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Before the hospital, we had often raised our hands towards each other as wed gone through life together.A man sits in a cafe, sipping a green juice and watching the world go by. A white butterfly flutters through the air; a calico cat jumps onto a wall; cherry blossom petals fall, softly, to the ground. Life, momentarily, stands still. Our unnamed narrator is preparing to visit his terminally ill wife in hospital.A prize-winning bestseller in Japan, Beautiful Distance is a profoundly affecting and intimate story that looks with honesty and tenderness at the journey towards the end of a life. It explores what family means, how we think about death, and the power of quiet acts of love.

Escrita por Donaldo Buchweitz e Ieda Silva, Mordida não é uma história fofa e cheia de carinho, que ajuda crianças pequenas a aprenderem, de forma leve e divertida, sobre limites, convivência e amiza

Em Filomena e a caixa da amizade, as crianças descobrem que ser amigo é compartilhar, respeitar e saber ouvir, mesmo quando as ideias são diferentes. De forma leve e divertida, a história mostra como

Set against the restless backdrop of 1967, *Never Date an Actor* is a coming-of-age story about ambition, desire, and the cost of choosing yourself in a world determined to define you.Susie Harper is a nineteen-year-old working-class girl from a small town that expects its women to marry young, stay quiet, and never ask for more. But Susie wants words-stories, ink-stained fingers, and a life shaped by her own voice. When she defies her family and enrols at Riverside University, she steps into a world alive with protest, creativity, and possibility.There, she finds herself caught between two intoxicating forces: the promise of becoming a writer and her growing attraction to Daniel Hartman, a charismatic theatre student whose charm is as dangerous as it is magnetic. As Susie navigates friendships, creative failure, artistic awakening, and first love, she must confront a truth shes been warned about since childhood-some passions uplift you, and others consume you.Rich with period detail and emotional honesty, *Never Date an Actor* explores female ambition, artistic identity, and the delicate line between loving someone and losing yourself. It is a story about finding your voice-and learning when to protect it.

Virginia Mendozas first memories are of drought. She grew up in La Mancha, Spain, the driest region in Europe. Her parents, grandparents, and almost every word, tool, and tradition of her homeland conveyed one conviction: without water, there is no life; without water, there is no civilization.In The Search for Water, Mendoza weaves this personal reflection together with a dazzling scientific and anthropological enquiry into the ways the search for water has shaped the story of humanity. From flows of migration, agriculture and pagan rain gods to contemporary struggles with drought and climate change, Mendoza writes a gripping and inventive history of humankind as driven and united by one force: thirst.

A twisty tale full of surprises with a nail-biting finale. I didnt want it to end Sarah Ward, author of The Death LessonLeonie is on a jury deciding the fate of a nurse accused of murder. But just as deliberations begin, Britain comes under attack and the courthouse is locked down.Ordered to stay put for their own safety, the jurors soon realise the real danger lies inside the building. The accused has escaped his cell and hes playing twisted games with the group.Because he knows something about Leonie. She isnt on the jury by chance, and her reasons for being there are more personal than anyone suspects. As trust fractures, how far will Leonie go to tip the scales of justice in her favour?READERS CANT GET ENOUGH OF THIS HEART-POUNDING LOCKED ROOM THRILLER:So tense, so eerie. . . I was terrified. Easily one of the best books Ill read this year NetGalley ReaderA high-stakes psychological game where trust evaporates and paranoia takes over NetGalley ReaderThe pacing is sharp, the twists well-timed and the moral ambiguity gives the story real bite NetGalley ReaderGrabs you from the first page and refuses to let go NetGalley Reader

We sailed from Peru, (where we had continued for the space of one whole year) for China and Japan, by the South Sea; taking with us victuals for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months space, and more. But the wind came about, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could make little or no way, and were sometime in purpose to turn back. But then again there arose strong and great winds from the south, with a point east, which carried us up (for all that we could do) towards the north; by which time our victuals failed us, though we had made good spare of them.During which time, there made forth to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it; whereof one of them had in his hand a tipstaff of a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue, who came aboard our ship, without any show of distrust at all. And when he saw one of our number, present himself somewhat before the rest, he drew forth a little scroll of parchment (somewhat yellower than our parchment, and shining like the leaves of writing tables, but otherwise soft and flexible,) and delivered it to our foremost man. In which scroll were written in ancient Hebrew.I

