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A first-class mysteryBernard OKeeffe is on a roll to the big time Daily Mail. Perfect comfort reading The Times. An enthralling mix of mystery and murder Mail on Sunday. An enthralling mix of mystery and murder Mail on Sunday. What goes around comes around on the carousel of time. Every summer four friends gather at Barnes Fair to ride the carousel in memory of Esther, the school friend they lost in a car crash they were all involved in as teenagers.This year, the morning after the fair, one of those friends, Shelley Gregory, is found murdered on that very carousel. DI Garibaldi has questions to ask. Who killed Shelley, and why there? Is her death linked to the tragedy the friends commemorate each year, or do the answers lie closer to home in the quiet Thameside village of Barnes, where Shelley was well known but not always well liked? As Garibaldi pieces together the events of that summer night, he uncovers dark undercurrents beneath Barness genteel surface and begins to see the truth: what goes around comes around when you ride the carousel of time.

Com lirismo e ironia, o autor mais emblemático do Harlem Renaissance narra os medos e fantasias que fundamentam a violência racial e, ao mesmo tempo, as micro resistências cotidianas aos caprichos da

1949. The Cold War is intensifying and rumours abound that the Russians are close to creating an atomic bomb.Beattie Cavendish, special operative for a covert section of GCHQ is sent to Scotland, to a listening station in the Highlands at Kilbray. Beatties arrival is greeted with suspicion by the stations staff. She faces an uphill battle to turn things around. When Beattie discovers that her uncle Howard, who lives nearby, has gone missing, she becomes convinced his disappearance is more sinister. She learns Howard has been visiting a remote Highland lodge used during the war to hide out of favour special operation executive officers. As she delves deeper, there is no one she feels she can trust except for private detective Patrick Corrigan. But Corrigan has troubles of his own as he needs to get out of London after crossing the Kutsnetsov brothers, a pair of notorious Russian gangsters.As the snow begins to fall hard and fast, Beattie realises the search is putting her life and that of Corrigans in danger, and that the answers she is looking for lie buried in her wartime past.

Some islands are erased from maps.Others are erased from memory.This story belongs to the latter.!Island of the Damned is not merely a work of speculative fiction. It is an examination of a recurring human impulsethe belief that isolation grants permission, that secrecy absolves responsibility, and that power, when hidden far enough from public sight, can reshape morality itself.Across history, islands have served as laboratories of ambition. Removed from law, distanced from conscience, they become ideal vessels for experimentationnot only on bodies, but on ethics, identity, and the very definition of humanity. In this novel, Aethelburg Island stands as such a place: a sealed ecosystem where science detaches from accountability, where progress is pursued without restraint, and where the human form becomes raw material.Island of the Damned asks a simple but unsettling question:If humanity could be redesigned.Who would be trusted to decide what must be removed?This book does not offer comfort. It offers reflection. It invites the reader to confront the seductive nature of control, the danger of believing oneself exempt from moral limits, unsettling truths

"A Science-Fiction Novel"The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs Barsoom series.The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carters wife Dejah Thoris. It was first published in The All-Story as a five-part serial in the issues for January-May 1913. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1918 and in many editions subsequently.As usual for him, Burroughs begins with a frame story that explains how he (Burroughs) came into possession of the text. At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter was unwillingly transported back to Earth. The story proper begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation with Dejah Thoris, their unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona.What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window.It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet."Glenn has been gone over a year," she mused, "three months over a year-and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet."She lived again, for the thousandth time, the last moments she had spent with him. It had been on New-Years Eve, 1918. They had called upon friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass with the low swell of whistles and bells, Carleys friends had discreetly left her alone with her lover, at the open window.

This gentle volume gathers three winter-touched dream journeys by Christopher T. Winters into one continuous collection of calm, stillness, and quiet reflection.Across moonlit snowfields, sleeping gardens, and forests where light itself learns to dream, these stories invite the reader to slow down and rest within carefully crafted atmospheres of silence and warmth. Each narrative unfolds without urgency, allowing the mind to soften and the imagination to drift naturally toward sleep.Winters Quiet Stories Volume I is designed as a companion for nighttime readinga place where thoughts can loosen their grip, breath can deepen, and the world can feel gentle again. There is no conflict to resolve, no tension to overcome. Only presence, memory, and the soft reassurance of quiet landscapes shaped by moonlight.This collection includes: The Moon Wrote Its Quiet Secrets in Snow The Moons Quiet Garden The Forest Where Moonbeams Learned to DreamIdeal for readers seeking calming fiction, bedtime reading for adults, and poetic stories that linger softly at the edge of sleep.

