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Author
Publisher
Galera Record
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Portuguese
Description
"França: 1714. Addie LaRue não queria pertercer a ninguém ou a lugar nenhum. Em um momento de desespero, a jovem faz um pacto: a vida eterna, sob a condição de ser esquecida por quem a conhecer. Um piscar de olhos, e, como um sopro, Addie se vai. Uma virada de costas, e sua existência se dissipa na memória de todos. Após tanto tempo vivendo uma existência deslumbrante, aproveitando a vida de todas as formas, fazendo uso de tantos artifícios...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
He was the consummate designer of film architecture on a grand scale. He was known for his visual flair and timeless innovation, a man who meticulously preplanned the color and design of each film through a series of continuity sketches that made clear camera angles, lighting, and the actors' positions for each scene, translating dramatic conventions of the stage to the new capabilities of film. Here is the long-awaited book on William Cameron Menzies,...
29183) All I want for Christmas
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A Virgin River Christmas: Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband. This year she's come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him. Marcie's letters to marine Ian Buchanan have gone unanswered, but she's tracked him to the tiny mountain town. As Marcie pushes her way into his reclusive life, she discovers a sweet but damaged soul beneath a rough exterior. It is, after all,...
Author
Publisher
al-Dār al-ʻArabīyah lil-ʻUlūm Nāshirūn
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Arabic
Description
Six months have passed since Jessica's encounter with the mysterious serial-killing coven of witches and the death of her mentor Erne. Her nightmares about her mother and the witchcraft that undid her have only gotten worse, but she's doing what she can to stay focused. Her homicide squad, now under new leadership, has been given a murder case and a new series of disappearances to investigate. A young woman's corpse has washed up on an icy beach,...
29185) Long summer nights
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A mystical and transcendent journey of two wanderers, an eleven-year-old boy and an old man to whom the boy has been entrusted by his father, a Jew, fleeing the ravages of the war by the late award winning author, Aharon Appelfeld. The old man is a former Ukrainian commander, revered by the soldiers under his command, who has gone blind and chosen the life of a wanderer as his last spiritual adventure. The child, now disguised as a Ukrainian non-Jew,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Urano, S.A.U
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
29187) Mae: Volume two
Author
Publisher
Roar
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Mae has followed her long-lost sister Abbie through a gate and into another world: Cimrterén, a world full of dangerous creatures, strange science, and warring nobles. Their father has gone missing, and Mae and Abbie must fight their way to the heart of Ebenhrad to find their father. Along their journey, they'll come across old friends as well as some new adversaries determined to stand in their way. ... Mae and Abbie face some of their biggest...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Nir Rosen is one of the few Western reporters able to report the truth from Iraq. A freelancer who speaks Iraqi-accented Arabic, he has reported from some of the country's most dangerous locales. He has listened to the insurgents, and he knows that they will never rest until the Americans are gone. Since the fall of Saddam, Rosen has been breaking bread with dangerous men and listening to ordinary Iraqis. He has heard the double messages--the careful...
29189) The Gods of Sagittarius
Author
Series
Gods of Sagittarius volume 1
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A grand alternate history, science fiction adventure from multiple New York Times best-selling author Eric Flint, creator of the Ring of Fire alternate history series, the Jao Empire series, and the Boundary series, and multiple Hugo award winner and science fiction legend Mike Resnick. Russ Tabor is one of the top security specialists in the galaxy. Much against his will, he finds himself assigned to provide protection for Rupert Medawar Narayan...
29190) The journey of little Gandhi
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c[2009], c1994
Language
English
Description
"He was born in Mashta Hasan, ran away from his father, who took him to his grandfather's cave, worked in the Miftah bakery in Tripoli, moved to Beirut where he worked in Abu Ayoun's restaurant, and then worked as a shoe shiner. He got married and had two children, Husn and Suad. Husn was a barber, and Suad was sick. He loved life and loved the flavor of it. Alice told him, and the Reverend Amin befriended him, and Davis turned him into a restaurant...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011, ©2006
Language
English
Description
It happens without warning, and it devastates you: your closest girlfriend cuts you off completely. She has decided for whatever reason to move on and has left you to try to make sense of what happened. The experience can be as painful as the death of a loved one and as confusing as an unexpected breakup with a significant other. This book gives voice to this painful, common, yet rarely discussed phenomenon and provides a resource that you can rely...
29192) 12 let rabstva
Author
Publisher
Audiokniga
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Russian
Description
The story of Solomon Northup is a bizarre and incredible one. Born a free black in New York State in 1808, he was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841, and spent most of the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. His years in this condition of servitude were filled with abuse, apprehension, and a profound fear for his life (he narrowly escaped lynching). Northup's years in captivity are dramatically recounted here, as are his...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"What would happen if we could stop time? A fascinating, inside look at five women who had their eggs frozen reveals what it's like for them to be free of the constant ticking of their biological clocks.Recently, several American fertility clinics announced that their pregnancy rates using frozen eggs are improving dramatically, nearly approaching the success rate they have with "fresh eggs." For the first time, women may have a real opportunity to...
Author
Publisher
Findhorn Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the self-fulfilling lives of people who, by chance or choice, have no children of their own Investigates the life choices people make around having children and alternate ways of finding purpose in life Based on a global survey and more than 50 in-depth interviews with childless and childfree women and men aged 19 to 91 from different cultures and walks of life Enables readers to place their own circumstances in a larger context...
29195) Aging: an apprenticeship
Publisher
Red Notebook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Nan Narboe's thoughtfully selected essays offer an intimate and lyrical account of aging through the decades. Authors Judy Blume, Andrew McCarthy, Gloria Steinem and others draw from their own experiences, describing a specific decade's losses and gains to form a complex and unflinching portrait of the years from nearing fifty to ninety and beyond."--Book jacket.
29196) Pacific fire
Author
Series
California bones novels volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"I'm Sam. I'm just this guy. Okay, yeah, I'm a golem created from the substance of his own magic by the late Hierarch of Southern California. With a lot of work, I might be able to wield magic myself. I kind of doubt it, though. Not like Daniel Blackland can. Daniel's the reason the Hierarch's gone and I'm still alive. He's also the reason I've lived my entire life on the run. Ten years of never, ever going back to Los Angeles. Daniel's determined...
29197) The Thomas the Tank engine man: the story of the Reverend W. Awdry and his really useful engines
Author
Publisher
Lion
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Reverend W. Awdry was a devoted pastor and family man, who adored trains. He started to tell stories about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends in order to entertain his son Christopher. Those stories have now gone on to entertain generations of children around the world. A convinced pacifist, Awdry was thrown out of one curacy and denied another during World War II, because of his beliefs. He was a man of courage, who believed that you should...
29198) Sonic boom: Super pack
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Wherever he goes and whatever he's up against, he is aided by his sidekick, Tails, and his friends Knuckles, Amy, and Sticks and, of course, attacked by his arch nemesis, Dr. Eggman. The series is set in a wide-open world, where most of the characters live in and around an unnamed village. Just over the horizon is a vast landscape filled with beaches, jungles, mountains, undersea civilizations, cloud cities, frozen lakes, and more!
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