Mark of the Plague


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Christopher Rowe is back and there are more puzzles, riddles, and secrets to uncover in this follow-up to the Indie Next pick The Blackthorn Key, which was called a “spectacular debut” by Kirkus Reviews in a starred review. The Black Death has returned to London, spreading disease and fear through town. A mysterious prophet predicts the city’s ultimate doom—until an unknown apothecary arrives with a cure that actually works. Christopher’s Blackthorn shop is chosen to prepare the remedy. But when an assassin threatens the apothecary’s life, Christopher and his faithful friend Tom are back to hunting down the truth, risking their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy. And as the sickness strikes close to home, the stakes are higher than ever before…




Renegade Love


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He's relentless. He's aggressive. His armor is scarred to hell. Toth Krag is infamous among bounty hunters. Nobody has ever seen his face and lived to tell the tale. He doesn't fail. He doesn't quit. And he doesn't take prisoners. But maybe he's getting soft. For once, he showed mercy, and no good deed goes unpunished, so now he's tracking the deadbeats who run Volant's Fabulous Spectacle. She's casual. She's spontaneous. She never liked Earth that much anyway. Yara Duncan is always at the wrong place at the wrong time. That's how she wound up as the human attraction in a space circus. Frankly, it's the best gig she's ever had. Aliens pay to watch her eat and do puzzles, and she gets to see the galaxy free of charge. She's enjoying the adventure, until the scariest hunter in the universe shows up. For some reason, he thinks she's in charge, and he's determined to drag her back to face his employers. Yara doesn't run from her problems, and Krag doesn't know what to do with a human who seems more interested in what he looks like under his armor. This time, the hunter becomes the hunted in the wildly unpredictable game of love...




Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico (New Directions Pearls)


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A gem of a Marías story: Elvis and his entourage abandon their translator in a seedy cantina full of enraged criminals. “It all happened because of Elvis Presley.” Elvis, down south of the border to film a movie, has insisted his producers hire a proper Spaniard so that he can pronounce his few lines in Spanish with a Castillian accent. But Ruibérriz has taken on much more than he bargained for. One fatal night, horseplay in a local bar goes too far: a fatuous drunken American insults the local kingpin, and when the thug insists that Ruibérriz translate, Elvis himself adds an even more stinging comment—and who must translate that?







Book of Riddles


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This Book of Riddles is loaded with new and classic mind bending logical conundrums, number puzzles, visual tricks, and more fun for the whole family.




Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna


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The Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna covers all fields of knowledge, including arts, geography, philosophy, science, sports, and much more. Users will enjoy a quick reference of 24,000 entries and 2.5 million words. More then 4,800 images, graphs, and tables further enlighten students and clarify subject matter. The simple A-Z organization and clear descriptions will appeal to both Spanish speakers and students of Spanish.




El Gran Libro de Los Acertijos de Ingenio: Solo Lenguaje (1) (B/N)


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Acertijos sobre lenguaje seleccionados de todas las partes de "El GRAN LIBRO de los ACERTIJOS de ingenio." Acertijos en los que hay algún elemento, oculto en el enunciado o la solución, que lo relaciona con el idioma, la lengua, la gramática, las letras, una librería, una papelería, el diccionario, el papel, un libro, un refrán, un proverbio, una frase curiosa, un nombre propio original, un enunciado al pie de la letra... Si aparecen números, quizás tengan algo que ver con las letras, sílabas... que lo componen. A veces intentaremos confundir con pequeñas ambigüedades del significado de las palabras. Aparecerán juegos de letras, anagramas, acrósticos, palíndromos, preguntas con trampa, búsquedas de palabras, expresiones populares curiosas, preguntas de gramática, palabras únicas, nombres originales, mensajes ocultos, preguntas de ortografía, series, charadas, pangramas, sinónimos, frases únicas, refranes, proverbios, sonetos, coplillas, poesías, retruécanos escogidos, cuadrados de palabras, etc.Los ingeniosos acertijos que se incluyen en este volumen y en los siguientes, muestran que las matemáticas, la lengua, la física y otras disciplinas pueden llegar a ser muy divertidas y entretenidas. El libro ha sido escrito con la intención de que pase Vd. ratos muy agradables. Casi todos los acertijos seleccionados pueden explorarse con la ayuda de un papel y un lápiz. Para resolver la mayor parte de ellos, no se requieren conocimientos superiores a los elementales, aunque casi siempre se requiere la aplicación de un agudo ingenio, a pesar de que a veces no lo parezca. Hay algunos, preciosos, de enunciado muy sencillo que son muy difíciles de resolver. Algunos archivos virtuales han sido creados por mis alumnos de 1° y 2° de Bachillerato en la asignatura de Tecnologías de la Información. Tras una pequeña y breve revisión, aparecen tal y como ellos me los entregaron.




Augustine of Hippo


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This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching. The remarkable discovery of a considerable number of letters and sermons by Augustine cast fresh light on the first and last decades of his experience as a bishop. These circumstantial texts have led Peter Brown to reconsider some of his judgments on Augustine, both as the author of the Confessions and as the elderly bishop preaching and writing in the last years of Roman rule in north Africa. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered). He also reviews the changes in scholarship about Augustine since the 1960s. A personal as well as a scholarly fascination infuse the book-length epilogue and notes that Brown has added to his acclaimed portrait of the bishop of Hippo.




The Song of Achilles


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WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.