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WRANGLER RANGEA Wild Western AdventureHe walked alone into a town full of killers. The West would never be the same.Perry "Commodore" Owens is the new sheriff in Apache County, Arizona Territorya hard, quiet gunman with a reputation that scares men who live by the gun. When ruthless outlaw Andy Cooper and the Blevins brothers arrive in town, wanted for cold-blooded murder in the Pleasant Valley range war, everyone expects the sheriff to back down. Six armed men against one lawman? The smart play is to ride away.Owens doesnt ride away.As tensions rise and whispers of revenge echo across the desert, the town watches as Owens prepares to face the outlaws alone. No posse. No backup. Just a Winchester rifle, a Colt revolver, and a reputation for finishing what other men start. Meanwhile, the murdered Tewksbury family prepares to take the law into their own hands, threatening to ignite a full-scale frontier war that could tear the territory apart.From dusty railroad towns and outlaw-filled saloons to sun-scorched canyons and brutal ambushes, WRANGLER RANGE delivers a gritty, action-packed Western tale of justice, vengeance, and the thin line between lawman and gunslinger. Inspired by real frontier legends and the violent chaos of the Old West, this is a fast-paced, cinematic frontier thriller for fans of classic Westerns, modern gritty Western novels, and true-crime frontier history.Perfect for fans of: classic Western adventures and frontier lawmen gritty gunslinger action and outlaw showdowns historical Western fiction with real events and characters Louis LAmour, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy-style Western storytelling revenge stories, frontier justice, and lawman vs. outlaw epics

THE COPPER TRAILA Gritty Western Thriller of Corruption, Revenge, and Frontier JusticeHe was hired to find stolen money. Instead, he uncovered a massacre buried under desert dust.Calvert was once the best detective Wells Fargo haduntil whiskey and regret ruined everything. Now broke and disgraced in the Arizona Territory, he takes a job no one else wants: track down a stolen mining payroll worth forty-seven thousand dollars in gold certificates.But the trail leads somewhere darker.A deadly mine collapse killed eleven men. The company called it an accident. The widows call it murder. And someone knew the payroll schedule well enough to rob it clean and vanish into the desert.As Calvert digs deeper, he uncovers letters, suppressed reports, and a corporate cover-up that reaches from dusty mining camps to powerful men in San Francisco. The deeper he goes, the more dangerous the truth becomesespecially with a violent company enforcer, a compromised deputy marshal, and ruthless executives determined to keep their secrets buried.Outlaws, corporate killers, and frontier justice collide in THE COPPER TRAIL, a cinematic Western thriller packed with gunfights, conspiracies, and hard-boiled detective grit.Perfect for fans of: gritty Western thrillers and frontier noir lawman vs outlaw and corporate corruption stories historical Western fiction with realistic detail Louis LAmour, Elmore Leonard, and Cormac McCarthy crime mysteries set in the Old West Justice was never meant to be found on the copper trail.

