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Miriam y Jose Manuel, dos hermanos de padres poco presentes. La primera, como hermana mayor se siente enteramente responsable de la vida que ella adora como a un hijo propio. Miriam inicia una relación con un joven profesor de la universidad de su hermano; es en adelante donde sus vidas se harán tan complicadas al punto de llevarlos a tomar o aceptar decisiones que, sin importar cual caminos tomen, todos llegan a un mismo destino. El amor de hermanos, la amistad, la pasión, la inmadurez, el arrebato y el perdón son algunos de los ingredientes de esta corta pero sustanciosa novela.

R?v??itor de chipe?, orgolios, lipsit de scrupule, Valentin Napier, duce de Montgomery, este b?rbatul despre care vorbe?te toat? Londra. Cu faima lui de crai ?i de ?antajist, Montgomery a revenit din exil ?i este hot?r?t s? se r?zbune pe cei care l-au nedrept??it. ?ns? descoperirea pe care o va face ?n propriul dormitor ?l va determina s?-?i schimbe cu totul planurile…Fiica bastard? a unei lady din lumea bun? londonez?, menajera Bridget Crumbs este o femeie inteligent?, curajoas? ?i extrem de loial?. C?nd mama ei ajunge ?inta unei escrocherii, Bridget se angajeaz? ?n casa ducelui de Montgomery ?n speran?a de a g?si probele incriminatoare pe care acesta le de?ine ? ?i ajunge s? descopere ceva mult mai periculos.Montgomery este peste poate de uimit ?i intrigat de ?nnebunitor de preten?ioasa ?i surprinz?tor de istea?a Bridget, pe care o g?se?te spion?nd ?n camerele lui. ?n ciuda str?daniilor ei, Bridget nu poate rezista farmecului acestui duce p?c?tos. Cei doi ?ncep un adev?rat joc de-a ?oarecele ?i pisica ?i ajung s? descopere ?n cur?nd c? am?ndoi au secrete bine ascunse ?i c? nici unul din ei nu este a?a infam ? sau de inocent ? cum pare.

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Muitas pessoas pensam que é difícil encontrar o “autoconhecimento”, ou seja, conhecer a si mesmo. Porém, isso pode ser facilitado a partir do momento em que você se volta para dentro de seu “eu” e come?a a fazer determinadas perguntas.E quanto mais sinceridade você colocar em suas respostas, mais você irá conhecer a si mesmo.

Quando se fala em Ceia de Natal, logo pensamos na família reunida na mesa de jantar para comemorar essa data especial. E nada melhor do que uma Ceia com a mesa farta.Aprenda a fazer 10 receitas tradicionais do Natal para deixar a sua confraterniza??o mais especial.

Enter the dazzling and deadly world of Unseelie royalty in the penultimate Creepy Hollow book! Emerson Clarke thought magic might solve all her problems. Turns out, magic only made her life more complicated. Her sick mother is in a worse position than before, and Em just made a risky deal with an Unseelie prince: he will heal her mother if Em agrees to the ultimate alliance—marriage. With the possibility of finally getting the one thing she’s always wanted, Em enters the dangerous world of the Unseelie Court. She’ll learn whatever she has to about magic and etiquette in order to fake her way through palace life until Prince Roarke fulfills his side of the bargain.But when someone unexpected shows up, bringing to light the secrets Roarke and his family are keeping from her, Em’s plans begin to unravel. She’ll soon have to decide once and for all: how far is she willing to go to save her mother? Be prepared for breathtaking magic, twisted plots, a hint of romance, and more shocking revelations!

Imagineaz???i c? ai uitat cei mai importan?i zece ani din via?a ta. De la autoarea bestsellerurilor Secretul so?ului ?i Marile minciuni nevinovate C?nd se treze?te ?ntins? pe podeaua s?lii de gimnastic?, dup? o puternic? lovitur? la cap, Alice Love crede c? este ?nc? o t?n?r? de dou??zeci ?i nou? de ani, dornic? de distrac?ii, aflat? la ?nceput de drum al?turi de un so? minunat ?i ?ns?rcinat? cu primul lor copil. ?ns? descoper? cu uimire c? lovitura la cap i?a ?ters ultimii zece ani din memorie ?i c? acum este o femeie de treizeci ?i nou? de ani, cu trei copii ?i un b?rbat care o ur??te. Cum e posibil ca via?a ei s? se fi schimbat at?t de dramatic? ?i de ce nu??i aminte?te nimic? Alice nu se mai recunoa?te ?i nici nu?i place persoana ?n care s?a transformat. Trebuie s? decid? dac? pierderea memoriei este un blestem sau o bine?cuv?ntare ?i cum s? o ia de la cap?t. "O comedie romantic?, amuzant? ?i provocatoare, scris? cu un fin sim? al observa?iei." - Marie Claire "O poveste dulce?am?ruie scris? de o autoare talentat?." - Women's Weekly "Stilul lui Moriarty este minunat: uneori nostim, alteori trist, dar mereu irezistibil." - Good Housekeeping

