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Não existe um vestir neutro, mesmo que você escolha estar de bege da cabeça aos pés. Somos seres que influenciam e que são influenciados. Sintya Motta e Leila Rabello trazem o conceito de cognição do vestuário para a realidade brasileira. Com base nele, pretendem ampliar o entendimento acerca do poder que as roupas têm sobre a construção de uma autoimagem positiva, a partir da qual possamos sentir mais bem-estar, mais autoconfiança e, até mesmo, mais produtividade nas nossas tarefas – inclusive em tempos de home office.

Garibaldi foi o mais heroico dentre os heróis românticos do século XIX. O jornalista e escritor Maurício Oliveira oferece neste audiolivro uma visão panorâmica, desmistificadora e deliciosamente bem escrita de um dos maiores guerreiros que o mundo conheceu.

Maxim Borisyuk, um dos quatro homens de confiança do Pakhan, é incapaz de sentir. Amor e até mesmo ódio, são conceitos desconhecidos para ele. Ou ao menos, é essa a lenda que corre na Organização. Subchefe da perigosa máfia russa nos Estados Unidos, ele é também o cérebro por trás das principais operações da Irmandade.

Collateral damage to her parents' toxic marriage, Maya Rayes isn't sure she believes in love. Short relationships are safer. She's surprised by a scorching encounter with her best friend's infuriatingly sensible and contained older brother, but they're complete opposites who struggle to find common ground outside the bedroom. There's no way they could turn into something more, no matter how tempting she finds him.

Book four of the Turning Pages series begins with a visit to the Cumber family farm during the 1970s and 1980s, where corn, chickens, romance, friends, and relations blend into a background story not to be missed.

Neste trecho selecionado de "Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros", Moreira de Azevedo apresenta um relato marcante da Batalha do Riachuelo, um dos episódios mais decisivos e simbólicos da Guerra do Paraguai. Ocorrido em junho de 1865, às margens do arroio Riachuelo, afluente do rio Paraná, o confronto naval consagrou a supremacia brasileira nas águas do conflito e alterou o rumo da guerra.

Nestes trechos selecionados de Rio da Prata e Paraguai: Quadros Guerreiros, o historiador Moreira de Azevedo retrata a Batalha de Tuiuti, considerada o confronto mais sangrento da Guerra do Paraguai. Realizada em terreno hostil e pantanoso no sudoeste do país, a batalha reuniu mais de 55 mil combatentes e marcou profundamente o curso da guerra.

"Por que hão de uns nascer pobres, e outros ricos?" Certo dia, o lavrador André Pimenta cisma com esse pensamento; alegre que era, torna-se taciturno, e a mudança é notada pelo patrão Manuel Fernandes. Este, para dar-lhe uma lição que o afaste da sombra da inveja, o nomeia feitor da fazenda...

"É ordem das sociedades que uns ajoelhem para que os outros lhes subam às costas." O tema da submissão percorre o conto "Galo que não cantou", de Mário de Andrade. Nele, o caseiro Telinho casa-se com a controladora e dominadora Jacinta, filha de dona Cremildes. Ele se deixa dominar pela esposa, até que um dia se revolta.

É comum pensar que a única função do garçom é anotar os pedidos e levar os pratos. No entanto, este livro pretende valorizar essa profissão e demonstrar que o verdadeiro valor de um garçom está na sua capacidade de conseguir que os seus clientes tenham momentos agradáveis enquanto repõem as energias. Nós, da Trade Academy, pretendemos destacar a importância que o garçom tem sendo, ao mesmo tempo, anfitrião e vendedor.

A chilling ghost story from 1980s New England. James has lost his job as a hotshot Boston attorney and his idyllic marriage to Karen is on the rocks. In an attempt at rekindling their former life, the couple relocate with their children to the small town of Blackwater, Vermont and a grand Victorian Manor. But the house has a history and a terrible secret. A deathly menace lies in wait inside Blackwater House.