A partir de um luto inominável, eis um livro de memórias sublime, nem trágico, nem elegíaco: transformador.FINALISTA: National Book Award | Andrew Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceUM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DO ANO: New York Times | Washington Post | New YorkerEscrever, ensinar, jardinar, ir ao supermercado, cozinhar, tratar da roupa so atividades que, situando-se no tempo, no rivalizam com os meus filhos, porque eles se tornaram intemporais.Vincent morreu com 16 anos. James morreu com 19 anos. Num intervalo de sete anos, os dois filhos de Yiyun Li escolheram o suicidio, a meio caminho entre a escola e a casa de familia. Tudo na natureza apenas continua e um testemunho delicado, revolucionario, que tem origem no abismo, o novo habitat de uma escritora que escolhe professar a aceitaço radical destas mortes tragicas. Indefetivel na eterna condiço de me, eternamente ligada aos seus filhos, Yiyun Li faz germinar neste livro uma gramatica so sua: austera, intima, capaz de descrever uma das mais extremas experiencias humanas, no ponto exato em que a linguagem costuma falhar. Num exercicio literario inigualavel, Yiyun Li fixa para sempre o lugar dos seus filhos no mundo, porque no ha agora e outrora, agora e mais tarde; so agora e agora e agora e agora, mas somente agora e agora e agora e agora, como um tempo que nunca termina, apesar da tragedia.Este livro transforma-nos.ObserverYiyun Li recusa o sentimentalismo; mesmo assim, o leitor pode sentir-se derrubado pela sua força emocional.GuardianSimultaneamente delicado e devastador. [] A terrivel tragedia familiar que devastou Yiyun Li e contada de um modo sobrio e a olhar o luto de frente, um pouco a maneira daquilo que Joan Didion conseguiu no inesquecivel O ano do pensamento magico.Carlos Vaz MarquesTudo na natureza apenas continua impe um territorio literario raro e inquietante. [] Organiza se como um diario filosofico, por pequenos fragmentos que se encadeiam sem a finalidade de construir um percurso evolutivo ou teleologico tipico de memorias de luto. [] Esse ritmo fragmentado e ciclico reflecte [...] a experiencia temporal de Li depois das mortes de Vincent e de James: a vida continua, mas parte dela permanece fora do tempo, suspensa pela dor incomensuravel de perder dois filhos, experiencias que no podem ser reconciliadas com finais consoladores. [] Li recusa explicar, interpretar ou moralizar o suicidio dos filhos. [Este livro] no da respostas faceis, nem pretende curar. A proposta e outra: permanece perto do real, quer ve-lo tal como e.Isabel Lucas, PublicoYiyun Li nada esconde ou omite das suas proprias fragilidades, mas tambem nada escancara. A ideia no e procurar uma explicaço para o que aconteceu, uma narrativa onde os factos encaixem. [...] No ha aqui juizos de valor, no ha lamentos, nem exercicios de autopiedade ou de vitimizaço. Apenas um voo rasante a vida dos filhos muito amados, para os quais construiu uma estrutura solida, casulos que os protegiam da aspereza do mundo, mas no da possibilidade da catastrofe.Jose Mario Silva, ExpressoLi e perfeitamente cirurgica, cortante, objectiva, e e isto que engrandece o livr...

Heaven cast her out... but never let her go.Five years in exile, Lin survives in the shadows as an illegal necromancer, raising the dead for desperate clients alongside her witch partner, Jinx. Her wings are broken, and her faith in justice shattered.When a routine resurrection goes catastrophically wrong, Lin must seek help from Luca demon prince she has spent years avoiding, and the one person who has never stopped loving her.Tracking the rogue spirit uncovers buried truths about both angels and demons, and as old secrets come into into the light, Lin realizes her Fall may be tied to something far greater than she could have imagined.A dark paranormal romance, FIRST DANCE is a story of broken wings and forbidden devotion.

A girl with no memories. A man with too many. And an assassin who starts a war to find them.On the seedy backwater moon where a NUSovian ship dropped Xander off to scratch a living among the mines and brothels, true friends are a luxury she cant afford. What kind of person doesnt know her own name? Waiting tables and fending off amorous drunks barely earns Xander enough to survive, let alone escape to the civilized colony of NUSaxony to find a neurotherapist who can help her regain her lost memories.But help often comes from unexpected places.An ex-assassin on the run from his own past, Kale and a team of bounty hunters as eclectic and derelict as their ship saves Xander from a syndicate operative who started a space colony war to find her. They race against time, seeking the spaceship that holds the key to Xanders memories before the syndicate catches up with them.As the net closes in, Xander faces a choice.Is finding herself worth the price her friends will pay? Or does true friendship mean sacrificing Xanders memorieswalking away from everyone she lovesto keep them safe?After all, some things are more important than a name.

STOP RUNNING. START LIVING. THE REBELLION AGAINST THE HUSTLE BEGINS HERE.Are you exhausted? Not just tired from a long day, but deeply burned out from a culture that demands you "do more, buy more, and be more" just to keep your head above water?The world told you that financial freedom requires a 24/7 hustle. They lied.Welcome to Quiet Wealththe definitive manifesto for the "Great Exhaustion" era. This is not another boring finance book filled with spreadsheets youll never use. It is a radical blueprint to achieving total financial sovereignty by doing the unthinkable: Subtracting.In this book, you will discover:The 90-Day Blueprint for automated savings.How to cut 30% of your expenses without feeling deprived.Specific low-risk investment vehicles for minimalists.The Subtraction Multiplier: The counterintuitive math that proves why removing expenses is 10x more powerful than chasing more income. The Invisible Leak: How to identify the "lifestyle creep" that is silently draining your bank account and your peace of mind. Automated Peace: A step-by-step guide to building a wealth engine that grows while you sleepwithout a stressful side hustle. A practical, day-by-day roadmap to transform your finances from chaotic to calm. Quiet Wealth is for the weary professional, the minimalist at heart, and anyone who realizes that the ultimate currency isnt dollarsits Time. Stop trading your soul for a paycheck. Join the quiet revolution. Your path to financial freedom without the noise starts on page one.If you liked the content of the book, leave a simple review.

