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Random Experiments in Bioluminescence is a remarkable collection of luminous poems for cherishing cultures, languages, and the Earth—From poet and urbanist Dr. Amy Shimshon-Santo. “Listen with your natural body,” writes Shimshon-Santo. “In the beginning, there was song.” This collection tracks a woman’s search for language and belonging. Choral, cryptographic, and exhilarating, Shimshon-Santo provides glimpses into a poetics of planetary livability.

El gran desenlace de la aventura de J. J. Sánchez, un relato sobre la importancia de la amistad, la justicia, el amor fraterno y el respeto a la naturaleza. Tras un largo y accidentado viaje, J. J. ha llegado a San Cristóbal… Recién desembarcado en tierra chiapaneca, y luego de hacerse amigo de un divertido viajero con el corazón roto y de una escritora española, J. J. fue secuestrado por un rubio extranjero a quien todos llaman "el Inglés".

Nicola, tall and gorgeous, has re-birthed herself. She has landed a breakthrough role and her star is rising - she can feel herself blossoming, can see it in the melting eyes of the men, and the jealous eyes of the women. If Nicola is a flower, Alexandra is a closed bud. Crushed by heartache from a recent breakup, she just wants to succeed as a journalist. Jeanette has just landed from Manchester. She refuses to let her mother's warnings about London or her Doc Martens weigh her down: she's ready for uni - for life - to start. This is the story of three women - and the mysterious Mavis.

Her name is Bunny Wild, at least that is what she is called in her videos. Alexis, as she is known to her close friends, is one of the main females within the p*rn company. She's no stranger to getting paid for having her acts filmed, however, when a high profile billionaire calls her boss and offers forty thousand to have Alexis for an hour and he film it himself, Alexis, is shocked, as it steps away from her usual work, no one requests the actors.

Pretending to date my rich, sexy, and caring friend Gabriel could grant us the deal of a lifetime . . . or ruin my chances of ever running my family's company. Gabe is handsome and surprisingly down to earth for a billionaire. Teaming up with him for a massive project shouldn't have required us to fake a relationship. My machista Latine family is to blame for forcing us into it. They think my goal should be to settle down and make babies, not run a corporation. But I won't let anything come between me and my career plans . . .

Addict, thief, pimp, pusher, player—and most notably, groundbreaking writer. Donald Goines was all of these. As a kid, Donald Goines was the product of a middle-class family. After high school, he joined the Air Force—and discovered the heroin that would rule the remainder of his life. On the streets, he turned to writing when he was straight enough to keep at it. He used the language of the streets and he wrote of its people. Goines's success was immediate and exciting. But eventually those same streets claimed him.

A lie can follow you to death. The first time my mother told me that, it didn't resonate. I'd made it a point to always tell the story that suited me in the moment. Truth or fiction. Except . . . I didn't count on the lies I told myself. Or the woman who held up the mirror so I could see them.

It's Christmastime on Elysia. The weather is as wintery as one can expect in a rain forest and our annual secret Santa game is in full swing. Yet for me, something's missing. My heart aches whenever I think of mi familia back home. Still, I'm determined to make this Christmas a special one and when I meet a Grinchy, green alien living high on a mountain above our village I've suddenly got a project.

Martin Lorensen is a twenty-three-year-old counselor for disturbed teenagers. He’s bright, compassionate, attractive, and outgoing. He’s also—and this is the most interesting thing—not dead. Martin has improbably survived not one but two deadly disasters that claimed dozens of lives. The kid is riding one hell of a lucky streak. Two federal agents think there is something darker at play. Now that they’ve arranged to interview Martin, they want answers. Martin is ready to share everything he knows. One thing is for certain: when it comes to escaping death, luck doesn’t figure into it at all.

Un día, Julián se aleja del pueblo y, cerca de una oscura caverna, tiene un encuentro con una criatura fantástica que le pide que crea en él para poder ser amigos. Su nombre es Yi Kan Lu. Es nada más y nada menos que un dragón. La maravillosa criatura ha venido a México en busca de una planta para alimentar sus llamas. Mientras la presencia del dragón despierta los peores sentimientos en los pobladores, Julián deberá buscar la forma de ayudar a su nuevo amigo, y recurrirá al herrero.

Nada más parecido a la locura que la videncia, que la capacidad de adelantarse a una realidad que apenas se incuba. Un escritor sin la malicia literaria de Lu Hsun, con algo más de soberbia y menos de destreza, hubiera podido titular Diario de un vidente a este inquietante, aterrador y lúcido relato.