The Boxcar Children is a childrens book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner. The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. They eventually meet their grandfather, who is a wealthy and kind man (although the children had believed him to be cruel). The children decide to live with the grandfather, who moves the beloved boxcar to his backyard so the children can use it as a playhouse.When a baker and his wife learn that the children are orphans, they make plans the children dont like. They plan to send the children, who live in a house next door to the bakery, to live with their grandfather, but the children have been brought up to fear their grandfather, whom they have never met, because he did not like their parents marriage. The baker and his wife plan to take the three elder children, who are old enough to be helpful in the bakery, but to send the youngest, Benny to an orphanage.Finding an abandoned boxcar, the children start a new life of work.

Elara, however, had been raised on whispers and forbidden texts by her grandmother, a descendant of a hidden lineage. She wasnt interested in turning lead into gold; she was interested in the essence of things, their vibrational frequency, how they interacted not just on a molecular level, but on a well, a soul level. Her laboratory, powered by scavenged solar cells and hidden beneath a sprawling hydroponics farm, was a haven of bubbling beakers, glowing crucibles, and the pungent aroma of rare earth elements.Above the earth, the Techno-City rose like a monument to precisionglass towers, perfect algorithms, emotions regulated into compliance. Below it, buried beneath living roots and whispered knowledge, alchemy never truly died.Fire still remembered.Matter still listened.And frequency still told the truth.Elara was never interested in turning lead into gold.Gold was inert. Predictable. Dead.Elara, standing at the edge of her hydroponics farm, watched the city bloom with newfound life. She had saved them, not by replacing science, but by complementing it. The age of alchemy had returned, not as a mystical art, but as a vital, missing piece of a complex puzzle

A group of scientists, driven by the understanding that "singularity points" exist not only in cosmic phenomena but also within human consciousness and moments in time, embark on an ambitious quest to understand the fundamental nature of life and the universe.Their research leads them to explore quantum dimensions, where they uncover a profound interconnectedness that binds all existence. This interconnectedness, they realize, is the embodiment of pure love. However, their pursuit of this truth attracts the attention of a terrifying and malevolent force, an entity that actively seeks to prevent humanity from realizing or spreading this revelation.The scientists find themselves in a desperate race against this dark force, which relentlessly attacks them in an effort to silence them and suppress the knowledge of universal interconnectedness and love. The narrative details their frantic struggle for survival and their determination to safeguard this crucial discovery.Ultimately, through their perseverance and the inherent power of good, the scientists emerge victorious, defeating the malevolent force and ensuring that the truth of universal love can be known..!

Após a mãe de Alan sofrer um AVC com sequelas severas, a família se uniu em um desafio íntimo de cuidado e dedicação. Os papéis se inverteram: os filhos, junto ao pai, se tornaram cuidadores, trocand

As long as you only have one sort of person telling the stories, well then our world will just end up looking very like that one sort of person. It makes sense, doesnt it?1841. Mary Ann Evans is of marriageable age. Her father has recently moved with her to Bird Grove House, with the sole purpose of finding her a suitable husband. But Mary Anns remarkable intellect and growing self-confidence are forming progressive new ideas in her mind; ideas that challenge her fathers most strongly held beliefs.If she is to become the writer she has always dreamt of being, Mary Ann will have to break every societal convention expected of her.A funny and poignant exploration of family ties and self-determination, Alexi Kaye Campbells play Bird Grove tells the untold story of the woman who was to become one of Englands greatest writers: George Eliot. It premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in 2026, directed by Anna Ledwich.

Um hino à vida – A história real de Gisèle Pelicot, a mulher que denunciou o marido e mais de cinquenta abusadores na França.A impressionante história de Gisèle Pelicot, narrada por ela mesma, que co

The Old Maid, Originally serialized in The Red Book Magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her-the beautiful, upstanding Delia-and her true mother, her plain, unmarried "aunt" Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life.The three women live quietly together until Tinas wedding day, when Delias and Charlottes hidden jealousies rush to the surface. Says Roxana Robinson in her Introduction, "Wharton weaves her golden, fine-meshed net about her characters with inexorable precision."

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and in the United States in 1920 and in the United Kingdom in 1921. Styles was Christies first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery.The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will. The true first publication of the novel was as a weekly serial in The Times, including the maps of the house and other illustrations included in the book. This novel was one of the first ten books published by Penguin Books when it began in 1935. This first mystery novel by Agatha Christie was well received by reviewers. An analysis in 1990 was positive about the plot, considered the novel one of the few by Christie that is well-anchored in time and place.

