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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.

Jillian: Ich bin immer auf der Jagd nach der nächsten großen Story, nach einer Geschichte, die die Menschen ins Herz trifft. Warum mich mein Boss diesmal jedoch ausgerechnet in die Kleinstadt Paradise, Texas geschickt hat, ist mir ein Rätsel - bis ich Tyler Walker begegne. Ein gefallener Held. Ein Retter, der zum gefährlichen Schläger wurde. Hinter seinem blendenden Äußeren verbirgt sich ein Geheimnis. Und ich werde es herausfinden. Tyler: Reporter sind die Pest. Erst recht, wenn man so großen Mist gebaut hat wie ich. Was ich getan habe, muss um jeden Preis geheim bleiben.

From the New York Times and internationally best-selling authors of The Illuminae Files comes a new science fiction epic.... It's 2380, and the graduating students of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Tyler Jones has been a star pupil who hopes to recruit the squad of his dreams but ends up with a mixed and volatile crew. And Ty's squad isn't even his biggest problem - that'd be Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, the girl he's just rescued from interdimensional space.

Aprenda com um pai experiente e um pensador profundo como melhorar suas habilidades parentais. Você já deve estar fazendo muito bem, e ser mãe não é uma tarefa fácil, mas com as recompensas do relacionamento e a realização que inúmeras pessoas apontaram, vale a pena o esforço. Muitos pais ficaram intrigados com os limites, a administração do tempo e o controle.

For the first eight years of her life, an unusual apple orchard in Vermont is Sorrow Lovegood's whole world. The land has been passed down through generations of brave, resilient women, and while their offbeat habits may be ridiculed by other townspeople - especially their neighbors, the Abrams family - Sorrow and her family take pride in its odd history. Then, one winter night, an unthinkable tragedy changes everything. In the aftermath, Sorrow is sent to Miami to live with her father, away from the only home she's ever known.

Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, now 50, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, haunted yet keeping his head down, Dwight manages a sporting-goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn’t revealed the truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his carefully neutralized life into turmoil and exposes all that he’s hidden.

Sometimes the tiniest light can shine the brightest! Like the other mermaids of the deep, Pearl longs to care for the endless beaches, coral reefs, and towering kelp forests of her vast ocean world. So when her mother asks her to tend to a mere grain of sand, Pearl is heartbroken. It takes all her patience and determination to discover how even the littlest mermaid can transform the world. Caldecott Honor-winning author Molly Idle has masterfully crafted a modern classic in this mesmerizing tale about the immense power of small actions.

First, the bad news: an ancient evil - you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal - is about to be unleashed. The good news? Squad 312 is standing by to save the day. They've just got to take care of a few small distractions first. Like the clan of gremps who'd like to rearrange their favourite faces. And the cadre of illegit GIA Agents with creepy flowers where their eyes used to be, who'll stop at nothing to get their hands on Auri. Then there's Kal's long-lost sister, who's not exactly happy to see her baby brother and has a Syldrathi army at her back.

A população está em declínio em muitas áreas do mundo. As pessoas parecem se esquivar completamente dos pais. Muitos fatores contribuem para isso e, em um espírito de pesquisa e crítica analítica, o autor traz à luz alguns desses aspectos. Após esse exame cuidadoso, é apresentada pelo mesmo autor uma compilação de novos conhecimentos e realidades que lembram, lidando com alguns dos dilemas mais comuns dos pais: como conversar com seus filhos, como levá-los para a cama e ficar lá; e seja rigoroso ou branda.

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?

Two sisters - Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister. But Lucia impetuously plows ahead, marrying a bighearted older man only to leave him suddenly to have a baby with a young Latino immigrant.

X and Y are dreaming of baking infinite pie. But they don’t know if infinite pie is real. With the help of quirky and uber-smart Aunt Z, and a whole lot of flour and butter, X and Y will learn that by using math they can bake their way to success!

When it comes to modern relationships, our thumbs do the talking. Where once we pored over love letters, now we obsess over response times or wonder why the three-dot ellipsis came...and went. Nobody knows this better than Dr Mimi Winsberg. A Harvard and Stanford-trained psychiatrist, she co-founded a behavioral health start-up while serving as resident psychiatrist at Facebook. Like all of us, Winsberg has been handed a smart phone accompanied by the urgent plea: 'what does this mean?' Unlike all of us, she knows the answer. She is a text whisperer.

In Alpha Girls, award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie takes listeners behind the closed doors of venture capital, an industry that transforms economies and shapes how we live. We follow the lives and careers of four women who were largely written out of history - until now. These women, juggling work and family, shaped the tech landscape we know today while overcoming unequal pay, actual punches, betrayals and the sexist attitudes prevalent in Silicon Valley. Despite the setbacks, they would rise again to rewrite the rules for an industry they love.

Tala lost her family to the empress' army and has spent her life avenging them in battle. But the empress' crimes don't haunt her half as much as the crimes Tala has committed against the laws of magic...and her own flesh and blood. Jimuro has inherited the ashes of an empire. Now that the revolution has brought down his kingdom, he must depend on Tala to bring him home safe. But it was his army who murdered her family. Now Tala will be his redemption - or his downfall.

What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil? The ancient evil wins, of course.

Sexual abuse by her father from the time she was four until she left home at 17. Then marriage to a brutal husband who raped and beat her. Another secret. This is the story of Sarah's journey to forgiveness of self and her perpetrators to self-love and self-realization, a long and arduous process.

When four siblings journey to the seashore for a holiday, one of them unwittingly summons the sister of a mermaid who is captured by a circus, and the children set out to save the imprisoned being. After a daring midnight rescue, the children’s reward is an incredible journey beneath the waves and into the hidden kingdom of the mermaids. But they soon find themselves in a race against time as they struggle to prevent a war and save their new underwater companions!

Aprenda com um pai experiente e um pensador profundo como melhorar suas habilidades parentais. Você já deve estar fazendo muito bem, e ser mãe não é uma tarefa fácil, mas com as recompensas do relacionamento e a realização que inúmeras pessoas apontaram, vale a pena o esforço. Muitos pais ficaram intrigados com os limites, a administração do tempo e o controle. Se você passa a ser pai sem conhecimento prévio, ou se baseia todas as suas suposições e padrões no que seus pais lhe ensinaram, você cometerá alguns erros.

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.