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El juego de Ender (título original Ender's Game, 1985) es la novela más conocida de Orson Scott Card. Obtuvo los dos premios más prestigiosos de la ciencia ficción: el premio Nébula a la mejor novela en 1985 y el premio Hugo a la mejor novela en 1986. La novela se originó como un cuento de ciencia ficción en la revista Analog (1977), cuento que recibió el premio Ignotus de 1994, así como sendas nominaciones al Hugo y Locus de 1978. Está ambientada en un futuro donde la humanidad se enfrenta al exterminio a manos de una agresiva sociedad extraterrestre conocida como los "insectores" (buggers en el original). Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin es reclutado a la edad de seis años para ser adiestrado en la Escuela de Batalla, una estación espacial donde niños superdotados son preparados desde su infancia para dirigir la próxima guerra. El juego de Ender es el primero de un grupo de cinco libros conocidos como la Saga de Ender. En 1999 Card comenzó una serie de novelas paralela a la acción descrita en la Saga de Ender, la Saga de las Sombras, que se compone de otros cinco libros.

USA Today best-selling and award-winning author Desiree Holt writes everything from romantic suspense and paranormal to erotic.and has been referred to by USA Today as the Nora Roberts of erotic romance, and is a winner of the EPIC E-Book Award, the Holt Medallion and a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice nominee. She has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in The Village Voice, The Daily Beast, USA Today, The (London) Daily Mail, The New Delhi Times and numerous other national and international publications. To say Killian Walker was shocked when he discovered that not only was his father not married to his mother, but he had three half-brothers in the same situation. Facing each other for the first time at the reading of Dusty Walker’s will, the atmosphere could best be described as hostile. The terms of the will didn’t help matters. Spending a week in Red Creek, Kansas in Dusty’s house and Dusty’s business was just not on his agenda of things to do. But if he wanted the money to start his own ranch, he’d have to grit his teeth and man up. Lexie Choate had big dreams about success in the world of art. Her teachers at Savannah School of Art praised her talent and told her she was a shoo-in to win the prize of a gallery show of her own. The last thing she expected was for the man who stole her heart to also steal the prize from her. She ran back to Red Creek, to heal her broken heart and recover from her disappointment. As the owner of Heart Starter, the popular coffee shop in town, she was busy building a new life for herself, while she continued to paint in secret. Hope never dies. When Killian walked into Heart Starter the chemistry between the two of them was instant and explosive, but neither of them was looking for anything long term. She wanted to get back into the world of art. He was planning to build his ranch and not in Nowhere, Kansas. One week, they agreed. One week to enjoy each other, then goodbye. Funny thing, though, just when you think you’ve got everything planned out, life has a funny way of turning your life upside down.

Rin Scott is the only child in werewolf history that has been born with out a wolf. Coming from a good and affluential family she has never been abused or neglected just ignored. Rin holds a secret talent that anyone would pay to get their hands on. A chain of event leads to nothing but blood shed and tears. Rin must decide if she is going to accept her fate or change the future. This book does contain dark themes. All rights are reserved for the content of the story itself effect 8/30/2020 at 2:46am. I do not own the rights to the cover art.

James and Amelia accidentally meet again under a very eccentric circumstance after 12 years of trying to forget each other's existence. Twelve years ago, Amelia who was 16 at the time was raped by James under the influence of drugs. To save the family name, James' mother convinces Amelia, whose parents' at the time had an unfortunate car accident, to marry James for an amount of money that could be used for her parents' hospital expenses. Confused, hurt and in fear for her parents' life, Amelia married James. Fortunately, James is later sent abroad for a fresh start. Twelve years later, the couple accidentaly meet. James starts to feel love for Amelia however, Amelia starts feeling the past fears and anxiety toward James. Their past and James' family reputations keeps Amelia from feeling anything besides fear and hatred for a time but James does not stop showing love and tenderness to Amelia. Unfortunately, some people start seeking revenge on James through Amelia. James has to keep Amelia safe while slowly curing her heart, that has been hurt for a long time.

