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Milly is incredibly excited to go to Unicorn School, a school that accepts only the best and the brightest. There’s only one problem: she isn’t a unicorn! She’s a donkey in a party hat. Milly first feels uncomfortable but eventually learns that she and the others at the school have more in common than it might have seemed.

Após receber o diagnóstico de "enervada" – categoria que no começo do século XX era usada pela ciência para descrever o comportamento de um grande número de mulheres –, Lúcia, uma carioca "ultramoderna", como ela mesma se descreve, decide narrar sua vida, com o intuito de questionar o diagnóstico a que foi submetida. Com acidez, a protagonista mescla episódios cotidianos e memórias a comentários que revelam uma preciosa radiografia da alta sociedade do Rio de Janeiro, durante a República Velha.

Cómo rescatar la atención perdida en un mundo distraído e hiperconectado. Cada vez somos más impacientes y estamos más irritables. ¿Notas que te cuesta más prestar atención? ¿Has sentido ansiedad últimamente? ¿Toleras peor el aburrimiento y el dolor? Vivimos en la era de la gratificación instantánea, en la cultura de la inmediatez y las recompensas y buscamos la felicidad a golpe de clic. Llevamos una vida agitada e intensa, y con el modo fast activado. Sin darnos cuenta nos hemos convertido en drogodependientes emocionales inundados de múltiples distracciones.

No one pays attention to me, the mailroom girl at Crawford Corporation, and I prefer it that way. Until Colton Crawford, the company’s surly CEO, finds me in his office holding another woman’s resume and offers me the Personal Assistant position on the spot so he can move on with his day. I try to correct him, only for him to increase the salary offer. It’s not like I can’t do the job, I’m more than qualified, and my family really needs the money. I vow to tell him everything… after payday.

Mord an der Costa de Prata: der erste Fall für Ria Almeida. Wie flüssiges Silber glänzt der Atlantik vor dem portugiesischen Küstenort Torreira, als Ria Almeida in der alten Heimat ihrer Eltern ankommt. Die Stuttgarter Polizistin ist für die Beerdigung ihres geliebten Großvaters angereist, doch die Trauerfeierlichkeiten werden vom Tod einer jungen Frau im Ort unterbrochen. Niemand ist darüber entsetzter als Dorfpolizist João, seines Zeichens Ehemann von Rias Cousine und eher mit Falschparkern als mit Leichen vertraut.

Mariana Enriquez regresa al cuento con doce historias de horror. Doce relatos sobre el mal que acecha y la presencia de lo monstruoso. Quien ose adentrarse en las páginas de este libro sentirá un escalofrío recorriéndole la espina dorsal, y algunas cosas más. Son doce cuentos de horror, doce relatos sobre el horror: sobre el mal que acecha y los monstruos que surgen de pronto en la realidad más cotidiana, en grandes urbes o pequeños pueblos recónditos.

To his many thousands of fans, ex-SAS officer Ben Hope stands tall as a warrior, a protector of the innocent, a defender of those in need, relentless in his pursuit of those who exploit others or prey on the weak. But Ben is also a man all too aware of his own flaws and weaknesses – a man who knows to become unstoppable, he needs the right team to put together in a crisis. With his network of mavericks, experts and daredevils, he’s always ready to risk life and liberty for the right cause, wherever in the world that call might take him.

Beziehungsexpertin Mariana Gleue zeigt, wie Zweisamkeit gelingt. In sechs Kapiteln und einem Bonusteil mit 10 Soforttipps für eine glücklichere Partnerschaft betrachtet die Autorin die Licht- und Schattenseiten von Beziehungen. Es erwartet Sie hochkonzentriertes Expertenwissen aus 25 Jahren Beziehungscoaching und vielen Tipps aus der Praxis. Damit Ihrem ganz großen Beziehungsglück nichts mehr im Wege steht!

Son los años cincuenta, Raquel y Alejo se aman a escondidas: los prejuicios del padre de Raquel les impiden verse libremente. Sin embargo, las precauciones para no ser encontrados fallan y una noche los protagonistas son sorprendidos. El castigo es la separación, la que llevará a Raquel a París y a Alejo, a la Amazonía peruana.

Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women.

Tradotti per la prima volta in italiano da Raul Ciannella, questi nove racconti rappresentano una selezione della migliore fantascienza contemporanea spagnola e latino-americana. Il tema che unisce le storie di quest’antologia è il corpo: corpo biopolitico e artificiale, umano e animale, desiderato e rifiutato. María Angulo Ardoy descrive le vicende di due scienziati giapponesi in pensione, ridotti a esuberi in un paese che non si cura più degli anziani.

Los dos best sellers que ya han cambiado la vida a más de 2.000.000 de personas juntos por primera vez. En este estuche descubrirás por qué la Dra. Marian Rojas Estapé ha cambiado la vida de tantas personas. Por primera vez encontrarás juntos los dos libros más vendidos de no ficción de los últimos años: Cómo hacer que te pasen cosas nuevas, que incluye un capítulo nuevo, y Encuentra tu persona vitamina.

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit The Basque Country. 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.

Marian Schembari was thirty-four years old when she learned she was autistic. By then, she’d spent decades hiding her tics and shutting down in public, wondering why she couldn’t just act like everyone else. Therapists told her she had Tourette’s syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder, sensory processing disorder, social anxiety, and recurrent depression. They prescribed breathing techniques and gratitude journaling. Nothing helped. It wasn’t until years later that she finally learned the truth: she wasn’t weird or deficient or moody or sensitive or broken. She was autistic.

How did the dollar come to play such a leading role in Argentina's national existence? How and why did this global currency become a local currency on the other end of the Western hemisphere? Through the reconstruction of the social and cultural history of the US dollar in Argentina, Luzzi and Wilkis provide original insight into this sidebar of the dollar's history, showing how it became a "local" currency even outside its country of origin.

Este volume pretende demonstrar uma reflexão mais aprofundada sobre os diferentes estilos de aprendizagem de uma maneira simples e fácil de compreender. A compreensão mais aprofundada sobre esta proposta torna a didática mais eficiente não somente em sala de aula, mas também na vida. É crucial identificar o nosso estilo e, posteriormente, o dos estudantes, para que a visão geral não se enraíze em paradigmas estabelecidos.

Em "Também guardamos pedras aqui", a poeta, atriz e slammer Luiza Romão retoma a Ilíada, de Homero, e a relê à luz do tempo presente. Os poemas reunidos neste livro se voltam para a Guerra de Tróia e seus célebres personagens, recontando o evento e subvertendo a versão grega imortalizada na obra homérica. Ao demonstrar como "a literatura ocidental começou com um massacre", o livro traça interessantes paralelos com os nossos dias.

Anna Walsh had a dream life - according to everybody else. She lived in New York, had a long-term boyfriend, and had The Best Job In The World working as a highly successful beauty PR. So why did she decide to take a flamethrower to the lot? Because now she's back Dublin, living with her parents. She's undeniably forty-eight, with no partner, no job, and no direction. Anna's lost her purpose. She needs a new challenge to help her fall back in love with life again. When an opportunity arises to solve a PR crisis in the tiny town of Maumtully, Anna leaps at the chance.

We have hundreds of conversations every week, yet rarely think about the words we use. But the way we describe ourselves and the world around us profoundly shapes our decisions, emotions and action. The Power of Words delves into our minds, showing us how a simple shift in our language can lead to personal growth and positive change. Drawing from his extensive research in neuroscience and his role as one of the directors of the Human Brain Project, Mariano Sigman reveals that our minds are much more malleable than we think.

Último e mais longo conto da coletânea Dublinenses, Os mortos, de James Joyce, narra a ida de Gabriel Conroy e de sua esposa Gretta a uma tradicional festa de Natal na casa das tias de Gabriel. A partir das interações entre os convidados, com descrição de detalhes surpreendentes, Joyce retrata a vida da classe média da capital irlandesa no começo do século passado. Ao fim da festa, o casal retorna ao hotel onde pernoitará, e uma descoberta de Gabriel sobre o passado de Gretta o faz repensar a sua própria vida.