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Nascido na África do Sul, em janeiro de 1892, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ficou órfão durante a infância e cresceu quase na pobreza. Ele serviu na Primeira Guerra Mundial e sobreviveu à Batalha do Somme, onde perdeu quase todos os seus amigos mais íntimos. Após a guerra, retornou à vida acadêmica, conquistando uma grande reputação como estudioso e professor universitário, e tornando-se, por fim, professor de Inglês em Oxford, onde fez amizade com C.S. Lewis e os outros escritores conhecidos, formando um grupo denominado Os Inklings. Então, de repente, sua vida mudou dramaticamente.

Every night, little Mira watches the stars twinkle above her village, dreaming of the day she might touch the sky. One evening, a shimmering trail of stardust leads her to the top of a hill, where she meets the mysterious Star Painter — a gentle figure who brushes the sky with light and color before bedtime. When the Star Painter’s magic brush breaks, only Mira’s heart and imagination can restore the fading constellations. Together, they discover that true magic isn’t just in the stars, but in the dreams we dare to share.

A timeless story of isolation and inner torment, Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human follows Yozo Oba, a man who hides behind laughter while drifting toward self-destruction.

The Dad Test brings that same tough-love energy to your startup ideas. It’s a practical, no-nonsense guide for founders, creators, and side-hustlers who are done with sugarcoated feedback and startup theater. This book helps you ask sharper questions, face harder truths, and build something that actually works—because the market won’t pull its punches, and neither should you.

When a wormhole failure sends geneticist Dr. Osric Rhendall one billion years into Earth’s past, he becomes the sole survivor of humanity’s most ambitious spacefaring mission. Trapped aboard the terraforming ship Daedalus One with a stubborn AI, Osric faces an impossible question: what to do when you’re the only soul in the solar system? Driven by a desire to give meaning to his isolation, Osric begins to remake Earth from scratch. One ecosystem at a time. One species at a time. From engineered algae to bioluminescent canines.

Sasha is back and she's not alone. An ancient enemy has returned. One that's been pulling strings from the shadows all along. But for every move we make, they are two steps ahead. All my life I've been a broken witch. Cursed to never forget. Now that curse may be the key to my own salvation. If there is one irrefutable truth, it's this—nothing will ever be the same again. Especially me.

In einer völlig außer Kontrolle geratenen Stadt voller Vampire, Hexen und Werwölfe können nur die stärksten Übernatürlichen für Ordnung sorgen. Der dritte Band der coolen Trilogie von Kel Carpenter

My captor, my enemy, and my fated mate. I’m the best bounty hunter in the business. I find lost artifacts that people would kill to possess. I’m also broke. When a notorious leprechaun offers me a job I can’t refuse, I realize too late I’m not hunting an object. The contract was simple; steal the prince, escape unseen. Spoiler alert: I failed. Horribly. The moment I step into the fae kingdom beyond the veil, I feel it—someone watching me. Waiting for me.

When Sterling discovers a treasure, he becomes the target of a Dragon. He and his two brothers find themselves in danger. As his fear grows, so does the Dragon. While most children use their imaginations to escape boredom, these brothers use their imaginations to change the world around them. For them to survive, it will take the creative power of all three to face the relentless Dragon stalking them.

In this fifth edition of Work the System, Carpenter reveals the profound insight and exact uncomplicated, mechanical steps he took to turn his business—and life—around. Once you "get" this new vision, success and serenity will come quickly.

In einer völlig außer Kontrolle geratenen Stadt voller Vampire, Hexen und Werwölfe können nur die stärksten Übernatürlichen für Ordnung sorgen. Der zweite Band der coolen Trilogie von Kel Carpenter. Ich bin schon wieder gestorben, aber bin immer noch nicht tot. Und langsam habe ich die Schnauze voll. Wer auch immer mich ständig umbringt (und schlimmer noch mein Kleid ruiniert hat!) wird dafür bezahlen.

