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Com um quê de realismo fantástico, o conto narra a história das filhas do capitão Jerônimo Ferreira: Aninha, filha de sua falecida esposa, e Vitória, que encontrou sozinha numa canoa enquanto ele caçava na mata. Os destinos das duas meninas se entrelaça de forma surpreendente.

Diante da possibilidade de uma guerra entre Inglaterra e Brasil, o povo brasileiro subiu seu nível de patriotismo. Em Óbidos, Pará, um juiz e um coronel são encarregados de angariar fundos para contribuir com o armamento do Brasil e logo conseguem a considerável soma de nove contos de réis. Mas faltava conversar com o capitão Silvestre.

Este e-book reúne dois grandes contos curtos de Machado de Assis. Primeiro, "A carteira". Gustavo e Honório são os dois personagens centrais deste conto. Diante da necessidade de um valor considerável para quitar suas dívidas, Honório topa com uma oportunidade: acha uma carteira que traz mais do que ele precisava. No entanto, enfrenta um dilema: usa o dinheiro? Devolve a carteira ao dono – que é justamente o amigo Gustavo? A ler! O bom mote do triângulo amoroso é o centro de A cartomante, o segundo conto. Nele, o conceituado advogado Vilela reencontra Camilo, amigo de infância.

O conto é narrado por Domingos Espalha, que é também personagem da história. Junto com o companheiro Chico Pitanga, ele é incumbido de cuidar da fazenda Paraíso, assinalar o gado e enviar uma vaca para uma festa junina. A busca de uma rês pela fazenda, no entanto, revela-se difícil e eles vão parar na Serra do Valha-me Deus.

O autor do livro mais vendido em Portugal no ano de 2019 está de regresso com mais uma história de amor e superação pessoal que promete dar-te ensinamentos essenciais para venceres as fases negativas da tua vida.

After her girlfriend breaks up with her for being too emotionally stifled, Jo Miller is trying to become more expressive. But then her boss calls her into his office for a private meeting and sexually assaults her. His parting words are, “you won't want to talk about this Jo. You think you do now, but trust me, you won’t.” Jo had been ready to go straight to the police, but every time she tries to talk about what happened, live insects crawl up her throat and into her mouth.

Criminal defense attorney Jessica Frost is hired to defend 21-year-old daughter college student Stephanie Dozier, who is accused of stabbing to death her roommate Kristine McVeigh, the daughter of a prominent local judge, Ralph McVeigh, as a result of a love triangle. Jessica is up against Thorne County Deputy District Attorney Madeleine Griffin, who paints the accused as committing the crime in jealous rage against her romantic rival and is determined to win a conviction. Jessica learns that Kristine was part of a secretive group of college students called the Sexy Coeds Club.

Surrendering to the way of life isn't always easy. It requires us to make conscious choices, let go of what we can't control, and a lot of patience - at its essence, surrendering challenges us to turn our ego and self-will over to our higher self. By doing so, we're letting go of what doesn't serve us but instead leads us to embrace the truth of uncertainty, connection, and oneness with the world around us.

In April 1912, schoolteacher Valerie McElroy and her eight-year-old sister Ruby booked passage on the RMS Titanic for a return trip to America after visiting an aunt in London, England. When the supposedly unsinkable passenger liner hits an iceberg, Valerie and Ruby find themselves apparently safe after being put on a lifeboat. But things go further awry when Valerie finds herself knocked off the crowded lifeboat and into the cold sea.

Women’s fiction author Irene Stoddard thought she had it all with a successful husband Robert and their daughter Patty, while making a good life for themselves in Boston. But that all changed when, in the middle of Patty’s eighth birthday party, Irene caught Robert in their own bed with a sexy neighbor. In spite of feeling devastated by this betrayal, Irene chose to stay in the marriage for the sake of their daughter.

