Título da série Biblioteca Pessoal de Braulio Tavares, A MULHER e o ESTRANHO – Narrativas do Insólito nos convida a mergulhar em histórias que exploram os limites do real e do imaginário. A MULHER E O ESTRANHO promete um virar de páginas emocionante, com contos de oito escritoras geniais que deram voz às mulheres do final do século XIX ao início do século XX. Feministas, ativistas contra a guerra, essas autoras marcaram suas vidas com ousadias e ótimas histórias em antologia organizada, tr...

The Bible stands at the heart of the Christian faith, but now more than ever many question its historical reliability and relevance for life today. In what may become the definitive contemporary evangelical resource on this foundational topic, John MacArthur and a host of pastors, biblical scholars, historians, and theologians defend the doctrine of biblical inerrancy from their various disciplines. With contributions from evangelical leaders such as Kevin DeYoung, R. Albert Mohler Jr., R....

TEMPERS FLARE IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT……And the wrong move, the wrong word, even the wrong look can set off any man or woman already driven past their boiling point. A Hot and Sultry Night for Crime, edited by bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, features 20 stories of people dealing with not just the torrid weather, but all different kinds of heat. From a retired police chief pitching in on a missing dog report that leads to him solving a murder to...

You're only a first-time CFO once, but that first time can be a daunting challenge for startup leaders. Without a blueprint or a guide, you're in a tough spot to manage all the details of finance, set up the accounts and systems, plus build out your team. Startup CFO was written to help the first-time CFO navigate finance challenges and provide tactics and best practices for how you can grow a high-performing function.Matt Blumberg and Jack Sinclair have decades of finance...

The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology provides an introduction to the controversial treatment and ongoing violence routinely utilized against non-native species. Drawing from the tradition of critical animal scholars, Stanescu and Cummings have assembled a group of advocates who argue for a different kind of relationship with foreign species. Where contemporary approaches often emphasize the need to eradicate ecological invaders in order to preserve delicate habitats, the essays in t...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Delta’s world implodes when she’s assigned to investigate The Four, a quartet of impossibly alluring supernatural beings at a prestigious academy. Their enigmatic charm masks a dangerous undercurrent, drawing her deeper into a labyrinth of secrets and forbidden desires.As Delta navigates a treacherous web of lies and deceit, she must decipher who to trust. With each revelation, the lines between duty and passion blur, and the co...

Increasing consumer demand for low-input cultivation and minimal processing has significantly increased the risk of microbiological contamination of fresh produce. This both presents a health risk to consumers and undermines trust in the food supply chain from farm to fork.Advances in ensuring the microbiological safety of fresh produce reviews our current understanding of key pathogenic risks to fresh produce such as Salmonella, Listeria and E.coli

Joseph Wambaugh meets Michael Connelly in this nuanced police procedural series debut from a veteran of the Iraq War and Oakland Police DepartmentA veteran-turned-detective struggling with PTSD and alcoholism lands a case that will either make—or break—his flagging career in the Oakland Homicide SquadWhen a teenager from a wealthy suburb outside of Oakland, California is dumped at an inner-city bus stop, homicide detective Matt Sinclair cat...

An anthology of short stories, The Fall explores different visions of the apocalypse. Ancient prophecies, technological Armageddon, failures of government, a distracted deity, and yes, zombies all have their moments in this collection, but so do love, yearning, hope, and humor. In the end, the apocalypse offers a path to new beginnings, even if it takes a course through death, despair, and destruction to find them.

A nuanced police procedural written by a veteran of the Oakland Police Department and the Iraq war whose years of hard-earned experience and insider’s knowledge come through on the pageCops in Oakland seldom meet people whose lives are going well. That's certainly the case when homicide sergeant Matt Sinclair recognizes the dead woman hanging from a tree as a teenage runaway named Dawn he arrested ten years before. And as Sinclair and his partner, Cathy Braddock, s...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Some houses remember. Some refuse to forget.In The Final Pane, a dilapidated estate becomes a labyrinth of secrets, each chapter peeling back layers of forgotten memories and unsettling truths. From "A Curtain Slightly Moved" to "A Light in the Attic", whispers linger in hidden drawers, reflections betray their owners, and footsteps echo where no one should tread. As reality bl...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.I thought being abducted by a devastatingly hot alien warrior was just a fever dream—until I woke up on a strange planet, halfway across the galaxy, with no way home.Turns out, I’ve been taken for a reason.Jacaranda, the fierce and dangerously beautiful alien who kidnapped me, was ordered to deliver me to his warlord commander, Deacon Ladrang. Serious, commanding, and impossibly magnetic, Deacon claims I...