Macabro desfile de pícaros, bribones y gentuza de vicios, corrupciones y prevaricaciones a la manera de una corte de los milagros. Desde los años noventa, se veía venir un cartel de la justicia con todos sus delitos cometidos por altos heliotropos de la rama judicial. Desde el más inexperto juez municipal hasta el encumbrado presidente de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, aprovecharon de su autoridad coercitiva para abusar de ese poder supresor de las libertades y los derechos.

La crítica literaria tiene el término un tanto ostentoso de bildungsroman para referirse a aquellas novelas que relatan el crecimiento moral o psicológico de un personaje, su paso, muchas veces doloroso, de la juventud a la madurez. Novelas de formación o aprendizaje, también se llaman. Este libro podría ubicarse bajo esa categoría, de no ser porque no es una novela, o no del todo. Es acaso un ensayo de formación. O un diario escrito a destiempo.

J. J. ha salido avante de su tragicómica aventura televisiva en Sábado Fantástico, pero también salió de ella sin dinero en los bolsillos. Él sabe que es el único que está dispuesto a buscar a su mamá, y para eso necesita mucho valor, y también algo de dinero… J. J. decide viajar a San Cristóbal de Las Casas, en Chiapas, para encontrarse con su mamá y "traerla de las orejas", si es necesario.

Todo parece estar de cabeza desde que la mamá de J. J. decidió marcharse de casa rumbo a Chiapas… Papá trabaja todo el tiempo, su hermana Diana es una pesada y su hermanito Pancho no entiende nada. Para colmo, los han echado del departamento en el que vivían por falta de pago. Sin embargo, lo único en lo que J. J. puede pensar es en volver con mamá. Mejor dicho, ir hacia ella para convencerla de que regrese. Para lograrlo deberá conseguir dinero. Es entonces cuando casualmente se entera del programa de concursos Sábado Fantástico y de sus grandes premios.

Lennox: Als der erfolgreichste Hedgefonds-Manager New Yorks habe ich alles, was man sich nur wünschen kann – außer einer guten Beziehung zu den Medien. Darum lehne ich den Vorschlag meiner Imageberaterin, eine Reportage über mein Unternehmen schreiben zu lassen, auch rigoros ab. Die einzige Möglichkeit, mich umzustimmen, ist, dass eine Journalistin mit der mich eine gemeinsame Vergangenheit verbindet, den Auftrag übernimmt. Und dann steht Fay nach Jahren plötzlich wieder vor mir. Mit einer unverhohlenen Abscheu mir gegenüber und so heiß, dass selbst ich ins Schwitzen gerate.

Being a disciple maker of believers is both an honor and great responsibility. It is not something for which everyone is necessarily gifted and graced. However, believers everywhere need to understand that we all have a part in the process of making disciples and helping His sons discover the purpose for which they were born. Due to the reality that there is very little disciple making going on in the world today, many believers in this generation have yet to discover the purpose for which they were born, and even fewer ever fully receive their rightful inheritance as SONS.

Abenteuer * Magie * Liebe * Geheimnisse. Der zweite Band der mitreissenden Romantasy-Trilogie Magical Lights: "Ja, sie hatte mir meine Unbeschwertheit, mein Glück genommen und mir dafür Mut und die Kraft zum Widerstand gegeben. Das Gegebene würde ich behalten und das Genommene, das würde ich mir zurückholen." Gewaltsam vom Sommerball fortgerissen, erwartet Elena ein grauenhafter Albtraum. Aus der menschlichen in eine unbekannte Welt entführt, erwacht sie in den dunklen Kerkern des Palasts von Undgar.

Lessons in Gratitude tells the story of Aaron Dworkin, a MacArthur Fellow, social entrepreneur, and spoken word artist who has dedicated his life’s work to changing the face of classical arts in the world. The themes of persistence, passion, and loyalty shine through stories of an unhappy childhood, a lifelong search for identity, and the obstacles of race, culture, and class. Listeners will learn how the author greets these challenges and how they drove him to make a difference for people who are shut out of opportunity.

Sometimes you meet people in life that draw you in like a magnet. The two of you align so perfectly there isn't anything you can do to stop the attraction. That's what it was like for me and Tennir. Only, this is an attraction that isn't meant to be and now I must do everything in my power to fight those feelings, because unfortunately, he's the one alien I can't fall in love with.