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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A world-renowned model, advocate, entrepreneur and wife of the late Hugh Hefner provides a fascinating look behind-the-scenes at a powerful cultural icon and brand, revealing the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion and sharing her transformative journey to a person who finally recognized her true worth.
2) Downfall
Author
Series
Sam Capra novels volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Reissue mass market edition
Language
English
Description
Compelled to assist a beautiful woman who whispers a plea for help in his San Francisco bar, former CIA agent Sam Capra is pursued by authorities and a secret network of successful people who owe their wealth and power to a mysterious and dangerous Faustian figure.
Author
Publisher
Balance
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A personal and professional guide to the latest research on imposterism and psychological flexibility, 'Imposter No More' is the professional's handbook to combating 'impostor syndrome' and overcoming self-doubt to achieve career success. Dr. Jill Stoddard is a recovered imposter. For years, she was convinced that the only reason she was accepted into a competitive grad school program was because her father knew the program director. Dr. Stoddard...
Author
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
1a. edici©đn.
Language
Español
Description
"Alexander Ventura es la nariz fantasma de la casa de moda barcelonesa Lladó. Su talento, su carisma y sus conocimientos de perfumería no han sido suficientes para mantener su puesto de trabajo. El presidente de la maison acaba de advertirle: o crea un perfume éxito de ventas o lo despedirán. Tiene tres meses para completar la tarea, un plazo irrisorio, pero tendrá ayuda. Alma Trinidad es la nueva directora artística de la división de perfumería...
6) La empleada
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición: octubre de 2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Todos los días friego la preciosa casa de los Winchester de arriba abajo. Recojo a su hija del colegio y preparo deliciosas comidas para toda la familia antes de subir a cenar sola a mi minúscula habitación del piso superior. Intento no p restar atención a Nina lo ensucia todo simplemente para ver cómo lo limpio. A las extrañas mentiras que cuenta sobre su propia hija. A su marido esposo, que cada día parece más abatido. Pero cuando miro...
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edicion
Language
Español
Description
"En ocasiones, las personas más communes resultan ser extraordinarias. Janice trabaja como limpiadora y sabe que solo hay una forma de conocer a la gente: a través de sus historias. En su día a día se rodea de personas peculiares, como Fiona, que acaba de enviudar; Geordie, un cantante de ópera; o la insoportable señora SíSíSí y su insólito fox terrier, Decius. Cuando empieza a limpiar para la señora B, una nonagenaria cascarrabias, Janice...
8) Ratatouille
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unwanted visitor in the kitchen of one of Paris' most exclusive restaurants, Remy forms an unlikely partnership with Linguini, the garbage...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Primera edición: octubre de 2023.
Language
Español
Description
"En una época en que la fotografía llegó para atajar el tiempo y los ríos de petróleo manaban como un milagro oscuro de la tierra, Alejandro Plata, un inspector de obras férreas, desaparece cerca del puerto del Cacique. Su hermano y su madre lo buscan en distintos tiempos. Su amante lo aguarda por años. Y, en el trasegar de la búsqueda y a la espera del reencuentro, desembarcan en Colombia el progreso y la explotación petrolera, que no solo...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Detective Kara Quinn is back in Los Angeles to testify against a notorious human trafficker, finally moving past the case that upended her life. But when the accused is shot in broad daylight, the chaotic scene of the crime turns up few reliable bystanders. And one witness, a whistleblower who might be the key to everything, has disappeared. After another person close to the case is killed, it's clear that anyone who knows too much is in danger, and...
Author
Series
Apocalypse Cult series volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Agents from the FBI and Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigate a series of murders linked to conspiracy theorists and doomsday cults.
13) Sonia Sotomayor
Author
Publisher
Golden Book
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
This Spanish edition Little Golden Book about Sonia Sotomayor--the first Latina Supreme Court Justice of the United States--is an inspiring read-aloud for young children.
14) Into the fire
Author
Series
Undaunted courage volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When arson investigator Bri Tucker inherits unfinished business from her predecessor, she must convince ATF Special Agent Marc Davis to help her find the missing link and track down a serial arsonist who will stop at nothing--including murder--to carry out a nefarious plan"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A former Army sniper must fall back on her Special Ops skills when a friend's death uncovers a global nuclear threat, in this electrifying new series featuring Special Agent Alexandra Martel. Special Agent Alexandra Martel has put her days on the battlefield behind her. Charming and disarming, relentless and lethal, she earned a reputation as one of the most renowned and decorated Army snipers in the service before stepping away. But when Alex, now...
16) A killer's game
Author
Series
Daniela Vega series volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After witnessing the murder of the chief of staff for a powerful New York senator, FBI agent and former military codebreaker Daniela Vega goes deep undercover to unravel a bizarre conspiracy where she must play a killer's game alongside an assassin-turned-informant and there can only be one winner.
17) Dead man's hand
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Brad Taylor and Pike Logan face off against Putin’s agents and a group of rogue Ukrainian partisans plotting to assassinate a Swedish deputy minister"--
Author
Series
Martini Club volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a body turns up in her driveway, former spy Maggie Bird, forced into retirement after a mission went tragically wrong, turns to her "Martini Club" of former spies to help her uncover the truth about who is trying to kill her, and why.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio does not want you to read this book. Late last year, when the billionaire founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund on the planet, announced that he was stepping down from the company he started out of his apartment nearly 50 years ago, the news made headlines around the world. Dalio cultivated an aura of international admiration and fame...
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