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La protagonista de " Casi me olvido de ti " , la optometrista afroamericana Georgia Young, una mujer madura, exitosa, con hijos mayores, muchos amigos y la vida resuelta, pero profundamente insatisfecha, decide enfrentarse a sus miedos y cambiar de rumbo.Desde abandonar su trabajo y su casa hasta abrir la puerta al amor intentando establecer contacto con sus antiguas parejas. Y demostrando, con valentía, que nunca es tarde para asumir riesgos.Después de casi tres décadas de éxito y popularidad, McMillan todavía sabe cómo hacernos felices. The Washington Post" Esta novela es una buenísima compañía, y Georgia es tan vivaz, compleja, inquisitiva, motivada y sexy como cualquier mujer de 25 años de edad. Incluso más " . The New York TimesNo hay mejor guía que McMillan para una excursión a través de las crisis de la temprana, mediana y avanzada edad, y no hay nadie que recree mejor a los personajes femeninos que se niegan a renunciar a sus sueños o a volver la vista atrás buscand

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La idea principal de este libro es sencilla: las personas jugarían juntas, no unas contra otras. Para mostrarte que divertido (e interesante) puede ser, Terry Orlick ha creado y recopilado más de cien juegos completamente nuevos basados en la cooperación y no en la competición, con el juego perfecto para cada momento.

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Después de La Tierra Larga y La Guerra Larga, llega la extraordinaria tercera entrega de la saga escrita a cuatro manos por dos maestros de la literatura fantástica: Terry Pratchett y Stephen Baxter.2040-2045. Durante los años posteriores a la catástrofe de Yellowstone, la población se ha establecido en los múltiples mundos paralelos que forman la Tierra Larga. Esta situación plantea interrogantes inesperados que exigen respuestas extraordinarias.En uno de esos asentamientos ha surgido una raza de niños súper inteligentes. Mientras los miembros de la sociedad humana les observan con recelo y suspicacia, Joshua Valienté deberá investigarles para sortear un conflicto que parece casi ineludible.Maggie Kauffman, por su parte, al mando de las tropas de Estados Unidos, ha emprendido una expedición hasta los remotos confines de la Tierra Larga: una aventura que la llevará a universos insólitos y desconocidos, donde las antiguas leyes no sirven.Mientras,

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La máquina de vapor llega a Ankh-Morpork, y con ella el progreso y sus conflictos. 40 novela de la aclamadísima serie Mundodisco.El progreso ha llegado al Mundodisco a lomos de una locomotora de vapor. Sus habitantes acuden en masa a admirar el revolucionario prodigio de la técnica, obra de un joven inventor autodidacta llamado Dick Simnel. Inmediatamente, lord Vetinari decide apropiarse de la máquina y nombra a Húmedo von Mustachen, su hombre para todo, responsable de la operación. Entretanto estalla una revuelta política entre los enanos, que planean atentar contra su rey y sabotear el ferrocarril. Von Mustachen tendrá que esquivar muchos escollos para evitar que todo descarrile.Desde hace más de tres décadas, Terry Pratchett ha fascinado a millones de lectores de todo el mundo con sus novelas fantásticas, divertidas y satíricas ambientadas en el Mundodisco, un universo fantástico profundamente original que guarda un sospechoso parecido con el nuestro. A todo vapor

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Alguna vez te has sentido abrumado al añadir más quehaceres a tu lista de tareas? Alguna vez te has sentido presionado y has deseado tener una varita mágica que te permitiera dar marcha atrás en el tiempo? Alguna vez has deseado un día extra a la semana? Alguna vez has aceptado una responsabilidad cuando sabías que la única respuesta saludable era un no? Alguna vez has querido hacer una pausa para poder ver la huella de Dios en los acontecimientos cotidianos? Si es así, El poder de la pausa está escrito para ti. Te ayudará a desarrollar la capacidad de hacer menos y a descubrir que de ese modo, sorprendentemente, podrás ser más. Es un aprendizaje para hacerte más presente en tu vida y en la vida de los que amas, para asombrarte y disfrutar de las alegrías y maravillas que ocurren en la vida diaria, para centrarte más en las cosas pequeñas, que son, en realidad, las grandes cosas.

