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Monday Morning Preacher discusses 40 potential seasons, most of them not talked about in Bible schools or seminaries. Pastors are often left to navigate troubled waters alone and unsure. Churches in general needed a heads-up regarding the many potentially problematic issues that surface, and that precipitate back door exits. Like Monday morning quarterbacks who review their post-game strategies, pastors needed to revisit their Sunday morning service on Monday to celebrate their wins, and to identify potential in-house issues that needed wise and righteous attention.

Madrid, 1939-1945. Muchos luchan por salir adelante en una ciudad marcada por el hambre, la penuria y el estraperlo. Como Eloy, un joven tullido que trata de salvar de la pena de muerte a su hermano encarcelado; Alicia, taquillera en un cine que pierde su empleo por seguir su corazón; Basilio, profesor de universidad que afronta un proceso de depuración; el falangista Matías, que trafica con objetos requisados, o Valentín, capaz de cualquier vileza con tal de purgar su anterior militancia. Costureras, estudiantes, policías: vidas de personas comunes en tiempos extraordinarios.

Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. But disruption is destructive—displacing jobs, companies, and even entire industries. Are we missing better, and even bigger, opportunities to innovate and grow? With three decades of research, W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne reveal another way to innovate and grow. Beyond Disruption redefines and expands the existing view of innovation by introducing a new approach—nondisruptive creation—that is free from the destructive displacement that happens when innovators set out to disrupt.

It is generally accepted that the European Renaissance began in Italy. However, a historical transformation of similar magnitude also took place in northern Europe at the same time. This "Other Renaissance" was initially centered on the city of Bruges in Flanders (modern Belgium), but its influence was soon being felt in France, the German states, England, and even in Italy itself. Following a sequence of major figures, Paul Strathern tells the fascinating story of how this "Other Renaissance" played as significant a role as the Italian Renaissance in bringing our modern world into being.

Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack one wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

For as long as anyone could remember, the Carlisles had been caretakers of Castlemartin, a sprawling estate perched atop Scotland’s Isle of Skye. Its latest caretaker, the mysterious historian Lord M. Nigel Carlisle, was rumored to work tirelessly within its book-filled confines, endlessly refining his secretive research on imperialism.

"On the Gulls' Road" is a touching short story by Willa Cather, first published in McClure's in December 1908. A fellow painter visits the narrator, and is mesmerized by his painting of Alexandra Ebbling, a married woman, whom the narrator met on a ship from Genoa to New York City. On the ship, he and Mrs. Ebbling enjoyed many conversations about life, love, and personal experiences. The courtship goes on for the entire trip and grows stronger each day. The man is smitten by Mrs. Ebbling and cannot wait until the next time they meet.

Avec ses échappées à l'emporte-pièce et son tir puissant, Guy Lafleur a été, dans l'uniforme du Canadien de Montréal, l'un des meilleurs hockeyeurs de son époque. Intuitif, il a toujours foncé vers le filet adverse, crinière au vent, sous les «Guy! Guy! Guy!» enthousiastes de la foule. Son parcours est atypique: il prend une retraite surprenante à 33 ans, et va de nouveau à contrecourant en revenant au jeu, près de quatre ans plus tard. Après un passage à New York, il terminera sa carrière dans l'uniforme des Nordiques de Québec, la ville où sa légende a débuté.

To the public eye, Vincent Campbell is seen as a controversial figure known for his bizarre behavior, offensive outbursts, and contrarian stances—on top of a number of legal issues. Unbeknownst to most of the world, however, he holds secrets far worse than derogatory remarks in his personal life. And when it catches up to him, he tells all to a forensic psychiatrist, Lorraine Lynch, who has been assigned to find out why he has done what he has done.

Una vertiginosa novela negra situada en la Barcelona más convulsa de mediados del siglo XX. Barcelona, 1946. Tras recibir una llamada en la comisaría de Vía Layetana, el inspector Aparicio y el agente Muñoz, dos policías de la brigada criminal, van al Instituto Mental de la Santa Cruz a investigar el asesinato de la hermana Natividad. El instituto era un centro de referencia de la psiquiatría barcelonesa, pero después de la guerra civil pasó a manos de religiosos sin formación que se aplicaron a reprimir a los enfermos con brutalidad.

En plena i fosca època franquista de censura permanent, Vallbona ens trasllada a una Barcelona clandestina de «bars, alcohol, noies, jazz, fum i quimeres de somiatruites que es pensaven que eren a Saint-Germain-des-Prés», transitada, entre d'altres, per Joan de Sagarra i Vázquez Montalbán, i marcada pel naixement de la mítica sala Jamboree, que molt aviat comptaria amb els Jazz Brothers i la Gloria Stewart, que es va convertir en la musa jazzística de la ciutat.

In 1785, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carried as prisoner to the maverick North African statelet of Algiers. The piratical corsairs of Algiers have decided to exploit the vulnerability of the United States by seizing its mariners and holding them for ransom. Today, the name of James Leander Cathcart has been all but forgotten.

Julián Leal es un inspector de la policía en Barcelona que no está pasando por su mejor momento. El médico le ha detectado un cáncer y no le da mucho tiempo de vida, además acaba de ser expedientado por darle una paliza a un sospechoso de abusos de menores. Después de una visita a su pueblo en Galicia empiezan a aparecer unos cadáveres que pueden tener relación con él y su superior le quiere cargar con las culpas para vengarse por unos rencores del pasado.

A Question of Standing offers a balanced narrative and perspective on recognizable episodes in the CIA's history. Famous incidents include the Bay of Pigs invasion, the War on Terror, 9/11, the weapons of mass destruction deception, the Iran estimate of 2007, the assassination of Osama bin Laden, and Fake News. The book also defends the CIA's exposure of foreign meddling in United States elections.

Henry Kissinger, uno de los principales estrategas políticos del siglo xx, analiza en este nuevo libro los perfiles de seis de los líderes mundiales más fascinantes e influyentes del pasado reciente: Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew y Margaret Thatcher.

Hearing that the British Red Cross were recruiting truck drivers to deliver relief supplies in the active conflict zones of the former Yugoslavia, Roger thought the work sounded interesting. What he experienced during his mission with the International Committee of the Red Cross proved to be much more. Living the realities of humanitarian relief work and witnessing the tragedies of what war could do and did to its civilian victims, was life-changing.

The first of the Founding Documents Trilogy featuring the Declaration of Independence. The listener is swept into a chapter of history ripped from the headlines of the late 1700s, where the future of the Colonies hung in the balance. Would the founding fathers be executed for high treason, or would they sign the document that would mean...Independence Now!

Joel Shore, newly appointed captain of the whaling ship Nathan Ross following his brother's apparent demise as captain of the same ship, elects to make his first cruise as captain to the very location where his brother had last been seen - the Gilbert Islands, in order to try to learn more about what happened to his brother. The focus of this tale is of that voyage halfway around the globe and the adventures which he and his crew encounter.

After finding himself stopped by a group of protesters, Tom Decker takes the microphone and uses the opportunity to tell them inspirational stories based on the objects found in his pocket. Through his stories, the old man relives his past while hoping he has also found a way to pass on more than just words to the next generation.

Shane Collins and Lucas Maddox are the last two US Marshals after a global cataclysm that destroyed most of modern civilization. They're still on the job, fighting the good fight, although they're no longer fully human and maybe not entirely sane. Witches and werewolves were not covered in their training as US Marshals. Then again, neither was the Apocalypse.