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Os enganados: um professor de Oxford, um respeitado médico da sociedade, um negociante francês de arte e um charmoso lorde inglês. Eles têm uma coisa em comum. Da noite para o dia, cada um desses investidores novatos perdeu a fortuna de sua vida para um só homem. O vigarista: Harvey Metcalfe. Um brilhante empreendedor e guru da fraude. Um indivíduo muito perigoso. E agora, um homem procurado. Sem ter nada a perder, quatro estranhos estão prestes a se unir – cada um deles sendo especialista em seu próprio campo.

This is a story about two crazy dogs, their adventures, and the mischief they get into. They are very loving dogs but can't help getting into things. The two dogs meet friends along the way and have a lot of fun. Each book has a different scenario but always with the two crazy dogs. This book is about Colby and Teddi Bear having a wild adventure with their three friends. They actually sneak into a circus in town and have a lot of fun.

Avenging her grandmother's death has been Red Ryding Hood's sole purpose in life. So, when her cousin, Robin Hood, goes on a quest to rescue Marian from The Wolf, Red doesn't hesitate to tag along.

When war and nefarious forces split the realms, Micah dives into the breach once more, confident in his stupendous magical power and time magic will keep him and his friends safe. It won't. He fails, and a new enemy with a familiar face has followed him back into the past, wreaking havoc on the timeline. Now Micah's only chance comes in the form of a map, guiding him halfway around the world to the laboratory of the greatest wizard that ever lived.

Quando este livro foi lançado em 1994, ninguém poderia imaginar que um título sobre atenção plena (mindfulness) entraria nas listas de mais vendidos e alcançaria a marca de um milhão de exemplares. Mais de 25 anos depois, ele continua a transformar a vida de meditadores iniciantes e experientes com suas valiosas dicas, seus conceitos e exercícios. Contando envolventes histórias sobre os benefícios da meditação e as descobertas e os desafios no caminho do autoconhecimento, este livro é perfeito para quem deseja uma vida com mais calma, significado e propósito.

Dan Thrush has the capability, technology, and magic to stitch society back together - and add a bottleneck for the invasion. Unfortunately, not everyone wants things to resolve quickly. Even as he tries to clean up the mess that spawned in the wake of the Elven invasion, some people challenge him for control of the new world; isolated pockets of humanity fight the aliens, and others have decided to quietly give up. This isn’t the first time he’s faced these odds, but it is the first time he’s been around long enough to have bitter enemies that want to see him fail.

O acidente que causou a morte de Eddie no parque de diversões deixou marcas profundas e permanentes em Annie. Ferida, assustada e incapaz de se lembrar do que aconteceu, ela cresceu isolada, achando que toda a sua existência havia sido um erro. Até que reencontra Paulo - o grande amor de sua adolescência - e começa a acreditar que finalmente terá uma chance de ser feliz. Mas quando uma nova tragédia interrompe seus planos, Annie precisa enfrentar o passado e enxergar a verdade por trás das lembranças que reprimiu por tanto tempo.

Despite Germany’s stranglehold on the French, Benjamin Cohen, an introverted but musically talented adolescent, alters the course of his life when he defies his father to study the 55-bell carillon in the Catholic cathedral. Can Benjamin’s budding mastery of the carillon and his love affair with the troubled novitiate nun Marie-Noëlle give him le courage he needs to perform the one act that can save his people from Nazi arrest and earn back the respect from his father he craves? Or will it doom them all?

A startup enxuta é um modelo de negócio que vem sendo amplamente adotado ao redor do mundo, mudando de maneira como companhias idealizam produtos e seus serviços. Pioneiro na implementação abordagem, Eric Ries define a startup como uma organização dedicada a criar algo novo sob condições incertas - e isso inclui tanto o jovem empreendedor que trabalha nessa oficina de casa quanto o profissional experiente em uma multinacional. Neste livro, Ries reúne histórias reais e exemplos de empresas que se transformaram ao implementar esse modelo revolucionário.

