und fühlten - und welchen Verlauf ihr Leben von diesem Augenblick an wohl nehmen würde. Für Harry ist jetzt der Moment gekommen, endlich seine Geschichte zu erzählen.

Anders is an angry, cynical man. A book critic known for his scathing reviews, he finds any excuse to dismiss, belittle, or insult. This afternoon is no more agitating than the next. Angers finds himself in a long line at the bank, waiting to reach a teller. Even after two men - wearing masks and carrying guns - take control of the building, Anders is unfazed. It's this behavior that lands him with a pistol against his stomach and a man screamingin his face. And when the bank robber, indignant over Anders' behavior, shoots the book critic in the head, his mind floats through the memories of his life, settling on one particular event....

A concentrated study of Johann Sebastian Bach's creative output and greatest pieces, capturing the essence of his art.

"Siento que estoy a punto de llegar al límite. Si intentar graduarme en una escuela para seres sobrenaturales ya era suficientemente estresante, ahora resulta que el estado de mi relación ha pasado de ser complicado a ser un imposible… Y por si no fuera suficiente Bloodletter ha decidido lanzarnos una bomba de proporciones épicas a todos... Pero bueno, si lo piensas, ¿cuándo algo en Katmere Academy ha sido normal?

Jolly is 17. She can't really spell. She doesn't have much of a job. And she has two little kids from two different, absent fathers. Jolly knows she can't cope with Jilly and Jeremy all by herself. So she posts a notice on the school ­bulletin board: BABYSITTER NEEDED BAD. No one replies but Verna LaVaughn, who's only 14. How much help can she be? For a while, Jolly, Jilly, Jeremy, and LaVaughn are an extraordinary family. Then LaVaughn takes the first steps toward building her own future, and Jolly begins the long, slow process of turning the lemons of her life into lemonade.

Sierra Chelsi is on the run from a sheriff and his deputies after murdering her abusive father. Stumbling through the woods of Northern Maine, the young werewolf falls into a shady grove and comes face-to-face with a dark monarch of Faerie. The Raven Queen Varella takes an unusual interest in the desperate shifter and offers her a seemingly simple bargain.

We all witnessed some of the most shocking and confounding political events of our lifetime: the careening last stage of Donald J. Trump’s reelection campaign, the president’s audacious election challenge, the harrowing mayhem of January 6, the buffoonery of the second impeachment trial. But what was really going on in the inner sanctum of the White House during these calamitous events? What did the president and his dwindling cadre of loyalists actually believe? And what were they planning?

Mi mundo cambió en el instante en el que pisé el instituto Katmere. Aquí todo resulta extraño: la escuela, los alumnos, las asignaturas; y yo no soy más que una simple mortal entre ellos, dioses... o monstruos. Todavía no sé a qué bando pertenezco, si es que pertenezco a alguno, sólo sé que lo que parece unirlos a todos es su odio hacia mí. Pero entre ellos está Jaxon Vega, un vampiro que esconde oscuros secretos y que no ha sentido nada durante un siglo.