They were trained military operatives. Theyd seen war. But nothing couldve prepared them for this.At a secluded ranch in Central California where damaged souls find strength, former special ops soldier Nash McBride leads a team of elite men who specialize in extracting women from the darkest corners of human cruelty.The rules are simple: Rescue. Rebuild. Release.No attachments. No exceptions.But when Alexis Tanner steps foot on his ranch, Nash realizes he may have met the exception. In all his years, hes never seen a woman more broken and for the first time, he wasnt sure if he could save her.With their no-nonsense training, the men push each woman to the edgechallenging them to face their pasts, reclaim their voice, and take back control of their lives. But Nashs number-one rulenever get involved with a clientstarts to unravel as the pull toward Alexis grows stronger with each passing day.As lines blur between duty and desire, the team must confront their own scars, face unspoken truths, and learn that sometimes the hardest battles are the ones fought at home.Extraction is a gripping, emotional story of survival, redemption, and found familywith razor-sharp banter, real-world trauma, and a powerful reminder that healing is a fight worth taking.

Disappearance is treated not as an ending, but as a structural condition.This work examines what remains when space, body, and form no longer hold. Set in a small room within a Buddhist temple, the narrative follows a speaker who, after her mothers death, begins to reconsider existence through points, lines, color, and frame. Death is not approached as an event, but as a condition that alters perception and spatial relation.The text minimizes psychological exposition and character development, focusing instead on the gradual destabilization of the body as a reliable subject. A figure that appears repeatedly at night is not presented as a ghost or a memory, but as a sign of formal disintegration. As mass dissolves into line, and line into point, the narrative relinquishes volume and coherence.Rather than offering resolution or emotional catharsis, the work investigates what remains when spatial occupation collapses. By foregrounding structure over sentiment, the text proposes a mode of contemporary experimental fiction in which disappearance functions not as conclusion, but as a method of inquiry.

When winter freezes everything solid, how do you find the warmth to speak up?Eleven-year-old Maya used to have a voice that hummed with desert heat. But in a town buried in snow, her words have frozen solid. To everyone else, she is the "silent girl," trapped behind a window of silver frost.Everything changes when Maya follows desperate paw prints into the woods. A lost dog is stranded on the cracking ice, and staying quiet is no longer an option. To save a life, Maya must break her own silence and let her voice roar. Discover a stunning novel in verse about the power of finding your voice when the world is at its coldest.

The frost remembers.The flame awakens.And blood never forgets its cost.When the mountain fortress of Silverpeak begins to answer voices long buried beneath stone, Queen Lyris understands what the world refuses to name: something ancient is waking, and it was sealed for a reason.Her children stand at the heart of what follows.Eryndra, the youngest, carries a fire that does not burn as it shouldan ember that listens, remembers, and answers the dead.Taliesin, the questioning son, sees fractures where others see law, and learns that mirrors do not merely reflectthey open.Gunnar, the eldest, bears no visible gift at all. Only endurance. Only the terrible ability to hold when others break.As war closes in and forgotten systems strain beneath ice and sea, the world begins to slip its boundaries. Cities freeze. Fire pales. Memory and reality blur until even the living are no longer certain what belongs to the past.What was sealed beneath frost is stirring again.And it remembers the blood that bound it.Sons of Blood and Sorrow: Echoes of Frost and Flame is a dark epic fantasy of inheritance and resistance, where power is not chosen, survival is never clean, and love is measured by what one is willing to endure rather than what one is willing to burn.This is a story where magic carries consequence, where prophecy is less warning than pressure, and where ancient roads awaken to demand payment.Perfect for readers of The Broken Earth, Malazan Book of the Fallen, GRRM, and morally complex fantasy that values atmosphere, consequence, and quiet dread over easy triumph.

