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An extraordinary new voice in contemporary woman’s fiction, Courtney Miller Santo makes her magnificent debut with a novel that will delight fans of Sarah Blake’s The Postmistress, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, and the works of Kristin Hannah. Set in a house on an olive grove in...

Dr. Brian McAllister ist schockiert. Kaum in Kalifornien angekommen, wird der schottische Kieferchirurg entführt. Eingesperrt im goldenen Käfig, einer Nobelvilla in Santa Barbara, wird er einer Gehirnwäsche unterzogen. Seine Entführer versuchen ihm einzureden, er sei der Multimilliardär Prof. Cunningham. Er habe lediglich bei einem Sturz seine Erinnerungen verloren. Die Beweise, die sie dafür anführen, sind so überwältigend, dass McAllister bald selbst nicht mehr sicher ist, was er glauben soll.

Gianluca's life is empty. His City job, his seven-figure income, his glossy girlfriends - all have long ceased to satisfy him. His marriage is over, and he barely knows his young daughters. In search of serenity and a deeper purpose, he flees to Italy. But life on the sun-drenched Amalfi coast is not as peaceful as Luca anticipates.

Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was very enamored with his daughter, Susi, and remained so up to her untimely death at age 24 in 1896. In 1875, at the age of 3, she had written her first letter to Santa Claus. As a writer and loving father, Twain, couldn't stand for his young daughter to feel like her work went unheard, so he penned the following letter to "My Dear Susie Clemens" from "The Man in the Moon" himself.

"Pioneira" – adjetivo amplo que se aplica a muitas das facetas de Antonieta de Barros, escritora, jornalista e política brasileira nascida em 1901 em Florianópolis – então chamada "Desterro". A força de sua escrita segue firme nos dias de hoje, e o leitor pode senti-la nessa seleção de crônicas cuidadosamente selecionadas do livro Farrapos de ideias, assinado sob o pseudônima de "Maria da Ilha"

Romance inacabado de Lima Barreto, O Cemitério dos Vivos foi escrito durante o segundo período no qual o autor foi paciente do Hospital de Alienados, no Rio de Janeiro. Narra a história de Vicente Mascarenhas, personagem, como seu autor, alcóolatra e internado duas vezes em um hospital psiquiátrico. Relatando sua juventude, seu casamento, a morte da esposa e a consequente entrada no hospício, o romance faz considerações pungentes acerca do manicômio e da relação da sociedade com a loucura.

Rocky, always ready with a wise remark and a tongue-in-cheek approach, is a magnet for trouble. There is usually a beautiful woman involved; some good, some bad. His tough guy stays just inside the law, though we often get a glimpse of a soft heart beneath the hard-boiled exterior.