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Powers of Darkness is an incredible literary discovery. In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Asmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, 'Powers of Darkness'), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna was published in Iceland in 1901 but remained undiscovered outside of the country until 1986, when Dracula scholarship was astonished by the discovery of Stoker's preface to the book.

Kenneth Toomey is an eminent novelist of dubious talent; Don Carlo Campanati is a man of God, a shrewd manipulator who rises through the Vatican to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood. These two men are linked not only by family ties but by a common understanding of mankind's frailties. In this epic masterpiece, Anthony Burgess plumbs the depths of the essence of power and the lengths men will go for it.

Dr. Jake Ross, a university astronomer, wants nothing more than to teach a few classes each semester and continue his research. Instead, he finds himself aggressively recruited to be the science advisor to Frank Tomlinson, an ambitious politician with his eye on the US Senate. Tomlinson is in need of an edge that will allow him to defeat his opponent at the polls, and Dr. Ross can contribute just that: MHD. MHD, or magnetohydrodynamics, is a new innovation that will allow electricity to be generated efficiently and cheaply. But MHD is still in its infancy, and there are deadly risks.

John Buchan's hero Edward Leithen chances upon a worldwide plan for domination. With his own life (and the lives of his friends) depending on the outcome of his struggle, he engages in combat with the anarchic brain behind The Power-House. The author, despite being very busy in public service, wrote over 50 books during his life, but his particular talent was for writing fast-moving adventure stories. The Power-House, a good example of this genre, was first published in 1916.

"If you ever doubted that your feline companion has her own inner life, just watch what happens when she falls asleep, and loses conscious control of her physical being . . . a twitching of limbs, a quivering of the jaw, sometimes, perhaps, a snuffling noise or a meow.. . . Cats may indeed be...

Real musicians don’t sign autographs, date models, or fly in private jets. They spend their lives in practice rooms and basement clubs or toiling in the obscurity of coffee-shop gigs, casino jobs, and the European festival circuit. The 10 linked stories in Power Ballads are devoted to this unheard virtuoso: the working musician. From the wings of sold-out arenas to hip-hop studios to polka bars, these stories are born out of a nocturnal world where music is often simply work, but also where it can, in rare moments, become a source of grace and transcendence, speaking about the things we never seem to say to one another.

Our three heroes are born on three adjacent beds, a mere three seconds apart. United by a shared nature, they often feel each other’s emotions as if those emotions are their own. When a fire burns through their homes, killing their families, they are cast apart. Mayer is adopted by a wealthy couple, Archibald by a loving uncle and aunt, and Hugo is dumped in the workhouse.

Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to make a difference. As the science advisor to a newly elected freshman senator, Jake has crafted a comprehensive energy plan that employs innovative new technologies to make America the world's leader in energy production while simultaneously boosting the economy and protecting the environment.

Nuestros héroes nacen en tres camas adyacentes, con solo tres segundos de diferencia. Unidos por un rasgo en común, a menudo sienten las emociones de los otros, como si esas emociones fueran las de ellos. Cuando un incendio arrasa sus casas y acaba con la vida de sus familias, ellos quedan destrozados. Mayer es adoptado por una pareja adinerada, Archibald por un tío y tía amorosos, y Hugo es abandonado en un hospicio.

Die selbstbewusste Kerze ist gerade noch ein Kind. Sie lebt in einem kleinen, von Wald und Feldern umgebenen Dorf. Die Alten, zu denen die Nachbarin Hitschke gehört, sind in der Überzahl. Kerze verteidigt ihr Dorf gegen den Schwund, sie ist hier fest verwurzelt. Eines Tages geht Power, der Hund der Hitschke, verloren, und Kerze verspricht, ihn zu finden. Eine mitreißende, schonungslose Suche beginnt, der sich immer mehr Kinder anschließen. Als die Kinder schließlich im Wald verschwinden, erklärt die Dorfgemeinschaft den Ausnahmezustand.

Set against a layered Manhattan landscape, The Special Power of Restoring Lost Things explores a fractured family through the alternating perspectives of the mother, father, and brother of a young woman during the aftermath of her disappearance. A year of silent but collective anguish culminates in the fateful 30 hours after a body with a striking resemblance to hers is found, and we see her buttoned-up Upper West Side family spiral in different, dangerous directions.

