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A blow to the head ends the life of the lawyer at the height of her career. Misdiagnosis: whiplash. Brain and back injuries remain untreated, and she jumps from the brink of death several times. Because the insurance didnt pay out, the mother of fours family was torn apart. Nine years later, she finds her way back to life through an operation. She retrains as a coach and shows how women can get from hell to heaven. She wins her case against the insurance company in the Federal Court, but has still not received any benefits. The lawyer realizes that she is not an isolated case; women in particular are subject to hidden discrimination due to incorrect biomechanical calculations. But a solution is found.

Little simba Tayo has grown up. His carefree childhood in the crater is over and he has become a skilled hunter who has to learn to stand on his own two feet.An uncertain future lies ahead of him, but he soon meets the young lion Fumu and they have many an adventure together. They decide to set up a new hunting ground together, because many things are easier with two people.They talk about a large river where numerous prey graze the lush greenery - a lion would be able to live there like in paradise. And so the two young simba dream of their future kingdom. But before they get there, they still have a few tasks ahead of them.

After spending a carefree time in the Reich Labor Service in Silesia, young Christel comes to Rathenow at the beginning of the 1940s for war relief service without ever seeing her family again. There she married her superior Walter and had a daughter with him. Despite hunger and war, Christel leads a largely tranquil life. But then the Russians invade the idyllic small town and Christel is raped. The war is over, but a martyrdom begins for Christel. She makes a momentous decision ...The story of this extraordinary woman is based on true events.

A successful model, a failed marriage, the Parisian luxury life - against this backdrop, a love story unfolds that is put to the test in many ways. The question soon arises as to whether the fateful encounter between Jonas and Adaya was really a coincidence or whether there are more connections between them than they initially believe. Gradually, the entanglements of secret services and family tragedies become apparent. It is the love of the protagonists that keeps the reader captivated until the very last line.

Num mundo assolado por décadas de degradação ambiental, escassez de recursos e ameaças iminentes à sobrevivência, um grupo de destemidos exploradores emerge como a derradeira esperança para o seu pov

Marie has always loved Christmas more than anything - nothing and no one can stop her from celebrating it. At the end of the year, she now takes time out to get away from the hectic everyday life of our fast-paced times. She remembers fun Christmases in her childhood, but also the traditional celebration in hard times full of strokes of fate. Marie philosophizes about the art of turning misfortune into happiness, and reflects on life, which means constant change and does not allow itself to be dictated anything ... Colorful and beautiful it is, like tinsel!

Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic; of friends, family, and strangers; those found in books and films. One mans personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.A weekend spent shopping for antiques is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis.Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that examines the passage of time and how we mark it. It is a reckoning with human survival amidst "historys own brutality, which refuses symmetries and seldom consoles" - but it is also a testament to the possibility of joy. This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.Praise for Open City:Open City is not a loud novel, nor a thriller, nor a nail-biter. What it is is a gorgeous, crystalline, and cumulative investigation of memory, identity, and erasure. It gathers its power inexorably, page by page, and ultimately reveals itself as nothing less than a searing tour de force. Teju Cole might just be a W. G. Sebald for the twenty-first century. Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot SeeBeautiful, subtle, and finally, original... James Wood, The New Yorker

"If I survive this, Ill share with the world how I made it." Because of this promise to herself, author Samantha Becket describes her path from a broken heart towards self-love.Based on her own tragic love story, she explains how suffering, fear, and depression turned out to be valuable lessons.Not only did she overcome her lovepain, she rediscovered herself. Trauma of every kind can cause us to evolve and maybe taking part on her journey, can help you navigate through your own heartbreak.

MALAPROP Theatre is an award-winning collective of Irish theatremakers, who seek to challenge, delight and speak to the world we live in (even when imagining different ones). This volume brings together four of their bold, playful and genre-spanning plays, all premiered at the Dublin Fringe Festival between 2017 and 2023.In Everything Not Saved, ex-lovers argue about when they were happiest, police officers rewrite history, and Rasputin dances like no ones watching. Oh, and also the Queen is there.Before You Say Anything questions how everyone can be safe at the same time. A time-travelling set of interweaving stories exploring injustice, freedom and bravery.Where Sat the Lovers is about codes, hallucinations, Isaac Newton, war crimes, seeing meaning where theres none and vice versa. In an age of misinformation, how do you know if you know the right things?HOTHOUSEtackles climate breakdown with big ideas, a lot of laughs, and some truly grotesque cabaret numbers. Cruise ships, horny/murderous songbirds, fecund/fatalistic rabbits, loving/bruising parents and Minnie Riperton all make an appearance in this play with songs, which asks if things can ever get better.MALAPROP Theatre are Carys D. Coburn, John Gunning, Breffni Holahan, Molly OCathain, Maeve OMahony, Claire OReilly and Carla Rogers.MALAPROP have quickly distinguished themselves as one of Irelands most exciting emerging companies Ruth McGowan, Director, Dublin Fringe Festival (2018-23)A company of real ambition. One which is using theatrical form to grapple with the complexities of a world where the ground is constantly shifting beneath our feet and where what we believe can be recalibrated not just on a daily basis but minute by minute Lyn Gardner, Stage DoorReminiscent of early Caryl Churchill... this is thinking theatre at its bestIrish Independent

