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The final work from the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, actor, and musician, drawn from his transformative last days In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard’s extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an...

A veteran of the Iraq war is appointed undersecretary of defense in order to penetrate a secret government purposely black-shelving zero-point energy, a clean, abundant energy source reverse-engineered from downed UFOs. Steve Alten's Undisclosed is a mind-opening thriller of "faction" that incorporates testimonials from military and intelligence personnel who were actual eyewitnesses and participants involved in the greatest secret in history.

When a group of men crash on the surface of an alien planet, they are hemmed in on every side by a deadly, impenetrable bog and attacked by an unknown, unseen enemy.

For New Yorker Nick Dalca, wealth is a birthright. But his perfect life is starting to crumble. During a flight to Europe, his private jet goes missing with his wife and son aboard. They are presumed dead. Having no one left, Nick makes a shocking decision: to negotiate the sale of his business conglomerate, a deal which may turn him into one of the richest men in the world. Faced with making many decisions alone, he is drawn to his longtime secretary, Anne. She has one special gift. A gift that can radically alter his destiny.

¿Cómo ganas una guerra si no sabes quién es el enemigo? Masa intenta contestar a esa pregunta. Porque es una novela visionaria, de máxima actualidad. El título alude por un lado a los medios de comunicación de masas, y por otro a la masificación del mundo tal y como lo conocemos, la cual alcanza proporciones grotescas en las distopías salidas de la mente de Joost Vandecasteele. Es una crónica sobre las fuerzas invisibles que manejan el mundo.

New York City, New Year's weekend, 2001. Jillian Guthrie, a troubled young journalist, stumbles onto a tantalizing mystery: the same man, unaged, stands alongside Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gandhi in three different photographs spanning eighty-five years of history.

Using a compelling novel format, the audiobook demonstrates how to apply lean thinking in a healthcare setting. It illustrates the situations, characters, and plant politics you will most likely face as you progress through your lean healthcare journey. As the story unfolds, you will discover the way of thinking and behavioral changes required to implement proven Toyota Production System (TPS) methods, tools, and thinking in healthcare.

In a time when prisons no longer contain inmates behind concrete and steel, the convicted serve their time while asleep, rehabilitating in virtual reality while blissfully unaware of their crimes. Roger Parker is a professional prison breaker, skilled at navigating these strange penal dream worlds and extracting those imprisoned there - for a price. Parker wants out of the game, but a powerful senator, desperate to save his son, convinces Parker to pull one last job.

Michael Steeb is an aimless 21-year-old pot farmer in Central California in the 1980s. He has no real plans or interests...until the day he connects with memories of a life that seems to belong to someone else. That "spirit" is Walter, a young American soldier killed in World War II. Michael's task is the near-impossible: to lead Walter's family to closure and peace, to deliver the real truth behind Walter's Purple Heart, and to somehow achieve the forgiveness absent for so many years so Walter can move on.

She saved her daughter's life. Now she must save her soul. Although Elizabeth died giving birth to her daughter, her death wasn't the end. She awakens to find her sacrifice has transformed her into a special kind of angel - a protector - and if she is able to help her charge through the Pearly Gates, she too will be welcomed into Heaven. Elizabeth is both heartbroken and overjoyed when she finds she'll be watching over Daisy, the daughter she never got to meet.

Robert Baxter once reveled in the intoxicating delights of Atopia - the man-made island where humans lose themselves in a world of boundless virtual realities. Now, Bob has returned to immerse himself in this mind-altering, consciousness-sharing refuge from the eroding Earth. But something is very wrong. Bob feels a tidal wave of doom cresting above the pleasure dome that is Atopia. As alternate universes perish, the salvation of all he loves - and all that exists - rests with Bob alone.