When Scott Trask gets a job at his law firm, Preston Reynolds begins to feel the same attraction he felt for his best friend’s younger brother years earlier. But he couldn't be sexually attracted to the young man. Preston isn't gay.<br><br>Scott has been in love with Preston for years, but just because Preston is now divorced doesn’t mean he’s available. Yet soon enough, they surrender to their desires, and begin a passionate affair.<br><br>At first, Scott thinks he can handle it when Preston wants to keep their private life together a secret but he’s wrong. Then when Preston promises to change, there is hope. Sort of. Preston has a tough choice. Learn to accept himself at long last, or risk losing Scott forever.

In the cutthroat world of football, Scott Mason is no prodigy. He’s a playmaker with vision, heart, and a past he can’t outrun. Benched. Doubted. Then handed a shot. From local academies to Europe’s most ruthless training grounds, Scott enters a world where football is no longer just a game—it’s data, politics, obsession, and survival. Where one bad pass can end your dream, and the only thing worse than failing… is being forgotten. Haunted by mistakes, driven by legacy, and pushed by a voice inside his head Scott must decide what kind of player he truly is: A team man? A star? Or something far more dangerous. Because in this world, talent isn’t enough. You play. Or you get played. And the ones who love the game the most… are the ones it breaks the hardest. DISCLAIMER: “This is a work of fiction. Real people, teams, and events may be mentioned for narrative purposes, but the story is entirely fictional and not affiliated with any person or organization.”

"Now let her go." All heads turned to the back as they came into view. "Or what?" He said calmly. He took another step towards me and I took one more back. "Don't do it," He yelled. "Do what?" He had a sickening smile on his face...if you could call it that. "Do this?" and before I knew it, his hand was on my shoulder and he pushed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For seventeen years of her life Skyler never knew her mother. She grew up hating her, yet everything suddenly started to evolve around what really happened to her. With the past getting mixed with her present, she doesn't seem certain about anything. Especially when images start to flash in her mind and with Hunter, a guy that just shows up and knows more than she thinks, and she's not certain about her feelings anymore. Forced to find the truth and people wanting her, she has to leave Captacold and venture into Darkwood – a place of nightmares and beasts crawling everywhere – with only her best friend, someone she doesn't completely know...and a lot of pain. Nothing is ever as it seems, especially her emotions she didn't know she had, and horrid secrets that unravel. The hunter becomes the hunted. Do not duplicate under any means. Copyright (C) 2021. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Dermot looked into her eyes with love and lust in his eyes and said "Olivia, I want to live in this moment forever. I don't want to see no daylight" * That night was the last time Olivia Grimes ever saw Dermot, the love of her life and that last time changed her life forever. She lost everything and never became the person that she had always dreamed of. Eight years later, Olivia Grimes met a man who changed her believe about what really happened eight years ago

In an effort to reinvigorate the paranormal investigation genre -- and his career -- Killian McKay makes the decision to livestream a ghost hunt in the house where he had his first supernatural encounter as a kid. To make sure things get interesting, he hires a witch to stir up the spirits in the house.<br><br>When the witch, Lady Ivana, turns out to be a handsome, muscular, genderfluid man named Ivan, Killian quickly realizes he underestimated just how interesting things can get.<br><br>Ivan is the real deal, a witch with herbs and spells and magic, and he knows more about ghosts than Killian ever hoped to learn. Killian wants to know everything Ivan knows, and he wants to know everything about Ivan ... but first, they have to survive the night.

Everyone has their high school's 'It Girl'. That girl is usually the one the guys or girls swan over. She will get dates and date someone every other week if she wants. Or she can be pure and that friendly girl whose everyone's friend. Or she is queen bee of the school, dominating every soul in her path. Neither of those are the stories I'm about to tell you. In fact, you might consider Freya Scott in a 'It Girl' category of all her own. I hadn't known her very well. I couldn't tell you her likes, dislikes nor where she would be spotted during lunch. I knew only as much as everyone else. I never taken much interest in who she had been until one day... I actually met her. "The only question I have to ask you is... how will this all end?" -Lacy Bennett