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En El arte de la guerra, Sun Tzu hace análisis detallados y recomendaciones útiles sobre trece temas principales de la estrategia militar: la planeación, el reto, el ataque, el posicionamiento, la dirección, fuerzas y debilidades, las maniobras, la implementación de las tácticas, el avance, el terreno, las fases de una campaña, las armas y el uso de información.

I barely survived my first trials. Now the stakes have been raised. The queen imprisoned my only family to control me after I defied her. I'd hoped my father, the king, would become an ally, but he won't dare betray the queen. Luckily, it turns out I'm not the only one who wants to see her fall. I'm fighting on all fronts, trying to stay alive through the trials while also joining the rebellion's fight. As a further complication, the pull I feel toward Rush is becoming harder to resist.

After the execution of her father, the young and beautiful Lady Asano is in grave danger from the powerful Lord Kira. In order to save herself Asano must find Oishi, the leader of the fighting men of her clan. She believes he is 300 miles to the southwest in the imperial city of Kyoto. Disguising her loveliness in the humble garments of a traveling priest, and calling herself Cat, Lady Asano travels the fabled Tokaido Road. Her only tools are her quick wits, her samurai training, and her deadly, six-foot-long naginata.

I survived the savage brutality of the Wilds and its vicious monsters only to find myself in more danger than ever before. Despite the queen's continued attempts against my life, the ancient magic of the Fae Heir Trials forces me to continue competing in its deadly challenges. The prize of the next trial? To marry Drake Rush Vega—my mate.

Madrid, 1999. Desde que las protagonistas de Siete agujas de coser se reunieron por primera vez en El Cuarto de Costura, sus vidas han cambiado mucho. Algunas han cumplido sueños que creían imposibles de alcanzar y otras han logrado deshacerse de aquello que no les hacía libres ni felices. Sin embargo, ante la llegada de un nuevo curso, el pasado vuelve con fuerza para sacudir los cimientos de todo lo que han conseguido y para mostrarles que, aunque sigan el patrón al dedillo, cada día es una oportunidad para cambiar.

Dallas Henry is coming home. For the last eight years, she’s been living in Europe, trying to forget her troubled family and the two hot men she left behind. But now her father is sick, and Dallas is returning. Back home, not much has changed. Her brother, Peyton, is just as wonderful, and just as over-protective as ever. Her father is just as cold. And her old friends Cole and Zane have grown up from attractive boys into irresistibly hot men.

Invisible when no one should be, Anira is an outcast, forced to hide from the chieftain who rules her clan with an iron fist. He is their savior. Akin to a god. The path to their survival. Only, he isn't. Not by a long shot. He is their greatest enemy, hidden within their midst. The most dangerous threat of all.

Here, presented in one volume, are the four stories that comprise the Filthy series, a seriously hot and provocative romance by Lucia Jordan, written in her signature style of high passion and emotion. Gabriel remembered how good she’d felt in his arms when they’d been lovers. The feel of her wildly beating pulse, her scent, her warmth. He’d left his mark on her slender throat more than once. Though he smiled and made small talk, his attention remained with the woman he’d never expected to see again. Angie is now a cop, and the bad boy is back to change her life forever.

Evie Black and her demon imp partner, Cass, are two of the most fearsome supernatural bounty hunters on the West Coast. But when Evie’s beloved grandmother dies, her world shatters. After finding the bottom of a bottle of tequila, Evie breaks the one rule she knows better than to ignore: Never hook up with a werewolf.

The move to World Cup Academy of Gymnastics is the greatest challenge Adrianna has encountered. Punished for Coach Kova’s overwhelming desires, she’s reeling with resentment while she sits out the first meet of the season. As Adrianna fights to regain her focus, he pushes her body to the extreme, leaving her mentally and physically exhausted.

Con su inigualable toque de humor y melancolía, Berlin se hace eco de su vida, asombrosa y convulsa, para crear verdaderos milagros literarios con episodios del día a día. Las mujeres de sus relatos están desorientadas, pero al mismo tiempo son fuertes, inteligentes y, sobre todo extraordinariamente reales. Ríen, lloran, aman, beben: sobreviven.

For more than a century, Apaches have kept alive the memory of their hero Lozen. This beautiful, valiant warrior and revered shaman fought alongside Geronimo, Cochise, and her own brother, Victorio, holding out against the armies of both the United States and Mexico. Lozen has known since childhood that the spirits have chosen her to defend Apache freedom. As the U.S. Army prepares to move her people to an Arizona reservation, Lozen forsakes marriage and motherhood to fight among the men.

Following her turbulent divorce from her celebrity-chef ex-husband, Hannah Newsome is set on bringing about the change she knows her life needs. She’s a professionally trained chef in her own right, but the years she spent married have left her personal ambitions thrown to the wayside. When an opportunity to cook for an on-location camp of mountain loggers comes up, she can hardly find a reason not to take it. She knows that it may be a little below her skillset, but she also knows that this might just be the fresh start she’s been after.

Cleo Cantrell leads an unassuming life as the owner of indie-bookstore Happily Ever After, but on the side, she writes best-selling romance novels under the pen name Dominique Darling. When A-list actor-director Tony Markson contacts Cleo about turning one of her novels into a movie, she initially rejects his offer. Tony’s gorgeous and hot as hell, but Cleo’s pretty sure he uses his looks to make up for a lack in IQ, and she’s been burned by pretty boys before.

What is self-discipline? What does it mean to lack it? Why do you think you're not as disciplined as you would like? Is it because you manage your time poorly? You lack organizational skills? You lack motivation? Procrastination is your greatest enemy? You're just too lazy? What many people don't realize is that all of these issues, which they see as causes of poor self-discipline, are actually symptoms. Are you confronting one or more of them?

Lucia Jordan’s ultimate 10-book compilation includes: Dirty Secrets, Nights of Sin, Hidden Pleasures, Destiny, Bad Girl, Wild Hearts, Trembling, Hard Domination, Finding Passion, and Truly Irresistible. Buy Lucia Jordan’s Ten Dirty Secrets Book Set and get started on your journey to these romance stories.

A Manual for Cleaning Women compiles the best work of the legendary short-story writer Lucia Berlin. With the grit of Raymond Carver, the humor of Grace Paley, and a blend of wit and melancholy all her own, Berlin crafts miracles from the everyday, uncovering moments of grace in the laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers, and bad Christians.

For anyone who could use proof that the world is full of good people, this beautifully illustrated book features 101 stories of human decency from Upworthy, the beloved social media brand that reaches more than 100 million people per month.

Everyone in Ridgemore knows Joss and her friends Griffin, Hunt, Layla, and Brady have been inseparable since they were kids. You mess with one, and you'll have the whole bunch to answer to. Their senior year should be one long carefree party, but Joss can't seem to get over a crush on Griffin that could screw up their lifelong friendship. She can't help it; she's drawn to his devilish smirk and the brooding stare that seems to trail her wherever she goes. But any thoughts of romance go out the window when a horrible accident changes everything.

Recovery of Your Inner Child is the only book that tells you how to have a firsthand experience of your Inner Child - actually feeling its emotions and recapturing its sense of wonder - by writing and drawing with your non-dominant hand. Expanding on the highly acclaimed technique introduced in The Power of Your Other Hand, here Dr. Capacchione shares scores of hands-on activities that will help you to embrace your Vulnerable Child and your Angry Child, find the Nurturing Parent within, and finally discover the Creative and Magical Child that can heal your life.