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The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, the Tablet of Hermes, and The Kybalion compiles three significant works central to Hermetic philosophy into a single, accessible volume. This edition includes complete texts and an audio enhanced experience, providing multiple ways to engage with these influential writings. The Emerald Tablets of Thoth, attributed to the legendary figure Thoth of Atlantis, offer a perspective on universal laws, consciousness, and spiritual evolution.

The world's greatest gentleman thief is back, and this time he must summon all his brilliance and prowess to escape the clutches of his most worthy adversary: the master English Detective Sherlock Holmes! Assisted by his trusty companion Dr. Wilson, Holmes is called to Paris to investigate crimes believed to involve the legendary debonair rogue Lupin.

At age thirty-three, Maurice Ashley became the first African American to attain the rank of International Grand Master of Chess. Since that historic moment, he has brought his love of the game to a wide audience as an educator, innovator, and motivational speaker.

En esta obra, la policía francesa está desconcertada tras una serie de audaces robos en los que Lupin actúa con una misteriosa cómplice rubia. Incapaces de resolver el caso, acuden al legendario detective británico: Herlock Sholmes, el ingenioso alter ego de Sherlock Holmes, rebautizado por Maurice Leblanc tras un famoso desacuerdo con Arthur Conan Doyle.

Often described as a French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes, Lupin is often a force for good while operating on the wrong side of the law.

The Essential Classics: Volume 2 brings together 5 of the greatest classics ever written, perfectly read by an esteemed cast including Adjoa Andoh, Rupert Degas, Kobna Holdbrook Smith, Leighton Pugh, and Jonathan Keeble. Spanning the Atlantic, this collection includes stories of vampiric horror in Dracula, Orwell's modern masterpiece, Animal Farm, as well as Emily Brontë's timeless tale of love on the moors, Wutheirng Heights, and more.

Des réflexions sur des sujets essentiels, notamment la politique–car pendant de longues années, Maurice Henrie a travaillé à l’ombre des parlementaires fédéraux–des questions d’ordre littéraire et des sujets de nature socioéconomique.

Joseph is the most hidden of the saints a simple, retiring, and humble man of Nazareth. His exterior life reveals nothing extraordinary or striking. Drawing not on private revelations or pious legends, this beautiful and edifying work unearths many truths about St. Joseph hidden in the Gospel, to bring them to light and make use of them in Joseph's honor.

Has this ever happened to you? You are sitting across the table from a person you really like on a date at a great restaurant. Everything seems perfect. The food is exceptional. The background music is just perfect. The service so far has been good. You look across the table and feel blessed to be in their presence. Your heart melts every time they smile. Your heart also misses a beat every time you make eye contact. Still, there's something that doesn't seem quite right - the conversation is not flowing!

The Forest Lovers is a thrilling medieval romance filled with duels, kidnappings, and secret identities. As Prosper le Gai embarks on a journey through the perilous Morgraunt Forest, he becomes entangled in a tale of love, honor, and deadly rivalries. A must-listen for fans of chivalric adventure.

One hot Monday morning in 1976, Albert Spaggiari engineered the European crime of the century. A bank president in Nice, France found his vault welded shut—from the inside. Spaggiari and his gang of 20 men had dug a 25-foot tunnel from the city's sewer system into the bank, where they spent a weekend cooking meals, drinking wine, and clearing millions of dollars in gold, jewelry, gems, and cash. Here is the breathtakingly compelling story of Spaggiari, his “sewer gang,” and the most daring, outrageous theft of the 20th century.

The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a utopia when they split away from old earth. Freeing themselves from the endless wars and oppression of their home planet in order to shape their own futures and create a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretched from Earth and Mars to Titan. With the wisdom of their ancestors, the leadership of their elders, the power and vision of their scientists and warriors they charted a course to a better future. But the old powers could not allow them to thrive and have now set in motion new plots to destroy all that they've built.

Silicon Valley’s genius combined with limited corporate regulation promised a new age of technological innovation in which entrepreneurs would create companies that would in turn fuel unprecedented job growth. Yet disruptive innovation has stagnated even as the five leading tech giants, which account for approximately 25 percent of the S&P 500’s market capitalization, are expanding to unimaginable scale and power. In How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation—and How to Strike Back, Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke explain why this is happening and what we can do to reverse it.

As she watches her brother losing the battle with his memories, Rowan wonders how long she can keep her own past at bay. The old family home in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling away - but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back. Rowan too, otherwise safe in her 'upper crusty' suburb, is drawn more and more strongly 'out west'. The past is dangerously alive.

Con la muerte de Carlos IV se extingue la dinastía de los Capetos. El ascenso de los Valois al trono francés desatará la Guerra de los Cien Años... La semilla del enfrentamiento ha caído en la tierra fértil de las rivalidades económicas y personales, los embrollos jurídicos y los resentimientos históricos. Fatalidades colectivas y tragedias individuales se suceden en este sexto volumen de «Los Reyes Malditos».

Juin 1316. Louis X le Hutin vient de mourir empoisonné. Pour la première fois depuis trois cents ans, un roi capétien disparaît sans qu'un fils lui succède. Ce quatrième volume des "Rois maudits" fait revivre les luttes acharnées qui vont être livrées afin de s'emparer de la Régence. C'est le frère du roi mort, le comte de Poitiers, qui l'emportera.

Este es el segundo de los tres audiolibros que conforman la saga literaria en la que se inspira la serie "Lupin". Un duelo a muerte entre el mejor detective de la historia de la literatura y el ladrón más brillante, caballeresco e intrépido que habita los anaqueles. Arsène Lupin se ve...

Set in 1914, Woman of Mystery centres around the world of Paul Delroze. On the evening before the Second World War, a painful memory rears its ugly head: his father, a decorated veteran who served in the Franco-Prussian War, being brutally murdered at the hands of an unidentified German woman, as Paul and his father were taking an innocent stroll through the French countryside when he was a child. At his core, Paul always knew the day when the two nations – Germany and France – would fight again, and once he heard the call for battle, he was determined to take revenge once and for all.

Long presumed dead after a long period of inactivity, the gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin makes a triumphant return to solve the disappearance of a small fortune. Set in Paris during the Second World War, Lupin's investigation leads him to Captain Patrice Beval and his love, Coralie, a volunteer nurse who valiantly helped save Beval's life. Lupin soon learns that Coralie is in danger and, after a bloody murder case, is determined to protect Coralie and Beval from the sinister culprit afoot – while finding the missing gold, of course.

"You can be beautiful, even more beautiful than before." This is the seductive promise of Dr. Nzinga’s clinic, where anyone can get their lips thinned, their skin bleached, and their nose narrowed. A complete demelanization will liberate you from the confines of being born in a Black body - if you can afford it. In this near-future Southern city plagued by fenced-in ghettos and police violence, more and more residents are turning to this experimental medical procedure. Like any father, our narrator just wants the best for his son, Nigel, a biracial boy.