Follow tales from the past, get into adventures of the present, and find out if romance flourishes as you rejoin some of the characters from "The Item" in search of a Titian painting, Spanish gold an

This anthology of twenty medieval tales contains a representative selection of the various kinds of short narrative in verse that were transmitted together in German manuscript collections from the later thirteenth century onwards. They include religious miracle-tales, comic tales, moral-didactic tales, and courtly tales. Considered together, they offer an insight into how medieval poets tried to entertain as well as instruct their audiences in matters of faith and everyday conduct, and just what it was that made medieval listeners (and readers) laugh. The translations have been taken from DVN vol. 5 (Deutsche Versnovellistik des 13. bis 15. Jahrhunderts, ed. by Klaus Ridder and Hans-Joachim Ziegeler) and revised for the general reader; they are presented here for the first time with a commentary and notes.

A triumph of tone and, ultimately, of the imagination.Guardian Strange and hilarious and so, so sharp.Monica Heisey When a book reaches out and speaks to a reader so clearly, one can hardly do anything but recommend it in the highest terms.SpectatorA New Statesman, New Yorker and Financial Times Book of the Year. From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moores new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise.High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from one world into the next. But when a phone call summons Finn back to a troubled old flame, a strange journey begins, opening a trapdoor in reality. It will prompt a questioning of life and death, grief and the past, comedy and tragedy, and the diaphanous separations that lie between them all.Moore writes with such panache, such extraordinary perception and wit, that not a single sentence is wasted.Elizabeth DayWitty, but never merely clever, and tender without sentimentality.Hilary Mantel

Das dezenas de livros que escrevi, minha antologia poética é o que realmente me traduz. É a minha fotografia falada; a minha radiografia espiritual com os sentimentos e desejos revelados, com a esperança de um dia ver o mundo mais gentil para os humanos, os animais e os vegetais. Vasculhei todo o apartamento, caixas, gavetas e ate mesmo velhos depositos com bugigangas, a procura de poemas ou textos relegados ao esquecimento. Creio que a grande maioria se perdeu por estar escrita em papel inadequado, em capas de livros, nas paredes, na areia. Como eles so de todas as idades pelas quais passei, alguns so suavemente ingenuos, outros bastante maduros, terceiros timidamente eroticos e alguns, confesso, surpreendentes. Nesses textos se encontram toda a minha gratido pela vida, a minha fe na espiritualidade, a beleza recolhida em conta gotas e as vezes em jorros abundantes quais cachoeiras banhando-me a alma. A poesia ajudou-me a viver, tem sido minha companheira por decadas. Se no olhasse o cotidiano por seus olhos ja teria enlouquecido ou desencarnado. Dos muitos livros que escrevi, quero ser lembrado por este, o mais simples. Em cada pagina dele estou desperto, valente, mas docil, mais indio que branco, como sempre fui. Que a poesia nunca me abandone, que seja minha segunda pele como as penas de aguia. E que Deus seja louvado sempre.

Along the Samurais Route, with its 9 maps and more than 200 ºphotographs, invites the reader to go on a journey into the geography and history of Japan.Dare to travel the Land of the Rising Sun with the help of an experienced martial artist who will act as a guide, while recounting the incredible experiences of his journey.Following the life of the famous warrior Miyamoto Musashi, the author will discover the iconic places of samurai culture and its most deeply rooted traditions.This book is a journey back in time where he shares his experiences in sacred places such as temples, shrines, castles, museums, cemeteries, forests, battlefields, and even the climb of mythical Mount Fuji.This inspirational adventure, which started as a dream and took many years to prepare, places the reader, both neophyte and experienced, closer to the culture of this mysterious country.

Dillian e seus guardiões seguem para locais longínquos e desconhecidos à procura das Armas das trevas. Maldor continua em sua campanha para encontrar as armas e depois da descoberta de Bur, a sua det

A tender and funny tale about our secret selves, No Romance is a play about our search for connection in a fractured world. It received the Stewart Parker Trust Award in 2012.Laura has a secret. Joes has been revealed. Pegs been keeping hers for years.Rich with the absurdities, hypocrisies and vulnerabilities that course through our lives, Nancy Harriss No Romance playfully observes the longings, fears and desires we reveal - and dont reveal - in our closest relationships.No Romance was first staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2011.

Machado de Assis é o maior escritor da literatura brasileira. De infância pobre no Morro do Livramento, no Rio, foi aprendiz de tipógrafo, revisor, tradutor e escritor em todos os gêneros literários

Machado de Assis é o maior escritor da literatura brasileira. De infância pobre no Morro do Livramento, no Rio, foi aprendiz de tipógrafo, revisor, tradutor e escritor em todos os gêneros literários

Machado de Assis é o maior escritor da literatura brasileira. De infância pobre no Morro do Livramento, no Rio, foi aprendiz de tipógrafo, revisor, tradutor e escritor em todos os gêneros literários

Machado de Assis é o maior escritor da literatura brasileira. De infância pobre no Morro do Livramento, no Rio, foi aprendiz de tipógrafo, revisor, tradutor e escritor em todos os gêneros literários