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For the first time, music legend Rudy Pérez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage. Named the most successful Latin songwriter in history, Rudy Pérez is the creator behind some of the bestselling records of Beyoncé...

Crime reporter Will Finch never saw it coming. On Telegraph Hill, a woman mistakes him for someone named Joel Griffin. "The game is getting dangerous," she whispers. Before she can say more, a drive-by assassin silences her—collapsing at Finch's feet in a pool of blood. By morning, two FBI agents are at his door. Finch is the prime suspect in a deep-web conspiracy. The evidence is airtight. The threat is real. And a merciless foreign organization is watching his every move.

When the outgoing governor of Kentucky pardons 428 felons, the criminal justice system is rocked. Among them—Lennart Skoll, convicted of a brutal double homicide. He swears he was framed. But can he be trusted? Across the country, crime reporter Will Finch joins an Extinction Rebellion protest outside San Francisco's City Hall. Chaos erupts, a gunshot rings out, and Finch tackles the shooter. When the dust settles, a Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist lies dead beside him.

A double agent murdered in Hong Kong. Military satellites destroyed in space. A U.S. Virginia submarine on the prowl in the Arctic. A rogue Russian sub hunted by all sides including their own countrymen. Can NCIS Agent Jennifer Hobbs piece everything together and prevent yet another devastating nuclear conflagration.

Ari recently began her rookie year in the Windrider Corps, an elite airborne police force that protects the desert city of Gaobeyna. At 17, Ari is the youngest rookie on record, and has one goal: to carry forward her legendary status from the Academy and become the best protector Gaobeyna has ever known. That dream shatters when a cadet dies on her watch, sending her into self-exile in the wilderness. Meanwhile, an ancient deity lies dormant beneath Gaobeyna’s foundations. A ruthless faction has emerged in the city’s underground, and they will do anything to resurrect this malevolent force.

A word of caution to decent folk and God-fearing travelers: there walks among us a man not born to honor nor to law, but to spite and cruelty. He is called Douglas Flannery O’Kemp, though most know him simply as the Bastard O’Kemp. He was sired by a planter of ill repute and a servant woman of northern stock, pale as snow and marked by heathen tales. From his first breath he was raised on blows, and from his fifteenth year he carried his father’s scalp to market for coin. Since that day, he has known neither home nor mercy.

La rencontre avec Jésus nous permet de changer l'image que nous avons de nous-mêmes. La réussite de notre vie dépend, en effet, de cette image. J'essaie de voir comment nous pouvons résoudre nos problèmes psychiques grâce à la rencontre avec Jésus.

The lanterns burn low, the lions walk free, and the Cirque des Ténèbres has risen again from ruin. The Swan, Mei Yee, has lost her great love, Douglas O’Kemp Jr., the man the world called a monster but who was born of violence, shaped by cruelty, and never given a choice to be gentle. In the hush after his death, she wakes with a secret beneath her heart, a child born not of sin, but of mercy.

Severance braces for a catastrophic impact as a colossal storm churns menacingly in the Atlantic. Eden, a seasoned storm investigator with a global reputation, feels a gnawing uneasy feeling in the pit of her stomach. Her extensive experience with unprecedented weather events tells her this could be a monstrous hurricane poised to strike. She comes together with friends, past and present, to determine the significance of the cyclone's track. They watch and pray, knowing the conditions are ripe for disaster.

Born with visions pressed against his chest like a second heart, Song walks along a road no other can see. Omens follow him, the scream of the panther from the ridge, the pale Indian Pipe rising in the dark soil, the red-banded Cecropia moth beating its wings against firelight. These are not accidents. These are messages. Song has been chosen to carry them. But every song casts a shadow. That shadow has a name: Cypian, the River Wolf.

Anyone who has ever crammed for a test, capitulated to a grade-grubbing student, or fretted over a child's report card knows that the way we assess student learning in American schools is freighted with unintended consequences. As experts agree, our primary assessment technologies—grading, rating, and ranking—don't actually provide an accurate picture of how students are doing in school. In Off the Mark, Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt explain how we got into this predicament, why we remain beholden to outmoded forms of assessment, and what we can do to change course.

Depuis que Lazare a ouvert un restaurant avec son meilleur ami, il n'a qu'un seul objectif : être référencé dans le célèbre guide gastronomique du Tasting. Et s'il doit faire des vidéos culinaires sulfureuses pour s'attirer une clientèle, ce n'est qu'un détail car il est prêt à tout.

A reporter on the rebound. An ex-cop with nothing to lose. A truth worth killing for. Crime reporter Will Finch doesn't believe Gianna Whitelaw jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge—no matter what the suicide note says. But when her powerful father, U.S. Senator Franklin Whitelaw, shuts down the investigation, Finch is forced to walk away. Until private investigator Eve Noon sends him a cryptic message. She knew Gianna. She knows what happened that night. And she knows Finch is tangled in it more than he realizes.

One billion dollars. Two ruthless killers. Three ways to die. Crime reporter Will Finch and private investigator Eve Noon are out of time. A villain from the ashes of the Soviet Union has cast a shadow over San Francisco, threatening not only their lives but also their enigmatic ally, Sochi. But...

Fifteen murdered. Seven witnesses. One by one, they fall. As crime reporter Will Finch puts the final touches on his latest book, private investigator Eve Noon makes her way to his remote island retreat. But someone is watching. Someone is waiting. And before she arrives, the nightmare has...

1978, Jonestown. 909 dead. Two children survive. Where are they now? In the chaos of Jonestown's final hours, two children vanished into the Guyanese jungle, escaping the horror that claimed nearly a thousand lives. Given new identities and a second chance, they were supposed to be safe. Forty...

Amy Wilson believed in doing the right thing. That was her first mistake. When she votes for pandemic safety measures as a member of her local school board, she unleashes a campaign of terror against her. Vandalism escalates to stalking. Anonymous threats become physical attacks. The mysterious figures behind it all seem to know her every move—and there appears no limit to what they're willing to do to her.

The Official Redneck Phrasebook: Talk Like You Ain’t Got No Sense is your one-way ticket to the hilarious, head-scratchin’, beer-sippin’ world of redneck lingo. Packed with over 1,200 real redneck sayings, this ain’t no grammar guide — it’s a full-throttle, front-porch-approved handbook for speakin’ fluent fool. Whether you were born in a holler, raised by raccoons, or just want to fit in at a mud bog, this book’s got your back.

Will Finch, a San Francisco crime reporter, is drawn to a small Oregon town where a murder exposes dangerous secrets. The local sheriff controls the town with an iron grip, determined to block Finch's investigation at every turn. At the center of the case is the victim's fiancée, a senator's daughter, whose silence only deepens the mystery. As Finch follows the trail, he uncovers a web of corruption and betrayal stretching far beyond the wilderness. The truth could cost him everything.

Donovan Porter knows what it means to survive—but survival comes at a price. Wracked with guilt and hunted by his past, he sheds his name and flees to Mexico, reemerging as T.C. in a land pulsing with danger, desire, and discovery. Immersed in vibrant culture and shadowed by vice—sex, drugs, and the underworld—T.C. is searching for more than escape. He’s searching for himself. Then she appears. Mysterious. Magnetic. A spark in the haze. When T.C. agrees to show her the streets he’s come to call home, he has no idea what fate is about to ignite.