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Al Capone Does My Homework
By Gennifer Choldenko. 2013
Alcatraz Island in the 1930s isn't the most normal place to grow up, but it's home for Moose Flanagan, his…
autistic sister, Natalie, and all the families of the guards. When Moose's dad gets promoted to Associate Warden, despite being an unlikely candidate, it's a big deal. But the cons have a point system for targeting prison employees, and his dad is now in serious danger. After a fire starts in the Flanagan's apartment, Natalie is blamed, and Moose bands with the other kids to track down the possible arsonist. Then Moose gets a cryptic note from the notorious Al Capone himself. Is Capone trying to protect Moose's dad too? If Moose can't figure out what Capone's note means, it may be too late.Era Uma Vez Um Beijo
By Tanya Anne Crosby, Tânia Nezio. 2016
Ela veio para se casar com o irmão dele e acabou roubando o coração do Dragão... Para resolver uma disputa,…
Dominique Beauchamp foi obrigada a se casar a fim de resolver os problemas das suas terras. Oferecida em casamento por seu irmão para o Lord de Drakewich, ela veio para adicionar d'Lucy ao seu nome... mas ela não contava em perder seu coração para o irmão de seu noivo..--o Dragão Negro. Blaec d'Lucy desconfiou dela desde o início, acreditando que ela fizesse parte das perfídias infinitas do seu irmão, mas ele foi incapaz de resistir a jovem raposa de cabelo flamejante que andava tão orgulhosamente no meio deles. Era Uma Vez Um Beijo... e o amor deles foi selado.Era Uma Vez Um Beijo
By Tanya Anne Crosby, Tânia Nezio. 2016
Ela veio para se casar com o irmão dele e acabou roubando o coração do Dragão... Para resolver uma disputa,…
Dominique Beauchamp foi obrigada a se casar a fim de resolver os problemas das suas terras. Oferecida em casamento por seu irmão para o Lord de Drakewich, ela veio para adicionar d'Lucy ao seu nome... mas ela não contava em perder seu coração para o irmão de seu noivo..--o Dragão Negro. Blaec d'Lucy desconfiou dela desde o início, acreditando que ela fizesse parte das perfídias infinitas do seu irmão, mas ele foi incapaz de resistir a jovem raposa de cabelo flamejante que andava tão orgulhosamente no meio deles. Era Uma Vez Um Beijo... e o amor deles foi selado.The Outside Child
By Tiffany L. Warren. 2018
All of Chenille Abrams’ dreams came true the day she married NFL star Brayden Carpenter. He’s the down-to-earth, loving, and…
protective man she never thought she'd find. And with her own successful career, Chenille plans to be more than just a famous athlete’s wife. She's determined to balance work, marriage, and motherhood, as the couple awaits their first child . . . Until their son is born with a crippling heart ailment. Until a devastated Brayden starts putting his career above everything else. And when tragedy strikes, Chenille struggles to find a reason to go on—as Brayden takes comfort from anywhere but home . . . Little by little, Chenille picks up the pieces as she and Brayden try to make their marriage work once more. But when he fathers a baby that the mother can’t keep, will this be the final blow? Or can they find a way past betrayal into unexpected hope—to at last have a future worth everything?Hannah of Fairfield (Pioneer Daughters #1)
By Jean Van Leeuwen, Donna Diamond. 1999
The Pioneer Daughters series is "a heartwarming portrait of a colonial girl and her family struggling to meet the challenges…
of pioneer life during the Revolutionary War. " --Kirkus Reviews In Hannah of Fairfield, Hannah would rather be nursing a fragile spring lamb back to health than counting stitches. How can she concentrate when the war is so close? Everyone in Fairfield is doing all they can to help the colonial army. What can Hannah do to help? .A Reason to Die (A Perley Gates Western #2)
By William W. Johnstone, J. A. Johnstone. 2018
From bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone—the explosive adventures of Perley Gates, who’s carving out his own legacy in…
the violent American frontier . . . Restless cowpoke Perley Gates wanted nothing more than to track down the grandfather who abandoned his family years ago. What he found was the crazy old sidewinder barely hanging on after a Sioux massacre. The old man’s dying wish was to make things right for deserting his kin—by giving his strong-willed grandson Perley clues to the whereabouts of a buried fortune in gold. Finding his grandfather’s legacy will set up his family for life. But it won’t be easy. The discovery of raw gold in the Black Hills has lured hordes of ruthless lowlifes into Deadwood and Custer City—kill-crazy prairie rats, gunfighters, outlaws, and Indians—armed with a thousand glittering reasons to put Perley six feet under. All Perley wants is what was left to him, what he’s owed. But with so many brigands on his backside, finding his grandfather’s treasure is going to land Perley Gates between the promise of heaven and the blood-soaked battlefields of hell . . .Swimming Home: A Novel
