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No longer is the climate emergency purely an external threat to our wellbeing: this profoundly political circumstance is deeply personal. The summer after giving birth, Sarah Marie Wiebe and her baby endured the 2021 heat dome in British Columbia, with temperatures over 20 degrees above normal, creating all-time heat records across the province. It was the deadliest weather event in Canadian history. The extreme heat landed Wiebe in the hospital, dehydrated and separated from her nursing baby from dawn until dusk. So began a year of mothering through heat, fires and floods.

The much anticipated wedding of Ashley Crane and Sean McDonnell is finally here. Once the happy couple ties the knot, they embark on a relaxing honeymoon in Hawaii. But when they return to Comfortville, trouble strikes. An old acquantaince of Sean's is murdered at a reknowned Shakespeare festival in the town of Brewer. In addition, one of Ashley's childhood friends is a major player at the festival. At first, Ashley decides to leave the investigation to the local Brewer detective, but soon it becomes clear that he is in way over his head.

Uno de los tesoros más codiciados y enigmáticos del mundo submarino se esconde en las profundidades del océano Atlántico. Una anciana historiadora naval podría tener la clave para rescatarlo, pero muere de repente en extrañas circunstancias. Pietro Rivas, un subinspector que acaba de llegar a la ciudad, será el encargado de investigar el caso junto con Nagore Freire, una extravagante inspectora de Patrimonio. Cuando las muertes comienzan a sucederse, la policía descubre que la clave para resolverlas reside en la historia del galeón Albatros Negro.

Clio isn't a thief. She isn't a spy, a soldier, or a diplomat. Aside from her rare ability to mimic spells, her only notable talent is gardening. But with a war threatening her homeland, and her half-brother—the nymph prince—pleading for her help, she agrees to attempt the impossible: stealing deadly magic from the best spell weavers in the three realms. Their stronghold is located deep in the Underworld, which is exactly the sort of place an Overworld nymph like her should never go. Getting in won't be that hard. Getting out alive is the impossible part.

12 Elephants and a Dragon isn’t just another book on Vietnam War history. It’s the story of one family’s life after the war. Vi Tu Banh, then still a child, and his family left their home country in a dangerously overcrowded and dilapidated boat, had to fend for themselves on Air Raya in Indonesia, and then made the journey from the Galang refugee camp to a new life in a house on a hilltop among the snowy fields outside Uxbridge, Ontario. They learned, one day at a time, how to build a new life in Canada.

Max Godfrey and Stella Flynn are Hollywood royalty, but their successful careers in film and music mean far less to them than their marriage, their four children and twelve grandchildren. Family is what matters to Max and Stella, and they’re looking forward to a weekend of anniversary celebrations, Christmas in Utah and a get-away with family and friends to Mexico when a blast from Max’s past threatens to undo everything. A tell-all Hollywood memoir jeopardizes all they hold dear in a way neither of them would’ve thought possible.

O que é ser gente grande para você? Para o Joãozinho, era falar tudo em -ÃO. O desejo dele era crescer, mas o que cresceu mesmo foi a CONFUSÃO que ele arrumou com seus PALAVRÕES. Imagina transformar a irmã, Ana, em ANÃO? Ir pra vila brincar de VILÃO? Só mesmo um menino com muita IMAGINAÇÃO...

Existe feminino de bolo? E masculino de bola? Esta é uma história para menina e para menino, de masculino e de feminino, de gramática e para gramático. Uma brincadeira divertida e repleta de imagens é o que te espera nesta narrativa sobre gêneros gramaticais, infância e poesia.

The important thing is that my daughter and son are safe after the fire that ripped apart their world as they knew it. And we’re trying to move forward together. Except there’s something I can’t let go of. My frustration at being ripped off with most of what I owned and taken for a fool. Going after the person responsible risks exposing the dark secrets I’ve been forced to keep, yet I can’t seem to stop myself.

