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Após partir o pão e beber o vinho, durante a Consagração em uma missa, o padre Miguel Flores morre no altar. Eve Dallas confirma que o vinho continha cianeto de potássio em dose suficiente para matar um rinoceronte. A autópsia revela cicatrizes antigas, uma tatuagem removida cirurgicamente e evidências de uma plástica de reconstrução facial. Tudo isso mostra que o "padre Flores" provavelmente não era quem seus paroquianos tanto admiravam.

Whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.

After his parents died, Alex Roth had one desire: become a wizard. Through hard work, he was accepted into the University of Generasi, the world’s greatest academy of wizardry.... Fate, however, had another plan. On his 18th birthday, he is Marked by prophecy as one of his kingdom’s five Heroes, chosen to fight the Ravener, his land’s great enemy. But his brand is "The Fool". Worst of the marks.

After a grueling trial, Alex Roth had reached the University of Generasi and learned much about the Mark of the Fool and how to exploit it for new paths of power. Making friends and training in alchemy, all seemed to be going well. But shadows stir. The dark secrets of his homeland haunt him. His sister—Selina—learns that she is what she hates most. And unfriendly, monstrous eyes track him.

After experiencing marriage troubles and dark pasts, Ian and Lyana Keane are ready to leave Boston behind and move with their two kids—Ariel (15) and Zach (12)—to the sleepy New Hampshire town of Littleton. They are inexplicably drawn to an old house that they all feel an immediate connection to—a home complete with a rich history, extensive grounds, intriguing character, and a Caretaker. But as time goes on, strange things begin to happen with the house and the family living within its walls.

On a secluded bluff overlooking the ocean sits a Victorian house, lavender with gingerbread trim, a home that contains a century’s worth of secrets. By the time Jane Flanagan discovers the house as a teenager, it has long been abandoned. The place is an irresistible mystery to Jane. There are still clothes in the closets, marbles rolling across the floors, and dishes in the cupboards, even though no one has set foot there in decades. The house becomes a hideaway for Jane, a place to escape her volatile mother.

The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence: I’ll wait forever if I have to. It was signed by Dante, a man I didn’t know. Out of simple curiosity, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. His reply? You.

One of the very best scientific predictors for how any child turns out - in terms of happiness, academic success, leadership skills, and meaningful relationships - is whether at least one adult in their life has consistently shown up for them. In an age of scheduling demands and digital distractions, showing up for your child might sound like a tall order. But as best-selling authors Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson reassuringly explain, it doesn’t take a lot of time, energy, or money. Instead, showing up means offering a quality of presence.

Muitas coisas mudaram na Nova York do ano 2060, mas alguns assassinatos ainda chamam mais atenção que outros; especialmente quando a vítima é um famoso empresário encontrado amarrado à cama e estrangulado com cordões de veludo preto. Apesar de todos na cidade comentarem sobre o assunto, as pessoas ligadas a Anders não parecem tão dispostas a fazer o mesmo. A tenente Eve Dallas se vê então batendo de porta em porta, e forçando sua passagem por elas em busca de respostas. Os fatos, entretanto, não se encaixam.

Quarenta anos atrás, os vilões do mundo se mobilizaram e mataram todos os heróis. Bom, todos os que importavam. O Gavião Arqueiro foi o único sobrevivente dos Vingadores e hoje é atração de um show de horrores, revivendo o pior dia de sua vida para entreter uma plateia pagante. Ele está mal-humorado, destruído e ficando cego, mas dentro dele ainda existe uma vontade de ser um herói e vingar os amigos. E ele está pronto para fazer o necessário: matar todos os responsáveis pela morte das pessoas que ele mais amava.

There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings. The story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World.

Da mesma forma que outras grandes rivalidades modernas, como Coca-Cola versus Pepsi e Apple versus Microsoft, redefiniram cada competidor e reescreveram a história dessas empresas, o intenso combate entre Sega e Nintendo nos anos 1990 revelou o melhor e o pior de cada uma e mudou para sempre o mundo do entretenimento, fazendo nascer uma indústria mundial de 60 bilhões de dólares.

A garota dourada de Fell"s Church está morta. As consequências de sua devoção a Stefan—e a irresistível atração por Damon—a levaram por um caminho temido, mas também desejado.

I was eight when Nathan moved away. He was my best friend. My only friend. My safe space. And then he was gone. And my life turned into Hell. But I survived. I broke free and made a life for myself. And I tried to forget about the boy who grew up to be Nate Waller, the famous retired football player. I really did try to forget. But then I opened the door, while working at a client’s house, and he was there. Standing before me. My old friend. My unwitting confidant. My Nathan. Except… he doesn’t recognize me.

Maddox Lovelace. The captivating football player I met in college. The one I only knew for a week. A week that was...life-changing. Until my phone rang, and I had no choice but to go home. I left Maddox a letter, putting my feelings on paper, giving him my number, hoping he'd call. But he didn't call. He never called. He got drafted into the professional league and lived like a king while I stayed home and struggled to stay afloat.

Everyone warned me that the CFO of McCord Media was a nightmare to work for. I knew it going in, but I figured I could keep my head down and stay under Cole McCord’s radar. I figured wrong. Because a month before I started as his assistant, Mr. Ruthless and I spent one scorching hot night together in bed.

FinOps brings financial accountability to the variable spend model of cloud. Used by the majority of global enterprises, this management practice has grown from a fringe activity to the de facto discipline managing cloud spend. In this book, authors J. R. Storment and Mike Fuller outline the process of building a culture of cloud FinOps by drawing on real-world successes and failures of large-scale cloud spenders. Complete with a road map to get you started, this revised second edition includes new chapters that cover forecasting, sustainability, and connectivity to other frameworks.

Em Reunião sombria, quarto audiolivro da série “Diários do vampiro”, Elena flutua em um misterioso limbo espiritual após se sacrificar para derrotar Katherine e salvar Stefan. Sua morte cobre Fell’s Church de tristeza e desalento, mas é preciso seguir em frente. Bonnie, a melhor amiga, decide guardar o diário de Elena e ali registra os lentos sinais de recuperação da cidade, acompanhada de perto por Meredith e Matt. Mas sonhos perturbadores com a amiga morta estão prestes a mudar tudo...

Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them - from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed reading. Audiences will learn when and how to “judge a book by its cover,” and also how to X-ray it, read critically, and extract the author’s message from the text.

With over half a million copies in print of his “living classic” How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book.