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No Emotions Allowed breaks the silence of modern slavery existence in the Western world. This fascinating true story is written in straightforward language to portray the cold truth of life of an emigrant in Ireland. Find out how life choices and decisions made lead to discovery of crafty characters in the hidden presence of forced labor.Prepare yourself for a captivating diary filled with unexpected emotional tribulations, bitter-sweet moments filled with raw emotions and failed expectations. Learn how vulnerability, humour and bravery breaks barriers to find solutions in the most helpless lifes situations.This is a compassionate story of a triumph against all odds. It will pull Your triggers to pursue Your dream life and guide You on the way to it.

Lilly, Tom and Miss Marple simply cant relax and unwind. No sooner are they out and about at Innsbrucks Christmas market than they accidentally slip into a new case for the VIER ZWEI detective agency. At the famous old rotunda, the three of them find themselves in quite a predicament. An inn next to the building that has moved its business outside in winter? Mysterious lights and inexplicable clouds of smoke billowing out of the walls? Men fleeing the place in a hurry? What is behind all this? A case that needs to be solved as quickly as possible!

Four weddings and an affair - what sounds like a romantic comedy only describes a fraction of this moving and eventful life story of a wise and open-minded woman who is always one step ahead of her surroundings. Between the challenges of emancipation, the tension between closeness and distance, adaptation and self-realization, she finds her very own path that both captivates and inspires her readers.In search of lost treasures, Emma Turk travels to countries near and far, studies languages and music and gets to know not only others, but above all herself.

One day this will work. One day we will gift two honest, decent, trusting volunteers a baby. I know this more than anything else in the world. I know it in my soul. We will do that.In 1978, three pioneering doctors changed the world of fertility as we know it. Supported by an army of immensely brave women from all over the UK, Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards and Jean Purdy achieved the impossible: they created human life in vitro.Faced with fierce criticism and hostility, and hounded by the media for playing God, trials had to be kept largely under wraps. But the trios determination to give hope to the thousands of families struggling to conceive eventually led to the first test-tube baby and the creation of IVF, a procedure which has since supported the birth of over twelve million babies worldwide.Gareth Farrs play A Child of Science is a fictionalised account of this true story of ambition and courage, based on extensive research and interviews with embryologists and fertility doctors, as well as those affected by and enabled by IVF. It was first performed at Bristol Old Vic in 2024, directed by Matthew Dunster.

Our planet Earth is home to many amazing, wonderful and beautiful plants, places and animals. How all that began, about 4 billion years ago, is also quite impressive, especially since our Earth was a lifeless hot rock exposed to radiation, electrical discharges, heat from erupting volcanoes and more!However, it turns out that those not-so-comfortable conditions were the exact mix needed to create the first building blocks of life. Some chemical elements, including hydrogen, oxygen and carbon, joined in variations to form certain molecules. Then, these small molecules also joined in different ways and formed carbon-based compounds. And its these compounds that became the founders and essential parts of all forms of life.Read this book to find out just how life came to be on Planet Earth.

O FENÓMENO LITERÁRIO INTERNACIONAL O THRILLER MAIS AGUARDADO DO ANO Millie, a memorável protagonista dos bestsellers A Criada e O Segredo da Criada, está de volta!A Sra. Lowell transborda simpatia ao acenar-me atraves da cerca que separa as nossas casas. Devem ser os nossos novos vizinhos! Agarro na mo da minha filha e sorrio de volta. No entanto, assim que ve o meu marido, uma expresso estranha atravessa-lhe o rosto.Eu costumava limpar a casa de outras pessoas. Nem posso acreditar que esta casa e realmente minha... Apesar de ter ficado de pe atras com a Suzette Lowell, quando ela nos convida para jantar em sua casa, decido que e uma boa oportunidade para fazer amizade. Mas o olhar frio da empregada, quando nos abre a porta... da-me calafrios.E a empregada dos Lowell no e a coisa mais estranha desta rua. Sinto uma figura sombria a obser var-nos frequentemente, e o meu marido começa a sair de casa tarde, a meio da noite. Alem disso, a mulher que vive do outro lado da rua cruza-se comigo, e as suas palavras arrepiam-me ate aos ossos: Tenham cuidado com os vossos vizinhos.Eu e o meu marido poupamos durante anos para dar aos nossos filhos a vida que merecem. Pensei que o passado tinha ficado para tras... sera que cometemos um erro ao mudarmo-nos para aqui?No se consegue parar de ler. As reviravoltas so surpreendentes e o final e espantoso. GoodreadsQue viagem de doidos foi esta?! E literalmente impossivel pousar este livro. Amazon