By Mary-Rose Maccoll. 2015
From the author of the international bestseller In Falling Snow, a beautifully written, heartwarming novel of a young woman swimmer…
in 1925 London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she’s done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away from her. Louisa, a London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds strict views on the behavior of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she herself did. Catherine is rebellious, and Louisa finds it difficult to block painful memories from her past. It takes the enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to bring Catherine to New York where Catherine can train to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. And finally, Louisa begins to listen to what her own heart tells her.From the Trade Paperback edition.White Fang
By Jack London. 2016
This thrilling adventure story from the celebrated author of The Call of the Wild traces a wolf-dog's epic journey from…
savage beast to man's best friend Three men traverse the frozen landscape of the Yukon Territory on a sled--two stand upright, one lies dead in a coffin. Stalked by a pack of starving wolves, the travelers are out of ammunition and low on food. When night falls, the wolves will make their final assault. The men's time is running short, but White Fang's story is just beginning. Part wolf, part dog, White Fang is a hunter without a pack, at home neither in the camp nor in the wilderness. From the banks of the frozen Klondike river to the teeming streets of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, White Fang never stops fighting--first to survive, and then to find a home. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.A View of the Empire at Sunset: A Novel
By Caryl Phillips. 2018
Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea,…
which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset is the sweeping story of the life of the woman who became known to the world as Jean Rhys. Born Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams in Dominica at the height of the British Empire, Rhys lived in the Caribbean for only sixteen years before going to England. A View of the Empire at Sunset is a look into her tempestuous and unsatisfactory life in Edwardian England, 1920s Paris, and then again in London. Her dream had always been to one day return home to Dominica. In 1936, a forty-five-year-old Rhys was finally able to make the journey back to the Caribbean. Six weeks later, she boarded a ship for England, filled with hostility for her home, never to return. Phillips’s gripping new novel is equally a story about the beginning of the end of a system that had sustained Britain for two centuries but that wreaked havoc on the lives of all who lived in the shadow of the empire: both men and women, colonizer and colonized. A true literary feat, A View of the Empire at Sunset uncovers the mysteries of the past to illuminate the predicaments of the present, getting at the heart of alienation, exile, and family by offering a look into the life of one of the greatest storytellers of the twentieth century and retelling a profound story that is singularly its own.Mersey Maids: A moving family saga of romance, poverty and hope
By Anne Baker. 1997
When widower Henry Knell loses his glove-making business to the Dransfields his life is well and truly ruined. With his…
six young daughters, he moves into rented rooms in a Merseyside back street. Meanwhile, Hattie and Maggie, the eldest girls, are trying to hold the family together. Sophie Dransfield's husband, Daniel, takes pity on the poverty-stricken Knells and offers Maggie a job as a maid in the Dransfields' nursery. Maggie's beautiful blonde hair soon catches the eye of Sophie's brother Tom, whose dashing brother, Luke, is equally enchanted by Hattie when she joins the household as a lady's maid. But the fortunes of the two sisters do not run according to plan...To Catch a Traitor (Sins of a Spy #1)
By D. B. Shuster. 2018
Every family has its secrets. In 1980s Moscow, keeping them is a matter of survival.As the Cold War escalates, the…
Soviet Union’s Jewish community finds itself caught in a tug of war between their allies abroad who want to open the doors to emigration and a country that hates them but won’t let them leave.A Jew in Moscow, Sofia knows better than most how high the stakes are. Her family is among the thousands who have been watched, harassed, and hunted for their defiance of the Soviet machine. Her own husband was sentenced to five harrowing years in the gulag simply for teaching Hebrew. Sofia has dared even greater risks to help her people, and if she’s caught, she won’t be sent to the gulag. She’ll be executed.When her husband is released from prison six months early, she should be overjoyed, but the KGB has eyes and ears everywhere. Anyone could be an informant, even the beloved husband who has finally returned. A shell of his former self, he can’t--or won’t--explain his unexpected reprieve, and he’s acting guilty. She suspects he’s harboring dangerous secrets of his own. How can she trust him with hers? The Americans meets Bridge of Spies in this can't-put-down Cold War story of intrigue and betrayal. Sins of a Spy1. To Catch a Traitor - released in August 2018 2.To Hunt a Spy - released in January 2019Waking the Ancients (Nemesis of the Gods #2)
