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Protagonist Sean Malone's journey begins at 14. He has an IQ north of 200, a full-ride scholarship to the country’s top technical university, and over a million bucks from a winning streak on Jeopardy. However, he wishes he could just be normal. The US government manipulates him, using him as a codebreaker to pursue a covert operation and killing innocent people along the way. When Sean pushes back, the Department of Defense pushes harder. He flees to Europe to build a new life under a new name, hiding his mental gift from everyone.

Bunny and Cody are a pair of escorts entertaining two low-rent dope dealers in a seedy motel. When one of the dealers attacks Cody, Bunny takes the law into her own hands and shoots the men dead.

This homage to a by-gone era of classic "Detective Noir" stories is a fun and exciting journey through the streets of L.A. in 1945. Lucky is returning home from World War II to restart his life up as a L.A.P.D. cop, when a case nobody wants lead him on a journey of self discovery he will never forget. Love, lust, and lamentation, travel beside Lucky through intrigue, mystery and murder, all conspiring to turn a hero into another gritty L.A. shamus reminiscent of Sam Spade or Philip Marlowe.

Dworshak isn't a lake in the classical sense of the word, but a reservoir; a portion of the once narrow northern fork of the Clearwater River, dammed up to generate power and prevent the yearly spring floods that once plagued the town of Orofino. If half the rumors about Dworshak were true, it would surely be haunted. Stories about a small trade town, its buildings deserted but still intact, buried under hundreds of feet of dark water.

The truth was never meant to surface. When a woman stumbles upon a failed cloning experiment, fear takes hold. The wreckage of betrayal threatens everything she loves, but the terror has only begun. In a cursed graveyard, desperation tightens its grip as two souls flee a vengeful coven. The darkness grows, ready to consume them. A man, bound by the weight of family tradition, faces a brutal choice. Obedience or freedom. The chains have held him for years, but breaking them may cost more than he can bear.

One man determination to stand up and fight for the good of the British people to write a book to expose the government leaders that is making life hard for the people trying to make a living in the UK, the government industry's are taking away jobs by making this country under productive running the economy into the ground, forcing people into redundancy, and unemployment, miss managing the economy.

Everyone thinks I'm a genius. Everyone is wrong. Sure, I finished Harvard at eighteen and now make crazy money at a hedge fund. But that's not because I'm unusually smart or hard-working. It's because I cheat. You see, I have a unique ability. I can go outside time into my own personal version of reality - the place I call - "the Quiet" - where I can explore my surroundings while the rest of the world stands still.I thought I was the only one who could do this - until I met her.

"Non è morto ciò che può giacere in eterno e in remoti eoni anche la morte può morire." Nella sua dimora il morto Cthulhu attende sognando, ma il suo richiamo è incessante, penetra nei sogni, ispira le menti corrotte, distrugge quelle sensibili. Un richiamo sospeso nel tempo e nello spazio che proviene da abissi dimenticati dall'eternità. La sua voce è sempre più violenta, sempre più presente, sempre più reale e si spinge lì, in quei luoghi dove anche la scienza ha deciso di dimenticare.

È vero ho sparato sei pallottole in testa al mio migliore amico, ma spero di dimostrare, attraverso la storia che sto per raccontare, che non sono il suo assasino Letto da Roberto Pedicini, la voce italiana di Javier Bardem, Kevin Spacey e Jim Carrey, sulle musiche di Ludwig van Beethoven e Hector Berlioz arrangiate in chiave elettronica.

"Mad Max" meets "Blue Velvet" It's 2026. The world has suffered massive deprivation; man has been exposed to the wrath of a solar storm. Mother Nature has dealt her ace. Transportation as we know it, communication as we know it, no longer exist. Extinction approaches. Has God abandoned man as well? Can one man prevail over human perversity in extremis? Can love prevail in a dog eat dog existence? The solar storm lasted for eight months. Those that survived nature's warning, mainly the young, managed to migrate. The elderly were less fortunate.

Shaeffer is an old-school heistman. You need an armored car taken or a football stadium's gate receipts lifted, you call Shaeffer and his buddies. But the world is fast moving to a cashless economy. Everyone is paying with Paypal, debit cards, or electronic fund transfers these days. Join an aging heistman as he tries to deal with an increasingly high-tech society, feeling more and more left behind.

When novelist Jim Eldridge receives an invitation to a writer's retreat on Washington State's Mount Misery, it seems like the perfect escape from the last days of his dead marriage. Jim accepts the invitation to the Hacks Club and joins the other guests including the legendary H. Casper and best-seller Heather Woods for a week of fun and relaxation. Someone in those woods is not happy to see them. The body count rises, and the survivors band together to fight the relentless killer.

Humanity has reached for the stars and has gained complete domination. The human empire has remain unchallenged... until now. A new alien race is discovered, and they are as human as we are. Unfortunately for Earth the aliens are far more advanced technologically, smarter than the average Earth human, and are just as aggressive. Maybe it doesn't help that they are all psychopaths. Bill is just training to be a combat marine in a war that Earth based humanity is losing.

While taking a class trip to South America, sixteen friends are ambushed, captured and taken to a nearby village run by a mad man. It becomes clear that this is no ordinary village. It is a village of slaves, psychological warfare, and pure terror. With nothing but her wits and the voice of her dead uncle to guide her, Brooke Kylee must find a way to escape the horror while still maintaining the one thing she has left: her sanity.

Discover an essential handbook for strategies, concepts, and insights into the dynamics of transformational leadership in these 24 lectures, which take you on an in-depth examination of the leadership behaviors and capabilities essential to creating positive change in teams and organizations. Filled with case studies and lessons from leaders in business, politics, sports, and the military, as well as a range of specific skills and strategies you can put to use in your own career, this lecture series is an authoritative guide to successful leadership.

Everyone has an opinion about Pino Luongo. To Tony Bourdain, he was the notorious Pino Noir, the shadowy kingpin of a restaurant empire. To Manhattanites, he was either the savior or the scourge of the city's dining scene. To the many fans of his cookbooks, he was the herald of Tuscan cuisine. In Dirty Dishes, Luongo emerges to tell his side of the story. And its quite a story: After an idyllic (and well-fed) childhood in Tuscany, Luongo came to New York as an actor, and, after quickly washing out, fell into the restaurant business....

Il giovane Victor Frankenstein, dopo aver acquisito conoscenze mediche e dopo aver studiato i fenomeni che riguardano il corpo umano post-mortem, realizza il suo sogno, regalando vita a una creatura dall’aspetto deforme e con una forza immane, formata unendo parti di corpi morti. Dopo diverse vicissitudini, il mostro lo supplica di toglierlo da un’insopportabile solitudine e di creare per lui una compagna. Il rifiuto da parte del suo creatore suscita l’ira incontenibile della creatura.

Together we belonged along with countless others human beasts of burden to the proud Marquesa . . . Juan Francisco Manzano has never known any other life. Born into the household of a wealthy slaveowner in Cuba in 1797, he spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mamá...

Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away the ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba. As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away.

Femminista, animalista, dedita alla medicina alternativa. Avrebbe qualche problema oggi. Ma nel XVI secolo, Rosmunda era considerata una strega. Le appassionanti avventure di una donna dallo spirito libero, in viaggio dall'Italia fino a Londra e ritorno. Rosmunda, sballottata da vicende che ne metterebbero alla prova la volontà di reagire, riesce invece ad affrontarle ogni volta con rinnovata energia e con una predisposizione all'amore per il prossimo che ricorda gli insegnamenti religiosi. Tutto nasce da ritrovamenti casuali di diari e di manoscritti che riportano a tempi lontani.