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Alex Segura, traceur y youtuber de éxito, nos cuenta cómo encontró en el parkour la clave para mejorar su autoestima y superar las adversidades.Él era un tipo normal, de floja constitución y un blanco para las críticas de sus colegas de clase. Pero todo cambió el día que decidió practicar parkour. Lo que empezó siendo un entretenimiento puntual se convirtió en una forma de vida, donde saltar cada vez más alto y más lejos era la prioridad.Por primera vez, se sentía bien, vivo y motivado. Hasta que una inoportuna lesión hizo que se rompiera todos los huesos del pie. Fue entonces cuando el médico y sus padres le prohibieron volver a saltar. Sin embargo, él, incapaz de no seguir a su corazón, siguió practicando, y lo más increíble es que en cada visita médica su pie mejoraba!Alex Segura, traceur y youtuber de éxito, nos cuenta cómo encontró en el parkour la clave para mejorar su autoestima y superar las adversidades y cómo más tarde, logró sobreponerse a una grave le

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NOMINATED FOR THE ANTHONY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED CRIME, MYSTERY, AND THRILLERS OF 2018 —LitHub ONE OF THE THE BIGGEST MYSTERY AND THRILLERS OF SPRING 2018 —BookBub ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2018 —MysteryPeople "A series not to be missed.” -Megan Abbott In Blackout, the latest novel in Alex Segura’s acclaimed Pete Fernandez Mystery series, startling new evidence in a cold case that's haunted Pete drags the exiled PI back to his hometown of Miami. But as Pete and his partner Kathy Bentley delve deeper into the unsolved murder, they become entangled in Miami’s obsession with a charismatic and dangerous cult leader and his even more menacing followers. At the same time, the detectives find themselves at odds with a Florida politician’s fixation on wealth, fame and power. It all converges in the heart of the Magic City and Pete is left scrambling to pick up the pieces—or die trying. The Pete Fernandez novels have always run on two tracks – the long-buried Miami mystery that Pete is forced to solve, and Pete’s often unpredictable evolution from self-destructive alcoholic to somewhat functional private eye. In Blackout, those two tracks blend into one dark, personal and deadly tale of dangerous obsession that will leave Pete Fernandez completely changed. It’s all been building to this.

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Because the future is getting weirder everyday, we give you XINO—an intra-ocular lozenge of subversive, surrealist science fiction to cure your awful awareness of it all. Try not to worry—the insertion process will be guided by the megawatt brilliance of comics’ brightest talents as they slowly tune your hopes, dreams, desires, paranoia, alienation, anxiety, and adrenaline to produce the desired results. Join Melissa Flores (The Dead Lucky, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and Daniel Irizarri (Judge Dredd) as they surgically activate the hidden dimensions of the human senses; cult phenoms Christopher Condon (That Texas Blood) and Nick Cagnetti (Pink Lemonade) debut the world's first intravenous video game system; underground radicals Jordan Thomas (Weird Work) and Shaky Kane (Bulletproof Coffin) surveil the suburbs for signs of covert infiltration; plus much, more from a startling cast of megawatt talents, including Phil Hester (Gotham City: Year One), David Lapham (Stray Bullets) and Maria Lapham force our collective psyche into unrecognizable new dimensions; award-winning and bestselling author Alex Segura (Secret Identity) and Zander Cannon (Kaijumax) embark on an intergalactic journey of revenge; François Vigneault (Titan) and Artyom Trakhanov (First Knife) deliver bleeding-edge technology to Paleolithic man; Dan McDaid (DEGA) takes weaponized incompetence to the next level; Connor Willumsen (Bradley Of Him) digs deep into our capacity for self-delusion—which doesn’t seem to be getting any better.

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