By Catherine Cavendish. 2018
LEGACY IN DEATH. Egypt, 1908. University student Lizzie Charters accompanies her mentor, Dr. Emeryk Quintillus, on the archeological dig to…
uncover Cleopatra’s tomb. Her presence is required for a ceremony conducted by the renowned professor to resurrect Cleopatra’s spirit—inside Lizzie’s body. Quintillus’s success is short-lived, as the Queen of the Nile dies soon after inhabiting her host, leaving Lizzie’s soul adrift . . . Vienna, 2018 Paula Bancroft’s husband just leased Villa Dürnstein, an estate once owned by Dr. Quintillus. Within the mansion are several paintings and numerous volumes dedicated to Cleopatra. But the archeologist’s interest in the Egyptian empress deviated from scholarly into supernatural, infusing the very foundations of his home with his dark fanaticism. And as inexplicable manifestations rattle Paula’s senses, threatening her very sanity, she uncovers the link between the villa, Quintillus, and a woman named Lizzie Charters. And a ritual of dark magic that will consume her soul . . .Fox in the Firelight
By Susan Yoder Ackerman. 2018
During the Civil War the lines between Union and Confederate forces were impassable for everyone, even pacifist Mennonites—unless you were…
sly like a fox. In this adventurous story of historical fiction, discover how a courageous boy finds a way to help his community while respecting his beliefs.Ataque ao Bunker de Hitler
By Lazlo Ferran, Raimundo Alves dos Santos. 2018
Rudolph Eineger foi deixado com o dedo dentro de um corpo morto. Repulsado, retirou-o e limpou-o na túnica preta da…
SS. Richard Earlgood, um piloto de caça rebelde da RAF, e Michael Dorfmann, um ambicioso agente duplo da Luftwaffe, planejam um ataque audacioso a luz do dia usando caças Hurricane, carregados nas costas do bombardeiro quadrimotor Stirling para alcançar o quase completo... inexpugnável... Bunker do Führer neste livro de ficção ambientado na Segunda Guerra Mundial. Anna Styles, uma decodificadora da Estação X, tinha um romance com Dorfmann em Oxford e está sendo forçada a “cuidar” do agente duplo. Ela ainda ama Dorfmann, mas se apaixona por Richard também. Esta invasão singular para bombardear o Bunker de Hitler pode vencer a Guerra, mas apenas um homem pode ganhar o coração de Anna Anna. A maioria do pessoal de Hitler simplesmente não acredita que tal invasão seja possível, mas um oficial cruel da SS não vai descansar até pegar Dorfmann e derrotar os Britânicos. Homens , máquinas e paixões serão levados aos limites num ataque... que moldará a História. Ataque ao Bunker de Hitler! A invasão secreta da RAF para bombardear o Bunker de Hitler em Berlim que nunca aconteceu – provavelmente. Fãs do Esquadrão The Dam Busters, The Dam Busters, Operação Valquíria, A Águia Pousou , Desafio das Águias ou até mesmo o jogo simulador da Segunda Guerra Mundial War Thunder vão amar este thriller de ação incandescente feito montanha-russa durante a Guerra pelas ruas de Berlim em uma missão de bombardeio que deixará seus cabelos em pé! Categorias: romance, ménage, internacional, espiões, suspense, segunda chance, amnésia, thriller, história, militar, guerra, Segunda Guerra Mundial. Gênero: FICÇÃO / Histórico Gênenro Secundário: FICÇÃO / Thrillers Idioma: Language: Português brasileiro Contagem de palavras: 87872 InformaçõesThe Queen of the Damned (Vampire Chronicles #3)
By Anne Rice. 1988
In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . .…
in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat. In The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of the night are unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Three brilliantly colored narrative threads intertwine as the story unfolds: - The rock star known as Vampire Lestat, worshipped by millions of spellbound fans, prepares for a concert in San Francisco. Among the audience--pilgrims in a blind swoon of adoration--are hundreds of vampires, creatures who see Lestat as a "greedy fiend risking the secret prosperity of all his kind just to be loved and seen by mortals," fiends themselves who hate Lestat's power and who are determined to destroy him... - The sleep of certain men and women--vampires and mortals scattered around the world--is haunted by a vivid, mysterious dream: of twins with fiery red hair and piercing green eyes who suffer an unspeakable tragedy. It is a dream that slowly, tauntingly reveals its meaning to the dreamers as they make their way toward each other--some to be destroyed on the journey, some