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Megrendít és fordulatos”Gamal, a szaúdi királyi család tagja, megkapja élete legnagyobb feladatát: fel kell nevelnie magyar szerelmétl született gyermekét, Annát – nem is akárhol: saját hazájában, Szaúd-Arábiában. A család nem nézi jó szemmel a házasságon kívüli kislány érkezését. De ha ez nem lenne elég, a sors még egy megoldhatatlannak tn kihívást küld Gamalnak.Vajon képes egy apa egyenlséget tenni gyermekei kztt, amikor azt a vallási tradíciók szerint nem is volna szabad Lehet boldog egy ilyen zord világban egy ártatlan kislány, akinek már születésekor megpecsételdik a sorsa Mire képes az apai szív Mire képes egy mostohaA hatalmas sikert aratott Az Arab és Az Arab szeretje cím írásokban megismertük egy szívbemarkoló szerelem trténetét.BORSA BROWN legújabb regényében, Az Arab lánya els ktetében a korábbi részek folytatásaként a gyermek Anna élete bontakozik ki, mikzben édesapja, Gamal lelke is új életre kel.A szerzn külnleges, szókimondó, ugyanakkor érzelmes és szenvedélyes, erotikában bvelked írásai az olvasók kedvenceivé váltak. Az írón a már megszokott stílusban folytatja a trténetet, mely ismét érzelmi magasságokba és mélységekbe juttat bennünket.

Cine am fi noi f?r? dragoste? Cum ar fi dragostea f?r? noi? ?ntr-o lume a iubirii ?i a pove?tilor de via??, Emma, femeia rebel? ?i inocent? ?n acela?i timp, caut? r?spunsuri la propriile ?ntreb?ri. O ajut? s? le g?seasc? Greg, b?rbatul creator ?i omul ei de ?ncredere, al?turi de care tr?ie?te bucurii ?i dezam?giri, redate ?n dialoguri ?i reflec?ii. L?ng? el, ea e cald? ca o ploaie de var? sau rece ca un sloi de ghea??. Conflictul pe muchie genereaz? tr?irile femeii – ale Emmei, ?i, implicit, ipostazele ?n care ea riposteaz? sau ?ncheie armisti?ii. Cu siguran?? ?ns?, nu exist? o alt? cale de mijloc dec?t dragostea. — M? iube?ti? — Mai mult dec?t vreodat?. — ?i totu?i pleci. — Da! Pentru c? m? la?i s? fac asta... Emmei ?i este team? de singur?tate. Ea vrea s? r?d? cu el din acela?i motiv. Ea ?ine minte s?ruturile pe care nu i le-a dat. Ea vrea s? fie fericit? ?n patul lui. Ea ?tie c? cele mai bune vinuri se beau ?n doi. Ea caut? s? construiasc? poduri peste ne?n?elegerile din trecut. Ea vrea s? mearg? descul? pe malul m?rii. Sunt momente c?nd revine la acea ?mbr??i?are din trecut, la plimb?rile nocturne, la momentele ?n care a r?s ?i la cele ?n care a suferit. ?i momente ?n care ??i poart? g?ndul undeva departe sau se bucur? fericit? de prezent. Iubindu-l pe Greg sau tr?indu-?i emo?iile. Ea caut? un loc sfin?it de dragoste. Ea se ?ntoarce mereu la el. Citind De vorb? cu Emma, tr?ie?ti ?mpreun? cu personajul propria ta poveste de via??. Emma te provoac? s? g?se?ti calea spre sufletul t?u ?i te cheam? ?ntr-o lume ?n care lini?tea, nebunia ?i iubirea adev?rat? sunt un tot ?ntreg. Fie c? e?ti femeie ?i o ?n?elegi, fie c? e?ti b?rbat ?i cau?i calea spre inima ei, ai nevoie de r?spunsuri. Le g?se?ti ?n dialoguri ?i printre r?ndurile scrise de el sau tr?ite de ea. P?n? la urm?, po?i fi chiar tu Emma, cu experien?ele ?i pove?tile tale de dragoste. Empatiz?nd cu ea tacit, vei ajunge s? o la?i s? poarte ?i s? consume c?teva dintre zbucium?rile tale. La finalul acestei c?r?i, vei ?mbr??isa mai mult ?mp?carea cu tine ?ns??i, te vei sim?i mai senin?, mai preg?tit? s? accep?i, s? ?n?elegi ?i s? iube?ti. Vei fi gata s? ?ncepi un nou capitol ?n via?a ta. Pentru c? temerile, tr?irile ?i visurile Emmei sunt ?i ale tale. Iar dac? Emma le dep??e?te, le vei dep??i ?i tu. Ia-?i o cafea fierbinte, retrage-te ?n col?ul t?u de lume, las? un ora? pustiu ?n spate, deschide cartea ?i stai de vorb? cu tine. ?Vrei o rela?ie bun?? Fii bun. Vrei un partener care s? te sus?in?? Sus?ine ?i tu. ?ntr-o rela?ie, reciprocitatea nu are limite. urma urmei, rela?iile pe care le-ai avut ?nainte, tot ce ai tr?it, ce ai suferit ?i de ce te-ai bucurat trebuie s? fie o c?t de mic? lec?ie pentru ceea ce ai acum. S? ?n?elegi c? dac? pierzi, o faci nu doar din vina lui. S? ajungi la cincizeci de ani ?in?ndu-l de m?n? pe omul pe care ?l iube?ti nu este un dar sau o predestinare. Este munc?. Un efort zilnic, a c?rui greutate nici nu o observi dac? totul se imparte la doi ?i totul e facut la timp. Cau?i re?ete, prescrip?ii, recomand?ri pentru o rela?ie perfect?? Pentru omul potrivit? Fii tu ?n primul r?nd persoana potrivit?. Dac? nu e?ti, tinde s? fii. Dac? gre?e?ti, recunoa?te. Dac? nu ?tii, ?ntreab?. Dac? vezi c? se rupe, ia ?i ?ndreapt?. Une?te. Vorbe?te. Construie?te. Ascult?. Repar?. F? ceva. ?i asta se refer? la ambii. Este greu s? oferi? S? devii un bun prieten? S? ai mai mult? r?bdare? S? fii mai bun? S? z?mbe?ti mai des? S? oferi devotament? S? ier?i c?nd trebuie? S? ceri iertare? Dac? vrei o re?et? bun?, nu trebuie dec?t s? le une?ti pe toate ?n acela?i ?ntreg, pe care unii ferici?i ?l numesc rela?ie.“

