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When first-year university student Robyn Carter travels to Ghana for winter break, it's the first time she's been back since her mother's passing ten years prior. The trip is the perfect escape from her father's academic expectations and an opportunity to finally learn more about her mother, the one subject he refuses to discuss. The last person Robyn expects to meet is Osei Mensah, her grandmother's beloved neighbour and a budding photographer. The young creative is a big dreamer who wears his heart on his sleeve and is everything pragmatic Robyn shouldn't want.

The baseball season has begun, and Zachary Wilson, in his final year of school, is at the pinnacle of his life. Baseball is his passion and his ticket to a promising future. However, a muscle tear during a game leaves him out of the game for months, plunging him into an overwhelming darkness. In the midst of his desperation, he finds a ray of light in an unexpected situation: the mysterious patient Sunny Smith in the hospital. Intrigued, he begins to visit her regularly, sharing with her his deepest and darkest thoughts.

ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA "CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU", DE. JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA ALICE COOPER E JAMES BLUNT E MELANIE C MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LEIA A OBRA COMPLETA. Se a viagem no tempo fosse uma possibilidade, o que você diria ao seu eu adolescente, caso o encontrasse? Em Carta Para Meu Jovem Eu, personalidades das mais diversas áreas refletem sobre o que teria sido bom saber antes. Elas também lembram aqueles momentos mágicos que gostariam de reviver. O livro inclui a participação especial de personalidades brasileiras.

En el agreste norte de Estados Unidos, un bosque, el Parque Nacional Olympic, esconde casi trescientas mil hectáreas de impenetrable oscuridad e imposible belleza. De entre las profundidades de este misterioso paraje, aparece una niña de seis años perdida y acompañada por un cachorro de lobo. Sin capacidad de hablar, la pequeña no puede ofrecer ninguna pista sobre su identidad, ninguna información de su pasado.

¿Por qué las mujeres tienen mayor capacidad verbal que los hombres? ¿Por qué recuerdan detalles de las peleas que ellos no recuerdan? ¿Por qué tienden a establecer vínculos más profundos con sus amigas que los hombres con sus compañeros? En este libro, Louanne Brizendine reúne los últimos descubrimientos para mostrar cómo cada estado hormonal -años de infancia, de adolescencia, de citas amorosas, de maternidad y de menopausia- actúa como fertilizante de diferentes conexiones neurológicas.

he was a liar. A deceiver. A seductress. And now Helene King is a Daughter of the Order. Under the guise she was headed for the place where Halestrom Hale held our sister she is forced into a truck. Only that wasn’t where she was headed. A new breed of evil rose. One that told us exactly what Hell waited for her. With the cold, hard bite of steel at my head, my last hope lays in the only man who can help us now.

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She walks into our temple like she doesn't know she's already been claimed. Talks like she’s still allowed to have a choice. But I see through all of it. The arrangement was simple: Her body for our silence. Her obedience for our protection. But nothing about the way she kneels feels simple anymore. The borrowed clothes. The desperate eyes. The scent she wears like a ghost she never stopped loving. Camille’s scent. My sister’s shadow.

Ophanim nu e tocmai cel mai prietenos nume din lume. Rezonanțele biblice și ecourile de început și temelie de lume nu-s chiar o mîngîiere, de multe ori, iar personajul care dă numele romanului Anei Barton nu constituie o excepție. Un super-erou altfel, malgré soi, cu o super-putere specială, e un personaj botezat sub numele unui dar și hărăzit zodiei altuia, neinvocat, neghicit. Dar nu mai puțin greu de dus.

Relatos cortos, estimulantes y repletos de tensión erótica, protagonizados por gente común en situaciones extraordinarias. Katja Slonawski y Malin Edholm se enfocan en las sensaciones que erizan de placer, esas que solo pueden despertarse al contacto con otra piel y por el deseo expectante. Se trata de historias con personajes complejos, que desafían la idea del cuento erótico tradicional.