Arent you tired of taking notes?" Tom whispered. "Dont you see nothing Claire looked at him and in the corner of her sheet wrote: 1 run a program with these. Im afraid were approaching a critical tipping point that will trigger a grim reality. Tom said nothing but frowned. It was the first time Claire did not dare to speak openly. He wrote something on a piece of paper and slid it toward her. Youre scaring me! What are you afraid of?On the same sheet, Claire wrote: Were already living the first part of an Orwellian reality and everyone whistles indifferently.As soon as Tom read it, Claire took the paper back and slipped it into her folder. For Tom, that was it. He could no longer folow what was being said. Even when their indicator lit up to speak, he let Claire handle everything.New York is collapsing, following like a dystopian domino al the cities of the globe. Its 2035. Epidemics and virus attacks have spiraled out of control, everyone looks at their neighbor with fear. What no one knows yet, however, is that the rain, due to its acidic nature, carries catastrophic infections.Outside a hospital on the north side of the city, stands an elderly woman, indifferent to the rain. The nurse passing by pays little attention. But when the woman colapses in the middle of the courtyard, the entire hospital machinery mobilizes, discovering strange marks on her body and a particular form of dementia...

Who wouldnt want to vacation in the French Riviera?American artist Remy Valente and his wife Vero are delighted to spend the summer along the Cote dAzur, drawing inspiration from every bend in the coastline. When his friend and art dealer requests a painting of his Chihuahua in the style of his beloved Cezanne, Remy is happy to comply. Late that night, Remy visits his friends flat to start the sketch. He takes it home, intending to finish the next morning.Instead, hes waylaid by a detective. Soon after Remy leaves, the Chihuahua wakes the neighbors because his master has been murdered! Remy is the first suspect. He clears his name, but a family member might be the next suspect! Remy has to identify the real killer before the wrong person lands in jail. Join the artist and his friends along the French coast for a humorous, artful crime.

Two men, Abel in London and Oliver in Edinburgh, both completely unknown to each other and without any prior medical history, suffer identical heart attacks at the exact same time and fall into comas.Ben, Abels close friend and the main shareholder in an electronic data protection company, visits him and, using his skills, penetrates the hospitals electronic systems. He quickly discovers that someone is interfering with the pharmaceutical dosages of patients.Meanwhile, Olivers sister happens to witness Abels heart attack. This leads her to meet Ben, and together they attempt to unravel the mystery of this medical conspiracy, which hides a much darker and deeper secret.They discover that this phenomenon has occurred to other pairs of strangers around the world, often with tragic results.A race begins to locate any survivors, hoping to find a way to save Abel and Oliver.

Stop struggling with the borrow checker and start architecting robust systems.You have learned the syntax. You have installed the toolchain. You have written your first few programs. But now you feel stuck. You might find yourself cloning data just to avoid dealing with lifetime annotations. You may be using unwrap() because proper error handling feels too verbose. You want to contribute to open-source projects, but the dense usage of traits and generics feels intimidating.This is the intermediate plateau. This book is designed to help you break through it.Rust Programming for Intermediate Developers moves beyond the basics of control flow and data structures to tackle the four pillars of advanced Rust mastery: Error Handling, Lifetimes, Traits, and Concurrency. This is not a reference manual; it is a practical guide to thinking like a Rust systems architect.What You Will Learn:Advanced Error Handling: Move beyond basic Result types. Learn to design robust, context-rich error hierarchies using the thiserror and anyhow crates, distinguishing between library and application error patterns. Mastering Lifetimes: Demystify the syntax. Learn to write zero-copy parsers, handle self-referential structures, and use lifetime bounds to prove memory safety to the compiler without relying on excessive cloning. The Trait System: Unlock the power of polymorphism. Understand the trade-offs between static dispatch (generics) and dynamic dispatch (trait objects), and master advanced patterns like blanket implementations and marker traits. Fearless Concurrency: Go deep into the async/await ecosystem. Build scalable applications using Tokio, manage shared state with Mutex and Arc, and leverage data parallelism with Rayon. This book focuses on the "why" and "how" of idiomatic Rust. It provides the missing link between writing code that compiles and writing code that is performant, maintainable, and professional.Stop writing Rust-flavored C++. Start writing true Rust.

