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Get ALL THREE books in the riveting, thought-provoking, shockingly authentic The Forcing Trilogy from international bestselling author and leading environmental scientist Paul E. Hardisty in one GREAT VALUE set!In a world ravaged by climate collapse, power has fallen to the young and the generations blamed for the disaster are cast out. From exile and escape to a desperate search for the truth behind the catastrophe, and a teenage girl carrying the last fragments of human knowledge, this powerful, gripping dystopian trilogy about devastation, survival and the fragile possibility of hope confronts the cost of the climate emergency and the fight to rebuildPaul Hardisty is a visionaryLuke McCallin`A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world The TimesVery plausible and terrifyingly soSciFi Now----------------------------------------The Forcing (Book One)In a near future, where civilisation has collapsed, a government of youth has taken power in North America. All older people deemed responsible for the cataclysmic climate emergency are relocated, but a breakaway group escapes exile to seek freedom at devastating costThe Descent (Book Two)A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster The prescient, deeply shocking prequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed Climate Emergency thriller, The Forcing.The Hope (Book Three)In a future devastated by climate collapse, a secret library is destroyed and a teenage girl gifted with perfect memory becomes the last refuge of human knowledge, hunted by those in power as she fights to save the last hope for humanity. The searing, unforgettable conclusion to the internationally acclaimed The Forcing trilogy.----------------------------------------Praise for The Forcing TrilogyAnnounces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John ChristopherTim GlisterA novel that might have actually predicted our futureEwan MorrisonPaul Hardisty is a fine writerLee ChildThe book Ive been waiting and hoping forPaul WatersA riveting eco-thrillerCrime Fiction Lover

In August 1939, a ship flying the Polish flag docked in Buenos Aires. On board was a delegation of businessmen, diplomats and journalists. Days later, the captain received orders to return home with all crew and passengers in light of the imminent outbreak of the Second World War. But one man, fascinated by the city, chose to stay at the very last minute. Thus began the unexpected twenty-four-year Argentine exile of one of the twentieth centurys major writers: Witold Gombrowicz. Drawing on his writings and interviews with surviving disciples, writers and scholars, Mercedes Halfons Outsider Everywhere traces Gombrowiczs Argentine years in elegant, pared-back prose, and composes a vivid account of mid-century bohemia in Buenos Aires. Brilliantly translated by Rahul Bery, Mercedes Halfons Outsider Everywhere is a gripping portrait of a literary figure on the margins who rose to prominence late in life to become one of the greatest novelists of our century (Milan Kundera).

"An ebullient examination of madness, mortality, suicide... Montero finds that deviance is often just a more truthful account of normal human behavior." Chris KrausA dazzling journey into the eccentric, troubled, and luminous minds that shaped literature.In this bold, personal, and deeply researched blend of memoir, essay, literary analysis, psychological reflection, and intellectual sleuth story, Montero draws on psychology, neuroscience, creative literature, and the testimonies and biographies of authors and artists to weave a fascinating narrative on the connection between creativity and mental instability.With intelligence, generosity, and narrative elan, Montero brings to life figures such as Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad, and Doris Lessing, painting a fresco of the ways in which the brain works, its quirks and dark corners. She breaks down the forces that influence creativity and miraculously reassembles them before the readers eyes over three hundred gripping pages.Like a masterfully plotted detective story, each clue leads readers one step closer to new definitions of both the creative act and of what is and is not "normal." Blending intimate memoir with wide-ranging cultural history, The Danger to Be Sane is a moving and inspirational homage to minds and lives that are outside of the mean.Twas a Divine Insanity TheDangerto be Sane From Emily Dickinson, Poem 593

Storytelling is a fundamental part of what it means to be human.Since we were first able to communicate with each other, stories have formed a basis for our cultures, communities and collaborative ventures. Tales such as Little Red Riding Hood and The Blacksmith and The Devil are thought to be over 5,000 years old.From the oldest known cave paintings found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, to the modern debate about the role of artificial intelligence in our creative endeavours within these pages lies a concise history of storytelling, written by an experienced storyteller with a passion for stories in all their forms.

When Caroline Alleyn inherits Wickham Grange, all she wants to do is sell up. There are bad memories there, linked to her childhood as the daughter of a single mother and to all the other mothers she knew in that house. But her grandmother Francess will means that it cant be sold without the consent of five elderly women, and they all refuse. None of them will tell her why she has to keep a house she doesnt want. Instead, she is given a stark warning: dont look for Lizzie Sixpence.Though Caroline has other worries. Someone is watching her; the houses elderly tenants are lying to her; and an old man is hoarding mementoes of her past.Then she finds the bones.And Caroline is left with a choice: keep silent, or betray everything her grandmother stood for. Because there is one final secret to be revealed

A partir da obra de grandes pintores do século XVII, como Rembrandt e Vermeer, o ganhador do Pulitzer e autor de Clarice, uma biografia coloca em cena questões fundamentais da história da arte: por q

