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C. S. Lewis tornou-se, na segunda metade do século XX, um dos grandes nomes do cristianismo moderno. Os que leem suas profundas reflexões e robustas argumentações acerca da fé cristã podem não imaginar que, um dia, ele já se considerou "o mais deprimido e relutante convertido de toda a Inglaterra". Antes de ser um grande apologista cristão, Lewis foi uma criança imaginativa; um jovem questionador; um soldado ateu; um acadêmico teísta. Ao contrário do que esperava, sua contínua busca pela alegria o levou por caminhos estreitos, que ele ainda não compreendia inteiramente.

Escrita em 1862, fruto da imaginação extraordinária de Lewis Carroll, esta obra transporta o leitor a uma viagem psicodélica e repleta de disparates. Tudo começa quando Alice se depara com um coelho branco que passa por ela correndo, apressado, e decide segui-lo até sua toca. A partir daí, um novo mundo se descortina diante dessa garotinha curiosa, que vai viver fantásticas aventuras repletas de acontecimentos absurdos ao lado de personagens excêntricos como o Chapeleiro Maluco, a Rainha de Copas, a Tartaruga Falsa e o Gato de Cheshire.

A dramatized, abridged performance of Alice in Wonderland with Eva Le Gallienne, Bambi Linn, and Margaret Webster.

When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world’s youngest billionaire and crypto’s Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite Lewis sets out to answer this question, taking listeners into the mind of Bankman-Fried.

Michael Lewis returns to the financial world to give listeners a ringside seat as the biggest news story in years prepares to hit Wall Street....

O primeiro livro publicado por C. S. Lewis após sua conversão, O regresso do Peregrino é, de uma certa maneira, a ficcionalização da busca do autor por uma satisfação espiritual que, eventualmente, o levou ao cristianismo. Sem ficar preso unicamente à sua experiência pessoal, Lewis amplia o alcance da história ao representar a natural busca humana pela satisfação–e a consequente desilusão.

Through his breakthrough discoveries, New York Times best-selling author Lewis Howes reveals how you can rewrite your past to propel yourself into a powerful and abundant future.

Four adventurous siblings—Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie—step through a wardrobe door and into the land of Narnia, a land frozen in eternal winter and enslaved by the power of the White Witch. But when almost all hope is lost, the return of the Great Lion, Aslan, signals a great change...and a great sacrifice.

Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky met in war-torn 1960s Israel. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of Holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved, Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. In this breathtaking new audiobook, Michael Lewis tells the extraordinary story of a relationship that became a shared mind: one which created the field of behavioural economics, revolutionising everything from Big Data to medicine.

Em um dos períodos mais sombrios da humanidade, a Segunda Guerra Mundial, C.S. Lewis foi convidado pela BBC a fazer uma série de palestras pelo rádio com o intuito de explicar bases da fé cristã de forma simples e clara. Mais tarde, ajustado pelo próprio Lewis, esse material daria origem a Cristianismo puro e simples, um grande clássico da literatura cristã.

Ao cair na toca de um coelho, Alice é transportada para um lugar fantástico, cheia de criaturas estranhas e misteriosas. Nesse universo dos sonhos, ela encontra animais falantes, nada em suas próprias lágrimas e toma chá com o Coelho Branco e o Chapeleiro Maluco. Tudo é diversão até ela encontrar a Rainha de Copas que quer cortar a sua cabeça! Será que ela conseguirá escapar?

Narnia, Heimat der sprechenden Tiere, wo Wunder geschehen und eine neue Welt geboren wird. Mit Das Wunder von Narnia erzählt C. S. Lewis, wie das weltberühmte Abenteuer Narnia seinen Anfang nimmt. Durch die Experimente eines bösen Magiers geraten Polly und Digory nach Narnia, wo der mächtige Löwe Aslan mit seinem Gesang eine neue Welt zum Leben erweckt und den ewigen Kampf gegen die Weiße Hexe Jadis aufnimmt. Lewis' zeitlose Erzählung hat weltweit Millionen von Menschen verzaubert.

Mere Christianity is C.S. Lewis' forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books, The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality, Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of the religion.

In this sardonic portrait of the up-and-coming middle class during the prosperous 1920s, Sinclair Lewis perfectly captures the sound, the feel, and the attitudes of the generation that created the cult of consumerism. With a sharp eye for detail and keen powers of observation, Lewis tracks successful realtor George Babbitt's daily struggles to rise to the top of his profession while maintaining his reputation as an upstanding family man.

Lizzie is trying to live her life. After an emotionally abusive relationship leaves her shaken, she’s moved on from dating. For good. In fact, she’d happily embrace the crazy cat lady lifestyle if her apartment would let her get away with it. So, when her ex starts stalking her, she’s at a loss of what to do. Then she comes up with a plan. One that couldn’t possibly work. It’s only one fake date. What could possibly go wrong?

Long lost royalty, an arranged marriage, werewolves, and a burning passion like no other. With high tensions, a dark past, and a coming war; Will you be able to handle the twists at every corner? The heartbreak that follows? Enter the world of the Dark Silence Pack. Silence Falls A New Alpha The Dark Silence Pack, one of the largest in the country, has one heir; Katie Knight. She was stunning, and everyone thought her life was perfect; little did they know she was a loner. Katie had no friends, and her father locked himself away after her mother's death.

Dink feels outnumbered among his four sisters. As far as Dink can see, they cause him nothing but trouble. After saving his money for a horse, Dink refuses to consider adding another girl to the family. His new horse will definitely be a boy. When Dink goes to pick out his perfect cow horse, the whole family goes along. After searching the entire herd at Mr. Jackson's ranch, he finds the perfect one: Socks, a red gelding. His four sisters, however, fall in love with a scrawny, flea-bitten, old mare named Goldie.

There are five days each month when those cursed with lycanthropy are forced to change. The police called me early on day five. Four women dead, one killed each night. And the brutality of the four attacks implies the killer is a new werewolf, better known as a Wild Pooch. That gave me and my lady less than eighteen hours to find the killer werewolf and save a life.

Amid life's most ruthless storms, there lies a force even more formidable with miracles just beyond the horizon found at the most unexpected times in the most unexpected places! Our only job is to get out of the boat and take the hand of our Savior; only then is the calm after the storm sure to follow.

Dr. Harriet Marks has advised the British security services on science for too long, when even gathering forensic evidence at a remote science-terrorist safehouse arouses little professional excitement. But as a snowstorm closes in, her team realise they're not alone. While some dangers might have once been human, there's also a darkness below that's less recognisable. A darkness as potentially dangerous as the one already within her.