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Alceu Vaccaro should never have touched Dioni Adrianakis. It’s not just that he lost control and rid his best friend’s sister of her innocence. He broke his vow to ensure his despicable bloodline ended with him. Because Dioni is secretly pregnant with his heir… Before Alceu, Dioni spent a lifetime silencing her own desires. No more. He can demand they marry for their son, but she won’t accept being the Sicilian’s wife in name only. And to close the distance Alceu insists is for her protection, she must stoke the wildfire tearing through them both.

Imagine your life serving you, not the other way around. Imagine a journey whose destination is confidence. Imagine taking this journey with a group of other professional women and discussing the impact of your voices, time, choices, jobs, internal narratives, and external narratives on your satisfaction and quality of life.

First published in 1847, Jane Eyre was the last and most popular of the novels composed by the Brontë sisters. The narrative bristles with energy and passionate conviction, and is one of the first novels written from the perspective of a child.

Kati and her younger sister, Ilonka, arrive in Canada with painful memories from the Holocaust, which has taken both of their parents. Their harrowing time alone in the Budapest ghetto is fresh in their minds, as are their fragile hopes to be adopted. But their lives in Toronto are far from what they expected, and full of broken promises. As the sisters navigate their new surroundings, they each grow fiercely strong and independent, while holding onto the comfort that they will be Never Far Apart.

Growing up in 1990s China, in a village where failure to observe the rigidly enforced one-child policy is deemed tantamount to a crime, Chen Di must fight to get the education she craves in a world in which boys are prioritized. Following her mother's untimely death, 16-year-old Chen Di's thirst for vengeance against those she holds responsible brings about her transformation from a gutsy, marginalized child into an aikido-practicing young woman who braves Shanghai.

Marguerite, aka Gracie, is known for her skill and gracefulness on the waves. Surfing is where she clears her head and finds peace. A national surf championship lies within her reach. But when her world is turned upside down, will the ocean be enough to save her?

Beim Hören wirst Du verstehen, warum Sterne leuchten und was das mit tanzenden Teilchen, Luftdruck und Wärme zu tun hat. Mit dem Kohlenstoff-Kreislauf des Lebens, CO2 und Pflanzen. Mit der Entstehung des Universums, der Milchstraße und unserer Welt. Du wirst verstehen: Bei dieser kleinen Frage geht es um Leben und Tod. Und um Bausteine, die in Sternen entstehen. Bausteine, aus denen alles auf dieser Erde gebaut ist. Auch wir. Denn wir sind aus Sternenstaub. Wir schauen nicht nur in den Sternenhimmel. Wir sind ein Teil davon.

Beim Hören wirst Du verstehen, warum Dinos noch leben und was das mit der Geschichte der Erde zu tun hat. Mit Evolutionstheorie, dem Wettbewerb der Tiere und der Tatsache, dass wir besser überleben, wenn wir sehr, sehr unterschiedlich sind. Du wirst verstehen: Diese scheinbar kleine Frage ist mit der Klimakatastrophe, der Gut-Schlecht-Gleichzeitigkeit, Massensterben, T-rex-Klettergerüsten und Insel-Kiwis verbunden. Und mit uns. Mit der Frage, wie wir leben wollen. Und wie wir mit unserer Menschen-Magie die Welt verändern.

Lisa Gardner revient en force avec une nouvelle héroïne : Frankie Elkin, une femme au passé douloureux, qui s’est donné pour mission de retrouver coûte que coûte des personnes disparues, et ce surtout parce que le reste du monde a baissé les bras.

" Moi, j'aime pas la danse. Mais Maman adore. Alors tous les mercredis, j'enfile mon tutu. Mais j'aime pas les tutus. Ça gratte et c'est rose. " Des cours ennuyeux au grand écart qui fait mal, la narratrice ne nous épargne rien, jusqu'au spectacle de fin d'année où elle part du mauvais côté et fait le pitre pour le plus grand plaisir du public.