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Hands up if your career is not your first passion? My escape this past 43 years has been `birding and twitching' - the thrill of rare bird pursuit, in-field identification, visiting beautiful places, eventful journeys and meeting unique characters. | Locating and identifying a rare bird in the field is complex. What one observer can identify in a 5th of a second may simply appear as a blob to another. Are some of us re-invoking primeval instincts or simply re-educating our brain to see that which others cannot? For birders, the list of species identified is sacrosanct and trust paramount. We don't collect, we just list, and it can get competitive. | Join me on a rollercoaster adventure that takes up the challenge of seeing more than half the wild bird species ever recorded in Britain, in just one year. It won't be a smooth ride.

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For 25 years, Chicago sports fans invited Terry Boers into their homes, cars, and offices as one of the premier voices of WSCR radio. Covering the latest championships and trades, Boers was a Windy City constant until his retirement in 2017. In his highly-anticipated memoir, Boers delivers a trove of lively anecdotes and personal reflections from journey through sports media—from raucous banter with Mike Ditka during The Score's early days to the Cubs' World Series celebration in 2016. A must-read for any of the thousands who made Boers part of their daily routine, The Score of a Lifetime is a freewheeling, frank portrait of a man, a career, a station no one thought would survive, and a city that loves its sports.

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ÊRichard Wagner: The Lighter SideÊ appeals to classical music and opera enthusiasts in general but particularly the many thousands of members of the 135 Wagner Societies around the world. There are many books about every aspect of Wagner's life and works but none has focused on the trivia the interesting facts anecdotes and quotations about the man and his operas. For more than twenty years Terry Quinn has collected information on each of Wagner's 13 completed operas and the difficulties encountered in staging them; famous Wagnerian directors conductors and singers; key persons in the composer's life especially the women not to mention the dysfunctional Wagner family; Wagner's visits to London; the festival and theater he created in Bavaria; and a great deal more. Also included are interviews with current Wagnerian scholars.ÞÊRichard Wagner: The Lighter SideÊ contains more than 300 tidbits and features ranging from a few paragraphs to several pages. The light side of the book is immediately apparent via its lively headings as well as its fascinating tales of the fanatical enthusiasts who travel the world to see Wagner's operas performed.ÞIllustrations include photographs dozens of contemporary caricatures beautiful postage stamps on Wagnerian subjects and other reproductions of ephemera.

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Sumptuous silver and gold greet you on every page with projects for both daytime and evening. Whether you want to make a boldly dramatic statement or just add a delicate sparkle to your day, you will find enticing jewelry to fit every mood.

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From the creator of the popular world of Peanut Butter & Cupcake! comes a wry and witty story in which no snack is safe from the monster that is the Kid. Perfect for fans of Creepy Carrots and A Creepy Pair of Underwear.They had been warned of the dangers that lurked outside of their packages, but they didn't care. These three snacks were on a mission to have some fun, and no Monster Kids could stop them. The world of the kitchen belonged to Cookie, Pretzel, and Cheese Doodle--or so they thought.But when the three treats find a chilling note from Mom, they know it's time to come up with a plan to save themselves from the horrifying threat of the Kid. What should a smart Cookie and her friends do?Terry Border creates a brand-new, deliciously eerie masterpiece in which the kitchen tables are turned, and after-school snacks become the heroes of a sweet and salty story of survival.Praise for Snack Attack:"This comedic horror-lite story about snacks is just delectable, and offers an avenue of connection between the generations." --SLJ"Satisfyingly silly." --Kirkus Reviews

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Just before dawn in Stone Harbor, Maine, two men meet in the bathhouse in a wooded park. "So what do you have in mind?" one asks. "A little surprise," the other answers before beating him to death with a steel flashlight. Newspaper editor John Quinn and his wife have returned to his hometown to raise their son, but real estate prices have soared and natives are being pushed out. Then a popular politician and family man is murdered at a well-known gay pickup spot. The victim was Quinn's childhood friend, Paul Stanwood. Quinn insists Paul was only investigating a police crackdown at the park. When the police chief and others seem to ignore and downplay obvious clues, Quinn takes matters into his own hands. Even though his wife's car is vandalized and a source is severely beaten after he speaks out on the hidden violence against gays, Quinn refuses to stop looking for answers. With so many people hiding secrets -- secrets some are willing to kill for -- Quinn has to find out the truth about his friend's murder before he, too, is permanently silenced.

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Richard Cypher embarks on a perilous journey to the Old World, where he must learn to master his own magic powers and uncover the secrets of his heritage.

