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Count Witon has grown weary of the constant war between the races, so he plans to create a new society: A utopia for anyone who longs for peaceful coexistence. Recruiting pilgrims from every city and species, they set off to a small, yet promising island together.

One Last Strike by legendary baseball manager Tony La Russa is a thrilling sports comeback story. La Russa, the winner of four Manager of the Year awards—who led his teams to six Pennant wins and three World Series crowns—chronicles one of the most exciting end-of-season runs in baseball...

Using breakthrough reporting and interviews with long-silent sources, Gus Russo and Stephen Molton have crafted a dramatic retelling of the time before, during, and after the killing of John F. Kennedy. The book centers on the two opposed sets of brothers - the Kennedys and the Castros - who collectively authored one of modern history's most dangerous, and tragically ironic, chapters.

Veteran character actor Nick Searcy takes you through his wide-ranging career, from both sides of the camera as an actor and director, to guest-hosting for Rush Limbaugh, managing a professional wrestler, costarring in the hit show Justified—and somehow continuing to work in Hollywood even after he went to Washington DC on January 6, 2021.

Carlos has been an olorisha for 21 years. Cecilio for 36. Together they’ve seen this religion at its most profound — and at its most complicated.Ilé to Ilé isn’t a class on Santeria. It’s two men with nearly six decades of lived experience in the Lucumí tradition sitting down and being honest — about what they’ve witnessed, what they’ve had to unlearn, where they agree, and where they genuinely don’t.Opinions formed by experience. Conversations that used to happen after ceremonies, in someone’s kitchen, between people who trusted each other enough to tell the ...

¿Alguna vez has deseado expresar a tus hijos lo especiales que son? ¿Escribir las emociones que sientes por ellos, los sueños que albergas, las esperanzas que guardas en tu corazón? “Quiero Que Sepas” es mucho más que un audiolibro: es un espacio de amor, un diario donde cada palabra se convierte en un hilo invisible que une a padres e hijos para siempre.

Art History Decoded offers a clear method for reading images produced in the Greek world and understanding the messages they were meant to convey. Rather than focusing on memorizing names and dates, the book guides the listener through the logic that governs form, proportion, and visual structure.

Ciao, io sono Elisa Russo! Sono una fotografa ed un po’ di altre cose che sto cercando di capire.Ho una fede ribelle, il mio armadio è un casino e la mattina quando mi alzo faccio due cose:credo nel mio talento un po’ più del giorno primanon chiedo permesso a nessuno per essere chi sono realmente (bugia immensa...ci provo…non sempre riesco)Questo è Risonanza Podcast.Uno spazio di evoluzione per cervellini gentili e appassionati, che stanno imparando a fiorire a loro modo.Se qualcosa qui dentro risuona anche in te...accompagnami, il posto accanto al mio è libero!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody’s Fool and Everybody’s Fool. “Sumptuous...

After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilarious, moving, and always surprising account of his life, his parents, and the upstate New York town they all struggled variously to escape. Anyone familiar with Richard Russo's acclaimed...

Meredith Russo's award-winning, big-hearted novel If I Was Your Girl is about being seen for who you really are, with a love story you can't help but root for! Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls Three men in their late sixties—old friends from college, each with a secret—come together on Martha’s Vineyard in this “gripping, wise, and wonderful summer treat.” (The Boston Globe). “A cascade of...

A controversial arts collective is rolling out their most audacious project to date: a second moon, set to launch from the Mojave Desert and into the Earth’s atmosphere at the summer’s end. The problem? No one seems to understand how “Moon2” actually works, or how it may alter the mind of every creature on the planet.

Ordinary people are doing extraordinary things, and every big idea deserves a launchpad. Starting a business is never a straight line - it's a wild ride of late-night ideas, messy beginnings and moments of breakthrough. On The Entrepreneurs Launchpad, host Claudia Fusca sits down with everyday Australians who've taken the leap to create their own jobs, follow their passions, and build businesses from the ground up. From bakers to makers, tech dreamers to gardeners, you'll hear raw and honest conversations about the challenges, the wins and everything in-between. Whether you're curious about ...

Non parleremo di difesa personale.Parleremo di tutto quello che deve succedere prima che diventi necessaria.Chi vorrebbe acquisire maggiore sicurezza individuale si imbatte in corsi e seminari che spesso insegnano a reagire fisicamente ad attacchi improvvisi, scaturiti dal nulla. Ma nella realtà della violenza, quel "nulla" non esiste. Il vuoto apparente che precede il contatto fisico è in verità uno spazio denso. È un tempo affollato di segnali premonitori, di indicatori ambientali e di manipolazioni psicologiche che, presi dalla paura o dall'abitudine, tendiamo quasi sempre a ...

A marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody's Fool and The Destiny Thief Life and Art—these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s thirteen masterful new essays—how they inform each other and how the stories we tell ourselves about both...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls One of the most valuable spaces for an artist is the inner life—the sacred place where, outside of the constraints of time and space, meaning is extracted from raw experience and fashioned into art. In this timely new essay, Pulitzer...

"It turns out that Russo the nonfiction writer is a lot like Russo the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He is affably disagreeable, wry, idiosyncratic, vulnerably bighearted, a craftsman of lubricated sentences."—Jay Fielden, New York Times Book Review A master of the novel, short story, and...

A New York Times 2016 Notable Book An immediate national best seller and instant classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls. Richard Russo returns to North Bath—“a town where dishonesty abounds, everyone misapprehends everyone else and half the citizens are half-crazy”...

Following the best-selling Everybody's Fool, a new collection of short fiction that demonstrates that Richard Russo--winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls--is also a master of this genre. Russo's characters in these four expansive stories bear little similarity to the blue-collar...