Princesse Grilda s'ennuie. Un beau matin, elle quitte son château et, près d'une mare, sympathise avec un gentil crapaud. Pas de chance : alors qu'ils se font un bisou, le crapaud se transforme en prince charmant. Grilda ne s'attendait pas du tout à ça. Elle voulait un ami, pas un mari ! Elle retourne à la mare, et tous les crapauds se changent en princes à leur tour... Jusqu'au petit dernier, qui, alors qu'elle l'embrasse, reste crapaud. Ouf, elle a enfin trouvé un ami, et peut remettre tous les princes à l'eau.

Dans un bois reculé vivait toute une armée. Elle habitait un château qui n'avait jamais été attaqué, si bien que plus personne ne se souciait vraiment de le protéger. Seule une chevalière se préparait, en cas d'attaque, tandis que les troupes préféraient faire la sieste. À défaut d'entraînement militaire, la chevalière décida de faire de son armée, l'armée la mieux formée à paresser, déplier des chaises longues, jouer de la musique et suspendre des hamacs... Tout semblait parfait, jusqu'à ce qu'un matin, l'ennemi apparaisse au loin. Prix Enfantaisie 2021.

" J'aime PAS être belle. Mais tous les jours avant d'aller à l'école, Maman vérifie si : ma robe est bien repassée, mes cheveux bien coiffés, mes collants bien tirés, mes chaussures bien cirées. " Et, tous les matins, c'est la même cérémonie : " Comme elle est belle ! ", me dit-on à longueur de temps. Hors de question de loucher ou de mettre les doigts dans son nez ! Le pire, c'est le jour de la photo de classe.

Gérard Salomon was born Haitian by his father and Dominican by his mother on March 21, 1954, in Cap-Haitian. His father was a non-commissioned officer in the Armed Forces of Haiti, who had a high sense of military duty. His childhood was strongly marked by the military values that his father was able to instill in him. Military service and sociology were a passion.

While on a mission to cement peace between the Sun Clans and the Thousand Worlds, Min the fox spirit and her ghost brother Jun get stranded on a death planet with Haneul the dragon spirit and Sebin the tiger spirit. To survive, the young cadets will have to rely on all their wits, training, and supernatural abilities. And let's not forget the Dragon Pearl . . .

Meet Cherry, a bandit queen on the run, driving a pink soft-top convertible through the Badlands of Southeast England. She's never felt more Thelma and Louise in her life - except there are three of them in the car and one of them is dead. How did a head nurse and mother of two end up driving a handcuffed policeman and the corpse of a murdered refugee on a journey to find justice? Pursued by a racist, roid-raged, shaven-headed officer of the law - not to mention by her husband and daughter - what else can a woman with a conscience do in modern Britain?

Em comemoração dos 200 anos do nascimento de Andersen, este livro reúne quatro histórias que refletem o gênio do autor e sua profunda consciência moral. Em O "criador de porcos" aprendemos a reconhecer a verdadeira natureza das pessoas; O "soldadinho de chumbo", uma de suas histórias mais conhecidas, mostra como o amor verdadeiro e a determinação triunfam sobre qualquer circunstância; no conto "O sapo", percebemos que o mais importante é o que somos e não o que possuímos:

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.

Artist Annie Shaw seems to have it all: a dream career, a devoted husband, and a whip-smart teenage daughter. But when her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly one night, Annie’s carefully curated life starts to unravel. She’s spent her adulthood trying to escape her difficult upbringing—and has tried her best to give her own daughter a completely different, idyllic childhood. But in the wake of her mother’s death, Annie’s obsessive-compulsive disorder comes roaring back, and this time, the disturbing fixations swirling around in Annie’s brain might actually be coming true.

Yanis et Véra s'aiment comme au premier jour et sont les parents de trois magnifiques enfants. Mais Yanis, autodidacte talentueux dans le bâtiment, vit de plus en plus mal sa collaboration avec Luc, le frère architecte de Véra, qui est aussi pragmatique et prudent que lui est créatif et entreprenant. La rupture est consommée lorsque Luc refuse le chantier que Yanis attendait. Poussé par sa femme et financé par un client providentiel qui ne jure que par lui, Yanis se lance à son compte, enfin.