Why choose, when you don’t have to? – Die spicy Fake-Dating- und Sports-Romance von Bestsellerautorin Lauren Blakely. Als Trina von ihrem Freund betrogen wird, nimmt sie bei ihrem Auszug aus der gemeinsamen Wohnung nicht nur ihren über alles geliebten Hund Nacho mit, sondern klaut kurzerhand auch Jaspers VIP-Tickets für ein Meet & Greet mit den zwei heißesten Eishockeyspielern, die ihr jemals begegnet sind. Die Chemie zwischen Trina, Ryker und Chase stimmt sofort.

Un premier roman qui se déroule durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, au sein d'un cirque itinérant absolument magnifique, et qui traite du passage à l'âge adulte d'une fillette durant les heures les plus sombres de notre histoire. 1938. Lena Papadopoulos n'a jamais tout à fait trouvé sa place dans le cirque, même en tant que fille de l'extraordinaire illusionniste en tête d'affiche, Theo. Brillante et curieuse, Lena aspire à la magie du monde réel de la science et de la médecine, malgré les limites de son fauteuil roulant.

Det är slutet av 1700-talet och Göteborg är bullrigt och stimmigt. Mitt under en föreställning på teatern hittas en man död på scenen. I publiken sitter den ofrivillige polisbetjänten Christian Kanterlind som där och då dras in i sin första mordutredning inom ett polisväsende under omorganisation. Det visar sig inte helt lätt att upprätthålla lagen. Dessutom ställer Christians svaghet för vackra kvinnor till det, men ger honom lika oberäkneliga som oväntade bundsförvanter. Hör hovar klappra och mantlar svepa i ett dimmigt Göteborg.

South Away follows Meaghan Marie Hackinen and her sister in the adventure of a lifetime: bicycling from Terrace, British Columbia, down the West Coast to (almost) the tip of the Baja Peninsula.

From New York Times reporter and Pulitzer finalist Ali Watkins, this true-crime saga is the long-buried story of how a group of Philadelphia gunrunners armed the IRA at the height of the Troubles. A ragtag band of carpenters, family men and fugitives, the Philadelphia Five, as they came to be known, banded together, bolstering the fight for a united Ireland but fuelling the Troubles at an untold cost.

Gracias a una nueva manera de estudiar nuestra historia, con el empleo de experimentos psicológicos, trabajo de campo y big data, Whitehouse identifica tres sesgos que marcan el comportamiento humano: el conformismo, la religiosidad y el tribalismo. Herencia revela cómo la naturaleza humana ha definido nuestra historia y descubre una sorprendente manera de resolver nuestros problemas más acuciantes. El resultado es una poderosa reevaluación de la trayectoria de la humanidad, que revoluciona tanto la idea de quiénes somos como la de quiénes podemos llegar a ser.

I used to rule the racetrack. Now, I'm just a hothead on a losing streak. Desperate for a win, I've alienated everyone, burned every bridge, and run out of options. Except one. Lola Quinn: the brilliant, fiery engineer who could turn my luck around. Too bad she hates my guts. Five years ago, I walked away from her, leaving a trail of heartbreak and regret. Now, I'm back with an offer she can't refuse... if I can convince her to forget the past and take one last chance on me.

Two years after the closing of the Altered Re-Assimilation Centers across the United States, Griffin King is trying to rejoin a vengeful society still nursing its wounds. Even though he has been ostensibly cured, no one is eager to trust an infected-turned-altered.

After a car collision ends her career as a ballet soloist with the National Dance Company in Madrid, 22-year-old Maya Rivet finds herself abandoned by her vindictive grandmother to mourn her past life alone. When she discovers some vintage photos in an old music box, Maya musters the courage to travel to Sorrento, Italy, in search of the man she suspects is her birth father.

Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. The first complete collection of Weil's missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences.

Betsy Polk and Maggie Chotas have learned something powerful: when women work together they discover a level of support, flexibility, confidence, accountability, and freedom to be themselves that they rarely find in other work relationships. Drawing on their own twelve-year partnership and from interviews with 125 women business partners, Polk and Chotas demolish the myths that keep women from collaborating and offer advice for handling a host of potential challenges.