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In the aftermath of a global event that kills all birds, fish, livestock, and pets around the globe, residents of a small Vermont town try to survive and make sense of the unexplained event. When Travis’ sister goes missing and one of them is gruesomely murdered in the surrounding woods, evidence points to an animal attack, but they no longer exist. As suspicion falls on residents, dark secrets are uncovered about the community.

Jian Wang was the founder and architect of Alibaba's cloud and has been the driving force behind its technology innovations. He was also the founder of the City Brain initiative to develop a new digital infrastructure for sustainable cities.

Glass half full…or glass half empty? Your life depends on the answer! If you're leaning toward the glass half empty, use this audiobook to fill it up. Most of us suffer from cognitive traps. We are so entangled in our own thoughts, belief systems, and values that we can no longer see the world as it really is. This entanglement stops us from solving problems that are solvable. It stops us from feeling happy, fulfilled, or powerful.

Can a couple from two different worlds free each other from the chains that bind? Avery agrees to journey into the builgean to persuade Xavier to help with the crisis in Paragon, but she finds a mysterious stranger in his place - a problematic complication, considering she can't leave the pocket without Xavier's assistance. Worse, although she frees the captured dragon, he refuses to comply without winning back his land and his clan first. And the longer Avery spends in Xavier's world, the harder it is to remember why she should return to her own.

La vera storia dell'uomo che entrò nel più spietato campo di concentramento di sua spontanea volontà. Settembre 1940. Dal momento in cui si hanno notizie dell'inizio dell'attività nel campo di prigionia nazista di Auschwitz, ben poco filtra su quello che succede davvero oltre il filo spinato. Witold Pilecki, membro della resistenza polacca, si offre volontario per una missione ad altissimo rischio: farsi catturare dalle SS, entrare nel lager e raccogliere quante più informazioni su ciò che avviene lì dentro. Se possibile, dovrà anche sabotare le attività che vi si svolgono.

Buck cuyos instintos primitivos vuelven tras una serie de sucesos que le ocurren cuando lo ponen a tirar de un trineo en el Yukón durante la fiebre del oro que tuvo lugar en el siglo XIX en el Klondike durante la cual los perros de tiro se compraban a precios elevados. La insensibilidad de los hombres hará que se enfrente a un mundo hostil y salvaje, que lo pondrá a prueba. Y de esa lucha saldrá triunfante. 

Desde o seu nascimento, Caninos Brancos aprende as leis de sua matilha: comer ou ser comido. Em sua luta pela sobrevivência, o cão-lobo é confrontado com a violência do mundo dos homens... Será que o homem é mesmo tão diferente dos outros animais?

Four years after the mysterious mass animal die-offs around the globe, billions die of famine, the ocean and waterways are polluted, insects destroy crops, plants overgrow, and looting, murder, and chaos unfold. The most fortunate now live behind walls in 100 of the largest cities in the former United States under totalitarian rule. To avoid the harsh and desolate existence beyond the city, most residents follow the strict rules - but not everyone.

Ten years ago, DCI Patrick Walsh found himself hunting The Red Reaper; a serial killer so cunning that every body found with his calling card was reluctantly classed as a suicide. Never seen, never found, never caught. Now, DI Declan Walsh, suspended and on injury leave following the harrowing events of Hunter Hunted, finds himself pulled back into this unsolved case of his late father, when a series of new bodies start to appear in his village; all seemingly suicides, and all with the same calling card.

Jake was born during a time that was as turbulent as any in American history. Mexico claimed Texas, but the American settlers who'd recently flooded in were more independent, and when the dictator Santa Anna set aside the Constitution of 1824, he launched a series of changes he had not foreseen. With his partner Jean-Louis Lafitte, Jake worked when he could, fought when necessary, and in the process, began a career that would make him one of the most well-known men on the Texas frontier.

Helped by a Christmas elf and his flying reindeer, a young girl and her new friends embark on an adventure to deliver lost presents to Santa. Will they find him in time before it’s too late? Find out in this enchanting audiobook that both children and parents will enjoy as they join the trio on their Christmas caper! This holiday season’s new classic is perfect for the young child (two to seven years old) who enjoys Christmas and imaginary play, and would make a wonderful holiday gift!

Alla radice di questo romanzo, pubblicato nel 1958 e subito processato per oscenità, c'è una vicenda reale, la storia d'amore vissuta da Kerouac con una ragazza di colore, che in queste pagine rivive come in una confessione tanto difficile quanto liberatoria. Al centro, la figura di Mardou, sensuale, fascinosa, attorno alla quale gira, ossessivamente, la vita dell'amante, e la città stessa (New York nella realtà, San Francisco nella finzione letteraria): una città onirica, cupa, frenetica, piena di alcol, di droghe, di sesso, di arte e di vita.

Most of us think we know the story of Bambi - but do we? The Original Bambi is an all-new translation of a literary classic that presents the story as it was meant to be told.

The traveling criminal known as Jack Black was born in 1872 and disappeared in 1932. His matter-of-fact autobiography was a major influence on William S. Burroughs and other Beat writers. In this plainspoken but colorful memoir, he recaptures a hobo underworld of the early 20th century, a time when it was possible to pass anonymously from town to town. Black's firsthand accounts of hopping trains, burglaries, prison, and drug addiction offer a compelling portrait of life outside the law and honor among thieves.

Mianus Village is a vivid, entertaining collection of 36 free verse poems that sound more like short, short stories than abstract modern poetry. It tells the story of a blue-collar boy growing up in the rough and tumble atmosphere of a Veterans’ housing project in the years following World War II.

It is a tool for anyone trying to reconnect with their spiritual nature. Their true self. We cannot be spiritual without being Biblical.

The War of Secession is over. However, between the Rio Grande and the Nueces Rivers, murderers, rapists, horse thieves, and cattle rustlings dominate the land. Trace LaFon and Xavier Falcon are called back into service with the Texas Rangers under Captain Leander McNelly - and they become part of a new Special Ranger Force to save the Nueces Strip. At this time and in this place, Texas needs hard men to a hard job - to draw a hard line for law and order.

Sheriff Landry’s calling to serve and protect his little Louisiana hometown has been challenged. As a cloud of superstitious fear descends upon the community, the combat veteran and his deputies set out, naturally, to do their duty and apprehend the slaughterer of innocents. But this is not an ordinary murder case, and the depth of the evil at work in the bayou community is so great that Landry may have to sacrifice everything he loves to stamp it out. Ride along in Ed Landry’s cruiser as he struggles with a case that threatens to redirect the very course of his life.

The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies.

Possession of people by immortals isn't new. What happens when angels or demons possess ever evolving robots? When it happens look out! And when unethical scientists get into cloning people, is the original safe?