Nella Torino multietnica del rione San Paolo e successo un misfatto: un padre, Hocimin, di nazionalita vietnamita, e chiamato dalle autorita a riconoscere il corpo esanime di sua figlia. Nel dolore, si affastellano le avversita e nel giro di poco si trovera a perdere anche la moglie ed il lavoro. Passano i mesi e un dubbio si insinua potente nella mente del povero Ho, e se quel corpo sfigurato non fosse stato quello di sua figlia? È cosi che inizia lemozionante ricerca tra il certo e lincerto, tra il dubbio e lottimismo con una banda di amici semplici e leali, animati da buon cuore e attenzione per i dettagli con lunico obiettivo di trovare la ragazza.

Oliver Cromwell (1599 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life. After undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, he became an independent puritan, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period.An intensely religious mana self-styled Puritan Moseshe fervently believed that God was guiding his victories. He was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdon in 1628 and for Cambridge in the Short (1640) and Long (164049) Parliaments. He entered the English Civil War on the side of the "Roundheads" or Parliamentarians. Nicknamed "Old Ironsides", he was quickly promoted from leading a single cavalry troop to become one of the principal commanders of the New Model Army, playing an important role in the defeat of the royalist forces.Cromwell was one of the signatories of King Charles Is death warrant in 1649, and, as a member of the Rump Parliament (164953), he dominated the short-lived Commonwealth of England.

"So foul a sky clears not without a storm." SHAKESPEARE"Nostromo" is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the "Typhoon" volume of short stories.I dont mean to say that I became then conscious of any im-pending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life.And perhaps there was never any change, except in that mysterious, extraneous thing which has nothing to do with the theories of art; a subtle change in the nature of the inspiration; a phenomenon for which I can not in any way be held responsible. What, however, did cause me some concern was that after finishing the last story of the "Typhoon" volume it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to write about.

The Odyssey begins ten years after the end of the ten-year Trojan War (that is the subject of the Iliad), and Odysseus has still not returned home from the war. Odysseus son Telemachus is about 20 years old and is sharing his absent fathers house on the island of Ithaca with his mother Penelope and a crowd of 108 boisterous young men, "the Suitors", whose aim is to persuade Penelope to marry one of them, all the while enjoying the hospitality of Odysseus household and eating up his wealth.Odysseus protectress, the goddess Athena, discusses his fate with Zeus, king of the gods, at a moment when Odysseus enemy, the god of the sea Poseidon, is absent from Mount Olympus. Then, disguised as a Taphian chieftain named Mentes, she visits Telemachus to urge him to search for news of his father. He offers her hospitality; they observe the Suitors dining rowdily while the bard Phemius performs a narrative poem for them. Penelope objects to Phemius theme, the "Return from Troy".

PERHAPS no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant and the learned, to all who love to hear about and contemplate things mysterious, beautiful, and grand.They have become so incorporated into our language and thought, and so interwoven with our literature, that we could not do away with them now if we would. They are a portion of our heritage from the distant past, and they form perhaps as important a part of our intellectual life as they did of that of the people among whom they originated.That many of these tales should be read by children at an early age no intelligent person will deny. Sufficient reason for this is to be found in the real pleasure that every child derives from their pe-rusal: and in the preparation of this volume no other reason has been considered. I have here attempted to tell a few stories of Jupiter and his mighty company and of some of the old Greek he-roes, simply as stories, nothing more.

