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What if you could travel back in time 100 years and right the wrongs of the past—would you take the risk? “Sundown: A Time Travel Society Mystery” is a wildly imaginative podcast from Michael Dante DiMartino, the co-creator of the animated classics “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “The Legend of Korra.” “Sundown” explores the story of a group of teens who go back into the past and uncover secrets about themselves, their families, their town—and America. 17-year-old Darius Hightower (played by Emmy-nominated actor Asante Blackk of “When They See Us”) is just about the only Black person in his small New England town of Norhaven. Adopted by a wealthy white family when he was a baby, Darius has learned to keep his head down and not challenge his family or its history. But when the outspoken Sanaa Starr (played by NAACP Image Award-winner Storm Reid of “Euphoria”) transfers to his high school and starts asking questions, Darius re-examines the truth about his ancestors’ involvement in the town’s most infamous murder. A time capsule from 1920 may hold some clues, but when Norhaven’s most powerful conspire to destroy its contents, it’s up to Darius, Sanaa, and their friends (including “Reservation Dogs” star Devery Jacobs) to investigate what really happened. After a strange incident sends them back 100 years to the scene of the crime, their fact-finding mission becomes life-or-death. Forced to confront their town’s prejudiced past, the teens race against time in order save an innocent man’s life and clear his name. “Sundown” is a sci-fi mystery adventure like you’ve never heard before.

'MAGNIFICENT' GUARDIAN 'A TOWERING ACHIEVEMENT' FINANCIAL TIMES 'INVENTIVE, BOLD, UNEXPECTED' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'Everything that makes the novel worthwhile and engaging is here' Guardian 'Not since William Boyd's Any Human Heart has a novel captured a single life with such invention and...

Die große Volkssage, die zeitlose Legende von Dr. Faust, der einen Pakt mit dem Teufel eingeht – neu und modern erzählt von OLIVER DÖRING. Hören Sie WOLFGANG PAMPEL als Faust, JOCHEN MALMSHEIMER als Mephisto, FLORIAN CLYDE als jungen Faust, LUISA WIETZOREK als Gretchen sowie viele weitere bekannte Schauspieler in diesem ebenso packenden wie kurzweiligen Hörstück.

By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the disease had spread across the nation, killing thousands of people and emerging as the greatest health crisis of the 20th century. America faced a troubling question: What happened? How was this epidemic allowed to spread so far before it was taken seriously?

Animals bring out the goodness, humanity, and optimism in people and speak directly to our souls. This joyous, inspiring, and entertaining Chicken Soup collection relates the unique bonds between animals and the people whose lives they've changed: such as the dolphins who helped a paralyzed woman heal when doctors offered little hope; the dog who brought life into a failing marriage; the kitten who helped a mother mourn; and the flying squirrel who taught a man the power of laughter.

EL OFICIAL PRUSIANO (1914) (The Prussian officer): Es uno de los relatos cortos de una más notable calidad de Lawrence. En él muestra un panorama de las inquietudes de Lawrence, así como su actitud hacia los horrores de la Primera Guerra Mundial. D.H. Lawrence ha sido comparado a Van Gogh, en pintura, por su vitalidad. Hay autores que cuando leyeron este relato, consideraron un genio a Lawrence.

"El Hechicero" es un relato donde el paso del tiempo es muy importante porque este tiempo modifica a la protagonista, Silveria. Entre el inicio y el final de la historia pasan cinco años; eso tendrá mucha importancia para el desenlace del mismo. Cuando Silveria conoce a Ricardo, era una niña de once años. Desde ese momento, siempre lo tenía en sus sueños. Ella seguía con interés las noticias que Juan le contaba sobre los triunfos de Ricardo en países remotos. Cuando Silveria volvió a verlo, ya era una hermosa joven de dieciséis años.

Tenía ocho años cuando mi abuelo me tomó de la mano y no la soltó hasta que encontramos a mis padres en Atenas. Era 1946. Principios de la primavera de 1946. Los almendros florecían uno al lado del otro y el campo estaba en su esplendor. Así empieza la novela más autobiográfica de Theodor Kallifatides y una de las más apreciadas por sus cientos de miles de lectores. Con su característica sencillez y humanidad, nos narra su vida desde que abandona su pueblo natal hasta que retorna a él para recibir el homenaje de sus vecinos convertido ya en un escritor consagrado.