Als Chain nach einer langen Reise in sein Heimatland zurückkehrt, muss er feststellen dass alle Einwohner Cantanas entweder tot oder durch feindliche Truppen verschleppt worden sind. Durch einen Brief seines Vaters erfährt er, dass hinter dem Angriff Elvarrons gefallene Tochter Alexa steckt.

The Power Line travels from the villages of Lake Aurora and Saranac Lake, New York, in the years following World War I, when Prohibition and tuberculosis kept them hopping, to Montreal and a thrilling escape by canoe across the St. Lawrence River in the dead of winter. It connects lives and periods often overlooked in the history of northern New York and the Canadian borderlands, shining light on the continuity of a disputed and murky past with a living and recognizable present.

เอมิกา หญิงสาวที่ทำทุกอย่างเพื่อลูก และเพื่อให้คำว่า 'ครอบครัว' ยังคงอยู่ ติณณ์ ชายหนุ่มผู้ที่ไม่ยอมรับ 'ความไม่สมบูรณ์' จนกลายเป็น 'เห็นแก่ตัว' ปีรติ ชายหนุ่มที่ยึดมั่นในหญิงสาวที่เขารัก โดยไม่สนว่าสิ่งที่ทำอยู่นั้น 'ถูก' หรือ 'ผิด' พิ มาดา หญิงสาวที่มีรักที่มั่นคง เธอทำทุกอย่างเพื่อคนที่เธอรัก แม้จะต้อง 'เหยีย ย่ำ' ความรู้สึกดีดีของอีกคน แพรวไพลิน เธอยอมเป็น 'ชู้' เพราะรักเขา แม้จะต้อง 'โกหก' คนที่รักเธอ ดาริกา เด็กสาวที่เกิดมาพร้อม 'ชะตา' ที่เลวร้าย เธอทำให้ค ว่า 'ครอบครัว' สั่นคลอน บทสรุปของเรื่องราวต่างๆ ที่ผูกมัดเอาไว้ด้วย ความรัก ความเห็นแก่ตัว การหลอกลวง จะเป็นอย่างไร

One man, five lives, ring fenced and separated: Bennie, loving husband and father; Benjie, beloved youngest son; Ben, successful corporate banker; Benjamin, millionaire author and publisher of pornography; and Jamie, dynamic part-time lover of a beautiful musician.

Brandi Buefred and her sisters, Barbara and Bonnie, were never that close to begin with. After their beloved mother died, the shaky family ties unraveled, leaving a family divided. When a cookie bake-off comes to Brandi's small town and her childhood nemesis enters the competition, she knows her only hope of winning the competition and honoring her mother's baking legacy is to reunite with her sisters to revive their mother's old, forgotten recipes. Will Barbara and Bonnie be game for the challenge? Do the Buefred sisters have what it takes to beat the tough cookie-making competition?

Enrique Mariscal reitera en estas páginas el contacto cómplice con sus lectores. Transita alegre por el puente encantado de su estilo. Su indagación renace vital en una textura de asombro, humor y autoironía. En estas páginas la imaginación se establece libremente y la conciencia testimonia su aventura en la unidad del ser. Este libro es provocador, tal vez irritante, nunca irreverente; tornará brújula o faro, según coyunturas, sin dejar de ser inspiración o juego.

Let's be real - customers suck. It's Tony's job to "reset the customer experience" with no tools other than his customer-oriented attitude and expression of the greedy corporation's hip and trendy culture. Ha ha. Right. Tony knows his wife might not make it through this pregnancy. She's on bedrest due to a mass in the womb and odds are it's cancerous. As bills outweigh their income, he's forced to choose between packing in hours at Pizza Corp or spending what could be the last few months with his wife....

Conversation with Johnny is very special to me, because it constitutes at least my own dual cultural nature, the writer and the individual of power, the local gangster, most of us experienced in the old neighborhoods. Here, they merge into one. Out of this duo comes, I hope, a kind of closure on the stereotype we also all know, that of the godfather myth. On an exalted plain above all of this, to my great pleasure, is the alluring, elusive woman.