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Newly-minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she’s been unable to get her feet wet. Instead, she aimlessly spends her days stuck in the stifling heat wave sweeping across Britain, and anxiously contemplating her upcoming marriage to careful, precise researcher Oscar. The only reprieve from her small, close world is attending the local bereavement group to mourn her brother’s death from years ago. That is, until she meets journalist Sam Hunter at the grief group one day. And he has a proposition for her.

Josh Duffy is staring into the abyss. A decorated army veteran turned military contractor, his last mission went sideways, leaving him badly injured and his career derailed. Now, he’s working as a mall cop, trying to keep his family one step ahead of the bill collectors. So when a chance at redemption - and a big pay day - comes his way, Duff eagerly jumps in. The job - to ride shotgun on a motorcade of heavily armed and armored vehicles as they roll into Mexico’s cartel country.

What I learned after last year’s distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. No more screwing, period. As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. Which means that I, Hunter Davenport, am officially going celibate...no matter how hard that makes things.

Inez Olivera traveled across the world to Egypt, seeking answers into her parents' recent and mysterious deaths. But all her searching led her down a perilous road, filled with heartache, betrayal, and a dangerous magic that pulled her deep into the past. When Tío Ricardo issues an ultimatum about her inheritance, she’s left with only one option to consider. Marriage to Whitford Hayes.

Welcome to the Inner Child Healing Workbook, a 23-day guided journey designed to help you reconnect, nurture, and heal the parts of yourself that were left behind. This step-by-step workbook will lead you through powerful exercises, reflective prompts, and healing practices, all aimed at helping you reparent your inner child and create emotional safety for your authentic self to thrive.

My brother is bleeding. My stepsister is gone. The ones responsible called themselves family. By blood, and now by marriage. I want to destroy them for what they've done. Burn everything they have to the ground. But first I need to find her. Ryth. The pathetic little mouse that scurried into our lives and made a home. I can't forget her; can't get her out of my head. She unleashed something dangerous in me. Something that drove me to ruin her. And ruined myself in the process. She was once a game to me; she still is...only this time it's for keeps.

Family is everything; I always knew my father was a cold, heartless bastard. But the moment he took Elle Castlemaine and her pathetic daughter into our home, barely a month after our mom died, he unleashed something savage inside me. I didn't care they lost their home. Didn't care their father was behind bars. Didn't care he betrayed the notorious Stidda Mafia boss, Benjamin Rossi, and now their lives were in danger.

For years she trained in the safety of the Danrayan Temple until she was ready to face her destiny. Then, with the help of her friends, she scoured the continent and found the prince that was promised. And yet, despite finally having the key to her people's fate in her grasp, the Name-Bearer's journey is far from over. The capital is overrun with monstros. Her greatest champion is out of her reach. And every ally she thought she could rely on is losing faith in her and her mission

The family-owned business of Allen & Augustine has manufactured high-quality chairs for decades. Its people take pride in their work and feel loyal to their owners and management team. But this long-revered company is now at a crossroads, hurt by a tough economy, foreign competition, and a cash crunch. The air is filled with the scent of uncertainty, anxiety, perhaps even panic. Enter Ben, the ambitious young executive assigned by his firm to promote a merger that will rescue Allen & Augustine.

Em um domingo de sol, a publicitária Lau Patrón corria pelo parque tentando alcançar o seu filho João Vicente, um menininho alegre e destemido de um ano e meio, que ela sempre chamou de Leãozinho. No outro dia, assistia ele sofrer uma crise violenta e misteriosa. Um fio de vida escorrendo para longe do seu colo de mãe. E tudo virou do avesso. Diagnosticado com uma síndrome raríssima, João estava morrendo. Este livro é um diário intenso e sincero dos setenta e um dias que Lau morou no hospital, muitos ao lado de seu filho em coma em um box de UTI, esperando a vida ou a morte.

J.R. Ward é autora número um do The New York Times, escreveu inúmeros romances e já foi publicada em mais de 40 países, com destaque para a série de vampiros Irmandade da Adaga Negra. A Universo dos Livros publicou outros três romances da autora: Um Romance Inesquecível, Tesouro e Sedução, e o lançamento Inesquecível. Em Inesquecível, a restauradora de arte Callie Burke recebe uma chance irrecusável na sua carreira: recuperar uma pintura valiosa pertencente a Jack Walker, político solteirão convicto – e uma obra-prima da natureza.

Poucos autores foram tão lidos, comentados e traduzidos ao longo dos últimos cem anos quanto Paul Valéry. Contudo, só agora chega ao Brasil uma tradução completa dos seus Feitiços. Trata-se de uma obra que, após a experiência radical de A jovem parca, flutua entre diversas possibilidades poéticas que produziriam obras-primas como "O cemitério marinho", um dos mais famosos poemas do século XX, e outros tantos como "Esboço de serpente", "A Pítia", "Fragmentos do Narciso", "Os passos".

Quando o Réveillon se aproxima, é natural que as pessoas façam planos e mentalizem grandes mudanças para o ano que está por vir. Mas e se, minutos antes do seu ano acabar, uma conversa, uma pessoa desconhecida ou uma briga mudasse algo importante dentro de você? É exatamente isso o que acontece com Olívia, Lena e Duda que irão passar o Ano Novo em uma cidade litorânea em São Paulo. Elas acreditam que esse ano já deu tudo o que tinha que dar até serem surpreendidas por um último episódio que provavelmente irá marcar a vida de cada uma para sempre.

We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don’t. But we rarely stop to question whether school is teaching our children the right things in the right way.

It is 1913, and 12-year-old Petra Luna’s mamá has died while the revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papá is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to him that she will care for the family she has left — her abuelita, her little sister, Amelia, and her baby brother, Luisito — until they can be reunited.

Highlights and Audible are back to present Season 2 of the original podcast, Lola Chick! Come along with spunky little chickadee Lola, and her Abuelita Hen, for more fun outings in Chicken Meadow. But where are they going? La di di di, they’re going to the park. La da da da, they’re going to el jardín. But that’s not all! Join Lola and Abuelita as they go to the fair to celebrate their Latino heritage, learn ballet at the Chickadee Dance School, ride in a parade on bicycles decorated with florecitas, and have many more exciting aventuras!

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents—who frequently leave her behind.

O primeiro grande livro do Sítio do Pica-Pau Amarelo, Reinações de Narizinho reúne onze histórias que trazem pela primeira vez os personagens de Lobato junto a grandes personagens da fantasia infanto-juvenil como Cinderela, Branca de Neve e até Gato Félix. O cenário principal é o Sítio, mas a turma de Lobato se estende pelo Reino das Águas Claras e o País das Fábulas, palcos perfeitos para trazer em grande estilo uma boneca sapeca, animais falantes, seres mitológicos e o mundo emocionante do imaginário infantil.

Neste volume, Marcelo Carvalho relaciona teoria e experiência, partindo da noção aristotélica de teoria e prática, até chegar a questões contemporâneas, resultantes da mudança operada pela ciência moderna e por Kant na história do tema.

Este é um livro sobre a maternidade e todos os sentimentos loucos que as mães têm em relação a quem de alguma forma criam, seja um filho natural, adotivo, neto ou sobrinho. É sobre família e é sobre as mães também, esses seres que falam uma língua estranha e chata que só entende quem entra para o clube e se torna uma delas. Não se preocupe, não é um livro de lamentações. É o contrário: tem histórias engraçadas, singelas e verdadeiras. Aqueles que leram O papai é pop estão convidados a conhecer o lado mais in/tenso da experiência.