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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Why is Miami . . . Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious...
Author
Publisher
Taurus
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
Español
Description
"La clave para entender las epidemias del mundo moderno. Veinticinco años después de la publicación de su primer libro, Malcolm Gladwell retoma las lecciones de El punto clave con la intención de iniciar un difícil debate sobre las epidemias. Es el momento de reconocer nuestro papel en su génesis y ser honestos acerca de las formas sutiles y a veces ocultas en que intentamos manipularlas. Necesitamos una guía sobre los patógenos que nos rodean...
Author
Series
Warner Grayson volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Robbed by Mexican bandits and left to die in the vast, waterless alkali flat, Warner Grayson struggles to survive and vows to hunt down each of the six bandits and exact his revenge"-- Provided by publisher.
4) Silvertip
Author
Series
Silvertip adventure volume 4
Language
English
Description
Silvertip killed someone. Usually not something he would get all bent out of shape about, but this just happened to be a kid wearing the cape of the man Silvertip meant to kill. The man he meant to kill, named Bandini, set the teenager and in effect Silvertip up. Silvertip only feels bad that it was not Bandini bleeding out, but instead a much more innocent child. He decides he wants to do two things, finish whatever job the youngster did, according...
Author
Language
English
Description
"How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits...
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Station Eleven meets Never Let Me Go in this debut novel set in an unsettling near future where the dead can be uploaded to machines and kept in service by the living. In the wake of a highly contagious virus, California is under quarantine. Sequestered in high rise towers, the living can't go out, but the dead can come in-and they come in all forms, from sad rolling cans to manufactured bodies that can pass for human. Wealthy participants in the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is the tart-tongued, sharp-minded woman at the center of this quaintly crooked universe. It's Jake's past as a financial manager that gets her in deep trouble when a man seeks revenge against her. Years earlier, Jake denied a man a loan, and loan-shark enforcers killed him. Now his son is out for blood. He wants Jake to feel as hunted as his father was.
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 9
Language
English
Description
This dazzling thriller pits Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta against greater odds than ever before. Convicted serial killer Carrie Grethen has escaped from a psychiatric hospital with plans for revenge. Wary and shaken, Scarpetta also has to investigate the death by fire of an unknown woman. The post mortem reveals the woman was stabbed before the fire was started, and soon Scarpetta and her colleagues are called out to the scene of another fire...
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Language
English
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Description
Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace: she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad.
10) Balance point
Author
Series
Orphan's legacy volume 3
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"#3 in the science fiction adventure Orphan's Legacy series, a saga of spy games and military action on an interplanetary scale. The balance point of interplanetary Cold War II between Earth and monolithic Yavet tips unexpectedly toward peace. Covert opsCaptain Jazen Parker and his sharp shooting lover and partner Kit Born slide from world saving hazardous duty to escorting a telepathic alien monster home from Earth to mate. And the two of them are...
11) Dragon thief
Author
Series
Skystone chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Good Lux Creative
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Asher of Steel Rim might be a halfway-decent thief, but he's not exactly the realm's most popular guy. As an outcast among outcasts, some hate him for his scale-tipped, pointed ears. Others wish him dead because he's a magi in a land where those born with etherarchy are outlawed. In the wild, desert wastelands of Drakfell, Asher finally finds the opportunity he's been waiting A chance to avenge his mother's death by taking down the legendary leader...
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Separated from his friends and family, and on the verge of losing it all, Michael Westen goes deep undercover, joining forces with a mysterious woman and infiltrating a sinister terrorist network. With time running out, Michael must do whatever it takes to stay alive and protect his loved ones. But now, he may be forced to go too far.