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"Hunter's Guide to Shotguns for Upland Game" is a valuable reference that educates hunters about how to choose the perfect shotgun to match their needs. The book takes a pragmatic approach for the average hunter looking to get the most bang for his buck and shows that hunters don't have to break the bank to buy a versatile shotgun. It discusses the best guns to use for various species of upland game in different types of cover and examines the all-important criteria for selecting a shotgun: the hunter's physique, preferred action type and gauge, gun features, price range, whether or not he's hunting with dogs, and other possible uses for the gun such as deer hunting or clay target games. Profiles of major manufacturers and models analyse a wide variety of shotguns to give readers a good idea of the relative strengths and weaknesses of available products. Once a hunter has selected the right shotgun, he will discover how to use custom loads and make modifications to personalise his gun and improve its performance.

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The use of Irish settings in mainstream Hollywood cinema has been well documented; Terry Byrne's objective in Power in the Eye is to explore indigenous Irish film production that addresses itself primarily to a native Irish audience and to analyze the social impact of the films on modern Irish society. This is no easy task, as the book makes clear. Historically denied access to mainstream production funds and distribution systems, the work of these indigenous Irish filmmakers has (with two or three notable exceptions) been relegated to Irish and European art-house cinemas and to European television channels. The book addresses mainly the work of these filmmakers, in the hope that the stimulation of interest outside Ireland will encourage interested students of cinema to seek them out. In that context, Power in the Eye should serve as a guidebook—a launching-point from which to begin a search for these films and the subsequent work of their makers. In addition to internationally-known Irish filmmakers (Neil Jordan, Jim Sheridan, Pat O'Connor), the book focuses on the works and opinions of Joe Comerford, Cathal Black, John T. Davis, Thaddeus O'Sullivan, Gerry Stembridge, Kieran Hickey, Bob Quinn, Pat Murphy, and many others. It also deals with the social, economic, and political issues surrounding the production of films for the Irish market and those which would speak to the world on behalf of the Irish. Funding, censorship, and the definition of Irish culture are all wound up in these issues and brought to bear quite strongly in the making of films about the Irish. Power in the Eye addresses these issues and aims to stimulate the reader to pursue them further and to equip them to begin that pursuit.

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¡GOOOOL! Este libro infantil es una emocionante introducción al futbol, el primer deporte de muchos niños.Sin manos, sólo pies. El juego comienza. ¡Piii! Con este libro, los aficionados del fútbol mejorarán sus habilidades de lectura y aprenderán diferentes conceptos relacionados con el deporte. Empleando familias de palabras y aliteración, la autora Terry Pierce captura la adrenalina y la emoción de este querido deporte.LEYENDO A PASOS es una línea de Step into Reading que ofrece ediciones en español de libros nivelados. Los libros Paso 1 tienen letra grande y palabras fáciles. Son ideales para niños que conocen el abecedario y que quieren comenzar a leer. Su ritmo, rima y pistas visuales contribuyen a la comprensión del texto.GOOOOOOOOAL!! This Spanish-language Step 1 introduction to practically every child's first team sport is a win for emergent readers.No hands--just feet. The game starts. Tweet! Young soccer enthusiasts will build their reading confidence as they learn about basic skills and the thrill of scoring a goal in this Spanish edition of Terry Pierce's rhythmic, rhyming Step 1 reader. As she did in Jack and Jill and T-Ball Bill and Tae Kwon Do!, Pierce captures the excitement of sports while scaffolding reading with alliteration and word families.LEYENDO A PASOS is a line from Step into Reading offering leveled readers in Spanish. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words for children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired picture clues help children decode the story.

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The border between the United States and Mexico is a no-man’s land. Drugs, guns, and human beings are the cargo of choice in a multi-billion dollar illegal empire dominated by powerful cartels, murderous street gangs, and corrupt government officials. Against them stand the Special Agents of the United States Customs Service—men and women who fight to uphold the law and protect the U.S. on both sides of the border. Terry Kirkpatrick worked one of the toughest jobs in America: a U.S. Customs agent on the border between Arizona and Mexico. He’s seen it all and done more for over twenty years in a job that many officers quit before they make it six months. These are the gritty and graphic true stories of Terry and his fellow “Border Rats” as they patrol America’s modern badlands, where bullets are currency and blood is taken as payment. From the inhuman conditions people suffer under to get onto American soil, to working with blatantly crooked military leaders, to some of the most insane and unbelievable situations ever survived, readers will experience the chaos that has engulfed the U.S. border in the words of a man who has been there. 60 Miles of Border sheds an unsparing light into the life of customs agents, their dealings on the border, the effect on their daily lives—and an unsparing look at one of the most hotly debated and controversial topics in modern America.

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