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Marsella, 1973. Théo Daquin, un investigador precoz, brillante, atractivo y homosexual, deja el Líbano para ocupar el puesto de comisario en Marsella, la capital mundial del tráfico de heroína. Se encuentra con una ciudad ensangrentada por los ajustes de cuentas entre matones y la estrecha relación entre los políticos y los traficantes de drogas y armas. Incluso los diferentes cuerpos policiales están en plena guerra: se espían, se chantajean entre ellos y proliferan las asociaciones semiclandestinas.

Occult references ripple frequently through mainstream culture, Wiccan and witchcraft movements appear trendier than ever, and chances are that you're unknowingly acquainted with at least one witch. Drawing on her expertise as a magical practitioner and religious studies scholar, Thorn Mooney pulls back the curtain, introducing you to this complex world and helping you understand why it holds such intense appeal for so many.

Every hardship intended to destroy me and keep me from the fullness of God’s intentions for my life, has in time been used to deepen my love for Jesus and expand my at times wavering faith. It would be here, in my darkest hours, that I would find His most beautiful treasures. Riches I will forever hold close in my heart. It is with this belief, that I have chosen to write this devotional book. It is my hope that as I share my own personal stories, I will uncover and expose the enemy's lies, that the love and faithfulness of Jesus will be revealed and that God's story will be displayed in mine.

Once renowned for her villainous performance as Lady Macbeth, Ms. Josephine "Jo" Rose is an eccentric recluse aging alone in a decaying Victorian. As a favor for her best friend, Haley Fields visits with Ms. Rose. Haley is a librarian and writer, and Ms. Rose wants her to write What Ever Happened to Helga the Hag?, a play that will return her to theatrical fame.

Most residents of the eastern United States never get to see an old-growth forest. They think perhaps these forests are too far away, or they dont know how to find them. Joan Maloof's Among the Ancients remedies this. In her intelligent, lyrical book, Maloof takes you to twenty-six forests--one in each state east of the Mississippi River and all open to the public. She tells you how to get there and what you will find when you arrive.

The second half of life can be just as wild as the first half. This is a true story of love, loss, sex, earth, spirit, writing, and adventure after ‘the change.’ In this story people die, the author sleeps with three men, she ingests magic mushrooms, is threatened by a wild tiger, and dances naked with a famous artist. Then there is the meta layer of what happens after the wild story is written down and shared.

London, 1970. Fresh out of a dead-end job, Joyce answers an ad in the local paper: Kathmandu by van, leave August. Share petrol and costs. Joyce is desperate to escape life in suburbia, and aristocrat Freddie looks like he can show her a wild time. Together with Anton, Freddie's best friend from boarding school, they embark on the overland trail from London to Kathmandu in a beaten-up old Land Rover. But as they cross the borders into Asia, Freddie can't outrun his family's history, leading to devastating consequences for everyone.

Ex-celebrity and current (assistant) private investigator Maizie Albright finds her already strange life has become even odder. Her new partner is two hundred pounds and canine. And her ex-partner/still-boyfriend is on the wrong side of her infidelity case. Not that Wyatt Nash is cheating. At least not on Maizie. She thinks Nash is cheating on his boss. Her dad. Which sounds much worse than it is. Except it is (maybe) worse than it sounds. It's Spy vs. Spy or rather, Detective vs. Detective, when Maizie and Nash realize they're both tailing the same subject for very different reasons.

Julius Caesar was one of the most ambitious and successful politicians of the late Roman Republic and his short but bloody conquest of the Celtic tribes led to the establishment of the Roman province of Gaul (modern France). Caesar's commentaries on his Gallic Wars provide us with the most detailed surviving eyewitness account of a campaign from antiquity. In this book, respected Roman military historian Kate Gilliver makes use of this account and other surviving evidence to consider the importance of the Gallic Wars.

London, 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields, Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady of the Robin Hood pub. But Cathy has a secret from her life before - a daughter, June, whom she had to leave behind. After all these years, can June accept her? Cathy's friend Sofia faces her own dilemma. Encountering a man from her past, Sofia is given the opportunity to return to her hometown, Naples. It would mean escaping her own troubles in the Sixteen Streets... if only she dares take the chance.

Herramientas y argumentos claros, con un lenguaje sencillo, para mantener una conversación sincera, abierta y constructiva con nuestros hijos que dé respuesta a todas sus dudas y siente las bases de una sexualidad sana. Un libro necesario y útil, de un autor experto en el tema, en un momento en el que cunde la alarma y la preocupación en padres y educadores por una cuestión de máxima vigencia: el sexo en internet y el consumo de pornografía por parte de menores y de jóvenes.

La historia es la siguiente: un un hombre compra una casa un poco alejada de todo, pero ubicada cerca de ruinas que interesarían a cualquier curioso de la historia. El comprador de la casa invita a unos amigos a conocer su nuevo hogar y de paso a ver uno de esos lugares tan particulares donde los arboles están tan juntos que no dejan pasar la luz natural. Pero sucede una desgracia, cerca de "El ídolo de Astarté" uno de ellos es apuñalado y nadie puede imaginarse quién es el asesino.

Una nueva inquilina se instala en el tercer piso de las Mansiones Whitehaven, la residencia de Poirot, pero esa misma noche muere asesinada. Cuando se descubre el cuerpo, el detective investiga.

Nuestro amigo Poirot junto con Japp, se han desplazado a Bruselas para ser condecorado el inspector jefe, y revirara una enigmática investigación de antes de la primera guerra mundial. Es un caso que esconde un intrigante desenlace, fruto de un buen guion y con nuestro amigo Poirot iluminando a todo el mundo.

En los últimos días de la Gran Guerra, Poirot y Hastings se hallan cenando en el Carlton cuando se encuentran con un viejo conocido, el capitán Vincent Lemesurier, quien se encuentra allí con su tío Hugo Lemesurier, cuando de repente llega un primo suyo, Roger, avisándoles de que el padre de Vincent ha sufrido una seria caída mientras montaba a caballo y apenas le quedan unas horas de vida. Vincent y Hugo se marchan corriendo, y Roger les habla entonces de la antigua maldición de los Lemesurier, según la cual ninguno de los primogénitos de la familia podrá heredar jamás.

Durante un festival de flores, una anciana en silla de ruedas se acerca a Poirot, le da una bolsa de semillas vacía y le pide que la visite al día siguiente. Al llegar, el detective descubre el cadáver de la mujer, que ha sido envenenada.

Un príncipe oriental inicia en Londres un romance con una muchacha de dudosa reputación, a la que regala un rubí emblemático que desaparecerá junto con la joven.

It kills me that the only way I can spend proper time with my son Toby is by helping out at his school camp. I sit under the emerald green pine trees and Toby’s little face lights up as he runs past me, joining the other chattering, happy children around us. Then I see my ex, David, glaring at me and my heart sinks. He may have full custody, but he’d love nothing more than for me to disappear. Forever.

Writer, activist and journalist Joan Smith has worked for years to raise awareness of violence against women and girls, and has been instrumental in bringing the innate misogyny of the police to public attention. Unfortunately, She Was a Nymphomaniac reinterprets the bloody, violent story of twenty-three women closely associated with the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome. Fewer than half a dozen of them can be said with any confidence to have died of natural causes.

Rennie's trying to forget her past; her mysterious new tenant is trying to keep his past a secret. But when Rennie finds out the truth about Luka she discovers as much about herself as she does her innocent lover.