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In Frostwillow Valley, winter arrives earlier and harsher than anyone remembers. The Silverpaw family of snow rabbits - Alder, Mira, their children Pip and Luma, and Grandmother Sedge - discover that the valley's hidden warm-air channels have been blocked by ice, fallen stone, and years of neglect. As food dwindles and fear divides the animals, the family must cross blizzards, reopen an ancient route beneath the mountain, and persuade every creature to share labor and supplies.

Desde el nacimiento de la Quinta República el Estado francés ha librado una guerra latente contra parte de su población. Los jóvenes de los barrios obreros que son descendientes de la inmigración poscolonial sufren una repetida operación diaria de "desinfantilización": no son tratados como niños sino como amenazas a la supervivencia del sistema. ¿Cuántos de ellos murieron a causa de esta "desinfantilización"? ¿Cuántos fueron asesinados impunemente por la policía? ¿Cuántas madres han llorado ante los tribunales a sus hijos víctimas de crímenes racistas?

It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppressive white society, members of the Société d’Economie et d’Assistance Mutuelle built a community and held it together through the era of slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow terrorism. Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood follows Ludger Boguille, his family, and friends through landmark events that shaped New Orleans and the United States.

Non un romanzo d'esordio ma un libro liturgico, non un diario intimo ma una confessione, un canto, una preghiera. "Mi chiamo Fatima", così comincia ogni capitolo de "La più piccola"; talvolta, al nome, l'autrice alter ego della protagonista, aggiunge il cognome: "Mi chiamo Fatima Daas". E via via arricchisce di dettagli la sua biografia. Fatima Daas, la mazoziya, la più giovane della famiglia, quella che avrebbe dovuto essere un maschio come Ahmad, suo padre, aveva sperato. Le sue due sorelle sono nate in Algeria.

An award-winning biography of one of the first undercover journalists - a pioneering Swedish woman who lived a fascinating life of adventure and forbidden love and who changed journalism forever. 

Claude Dufour, explorador francés, recibe atónito la carta de su amigo, Julien de Marivaux, muerto trece años antes, en 1724, tras la expedición a Canarias que situó el Meridiano de Origen y que midió por primera vez el Teide, así se despertaron todos los secretos que les unió a Emilia, la joven canaria que centró los desvelos de ambos jóvenes.

Claude Dufour, explorador francés, recibe atónito la carta de su amigo, Julien de Marivaux, muerto trece años antes, en 1724, tras la expedición a Canarias que situó el Meridiano de Origen y que midió por primera vez el Teide, así se despertaron todos los secretos que les unió a Emilia, la joven canaria que centró los desvelos de ambos jóvenes.

Using her compulsive reading as a lens through which to bring coherence to her life, 25-year-old Catherine engages in a series of sexual relationships, thinking that desire is the key to a meaningful life. Yet, with each encounter, it becomes more and more clear: Desire has no explanation; desire bears no significance. Sludge Utopia presents, in highly examined, raw detail, the perspective of a young woman’s punishing though intermittently gratifying sexuality and profound internalized misogyny, which causes her to bring all of life’s events under sexuality’s prism.

Eine Hochzeitsfeier führt die indisch-amerikanische Familie von Laila und Rafik seit Jahren erstmals wieder zusammen: Da ist Hadia, die kluge älteste Tochter, die keine gemäß der muslimischen Tradition arrangierte Ehe eingeht, sondern aus Liebe heiratet, Huda, die ihrer älteren Schwester in allem nacheifert, - und zur Überraschung aller auch Amar, der sensible, aufrührerische jüngste Sohn, der eines Nachts vor drei Jahren einfach verschwand.

A lively, inside look at how Bollywood, Turkish soap operas, and K-Pop are challenging America's cultural dominance around the world. There is a vast cultural movement emerging from beyond the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “5 UNDER 35” NOMINEE NEW YORK’S “ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK” PICK Named One of the Best Books of the Year: Washington Post NPR People Refinery29 Parade BuzzFeed “Mirza writes with a mercy that...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Runaways, written by Fatima Bhutto and read by Maya Saroya. Anita lives in Karachi's biggest slum. Her mother is a maalish wali, paid to massage the tired bones of rich women. But Anita's life will change forever when she meets her elderly neighbour...

Nel liceo di Clichy-sous-Bois, la giovane Kayden Abad scopre il potere della scrittura grazie alla sua insegnante di letteratura, che intravede in lei un talento capace di aprirle le porte di un futuro prestigioso. Ma dietro questa promessa si nasconde un rapporto ambiguo e pericoloso, fatto di manipolazione e seduzione. Attraverso il suo diario, Kayden racconta con lucidità e dolore le dinamiche di un sistema educativo rigido e spesso ingiusto, dando voce ai sogni, alle paure e alla forza dei legami tra adolescenti.

Neste audiolivro, você vai entender como eles passaram a disputar atenção com grandes marcas e veículos tradicionais e como essa virada redesenhou o equilíbrio de poder.

Can happiness and optimal performance be learned? Positive psychologists say yes! As decades of research and hundreds of studies have now shown, people who express their strengths tend to be happier, more resilient, more engaged, less stressed, and higher achievers. Jewelers spot diamonds in the rough. Art dealers identify potential masterpieces. Coaches groom stars and create the conditions for people to flourish.

Can resilience, well-being and happiness be learned? Positive psychologists say YES! As decades of research and hundreds of studies have now shown, people who express their strengths tend to be more resilient, empowered, energized and engaged. This essential book will teach you cutting-edge tools, based on powerful principles, to build your resilience and to flourish. In the midst of the stress, disappointments, challenges, and chaotic noise of modern life, countless people are choosing resilience over fear.

“Short but astonishing…articulated in such calm, quiet prose that it makes the burning cruelty of what Bhutto experienced all the more harrowing…a necessary reminder that being ‘strong’, accomplished, widely admired and fiercely clever doesn’t offer a protective shield.” —The...

There may be no person on the globe who knows more about the story of Fatima than Sr. Angela de Fatima Coelho. As a little girl growing up in Portugal, she used to pray at the tombs of Jacinta and Francisco Marto. Many years later as a sister of the Alianca de Santa Maria, she would become the postulator for their cause of canonization. This journey would lead her to visit with Sr. Lucia several times and eventually become the vice postulator for her cause as well.

Life, as beautiful as it may appear, isn't always what it seems to be. The happiest among us are not without sorrows. And behind every smile, lie thousands of secrets. As Kiara and Cole, abandoned from birth and now adopted, try to live their lives as normally as possible, Brooklyn falls victim to the illusion that money can buy happiness. Meanwhile, Harley, the "juvenile delinquent" as her mother says, rejects the conventional life, choosing to trust her own instincts.

Descubre la rica herencia cultural del Sur de Asia a través de nuestro curso integral de urdu, diseñado para llevar a principiantes completos al nivel CEFR A1. Como uno de los idiomas más hablados del mundo, el urdu abre puertas para establecer conexiones significativas en Pakistán, partes de India y prósperas comunidades de la diáspora a nivel global. Con su elegante escritura persa-árabe y su tradición literaria poética, el urdu ofrece a los estudiantes una puerta de entrada a siglos de magnífica poesía, cine y música.