História de uma menina que, apesar de ter nascido muito pobre, com a ajuda de pessoas boas que foram surgindo em seu caminho, venceu.Nena FerreiraBreve biografia do autor principal: Joana, mãe de 5 f

In rural Great Ayton, William Bradley is sent to live with his ageing grandparents, away from his burdened mother, who has too many mouths to feed and a drunken husband to support. Adjusting to a new life, William aspires to follow in his grandfathers footsteps in the mining business. He also falls for a beautiful girl, Susan, but heartbreak is in store when Susan reveals her own ambitions for advancement in life.William makes his mark in the mining business but discovers that his vocation may lie elsewhere than in mining whinstone. When William is struck by a series of tragedies, he is forced to evaluate his future and make some challenging decisions. Full of the vigour of youth, William leaves the safety of everything he has known and forges a new life, with surprising results.

In the year 2075, more than 15 billion people are vegetating on Earth, all other living beings are almost extinct - the end of humanity is inevitable. Georg and Li set off into space to find a place where their species can survive. On their journey, they not only find unknown worlds, but also new insights: How did their world come to be? Under what conditions does a civilized society function? Georg gradually realizes that, despite all the complexity, everything ultimately boils down to a single factor that ensures peaceful coexistence on all planets. Will Georg and Li find a new home? What will happen to life on Earth?

Diel is a 19-year-old teenager like many others. He lives in a nice house, has busy parents and still goes to school. But what sets him apart from his "normal" peers: He suffers from a mental illness. At first, he tries everything he can to fight it. He cant count on his parents. Nor can he count on his only two friends. So he is trapped alone in a spiral of exclusion and loneliness. Will he manage to escape it? Or has he already reached the point of no return? In his book, the author describes what bullying and its consequences do to people, the momentum it creates and how isolated and supposedly without prospects the victims are. This story has a questionable ending, perhaps we will succeed in changing things in real life.

Tricia e Ethan, recém-casados, estão à procura da casa dos seus sonhos.Quando visitam a remota mansão que pertenceu à Dra. Adrienne Hale, uma psiquiatra de renome que desapareceu misteriosamente sem

They say work harder, strive harder. The machine strives for nothing. The loom does the work twice as fast and half as well. And theyll settle for that. Theyll settle for that.Machines can make our work easier. They can also make it vanish overnight. Joe Ward Munrows play The Legend of Ned Ludd weaves together stories from around the world and takes us on a whirlwind global commute, from the Luddites nineteenth-century war against new technology through to London, Liverpool, Lagos and beyond...But were all at the mercy of The Machine. And, in this powerful exploration of work, automation and capitalism, The Machine selects the scenes for each performance, resulting in 256 possible versions of the play, spun from all the stories included in this published edition. It premiered at the Liverpool Everyman in 2024, directed by Jude Christian.

At first, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlawi had a grand vision: to catapult Iran from a deep sleep into modernity. But free modern people did not fit his vision. When his subjects sought protection from the Shahs vision and police violence, they found it in the past, in Islam.Omid was one of the revolutionaries who overthrew the Shah in February 1979 and seized power. Now they worked with great zeal to realise their vision: to establish a theocracy with believers. They also failed. Omid realises that the new rulers want to use the Shahs methods to make the people compliant. Violence is used to silence dissenters. Disappointed, he turns away. Omids fate stands for all Iranians who now want to live in a free and modern Iran.