A gente tende a tomar atitudes precipitadas quando acha que comparar a nossa vida com a vida dos outros é mais importante do que seguir os próprios passos.Em seu livro de estreia, Luanda Vieira provoca reflexes sobre coragem, sucesso e felicidade. Partindo de experiencias pessoais, sua escrita lirica e evocativa mostra as batalhas intensas que enfrentou para conquistar os seus sonhos e a descoberta de que nenhum desejo vale o adoecimento; afinal, nada e definitivo.Com um relato poderoso e honesto sobre o poder e a coragem de mudar de rumo e recalcular a rota, a jornada de autodescoberta e empoderamento de Luanda serve tambem como aprendizado para todos aqueles que ja enfrentaram resistencias externas na busca de seus sonhos. A partir de suas palavras podemos aprender a ter novas conversas. Podemos entender que, em um mundo que no foi feito para o sucesso de todos, priorizar a saude e a autenticidade pode fazer mais sentido do que "chegar la" a qualquer custo.

Leyla Perrone-Moisés analisa o mais antigo documento do primeiro contato francês com o Brasil: o relato oficial da viagem de Paulmier Gonneville. Os problemas enfrentados ao longo do trajeto, o encon

A child is born with an insatiable hunger. As a ravenous infant she is the undoing of her mother; under her fathers adoring gaze, her body grows and grows. Her father claims she devoured her twin sister in the womb. Her classmates delight in tormenting her for her size. And inside this girl, so alone and so enraged, another hunger is born-for revenge.Bizarrely poetic and grotesquely humorous, All Flesh is a twisted fairy tale that tears apart hypocrisies around beauty, gender and a culture that relentlessly consumes the marginalized.

Em nove textos repletos de verdadeiras iluminações sobre o ato da escrita, e a partir da leitura de autores clássicos e contemporâneos, o autor investiga o que sustenta a formação de uma voz literári

Entre o real e o lendário, o cômico e o trágico, Vasto mundo desenha um retrato coletivo feito de fé, injustiça e resistência. Com uma prosa ímpar, Maria Valéria Rezende, autora vencedora do prêmio J

Em um cenário em que grandes projetos de infraestrutura exigem alta complexidade técnica, regulatória e financeira, esta obra apresenta uma visão clara, acessível e baseada na prática sobre como func

Ian Robertson Hamilton was an unknown law student at Glasgow University until Christmas Eve 1950. On that night, assisted by Alan Stewart, Gavin Vernon and Kay Matheson, he took the Stone of Destiny from beneath the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey and in doing so became a Scottish national hero. In England, however, the act had the opposite effect and a manhunt for the vulgar vandals was started to satisfy the outrage of the English establishment and bring them to justice. In the end, the Stone was given up, but the gang were not charged. This solitary act set Hamilton on a path for the rest of his life from which he has not diverged. Although, it is now nearly sixty years since that fateful night, it is the actual events surrounding the taking of the Stone which hold people spellbound when Hamilton recounts them. In this book, Ian Hamilton has set down the chain of events which led to his decision to go to London, remove the Stone and a minute-by-minute account of the act and the aftermath. But this is not simply a retelling of a stunt that made nationwide news, it is a book about how a nations conscience was stirred by a symbolic act that changed lives of many. A major Hollywood film starring Robert Carlyle and Billy Boyd.

O presente livro foi idealizado a partir das discussões promovidas durante o simpósio do Instituto de Psicologia Analítica de Campinas (IPAC), que teve como tema: "O Silenciamento e as Dores da Alma"

This anthology of personal essays explore how video games have shaped our lives, our cultural imagination and contemporary storytelling. From novelists and critics to game designers themselves, the writers in this collection ask the question, Can video games truly be art? From triple-A, big budget blockbusters like Grand Theft Auto or Assassins Creed, to quiet, meditative Indie games like Journey or Stardew Valley, video games, like all artforms, offer us insight into ourselves and the world around us. They help shape our identities, introduce us to other ways of thinking, new languages, alternate worlds. They can offer us escape. They can also offer us control. We reach back into the past to try and recapture the feeling of that first playthrough, the feeling of expanse, the feeling of control. Addiction is also touched on in these essays. Video games can become a replacement for a much more dangerous addiction, and the writers tell us candidly how video games helped; wasted hours in virtual worlds, completing tasks that had no bearing on a real world they couldnt quite deal with. These collected essays explore the good and the bad sides of gaming; how video games are used as a cypher, as a new way of looking at the world, and indeed the impact they have had on the lives of the writers themselves. Featuring contributions from acclaimed and emerging writers, both Irish and international - including Rob Doyle, John Patrick McHugh, Una-Minh Kavanagh, Brenda Romero, Sheila Armstrong, Roisin Kiberd, and more - this anthology is an exploration of one of the most influential cultural forms of our time.

