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On a wind-stilled bay in Roslagen, Sweden, the Omheten care home rests where sea meets pine-scented air. After a residents death, Tore Lindahl, a former policeman, suspects foul play, but his concerns are dismissed as the ramblings of an old man.Lindhahl turns to Veronika Wiklund, a young journalist stuck tracing small-town stories for the local paper. Together, the unlikely duo begins asking questions that unsettle their entire community.As Veronika searches for answers, the care home reveals itself as the battleground for power, and the hunting ground for a killer tangled in dark legacies of World War II.Gripping and moving, Cecilia Sjogrens The Things We Leave Behind is a story of memory, grief, and guilt that echoes across decades. As the past collides with the present, it asks: what do we owe the dead, and at what cost do we unearth what they left behind?Fans of The God of the Woods by Liz Moore will love this atmospheric Swedish crime novel.

TELENOVELA explores the secret lives of a family swept up in the final days of Pinochets dictatorship in Chile. There is Lucho: bullied by fellow soldiers for his love of poetry, thwarted in his ambitions to become a writer. He seems like a loving father. He seems loveable. And maybe he is. But as TELENOVELA unfolds, other things come to light about Lucho that are less easy to indulge or forgive. There is Ramona, Luchos wife: tormented by anxiety, overwhelmed by body image problems. Ramona once hoped to become a telenovela star; she secretly daydreams that she might still get her big break. She seems like an innocent. But is she? Then there is Pablo, their son: dreamy, gentle, eager to form his own band and write some worthwhile songs. Desperate to be cool... And increasingly, just desperate. These people are deeply human - but Telenovela makes us understand how inhumane they can also be. How easy it is to be complicit in authoritarian regimes - and how personal stories can take on universal significance..

Scotlands Stone of Destiny is the most famous symbol of both Scottish nationhood and the British monarchy. Nick Aitchison has produced a fully updated, researched and illustrated study of its history, mythology and cultural significance.Having first traced the origin, evolution and function of myths surrounding the Stone and the ancient prophecy that gives the Stone its name, Aitchison examines the Stone itself its appearance, geology and source and reveals the Stones original function and the origins of its symbolic sanctity. Scotlands Stone of Destiny discusses the much-disputed issue of authenticity, and finally places it in a wider context with reference to the Stones significance to the creation of the Scottish parliament and the destiny of the Scots.

After working as a botanist and natural historian for more than 25 years, walking the countryside had almost imperceptibly turned into a disheartening endeavour for Pete Stroh. He found himself resting at viewpoints and contemplating how much better it would be if a pasture had not been drenched with herbicide, if a woodland had not been planted up with regimented lines of conifer crops, if an arable field could every so often not be ploughed right up to the bloody roots of the hedgerowSo he decided that in writing this book, he would wander within the boundaries of the parish where he lives, record weekly what he actually saw, and restrict grumblings to a minimum, to observe rather than judge. This, he writes, took a bit of getting used to but proved ultimately to be a liberating and unexpected experience.The result is this uplifting and positive book showing the surprising abundance of nature, given half a chance.

A poética da dor: narrativas trágicas no cinema de Pedro Costa analisa as possibilidades do trágico no cinema contemporâneo, repensando as fronteiras entre a tragédia e o trágico, que, embora em algu

The gripping sequel to HELL HATH NO FURYMike McCleary is offered a fantastic new job. With his beautiful new girlfriend by his side, he can move back to England and be closer to his loving and supportive parents.Newly-promoted Detective Inspector Steve Denton is basking in the spotlight after stopping a serial killers nationwide campaign, and feels hes finally getting some deserved recognition.The Broker continues to evade the long arm of the law and is about to invest in a new criminal venture, with the opportunity to earn billions.But not all dreams come true, and some can turn into nightmares.

The complete scripts of one of the most urgent and talked-about television series of recent times.Set in a northern English town, Adolescence tracks the aftermath of the brutal murder of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. When her classmate Jamie Miller is arrested in a dawn raid for the crime, his family, psychologist and the detective in charge are all left asking: how could this have happened?Adolescence gripped audiences and commentators around the world when it was released on Netflix in 2025, sparking headlines and debate about the difficult and vital issues it confronts head on. Also applauded for its technical ingenuity with each episode presented in one continuous shot, in real time it became one of Netflixs most-watched series of all time and won numerous accolades, including eight Emmy Awards.This volume contains the full shooting scripts of all four episodes, as well as new insights and commentary from the creators including writer Jack Thorne, co-writer and star Stephen Graham, and director Philip Barantini colour photographs, and essays about the issues it explores.A must-read for admirers of this acclaimed series, its also an invaluable resource for screenwriters and other filmmakers, as well as anyone looking to understand more about the pressures and challenges facing young people today.

Laurence Catlow is considered one of the finest classical flyfishing writers of our times and here he explores the themes close to an anglers heart:* why catching two trout each time matters so much to him * the experience of fishing in contrast to a days shooting * the melancholy appeal of autumn fishing * the difference between holiday fishing and home fishing * the secrets of a flytyer * starting the season on the river * big trout or little trout: why he prefers the latter * why fishing is a lifelong joy * fishing the mayflyThe best flyfishing book to cross my desk this year, without a doubt. Catlows writing is easily accessible, simple English fused into passages that flow like a chalkstream glide, littered with lines that sit in the memory long after their page has turned. Trout Fisherman, Jeffrey Prest, 4 January

This book, Mindfulness - A Different Platform by Eleanor Gibson, is a motivational guide centred on mindfulness, compassion, and gratitude to help readers overcome lifes challenges and live fulfilling lives. It emphasises how mindfulness can provide clarity, resilience, and a renewed sense of purpose, especially when dealing with difficult interpersonal relationships and personal hardships.The book opens with a poetic metaphor of transformation from a butterfly to a caterpillar to a butterfly, illustrating how life events can alter our way of being in the world. Eleanor Gibson shares her realisation that mindfulness allows one to choose a new path in life, akin to boarding a different train at a different platform, leading to new and inspiring journeys through personal growth and mindfulness.The author reflects on the nature of the mind, describing memories as random and mood-congruent, meaning that our current mood influences the type of memories we recall. Mindfulness helps in recognising and managing these moods, promoting happiness through awareness of what truly brings joy.The book explores the impact of destructive relationships, which can severely damage mental and physical health. It highlights the importance of recognising unhealthy dynamics and maintaining ones values and individuality despite others harmful actions.The book addresses overcoming ruts and fears by taking small steps toward meaningful goals and rediscovering passions. The author shares personal experiences of facing fears and finding renewed purpose through mindfulness study and practise. Readers are encouraged to reflect on values, interests, talents, and desires to identify themes that guide their purpose.Mindfulness teaches appreciation for the present and helps overcome ego-driven dissatisfaction. The metaphor of the lotus flower illustrates flourishing despite adversity. Cultivating gratitude and positivity leads to greater happiness and resilience.Authenticity is emphasised as vital. Mindfulness helps individuals overcome past conditioning, embrace uniqueness, and resist pretending to be others. The author shares anecdotes illustrating the importance of conscience and integrity.The final chapter reiterates the central theme that mindfulness offers a new platform from which to view life, make wiser choices, rebuild after adversity, and flourish authentically. The author encourages readers to embrace mindfulness to live joyfully and freely.This comprehensive guide includes practical mindfulness exercises (RAIN, Training the Mind to Focus, Compassionate Image, A Safe Place) detailed in the appendices, designed to support readers in applying mindfulness daily.In essence, Mindfulness - A Different Platform is a motivational and practical resource encouraging readers to cultivate mindfulness as a means to overcome adversity, nurture self-compassion, build resilience, and live purposefully with gratitude and authenticity.Learn from the past, set vivid goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.(Denis Waitley)

Between now and then, I will offer you A fist full of rock cress fresh from the bank The valley tips of garlic red with dew Cooler than shallots, a breath you can swankIn the village when you come. At noon-day I will offer you a choice bowl of cawl Served with a lovers spoon and a chopped spray Of leeks or savori fach, not used now,In the old way youll understand. The din Of children singing through the eyelet sheds Ringing smith hoops, chasing the butt of hensLynette Roberts is one of the most astonishing and brilliant poets of the twentieth century. Though published by T.S. Eliot and Faber in the 1940s and 50s her work unjustly fell off the radar for many years until the groundbreaking edition of her collected poems published by Carcanet in 2005. Twenty years on, this new edition contains an additional sixty-five previously uncollected and unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her growing importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.

Answerlands is the place children go in their minds when looking for a correct answer without really thinking. It is also a fairy-tale world of quest, resolution and dissolution, glimpsed in a teachers dream. And it is nightmare country, disfigured by fear and systemic violence.Joe Mindens second collection, Answerlands, explores the curiosity-destroying, harmful potential of school even as it celebrates the erring minds of teacher and student, which make encounter possible.

Este livro busca discutir como se constituem as trajetórias de sucesso escolar de jovens negros do ensino médio, em um Colégio público estadual da cidade de Petrópolis. Ao longo da pesquisa realizada, a autora buscou compreender o que e sucesso para este grupo, suas familias e para os integrantes do Colegio, considerando ainda os efeitos do racismo nas trajetorias destes estudantes. O racismo estrutural permeia toda a sociedade, no sendo diferente no espaço escolar. Dessa forma, a pesquisa apresentada nesta obra busca alcançar como os possiveis atos racistas se manifestam e afetam as trajetorias escolares de jovens negros. Ate o inicio da decada de 1990, o ensino medio era cursado por poucos privilegiados, e havia um ingresso pio de jovens negros nessa etapa da escolarizaço, fazendo com que ingressar e permanecer no colegio, fosse percebido como sucesso. No entanto, mesmo transcorridas decadas e o acesso dos jovens negros tenha sido ampliado, o que e esperado dos estudantes negros, em todos os niveis educacionais e o fracasso escolar. Diante dos fatos apresentados, foi empreendida uma analise a luz das questes raciais e de teorias sociologicas, que levaram a caminhos surpreendentes sobre o sucesso alcançado por estes jovens.

Every day, we are exposed to evidence of hundreds of war crimes: residential buildings bombed and burning in Ukraine, merciless shootings in Gaza despite a so-called ceasefire, civilians beaten and starved by armies in Sudan and a mounting number of aid workers and journalists murdered by soldiers. The evidence proves guilt beyond reasonable doubt, but we know there will be few, if any, prosecutions.In this powerful book, distinguished human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson exposes the fraud that is international humanitarian law. Drawing on his experience as a UN war crimes judge, he considers some of the most pressing legal issues of our time, including torture, nuclear weapons, drone warfare and the fallacy of anticipatory self-defence. In the face of such threats, and with an impotent Security Council neutered by the worlds most powerful aggressors, modern democracies are increasingly vulnerable to conflict and invasion.Most importantly in an age of amoral warlords like Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, the book warns that we are losing sight of Nurembergs legacy: that there can be no peace without justice. This authoritative and deeply humane work is both a rallying defence of moral law and a resounding condemnation of those who defy it.

O que significa deixar tudo o que nos é familiar para recomeçar em um lugar onde nunca havíamos imaginado viver?Em Outro lugar de mim, Fabiano F. revisita seu passado na tentativa de compreender os caminhos que o levaram a sair do Brasil e reconstruir a vida em outro pais.Da infancia marcada por traumas e privaçes a conquista de uma vida mais estavel, ele nos conduz sem disfarces por suas crises, que o impulsionaram a buscar um novo lugar no mundo.No ano em que completa uma decada nos Estados Unidos, o autor relembra experiencias marcantes dessas "duas vidas" que se entrelaçam, levando-o a repensar crenças, comportamentos e valores. No se trata de um livro para exaltar conquistas; pelo contrario, Fabiano compartilha seus erros e o que restou deles.Este relato tocara profundamente todos que ja quiseram (ou ainda querem) mudar o rumo da propria historia. As vezes, recomeçar e a unica forma de continuar.

O livro Desenvolvendo o potencial de crianças superdotadas: guia prático para famílias apresenta conhecimento atualizado, fundamentado em evidências científicas, com conceitos teóricos atrelados a es

Miles burrows, the master of humorous, oddly profound poetic sketches and dramas, returns with a new book of what he calls incidental verse, written in England and abroad, concerned with sickness and ageing as drama, where clinical situations are reflected in a series of vignettes staged between reality and dream.The poems characteristically mordant observations alight on subjects from a childs death to a shaman performing a ritual ceremony for the journey between Heaven and Earth, or the image of wheelchairs pushed under a tree by the Thai carers in a poem which dwells on how ageing people pass the day in different countries.Burrows knows that these reminiscences are in danger of falling back on their own materials natural comedy, like a spider continually struggling to get out of an empty bathtub as one poems title has it. In another poem, a moorland pony stuck fast in a bog, sinking, is rescued by a team with a jeep who attach a belt round him and lug him out.These poems are second thoughts, cartoons, esprits de lescalier, sybils leaves, poems at a tangent, unspoken repartees. Like sketches done in a cafe by a person absently rubbing his thumb into some spilt coffee...

Whispers of MoonshineSleep-Stories for AdultsWritten by Christopher T. WintersA book not meant to be read but to be rested in. Step into a dreamscape of gentle wonder.Whispers of Moonshine is a collection of 25 lyrical, soul-soothing stories designed to quiet the noise of your day and lead you softly into sleep. Each chapter is a standalone tale filled with nature, moonlight, mystery, and messages meant for the stillest part of your heart.Whether youre seeking peace at bedtime, calm during anxious moments, or simply a book that doesnt demand but instead offers, this is your invitation.Let go of goals.Let go of time.Let each story carry you not forward, but inward.Perfect for:Evening wind-down ritualsStress & anxiety reliefBedside reading for dreamers and deep feelersLovers of calm, lyrical prose and meditative fictionThis is not a story about the world.It is a story about the quiet places within it.Lay the book beside your pillow.Open to any chapter.And begin to glow softly.

"Freud explica!" é o que muitos dizem. E eu não duvido, mas penso que a questão seja outra: você se sente pronto para fazer as justas perguntas? Aquelas que de fato interessam e cujas respostas você

Em um tempo marcado por desafios espirituais, econômicos e éticos, a prática dos dízimos e das ofertas continua sendo uma expressão viva da fé e da confiança no Deus provedor. "Dízimos e Ofertas no N

Seth F. Josel, ein innovativer Gitarrist, und die elektroakustische Komponistin Michelle Lou haben dieses langst uberfallige Buch zusammen erarbeitet nicht zuletzt inspiriert durch eine neue Generation von Solisten, die mit ihrer auerordentlichen Virtuositat eine ganz neue instrumentale Auffuhrungspraxis erschlossen haben.Das Buch zeigt umfassend die technischen Moglichkeiten des Instruments und der begleitenden elektronischen Komponenten. Komponisten und Komponistinnen profitieren insbesondere von den eingehenden Analysen zeitgenossischer Werke fur E-Gitarre, die viele Beispiele fur den Einsatz des Instruments in der Kammermusik und in Ensembles umfassen. In den zahlreichen Notenbeispielen werden gleichzeitig vielfaltige Moglichkeiten der Notation deutlich.Das Buch untersucht verschiedene Spieltechniken der rechten und linken Hand und beschaftigt sich mit Obertonen, dem Einsatz fremder Objekte, Signalverarbeitung, Verstarkung und den Verwandten der E-Gitarre. Besondere Erwahnung verdienen die umfangreichen Diagramme zu Multiphonics und Effekten. Auf der Barenreiter-Website zugangliche Klangbeispiele dokumentieren eine Vielzahl der im Buch beschriebenen Techniken.