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In this first-of-its-kind book, Sol Smith combines current research, his personal experience as a late-diagnosed autistic adult, and lessons learned as an educator to show how you can transcend common mischaracterizations, overcome shame, and gain the skills to flourish. Sol knows that neurodivergent people often feel that nothing they have been taught relates to how they experience the world. To resolve this conflict, they try to change or mask who they are, which can cause isolation, depression, and anxiety. He advises the opposite: Understand yourself, accept yourself, and reduce conflict.

Carrie Brennan y Misha Zhukov se conocieron hace un año, cuando ella se grabó mientras lo besaba para obtener fama a su costa. Ahora, ambos han decidido participar en ¡1, 2 o 3!, el nuevo reality del que todo el mundo habla. Cuando las cosas se compliquen ¿pesará más el deseo de venganza o el instinto de supervivencia? Tendrán que darse prisa en llegar hasta el tesoro porque… ¡el tiempo es oro!

On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women. Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural.

Real Italian people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken Italian in the process.

Saddled with insurmountable debt, Tessa is desperate for a way out. When she's referred to an agency that pairs vampires with blood donors as a quick way to make some cash, she has no choice but to accept an arrangement. She expects pain. She expects fear. She expects a predator. But what she gets is something entirely different. Her vampire match is . . . sweet. Kind. Protective. And the way he makes her feel is anything but painful.

After an accident ends her big city ballet career, Cassie Simons is ready for a brand new start, moving a to small town to help run her best friend's dancing school. She knows she's made the right choice-the kids love her, she gets to spend lots of time with her bestie, and the flashbacks to her car crash are slowly starting to dissipate. The only fly in the ointment is moody single dad, Pres Hartson.

Curvy cat-rescue volunteer Tessa Davelos can't fix her wounded soul, so she's out to save the world instead, one kitten at a time. But when her tragic past comes back to haunt her in the form of an unstoppable dragon assassin, a drop-dead gorgeous cop cruises through the door of the cat shelter and into her broken heart . . .

El mismo día en que Amanda Black cumple trece años recibe una carta misteriosa que cambiará su vida. Y de qué manera.

Gaby is a single mom, trying to make ends meet as a coffee shop barista while taking night classes, caring for her five-year-old son, and supporting her widowed mother. Then her world comes crashing down when she witnesses an armed robbery—and the robber turns into a bear. Enter Derek Ruger, former military, tough-as-iron bear shifter and bodyguard. The instant he sees Gaby, Derek knows this is more than just another job.

I crafted a perfectly simple life for myself and my son. It was peaceful and lonely, exactly how I wanted it. Then my new neighbor moved in and ruined everything. Archer Green. Not just a member of a motorcycle club but the president. The leather jacket on his broad back, along with all its various patches, might as well have been red flags, warning me to stay away all the while his looks dared me not to. Ignoring him was futile. Still, I tried. Until Archer showed up in my son’s classroom, ready to read for storytime hour.

Mia Cortés, an aspiring and charming musician with a voice that can set the stage on fire, is discovered by the influential and enigmatic music agent, Harper Nightingale. Harper signs Mia to her prestigious record label, and the two women quickly find their professional relationship blossoming into something much deeper.

When Grace tries to steal Michael's cab in the middle of a torrential downpour, their chemistry is instant. And after one unforgettable night in his hotel room, it looks like life is finally going her way. But in the morning a shocking revelation rips her world apart, and she has to leave him for good without saying goodbye. A year later, Grace is living quietly in her small home town when she sees Michael storming toward her. He demands answers, so she tells him exactly why she left that morning.

Sol Bernstein, the oldest Jewish stand-up comedian still playing the clubs today, tells his favourite Jewish jokes so that they can be handed down to another generation. Told and adapted by Jews throughout the centuries from the Eastern Europe shtetls of the 19th century to the American Borscht Belt circuit of the 1950s and '60s Sol retells jokes on religion, assimilation, marriage and sex from a people and religion that has always had its humour no matter what the world throws at them.

In Rosario, Argentina, Camila Hassan lives a double life. At home, she is a careful daughter, living within her mother’s narrow expectations, in her rising-soccer-star brother’s shadow, and under the abusive rule of her short-tempered father. On the field, she is La Furia, a powerhouse of skill and talent. When her team qualifies for the South American tournament, Camila gets the chance to see just how far those talents can take her. In her wildest dreams, she’d get an athletic scholarship to a North American university.

Escritos cuando tenía unos veinticinco años y vivía en Francia con su marido, el poeta y banquero norteamericano Hugh Parker Guiler, estos dieciséis relatos inéditos en castellano sorprenden por su madurez y frescura, a la vez que muestran ya los dos elementos que luego se afianzarían en su obra — la ironía y el feminismo — y también sus obsesiones — el deseo femenino, la sexualidad, el adulterio, la belleza y el retrato de una masculinidad tan deslumbradora como tóxica.

Un circo representa una última función que acaba en tragedia, un periodista busca la historia que jamás podrá permitirse contar, una vaca argentina vislumbra el instante antes de que todo cambie para siempre, varios niños desaparecen en un pueblo alemán, un hombre trata de recrear el momento más feliz de su vida....

Jose Coronado se mete en la piel del Conde Drácula para traer a Audible este clasico de la literatura. Mediante cartas y diarios de los principales personajes, esta obra clásica revela la historia y la vida misteriosa del conde Drácula. Este personaje, inspirado en leyendas como la de Vlad Tepes y la Condesa Sangrienta Erzsébet Báthory, dio lugar a una gran cantidad de versiones de cine, cómics y teatro.

Tras cinco años de incesantes búsquedas con los dispositivos más sofisticados del momento, la astrónoma Eleanor Arroway consigue, junto a un equipo de científicos internacionales, conectar con la estrella Vega y demostrar que no estamos solos en el universo. Empieza entonces un trepidante viaje hacia el encuentro más esperado de la historia de la humanidad, y con él Carl Sagan plantea magistralmente cómo afectaría a nuestra sociedad la recepción de mensajes de una civilización inteligente.

We need to talk about money. Women have been overlooked and underestimated when it comes to finance; we typically earn less, are encouraged to spend more, and have fewer opportunities to build funds. But if we talk about money and share our knowledge, we will grow in confidence and wealth. This is the secret to securing your future and paying for all the things that matter. Whether you want to have children, get married, pay for a mortgage, start your own business or pay for nice holidays, all these goals cost money.

Reescritos a menudo en un lapso de medio siglo, rescatados de los archivos polvorientos de los inéditos, arañados con tesón al olvido, fruto de años de esfuerzo obsesivo, los Cuentos completos de Marguerite Yourcenar forman un compendio de las preocupaciones de una narradora fundamental en la literatura del siglo XX, a la vez que construyen una cámara de ecos en la que resuenan las contradicciones entre la convención social y el arrebato de las pasiones, la experiencia y la inocencia, la necesidad de saber y la conciliación de las ansias enfebrecidas con la áspera realidad de la historia.