In April 1912, schoolteacher Valerie McElroy and her eight-year-old sister Ruby booked passage on the RMS Titanic for a return trip to America after visiting an aunt in London, England. When the supposedly unsinkable passenger liner hits an iceberg, Valerie and Ruby find themselves apparently safe after being put on a lifeboat. But things go further awry when Valerie finds herself knocked off the crowded lifeboat and into the cold sea.

Women’s fiction author Irene Stoddard thought she had it all with a successful husband Robert and their daughter Patty, while making a good life for themselves in Boston. But that all changed when, in the middle of Patty’s eighth birthday party, Irene caught Robert in their own bed with a sexy neighbor. In spite of feeling devastated by this betrayal, Irene chose to stay in the marriage for the sake of their daughter.

Set within the lush playground of Maui, Hawaii’s famed Kaanapali Beach Resort, this soap opera style audio tale of adultery, dark secrets, revenge, and murder revolves around the anticipated grand opening of Kaanapali Palms Hotel, the latest luxury accommodation on the island’s western shore. Multimillionaire CEO of Kaanapali Palms, Ben Crawford, is not above getting in bed with organized crime to make dream come true. A widower, his 19-year old daughter, Leigh, means everything to him. Forgotten is the child he abandoned long ago, never imagining this would come back to haunt him.

Criminal defense attorney Jessica Frost is hired to defend 21-year-old daughter college student Stephanie Dozier, who is accused of stabbing to death her roommate Kristine McVeigh, the daughter of a prominent local judge, Ralph McVeigh, as a result of a love triangle. Jessica is up against Thorne County Deputy District Attorney Madeleine Griffin, who paints the accused as committing the crime in jealous rage against her romantic rival and is determined to win a conviction. Jessica learns that Kristine was part of a secretive group of college students called the Sexy Coeds Club.

Surrendering to the way of life isn't always easy. It requires us to make conscious choices, let go of what we can't control, and a lot of patience - at its essence, surrendering challenges us to turn our ego and self-will over to our higher self. By doing so, we're letting go of what doesn't serve us but instead leads us to embrace the truth of uncertainty, connection, and oneness with the world around us.

In the year 2020, graduate student and Victorian Era enthusiast Katie Judson finds herself living in 1890 London, England, and beyond, courtesy of a mysterious stairwell. There, she meets fellow American Spencer Brennan, a member of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Police Force, who is in search of his younger sister, Felicity, who has been forced into prostitution on the dark streets of Whitechapel. As they attempt to rescue her, Katie and Spencer must also grapple with their mutual passions, romance, and the mind-bending nature of time travel.

Two years out of college, Angelica Bondesan spends her time working as a barista, keeping in touch with her prodigal brother, and trying to figure out how to bridge the gap with her father, a wealthy real estate developer. But all of that changes the night she’s kidnapped. Thrown into a windowless room, Angelica is positive there’s been some kind of mistake - until she meets Nico Vitale. Sure Nico is lying to her about her father's involvement in the criminal underworld...But when it become obvious nothing is as it seems, Angel is forced to face the truth.

Emily: I fell in love with him when I was 14. Under the stars, he told me he loved me, and under the stars, we promised to love each other, always. But under the stars, he broke my heart. He left me without a second glance. I was just an afterthought. Now he's back, but this time, I'm not falling for his Southern charm. Maybe. Ethan: On my 21st birthday, I found out that everything I thought I knew was a lie, that the man I had grown up thinking was my father wasn't. The pain I felt blinded me. I left them all behind, including her, my best friend and the woman I was going to marry.

Angel Rossi is no longer the naive girl kidnapped by Nico Vitale. Now she’s the boss. Yet even as she takes control of her father’s empire, she mourns the loss of Nico. Whatever the circumstances of their meeting, she was in love with him. Then Nico reappears, and Angel is too furious by his duplicity to be happy he’s back. But when Angel is nearly killed, she’s forced to admit that someone wants her dead — and Nico, too. Soon the pair discover that a high dollar hit has been taken out on their lives by one of the only people they believed they could trust.