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Newly-minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she’s been unable to get her feet wet. Instead, she aimlessly spends her days stuck in the stifling heat wave sweeping across Britain, and anxiously contemplating her upcoming marriage to careful, precise researcher Oscar. The only reprieve from her small, close world is attending the local bereavement group to mourn her brother’s death from years ago. That is, until she meets journalist Sam Hunter at the grief group one day. And he has a proposition for her.

What I learned after last year’s distractions cost my hockey team our entire season? No more screwing up. No more screwing, period. As the new team captain, I need a new philosophy: hockey and school now, women later. Which means that I, Hunter Davenport, am officially going celibate...no matter how hard that makes things.

Josh Duffy is staring into the abyss. A decorated army veteran turned military contractor, his last mission went sideways, leaving him badly injured and his career derailed. Now, he’s working as a mall cop, trying to keep his family one step ahead of the bill collectors. So when a chance at redemption - and a big pay day - comes his way, Duff eagerly jumps in. The job - to ride shotgun on a motorcade of heavily armed and armored vehicles as they roll into Mexico’s cartel country.

Welcome to the Inner Child Healing Workbook, a 23-day guided journey designed to help you reconnect, nurture, and heal the parts of yourself that were left behind. This step-by-step workbook will lead you through powerful exercises, reflective prompts, and healing practices, all aimed at helping you reparent your inner child and create emotional safety for your authentic self to thrive.

Inez Olivera traveled across the world to Egypt, seeking answers into her parents' recent and mysterious deaths. But all her searching led her down a perilous road, filled with heartache, betrayal, and a dangerous magic that pulled her deep into the past. When Tío Ricardo issues an ultimatum about her inheritance, she’s left with only one option to consider. Marriage to Whitford Hayes.

We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don’t. But we rarely stop to question whether school is teaching our children the right things in the right way.

My brother is bleeding. My stepsister is gone. The ones responsible called themselves family. By blood, and now by marriage. I want to destroy them for what they've done. Burn everything they have to the ground. But first I need to find her. Ryth. The pathetic little mouse that scurried into our lives and made a home. I can't forget her; can't get her out of my head. She unleashed something dangerous in me. Something that drove me to ruin her. And ruined myself in the process. She was once a game to me; she still is...only this time it's for keeps.

The family-owned business of Allen & Augustine has manufactured high-quality chairs for decades. Its people take pride in their work and feel loyal to their owners and management team. But this long-revered company is now at a crossroads, hurt by a tough economy, foreign competition, and a cash crunch. The air is filled with the scent of uncertainty, anxiety, perhaps even panic. Enter Ben, the ambitious young executive assigned by his firm to promote a merger that will rescue Allen & Augustine.

Jon Hamm leads an all-star cast that includes Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford in the riveting true story behind the making of the one American movie the FBI never wanted you to see.

Family is everything; I always knew my father was a cold, heartless bastard. But the moment he took Elle Castlemaine and her pathetic daughter into our home, barely a month after our mom died, he unleashed something savage inside me. I didn't care they lost their home. Didn't care their father was behind bars. Didn't care he betrayed the notorious Stidda Mafia boss, Benjamin Rossi, and now their lives were in danger.

Barbara Anderson narrates with brutal honesty the day-to-day experience of having a child with disabilities: the challenges inside and outside the home, health and life complications, the shifting priorities, the daily Mt. Everest-sized struggle of having a child with an—until now—irreversible diagnosis such as infantile cerebral palsy.

How do house flies help save millions of euros? Presented with the image of a fly in toilet bowls in airports, cafés and other public places, men—without realizing it—aim better and splash less, thereby reducing loads of cleaning costs. In The Housefly Effect behavioral scientist Eva van den Broek and advertising expert Tim den Heijer explain how to recognize The Housefly Effect (and many other effects) in our everyday lives and how we can use it to our advantage. Sometimes the smallest things can have a surprisingly large effect.

Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents—who frequently leave her behind.

Don’t let confusion and marketing gimmicks dictate your skincare choices. With The Science of Skincare: Evidence-Based Strategies for Healthy, Radiant Skin, Irene Land offers you the clarity and expertise needed to achieve your best skin. Say goodbye to wasted time and money and hello to a skincare routine that is grounded in science and tailored for results. Grab your copy now before the price changes and begin your journey to healthy, radiant skin.

E se tudo o que você conhece não fosse real? E se as desordens climáticas, desastres naturais e catástrofes ecológicas fossem estrategicamente planejados? E se fosse seu destino mudar tudo isso?

Neste volume, Francisco Catão defende que, na cultura ocidental, para refletir sobre Deus, é necessário partir de duas tradições distintas: a tradição filosófica iniciada pelos gregos e a tradição religiosa consagrada pelos textos bíblicos. Reflete, então, sobre eles e seus cruzamentos, mostrando como se constituiu a questão de Deus. Coleção dirigida por Marilena Chaui e Juvenal Savian Filho.

Descendente da aristocracia inglesa―mas nascida e criada na Índia―Mary Lennox é uma menina de dez anos que vê sua vida se transformar após a perda dos pais, obrigando-a a se mudar para a Inglaterra e morar com um tio que nunca conheceu. Em meio à mansão no condado de Yorkshire, Mary começa a desbravar os segredos escondidos ali, eliminando as ervas daninhas que encobrem os caminhos que levam ao secreto jardim e fazendo amizades que transformam sua trajetória e a de todos ao seu redor.

Tema delicado e ainda pouco pesquisado, a devolução é, frequentemente, disparadora de importantes angústias para todos os envolvidos. A pesquisa, realizada pela autora, que deu origem ao livro teve por objetivo compreender as motivações subjacentes ao ato da devolução, destacando o que denomina-se como "o estatuto psíquico da vivência em torno da devolução".

A sucessora une prosa intimista e psicológica ao dar voz a uma protagonista feminina: Marina, uma jovem recém-casada que após uma romântica lua de mel muda-se para a mansão do marido, o milionário Roberto Steen. Ao entrar em sua nova residência, depara-se com um imponente retrato de Alice, a primeira mulher de Roberto, falecida poucos meses antes de Marina e ele se conhecerem. Alice era dona de uma personalidade exuberante e um ícone da sociedade carioca, enquanto Marina, criada na fazenda da família, sempre levou uma vida simples e distante dos costumes liberais da cidade grande.

Entrevistas exclusivas com 12 mestres do cinema, de pioneiros da animação como Chuck Jones, à geração que mudou o cinema dos Estados Unidos - Scorsese, Spielberg, Coppola, e muitos mais.