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Máximo ha sufrido un hecho insólito durante un atraco a su pequeña tienda. El suceso, inexplicable para la policía y sus conocidos, lo tiene obsesionado. Ante la falta de respuestas, decide contratar a un guionista para que escriba pequeños relatos sobre lo que pudo haber ocurrido, a los que llama "hipótesis". Sin embargo, lo que empieza como una cordial relación con el escritor se torna hacia lo incómodo cuando máximo va leyendo sus historias.

Es el año 2059. Scion se ha apoderado de la mayoría de las ciudades del mundo, prometiendo seguridad y estabilidad para todos los ciudadanos que considera dignos y eliminando a los clarividentes allí dondequiera que pueda encontrarlos. Paige Mahoney es una joven de diecinueve años clarividente y por ello considerada una criminal, por el simple hecho de existir. Paige está decidida a luchar contra el poder de Scion, y como parte de los Siete Sellos, Paige ha encontrado la manera de usar sus poderes: buscar información entrando en la mente de los demás mientras sueñan.

This is the first issue of The Worlds Within, a magazine of speculative fiction that peers beyond the veil. We are kicking things off with a special editor's edition with six stories that will transport you to strange and eerie landscapes. We have corrupt saints, dragons, and evil blood gods. These stories are a collection of fantasy and science fiction, like chocolate and peanut butter.

Queen Sati rules her city with wisdom and grace. She has the respect of her people, knowledge of the gods, and faith that her plans to lead them into a brighter tomorrow are ready to take place. Ahm is a teen coming into her own. Living near the market square of the city with her mother, the girl’s insight, compassion, and beauty has everyone she comes in contact with seeing her as a jewel of Egypt. When a chance encounter between the two turns into a friendship, both will be tested beyond what they could have imagined, or wanted.

There is nothing better than being able to laugh uncontrollably at the silliest things. This book is jam packed with loads of silly puns and "dad jokes" for all ages that will have even the most serious person smiling and giggling. These jokes are based on the wonderful mysteries of space, and make the unknown galaxy a bit more relatable through simple humour that will leave every listener feeling the need to re-tell everything they have heard to the nearest person. With a mixture of puns, jokes, and dry humour, there is a variety of humour for everyone to enjoy!

Questo libro forse ti aiuterà molto perché la comunicazione assertiva ti fornirà un repertorio comportamentale che facilita la scelta di risposte più adeguate alle diverse situazioni e ruoli che svolgi nella tua vita professionale, familiare e sociale, come consumatore e, soprattutto, come cittadino.

They stick out. They change the conversation. They challenge the traditional narrative. They are outcasts - isolated, different, misunderstood. Being normal is nice. But being an outcast is a real part of the human experience. Have you have ever had the feeling of being alone in some way, of being on the outside looking in? If so, then the characters in these short stories will move you - sometimes by their depravity, sometimes by their sorrow...and sometimes by their joy.

Planets in our solar system have so many cool facts about them that scientists have made very complicated to understand. This book has taken some of the most amazing facts and repackaged them in a way that makes it easy for kids to understand. From the most basic facts right through to some of the most amazing and not well know ones, this book covers everything a child would love to know.

Space is such an amazing part of our worlds existence, but it can seem complicated to explain to adults, let alone kids! This book will trigger the natural curiosity within young children with amazing facts about the mysteries of space. From the very basics of what the galaxy is, right through to the name of the first man on the moon, this book relays the complexity of space into really easy and understandable explanations.

Ada, experta en el Renacimiento, y Gabriel, diseñador de montañas rusas, han sobrevivido al atentado del 11-M. Sus almas y sus cuerpos han salido malparados de aquellos trenes, sin embargo, la vida les ha dado el regalo de encontrarse y superar el horror mediante una historia de amor inesperada. En "El mapa de la vida" se entrelazan las historias de las víctimas y los verdugos, el pasado y el futuro, lugares remotos y cercanos... Solo Adolfo García Ortega podía trazar un mosaico narrativo tan original y conseguir al mismo tiempo un relato tan sincero del 11-M.

