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Concrete Kids is an exploration of love and loss, melody and bloodshed. Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra León takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon - and to recognize the privilege it is to dream at all.

In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet - and Paris Review sports columnist - Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual tennis schedule is a rarity in professional sports in that it encapsulates the calendar year. And like the year, it's divided into four seasons, each marked by a final tournament: the Grand Slams.

JOB by Joseph Roth (HIOB, 1930) is a modern retelling of the Biblical story in a mixed form, fable and realism. It follows the fortunes of the Singer family from Western Russia at the end of the 19th century to New York in the early 20th.

Mortar rounds rained down on us continuously, starting at sunrise. We hadn’t slept the previous night because the business of life and death were upon us. Now those mortar rounds were erupting like little volcanoes. But instead of hot lava rocks, they were hot pieces of shrapnel that whizzed by us in every direction.

Zaria Richardson is determined to make her event planning company, Precious Moments, the most sought-after on St. Simons Island, Georgia. When Dr. Garrett Braxton approaches her with shocking information about their rendezvous last year to Las Vegas, the perfect life she’s created for herself comes crashing down. All of her mixed emotions over the suave, irresistible doctor rise to the surface, and now she’s faced with a life-changing decision.

From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal best-selling author Abby L. Vandiver, this thrilling anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat. Includes "Midnight Escapade" by Jennifer Chow, "Lucky Thirteen" by Tracy Clark, "Murderers' Feast" by H.C. Chan, "In the Matter of Mabel and Bobby Jefferson" by Christopher Chambers, and many more.

Este es un libro lleno de rabia y amor perro por el México maltrecho que debemos rescatar. Es una crónica del hartazgo, del enojo con la cleptocracia que se rota en el poder, con los privilegios inmerecidos de los cómodamente apoltronados en la punta de la pirámide. Un país atorado en la desesperanza, en el desamparo, sofocado por la corrupción, amenazado por la violencia, sin soluciones fáciles.

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This creates confusion and disagreement not only among medical, legal, and insurance professionals but also within families faced with difficult decisions concerning their loved ones.

Lance Montgomery, renowned relationship expert, has perfected the art of being a playa. His acclaimed workshops and bestselling books prove it. His most popular title, The Playa’s Handbook, caused a major uproar among black women and men, and shot to the top of the bestseller list.

“Lo que importa es la historia dentro de la Historia”, asegura uno de los personajes de esta novela histórica con tintes románticos que Toño Malpica desarrolla en tres diferentes épocas y que sobrevive gracias a un manuscrito que ha pasado de mano en mano, manuscrito que narra la amistad y las andanzas de un grupo de chicos que está dejando atrás la infancia en la Ciudad de México de los inicios del siglo XX, la vida pintoresca de la capital y el descubrimiento del amor que experimentan el Pegote y Ofelia.

Tenía la vida con la que la mayoría de los chicos soñaban: la casa, las fiestas, las chicas... hasta que una apareció y lo arruinó todo. Ella no pertenece aquí. No en la habitación al otro lado del pasillo. No en mi casa. No en mi ciudad. Y ciertamente no en mi vida. No fue realmente su culpa... o la mía. Estábamos atrapados en los pecados de nuestros padres. Ella cree que es fuerte, pero no tiene ni idea de lo que soy capaz. Mi nombre es SAVAGE después de todo. La haré pedazos... Pero descubrir sus secretos podría destruirme.

Serenity Ward is the golden girl of Kaycie. She never questioned her city's status as the last dry land on earth. The Establishment takes care of its citizens . . . or so she thought. But now she's seen the map! Why would they lie about other islands just beyond the horizon? In a city built on falsehood, figuring out who to trust is its own challenge, but Serenity pulls together a feisty group who all want the same thing—an end to the government which has hidden a world from them.

In an era when many teams have left rustbelt cities to relocate elsewhere, Detroit has held on to its franchises, and there is currently great hope in the revival of the city focused on its downtown sports complexes - but to whose benefit? Szymanski and Weineck show how the fate of the teams in Detroit's stadiums, gyms, and fields is echoed in the rise and fall of the car industry, political upheavals ushered in by the depression, World War II, the 1967 uprising, and its recent bankruptcy and renewal.

A veces, la verdad permanece oculta en la oscuridad y sólo se ilumina al abrir una ventana. Una historia de mentiras, secretos, engaños y falsas apariencias que pone el dedo en la llaga sobre mitos incuestionables. Un relato apasionante que disecciona la hipocresía de la sociedad española moderna. Una denuncia valiente de los abusos sexuales en la infancia, sus devastadoras consecuencias y su invisibilidad en este acomodado mundo nuestro.

When reporter Jasmine Carmody began sniffing around Savannah's most respected family looking for a story, watchdog Wesley Brooks warned her off. Day and night, she sensed him shadowing her every move, felt his every breath, wanted his most intimate touch.... Wesley would do anything to stop Jasmine's expos on his adopted family—even seduce her. But her unexpected virginity surprised him, and so did their overwhelming passion. Soon he'd have to make a choice—trust her with all his secrets, or risk losing her forever.

Con ecos de la novela Grandes esperanzas de Charles Dickens, Los niños es una novela inquietante y profundamente original, todo un hallazgo literario de una de las voces más interesantes del panorama de la literatura latinoamericana actual. A la casa de una mujer solitaria llega, una noche, un niño de seis años llamado Fidel. No se sabe de dónde viene ni quién es, habla siempre misteriosamente y parece no estar familiarizado con los usos del mundo.

Dr. Ian Ellwood has worked hard to become one of the top heart surgeons in the country. His father would have preferred he went into sports medicine, but Ian had loftier goals. What he did not count on was falling in love with a nurse who would ultimately break his heart.

This guide is meant to help enlighten you on how to revive your marriage by improving on intimacy and sex. It is a valuable listen that sheds new light on the immense possibilities of enjoying a healthy, more fulfilled, pleasurable, and happier marriage. Marriage is never a bed of roses; it comes with plenty of stress. The bedroom therefore becomes the arena where the ultimate deal is sealed, where a couple builds a resilient bond through sexual intimacy, and where they become one.

You can use this list to build up your knowledge of Spanish words. It is a comprehensive list fully illustrated with examples of the words in English and Spanish to give you a good idea of how to use the word.

The Austrian writer Joseph Roth's first novel, 'Das Spinnennetz', 1923, intensely chronicles the development of a fascist and the first steps in his rise to power. It is a vivid portrait of the nationalist fervor and the struggle between Right and Left in Germany during the years immediately following the end of the Great War, or First World War.