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A married couple struggling with infertility decide to go outside of their marriage for a consensual affair. One month, one exception and then they'll decide if IVF is right for them. Set in the sunny hills of Silver Lake, Los Angeles where the young artists and lawless musicians roam, comes this thrilling, fun, comedic love story that'll have you chuckling in public. Becca and Mark have been trying to have a baby for years. Technically, there's nothing wrong with them. They fight a lot, but what couple doesn't?

"Saddle Your Horse" delves into the transformative power of faith, determination, and courage when facing life's most difficult challenges. Drawing profound inspiration from the biblical story of the Shunammite woman, this book shows readers how to navigate through life's toughest moments and emerge stronger. It highlights the critical role of persistence and an unshakable belief in God's promises, reminding readers that faith can turn adversity into opportunity.

The Howloween Festival in Vardo, Oklahoma, attracts thousands of tourists to celebrate Halloween in the quirky town because it's also home to the mysterious Owl Woman. With the haunting face of a barn owl and the body of a woman, the creature is known to swoop through the Halloween skies and descend on her victims with a vengeance.

Um pesquisador de folclore, em visita ao Nordeste, assiste à encenação de um pastoril, que termina aos tapas, na casa de uma mulher misteriosa. Um estrangeiro vaga por São Paulo em uma noite de Natal, em meio à sacralidade dessa data e à profana São Paulo da década de 1910. Um jovem convence a família enlutada a fazer uma ceia, na qual o peru assado entra em disputa com a memória de um pai cruel.

Drawing on twenty-five years of research, programming, and advocacy efforts, Mariana Chilton compellingly demonstrates that food insecurity is created and maintained by people in power. Taking the listener back to the original wounds in the United States caused by its history of colonization, genocide, and enslavement, she forces us to reckon with hard questions about why people in the US allow hunger to persist. The Painful Truth about Hunger in America reinvigorates our commitment to uprooting the causes of poverty and discrimination, and points to a more generative and humane world.

Mariana Enriquez—called by The New York Times a “sorceress of horror”—has been fascinated by the haunting beauty of cemeteries since she was a teenager. She has visited them frequently, a goth flaneur taking notes on her aesthetic obsession as she walks among the headstones, “where dying seems much more interesting than being alive.”

Quem nunca se sentiu meio monstrinho ao chegar em uma nova escola? Superar a timidez, conhecer colegas novos e tentar se enturmar pode ser bem assustador. É um desafio para quem está chegando e, ao mesmo tempo, uma novidade que desperta a curiosidade de quem já está na escola. Todos agora se perguntam: "Quem é esse?".

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit California. This book includes 16 books in one. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the ‘Greater Than a Tourist’ series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination.

Perrie Spock has made a career out of being comfortable around cadavers. So the skilled Oklahoma undertaker barely bats an eye when the body of a young woman is dumped outside her funeral home in the small hours. But it feels less like a regular workday when she begins to receive beyond-the grave pleas from the newly arrived stiff. With more shocking ghostly messages driving her to investigate further, Perrie reluctantly teams up with the local sheriff to solve the crime.

Într-o dimineață din primăvara anului 1953, Aldous Huxley ia patru zecimi de gram de mescalină și așteaptă răbdător să vadă ce se întâmplă. După un timp, constată că totul, de la florile din vază până la cutele pantalonilor, e complet schimbat: culorile sunt mai intense și mai luminoase, iar timpul și spațiul par să nu aibă nici o importanță. Huxley notează cu lux de amănunte senzațiile trăite în Porțile percepției, conchizând că halucinogenele stimulează creativitatea și brodând pe marginea efectelor pe care asemenea experiențe le-ar putea avea asupra artei și religiei.

I knew better than to go to that party. I would have been much happier curled up at home eating Halloween candy by myself, but I had Mom’s voice in my head telling me to make an effort now that I was in college, to put myself out there and socialize. If I’d stayed home, I wouldn’t have met him.

Aleksy aún recuerda el último verano que pasó con su madre. Han transcurrido muchos años desde entonces, pero, cuando su psiquiatra le recomienda revivir esa época como posible remedio al bloqueo artístico que está sufriendo como pintor, Aleksy no tarda en sumergirse en su memoria y vuelve a verse sacudido por las emociones que lo asediaron cuando llegaron a aquel pueblecito vacacional francés: el rencor, la tristeza, la rabia.

Por que tantos governos terceirizam atividades essenciais para consultorias? Por que essa indústria cresceu tanto nas últimas décadas? Que papel essas empresas desempenham na economia como um todo? Em A grande falácia, a premiada economista italiana Mariana Mazzucato investiga a poderosa indústria de consultoria no mundo.

I had a plan to get through senior year. Get good grades, stay busy with clubs, don’t forget to carve out time for Mom and Hannah, and most importantly, stay far, far away from Landon Atwater. That plan collapsed at the end of summer when my mom announced her surprise engagement… to Landon’s father. Now, I have to live with the jerk who has spent years tormenting me. At school, I could make sure we weren’t in the same classes and turn the other way if I saw him in the halls, but avoiding him gets a lot harder when I’m living in his seaside mansion.

Enojado porque el destino de ese verano no era el deseado, el protagonista de esta historia viajó dispuesto a hacerle pasar a su familia las peores vacaciones que pudieran imaginarse y, movido por la furia, planeó esconderse durante días en un altillo abandonado de la casa que alquilaban.

On a beautiful spring day, a small village in Western Germany wakes up to an omen: Selma has dreamed of an okapi. Someone is about to die. But who? As the residents of the village begin acting strangely (despite protestations that they are not superstitious), Selma's granddaughter Luise looks on as the imminent threat brings long carried secrets to the surface. And when death comes, it comes in a way none of them could have predicted...

Gabriel, his sister Valentina, and their friend Ella are three young members of the sacred Order of the Triskel, which guards an ancient Celtic talisman once used to invoke the positive forces of creation. This powerful symbol conveys a clear call to action: explore, protect, and share the treasures of the Planet and Humanity. Under the loving and protective gaze of their parents, these three young adventurers will travel around the world, embarking on a journey to solve mysteries, decode messages, and rescue ancient legends that have been veiled for centuries.

Gabriel, su hermana Valentina y su amiga Ella, son tres jóvenes que forman parte de la Orden sagrada del Triskel que custodia un antiguo talismán celta utilizado antiguamente para invocar las fuerzas positivas de la creación. Este poderoso símbolo transmite un llamado a la acción claro: explorar, proteger y compartir los tesoros del Planeta y de la Humanidad.

Humble layman Will Bowman lives in the countryside with his pregnant wife, when soldiers from Richard Lionheart's army tear through his home. Will is beaten unconscious, and awakes to find his wife murdered, his farm burnt down, and his life forever changed. In vengeance, Will infiltrates Richard's army to find the marauding gang, and finds himself swept along in the march of the Crusades. With the help of new allies and fuelled by his loss, Will crosses Europe with the King's army.

Sleep-deprived fathers conjuring phantoms; sharp-toothed children and stolen skulls; persecuted young women drawn to self-immolation. Organized crime sits side-by-side with the occult in Buenos Aires—a place where reality and the supernatural fuse into strange, new shapes. These acclaimed gothic tales follow the wayward and downtrodden, revealing the scars of Argentina's dictatorship and the ghosts and traumas that have settled in the minds of its people. Provocative, brutal and uncanny, Things We Lost in the Fire is contemporary gothic at its darkest and best.