Pese a que sus padres están convencidos de que Valentino se convertirá en un gran hombre, sus hermanas creen que no es más que un joven vanidoso, egoísta y frívolo, más preocupado por sus conquistas que por sus estudios de medicina. El repentino compromiso de Valentino con una mujer rica pero poco agraciada y diez años mayor acabará con los sueños de sus padres, quienes, escandalizados ante tan desafortunada elección, sospechan de la novia.

De la autora de Yo antes de ti y Después de ti, el esperado nuevo libro de la heroína que nos robó el corazón. Lou Clark sabe demasiadas cosas.... Sabe cuántos kilómetros hay entre su nuevo hogar en Nueva York y su nuevo novio, Sam, en Londres. Sabe que su jefe es un buen hombre y sabe que su mujer le está ocultando un secreto. Lo que Lou no sabe es que está a punto de conocer a alguien que va a poner toda su vida patas arriba.

How do house flies help save millions of euros? Presented with the image of a fly in toilet bowls in airports, cafés and other public places, men—without realizing it—aim better and splash less, thereby reducing loads of cleaning costs. In The Housefly Effect behavioral scientist Eva van den Broek and advertising expert Tim den Heijer explain how to recognize The Housefly Effect (and many other effects) in our everyday lives and how we can use it to our advantage. Sometimes the smallest things can have a surprisingly large effect.

«Si no me definiera a mí misma por mí misma, me meterían en las fantasías de los demás y me comerían viva». Una niña negra abre los ojos en el Harlem de los años treinta. A su alrededor, un embriagador remolino de transeúntes, bocinas de coches, lámparas de queroseno, la caída de la bolsa, plátanos fritos, historias de la Granada natal de sus padres. Caminando a la escuela pública por las aceras nevadas, se da cuenta de que tiene la lengua trabada, que es legalmente ciega y que sus hermanas mayores la han dejado atrás.

En este libro, Joyce Meyer señala los muchos problemas que las mujeres enfrentan hoy en día y las anima a encontrar y vivir su identidad única en Cristo.

En esta memoria de memorias, Paula Moreno nos cuenta la historia de líderes sociales que han cambiado el país e impactado positivamente a la sociedad, aunque su liderazgo sea invisible a los ojos de muchos. Paula reconstruye sus testimonios para demostrarnos que los procesos de empoderamiento sí ayudan a reducir la desigualdad y que, cuando somos conscientes de nuestro poder, logramos romper paradigmas y convertirnos en agentes de cambio a diferentes escalas. Estas historias de vida inspiradoras nos enseñarán a desafiar lo imposible y a transformar nuestra realidad.

Wales, 1817. After refusing every offer of marriage that comes her way, Isolde Farrington is packed off to a spinster aunt in Wales until she comes to her senses. Rhys Williams, there on business, is turning over his uncle’s choice of bride for him. The last thing he needs is to fall for an impertinent miss like Izzy, who takes Rhys for a yokel. Izzy’s new surroundings make her look at life, and Rhys, afresh.

Get ready for the epic conclusion of The Blood Ties Series. There is no place to hide now. No dark corner of this city where those who stand behind The Order can disappear. They are exposed, hunted…but they aren’t vulnerable…not yet. Protected by the most savage of us all…they bribe and scheme. But no matter how loud their threats are, they know there’s no way out of this. Because we have something they’ll never have. A reason to fight…Three of them actually. Ryth. Vivienne. And Trouble. The woman my brothers and I have fallen for.

Mudar de cidade sempre é difícil, mas fazer isso na adolescência deveria ser proibido. Como começar de novo em um lugar onde todos se conhecem, onde os grupos já estão formados, onde ninguém sabe quem você é? A princípio, Priscila não gosta da ideia, mas logo percebe que pode usar isso a seu favor: é sua chance de ser alguém diferente. Será que o papel escolhido é aquele que ela realmente quer representar? Aos poucos, Priscila entende que o que importa não é o lugar, e sim as pessoas.

In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her mother - the only family Adelaida has ever known.

Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside her window tear gas rains down on protesters in the streets. When looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida resists and is beaten up. This marks the beginning of a fight for survival in a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other.