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Nesta narrativa breve, poética e bem-humorada, Amós Oz mergulha na fantasia e nos grandes temas do nosso tempo para criar uma fábula valiosa para todas as idades.Os amigos Mati e Maia nunca viram um animal, pois no existe nenhum tipo de bicho na pacata aldeia em que vivem. Tudo o que sabem sobre essas criaturas aprenderam com a solitaria professora Emanuela, que descreve em sala de aula suas memorias de infancia.Segundo os adultos, as historias da professora no passam de lendas malucas e perigosas, e os animais na verdade nunca existiram. Cansados de explicaçes mal contadas e de segredos sobre o passado daquele lugar, Mati e Maia resolvem investigar por conta propria, desafiando a proibiço de entrar no bosque, onde reina o temivel Nehi, o demonio das montanhas.Habituado a discutir dilemas politicos e sociais, Amos Oz constroi uma fabula encantadora e atemporal. Com uma linguagem plena de humor e sutileza, o autor nos conduz por um universo assombroso e fascinante para abordar grandes temas da nossa epoca, como a intolerancia, a liberdade, e a relaço entre o homem e a natureza.

Você trabalha cada vez mais, corta gastos, faz "tudo certo" — e ainda assim sente que não sai do lugar financeiramente? O problema não é falta de esforço, sorte ou disciplina. É estratégia. E este li

A preocupação da mãe com a formação ética, moral e intelectual da filha jovem é o tema deste livro. Embora ele seja profundamente marcado pelos costumes do século XIX, Nísia Floresta inova em muitas

Em uma universidade onde segredos matam, Ophelia busca vingança. E seu único aliado é o herdeiro do inimigo. Neste romance dark academia, amar pode ser o erro mais perigoso de todos.Na isolada Universidade Sorrowsong, so herdeiros de familias poderosas so aceitos. Ophelia Winters no se encaixa nessa categoria. Bolsista e deslocada, chega ao campus com um objetivo: investigar a morte de seus pais e destruir o responsavel.Seu plano, porem, começa a desmoronar quando conhece Alex Corbeau-Green, o aluno mais cobiçado da faculdade e filho de seu principal suspeito. Bonito, bilionario e intocavel, Alex representa tudo que Ophelia odeia. Mas quando ela passa a ser perseguida por um desconhecido, e Alex quem se torna seu aliado e talvez sua unica salvaço.Entre corredores antigos e colegas perigosos, Ophelia se ve dividida entre a vingança e os sentimentos inesperados que esta nutrindo por Alex. Conforme a atraço cresce e segredos surgem, ela precisa decidir ate onde ira e se sera capaz de destruir o mundo do homem por quem esta se apaixonando.CONTEUDO ADULTO

Ao enfrentar uma situação estressante ou perigosa, o cérebro escolhe a reação que oferece a maior chance de sobrevivência. Normalmente reagimos lutando, fugindo ou ficando paralisados quando lidamos

Uma romantasia viciante, repleta de reviravoltas, cenas quentes e muitos, muitos vampiros.Eu, Medra Pendragon, sou a última cavaleira de dragões — ou pelo menos é o que dizem. O engraçado é que faz m

Trace Gods Plan of Redemption Through the Old Testament Do you find the Old Testament historical books challenging or confusing? Have you ever struggled to get through these sections of Gods Word or wondered why they matter for us today? Many of us view the Old Testament as something we read simply because weve been told its good for us. But when we uncover the unfolding story of redemption within these books, we see a theological vision that points us to Jesus.Unfolding Redemption helps readers trace Gods story of redemption through the historical books of the Old Testament and discover its fulfillment in Christ. As readers dive deeper, theyll gain a richer understanding of the gospel and see its vibrant connections throughout Scripture. This book makes the theology of the Old Testament accessible and approachable, showing how these books fit together to tell a larger story that culminates in Christ.Biblical scholar Ian Vaillancourt unpacks themes like settling Gods redeemed people in Joshua, delivering Gods redeemed people in Judges, preserving Gods redeemed people in Esther, hope for the ultimate redemption in 1 and 2 Chronicles, and more. Vaillancourt guides readers through the Old Testaments historical books with a clear and intentional approach, revealing how every part of the story leads to Jesus. Unfolding Redemption is an excellent introductory textbook, and is ideal for pastors or Bible teachers as well as groups looking to study the Bible more deeply. With discussion questions for reflection, Unfolding Redemption equips Christians to dig deeply into these texts, see their themes woven together, and understand what they mean for our lives today.

