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Baseado em fatos reais, A parteira de Auschwitz é um romance comovente e inspirador sobre coragem e amizade feminina durante o Holocausto. Em 1943, ao chegar a Auschwitz, Ana Kaminski se identifica como parteira e, com isso, salva a própria vida e a de sua amiga Ester Pasternak. Designadas para trabalhar no galpão que serve como maternidade, elas se deparam com a terrível realidade do campo de concentração, mas também com uma missão: proteger os recém-nascidos.

Wrongfully imprisoned and tortured by an unseen enemy, Broderick MacPherson lives for one purpose - punishing the villain who targeted him. But when a wayward English lass interrupts his revenge, he loses his enemy in the dark. Now, her compelled testimony could send Broderick back to the prison that nearly killed him. Unless they find a loophole - an inconvenient, shockingly tempting loophole.

Can life ever be normal? Just as Nicole thinks that she can build a new life at the academy, strange visions of Melany start to plague her mind. If that wasn’t enough, the reality she has come home to is no longer safe.

Samuel Collier de doce años, es un niño humilde de las calles de Londres. Cuando se convierte en el paje del Capitán John Smith y aborda el Susan Constant con destino al Nuevo Mundo, no puede creer su buena fortuna. Ha oído que por aquellos lados el oro llega a las costas con cada marea. Pero a partir del tormentoso viaje y su primer contacto con los nativos, se da cuenta de que el Nuevo Mundo no es nada parecido a lo que él imaginaba.

A walking scandal surviving on little more than wits, whisky, and wicked skills in the bedchamber, Benedict Chatham, the new Marquess of Rutherford, is at the end of his rope. Deeply in debt and down to his last farthing, he must marry nothing short of an absolute fortune, or risk utter ruin. Enter Miss Charlotte Lancaster, unfashionably tall heiress to just such a fortune and a clumsy, redheaded disaster in her five London seasons. While she dreams of leaving England for a life of trade in America, her father schemes to trade her dowry for a title.

Miss Augusta Widmore has no time for proprieties. She must force her sister's ne'er-do-well betrothed to the altar with all haste - or watch her sister bear the scandalous consequences. But with the blackguard resisting his duty, she needs leverage. And only one man can provide it. Sebastian Reaver has no time for presumptuous women. He has a club to run. So, when a perfect nuisance invades his office, demands a fortune in markers, and refuses to leave until he relinquishes them to her, he knows just the thing to send her scurrying back to Hampshire....

Their stories are not fairytales, their road was not easy, and their examples are not perfect. They lived in times and places quite different than ours. Yet they hold up a mirror to our souls that can help us better understand our own story. And in doing so, we find freedom to come to God as we...

What does it take to raise great kids? If you've read any books on parenting, conflicting opinions have probably left you feeling confused. Get tough! Show acceptance. Lay down the rules. Lighten up, already! There's got to be a balance--and there is. Joining their expertise with the wisdom of...

The fascinating companion title to the award-winning historical novel Blood on the River: James Town 1607. After the colony of James Town is founded in 1607. After Captain John Smith establishes trade with the Native Americans. After Pocahontas befriends the colonists. After early settlers both...

Madrid, 1906. Un Maharajá se enamora locamente de una joven bailarina malagueña. La muchacha se llama Anita Delgado. El riquísimo personaje es el monarca de un principado del Punjab. En 1908, Anita Delgado se convierte en la Princesa de Kapurthala. Ésta es la sorprendente narración de la vida de la única Maharaní española en la fascinante India de los Maharajás.

Painfully shy Jane Huxley is the furthest thing from a diamond of the first water. Bookish, bespectacled, and, well, plain, she never expected to befriend a dissolute charmer like Colin Lacey, much less agree to help him retrieve a lost family heirloom. Fortunately, he is nothing like his cold, rigid older brother. Unfortunately, he is not above deception if it means winning a wager. And that puts Jane in a most precarious position. For Harrison Lacey, the Duke of Blackmore, protecting his family honor is not a choice, it is a necessity.

Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders--but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. She has her wonderful family around her. To Ann, her teasing brothers, her...

Gods do exist. And if the scroll in my hands says the truth, they have a secret academy where their recruits train to become demigods. I’ve done really bad things in my life, but stealing Callie’s opportunity to attend the God’s Academy? It’s got to be the worst. If Gods find out I’m a faker, what was supposed to be someone else’s gift may turn into my personal curse.

Welcome to season three! Return to the Demigods Academy in this new, exciting installment full of your favorite Gods and Demigods. After waking up on the floor of an abandoned warehouse, with no memory of her life, where she came from, or even an ID, Nicole had to resort to the oldest profession in the world—relax, she’s just stealing for a living. Unlike her best friend, Pinky, she has never believed in the Gods or their legendary academy, where special recruits train to become Demigods and protect the world.

Everyone wants handsome adventurer John Huxley to settle down - family, friends, London society. Everyone except John. He's evaded too many scheming title huntresses to trust in happily ever after. Now, a vow made to a dying friend has him locked in a land dispute with a stubborn Scot who offers one way out: Win the Highland Games. John likes a challenge, but this one's impossible. Still, with training from the Scot's stepdaughter, victory might be within reach.

You're probably aware that generative AI can output quality text and create stunning images in seconds. But smart managers are now using gen AI for high-level work—problem-solving, driving innovation, strategic thinking, and dozens of other applications. Managers who develop their generative AI capabilities will soon be leaping ahead of those who don't. Fortunately, you can start today and see immediate results. The HBR Guide to Generative AI for Managers is packed with practical tips, prompts, and case studies to accelerate and improve countless aspects of your work.

La incontinencia urinaria afecta a una de cada cuatro mujeres a partir de los 35 años. El responsable es este gran desconocido, el suelo pélvico, que queda especialmente dañado tras los partos, pero que igualmente se deteriora sin haber tenido hijos. La buena noticia es que tiene solución, y este audiolibro, narrado por la propia Raquel López, recoge toda la información necesaria para que cualquier mujer, desde una adolescente hasta una mujer en plena menopausia, resuelva sus dudas y aprenda a fortalecerlo durante toda su vida.

When Tank, a battle-worn member of the Iron Reapers MC, pulls into the clubhouse, the last thing he expects is to find a woman on the brink of collapse at his door. Sophie is a mess—bloodied, bruised, and trembling with fear—but it’s the haunted look in her eyes that stops him cold. She’s not just another victim; she’s a puzzle, a mystery wrapped in terror, and Tank can’t shake the feeling that her presence will change everything. What begins as a simple act of compassion quickly spirals into something much darker. Sophie is running from a nightmare far worse than Tank could ...

“Vivid and intriguing...Evokes unresolved family history with subtle heat.” —The New York Times From National Book Award–winning Elisa Shua Dusapin, a subtle yet powerful portrayal of family, secrets, and silence set against the backdrop of a crumbling house in the French...

It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents': daydreaming, playing Tetris, and listening to the sounds from the street above. The heat rises; the days slip by. The plan is for Claire to visit Korea with her grandparents. They fled the civil war there over fifty years ago, along with thousands of others, and haven't been back since.