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A SENSUOUS EXPLORATION OF LOVE IN ALL ITS GLORY The Lament captures the full range of emotion that whirl around human relationships. Here are dozens of poems examining the profound joy of those deeply in love, the incredible longing of the separated partner, the intense loneliness of modern working life, and-above all-the indisputable necessity of connecting with people around us. Poet Ercell H. Hoffman casts a penetrating gaze on our everyday emotions,...

APRENDE A HABLAR EN PÚBLICO TÁCTICAS PARA IMPACTAR CON TU ORATORIA ¿Se le ocurre alguna charla o presentación memorable a la que haya asistido? Es triste saber que la mayoría de las presentaciones son fáciles de olvidar, especialmente cuando la razón principal de la presentación fue comunicarte algo. Pero si recuerdas estas cuatro cosas básicas, entonces ten la seguridad de que tus mensajes verbales serán entendidos y recordados por mucho...

Poetic Conduct is a collection of poems that nurtures inner strength when impacted by grief, loss, and disconnection. The descriptions of social interactions and moments of isolation are creatively uncovered as poetic solutions. Lovers of poetry are encouraged to identify personal connections on recovery, healing, and clarity. Poetic Conduct is reflective of initial love desire, mature romance, social conflicts, and sensible stability.

The Joker like you've never seen him before...as a single father?! After a fateful encounter with Batman that results in the Dark Knight de-aging to a baby, Joker takes it upon himself to raise the child into the crusader of justice! But does the Clown Prince of Crime really understand what it means to be Batman-or, more importantly, what it means to raise a baby all by yourself? Everyone needs a babysitter who makes them laugh, right?

El gato negro es uno de lo cuentos siniestros más conocidos de Edgar Allan Poe, así como uno de sus grandes relatos psicológicos. La combinación de ambos elementos, horror y psicología, parece conducir directamente a la expresión terror psicológico, que hoy sabemos inspirada en la singularidad artística de este autor y que podría definirse como aquella fórmula literaria que aspira a conjugar en una síntesis superior miedo, enajenación...

Kristen Ciccarelli’s debut fantasy explores an intricately woven world of deception, inner darkness, and dragons that fantasy fans won’t be able to resist.

In the beginning, there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit, who carried love and laughter wherever he went. But where there is light, there must be darkness—and so there was also the Iskari. The child of blood and moonlight. The destroyer. The death-bringer.

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Scandal, scheming, and secrets abound in #1 bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s Little White Lies, packed with “page-turning tension, witty humor” (Jennifer L. Armentrout), and “characters as devious as they are southern-belle glamorous (E. Lockhart).
"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But."
Eighteen-year-old...

Comics! Cosplay! Crime! This comic book convention isn't what it appears to be... From all across the world, fans have flocked to California's biggest comic's convention...but they never expected to see real-life superheroes duking it out! When fandom's most important event becomes an all-out super-powered melee, can Faith "Zephyr" Herbert and her crossbow-wielding boyfriend, Obadiah Archer, prevent a gang of diabolical con-crashers from turning...

As Hum ruminates on his personal connection to stories of the past and how it left him in his current state, the threads of connectedness continue to weave through the tale as he wrestles with feelings over his own body. Meanwhile, Mildew crosses paths with Hum and Serka after a harrowing rescue in the midst of a brutal battle. While things may not turn out how they hope, Serka has a new plan to set things right…

What would it be like to stand head and shoulders above everyone else - and to keep growing? Unable to interact with a fragile world that isn't built to withstand your size? To live in a house that doesn't fit you anymore - with a wife who doesn't either? Craig Pressgang's life is well documented in his official CIA biography, Giant Man: Pillar of America, but the heroic picture it paints is only half the story. The continuous growth caused by Craig's...