Finding Gods Grace Through Lament "I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me."Psalm 77:1 What do we do with our pain? So much in our world is simply not right: Disease. Death. Destruction. But we dont have to look to the news to know that things arent okay. Our neighborhoods, our churches, and even our families ache with the everyday troubles of this life. Whether our response is rage or tears or numbness, the Bible offers an avenue for our pain: lament.In Crying Out to God, Wendy Alsup uses psalms of lament to give words to our often-wordless cries. During this eight-week study, we learn that God not only allows our complaints about all that is not right, but he also welcomes our protests and tears. And we discover that God meets us in our lament, giving us his remarkable grace and provision in our time of need.Crying Out to God features: 8-week Bible study experience with accompanying videos Flexible format and helpful suggestions for using this book with large groups, small groups, one-on-one, or for solo study Group sessions include 10-minute video lessons and discussion questions 5 days of engaging study each week to deepen your faith Reflection on a different Psalm each week In this study, youll join Wendy in exploring the dark, the hard, and the wrong in this world. Name it before the Lord and allow God through the Scriptures to meet you in it. Youll find grace in your time of need, your communitys time of need, and our worlds time of need. Youll find that God has not left you to journey through the darkness alone.

From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a nightmarish, haunting, tech-Gothic thrill ride about sorrow, memory, and the unabashed complexity of love as a transgressive act.After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They introduce Simeon to a curious figure known as Porcelain Khawa man with the ability to let those who are grieving have one last intimate moment with their beloved...for a price.Hallucinatory, fiendish, and destructively beautiful, Wretch transports us to a world where not everything is as it seems, and those we love may be the ones who haunt us most.

E SE O COLAPSO DA HUMANIDADE NO VIESSE DA GUERRA, MAS DA AUSENCIA ABSOLUTA DE CONEXO REAL? E SE, EM NOME DA SEGURANÇA E DO PROGRESSO, ESQUECESSEMOS COMO TOCAR, SENTIR, OLHAR NOS OLHOS E CRER? "Conexes Invisiveis" e um drama distopico global, de estetica intimista e alma espiritual, que mistura ficço especulativa com profundidade existencial. Num planeta a beira do colapso, a humanidade vive enclausurada, e as telas substituem a presença. Mas sob a superficie digital, escondem-se dores no curadas, verdades ocultas e um mundo espiritual esquecido. Entre Seul, Tel Aviv, Londres e Provence, vozes solitarias se cruzam em um espaço virtual onde compartilham suas feridas. Sem perceber, abrem portais que podem conduzir a esperança ou ao fim de tudo. Mais que ficço cientifica, esta e uma narrativa multicultural que une drama psicologico, reflexo filosofica e horizonte teologico. O desfecho arrebatador revela que o verdadeiro apocalipse no foi ambiental, mas espiritual. E que ha um Livro esquecido por muitos que ainda guarda o caminho para quem ousa confessar e crer.

Caraterizada como um romance, a obra Razo e Emoço: o soar de uma nova melodia destina-se a todos: pais e filhos, peritos e leigos, doutos e indoutos, pois o amor a todos diz respeito. No primeiro volume, o enredo e centralizado em Jay e Rosa, dois jovens, estudantes universitarios, com personalidades distintas, os quais ao longo do tempo acabam por viver experiencias inesperadas envolvendo emoçes paradoxais sorrisos e lagrimas profundas ate um deles chegar a linha divisoria marcada, descritivamente, pelo Criador. Neste segundo volume, personagens como Dimitrios, Sandro e Laura entram em cena, protagonizando momentos emocionantes, desde oposiçes a fe crist, a arte, a seduço, a paixo e ao amor. Dimitrios, um jovem ateu, que Rosa conheceu numa de suas viagens a Italia, durante suas ferias, por intermedio do Sandro, agora viaja para cidade da rapariga, em ocasio de um nefasto acontecimento que ocorre com a familia do seu melhor amigo, o qual, com seus pais haviam definido fazer uma visita aos pais de Rosa, que eram grandes amigos. Neste reencontro, o som de uma nova melodia e posteriormente ouvido, porem interrompido pelas assimetrias geograficas, psicologicas e religioso-crists, que so finalmente vencidas. Fomentando assim a necessidade de novos começos, em meio as circunstancias inevitaveis da vida.

Ansiedade do Nosso Tempo: do mecanismo de sobrevivência ao adoecimento silencioso convida o leitor a uma jornada sensível e profunda sobre uma das experiências mais marcantes da vida contemporânea. D

Belfast. The city is on fire. Truth is a death sentence.When ambitious London lawyer Lena Dawson arrives in Northern Ireland in 1987, she believes in the law, its structure, its power, its promise of fairness. But Belfast is a battlefield. The rules here are written in blood.Thrown into the heart of the conflict, Lena defends a high-profile loyalist paramilitary case, instantly drawing the attention, and hostility, of a ruthless and well-connected QC. Then comes an unthinkable request: an IRA figure known as "the godfather" asks her to investigate the police killing of his brother. Accepting could destroy her career. Refusing could cost her far more.As Lena digs deeper, she uncovers a chilling conspiracy stretching from the streets of Belfast to the corridors of power in Westminster. With every revelation, the stakes rise. Bombs detonate. Loyalties fracture. And the line between right and wrong begins to vanish.In a city divided by fear and violence, its not just the truth thats dangerous, its who you become when you pursue it.Written by acclaimed investigative journalist Anne Cadwallader, drawing on four decades of frontline reporting during the Troubles, Crossing Over is a gripping, authentic legal thriller infused with political intrigue, moral conflict, and a haunting undercurrent of forbidden love.For readers of Milkman and Trespasses, this is a story that doesnt just explore history, it drags you deep into it.