In organizations today, getting work done requires political and collaborative skills. That's why the first edition of this book has been widely adopted as a guide for consultants, project leaders, staff experts, and anyone else who does not have direct authority but who is nevertheless accountable for results. In this revised edition, leadership gurus Allan Cohen and David Bradford explain how to get cooperation from those over whom you have no official authority by offering them help in the form of the "currencies" they value.

A serial bomber is wreaking havoc throughout Europe. Former New York City cop Michael Finnigan and former Spanish assassin Katalin Fiero - the brains behind St. Nicholas Salvage & Wrecking, a covert bounty-hunting operation based in Cyprus - may be the only ones who can stop the carnage. The partners have a reputation for tracking down the worst of the worst in international crime while staying firmly under the radar. But as they draw ever closer to the bombers, and as the terrorism sweeps up Katalin’s own family, the two must decide if they can continue to operate in the shadows.

What do anarchists want? It seems easier to classify them by what they don't want, namely, the organizations of the State, and to identify them with rioting and protest rather than with any coherent ideology. But with demonstrations like those against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund being blamed on anarchists, it is clear that an explanation of what they do stand for is long overdue. Colin Ward provides answers to these questions by considering anarchism from a variety of perspectives....

They were the DeMeo gang - the most deadly hit men in organized crime. Their Mafia higher-ups came to know, use, and ultimately fear them as the Murder Machine. They killed for profit and for pleasure, following cold-blooded plans and wild whims, from the mean streets of New York to the Florida Gold Coast, and from coast to coast. Now complete with personal revelations of one of the key players, this is the savage story that leaves no corpse unturned in its terrifying telling.

In a dangerous world, everyone needs protection. Hostage is the first installment from the Bodyguard series by Chris Bradford, best-selling author of Young Samurai. Bodyguard is a bulletproof action-adventure series that fans of Cherub and Alex Rider will love. This is Lee Child for younger readers--Jason Bourne for the next generation.

Senhor das Moscas é um dos romances essenciais da literatura mundial. Adaptado duas vezes para o cinema e traduzido para 35 idiomas, o clássico de William Golding já foi visto como uma alegoria, uma parábola, um tratado político e até mesmo uma visão do apocalipse.

Para cualquier lector hay dos México: uno real y otro imaginado. La patria es lo que sabemos de la patria. Y para quienes han leído a Juan Rulfo, Elena Garro, Roberto Bolaño o Fernanda Melchor, lugares como Comala, Ixtepec, Santa Teresa o La Matosa son parte central y entrañable de su México. Atlas de (otro) México nos invita a recorrer un mapa inasible -pero completamente cierto- de los sitios imaginados por nuestra literatura. Este libro es un atlas que sirve lo mismo para encontrarnos que para perdernos.

Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824--1872), a maverick who changed the scope of Bengali poetry in the nineteenth century, especially with his free-verse epic, 'Meghnadhbadh Kabya', was a genius who never got his due. Throughout his life, Madhusudan was caught in an identity crisis: he wrote in the...

"Como ocurre con cientos de poblados mexicanos -sobre todo aquellos perdidos en medio del desierto-, si se le pregunta por Bavispe a alguien que no pertenezca a la región, quizás haya escuchado alguna vez el nombre, pero es posible que ni siquiera sea capaz de indicar su ubicación.

"Llamadas de Ámsterdam" es una extraordinaria historia de amor. Con una impecable tensión narrativa, Juan Villoro despliega una trama hecha de coincidencias, separaciones, misteriosas oportunidades de reencuentro. La acción ocurre en una calle circular, tratada sobre la pista donde una vez corrieron caballos de carreras. Movidos por una fuerza inconsciente, los protagonistas de esta historia inventan una realidad alterna, hecha de llamadas telefónicas, para brindarle una segunda oportunidad a sus deseos.

"Power is given to those who are willing to accept responsibility." My village expands, my men master martial arts, and my magic grows ever stronger. But my enemies are also hard at work—an interrogator spreading false accusations, a monster hunting down the innocent, and a highborn countess...

As Alexandra Winslow climbs the ladder of publishing success, she resolutely adheres to her father's caution: men only read crime thrillers written by men. She publishes under the pseudonym of brilliantly successful Alexander Green, her true identity known only to those closest to her. This creates an isolating double life, but the right time to open up always seems just out of reach and the price of the truth always too high....