to face an even more terrifying fate at journey's end... - Akasha--Queen of the Damned, mother of all vampires, rises after a 6,000 year sleep and puts into motion a heinous plan to "save" mankind from itself and make "all myths of the world real" by elevating herself and her chosen son/lover to the level of the gods: "I am the fulfillment and I shall from this moment be the cause"... These narrative threads wind sinuously across a vast, richly detailed tapestry of the violent, sensual world of vampirism, taking us back 6,000 years to its beginnings. As the stories of the "first brood" of blood drinkers are revealed, we are swept across the ages, from Egypt to South America to the Himalayas to all the shrouded corners of the globe where vampires have left their mark. Vampires are created--mortals succumbing to the sensation of "being enptied, of being devoured, of being nothing." Vampires are destroyed. Dark rituals are performed--the rituals of ancient creatures prowling the modern world. And, finally, we are brought to a moment in the twentieth century when, in an astonishing climax, the fate of the living dead--and perhaps of the living, all the living--will be decided.Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain. 1999
A young runaway boards a raft and sets off down the Mississippi, setting in motion a series of memorable adventures…
that have intrigued readers of all ages for over a century. Huck Finn and his loyal companion, the escaped slave Jim, form one of literature's greatest friendships. This abridged, easy-to-read version includes 15 illustrations.Wounds of Honour: Empire I
By Anthony Riches. 2009
'A master of the genre' The TimesThrilling, authentic and action-packed, this novel introduces soldier hero Marcus Valerius: a centurion stationed…
on Hadrian's Wall in the second century during a revolt against the Roman Empire.Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonorable death by power-crazed emperor Commodus. The plan is to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian's Wall and lie low until he can hope for justice. Then a rebel army sweeps down from the wastes north of the Wall, and Marcus has to prove he's hard enough to lead a century in the front line of a brutal, violent war.The Wolf's Gold: Empire V Special Sales (Empire Ser. #5)
By Anthony Riches. 2012
'A master of the genre' The TimesFresh from their victory in Germania, Marcus Aquila and the Tungrians have been sent…
to Dacia, on the north-eastern edge of the Roman Empire, with the mission to safeguard a major source of imperial power. The mines of Alburnus Major contain enough gold to pave the road to Rome. They would make a mighty prize for the marauding Sarmatae tribesmen who threaten the province, and the outnumbered auxiliaries are entrusted with their safety in the face of a barbarian invasion. Beset by both the Sarmatian horde and more subtle threats offered by men who should be their comrades, the Tungrians must also come to terms with the danger posed by a new and unexpected enemy. They will have to fight to the death to save the honour of the empire - and their own skins.'Some authors are better historians than they are storytellers. Anthony Riches is brilliant at both.' Conn IgguldenNos Limites da Terra
By Mari Collier, Gilson Cardozo de Arruda. 2018
Um homem com genes Thalian-Justine está abandonado no planeta Terra. Ele tem uma nave espacial e a escondeu nas regiões…
inabitadas do Texas. Ele deve sobreviver neste planeta violento e retornar para destruir os Justines e vingar sua mãe e Thalia. Ele adota o nome de MacDonald e resgata Rolfe durante uma briga de bar. Ele se junta a Rolfe no comércio de peles até terminar. Eles se tornam comerciantes até uma invasão dos Kiowas destruir seus bens. MacDonald admite que ele tem ouro escondido. Uma viagem à nave espacial fornece fundos para uma concessão de terras do Estado do Texas. MacDonald se torna um Batedor da 2ª Companhia dos Dragões. Durante uma incursão em um campo dos Comanches, ele resgata Anna, uma mulher alta o suficiente e guerreira o suficiente para lhe ser companheira. Será que MacDonald e Anna sobreviverão à gripe, à inimizade de seus vizinhos do Sul,a uma invasão no Recanto dos Schmidt e à Guerra Civil?Finding Langston
By Lesa Cline-Ransome. 2018
In a debut historical novel about the Great Migration a boy discovers Chicago's postwar South Side and the poetry of…
Langston Hughes. When 11-year-old Langston's mother dies in 1946, he and his father leave rural Alabama for Chicago's brown belt as a part of what came to be known as the Great Migration. It's lonely in the small apartment with just the two of them, and at school Langston is bullied. But his new home has one fantastic thing. Unlike the whites-only library in Alabama, the local public library welcomes everyone. There, hiding out after school, Langston discovers another Langston, a poet whom he learns inspired his mother enough to name her only son after him.