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"New York homicide detectives pursue a serial killer in this apocalyptic thriller. When detectives James Manning and Covina "Dewey" Duwai are called in to investigate a series of bizarre murders, they make a shocking discovery: the legend of the hidden righteous ones, the 36 who preserve the world from destruction, is no legend at all. They are real, and they are being murdered. As the bodies pile up and the world tilts into chaos, Manning and Dewey...
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Golf and the game of life. The protagonist is Rannulph Junah, Southern aristocrat and World War I hero. In a tournament in Savannah, he defeats two golf pros by following the teachings of his guru, Bagger Vance, a black mystic serving as his caddie. A metaphysical fable.
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"From the bestselling author of Gates of Fire comes an historical epic about the early years of the Roman Empire. A Man at Arms is a Western set in Jerusalem and the Sinai desert in the first century AD, a few years after the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. The villains are the Romans. They're in pursuit of a courier bearing an incendiary letter from Paul the Apostle. For agents of Rome, this letter represents an existential threat that will propagate...
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Written as the memoir of a British lieutenant, and based on real-life events, this historically and psychologically rich thriller perfectly captures the tension as a team of soldiers in Egypt during World War II attempt to assassinate German Field Marshall Rommel, the infamous "Desert Fox."
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"A life-changer...Inspirational!" Marie Forleo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything is Figureoutable
Are you losing your "war of art"?
Are you being defeated by a tendency to procrastination, self-doubt, fear, distraction, and perfectionism? Are you self-sabotaging your loftiest artistic entrepreneurial dreams?
The antidote is in nine words: PUT
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"We are being bullied, my father said, and the only way to handle a bully is to punch him in the face. "What would you do?" I asked. "Strike now. As soon as possible. Meet the enemy straight-up and destroy him. There is no other way." -YAEL DAYAN, daughter of Moshe Dayan, to Steven Pressfield June 5, 1967. The nineteen-year-old state of Israel is surrounded by enemies who want nothing less than her utter extinction. The Soviet-equipped Egyptian...
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BONUS: This eBook edition contains an excerpt from THE PROFESSION: A Thriller by Steven Pressfield. On sale June 2011.
2,300 years ago an unbeaten army of the West invaded the homeland of a fierce Eastern tribal foe. This is one soldier’s story . . .
The bestselling novelist of ancient warfare returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great’s invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 b.c.
In a story...
2,300 years ago an unbeaten army of the West invaded the homeland of a fierce Eastern tribal foe. This is one soldier’s story . . .
The bestselling novelist of ancient warfare returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great’s invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 b.c.
In a story...
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People who have read my books, particularly "The War of Art" and its cousins, have a vague idea of the odyssey of a particular solitary guy, wracked by guilt and riven by self-doubt, as he struggles toward his destiny as a writer. But they have only the scantiest conception of the particulars of that journey. These particulars, I'm hoping, may be of use to others as they wrestle with their own version of that same odyssey. So let me try to strip it...
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THE DAILY PRESSFIELD is 365 days (plus a bonus week) of motivation, inspiration, and encouragement. Are you starting a new book/album/business venture? Open to page one of THE DAILY PRESSFIELD and start rolling. Each chapter begins with a picked quote from THE WAR OF ART, GATES OF FIRE, Pressfield's Writing Wednesdays blog, and other P-field sources. The second half of each chapter is Steve's commentary on that passage. THE DAILY PRESSFIELD is a year's...
14) Do the work
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The enemy is not lack of preparation, the difficulty of the project, the state of the marketplace, or the emptiness of one's bank account. The enemy is resistance in the brain, and if readers give it so much as a nanosecond, they will start producing excuses, alibis, transparent self-justifications, and a million reasons why they can't, shouldn't, or won't do what they know they need to do.
15) El mercenario
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Del exitoso autor de Gates of Fire llega una epopeya histórica sobre los primeros años del Imperio Romano. A Man at Arms es un western ambientado en Jerusalén y el desierto del Sinaí en el siglo I d. C., unos años después de la crucifixión de Jesús de Nazaret. Los villanos son los romanos. Están persiguiendo a un mensajero que lleva una carta incendiaria del apóstol Pablo. Para los agentes de Roma, esta carta representa una amenaza existencial...
18) Above the law
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A Chicago cop is on to something too big. Suspects collared in a recent drug raid are allowed to walk and he is asked to turn in his badge.