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Jake Epping kisvárosi angoltanár, jókép?, m?velt, harmincas fiatalember. Amikor a gimnázium feln?tt angol kurzusán ?A nap, amelyen megváltozott az életem” címmel íratott dolgozatokat javítja, elé kerül a pedellus fogalmazása: Harry Dunning ?tven évvel azel?tt valahogyan túlélte, ahogy az apja lemészárolta a tulajdon családját. Jake teljesen odavan... ám kisvártatva még nagyobb titok birtokába jut, amikor ?reg barátja, Al, az egyik helyi bisztró tulajdonosa azzal a bizarr kéréssel áll el?, hogy el?zze meg azt az eseményt, amelyt?l ? Amerika és a világ romlását datálja: akadályozza meg Lee Harvey Oswaldot Kennedy eln?k meggyilkolásában. Hogy hogyan? Egyszer?. Lépjen át a bisztró spájzában nyíló id?kapun, és térjen vissza a nagy amerikai kocsik, Elvis Presley és az általános dohányzás korába. Jake az id? el?rehaladtával nem tudja eld?nteni, áldja-e vagy átkozza Alt, amiért erre a küldetésre rávette, azt azonban egyre biztosabban tudja, hogy a múltban vagy a j?v?ben szeretne-e élni.Tahoma

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Você já disse “eu te amo”? Mas você disse com sinceridade? Ou apenas disse querendo obter algo? Ou para corresponder ao sentimento do outro?Neste conto, você vai conhecer Serginho, um cara que disse “eu te amo” para conseguir transar com a namorada. Ele só n?o sabia que essa mentira iria levá-lo a sofrer conseqüências nada agradáveis.

Every man is born with just one thing: his sovereignty - his power to respond to his environment and his circumstances. Unfortunately, most men have spent much of their lives giving away that sovereignty. Every time a man passes blame or shirks his responsibility, every time he makes excuses for his performance, and every time he trades his unlimited potential for a little perceived safety and security, he willingly submits himself to the mercy of others. Is it any wonder that men, in general, seem to have lost their way? You don’t have to look very far to recognize that men don’t seem to possess the same amount of vigor and purpose they once did. Take one sobering statistic—the rate of suicide in men—and you begin to see how damaging the effects of the voluntary subjugation of men to their families, their businesses, and their governments can be. It’s not hard to understand why we give up control to others—it’s easy and we’re expected to. Sovereignty: The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of Men?is a call for men to once again rise up and establish themselves as they once were—a revolution if you will. Inside the pages of this book, we’ll uncover the battle each man will inevitably engage in, the external forces fighting against the call to masculinity, and the internal struggle all men must overcome. But make no mistake, this revolution is not a call for men to go their own way and rally against society.?It’s a call for men to become fully the men they are meant to be so they may more adequately take care of themselves and those they are responsible for. Men have always been expected to protect, provide, and preside over themselves, their families, their businesses, and their communities. By embodying the thirteen Sovereign Virtues we detail inside, every man will be more capable of fulfilling his masculine duties and responsibilities. The words in this book go well beyond principle and theory, however, as we build the framework for establishing a battle plan to combat the external and internal threats to our masculine power and give every man the tools, resources, guidance, direction, and ability to reclaim what has always been his: his sovereignty.