PODEMOS AMAR ALGUÉM UMA VIDA INTEIRA?Sou dos que acredita que se pode amar uma pessoa a vida toda e toda a vida pode até ser pequena para tanto amor. Não temos de amar todos na mesma medida, nem toma

Vietname, 1972. Do seu refúgio nas montanhas, a pequena Huong e a sua avó observam Hanói a arder sob o fogo dos bombardeiros americanos. Até àquele momento a guerra tinha sido apenas uma sombra que a

O homem estava deitado de bruços, de braços e pernas atados e puxados para cima por uma corda. Tinha a cabeça arqueada para cima, pelo que se encontrava voltado para as cortinas, e fita adesiva a cobrir-lhe a boca. Cautelosamente, Erika estendeu a mo e verificou-lhe a pulsaço. Estava morto.Quando Erika Foster encontra o politico Neville Lomas nu, amarrado e morto na sua propria cama, os responsaveis da Policia Metropolitana ignoram a hipotese de assassinio, encerram o caso e declaram morte por causas naturais.Mas, passados dois meses, quando um conhecido diretor de casting e um astro do futebol so tambem encontrados mortos e amarrados da mesma forma, a Policia ja no pode desconsiderar o que esta a vista de todos: ha um assassino em serie a solta em Londres e parece estar a ajustar contas com gente importante. Enquanto Erika e a sua equipa investigam, as coisas tomam um rumo estranho quando imagens de uma camara de vigilancia revelam cinco mulheres suspeitas... todas elas identicas.Na busca para identificar as mulheres, Erika e superada a todo o momento por uma trabalhadora do sexo esquiva que guarda podres sobre homens poderosos o suficiente para deixar os chefes da Policia Metropolitana nervosos e desesperados.A medida que o tempo passa e antes que o assassino volte a atacar, cabe a Erika desembaraçar a teia de provas e responder as questes essenciais: o que liga as vitimas, quem mais esta envolvido neste escandalo e ate onde iro os poderosos para se protegerem e aos seus pares?

New York City. The dawn of a new century. Two men intent on changing the world with two very different visions. When a self-made millionaire and a new-age social revolutionary come head-to-head, theres no telling who will come out on top. One wants the world. The other wants to give it to those less fortunate. And when a goodwill man steps in to act as mediator, he soon finds himself at a crisis of conscience. How should man choose who wins and loses? What is the best approach for equality for all? And can social struggles ever really be overcome?Weaving a compelling and thought provoking tale of the moral highs and lows during the American age of emerging social struggle, William Dean HowellsA Hazard of New Fortunes is the perfect historical companion for The Big Short fans of Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carell and Brad Pitt. It will make you stop, think and listen to the life experiences of those around you.

Dawn Schiff é uma mulher estranha. Pelo menos, é o que toda a gente pensa na Vixed, a empresa de suplementos nutricionais onde trabalha como contabilista. Dawn nunca diz a coisa certa. Não tem amigos

O FENÓMENO INTERNACIONALA SÉRIE MAIS QUENTE DO ANOProposta Irrecusável é o segundo livro da série Miles High Club, de T L Swan. Uma história que vai do amor ao ódio em segundos e vice-versa. Mais um bestseller instantaneo que esta a dar que falar.Conheci o Tristan Miles numa reunio em que me fez uma proposta para comprar a empresa do meu falecido marido. Ele e poderoso, arrogante e irritantemente lindo. Representa tudo o que odeio no mundo dos negocios. E detestei-o com todas as celulas do meu corpo. Recusei firmemente a sua proposta.Para grande surpresa minha, ligou novamente dias depois e convidou-me para jantar. Preferia morrer a aceitar sair com um homem como o Tristan embora tenha de admitir que o convite foi otimo para o meu ego. Recusa-lo acabou por ser o unico ponto alto de um ano que estava a ser terrivel.Seis meses depois, encontrei-o numa conferencia, em França. O Tristan era um dos oradores. Continuava arrogante e irritante mas, desta vez, surpreendentemente encantador e espirituoso. Quando os nossos olhares se cruzaram, senti borboletas no meu interior. Mas, definitivamente, no vou por ai.Ja passei por muito, e no vou admitir que um sacana rico e mimado brinque comigo. O Tristan no passa de um jogador charmoso e arrogante, e eu no passo de uma viuva, com uma empresa em crise e tres filhos rebeldes.So desejo que o raio desta conferencia acabe. Sempre ouvi dizer que o Tristan Miles e persistente e consegue sempre aquilo que quer... e, agora, sou eu quem ele quer.

Enquanto me esquivo para não responder às perguntas que o agente da polícia me faz sobre o meu cativeiro, certos pensamentos sombrios agitam-se na minha mente.Não os posso deixar descobrir quem matou