Una absorbente novela policiaca ambientada en la Barcelona de 1952, en la que una joven y valiente aspirante a periodista se enfrenta a una peligrosa trama enraizada en los más oscuros secretos de la alta sociedad.«Allí estaba Mariona. Blanca, rubia, carnosa y muerta.»Barcelona, 1952: quedan pocas semanas para el Congreso Eucarístico, y la consigna oficial es dar una imagen impoluta de la ciudad, pues está en juego la legitimidad internacional del Régimen.Ana Martí,...

This oftentimes comedic memoir explodes with resilience. Marion Hoffman Koenig kicks aside limitations, embraces magic, and strives to replace loss with kindness. Can death be morphed into life?This memoir first captures the child's eye view of death, the magic of a child's experience. This is balanced against growing adult understanding in the tradition of David Copperfield and Jane Eyre. After enduring more than her share of death and sickness a...

A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son.Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say," "Georgia on My Mind," "Unchain My Heart," "I Can't Stop Loving You," and "America the Beautiful," Ray Charles's music is loved by fans around the world.Now his eldest son, Ray Charl...

Ken Fisher questions authority. He challenges the conventional wisdom of investing, overturns glib theories with hard facts, and blows up complacent beliefs about money and markets. But the authority he challenges most of all is his own-because challenging yourself, Fisher says, is the key to successful investing.In today's competitive market environment, the best way to achieve investment success is by knowing something that others don't. But many of us, amateurs and professionals...

Seis cautivadores novelas breves escritas por uno de los grandes de la novela policiacaEl autor bestseller internacional Don Winslow regresa con estas seis novelas breves hilvanadas por sus temas más explorados: el crimen, la corrupción, la venganza, la justicia, el engaño y la redención. Winslow recrea un mundo lleno de pillos veteranos, sinvergüenzas, policías angustiados que luchan por sobrellevar sus vidas dentro y fuera del trabajo, detectives privdad...

An insightful and practical guide to beating the marketsIn the newly revised third edition of The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't, renowned investor Ken Fisher delivers an innovative and insightful strategy you can use in your own life to understand and profit from the markets. He offers updated info on how to navigate an increasingly interconnected world, showing investors can improve their odds of success by ...

23 authors and 11 artists came together to create this aquatic horror anthology curated and edited by Tom Folske. Throughout history, tales of water monsters have fueled sailors' and swimmers' stories, bringing a new fear from the murky depths of the world's most unexplored regions. As it stands, we know more about space than what we know about what lurks at the bottom of the deepest trenches of the ocean and many other water systems. Urban legends, mythical creatures, and cryptids alike w...

He might make her nerdy heart pound like the drums at one of his football games, but Quin needs to get over star quarterback, Cage Rucker. For one thing, he has a girlfriend. For another, she didn’t come to college to find a guy, even if he is sweet and kind, and volunteers with kids on the weekend. She has bigger plans.Unfortunately, those bigger plans require one thing she doesn’t have, the ability to talk to people. And who’s good at talking to people? Cage Rucker.So, wh...

From investment expert and long-time Forbes columnist Ken Fisher comes the Second Edition of The Only Three Questions That Count. Most investors know the only way to consistently beat the markets is by knowing things others don't. But how can investors consistently find unique information in an increasingly interconnected world? In this book, Ken Fisher shows investors how they can find more usable information and improve their investing success rate-by answering just three questions. Pack...

An insightful and practical guide to beating the marketsIn the newly revised third edition of The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't, renowned investor Ken Fisher delivers an innovative and insightful strategy you can use in your own life to understand and profit from the markets. He offers updated info on how to navigate an increasingly interconnected world, showing investors can improve their odds of success by ...

These opening sentences begin a few of the stories within; stories of intrigue, fascination, and suspense.It was just an old cloak—the kind you see people wearing in those movies. You know, the kind of cloak people wore to escape from Paris and the guillotine during the French revolution…Steven Tyler was wailing about love in an elevator as John eased the blue Civic off the interstate, down the exit and into the Burger King parking lot…My new husban...

Paris is always a good idea. . . . . . The approach of the next room became a foreboding. . . In a world hidden from humans. . . . Emma stared at the flat silver pronged object. . . .Well, he was dead to me anyway. . . . . .It is late Saturday night and I am perched. . . . . . Her matron of honor worked the. . . . Do you understand my orders??!! . . . .The girl exited the taxi a half block from. . . . . It took some doing, but we did it. . . . .The moment I turned off the ignition. . . . ....