Set within the lush playground of Maui, Hawaii’s famed Kaanapali Beach Resort, this soap opera style audio tale of adultery, dark secrets, revenge, and murder revolves around the anticipated grand opening of Kaanapali Palms Hotel, the latest luxury accommodation on the island’s western shore. Multimillionaire CEO of Kaanapali Palms, Ben Crawford, is not above getting in bed with organized crime to make dream come true. A widower, his 19-year old daughter, Leigh, means everything to him. Forgotten is the child he abandoned long ago, never imagining this would come back to haunt him.

In the year 2020, graduate student and Victorian Era enthusiast Katie Judson finds herself living in 1890 London, England, and beyond, courtesy of a mysterious stairwell. There, she meets fellow American Spencer Brennan, a member of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Police Force, who is in search of his younger sister, Felicity, who has been forced into prostitution on the dark streets of Whitechapel. As they attempt to rescue her, Katie and Spencer must also grapple with their mutual passions, romance, and the mind-bending nature of time travel.

Angel Rossi is no longer the naive girl kidnapped by Nico Vitale. Now she’s the boss. Yet even as she takes control of her father’s empire, she mourns the loss of Nico. Whatever the circumstances of their meeting, she was in love with him. Then Nico reappears, and Angel is too furious by his duplicity to be happy he’s back. But when Angel is nearly killed, she’s forced to admit that someone wants her dead — and Nico, too. Soon the pair discover that a high dollar hit has been taken out on their lives by one of the only people they believed they could trust.

When Dylan Malloy loses his beloved wife, Jenna, in a car accident, the grief-stricken history professor and best-selling sci-fi author suddenly finds himself thrust into time, where he tries desperately to prevent the accident from occurring. Unintended consequences put his mission, past and own future in jeopardy, along with Jenna's.

After Kris and Matt purchase old books at an estate auction for the O’Malleys, a mystery is born. Someone is desperate to get what the bookshop owners have in their possession - something worth a fortune. But what is it? Mack and Mavis O’Malley haven’t a clue as to what makes the books so valuable or even which books from the auction they could be. Darla, the record shop owner, makes a startling discovery of her own - one that could change Kris’ life forever.

Trudy Clawson is a homicide detective with the police department in Night, Oregon. She is paired with FBI special agent Daryl Hatcher in pursuit of a diabolical serial killer with the moniker, “The Night Strangler”, who has raped and murdered several local women. When a second serial killer emerges targeting men, who are shot to death, Clawson and Hatcher must do double duty in their relentless pursuit of the clever unsubs.

A chilling ghost story from 1980s New England. James has lost his job as a hotshot Boston attorney and his idyllic marriage to Karen is on the rocks. In an attempt at rekindling their former life, the couple relocate with their children to the small town of Blackwater, Vermont and a grand Victorian Manor. But the house has a history and a terrible secret. A deathly menace lies in wait inside Blackwater House.

Street Kids: The Lives of Runaway and Thrownaway Teens, Second Edition, by award-winning and best-selling criminologist R. Barri Flowers, is an audiobook that examines the pathway from home to homeless for runaways and thrownaways, including precursors to life on the street. Street Kids will be a useful source for child welfare advocates, academics, professionals, sociologists, criminologists, researchers, laypersons, and others with an interest in the plight and mistreatment of children living on the streets or away from a safe home environment.

The O’Malleys have fostered dozens of cats in their bookshop over the past several years, but a new arrival named Regular is unlike any of their previous feline guests. This is Regular’s tale, but it is also Mack and Mavis O’Malley’s. It is about two “finds of a lifetime”: Kris, their young apprentice, opens a box to reveal a book that may be so valuable that it could make national headlines, and the O’Malleys discover something even more wonderful that will change their lives forever.

In this second book of the Dark Souls series, fate curses the brothers, and they must navigate ancient deceits and potent forewarnings to save the ones they love. Can the two enemies become each other’s saviors? Or will the Circles fall and love fade?