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Imagine being a 13-year-old girl in love with boys, school, family - life itself. Then suddenly, in a matter of hours, your life is shattered by the arrival of a foreign army. This is the memoir of Elli Friedmann, who was 13 years old in March 1944, when the Nazis invaded Hungary. It describes her descent into the hell of Auschwitz, a concentration camp where, because of her golden braids, she was selected for work instead of extermination. In intimate, excruciating details she recounts what it was like.

En seulement six semaines au printemps 1940, la France connaît l'un des effondrements militaires les plus stupéfiants de l'histoire moderne. Comment une grande puissance européenne, dotée d'une armée réputée invincible et de chars technologiquement supérieurs, a-t-elle pu s'effondrer...

I shouldn't have come back. Bryn Walter left town five years ago with one goal: forget Asher Vale. The boy from the wrong side of everything. The boy she was never supposed to love. The boy who promised to protect her - no matter what it took. I never let her go. Asher left, but he never gave...

Acclaimed New Yorker contributor Lauren Michele Jackson delivers an essay collection devoted to the back—and the conflicting ideas we load upon it. Moving across literature, film, sport, visual art, and U.S. history, Jackson probes how the back carries powerful ideas about beauty, gender...

She appeared out of nowhere in June of 1978. A beautiful five year old little girl dressed in only a pillowcase for a dress and rags for shoes. No one knew where Molly Sue came from and she could not lead them back to her home. Little did she know, that she was walking straight into the heart of...

How it all began. Carrie was once a loving and carefree young woman until unimaginable tragedy violated her life. Emotionally soft from years of being the center of a loving family made her ill equipped to handle this life altering event. She begins her first days at the OSBI in a shadow of pain...

After the personal tragedy that altered Carrie's life forever but before her dynamic transformation in The Redemption Series, Carrie was learning to be a good OSBI agent beside Randy Jeffries. This long novella is a case that stumped them both. Young middle school girls were suddenly going...

Aging is the aggressive pursuit of comfort. Helping people embrace controlled stress, challenge themselves daily, and build stronger minds, bodies, and lives.

Tras Asesinato para principiantes y Desaparición para expertos, disfruta la esperada tercera novela de la nueva reina del thriller juvenil. Uno de los thrillers más absorbentes que leerás jamás. Pip está acostumbrada a recibir amenazas. Tiene un podcast de true crime que se ha vuelto viral...

From the translator of the best-selling Poetic Edda comes a gripping new rendering of two of the greatest sagas of Old Norse literature. Together the two sagas recount the story of seven generations of a single legendary heroic family and comprise our best source of traditional lore about its members - including, among others, the dragon slayer Sigurd, Brynhild the Valkyrie, and the Viking chieftain Ragnar Lothbrok.

Thor, Odin, Loki, Freyja, the Valkyries, Valhalla, Ragnarok — many of the places we encounter these and other names, places, and events from Norse mythology in daily life and pop culture are connected to the medieval sources in name only.

Two months after a leaked video shattered his relationship and nearly ended his career, Alexander Morgan is teetering on the edge of self-destruction. Simultaneously shooting his Hollywood debut, whilst keeping up with the demands of being the world's biggest poster, Alexander seeks solace in...

Luciel arrives at the City in the Sky, hopeful he can retrieve what he’s lost. All is not as it seems, though, as Neldahl holds many secrets in unlikely places. How many of the city’s curious features are merely the proclivities of Lord Reinstar, and how many speak to conspiracy? The S-rank...

The world now has its first sage in over a century! Luciel returns at last from his extended stay in the City in the Sky with wondrous powers in hand, and this displeases a very particular faction within the Church of Saint Shurule. Red carpets were never the timid S-rank’s style, but an armed...

What happens when people boldly go into a life of danger? Where did we get this idea that God wants us to be complacent? What if we were called to forfeit our comfortable lifestyles? Meet the called: mountain climbers, deep-sea divers, fighter pilots, and jungle missionaries who follow God into...

For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson’s scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story “The Lottery” in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley...

For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires - such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love. 

The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinces in the British world in 1776. What of the loyal half? Why did some of Britain's subjects feel so aggrieved that they wanted to establish a new system of government, while others did not rebel? In this authoritative history, Trevor Burnard and Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy show that understanding the long-term causes of the American Revolution requires a global view.

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Una promesa por cumplir… Riley Westmoreland nunca mezclaba el trabajo con el placer hasta que conoció a la impresionante organizadora de eventos que había contratado su empresa, Alpha Blake. Cuando Riley se llevó a Alpha a su cama supo que...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. A Derringer Westmoreland le persiguió durante semanas la imagen de una mujer cuyo rostro no podía recordar tras una aventura de una única y fantástica noche. Pero deseaba volver a vivir aquella intensa pasión. Y cuando finalmente descubrió...