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A multiple Christy Award finalist, best-selling author Stephanie Grace Whitson is acclaimed for her novels of the American frontier. In this soul-stirring tale, an unlikely attraction occurs between two passengers on a steamboat heading up the Missouri River. The Reverend Samuel Beck is on a mission to evangelize the rough-hewn settlers in the wilds of Montana, while the well-to-do Miss Fannie Rousseau is determined to solve a mystery that surfaced after her mother’s death. With little in common, they wonder if their paths will ever cross again.

Obra literária obrigatória para o vestibular Unicentro (PR) 2025. É uma manhã qualquer quando Maju atravessa a praça ao lado de Cora. Puxando a garota pelo braço, ela passa sorrateiramente pelo exército branco, sobe a avenida, pega um ônibus e desaparece. Exército branco foi o nome que Fernanda, mãe de Cora, deu às babás que todos os dias lotam a praça daquele bairro de classe alta com as crianças de seus patrões. Nos últimos tempos, no entanto, a babá e a filha parecem tão anônimas para Fernanda quanto as outras.

" Elle demande de répéter. On demande toujours de répéter, alors qu’en fait on a très bien entendu. Quelque part dans notre crâne, un globule blanc se lève et pète du coude la vitre à ne casser qu’en cas d’urgence, celle qu’on pensait ne jamais avoir à briser : on sait qu’on devrait déclencher un protocole spécial pour accueillir la nouvelle, sauf que personne n’a été briefé, les stagiaires sont incapables, en plus on est samedi soir les bureaux sont déserts, y’a bien les anciens qui sauraient quoi faire, les vieux neurones du fond là, paniqués en permanence. "

・・・この『時をかける少女』というのは、自分にとってはよく稼いでくれるお嬢さんみたいなものでしてね(笑)。これでもう何作目になりますか、その時代その時代の女子中学生や女子高校生の制服のアイドルとして訪ねてきてくれる。・・・2006年のアニメ化にあたって、筒井康隆氏が語った言葉です。彼によって『時をかける少女』が書かれてから40年。明治の文豪の作品とは違った意味で時代を感じさせる内容は、しかし、かわることなく訴えかける力を秘めています。 人生をリセットしたい、と思ったことは誰しもあるのではないでしょうか。しかし、ゲームをリセットして、さっきの方がよかったかも、と思ったことのある人も多いでしょう。「リセットした人生」「リセットしなかった人生」・・・・結局、人がたどれる道は、一筋きりなのです。 重ささえ感じられる正統派SF小説に、声優として大活躍中のあの ゆかな が挑戦。さわやかに読み上げました。 ことのは出版オーディオブック詳細はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpまで

Sophie Katz, bestselling mystery writer and amateur sleuth, has just discovered that Anatoly, her sexy Russian P.I boyfriend of six years is actually married to the daughter of a Russian mafia boss. Devastated by his betrayal, Sophie banishes him from their beautiful San Francisco Victorian home. Desperate to distract their friend and pull her out of her depression, Dena and Marcus spirit Sophie away to Vegas for a "fun filled weekend" at a Sex Toy Trade Show. But bigger trouble awaits in Vegas. Anatoly is there; his beautiful Russian wife is there; and so is a dead body stuffed into a closet

Nobel Prize-winner V. S. Naipaul, one of the world's most acclaimed authors, effortlessly tackles provocative ideas that lesser novelists shy away from and always leaves his audience with something to think about.

Spitcat, a raging forest fire in the Sierra Nevada of California, had a lifespan of merely eleven days, "yet its effects could be reckoned ahead in centuries." So writes George R. Stewart in this engrossing novel of a fire started by lightning in the dry heat of September, and fanned out of control by unexpected winds. The book begins with the origins of the fire - smoldering quietly at first, unnoticed, then suddenly bursting into a terrifying inferno, devouring trees and animals over acre after acre and leaving nothing but desolation in its wake.

Audiobook colectiv în lectura autorilor: Gabriel Liiceanu, Ioana Pârvulescu, Radu Paraschivescu, Tatiana Niculescu, Vlad Zografi, Andrei Cornea, Andrei Pleșu "Ce-ar fi să descoperim că adevărata fericire e cea care ne pune viaţa la încercare și îi dă o împlinire tocmai pentru că a fost smulsă unei lumi ostile? S-ar putea ca trecerea noastră pe pământ să capete altă forţă când, în strădania naturală spre fericire, suntem puși în situaţia de a compune un destin nu cu bunăstarea, răsfăţul și trufia marilor popoare, ci cu suferinţa celor insignifiante."