This exceptional collection of essays explores the persistence of misogyny: how it is woven into the fabric of our culture, our institutions, and our psyches. Building on her first book, Misogyny in Psychoanalysis, Michaela Chamberlain moves on from a conversation to a demand for action. Drawing on her experiences as a psychotherapist, mother, and researcher, she uses psychoanalytic theory to examine what causes misogyny and how misogyny is internalised, enacted, and justified. Revisiting Freuds case of Dora and Winnicotts concept of the "good enough mother", she explores how these foundational psychoanalytic ideas continue to echo in contemporary expectations placed on women - particularly around sexuality, care, and emotional labour. These essays bridge past and present, theory and lived experience, to ask what has really changed and include a much-needed update to Winnicotts list of reasons why a mother hates her baby. From online discussion forums to classical literature, from consulting room dynamics to cultural narratives, Chamberlain investigates how misogyny hides in plain sight, often disguised as common sense, tradition, or even progressive thinking. Her work questions who benefits from patriarchy, who is harmed, and how all of us - regardless of gender - are shaped by its assumptions. Accessible yet deeply informed, On Resisting Women invites readers into a debate about how we think, how we feel, and how we might begin to loosen misogynys grip - not only on our systems, but on our inner worlds.

Our relationship with home includes many psychosomatic realms: perception, imagination, fantasy, projection, separateness, boundaries, smells, and sounds. Our very first home is our mothers womb; our very last, an urn or coffin. In between, we have our childhood home, deeply incorporated into our psyche, which persists, throughout life, as (hopefully) a fond prototype, an object of nostalgia, and a source of ego-replenishment, college dorms, shared housing, apartments, marital and family homes, downsized residences of late middle age, retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospices. Far apart from a world of linear progression are traumatizing homes, foster homes, and orphanages where searingly painful as well as defiantly triumphant scenarios of growth and development may unfold. Also, monasteries, which embody the human desire for detachment, silence, and contemplation, away from earthly relations to seek spirituality and transcendence. The contributions from Aisha Abbasi, Salman Akhtar, Rajiv Gulati, M. Nasir Ilahi, Gurmeet S. Kanwal, Murad Khan, Milan Patel, Sarita Singh, and Nidhi Tewari seek to demonstrate that at each step in the life span, our dwellings both impact upon and reflect our intrapsychic goings-on. As well as examinations of the kinds of home mentioned above, the abstract nature of home is also explored, looking at its function, the search for a sense of home, homesickness, absence, nostalgia, and the development of a stable internalized home. Theres no place like home and Attics and Basements shows us why.

Our relationship with home includes many psychosomatic realms: perception, imagination, fantasy, projection, separateness, boundaries, smells, and sounds. Our very first home is our mothers womb; our very last, an urn or coffin. In between, we have our childhood home, deeply incorporated into our psyche, which persists, throughout life, as (hopefully) a fond prototype, an object of nostalgia, and a source of ego-replenishment, college dorms, shared housing, apartments, marital and family homes, downsized residences of late middle age, retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospices. Far apart from a world of linear progression are traumatizing homes, foster homes, and orphanages where searingly painful as well as defiantly triumphant scenarios of growth and development may unfold. Also, monasteries, which embody the human desire for detachment, silence, and contemplation, away from earthly relations to seek spirituality and transcendence. The contributions from Aisha Abbasi, Salman Akhtar, Rajiv Gulati, M. Nasir Ilahi, Gurmeet S. Kanwal, Murad Khan, Milan Patel, Sarita Singh, and Nidhi Tewari seek to demonstrate that at each step in the life span, our dwellings both impact upon and reflect our intrapsychic goings-on. As well as examinations of the kinds of home mentioned above, the abstract nature of home is also explored, looking at its function, the search for a sense of home, homesickness, absence, nostalgia, and the development of a stable internalized home. Theres no place like home and Attics and Basements shows us why.

The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK. The character Colonel Race is introduced in this novel.Anne Beddingfeld is on her own and ready for adventures when one comes her way. She sees a man die in a tube station and picks up a piece of paper dropped nearby. The message on the paper leads her to South Africa as she fits more pieces of the puzzle together about the death she witnessed. There is a murder in England the next day, and the murderer attempts to kill her on the ship en route to Cape Town.Nadina, a dancer in Paris, receives a visit from Count Sergius Paulovitch. Both are in the service of "the Colonel", an international agent provocateur and criminal. "The Colonel" is retiring, leaving his agents high and dry. Nadina has a plan to blackmail the Colonel.Anne Beddingfeld is an orphan after the sudden death of her archaeologist father. Longing for adventure, she jumps at the chance live in London. Returning from an unsuccessful job interview, Anne is at Hyde Park Corner tube station when a man falls onto the live track, dying instantly. A doctor examines the man, pronounces him dead.

The Land That Time Forgot is a fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Caspak trilogy. His working title for the story was "The Lost U-Boat." The sequence was first published in Blue Book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October and November 1918. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form under the title of the first part by A. C. McClurg in June 1924. Beginning with the Ace Books editions of the 1960s, the three segments have usually been issued as separate short novels.Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughss story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The Lost World (1912) and Jules Vernes The Mysterious Island (1874) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864). Burroughs adds his own twist by postulating a unique biological system for his lost world, in which the slow progress of evolution in the world outside is recapitulated as a matter of individual metamorphosis. This system is only hinted at in The Land That Time Forgot; presented as a mystery whose explication is gradually worked out over the cours