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S-au cunoscut prin intermediul unui site de ?nt?lniri amoroase. Dar n-au devenit iubi?i, ci prieteni.?i a?a vor s? r?m?n?. Ea e actri??. El e scriitor.Ea e Mia. El e Paul.Ea e britanic?. El e american.Ea se ascunde ?n Montmartre. El locuie?te ?n Marais.Ea are mult succes. El nu prea.De fapt, ea e faimoas? – de?i el nu-?i d? seama.Ea se simte singur?. ?i el.El e amuzant. Ea face gaf? dup? gaf?.Ea nu trebuie s? se ?ndr?gosteasc?. Nici el. Marc Levy revine la vechile lui teme cu aceast? comedie irezistibil? ?i imprevizibil? despre dragoste ?i prietenie.

William Stoner tizenkilenc évesen beiratkozik a Missouri Egyetem agrártudományi karára. Kés?bb tanár lesz ugyanott. Rosszul n?sül. Csendes, észrevétlen életet él, és halála után ritkán jut eszébe kollégáinak. A Stoner univerzális érték? t?rténetet tár elénk: ?szintén, részvéttel, átható er?vel. Az ember konfliktusairól, kudarcairól és diadalairól mesél, a szürke hétk?znapokról, amelyeket nem szokott meg?r?kíteni a t?rténetírás. Az egyedi élet jelent?ségének állít emléket. Páratlan olvasmány, dicshimnusza az irodalom erejének, olyan regény, amelynek minden mondatát élvezni kell. John Williams (1922–1994) amerikai író, k?lt?. Denverben tanult, majd tanított irodalmat. F?bb m?vei: Nothing but the Night (1948), Butcher’s Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965) és az Augustus, amely 1973-ban megkapta a Nemzeti K?nyvdíjat. Magyarul ez az els? k?nyve.

Bir guumln ccedilok zengin bir adam o?lunu yan?na alarak, insanlar?n ne kadar fakir olabilece?ini gouml;stermek iccedilin onu bir koumlye gouml tuumlrduuml. Ccedilok fakir bir ailenin evinde bir guumln bir gece geccedilirdiler. ehre douml nerken baba o?luna sordu: "Yolculu?umuzu nas?l buldun?" "Ccedilok guuml zeldi babac???m" diye cevap verdi o?lu. "?nsanlar?n ne kadar fakir olabilece?ini gouml rduumln de?il mi?" "Evet." "Peki ne ouml ?rendin?" "unu goumlrd uumlm" dedi o?lu: "Bizim evde bir kouml pe?imiz, onlar?n doumlrt kouml pe?i var.

In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream.It's also a love story, of sorts, the narrative of Gatsby's quixotic passion for Daisy Buchanan. The pair meet five years before the novel begins, when Daisy is a legendary young Louisville beauty and Gatsby an impoverished officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, bullying, but extremely rich Tom Buchanan. After the war, Gatsby devotes himself blindly to the pursuit of wealth by whatever means--and to the pursuit of Daisy, which amounts to the same thing. "Her voice is full of money," Gatsby says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby buys a mansion across Long Island Sound from Daisy's patrician East Egg address, throws lavish parties, and waits for her to appear. When she does, events unfold with all the tragic inevitability of a Greek drama, with detached, cynical neighbor Nick Carraway acting as chorus throughout. Spare, elegantly plotted, and written in crystalline prose, The Great Gatsby is as perfectly satisfying as the best kind of poem.* * *"Now we have an American masterpiece in its final form: the original crystal has shaped itself into the true diamond. This is the novel as Fitzgerald wished it to be, and so it is what we have dreamed of, sleeping and waking." -- James Dickey* * *The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922.The novel takes place following the First World War. American society enjoyed prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers. After its republishing in 1945 and 1953, it quickly found a wide readership and is today widely regarded as a paragon of the Great American Novel, and a literary classic. The Great Gatsby has become a standard text in high school and university courses on American literature in countries around the world, and is ranked second in the Modern Library's lists of the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century.--Wikipedia