block - Libros y biografía

After spending her girlhood writing gentle and thoughtful novels of the lesbian experience (SHADOWS, WARM AND WILLING, ENOUGH OF SORROW), Jill Emerson reinvented herself in the early 1970s, just when...

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes the Trans Flight 52, a supersonic passenger jet bound for Japan. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three...

A descoberta de um evangelho até então desconhecido dá início a uma história de tirar o fôlego, seguindo a tradição de romances clássicos como O Manto Sagrado, de Lloyd C. Douglas, e, mais recentemente,...

"Dunkel und kalt wie die Rückseite des Monds, aber mit einer Prosa, so schlank wie ein Model, ist DEAD GIRL BLUES wie eine Leiche, von der man den Blick nicht abwenden kann. Ich konnte das Buch nicht...

"REAL NOIR... A GROTESQUELY MEMORABLE RIDE." - WALL STREET JOURNALTWO OF THE GREATEST AUTHORS OF NOIR FICTION IN AN UNFORGETTABLE COLLABORATION.An innocent woman lies dead in the street, felled by a stray...

SO THIS GIRL WALKS INTO A BAR... ...and when she walks out there's a man with her. She goes to bed with him, and she likes that part. Then she kills him, and she likes that even better. On her way out,...

Are you confused about vitamins? Unsure of which ones you need for optimal health, and what levels are safe? You’re not alone. Many people’s health issues could be improved with vitamins—if they only...

La série des albums « Lis tout CE » s'adresse aux enfants qui sortent du cours préparatoire, et maîtrisent tout juste les mécanismes de la lecture. Cette collection se présente donc comme un moyen de...

Here you go—the first collaborative effort for Sheldon Lord and Alan Marshall...with cover art by the great Paul Rader!When Don Westlake and I were starting out as writers, we both served an apprenticeship...

Safely manage your secret information like passwords, keys, and certificates in Kubernetes. This practical guide is full of best practices and methods for adding layers of security that will defend the...

I need my space. We need to slow down. I’m just not ready to settle down yet.Single women have heard all these excuses and more from the men in their lives. And with a growing number of people choosing...

"A devastating attack upon the dominance of atheism in science today."Giovanni Fazio, Senior Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsThe debate over the ultimate source of truth in our world...

In the early 1970s, with Deep Throat and The Devil in Miss Jones rewriting film history, John Warren Wells hired on to write the script for a high-quality pornographic movie. Originally published by Dell,...

A road map for how businesses can grow and make money while reducing poverty and conflict in some of the world’s most challenging environments   Many companies worry that expanding into emerging markets...

"He works too much." "She expects me to know what she's thinking." "We don't trust one another."There's a lot that gets in the way of a happy relationship—work, jealousy, and communication issues, just...

"Can you help me give a sh*t about high school? I want to, but I just don't."Sparked by this student's request, educator and parent Dr. Rebecca Block and undergraduate student Grace Edwards began talking...

Microbiologie des réseaux de distribution d'eau potable. De la nécessité d'un plan d'échantillonnage. Objectifs de l'échantillonnage. Organisation générale des procédures de contrôle. Réalisation de la...

Une jeune paria dont s'éprend un vampire, une créature enchanteresse qui apporte la rédemption - ou la damnation éternelle -, un château étrange où les peintures rappellent les morts à la vie, des expériences...

Truly, Madly, Undead-ly This irresistible collection features stories of love amid vampires by five of today's hottest authors—Kristin Cast (Tempted), Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy), Alyson Noël (Evermore),...

A girl thought to be a boy steals her sister's skirt, while a boy thought to be a girl refuses to wear a cornflower blue dress. One boy's love of a soldier leads to the death of a stranger. The present...

WIN, LOSE, OR DIE.Whether it's child's play or for the highest stakes, whether we stick to the rules or cheat, we all play games — for fun, for thrills, for love or money, to prove we're the best or make...

From Publishers Weekly:"Standouts include Dennis Lehane's gilt-edged chiller, 'A Bostonian (in Cambridge),' in which a wealthy collector of letters of abandonment falls prey to wily blackmailers, and...

Hay-men, mommets, tattie bogles, kakashi, tao-tao—whether formed of straw or other materials, the tradition of scarecrows is pervasive in farming cultures around the world. The scarecrow serves as decoy,...

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted...

Powerful, riveting, and real. Sixteen celebrated authors bring us raw, insightful stories that explore guns and teens in a fiction collection that is thought provoking and emotionally gripping. For fans...

Meet Robin Goodfellow as you've never seen him before, watch damsels in distress rescue themselves, get swept away with the selkies and enjoy tales of hobs, green men, pixies and phookas. One thing is...

“Who better to raise teens’ awareness of mental illness and health than the YA authors they admire?” —Booklist (starred review) “[A] much-needed, enlightening book.” —School Library Journal (starred review)...