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Detectives Laura Baxter and Jack Holt are members of the elite Las Vegas Metro PD, one of the toughest and most respected law enforcement agencies in the United States. In the middle of a city with two million residents and 43 million annual visitors, they’re hunting for a killer. When a beautiful, young girl is killed in the high-roller Pleasure Pit of the exclusive Scala Casino, the news reverberates for hours among the ritzy clientele. Before taking the stage where she found her death, Crystal was last seen boarding an unmarked helicopter for a late-night flight.

Diga adiós a las dietas y las modas de ayuno que supuestamente han funcionado y para saludar el proceso de "autofagia". Es decir, "comerse a sí mismo" en griego, este fenómeno es más que la última moda en la ciencia de la salud; es una forma revolucionaria de entender el cuerpo y está respaldado por la ciencia real.

Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him an overdose of Botox? The answer, he discovers, is much, much worse. He’s only a copy of Marc, a digital brain without a body, burdened with all Marc’s human memories, but without access to human sensual pleasures. Now he has to find a reason to keep on, um, “living.” Adam the Mindclone meets the real Marc Gregorio - and his new girlfriend Molly Schaeffer. Adam loves her, too. But how does a digital entity experience love? He can’t even experience pizza. And a power-mad military contractor will stop at nothing to control the technology for his own ends....

Millions of people struggle to find the secret key to weight loss and maximum performance. With a step-by-step strategy, this book provides a complete 14-day plan to jumpstart your ketogenic diet. Learn to feed your brain the fuel it craves, and ignite the limitless you.

The Mistress of the Keep has died. A force is sweeping through Aggar that is blinding the Seers, making it impossible to locate budding Blue Sights and potential Shadows just as heavy anti-Blue Sight sentiment is building across the world. As the new, young Mistress of the Keep struggles to pull the sacred institution back together, Elana and her Amazon companion, Di'Nay, are tasked with finding the source of the seers' blindness while locating and securing safe passage to the Keep for as many vulnerable young Blue Sights as possible along the way. Their mission will take them through the deepest, darkest wilds of Aggar – far from the familiar territories around the Keep and northern mountains they've explored before – as they fight to save Aggar's most vulnerable.

Set in the turbulent Romantic era, Escapement is a lush and passionate tale spun by Henri, the solitary and handsome housekeeper of a dashing and brilliant composer. While covertly lending assistance to her employer's artistic and romantic efforts, she falls in love with the alluring wife of his most significant patron - putting all their lives at risk - and forcing Henri to choose between duty and the desires of her own heart.

Within each woman and man, the dim cavern of the unconscious holds our forbidden feelings, secret wishes, and creative urges. Over time, these "dark" forces take on a life of their own, forming an intuitively recognizable figure - the shadow. A recurring theme in literature and legend, the shadow is like an invisible twin, a stranger that is us yet is not us. When it acts out in the public domain, we witness our leaders, like hero-villains, fall from grace in scandal.

Als Christa Wolf 2002 die Erzählung "Leibhaftig" veröffentlichte, kam es bei der ersten Lesung zu einem Massenansturm. Die Geschichte einer namenlosen Ostberliner Schriftstellerin, die beinahe an einer Krankheit stirbt, gilt als eine Abrechnung mit der DDR. Der Körper der Patientin wird zur Metapher eines allgemeinen Zusammenbruchs, und erst die Erkenntnis, dass politische Verhältnisse sie in diese lebensbedrohliche Lage gebracht haben, führt zu ihrer persönlichen Rettung. Eine Erzählung darüber, wie Politisches und Privates einander durchdringen - gelesen von der Autorin selbst.

Nik's once boring life had been flipped upside down overnight. He left a successful and lucrative career to pursue his passion of photography. It was hard to resist the opportunity to be the assistant to Jean Pierre, a world-famous photographer. A trip to India to search for the mysterious white tiger was just the type of adventure Nik was missing in his life.

The setting is Atlanta, Georgia - a racially mixed, late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 29,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife, and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt. Meanwhile, Conrad Hensley, idealistic young father of two, is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse near Oakland.

Following three jarring deaths and a surprise absconder, the thinly-stretched group is down by four, so the mood at Ghost Lake is somber. Kirk continues to ruffle feathers, but in typical Kirk fashion, he really doesn't give a shit. Amber worries about her future on several fronts. April finds out some fascinating details about Shasta. Beulah and Jack bury the hatchet. Alex isn't happy by Mateo's interest in Meredith. Lauren sets the record straight concerning Kirk. Logan has an unexpected telepathic experience.

The imp Federico has gone missing, and only Jade and Davril can get him back. They have to hurry, though. The evil witch Angela has kidnapped the little rascal for her own purposes, and whatever those are, they can't be good. She wants to destroy the Fae and bring the Shadow to our world. Don't worry, though. Jade and Davril are on the case. The only problem is that Jade can't give up her old life of crime, and Davril can't allow her to keep burglarizing. How can she stay true to herself and still remain a knight?

Nandia has gone missing. The disease-stricken planet Erylia has undertaken a program to replace its ailing youth with healthy breeding stock from Praesepe. Nandia's home is now under siege, and her grandchild is one of the many incarcerated. With the help of new allies, Bernard, Elli, and Dunstan must use all their resources to infiltrate the Erylian command structure and find a way to restore the fate of two societies on the verge of decimation - one desperate to recover its future as it steals the tomorrows of another.

Billy Smith is having a rough first day of high school. The new kid at exclusive Francis Drake Prep, Billy embarrasses himself in front of fiery, beautiful Lexi Aquino. He makes an instant enemy in Kurt Novac, the school's surly star quarterback. Then suddenly Billy, Lexi, and Kurt are mysteriously transported to an underworld teeming with goblins, strange animal hybrids, and powerful magic; the fact that they're stuck there is probably Billy's fault, too.

With help from his friends, Billy Smith - the unlikeliest of heroes - overthrew the corrupt General Sawtooth and claimed the Goblin Crown. But his perilous journey to save the goblin race has just begun. The powerful Hanorian Army is gathered at the gates of Kiranok, threatening to invade the goblin city and wipe out everyone within. So the inhabitants of Mother Mountain must draw on their deepest strengths for the battle to come....

The Claw of the Conciliator continues the saga of Severian, banished from his home, as he undertakes a mythic quest to discover the awesome power of an ancient relic, and learn the truth about his hidden destiny.

Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.

In My Daughter, Myself, acclaimed journalist Linda Wolfe chronicles her 38-year-old daughter's near-fatal stroke, the arduous course of physical and mental rehabilitation that led to the young woman's remarkable recovery, and the profound ways in which that journey from morbidity to health tested and changed every member of their blended family.

Allie lost everything the night her boyfriend, Trip, died in a horrible car accident - including her memory of the event. As their small town mourns his death, Allie is afraid to remember because doing so means delving into what she’s kept hidden for so long: the horrible reality of their abusive relationship.

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume epic, the tale of a young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession - showing mercy towards his victim.

Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the New Sun" is one of speculative fiction's most-honored series. In a 1998 poll, Locus Magazine rated the series behind only "The Lord of the Rings" and The Hobbit as the greatest fantasy work of all time.

It isn’t easy to get a group of bestselling SF authors to write new stories for an anthology, but that’s what Elizabeth Anne Hull has done in this powerhouse book. With original, captivating tales by Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Joe Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, Gene Wolfe, and others, Gateways is a SF event that will be a must-buy for SF readers of all tastes, from the traditional to the cutting edge; from the darkly serious to the laugh-out-loud funny.