A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett. A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.

Gene Wilder's audiobook is the story of Lonny Serkin, a boy dealing with the curves life throws at him. With just his father and then the love of a new mother to guide him, he does his best to navigate the twin countries of humor and tragedy that he must travel through. Even Dogs Learn How to Swim is a story of growing up, deciding to move forward when all seems lost, and appreciating love when and where you find it.

19世紀後半、栄華を極めるパリの美術界。画商・林忠正は助手の重吉と共に流暢な仏語で浮世絵を売り込んでいた。野心溢れる彼らの前に現れたのは日本に憧れる無名画家ゴッホと、兄を献身的に支える画商のテオ。

The recent death of one of the descendants of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed to the publication of a set of eight of the most interesting adventures.

" En anglais, on appelle “stacks” les piliers de la mer, détachés de la côte. Autour du monde, ces sentinelles de roche se dressent par milliers devant les falaises côtières. Je veux me balancer dans les vagues, grimper ces aiguilles au milieu des oiseaux. À l’écart, les stacks ressemblent aux dandys, aux rebelles humains. Qui êtes-vous, tours de la haute mer ? Le dernier refuge peut-être ? Tout bouge autour de nous, vous ne reculez pas. ". Sylvain Tesson.

16-årige, Starr, er eneste vidne til, at hendes ubevæbnede ven, Khalil, bliver skudt og dræbt af en hvid politimand. Indtil nu har Starr balanceret mellem det sorte lokalmiljø, hvor hun bor, og den finere privatskole i forstaden, som hun går på. Men da nedskydningen af Khalil bliver forsidestof over hele landet, er hun nødt til at beslutte, om og hvordan hun vil råbe op, særligt da nogle af hendes venner på skolen antyder, at Khalil selv var ude om det.

At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure.

心から一歩も外に出ないものごとなんて、この世界には存在しない──君たち二人の運命が、ただの成り行きによってここで邂逅したわけではない。君たちは入るべくしてこの世界に足を踏み入れたのだ。

In the gentle world of one of England’s beautiful old cathedral towns, crisis looms: Funds are short, and the cathedral is in need of major repair. One faction of the community argues that the obvious solution is to abolish the expensive, and nowadays rather irrelevant, boys’ choir. But of course, there are those who disagree: the choir school’s headmaster, a conscientious scholar somewhat out of his depth with his elusive, poetical wife; the cathedral organist and choirmaster, brilliant, wayward, and in love with the lead chorister’s married mother; the former lead chorister, now twenty-three and directionless....

Raimund Gregorious - Mundus, as his students affectionately call him - is a predictable character. A bookish Latin professor, well-respected but perhaps a little boring. One stormy morning, he encounters a beautiful, distraught Portuguese woman in a red leather coat... Later that day Raimund will realise: that moment changed everything. All of a sudden, nothing in his life feels right. His restlessness is further fuelled when he finds a book by a little-known Portuguese writer, Amadeo de Prado.

Eine geheimnisvolle Bibliothek in einer ummauerten Stadt am Ende der Welt, die nur betreten kann, wer seinen eigenen Schatten zurücklässt: Hier lebt das wahre Ich des Mädchens, in das sich der namenlose Erzähler mit siebzehn Jahren unsterblich verliebt. Er macht sich auf die Suche, gelangt in die Stadt, doch das Mädchen erkennt ihn nicht mehr.

Von der Autorin des Bestsellers Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo und Daisy Jones & The Six kommt ein epischer neuer Roman über die außergewöhnlichen Anstrengungen, die wir unternehmen, um über unsere Grenzen hinaus zu leben und zu lieben. Joan Goodwin sieht zu den Sternen auf, seit sie denken kann. Als Professorin für Astrophysik hat sie ihre Leidenschaft zum Beruf gemacht, und sie ist glücklich, wenn sie ihrer Nichte abends unter freiem Himmel die Sternbilder erklären kann.