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Após acompanhar o processo de adoecimento e morte da mãe, em decorrência do Alzheimer, Beatriz revisita a própria trajetória, angústias, crises de depressão e a culpa com que convive desde que passou por um trauma de juventude. Aos 50 anos, mãe de dois filhos, ela elabora o luto recente e também revive a perda de um filho e a separação ocorridas muitos anos antes.

Você consegue desvendar os segredos ocultos nas obras de Franz Kafka? Em Para Entender Kafka: Desvendando Símbolos e Metáforas, Ângelo Cláudio Alvarez Pinto guia o leitor através dos labirintos literários do renomado autor tcheco, revelando as camadas profundas de significados em suas narrativas surrealistas. Com uma abordagem acessível e uma análise detalhada, Alvarez Pinto explora temas como alienação, burocracia opressiva e a luta pela identidade, proporcionando uma nova perspectiva sobre clássicos como A Metamorfose e O Processo.

Riya Desai and Dhillon Vora grew up together. Sharing secrets, hiding in their tree house, they were playmates, best friends and later—as teenagers—almost something more. Until the devastating house fire that ripped them apart, claiming the life of Dhillon’s father and Riya’s big brother, Samir. Riya and Dhillon have barely spoken since that terrible night, but they both made big decisions based on that fire. The Second First Chance is a big, messy love story about family, heartbreak, strength and courage that shows us that sometimes what we want is what we least expect.

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.

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.

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.

When Dr. Ellen Einterz first arrives in the town of Kolofata in Cameroon, the situation is dire: Patients are exploited by healthcare workers, unsterilized needles are reused, and only the wealthy can afford care. In Life and Death in Kolofata: An American Doctor in Africa, Einterz tells her remarkable story of delivering healthcare for 24 years in one of the poorest countries in the world, revealing both touching stories of those she is able to help and the terrible suffering of people born in extreme poverty.

Police psychologist Dr. Dot Meyerhoff is pulled into the vortex of a terrible crime involving an eccentric photographer whose images of nude children make her a prime suspect in the disappearance of her own daughter. The principal investigator in the case is a young officer whose dedication to work and obsession with finding the missing child is tearing his own family apart. Trapped between her allegiance to the investigator, her complicated connections to the photographer, and her unstable relationship with the police chief, Dot must find a way to help everyone involved.

Do you find yourself constantly making the wrong choices and bad decisions in life? No matter what you do or say, things always have a way of getting twisted up and going off course. Sometimes it’s your own fault, but sometimes you’re not to blame. Many of the little problems that plague us boil down to relationships. Problems at home, school, work, the community, and life in general all relate to how we interact with other people. That is why this self-help book can benefit both young and older adults.

On the morning of August 14, 1935, Virginia Seigh, an attractive 23-year-old secretary, was shot and killed as she stood in the driveway of a home in Queens, New York. Her murderer was Mrs. Etta Reisman, the 35-year-old wife of Arthur Reisman, a 42-year-old well-to-do owner of a beauty salon chain. The previous day, Reisman had confessed to his wife he had fallen in love with Miss Seigh - his secretary, who had resided with the Reismans for seven years - and wanted a separation. This did not set well with Etta, who felt totally betrayed by her husband and their house guest.

Award-winning criminologist R. Barri Flowers, best-selling author of Murder at the Pencil Factory, delivers again in the gripping historical true-crime audio short, Murder of the U.S. Attorney: Congressman Sickles' Crime of Passion in 1859.

Firefighter Sean Jackson is at a crossroads in his career when he meets a mysterious blonde with a secret identity. Maggie Reynolds is on the run and looking for a place to hide, and the handsome firefighter seems like the perfect choice to help her. But Sean's life spins dangerously out of control as their passion ignites, and they find themselves caught up in a maze of lies and manipulation. Will they be able to find their way to the truth, or will they fall victim to the deranged arsonist terrorizing their small town?

''Ladies and Gentlemen: I give you the Kissing Booth Girl! Lips that beguile. Oh, I promise, the nearest thing to nuzzling an angel can be yours - today - for a shiny round seated liberty I know you carry in your very pockets as I speak.'' But to mechanically-inclined Beni, is the ethereal girl who fell from the sky a wish come true, or false hope for life beyond the confines of the odd carnival called home. Her story - as well as tales of an order of deep-sea diving nuns caring for a sunken chapel, and a high school boy asked to prom, by the only dead kid he's ever met.