Il clacson di uno scooter che transita impaziente la fa sussultare. Beato chi ha fretta di raggiungere un luogo prima che si affolli, o ha una persona da incontrare prima che salga su di un treno e lasci la citta, pensa Lea Pistacchi. È il 13 luglio e quella sera si terra il Ballo dei pompieri: le porte delle caserme di Parigi saranno aperte per tutti e Lea non intende mancare. I programmi, pero, raramente vanno come pianificati e mentre inganna il tempo fino allinizio della festa, simbatte, nei pressi del Centre Pompidou, in Noel, un Setter Inglese scarmigliato, solo e senza collare, che se ne sta seduto sulle zampe posteriori ad ammirare la Tristezza del Re di Matisse

Este livro foi cultivado a partir das experiencias de palhaço ou clown, teatrais, bem como de pesquisas de mestrado e doutorado na França e no Brasil ao longo de 20 anos. A experiencia foi a base do treinamento empirico deste palhaço e ator, o que naturalmente estimulou a necessidade de compreende-la e ensina-la. Assim, o dialogo entre pratica, teoria e formaço e a base desta obra, cujo objetivo e promover uma reflexo em tres niveis sobre o jogo da palhaçaria: a criaço de numeros curtos e espetaculos por meio do jogo; a busca por uma teoria da palhaçaria e experimentaçes de ensino atraves da pedagogia do prazer. A investigaço teve inicio no Brasil e se desenvolveu em quatro paises europeus (Belgica, França, Italia e Portugal), por meio de apresentaçes, residencias artisticas, workshops e encontros com artistas. A busca por uma pratica artistica pessoal pode desencadear uma caminhada sui generis devido as particularidades inerentes ao objeto de estudo. A criaço artistica possui uma metodologia propria, desenvolvida pelo artista durante seus momentos de criaço e reflexo. O material de partida, caotico, e gradualmente transformado em algo concreto e perceptivel pelo pesquisador e por outros, estimulando uma apreciaço estetica por emoçes, imagens e conhecimentos.

Penniless and newly orphaned Briar Monroe finds shelter at Thornby Manor, a brooding estate above a mist-shrouded lake. But whispers of a dead wife, an estranged son and locked-away secrets haunt its corridors Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril a spellbinding historical mystery of love, betrayal, obsession and a house that will not forgetGloriously and traditionally gothic, rich in mist, rattling windowpanes, hidden missives and feverish dreams an addictive Victorian mysteryJoanna MillerA gripping gothic tale, simmering with menaceA.J. WestFuses the brooding sense of menace of a Bronte novel with the twisty notes of a suspense thriller. A deliciously absorbing gothic mysteryVaseem KhanAtmospheric and accomplished steeped in the gothic tradition of mystery and griefEssie FoxThere suddenly was Thornby Manor. I would never forget the first time I saw itA talisman of darkness, an emblem of death.Warwickshire, 1891. Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor. The great house looms above a mist-shrouded lake, its corridors heavy with secrets not least the mysterious death of Lady Elizabeth Danville, and the unspoken tensions between her formidable widower and his magnetic son, Gabriel.As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril, Thornby Manor is a gothic tale of betrayal, obsession and a house that never forgets.A simmering, haunting debut for readers who loved Jane Eyre, Rebecca, The Woman in White and The Silent Companions[An] enthralling gothic debut beautifully written, brimming with tension and full or intriguing, morally grey characters. A wonderfully dark historical mystery that kept me reading until 1am!Caroline LeaGothic fiction has a new starAnnie GarthwaiteDark, deliciously unsettling A spellbinding, emotionally intense, intelligent tale dripping with betrayal and obsessionBarbara HavelockeDarkly dramatic, delicious fun. If you love a gothic novel full of secrets to be unpacked this is one for you Liz HyderFull of darkness and twisted secretsKate GriffinThis tale of mystery and madness, of deception and defiance, of scandal and suspicion, will have readers compulsively turning pages deep into the nightNaomi KelseyA chilling gothic mystery as unsettling as the mist that swirls around the manor. The final twist took my breath awayEmma CowingImmersive and chilling gothic novel with a mystery that keeps you guessing until the final chapterRachel Louise DriscollA tense, atmospheric and masterful work of gothic fiction as chilling as it is intoxicatingCathryn KempA gripping gothic masterpieceGill PaulA gothic mystery written with beauty and eleganceLiv MatthewsBeautifully written, moody, hauntingLouise SwansonUnsettling, intoxicatingly gothic, highly original and laced with dread a must-read debutDan BassettThink Jane Eyre meets Rebecca meets Northanger Abbey with a sprinkling of Wilkie Collins. I absolutely loved it Joanna Miller

Quando um hospital fecha, a manchete dura um dia. A falta de atendimento, dura anos. O SUS não é deficitário por falta de dinheiro — é por ausência de prioridade. A União prometeu universalidade, int

But tonight we will be togetherRhoda. Bernard. Susan. Neville. Jinny. Louis.They begin by the coast. Then, school. Youth. Forming. Swelling. Terror. Joy. Working. Falling. Fame. Grief. Alone. Together.A tender, thrilling story about growing up together, Flora Wilson Browns heart-thumping adaptation of Virginia Woolfs modernist masterpiece The Waves was first performed at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2026.