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Roman Tribune Clavius is assigned by Pilate to keep the radical followers of the recently executed Yeshua from stealing the body and inciting revolution. When the body goes missing despite his precautions, Clavius must hunt it down. His investigation leads him from the halls of Herod Antipas to the Garden of Gethsemane and brings him in touch with believer and doubter alike. But as the body still remains missing, Clavius commits to a quest for the truth—and answers that will not only shake his life but echo throughout all of history.

Once Upon a Toon offers a unique perspective on life behind the scenes at one of England’s most famous football clubs. No other individual has had the immense privilege of working at Newcastle United in the capacity that Paul Ferris once did: as a player between 1981 and 1986, as a physiotherapist between 1993 and 2006, and finally as a key member of Alan Shearer’s management team in 2009.

Texas Flood provides the unadulterated truth about Stevie Ray Vaughan from those who knew him best: his brother Jimmie, his Double Trouble bandmates Tommy Shannon, Chris Layton and Reese Wynans, and many other close friends, family members, girlfriends, fellow musicians, managers and crew members.

The Premier League is the most watched sports league in the world, broadcast into 188 countries and watched by 3.2 billion people worldwide. It revolutionised football, transforming the beautiful game into a multi-billion-pound business and making its biggest stars millionaires. Fever Pitch tells the inside story of the formation of the league, from the early discussions with Rupert Murdoch about how Sky could be at the heart of this new league, to the bitter rivalries and radical new managers who changed the face of football forever.

Teaming up with New York Times best-selling author Jeffery Deaver, Suspense Magazine offers up a nail-biting anthology titled Nothing Good Happens After Midnight. This thrilling collection consists of 13 original short stories representing the genres of suspense/thriller, mystery, sci-fi/fantasy, and more. 

For the Sake of the Game is the latest volume in the award-winning series from New York Times best-selling editors Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger, with stories of Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and friends in a variety of eras and forms. King and Klinger have a simple formula: Ask some of the world's greatest writers-regardless of genre - to be inspired by the stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. The results are surprising and joyous.

The Allman Brothers Band’s Brothers and Sisters was not only the band’s best-selling album at over seven million copies sold, it was also a powerfully influential release, both musically and culturally, one whose influence continues to be profoundly felt.

Forty years ago, Walt Kelly's comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: "We have met the enemy, and he is us." Now, as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming, we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction, and certain transformation, of the ecosphere has been brought about by our own activities. What will our new world look like? How will we - can we - adapt? The clash of a rapidly changing environment with earth's self-styled ruling species, humans, provides ample creative fodder for this riveting anthology of original science fiction.

Since before he can remember, every time Andrew Adams sleeps he's randomly flung through time and space, never knowing where or when he'll wake up, clueless to how it all started or how it can be stopped .The only things he can be certain of are that the location he arrives at won't be anywhere exciting, and he'll have to stay there until he loses his fight against sleep. Andrew Adams has all but given up hope and given up on life. That is, until he meets someone like him.

We talk about all subjects from movies to aliens, to conspiracies. The subject matter is serious, but humor makes it fun.

This guide from the American Academy of Pediatrics offers authoritative, accessible advice that parents can trust. Autism Spectrum Disorder: What Every Parent Needs to Know helps parents understand how ASDs are defined and diagnosed and offers an overview of the most current behavioral and developmental therapies. Topics covered include: symptoms, frequency, and types of ASDs; accessing care; services in the community; behavioral and developmental treatment; the role of complementary and alternative medicine; screening tools; and adolescence and transitioning into adulthood.

Recluido en un apartamento, un pornógrafo responde las cartas que hombres y mujeres, devorados por la pasión, le escriben. Él es, o debería ser, aquel que los guíe en un laberinto hecho de vértigo y lujuria. Para rescatarlos o darles un sentido.

Mitchell Thacker and Captain Rengar Falger travel to a strange world seeking alien technology that will give their cause help in undermining their nemesis, the Polaris Corporation.

No piensa mudarse, pero busca departamentos en alquiler. Lee avisos y visita casas habitadas, intruso fugaz en vidas ajenas. No necesita nada (y lo exaspera la tecnología), pero vaga por internet comprando gadgets, cosas viejas, bichos embalsamados, por el placer de entrar en la historia de otros. Pero ¿qué pasa con Savoy—cincuentón quieto, aficionado a los roces inocuos—cuando se cruza con Carla, una treintañera feliz, sin apegos, que viaja de país en país cuidando casas, mascotas, plantas de marihuana? ¿Cuál de los dos mundos cambia, se ilumina, pierde más la cabeza con el impacto?

Mezcla de autobiografía, ensayo cultural y documento imaginario, La vida descalzo es un homenaje al lugar común donde seguimos siendo felices sin miedo. Mar, arena, sol y la euforia de estar legalmente semidesnudos: la playa sigue vendiendo virtudes de paraíso natural, pero esa utopía salvaje es también el objeto eminentemente cultural, preñado de sentidos y valores sociales, que moldean la literatura, el cine y la comunicación de masas.

Crónica alucinada de cómo un escritor se fabrica un mundo atroz para acceder a la verdad del amor y la literatura.

Como esas embriagantes versiones en español de las baladas románticas premiadas en San Remo o Viña, estos Temas lentos, elegantes y sensuales, captan con la crítica, el diario íntimo o la viñeta satírica las modulaciones de las vanguardias (Duchamp y Warhol, ¡claro!, pero también Aira y Bolaño, Brecht y Beckett...) aplicadas a cuestiones pedestres: la orfandad, el inverosímil costumbrista de una Alemania costera.

¿Cuándo se termina el amor? ¿Cómo saber con exactitud su fecha de expiración? Tras una relación de más de una década, Sofía y Rímini se separan. Con treinta años, Rímini se aboca a su trabajo como traductor mientras intenta sostener relaciones más o menos duraderas con otras mujeres. Sin embargo, de a poco, va cayendo en la apatía, tironeado entre la literatura y la cocaína, sometido a las caprichosas reapariciones de Sofía, que, impulsada por una pasión inagotable, le impide poner fin a su historia.

Más que un conjunto de ensayos críticos, El factor Borges atraviesa los principales conceptos asociados a su obra - originalidad, tradición, biblioteca - para mapear no solo el núcleo de sus textos, sino también la configuración de su identidad. Una búsqueda tan profunda como incesante por la imagen que proyectó durante su vida y de forma póstuma y, por supuesto, esa maquinaria perfecta que se anticipó a su tiempo y trasciende su propia sintaxis.

The stories in Paul Alan Ruben's Terms of Engagement explore father and son as intimate enemies, each yearning to be understood, acknowledged, and validated by the other. Raw and gripping as delivered by a cast of incredible narrators, these nine stories take place in collision territory - where father and son engage in trying to repair their alienation.