Designing and Weaving Double Cloth explains the magic behind creating a multi-layered fabric in a single piece. With clear, detailed instruction and over 500 images, it provides a thorough account of the principles, and encourages you to explore the potential of this exciting technique.Double cloth holds a special fascination for handweavers: there is something truly extraordinary about being able to create a multi-layered fabric in a single piece. In Designing and Weaving Double Cloth, the processes of double weave design and construction are developed step by step through detailed examples and inspirational projects. Starting with two layers on four shafts, and methodically building up a repertoire of design elements from blocks and curves to colour and structure, this book offers something for everyone from the double cloth novice to the experienced weaver. Every element is illustrated with samples and full-colour drafts, and practical advice is supported by detailed photographs of warping, weaving and finishing techniques. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on offering a choice of approaches in both design and construction, equipping the reader with the tools to pursue their own vision for double cloth and bring it to life at the loom.

A luminous and romantic debut verse-novel navigating first love as a non-binary teenager.I feel invincible.Like I could run and runand never stop for breath.I feel a power in meI didnt know I had.The power to speak,to say what I need.Surya knows exactly who they are. Coming out as non-binary to their queer parents and best friend? A total non-event. Catching feelings for Blessing - the boy in drama club whose smile makes their heart race? Thats trickier.As their final year of school unfolds and the two of them grow closer, Surya starts to question: Does Blessing really see them? Or just a version of them that doesnt exist? Theyd ask their best friend for advice, but shes busy falling in love too. . .With gorgeous illustrations throughout, Bad Queer draws us deeply into queer friendship, family secrets, and the necessary act of loving yourself. Perfect for fans of Alice Oseman, Dean Atta and Sarah Crossan.This is a love letter to queer futures - tender, curious, and fiercely alive.Truthful, intimate and powerful!Laura DockrillBeautifully written verse novel about first love, acceptance and identity.Abiola BelloSensual, present and protective. I feel like I made a friend.Steven Camden

When a "software error" erases Zala from the system, she discovers that officially, she and her newborn dont exist. As Zala fights desperately to prove her existence, and her child from adoption, she uncovers the Kafkaesque reality of Slovenias system one that erased 25,671 citizens on February 26, 1992. A chilling thriller about bureaucracy as violence, and one mothers battle against the state.

From the former Poet Laureate, a remarkable contemplation of departure and return.Andrew Motions new collection gives a moving account of the friction and interplay between past and present. In the opening elegies for friends and former versions of the self, and in the long title sequence which completes the book, he explores the ways in which regrets compete with hope, and the appetite for life is always a prey to hard facts of mortality. The energy and reach of these poems opens a new chapter in Motions writing, remaining true to the elegiac subjects which have always been his main concern, while adding new depths of pathos and resonance.

Downtown NYC of the mid-1970s and early 80s was the perfect landscape for reinvention. If the Lost Generation writers telegraphed the death of the American dream, the No Wave era, led by artists including Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Nan Goldin, Sonic Youth and the Contortions, challenged that dream by howling "NO" while creating a counterculture that brought punk, rock, jazz, funk, the art world, hip hop, and outlaw literature together into an international explosion of creativity. Why was this scene so compelling, and remains so today? What set this confluence of time, place, and people apart from the rest? The answer, in a word: women. Women, resisting stereotypes. Reinventing themselves according to their individual artistic visions. Adele Bertei was a pivotal figure in the No Wave movement. She was an original member of the Contortions and Brian Enos fascination with the band resulted in the seminal No New York record, released in 1978. NO NEW YORK: A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene will provide an uncompromising testimony to the first significant, international movement of women artists creating work on an equal footing with the men, the fruits of which were some of the most striking and unique of this era.

"Hunted Down", A rare detective story by one of the greatest writers in the English language..Chapter 1Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however unpromising the opportunity may, at first sight, seem.As I have retired, and live at my ease, I possess the means that I used to want, of considering what I have seen, at leisure. My experiences have a more remarkable aspect, so reviewed, than they had when they were in progress. I have come home from the Play now, and can recall the scenes of the Drama upon which the curtain has fallen, free from the glare, bewilderment, and bustle of the Theatre.Let me recall one of these Romances of the real world

Compreender o significado de uma inovação pedagógica sob a influência política do período de transição da ditadura militar (1964-1985) para a democracia no Brasil foi um dos objetivos desta investiga