After Earth is decimated, the entire remaining human population is marooned on an unfamiliar beach. The enigmatic winged Orangemen leave the survivors with instructions to remake their society, basic tools and weapons, and a few thousand books, including Bibles in many languages. As two generations are born and raised, conflicting theories as to the nature of the apocalypse continue to simmer. Fifty years later, the arrival of a new family that shouldn't exist threatens the delicate peace holding humanity together.

A novel of seduction and madness, hate and love, set in the world of Argentinean academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau, Nabokov, and Bolano.

The first work of long fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright—a tour de force of memory, mystery, death, and life. This searing, extraordinarily evocative narrative opens with a man in his house at dawn, surrounded by aspens, coyotes cackling in the distance as he quietly...

Beginning in the Garden of Eden and soaring through to the present, A Time for Everything reimagines pivotal encounters between humans and angels: the glow of the cherubim watching over Eden; the profound love between Cain and Abel despite their differences; Lot's shame in Sodom; Noah's isolation before the flood; Ezekiel tied to his bed, prophesying ferociously; the death of Christ; and the emergence of sensual, mischievous cherubs in the 17th century.

Was ist notwendig, um auf seine eigenen Wünsche zu hören? Eine ganze Menge Vertrauen und die Fähigkeit, dem eigenen Herzen zu lauschen. Angelica versucht genau diesen Weg zu gehen, doch ihr Kopf macht ihr das Leben nicht so einfach. Glücklicherweise überredet sie ihr Herz zu einer abenteuerlichen Reise nach Sizilien, auf der sie Unglaubliches erlebt. All das bereitet sie auf eine Herausforderung vor: Ihren eigenen Weg bedingungslos zu gehen, um die Welt zum Positiven zu verändern. Ist sie dazu bereit?

"Come sospettavo, non c'è nulla di prevedibile, nella vita, nell'arte e tantomeno in questi viaggi. Tutti abbiamo viaggiato per lo stesso motivo. Per cercare delle risposte al nostro esistere, ma qualcuno una volta mi disse che siamo tutti fili di un immenso quadro di un ricamo, visto da dietro". Giorgio è un ragazzo universitario sempre alla ricerca di risposte a dubbi e domande che affollano la sua giovane esistenza. Grazie all'aiuto di un cruciverba speciale Giò intraprende un viaggio interiore, fatto di sogni incrociati e condivisi con la sua amica Stefania.

Qualcuno sta cercando di cambiare gli avvenimenti del Novecento per trarne vantaggio. Le stragi che si potevano evitare, i massacri inutili, gli incidenti da prevenire. Un Secolo pieno di tragici avvenimenti sta per essere 'ripulito'. Ma non è detto che tutte le conseguenze siano postive. L'incubo di una discronia perfetta, che cambierà la Storia, è raccontata da Lukha B. Kremo, uno degli autori più attivi del movimento letterario del Connettivismo. L'audiolibro è proposto da Kipple Officina Libraria per la lettura di Lorenzo Visi.

Il racconto che indaga le curiose implicazioni della Meccanica Quantistica. Una storia dolce e crudele in un mondo dove le città sono strutture dalla verticalità indefinita. La storia di due pazienti di un ospedale molto speciale. In questi tre racconti Lukha B. Kremo, uno dei più attivi autori del movimento letterario del Connettivismo, interpreta l'alienazione di mondi futuri che sono l'esasperazione di quello odierno. L'audiolibro è proposto da Kipple Officina Libraria per la lettura di Lorenzo Visi. Contenuto: "Il gatto di Schrödinger e altre storie".

Due dei racconti più rappresentativi del movimento letterario del Connettivismo, due storie eccezionali, che vi proietteranno in mondi lontani e bizzarri, al limite dell'assurdo, ma scientificamente rigorosi, facendovi staccare dalla quotidianità. La meccanica quantistica e l'orizzonte degli eventi di un buco nero sono i protagonisti di queste due storie ai limiti dell'universo. Marco Moretti, Giovanni De Matteo e Sandro Battisti sono tra i più attivi autori del Connettivismo (due di loro ne sono anche i fondatori).