Dark, gritty and addictive... this is Hannah Morrissey at her best Mary Kubica, New York Times bestselling authorTemperatures and violent crimes have risen to all-time highs as a new drug ravages Black Harbor.Sergeant Nikolai Kole discovers a body wrapped in garbage bags and doused in bleach in the back of a clubhouse. Tommy Greenlee, the ex-husband of Koles former lover, Hazel, has been shot several times and left for dead. And the killer left what appears to be a calling card.When Hazel returns to Black Harbor, she is back in the heated atmosphere of Koles orbit. Their love affair can hardly pick up where it left off. They both used each other to their own ends before: would they do it again?As they work together to solve this murder, they will not only unearth Black Harbors deepest, darkest secrets theyll each have to face their own.

A must for fans of Claire Keegan and Colin Walsh Cailean SteedA complex psychological thriller... Beautifully written. Unflinching. Staggeringly good Gill PerdueBold and claustrophobic... unpicks those darkest of family secrets with heartbreaking honesty Anna BaileyJanuary 2023. Caras great-aunt Audrey has died, and her husband Tony needs her presence at the funeral. It will be a stretch for Cara, whose every day is an emotional challenge, a challenge which is getting harder as her daughters tenth birthday approaches. But with her family beside her, shes prepared to tryJune 2000. Ten-year-old Cara and her sister Charlotte are sent to live with their great aunt and uncle, part of a famous acting family, when their mother is hospitalised. The Wolfes see the world as a drama they are starring in, and while her sister seems instantly at home Cara feels very much the outsider. And for all the staginess of Chaplin House, there is real tragedy brewing

I feel you have captured the essence of my Great Aunt Helen. Howard Ostby, descendant of Titanic survivor Helen OstbyThe early 1900s were a mans world, and the Titanic was no exception. Even today, the stories we know about that fateful night mostly revolve around men and their actions, despite there having been nearly 500 women and girls on board.From the stewardess who survived three different maritime disasters to the mother whose young children were kidnapped and taken aboard the Titanic, and from the Carpathia passenger whose reports on the Titanic started a journalism career to the woman who went down with the ship but who no one remembered seeing, Melinda E. Ratchford tells the stories of women whose lives were inextricably linked to the sinking, revealing the world as it was for women in 1912.Titanic Womens Stories is an investigation into the lives of these women before, during and after the tragedy that irrevocably changed both their world and ours.

A consciencia intelectual no busca criar invençes para si mesma, pois suas ideias nunca correspondero a autenticidade da existencia, mas sim o que busca na existencia, e sempre que se propuser a investiga-la, ela sempre se deparara com ocultaçes, misterios e dissimulaçes. A Realidade deve ser garimpada, buscada, desvelada, pois sempre estara ocultada, por todo nosso derredor mascarada. O esforço intelectual consiste em verificar, perceber, desnuda-la de seu veu e explora-la, pois, quando ela torna patente o seu oculto, despe-se completamente nua, revelando-nos sua verdade. A consciencia intelectual no e reduzida ao simples exercicio de atividades psiquicas intelectivas como pensar, refletir, inferir, abstrair, na verdade, estas so atividades inerentes, assim como e inerente a perna andar, os olhos enxergarem, o ouvido ouvir, o paladar degustar, o nariz respirar, pois apenas executam aquilo que lhes so proprios. O que seria do andar sem a superficie para caminhar? O que seria do enxergar sem a luz para ver? O que seria do escutar sem o som para ouvir? O que seria do paladar sem o alimento para degustar, e o que seria do nariz, sem o ar para respirar? O nariz no produz o ar, o ouvido no produz o som, o caminhar no produz a superficie, os olhos no produzem a luz, assim tambem e a razo humana, pois igualmente no pode produzir realidades e nem verdades, pois elas se precedem e se transcendem, portanto, jamais podero ser produtos da nossa mente. Nos, como seres dotados de consciencia intelectual, estamos fundamentados na realidade e na verdade, e estes so os principios que nos propiciam o conhecimento que faz pensar os pensamentos, refletir as reflexes, saber os saberes, pois a razo humana nunca sera a verdade absoluta. No vem dela a fonte absoluta do conhecimento, mas da existencia absoluta e eterna, o que nos permite o conhecimento intelectivo do real e da verdade para toda a integridade do nosso ser espiritual, intelectual, moral e social.

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