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Are you prepared to die for your faith? It is a difficult question and one that many Christians today are not forced to answer. However, there was a time when belief in Jesus Christ brought harsh torture and brutal execution. It began with the crucifixion of the one they called "The King of the Jews". It marked the first of many collisions between Rome and those who confessed allegiance to Jesus of Nazareth.

Who were the emissaries of Christ, and how did they carry the Good News to the world? Inspired by a deep personal relationship with Christ, these special few lived lives of high adventure, danger, and profound faith. You will be deeply moved by their stories.

Cold calling and pushing your way into an office or a living room creates an atmosphere of adversity and distrust you must overcome before you close the deal. With those tired tactics, you're swimming upstream, against a strong current, with a bag of rocks tied to your waist. Sales has changed. Legacy sales gimmicks destroy relationships right from the first minute. The 60 Second Sale is a turnkey system for building profitable, lifelong relationships.

Cesare Annunziata un personaje irreverente, enojón y ocurrente de setenta y siete años, viudo y padre de dos hijos adultos. Hace un balance de su vida y se da cuenta que ha desperdiciado grandes momentos por no saber elegir en los momentos más importantes. Su existencia podría seguir su rumbo hasta su previsible y universal final entre vasos de vino con Marino, el viejecito neurótico de la segunda planta; las charlas no deseadas con Eleonora, la loca de los gatos del vecindario; y fogonazos de pasión carnal con Rossana.

Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II. They are the warriors immortalized in Street Boys, Lorenzo Carcaterra's exhilarating new novel, a book that exceeds even his best-selling Sleepers as a riveting listening experience.

Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only ones left in the bombed-out city are the abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. No one could imagine that they would become fearless fighters and the unlikeliest heroes of World War II.

From the singular voices behind Tom and Lorenzo comes the ultimate guide to all-things RuPaul's Drag Race and its influence on modern LGBTQ culture. Legendary Children centers itself around the idea that not only is RuPaul's Drag Race the queerest show in the history of television, but that RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century.

As one of the NYPD’s most trusted “tin badges” - retired detectives brought in to solve cases that are beyond the reach of the everyday force - Tank Rizzo has faced off against some of the city’s toughest criminals without breaking a sweat. To tackle a case involving a dangerous kingpin known as Gonzo, Tank turns to his best friend and ex-partner, Pearl; a former mobster living out a seemingly quiet retirement as the owner of Tank’s favorite Italian restaurant; and a team of expert misfits he would trust with his life. But Gonzo won't hesitate to make it personal.

Love. Violence. Destiny. These powerful themes ricochet through Lorenzo Carcaterra's new novel like bullets from a machine gun. In Gangster, he surpasses even his best-selling Sleepers to create a brutal and brilliant American saga of murder, forgiveness, and redemption.

My name is Vincent Marelli, though most people call me The Wolf. You’ve never met me, and if you’re lucky you never will. But in more ways than you could think of, I own you. I run the biggest criminal operation in the world. We’re invisible but we’re everywhere. Wherever you go, whatever you do, however it is you spend your money, a piece of it lands in our pockets.

After a harrowing experience in her childhood town, Detective Trinity Calhoun has at last been cleared to return to her job at the Vancouver PD—but with a caveat. Her boss insists that she eases back into it by being chained to a desk. Trinity understands the request. She knows it's reasonable. But that doesn't mean she likes it. Or will abide by it. And the desk, it seems, is the last place she can be. Because someone is stalking her. Baiting her. Using her long-solved domestic abuse cases to draw her out.

Una luna minacciosa che sta per schiantarsi sul pianeta. Oppure quella fredda e rassicurante che si affaccia su una dimensione ignota. Lorenzo Mancosu parla di videogiochi.

Considerato dalla critica come il "Kafka cinese", Han Song estrapola scenari grotteschi e personaggi surreali direttamente dall'analisi della realtà. Attraverso una critica sofferta ma spietata, la sua visione del presente somiglia a un gigantesco mostro scaturito dal rapporto ambiguo tra l'innovazione tecnologica odierna e una tradizione che in Cina perdura da cinquemila anni.

Questa novella a metà tra la satira sociale e l'allegoria amara, descrive una popolazione ridotta a uno stato di sonnambulismo che si scoprirà essere indotto dal governo per accrescere il PIL nazionale.

Una storia cruda e macabra di un'azienda che produce in laboratorio donne perfette, geneticamente modificate, al fine di soddisfare il desiderio di uomini paganti, i quali su di un'isola adibita alla caccia delle stesse donne-prede, possono disporne a piacimento dopo averle catturate.

Questo racconto ruota intorno all'idea di un viaggio spazio-temporale da parte di una navicella spaziale senziente.

In questo racconto grottesco e surreale, Han Song immagina una società parallela, costituita dall’insieme dei feti umani che, prima di nascere, sono senzienti e legati da un pensiero mistico, irrazionale e super-cosciente; i feti sono membri di una società superiore, ma muoiono nel momento stesso in cui vengono alla luce.

In questo racconto due fratelli riescono finalmente a riconciliarsi dopo che uno di loro ha trascorso alcuni decenni nello spazio.

Gli ignari viaggiatori di un misterioso Boeing aereo-mondo sono costretti a volare senza sosta finché qualcuno non metterà in dubbio la rotta e tutto l'equipaggio con effetti imprevedibili. Con questa storia allegorica, Han Song si dimostra uno dei migliori scrittori di fantascienza cinese contemporanea.

Han Song dipinge un futuro di esplorazioni spaziali in cui l'umanità, dopo aver colonizzato parte dell’universo, costruisce tombe magnificenti per commemorare coloro che sono eroicamente caduti nell'impresa.