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Ramona Koval has been praised as a master of the interview genre, renowned for engaging writers in conversations that are incisive, provocative, and often funny.In this new collection, Speaking Volumes: Conversations with Remarkable Writers, she shares the most fascinating interviews from her 2005 book Tasting Life Twice, along with brand-new ones with some of the most important writers of our times.

Un equipo de arqueólogos británicos desentierra una tumba egipcia antigua en una expedición en Egipto. Sin embargo, una serie de extraños y mortales eventos comienzan a sucederse, y el equipo cree que la tumba está maldita. Un misterioso asesinato ocurre en el campamento, lo que lleva a la intervención del famoso detective belga Hercule Poirot.

On a hot, muggy afternoon in Eden, a tiny, rural town deep in southeast Louisiana, two boys make a grim discovery: They unearth the decades-old remains of a child, strands of hair and clothing still attached to the bones. Meanwhile on the other side of the country, in California, forty-one-year-old Evelyn Yates, a single mother is struggling to maintain psychological equilibrium despite problems with alcohol, a difficult teenage daughter, and her own traumatic past.

Nos hallamos en el siglo XX y ante un mundo que ya no tiene secretos, en el que no quedan tierras por descubrir ni mares por surcar. Países cuyos nombres, en la anterior generación, eran apenas conocidos, se encuentran hoy sojuzgados por Europa, sirviendo a sus necesidades. Los barcos se remontan, actualmente, hasta las fuentes del Nilo, que durante infinidad de tiempo se buscaron en vano. Las cataratas Victoria, que un europeo contempló por primera vez hace medio siglo; producen ahora energía eléctrica.

Max es un analista de una empresa de logística de Tokio, Corporación Géminis, que se dedica al desarrollo de robots que se acerquen lo más posible a los seres humanos en cuanto a aspecto e inteligencia. Encuentra la silenciosa y misteriosa Mai, la camarera del hotel donde se aloja, con la cual se crea inmediatamente una amistad verdadera y profunda, una relación única en un lugar donde además de no conocer el idioma, la tecnología ha llevado a las personas a no comunicarse más entre ellas.

Balancing work, family, and your inner life! Dr. Borysenko gets to the heart of how busy women can find a center of inner peace even when life is swirling like a cyclone around them. You will learn how to manage your energy, say no without feeling guilty, honor and respect yourself as a prerequisite for loving and caring for others, make peace with the past, welcome change, and find your courage.

Very few people ever enter the Shadow Woods, for these woods are like no others. Hidden deep within them is the Gateway to the Shadow Realm - a dark and chaotic world where all kinds of gruesome creatures live.... On her 10th birthday, tomboy Sophie learns she is the Guardian of the magical gateway and that her destiny is to protect the human world from the goblins, trolls and evil sprites that inhabit the Shadow Woods.

In the aftermath of the Second World War Private Caan, a young Jewish soldier stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members; in the 1960s a father focuses on his daughter’s wedding even as the Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the brink of disaster; in 2001, while planes fly into the Twin Towers, a maid working for US Embassy staff in London wonders if her birth on the day of the Kennedy assassination shaped her life...

The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the project, as far as the letter T. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By the time it was finished in 1928 its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from archaeologists and astronomers to murderers, naturists, novelists, pornographers, queer couples, suffragists, vicars and vegetarians.

This is the true story of a twice-widowed woman who found and then lost her prince charming, her true love, and then fell into the clutches of a deceptive con man whose clever facade masked the monster within. Discover how this talented, successful woman survived the pain and loneliness caused by emotional abuse and the financial ruin inflicted upon her by a master of deception. Learn how she turned her life around after experiencing, for seven years, a "baptism of fire".

When a tumultuous past causes Alice Gray, the only woman Lou Pearson has ever loved, to leave her for good, she shrinks away from the world, trying to make amends. She dedicates years of her life to train service dogs and save rescues. Little did she know that a rescued dog would save her, too.

Athena Pappas is the head writer on one of the most popular sitcoms in television history. But when Vegas comedian Stephen Cosse is brought in to beef up the show's suddenly sagging ratings, she starts to worry about her job. Sparks fly as the competition - and attraction - between the two writers heats up. Athena has never had a problem scripting the romances of her characters. So why is her own love life so hard to script?

Grace Allen had always been a big fish growing up in a very small pond. Of course, just about any place was bigger than her tiny town of Chetwynd, nestled in the wildlands of northern Canada. So when she left to attend college in the states six years ago, she thought she’d never look back. That was until a terrifying breakdown brought her overly ambitious life crumbling down around her. Shiloh Pierce had always embraced her small town in Canada, with no intention of ever leaving. A quiet cabin and living off the land was all she really needed. Except six years ago her best friend and the love of her life moved thousands of miles away, leaving a gaping hole that she was unable to fill and throwing her entire world off of its axis.

Un anciano funcionario había dedicado su vida coleccionar grabados de los maestros más famosos de la época llegando a tener la mejor colección de Alemania. Como estaba ciego y su escasa pensión apenas les daba para comer era el mujer y a su hija, estas a escondidas van a empezar a vender los valiosos grabados de su padre sustituyéndolos por copias.

This is the true story of Esther Morris, who started out life believing she could do anything, and then proved it!

Twin sisters Hope and Faith are delighted to finally find their long-lost triplet, Charity. As their family gathers for a party at Hawk's Pride, the three sisters must each untangle their own lives and loves. Will there be a happily ever after for each of them?

Kelsey joined the Wolf Liberation Front after college and quickly became their top operative. On one particular mission, she encounters a very different type of pack: a small group of captured werewolves, some of which don't even remember being free. Once released, the pack alpha and his mates treat her to a very enthusiastic, and physical, "Thank you!"

Hasta el momento, en todos los casos que yo he relatado, las investigaciones de Poirot se iniciaron partiendo del factor central, ya fuese crimen o robo, y fueron siguiendo un proceso de deducciones lógicas hasta llegar a la solución final. En los acontecimientos que ahora voy a relatar, una curiosa cadena de circunstancias tuvo su principio en ciertos incidentes aparentemente triviales que atrajeron la atención de Poirot y culminó en los siniestros sucesos que constituyeron uno de los casos más extraordinarios.

Joan Kuhl helps women create a clear vision of what their career path deserves to be and make a convincing business case for equality to their managers and senior leadership. You'll learn strategies for overcoming sexist cultural attitudes about gender and leadership as well as for dealing with self-limiting behaviors like imposter's syndrome (the feeling that you're never good enough despite a track record of success) and the myth of meritocracy (the idea that just doing good work is the only way to advance).

Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as the ‘go-to’ place for entertainment and has been for decades. When there really did seem to be more stars in Hollywood than in heaven, Hollywood Stage had them performing films as radio plays - on the sponsor's dime, of course. Classic films now become audiobooks, with many featuring the original stars from way back when. Here's Chained starring Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone.