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1) The taking
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English
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Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling. In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as do all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the world...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"Threat management consultant Spencer Coursen offers proactive strategies to protect yourself and your loved ones in the event of hostile encounters and emergency situations in The Safety Trap: A Security Expert's Secrets for Staying Safe in a Dangerous World. "Only you can tell you what to do when your life is on the line." Despite what the news and social media would have you believe, we have never lived in a safer time than we are now. Unfortunately,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness--a man made of smoke. Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh. When a jaded female detective is recruited to escort...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Chrissie is eight years old and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighborhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie rules the roost - she's the best at wall-walking, she knows how to get free candy, and now she has a secret, thrilling power she doesn't get to experience much at home, where food is scarce and attention scarcer. Twenty...
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Series
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
LLEGA LA ESPERADA CONTINUACIÓN DE EL PSICOANALISTA LA OBRA MÁS VENDIDA Y EMBLEMÁTICA DE JOHN KATZENBACH Han pasado 5 años desde que el doctor Starks acabó con la pesadilla que casi le cuesta la vida y que le destrozó la que tenía logrando vencer a aquel que se hace llamar Rumplestiltskin y a sus hermanos Virgil y Merlin. Ahora Ricky Starks continúa con su labor como psicoanalista instalado en Miami. Sin embargo, Rumplestilskin ha regresado...
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It was all confidential. Right up to the moment when it wasn't. UrbanMyth: It was lauded as an alternative to the performative, show-your-best-self platforms-an anonymous discussion board grouped by zip code. The residents of Manhattan's exclusive Upper East Side disclosed it all, things they would never share with their friends or their spouses: secret bank accounts, steamy affairs, tidbits of heinous gossip. These are the same parents who would...
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English
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"For Katie True, a keen gut and quick wit are just tools of the trade. After a failed attempt at adulting in Chicago, she's back in the suburbs living a bit too close to her overbearing parents, jumping from one dead-end job to the next, and flipping through her tarot deck for guidance. Then along comes Marley. Mysterious, worldly, and comfortable in her own skin, Marley takes a job at the mall where Katie peddles Russian tchotchkes. The two just...
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Series
Nena Knight novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"For elite assassin Nena Knight, eliminating dangerous players on the world stage is part of the job. The Tribe, a powerful business syndicate in Africa, ensures that she has those opportunities. But for Nena, the Tribe is more than just her employer; it's an organization that supports the African people--until it turns on itself. As Nena embarks on a new mission, a violent siege by a paramilitary group throws the Tribe into chaos, and mysterious...
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Publisher
[Ediciones] B
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
""Feliz 53 cumpleaños, doctor. Bienvenido al primer día de su muerte." Así comienza el anónimo que recibe Frederick Starks, psicoanalista con una larga experiencia y una vida tranquila. Starks tendrá que hurgar en su memoria y emplear toda su astucia para, en quince días, averiguar quién es el autor de la amenazadora misiva. De no conseguir su objetivo, deberá elegir entre suicidarse o ser testigo de cómo, uno tras otro, sus familiares y...
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Publisher
Transit Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar...
11) Hablar con extraños: por qué es crucial (y tan difícil) leer las intenciones de los desconocidos
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines...
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