Dan did everything they told him to do. Shadowy organizations implanted him with experimental nanobots. He went through months of grueling training to learn the skills he would need as Earth’s representative. He learned magic! He was still too late. Returning home to a changed planet, Dan found that the elves had already invaded, taking over most of the Amazon and fortifying it against modern incursion. If he doesn’t want to be just a footnote in the tale of the invasion and enslavement of mankind, it’s time for Dan to stop doing what they tell him...and do what needs to be done.

O volume final da trilogia de diários da prisão escritos por Jeffrey cobre o período de sua transferência de uma prisão de segurança média, HMP Wayland, até sua eventual soltura em liberdade condicional em julho de 2003. Essa obra inclui um relato chocante do período traumático em que ele esteve na famosa prisão de Lincoln e dos eventos que levaram ao seu encarceramento nesse local, e também expõe severamente um sistema que está próximo de seu ponto de ruptura.

Tristan didn’t remember much of that night, except that he was dying.... Then, all of a sudden, he wasn’t. He woke up fully healed and with only one vague memory in mind.... Anya.

Im Büro, im Urlaub, immer und überall, sogar im Bad, werden Nachrichten gecheckt und E-Mails geschrieben. Doch der kommunikative Dauerbeschuss macht Menschen unglücklich und unproduktiv. Wir sind schlicht nicht dafür gemacht! Bestsellerautor Cal Newport plädiert für einen bewussteren Umgang mit Kommunikationskanälen und für Arbeitsplätze, an denen Menschen arbeiten können, ohne ständig Nachrichten senden oder empfangen zu müssen - nichts weniger als eine Revolution der Arbeitswelt!

A dark secret hangs over the Caribbean. Britain is at war with Napoleon, amid this chaos, a shadowy network acts against the common good. Lives hang in the balance while a young and ambitious lieutenant takes his new assignment aboard the H.M.S Valor. Circumstances soon lead him down a path, where he must weigh traditional judgement carefully. With sword and pistol in hand, he will confront his fate, where things are not as simple as they first appear, and the path of honor looks an awful lot like treason. 

Daniel Thrush is the only known human with the ability to learn the magic which runs the various empires of the universe. Earth is in the crosshairs of the Tellask Empire, a race that discovered magic millennia before humanity even mastered fire. All known aliens focus on the arcane. Upon learning of magic, their technological progress all but halted as great voidships spread their colonies across the galaxy. For all of Earth's military might, their only hope is to incorporate the alien's magic into technology, to use the enemy's own tools to fight them.

This enlivening Western novel takes the listener on an excursion with a bride ordered in the mail from the 1800s. Seemingly a wife-to-be, this woman finds herself in quite the predicament when the man who ordered her is a no-show. With all her hard earnings spent and no way back home, what is she to do? There is no other choice than to steal and almost sell her body. When at the brink of a life meltdown, she encounters a prestigious cowboy who sweeps her off her feet.

Ever since his 16th birthday, disaster has loomed over Micah Silver’s head, threatening him and everything he loved. Twice he tried to deny his fate, only to suffer for his hubris. Finally, he made the sacrifices necessary to confront the danger facing him head-on. Micah succeeded. At the head of an army of daemons, he defeated the Durgh Khan and saved Basil’s Cove from disaster. Only, it wasn’t to be. 

"If This Gets Out is an absolute showstopper! Equal parts edgy and adorable, this bright, joyful book has everything I look for in a queer YA romance." - Phil Stamper, bestselling author of The Gravity of Us One of the world's biggest boy bands. A secret love. What happens if the world finds out?...

In From Survive to Thrive, Dr. Margaret S. Chisolm, a psychiatrist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, describes a tried-and-true plan to help anyone grappling with life's challenges learn how to flourish. Dr. Chisolm does not define health as the mere absence of illness. She wants you to be able to lead the best life possible - to thrive! Dr. Chisolm provides insight into how listeners can cultivate healthy habits and more positive reactions to life's provocations, choosing not to allow past life circumstances or a disease state to define their well-being. 

Seventeen-year-old “Hank” has found himself at Penn Station in New York City with no memory of anything - who he is, where he came from, why he’s running away. His only possession is a worn copy of Walden, by Henry David Thoreau.

And so he becomes Henry David - or “Hank” and takes first to the streets, and then to the only destination he can think of - Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. Cal Armistead’s remarkable debut novel is about a teen in search of himself.