Über ein Jahr ist vergangen, seit Vigo und Alec in Kanada ein neues Leben miteinander begonnen und sich eine gemeinsame Zukunft aufgebaut haben. Das bevorstehende Weihnachtsfest hat für Vigo gleich in mehrfacher Hinsicht eine große Bedeutung. Zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben kann er es wirklich als ein Fest der Liebe feiern, denn er darf es mit den Menschen verbringen, die ihm am wichtigsten sind. Auch Alec könnte sich nichts Schöneres vorstellen, als diese Zeit an der Seite seines Mannes und im Kreis ihrer engsten Freunde zu genießen. Alles scheint perfekt.

In The Grave Robber, Tim Carpenter, former FBI Lead Investigator on the Art Crime Team, recounts one of the most extraordinary and unsettling cases in the history of art theft. Over the course of five decades, a lone graverobber accumulated an illicit trove of over 42,000 artifacts from cultures across the globe, including Native American, Haitian, Chinese, and others. The stolen items included nearly 500 ancestral remains, carefully looted from sacred burial sites and cultural heritage locations.

If we knew that Coca-Cola was among the deadliest products in our diet, would we continue drinking it in such great quantities? The Coca-Cola Company has gone to extraordinary lengths to make sure we don't find out, as this damning exposé makes patently clear. Marshaling the findings of extensive research and deep investigative reporting, Murray Carpenter describes in Sweet and Deadly the damage Coke does to America's health—and the remarkable campaign of disinformation conducted by the company to keep consumers in the dark.

In einer völlig außer Kontrolle geratenen Stadt voller Vampire, Hexen und Werwölfe können nur die stärksten Übernatürlichen für Ordnung sorgen. "Du willst also sagen, ihr seid so eine Art Polizei für Übernatürliche?" "Ja, und du wirst die erste Frau bei uns sein." Ich bin der erste weibliche Reaper - der Geschichte! Das wäre ziemlich cool, wenn es in diesem geheimen Männerbund nicht viele gäbe, die mich lieber zum Schweigen bringen würde, als mich als einen der ihren zu akzeptieren.

40 Watts from Nowhere is the inspirational story of one woman with a passion, a lot of guts - and a radio transmitter in her bedroom closet. When law office receptionist Sue Carpenter first asked how she might start a legitimate radio station, everyone laughed. Getting on the air (legitimately) was a multimillion-dollar ambition. But in 1995, with the help of a few subversive techies and pirate radio gurus, Sue built her first transmitter in her hilltop San Francisco apartment and launched KPBJ, enlisting friends as DJs.

MEDIEVAL: The Phantom King is a supernatural fantasy action thriller about an undead skeleton king that rises from the crypt and goes stalking through a massive medieval castle, wreaking murder and devastation. All denizens of the castle are terrorised from the reigning King and Queen, down to the lords, ladies, knights, dames, servants, watchmen, courtesans, outlaws and even the resident ghosts. The entire story takes place within the span of a single storm-ridden autumn night.

In an immersive Southern Gothic with echoes of Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery and Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, a restauranteur lured by pandemic-era incentives moves her family to a seemingly idyllic small town in Georgia, only to discover a darkness lurking beneath the Southern hospitality and sun-dappled streets.

I thought my first husband was dead. But when I get a letter with his name on it just days before my wedding, it will tear my perfect new life apart… As we drive up to the gorgeous house by the lake with its red and yellow roses round the door, I breathe in the pure air and count my blessings. In two days’ time I’m getting married to Matt, my soulmate and the father of my beautiful boy. After all the pain of my past, my life now is perfect.

Roark Walsh: Es sollte einfach nur eine entspannte Nacht in Melbourne werden, doch dann komme ich zurück auf meine Ranch und finde niemand anderen auf der Ladefläche meines Pick-ups als Hayden Brook – Rockstar mit Bad Boy Image! Das Letzte, was ich gebrauchen kann, ist seine Gesellschaft. Denn Hayden ist nicht nur verboten heiß, sondern auch ein arroganter Arsch und viel zu neugierig. Ich kann nicht riskieren, dass er mein kleines, schmutziges Geheimnis aufdeckt – und damit alles in Gefahr bringt, was ich mir mühsam aufgebaut habe.