"Fantasmas de la ciudad" es una colección de cuentos enmarañados y armoniosos, laberínticos y lógicos, tensos y a la vez reflexivos. Una reflexión permutada sobre la vida humana, sobre las vidas humanas, y sobre la geografía interior de las personas. Obsesiones, reencuentros, familias, no-lugares y hasta nuevas sociedades emergentes se dan cita en esta elegante antología.

Two different lives...Two different hopes...Only one will survive...Tanel, a quiet poet born into the battle-driven clan of Mil'chama. The heavily trained boy struggles to find his way, wishing for a more peaceful existence. Vinn, a young man tired of watching his people suffer because they’re ill-prepared to defend themselves. The warrior at heart has had enough and is ready to fight back. As the two stand on the opposing sides of the battlefield, face to face, one of these coming-of-age stories will have an early end. One will die at the hands of the other. The question is which?

Un thriller social nacido de las entrañas envenenadas de la política del S. XXI, del hartazgo y la rebeldía de la gente de a pie. En él asistimos a la creación de un grupo activista llamado KAOS que intenta despertar la conciencia del pueblo a raíz de la última crisis socioeconómica. En la deriva que va convirtiendo KAOS en un grupo terrorista, asistimos a una historia de amor tan desgarradora como nuestro presente.

A medio camino entre el thriller periodístico y la mejor literatura prospectiva, "Mañana cruzaremos el Ganges" es una afiladísima disección de la sociedad hacia la que nos encaminamos... o en la que ya podríamos estar viviendo. En un futuro no muy lejano, Europa está gobernada por una casta de tecnócratas sin líderes concretos. Una periodista independiente se verá obligada a empezar a trabajar para un gran consorcio para mantenerse, al tiempo que intenta encontrar un equilibrio entre su atribulada vida personal y los graves cambios sociales que sufre su mundo.

Tres relatos con un tema en común: el fatalismo. Un maquetista envuelto en una fantasmagórica historia amorosa durante la Feria Internacional de Burdeos; un asesino confeso compelido a un destino absurdo; un español perdido en el desconcertante Moscú de la Perestroika... Personajes muy distintos unidos por una suerte común: avanzar perplejos y desconcertados por un camino sembrado de circunstancias extraordinarias y, ante todo, inevitables. Tres obras sobre la perplejidad y la impotencia ante los extraños derroteros que nos depara la vida.

Un audiolibro sobre alimentación consciente, lleno de recetas deliciosas y saludables que se pueden disfrutar en familia.

Tebas, XVIII dinastía. Amenofis III, llamado el magnífico, se encuentra en la cumbre de su poder. Su joven hijo Nafuria siente tanta aversión por las armas como amor al estudio y en la corte es llamado despreciativamente el príncipe filósofo. Ansioso por conocer la vida más allá del palacio, escapa una noche para verse envuelto en una aventura mágica y espiritual en la que recibe las enseñanzas de un maestro llamado Mawlana, incluyendo la noción de una divinidad impersonal o gran inteligencia universal muy por encima de todos los dioses conocidos.

Unleash your potential and shine in life. Discover how you can live your life to the max. The information in the book is based on more than 20 years of experience in coaching and experimenting with hundreds of people.

Ortega’s unique passion for and leadership in publicizing the truth about human will comes across throughout the book’s devastating, yet accessible, explanations of why free will is impossible, and in its descriptions of the harm free will-belief causes us personally and societally. What also sets Ortega’s work apart from refutations by others is his strong recognition that humanity’s overcoming the belief in free will is an historic evolutionary leap in human consciousness.

Ancient Greece, a country filled with rulers vying to keep their power as democracy grows. With a thirst for domination, King Aeneas sends his two best assassins, Adonis and Selene, to the neighboring region of Arcadia in the hope of expanding his reign. They must kill King Argus. Adonis, a well-respected captain in the assassin company, is loyal to only three things: King Aeneas, his land, and Selene. His fellow captain, Selene is as cunning as she is beautiful. Her passion for Adonis is only matched by her pursuit of Greek justice. Will they remain loyal to the maleficent ruler?