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If there’s a mystery to be solved, Pete’s your man. Er, your cat. Pete’s a cat, specifically, Alex’s cat. And since Alex and his family moved into a new housing development, Pete is Alex’s only friend. Things start looking up for Alex when Rocky moves in next door. But Rocky isn’t very friendly, and Alex starts to suspect he’s hiding something. And when the neighborhood is terrorized by a rash of fires and vandalism, Pete knows that he’s got to investigate.

One mistake. One viral video. One ruined career. That's all it takes for the world to turn on me: Hollywood's former golden boy. Now I'm hiding out in a rundown bungalow on Dreamwood Isle, praying the paparazzi won't track me down. I need safety. Solitude. Anonymity. What I get instead is Finn: the son of my bungalow landlord, charming, adorably clumsy — and the one man alive who doesn't care that I'm River Wolfe, fallen angel of the big screen. Which only makes me want him more.

A completely revised edition of the first Henry Rios mystery, The Little Death, Lay Your Sleeping Head introduces Michael Nava’s singular protagonist, gay Latino criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios. Rios, beset by personal and professional problems, begins a passionate affair with the black sheep heir to a great California fortune who tells Rios an improbable tale of murder and sexual predation in his wealthy family. When the young man is found dead of an apparent drug overdose, Rios begins an investigation that ultimately reveals much more than murder.

Now an original film streaming on Netflix , directed by Rodrigo Prieto, cinematographer of Killers of the Flower Moon NATIONAL BESTSELLER “One of the best novels in Hispanic literature, and in literature as a whole.” —Jorge Luis Borges The highly influential masterpiece of Latin American...

New York City, 1929. Young Theo Sterling’s world begins to unravel as the Great Depression exerts its icy grip. He finds it hard to relate to his parents: His father, a Jewish self-made businessman, refuses to give up on the American dream, and his mother, a refugee from religious persecution in Mexico, holds fast to her Catholic faith. When disaster strikes the family, Theo must learn who he is.

While most successful sidemen are lucky to spend a decade in the music business, multi-instrumentalist Mark Rivera is working on his fifth. Rivera has shared the stage with some of Rock 'n' Roll's greatest performers, including John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Simon & Garfunkel, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Tony Bennett, Sheila E., Joe Walsh, Hall & Oates, and Peter Gabriel. How does he do it while avoiding the typical pitfalls—falling out of favor with the band, burnout, depression?

They thought the fears were gone. They thought the nightmares would stop haunting them. But the five of them were wrong. They’re older now. They’re friends. But that friendship can be shattered so easily when life turns scary again. It was bad enough when it was just clowns and sharks and snakes. Back then, they had to conquer their own fear. Now...they have to conquer everyone else’s.

La mejor biografía que se ha escrito sobre Frida Kahlo, la pintora mexicana por excelencia.

Alberto has been alone for the majority of his life, making his way as a restaurant worker and at the beck and call of wealthy and entitled Don Antonio. This time for hire, Alberto arrives at Antonio’s summer house prepared to attend to its regular maintenance. Instead he finds only Antonio’s heartbroken wife, Lola, and a task that could alter his loyalty to his employer forever.

Why do salespeople fail to build pipeline, avoid buyer objections and conflict, and convert sales meetings into qualified opportunities? It's not a methodology, process, tendency to challenge, or their product knowledge. They don't know how to sell to people.

Barcelona 1936. Theo helps the Anarchist workers defeat the army that is trying to overthrow the democratically elected government, and he is reunited with his true love, Maria. But all too soon, his joy turns to terror as the Anarchists turn on him, led by a rival for Maria’s affection. Lucky to escape with his life, Theo returns to England to study at Oxford. But his heart is in Spain, now torn apart by a bloody civil war, and he is quick to abandon his new life when his old schoolmate Esmond offers him the chance to fight the Fascists.

Anipe was never meant to live. Born fae and smuggled into a world that hunts her kind, she grew up in the Pharaoh’s palace as nothing more than the Seer’s ward—an orphan wrapped in silk and silence. But when fire erupts from her hands before the entire court, Anipe learns the truth: she is marked by the True Flame, and the empire will burn to keep her chained. With the Pharaoh’s wrath closing in, Anipe flees into the desert with Airen, a fae guard who knows more about her past than he’ll admit, and Ronan, the Pharaoh’s son whose loyalty is tangled with desire.

An alien race calling themselves the Kh'thon descend upon the planet, announcing that they are the former occupants and rightful owners of Earth. The evidence they present is startling: Their ships are manned by Homo sapiens, supposedly descendants of human beings who served the Kh'thon on Earth countless millennia ago, and their will is enforced by the Exemplar, humans augmented with a dizzying array of powers, each the match of any one of the X-Men.

Nobody loves a good story like Justin's dad. He's a famous writer and story collector. That's how Justin and his sister, Marissa, ended up in Brovania. Their dad is searching for an ancient manuscript called "The Lost Legend."Justin and Marissa want to help. But instead of finding "The Lost Legend," they get lost. And the woods of Brovania are filled with the strangest creatures. Like hundreds of squealing mice. Silver-colored dogs. And terrifying Vikings from long ago.

Jonathan Strahan, the award-winning and much lauded editor of many of genre's best known anthologies, is back with his 11th volume in this fascinating series, featuring the best science fiction and fantasy. With established names and new talent, this diverse and ground-breaking collection will take the listener to the outer reaches of space and the inner realms of humanity with stories of fantastical worlds and worlds that may still come to pass.

Meet the exhausted group of caregiving mothers who offer extraordinary care to a child with disabilities or unique needs. These unsung heroes, who walk invisibly among us, dedicate time, energy, love, and their entire lives to help their loved one who is unable to help themselves. A child with a rare degenerative disease. A sibling with autism. A teen wading through anxiety and depression. An adult child with a debilitating illness. A child with extreme ADHD.

Durante una época complicada de su vida, la autora, Sheila Darcey descubrió que trazar y hacer dibujos de estilo libre y de darle forma física a sus pensamientos, emociones e ideas, era un modo muy útil y que tenía alto impacto para procesar lo que sentía. Trazo a trazo te ayudará a desarrollar una práctica diaria de dibujo que te llevará del pensamiento negativo a un mundo de posibilidades infinitas. Al usar el arte para conectar tu cerebro izquierdo con tu cerebro derecho, este libro desbloqueará tu necesidad humana básica de crear, expresar y sentir.

This gripping new anthology has over a dozen original tales starring the top-selling mutant heroes, the uncanny X-Men, dealing with their greatest foes, as well as the day-to-day trials of being mutants - trying to protect the world they've sworn to protect, a world that hates them for what they are!

Annja Creed is in London on a secret archaeological dig on the grounds of Hampton Court Palace. The body of a decapitated medieval woman is unearthed. Annja helps to determine her cause of death and identify her. Who murdered her and why was she silenced? The grisly discovery leads Annja and Roux Dupree to a secret society of knights as they uncover a royal conspiracy. In the 1500s, King Henry VIII had two of his wives arrested and beheaded. Is this new body connected to the dead queens?

From best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. At the heart of Bicho Raro, Colorado you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles.