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Faz dez anos desde que Merritt Valentine, ex-estrela do rock, saiu dos holofotes após um colapso público. Ela trocou o brilho de Los Angeles pela pacata cidade de Crested Peak, nas montanhas do Colorado, buscando refugio e anonimato ao lado da irm gemea. E o lugar tinha tudo para ser o refugio ideal de Merritt. Se no fosse por Nikolaos Petrakis.Niko e o empreiteiro e faz-tudo mais requisitado da cidade. Ele tambem e atraente, gentil e convenientemente solteiro uma combinaço extremamente perigosa para Merritt. Afinal, envolver-se com alguem como Niko significaria reabrir a porta para dramas que ela jurou ter deixado para tras.Determinada a manter a distancia, Merritt o contrata para um unico proposito: reformar a casa que comprou por impulso. O acordo e estritamente profissional. Limites claros. Sem complicaçes. Pelo menos, essa era a intenço. A medida que a poeira da obra abaixa, a fachada de profissionalismo entre eles começa a ruir. Niko no consegue esconder o fascinio que a enigmatica Merritt exerce sobre ele, e Merritt, por mais que tente, e incapaz de negar a atraço que sente. Com a casa ganhando forma, o vinculo entre eles se fortalece, forçando-os a confrontar o que realmente desejam e a questionar se no subestimaram a si mesmos e um ao outro.

Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every mans condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefull

A grande richiesta, torna unimperdible storia cult! Eletta miglior storia degli anni 90 e celebrata appunto da una specialissima ricomparsa sul Topolino 2264 che suggellava il primo mezzo secolo di vita del pocket, Il Mistero della voce spezzata arriva ora nel formato digitale rivelandosi una volta di piu un grande classico senza tempo. Silvano Mezzavilla firma una trama tesa, avvincente, piena di suspense ma anche di sottile psicologia, che restituisce a Topolino un ruolo da protagonista a tutto tondo, vincente ma anche ricco di sfumature; Giorgio Cavazzano traduce il tutto in tavole indimenticabili, con scorci e scene da grande cinema: atmosfere piovose, cura dei dettagli, alta recitazione puro piacere visivo da assaporare una pagina dopo laltra. Chiude il volume un approfondimento inedito di analisi e commento.

"Le storie di Topolino" e la nuova collana bimestrale per edicola e fumetteria per presentare grandi avventure nate sulle pagine di Topolino degli ultimi anni. In questa prima uscita preparatevi a vivere un arcipelago di avventure con la A maiuscola in un luogo selvaggio, pieno di segreti e angoli inesplorati! Le isole della Cometa, la prima serie firmata da Alex Bertani, Pietro B. Zemelo e Nico Picone ai disegni, vi catapultera dallaltra parte del globo, insieme a straordinari compagni di viaggio alla ricerca del proprio passato! Tra idrovolanti, barche e mappe scoprirete la storia di un leggendario gruppo di aviatori, simbolo di pace ed eroismo. Prefazione di Alex Bertani, approfondimenti dal dietro le quinte e curiosita sulla storia in unuscita tascabile da leggere tutta dun fiato.

Dal Myanmar agli USA passando per lEuropa, il Brasile, il Giappone e lAustralia.Dalle scope non volanti del Quidditch alle leggerissime palle in legno del Chinloneper non parlare della lotta coi cuscini, le corse coi cammelli e le estenuanti battaglie fisiche e mentali degli scacchi boxe. Oltre agli sport che conosciamo tutti, quelli piu praticati e visti il mondo e pieno di federazioni ufficialmente riconosciute, tutte con migliaia di tesserati pronti a praticare a livello agonistico sport insoliti e strani, anzi inusuali. LAtlante Illustrato degli sport inusuali, scritto per lettori dai 10 ai 99 anni, raccoglie queste discipline e attraverso laiuto delle illustrazioni di Loris De Marco mette su carta una vera e propria guida capace di portarci in giro per i quattro angoli del pianeta a coprirne la storia, le curiosita e le regole. Prefazione di Pierdomenico Baccalario.

La mitica miniserie delle Angus Tales, qui ripubblicata nella sua interezza e composta da otto storie brevi di diversi autori (pubblicata in origine su PKNA - Paperinik New Adventures tra il 1997 e il 2000) racchiude lessenza e scava nelle origini e nella formazione del kiwi neozelandese che lavora come giornalista televisivo a 00 News, il notiziario di 00 Channel, il piu importante network di Paperopoli. Oltre alle storie a fumetti, non mancheranno contenuti extra e approfondimenti sul piu fastidioso ma simpatico sostenitore del giornalismo creativo.

Una nuova miniserie interamente dedicata al mondo dello sport a 360 gradi! In questo primo numero varie storie tra cuiPaperino e il mistero Eurocalcistico di Carlo Panaro e Alessandro Perina, Paperino e i nuovi allenatori di Bruno Sarda e Marco Mazzarello. Inoltre, prendono il via due serie inedite: una ambientata sui campi da calcio e laltra incentrata su una serie di gare paperopolesi!

Prosegue la grande saga di Wizards of Mickey con due nuovi episodi, Il drago di ferro e Gli scaccia mostri, cosi come le avventure della Squadra recuperi spaziali in Allinseguimento. Ma ci sara spazio anche per una speciale avventura di Zio Paperone e i nipoti che, per cercare favolosi tesori, supereranno i confini della realta per tuffarsi, a bordo di un tablet, in un sorprendente mondo fantastico, nella storia Zio Paperone e la pentola doro dellarcobaleno.

Ecco il secondo degli spin off di PK Giant Double Special Edition, che propone tutte le miniserie realizzate! Vedi alla voce Evron, 5Y, Io sono Xadhoom, Trips Strip, Fuori onda e Lo zen e la fisica dei quanti! Avventure brevi ma di tutto rispetto e di grande impatto, apprezzatissime dai pkers e scritte da Augusto Macchetto, Francesco Artibani, Tito Faraci, Bruno Enna, Diego Fasano e Alessandro Sisti.

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahabs boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge.In Moby-Dick, Melville employs stylized language, symbolism, and metaphor to explore numerous complex themes. Through the journey of the main characters, the concepts of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God are all examined, as the main characters speculate upon their personal beliefs and their places in the universe. The narrators reflections, along with his descriptions of a sailors life aboard a whaling ship, are woven into the narrative along with Shakespearean literary devices, such as stage directions, extended soliloquies, and asides. The book portrays destructive obsession and monomania, as well as the assumption of anthropomorphism.

Dr. Felix Adler, in his Foreword to "Jataka Tales," says that long ago he was "captivated by the charm of the Jataka Tales." Little children have not only felt this charm, but they have discovered that they can read the stories to themselves. And so "More Jataka Tales" were found in the volume translated from the Sanskrit into English by a group of Cambridge scholars and published by the University Press.The Jataka tales, regarded as historic in the Third Century B. C., are the oldest collection of folk-lore extant. They come down to us from that dim far-off time when our forebears told tales around the same hearthfire on the roof of the world. Professor Rhys Davids speaks of them as a priceless record of the childhood of our race. The same stories are found in Greek, Latin, Arabic, Persian, and in most European languages. The Greek versions of the Jataka tales were adapted and ascribed to the famous storyteller, Aesop, and under his name handed down as a continual feast for the children in the West, tales first invented to please and instruct our far-off cousins in the East." Here East, though East, meets West!

La raccolta completa della terza serie di Diary of a Wacky Knight, il ciclo di storie di Paperinik ambientate in epoca medioevale, vi fara scoprire altre curiosita sul Cavaliere Mascherato, aiutato dallimpavida Fox Knight e dai nipotini giovani cavalieri a fronteggiare la variegata fauna di questo mondo fantastico: il viandante visionario, orde di orchetti, la crudele strega che minaccia il regno di Duckmelot, lavversario che avanza nella tormenta di Monte Crudele, una sfida tra re. Pronti a fare luce su vecchi segreti?

Sul nuovo numero di Cronache dal Papersera ci apriamo alla produzione italiana dedicata al quotidiano paperopolese. Si parte con Zio Paperone e la notizia boom, imperdibile cult del 1972 firmato da Guido Martina e Luciano Gatto. Il resto dellalbo conterra invece labituale selezione di storie realizzate dallo Studio Program e dalla scuola brasiliana, tra cui segnaliamo la divertente Paperoga e la ricerca di mercato, disegnata da Tony Strobl, e Paperino e lintervista a Giulio Cesare, di Paulo de Paiva Lima e Irineu Soares Rodrigues. Spazio, infine, per cinque tavole autoconclusive francesi inedite.

Enter a London like no other in this fast-paced, captivating fantasy novel, perfect for fans of V.E. Schwab and Genevieve Cogman.Oyster McLellen has spent his life causing mischief. Running with a small-time gang and fleecing money from tourists in Hyde Park to support his struggling family in the absence of his father, who abandoned them years ago.When a simple money drop for his boss, Big Mickey, goes wrong, Oysters future looks bleak. His only chance to redeem himself in the eyes of Mickey is to get the money back, but as he pursues the thieves across South London he suddenly finds himself washed up on a beach, surrounded by broken phones and shattered office furniture.His new world: Greater London. A city built on the detritus of our own, where leviathans crafted from broken skyscrapers roam the seas, where ink beetles nestle beneath the skin of its residents and where Oysters father, Lucas, may well have escaped to all those years ago.But there are bigger things at stake. Oysters allegiances are torn between the enigmatic Nonesuch, the eccentric escapist Marya Petrovna, and the terrifying Mr Primrose - and he will have to choose who to align himself with quickly. Because plans are afoot: something ancient is brewing, and a choice needs to be made, the consequences of which will determine the fate of Londons, and life, everywhere.

A coleção Uma breve imersão é dirigida a todas as pessoas que desejam começar a entender ou se aprofundar em temas atuais sobre ciência, filosofia, humanidades e ciências políticas e sociais. São liv

O universo Shatter Me expande-se com este spin-off emocionante: tenso vulcanica, revelaçes de tirar o folego e aço alucinante.Rosabelle tinha um plano. Agora, quer vingança. Para salvar a irm, precisa de destruir o sistema que a criou. Mas o seu coraço tem andado a bater mais forte e as suas defesas esto a desmoronar-se.E so ha um culpado.James tinha um plano. Agora, tem um grande dilema. Esta disposto a desistir de tudo para ficar ao lado de Rosabelle. Uma deciso que toma mais com o coraço do que com a razo e que pode determinar a salvaço ou a destruiço do seu mundo.Regressa ao universo Shatter Me para uma viagem sombria por um mundo distopico que continua a seduzir os fs.Os elogios da critica:O romance slow-burn brilha entre temas sombrios e marcados pelo trauma.Kirkus Reviews

A chilling supernatural revenge novella from the acclaimed author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes. Perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Delilah S. Dawson. At sixty-six years old, Winston Kemper has always been a nonentity. No one notices him. His simple existence barely registers for those who come into contact with him. Some call him feeble-minded. He is a janitor at the local church, a groundskeeper by default, and thats it. No friends, no family. When hes done with work, he returns homea remote, single room apartment located above a garageand that is where his true work begins.Winston Kemper is a collector of voices, and his magnum opusThe Butterfly Girlsis a sprawling epic of untapped imagination. It has no single canvas, no particular frame. It is everywherescribbled on the walls, the floor, and countless notebooks.Winston is creating a fantasia which exists in words, images and blood. As part of his art he has been murdering forgotten women. Poor souls who slip through the cracks of society, who no ones looking for. Mothers, sisters, daughters to someone, but no more.Winston takes their lives, their voices.But now he can hear them. They whisper to him. They talk of revenge.Winston Kemper might not believe in ghosts, but he is about to learn they are very real. And they are very, very angry.

Cultivating Native Plants for Pollinators is your go-to guide for creating vibrant, sustainable gardens that support the pollinators we depend onbutterflies, hummingbirds, native bees, and the European honeybee. With environmental degradation threatening pollinator populations across North America, Helen Yoestauthor, environmental scientist, and founder of the Bee Better Teaching Gardenshows readers how to take meaningful action right in their own yards, patios, and community spaces.This informative and inspiring guide offers step-by-step instructions for building pollinator habitats, including how to plant for year-round bloom, provide clean water and plant coverage, and create safe nesting sites using regionally appropriate native plants. Youll also learn how to transform traditional lawns into pollinator-friendly spaces using clover, native grasses, and sustainable gardening practices.In-depth chapters explore the biology and life cycles of butterflies, hummingbirds, native bees, and honeybees, along with the specific host and nectar plants each pollinator group needs to thrive. Fun facts, migration patterns, population insights, and practical "how-to" sections make this book an engaging read and useful reference for gardeners, educators, conservationists, and nature lovers alike. Whether youre just starting out or expanding an existing garden, Cultivating Native Plants for Pollinators empowers you to make a lasting differenceone bloom at a time.

An awe-inspiring and panoramic investigation into the hidden world of the deep sea - a mysterious, unforgiving landscape whose secrets radically revise our understanding of life on earth.The deep sea is one of our planets last frontiers. For most of human history, it has been a remote realm shrouded in obscurity. But here, where the light cannot reach, lies a strange, wonderful and breathtaking world, teeming with scientific marvels and lessons for the future of life on this planet.In The Dark Frontier, marine microbiologist and explorer Jeffrey Marlow plunges us into the oceans depths and invites us to witness close-up encounters with its hidden brilliance. Translucent shrimp dance through sulphureous vents, crabs stretch twelve feet from claw to claw and the eerie chalk-white towers of the Lost City loom. Immersive and illuminating, Marlows journeys reveal alarming warning signs as well: we are irrevocably changing the deep sea before we have even had a chance to understand it.This expansive book offers crucial and surprising insights into the ways in which the twinned forces of exploration and exploitation have shaped our relationship with the ocean. It shows how life can thrive in even the most extreme conditions, and reveals critical links between the deep sea and life on land. The Dark Frontier expands our understanding of biological possibilities - and our responsibilities - on Earth and beyond.

Part gardening book, part tea book, and jam-packed with practical instructions and tons of inspiration, Growing Your Own Tea Garden, 2nd Edition will show gardeners and tea drinkers how to plant, maintain, harvest and enjoy a productive backyard tea garden! Featuring insight on container gardening and raised beds, also included are nine suggested garden designs and useful cultivation advice. This book also provides insight on how to choose the right crops for your soil and climate, starting with the tea plant (Camellia sinensis) and herbal teas (tisanes). A comprehensive directory of more than 60 plants, medicinal herbs, leaves, flowers, fruits, and roots is included, from milk thistle, chickweed, rugosa rose, and burdock to chamomile, lavender, rose hips, peppermint, lemon verbena, and many other popular tea ingredients. Each plant profile provides the properties and health benefits of each tea ingredient before presenting 19 delicious tea recipes that address common ailments, offer immune support, support stress management, sooth tension headaches, boost energy, and more! If you enjoy gardening and you love a cup of tea, Growing Your Own Tea Garden, 2nd Edition is the perfect book to help you grow ingredients from home and enjoy them all year-round!