"So, elves are on their way, well, i`m going to trap Santa`s elves, and not let them free till Santa pays me five euros for each one!" Second grade Emil`s birthday plans go completely wrong. He doesn`t get the gift he wanted, a castle. His cousin blew out his candles and all the grown-ups just laughed. The young lad is peeved and his antics are frowned upon by Santa`s elf, Zak. Zak decides to teach Emil a lesson, but gets into a bit of a jam himself...
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Every Second Counts is a gripping suspense thriller that unravels a web of secrets, encrypted threats, and countdowns no one sees coming—until it's almost too late. When a cryptic message is received with a timer and no origin, elite agent Mara Keene is thrown into a relentless race against time. Each chapter unfolds a deeper layer of the conspiracy, from The Final Transmission to Voiceprint Unknown, through hidden surveillance, vanishing clues, and encrypted voices echoing through darkened corridors. As the tension escalates in Trigger Protocol and Thirty Floors to Midnight, Mara must decode a puzzle that was built to collapse in real time. When the clock pauses in The Four-Minute Silence, she discovers that stopping time is not the same as defeating it. Every Second Counts pulls readers into a shadowed world where silence is a trap, and the seconds ticking by may be the last. The countdown has already started. The only question is: will you beat the clock?
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Muchas personas regresan cada día a sus casas, después de un duro día de trabajo, con la sensación de no tener nada bajo control. Y tarde. Muy tarde. Jornadas eternas hablando por teléfono, escuchando quejas, mediando entre unos y otros, e intentando que el trabajo salga adelante, pero sin saber en qué punto se encuentran los proyectos, ni quién está haciendo qué. Lo que en lenguaje empresarial técnico se conoce como "estar todo el día apagando fuegos". Por otro lado, la gestión de muchas empresas está obsoleta, lo que impide realizar el trabajo de forma ágil y eficiente, por mucho que se intente cambiarlo. Los flujos de información son lentos e ineficaces. Los malentendidos están a la orden día, y todo esto se acaba transmitiendo, irremediablemente, a los clientes. Es la entropía del Universo. El KAOS. La buena noticia es que hay una solución. En este libro aprenderás qué es la mejora continua, y KAIZEN, con un estilo desenfadado, irónico y gamberro, muy gamberro. Y empezando por los fundamentos: no necesitas tener conocimientos previos. Tendrás la llave para que lo tengas (casi) todo bajo control. Sí, casi, porque no podemos hacer nada contra la entropía del universo, my friend.
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To Trap a Taniwha and He Raru ki Tai is an adventure story set in seventeenth-century Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland when the hapū of Ngā Oho/Ngā Iwi predominated. Armed with the courage of their convictions, two girls embark on a perilous journey to challenge their leaders' actions. Cousins, Te Kawenga and Kakati learn of a plan being hatched against a neighbouring iwi and strange activity occurring at a seasonal fishing camp. A huge trap is being built to snare and kill Ureia, the taniwha of Hauraki iwi. The cousins fear the retribution that will be taken on their people if Ureia is killed. So they take a dangerous journey to defy the decision of their people and try and save the taniwha.
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This is the Māori language edition of To Trap a Taniwha, an adventure story set in seventeenth-century Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland when the hapū of Ngā Oho/Ngā Iwi predominated. Armed with the courage of their convictions, two girls embark on a perilous journey to challenge their leaders' actions. Cousins, Te Kawenga and Kakati learn of a plan being hatched against a neighbouring iwi and strange activity occurring at a seasonal fishing camp. A huge trap is being built to snare and kill Ureia, the taniwha of Hauraki iwi. The cousins fear the retribution that will be taken on their people if Ureia is killed. So they take a dangerous journey to defy the decision of their people and try and save the taniwha.
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Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest, first published in 1791, is the epitome of the Gothic novel: a beautiful, orphaned heiress, a dashing hero, a dissolute, aristocratic villain and a ruined abbey deep in a great forest are combined by the author in a tale of suspense where danger lurks behind every secret trap-door. Reprinted four times between 1791 and 1795 and satirised as represented of the Gothic genre by Jane Austen in Northanger Abbey, Radcliffe's tense masterpiece, in which the heroine is afraid even to look in the mirror for fear of what she might see behind her, established her reputation as a writer and her brilliant descriptions of both characters and scenes serve to create the perfect atmosphere for a novel packed with emotional intensity.
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<p> Sixteen In Nome is narrated by young Joe May, an Arizonian who has come to Alaska to "make his stake for a ranch." Joe May, a starving, overgrown youth, had provided a small service for Hugh Massey, owner of the most famous husky in Alaska, in exchange for a monetary reward. He’d heard that Massey’s life revolved around the dog and it was a chance to murder the man he hated with an undying rage. But he never thought he would become the bait Massey needed to lure his enemy into a deadly trap. Highly recommended, especially for those who love the Old Western genre.</p>
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<p> At 30, Bill Naylor had spent half his life behind bars. Free again, and while looking for a new job, he saves a man from drowning. For Bill Naylor, there are all the others in the world, when it comes to being an outlaw, and there is Barry Christian. For Bill, Christian is the best, and the two wind up together, so Bill is all too ready to do the toughest thing that Christian has to throw his way. It involves killing Silvertip. It is Naylor’s chance to prove himself, and he know Christian’s plan can’t fail. Something that Christian’s plan did not take into account will determine Naylor’s fate. "Silvertip’s Trap" by Max Brand is the seventh novel in the “Silver Tip” series that came out in 1943.</p>
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