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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a moving small-town story about an unlikely friendship between a popular cheerleader and a teenage boy with autism--and the miracle that unfolds when someone dares to take a stand. Holden Harris may live in a quiet, private world of...

Durante el servicio militar, Mohammed, un joven musulmán iraquí miembro de una importante familia chiíta, descubre con espanto que su compañero de cuarto es cristiano. Entre ambos hombres surge una relación paradójica, de la que Mohammed saldrá transformado. De vuelta a la vida civil, mantiene un único deseo: convertirse al cristianismo.

Get ready to take your Spanish language skills to the next level with Learn Spanish with 2222 Fun, Interesting & Random Facts! This book is unlike any other Spanish learning resource out there, offering a truly unique and entertaining approach to language learning.

1549. Convinced he’s destined to fulfill a whispered prophecy, Friar Diego de Landa labors to convert the Maya of the Yucatán Peninsula. Discovering a brutal Spanish landowner persecuting the native population, Friar Diego determines to protect them and punish the cruel man. 2010. Cortez Vuscar is convinced his father will return if he can grow their church’s congregation. Certain he’s found his true love, Cortez sets out to win her from her wealthy, unfaithful boyfriend. But his fascination with the literature she’s reading infects his mind with a deadly descent into madness.

The Adventures of Angus the Mouse is about a mouse that loves to adventure and despite his passion to discover new and exciting things he battles with everyday situations we all face in life. As in fitting in and being accepted by others and most importantly his siblings. When Angus faces his biggest fears on his journey he learns valuable lessons along the way that teach him the true meaning of family and friendship.

En 1942, a una joven trabajadora social, Irena Sendler, se le concedió acceso al gueto de Varsovia como especialista en salud pública. Una vez dentro, fue de puerta en puerta para rescatar a los niños de las familias judías atrapadas en el gueto. Empezó a sacarlos a escondidas del distrito amurallado, convenciendo a sus amigos y vecinos de que los ocultaran en sus casas. Impulsada a tomar medidas extremas y con la ayuda de una red de comerciantes locales, residentes del gueto y su amante, perteneciente a la resistencia judía, ella logró salvar a miles de niños de los nazis.

Julio Cortázar es considerado uno de los escritores más originales en lengua castellana. Cortázar no sólo participó en el llamado ?Boom latinoamericano? sino que inauguró un campo dentro de la literatura fantástica, con discursos novedosos y formas poco exploradas en las letras...

Año 1028. Ramiro dirige una reducida incursión desde el pequeño condado de Aragón. El objetivo es cruzar la frontera musulmana y alcanzar a una partida de saqueadores que transporta un valioso botín. La misión es peligrosa y Ramiro prescindible: aunque hijo primogénito del rey, se trata de un bastardo. Pero el destino depara a Ramiro algo más que algaras fronterizas. Alfonso V, rey de León, acaba de morir alcanzado por una flecha sarracena en el condado de Portugal. Esta es una historia que se mezcla con la leyenda.

For readers of Kink and What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, an anthology from a bestselling author that redefines the way we think about menopause—"leaves you feeling informed, empowered, and more connected to yourself and others on the journey" (Nedra Glover Tawwab, New York Times...

Gunned down on a busy Boston street, bestselling mystery author Sabrina Spencer is left clinging to life. Media speculation suggests a deranged fan as the shooter. But was Sabrina really the intended target? For Del Honeycutt, a chilling link emerges between Sabrina’s shooting and that of his father’s murder three years earlier. Discovering that his father was leading a secret life, he digs deeper, and the clues lead Del down a dangerous and deadly path.

Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novel - welcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winning magazine Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show has been an online haven for this powerful form of storytelling since 2005. Now its editors have selected their all-time favorite science fiction novelettes from the magazine's eight-year history and reprinted them together in one big book of listening pleasure.

David Hernandez simply and powerfully invites you into life transformation as you grow in awareness of the Holy Spirit and his power within you. In How to Become a Friend of the Holy Spirit, the teaching covers who the Holy Spirit is, how you hear his voice, and how you surrender to him.

Four comedy writers transform classic joke setups into sharp commentary about the everyday and structural sexism that pervades all facets of life. Jokes to Offend Men arms listeners with humorous quips to shut down workplace underminers, condescending uncles, and dismissive doctors, or to share with their exhausted friends at the end of a long day. A cutting, cathartic spin on the old-fashioned joke book, Jokes to Offend Men is a refreshing reclamation of a tired form for anyone who's ever been told to "lighten up, it's just a joke!"

Raised an aristocrat in Colombia and educated in European schools, Pilar transfixes everyone with her charm and her guile. She also falls for dangerous men and finds herself drawn into the highest levels of the cocaine trade. After two failed marriages and a harrowing escape from the drug life, she settles down to a quiet existence in Florida with her children - until her second husband tries to cut short his prison term by giving her name over to members of a new task force being formed by the DEA.

A young mother in Mexico City, captive to a past that both overwhelms and liberates her, and a house she cannot abandon or fully occupy, writes a novel of her days as a translator living in New York. A young translator, adrift in Harlem, is desperate to translate and publish the works of Gilberto Owen, an obscure Mexican poet who lived in Harlem during the 1920s and whose ghostly presence haunts her in the city's subways. And Gilberto Owen, dying in Philadelphia in the 1950s, convinced he is slowly disappearing, recalls his heyday decades before.

The daughter of a Chilean father and a Filipina mother, Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon grew up as a shy, timid child in a small Midwestern town. Targeted by school bullies and dismissed by many of her teachers, she worried that people would find out the truth: that she was INTF. Incompetent. Nerd. Terrified. Failure. Yet in the span of just six years, Cecilia became the first Latina pilot to secure a place on the United States Unlimited Aerobatic Team and earn the right to represent her country at the Olympics of aviation, the World Aerobatic Championships. How did she do it?

From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times bestselling Partials Sequence and the John Cleaver series, comes the second book in a dark, pulse-pounding sci-fi-noir series set in 2050 Los Angeles. Overworld. It’s more than just the world’s most popular e-sport—for thousands of VR teams...

Muchas personas tienen ideas millonarias. Confían en que su nuevo producto, servicio o innovación los hará ricos. ¿El problema? Muchas personas no saben cómo convertir su idea millonaria en millones de dólares.

Standing on the shoulders of Canada's rich legacy of sketch comedy, Imminent Disaster brings laughter to these terrifying times.

¿Celos, desconfianza o emociones que dañan tu relación? Santa Eduviges puede ayudarte. Esta poderosa novena está dedicada a Santa Eduviges, patrona de las causas difíciles, protectora del hogar y defensora de quienes sufren por amor. Especialmente diseñada para quienes desean sanar su corazón, liberarse de pensamientos destructivos y fortalecer el vínculo con su pareja.