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Brought to you by Penguin. A mortally funny story of a mother's quest to save her son against all odds Sandra dies unexpectedly at a conference in Nepal. Across the world in a desert in New Mexico, her teenage son, Trip, has run away from a centre for troubled youth. But Sandra soon discovers...

Brought to you by Penguin. One of our most beloved scientists, a fearless free spirit, Carlo Rovelli is also a masterful storyteller. In this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, he follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage through science, literature...

En el Madrid de los años noventa, una joven logra sobrevivir a lo que parece un brutal ataque de violencia de género. La prensa y la opinión pública hacen eco de la noticia y, durante días, no se habla de otra cosa. Incluso hay quien afirma que se lo estaba buscando. Cuando por fin despierta del coma, Minerva no recuerda absolutamente nada, ni siquiera a su agresor que, desde ese instante, se mezclará entre sus amigos más íntimos para convertirse en su sombra.

The Organisation has despatched Ishmael and his partner Penny to Coronach House on the shores of Loch Ness where the secretive but highly influential Baphamet Group are holding their annual meeting. The Organisation believes an imposter has infiltrated the Group and they have instructed Ishmael to root him – or her – out. It’s not Ishmael’s only mission. The first agent sent by the Organisation has been found dead in her room, murdered in a horribly gruesome manner. Ishmael must also discover who killed his fellow agent, Jennifer Rifkin – and why.  

It was a bitterly cold day when Arthur T. Owens grabbed a brick and hurled it at the trash picker. Arthur had his reasons, and the brick hit the Junk Man in the arm, not the head. But none of that matters to the judge - he is ready to send Arthur to juvie for the foreseeable future. Amazingly, it's the Junk Man himself who offers an alternative: 120 hours of community service...working for him.

Nine people arrive one night on Chelsea Bridge. They’ve never met. But at the same time, they run and leap to their deaths. Each of them received a letter in the post that morning, a pre-written suicide note, and a page containing only four words: Nothing important happened today. That is how they knew they had been chosen to become a part of the People of Choice: a mysterious suicide cult whose members have no knowledge of one another.

Zach is back at Mount Weather and has resumed his role as Director of Operations. In addition to working to make America functional again, and the upcoming birth of a child, Zach is faced with a new dilemma. The zeds are active again and attacking survivor communities. Zach knows the only course of action is to eradicate them, but how do they do it with their limited resources?

Marco Balzano ispirandosi nel titolo al film di Nanni Moretti Palombella Rossa, si interroga sul perché l'etimologia sia una scienza che non riceve la considerazione che merita nonostante eserciti, in chi ci si avvicina, un forte fascino. Attraverso quelli che a tutti gli effetti potremmo definire dieci scavi etimologici, ci dice che ogni parola ha un corpo da rispettare che non può essere stravolto a nostro piacimento. Perché ogni parola ha una sua identità e una sua vita autonoma.

The stories in Paper Heart investigate contemporary romance from a wide range of angles, each centering around the timeless topics of love and heartbreak. Stories like "Sunday Morning at Jonseys' Diner" explore both familial and romantic love while stories like "Summer Fling" and "The Idea of the Mask" examine desire in the face of an inevitable end.

Humorist Jeanne Robertson has entertained audiences for five decades with her original, hilarious stories. In her new release, this “Grandma Gone Viral” with millions of views on YouTube shares some of her classic stories and introduces new ones. Jeanne’s collection of stories, Don’t Bungee Jump Naked and Other Important Stuff is worth the time to sit, listen, and laugh.

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Navigating the ever-changing world one insignificant matter at a time. (And turning the inane, boring and ridiculous into literary gold.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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In this moving, emotional narrative of love and resilience, a young couple confronts the start of Argentina's Dirty War in the 1970s, and a daughter searches for truth twenty years later. New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila...

Hola gente, soy Pedro Julio y les invito a iniciar conmigo la aventura que representa ponerse a leer.Esto es pónganse a leer, un espacio de divulgación de la lectura en el que compartiremos autores, ensayos, cuentos, novelas, poemas, todos los géneros literarios, aquí nos encontraremos para hablar de libros y de lo sabroso que la pasamos cuando leemos y lo que sufrimos cuando se nos acaba la lectura.Pónganse a leer nace como concepto gracias a una frase de mi abuela (mi persona favorita en el mundo) resulta que cuando visitábamos su casa en vacaciones, mis primos y yo nos recreábamos ...