At exactly 2:17 a.m., Lena Hart wakes from dreams of a life she hasnt yet lived a small blue house, a golden ring, and a man whose dark eyes haunt her heart. Adrian Cole has lived those years, only to lose her again and again, caught in a time loop where every choice threatens to break them apart.When Lena and Adrian meet in the present, love arrives out of order, and every moment carries the weight of memory, fate, and endless "what ifs." Together, they must navigate a world where time bends to emotion, love defies destiny, and the smallest decisions can echo across every version of their lives.A magical, time-traveling love story for fans of emotional romance and cinematic fantasy.

A publicação do Decreto Presidencial n.º 203/18, de 30 de agosto, charneira da gestão da qualidade do Ensino Superior em Angola, determina a obrigatoriedade das IES em construírem um órgão encarregue

Harper thought she had left the ghosts of Topanga Canyon in the rearview mirror. As the trusted steward of Roman Sterlings industrial empire, shes spent months building a sanctuary in the Australian rainforest, far from the reach of the man who nearly destroyed her.But Julian Vane is back from the dead, and hes turned Harper into the ultimate weapon.A massive breach of the Sterling Groups most sensitive datathe Red Heat fileshas sent a shockwave through the global underworld. This isnt just a heist. Its a biological protocol. Julian has encoded the decryption keys into Harpers own nervous system, turning her memories into a ticking clock that only he can stop.Roman Sterling is a king who refuses to lose.To save his empire, the Southern King must navigate a mire of betrayal stretching from the docks of Brisbane to the black markets of Jakarta. But the cost of victory is higher than he ever imagined. To purge the data and save his kingdom, Roman may have to erase the one thing that makes it worth ruling: Harpers memory of him.As a high-velocity hunt across the Java Sea reaches a breaking point, Harper and Roman are forced into an impossible choice. In a world of digital ghosts and blood debts, the truth is the most dangerous asset of alland the only way to survive the fire is to let it burn everything down.

Holistic Health is the practice of restoring structural integrity to the human spirit.If the Body is the foundation, the Mind acts as the walls of our Sanctuary. For those who have experienced trauma, those walls can feel jagged, spiky, or cold. In Penny Paints the Walls, we use the metaphor of interior design and creative expression to help Penny the Porcupine organize her thoughts and reclaim her space. Inside this Digital Module:Creative Processing: A guide to transforming spiky thoughts into a beautiful, dignified interior landscape through art. Framing the Narrative: Practical somatic steps to build mental walls that offer protection and nervous system regulation. The Architecture of the Mind: An exploration of the second pillar of the Triangle of Restoration, focusing on the transition from a Unit to a Sanctuary. The Mission of Dignity: Your purchase is an investment in the Enduring Dignity Endowment. We believe that housing should provide more than shelterit should provide restoration. Proceeds support the development of physical Sanctuaries (Illuminated Earth/Heyoka Fire) for those in recovery and trauma-impacted communities. Reject the fragmentation. Embrace the Wholeness.

What do you do when the world is too loud?In Lunas Loud Living Room, Cassondra Bowden explores the final pillar of the Triangle of Restoration: The Spirit. For Luna the Wolf, life is a series of echoes and high-frequency noise. Even with a solid foundation, an atmosphere can become a cage if it isnt tuned to the right frequency.This digital module serves as a software update for your childs internal atmosphere. Through the power of resonance and rhythmic metaphors, Luna teaches children (ages 6-8) how to find their true frequency and clear the air.The Mission: This is a Social Impact Purchase. Your $7 contribution supports the Enduring Dignity Endowment, funding the creation of physical Sanctuaries and restoring structural integrity to the human spirit in recovery communities.

This is the fourth volume of my Passing Strange series of science fiction and weird short stories. It may be the last, since I think Ive run out of titles that are variants of Passing Strange. Well, I can always start another series.As with the stories in the other books of this series, Ive kept these tales short and plot-based. Each story, tho strange and improbable, is based, in part, on hard science. In order to explicate the scientific aspect, Ive appended the authors notes to several of the stories that were heavily based on recent scientific findings.You will note from the previous paragraph that I am continuing to use the words tho for though and thru for through, as I have thruout the previous volumes. I hope other writers will adopt this convention, which I believe eliminates some of the confusion and distraction brought about by the similarity of those Anglo Saxon verbal/visual delinquencies: though,thought,through, and thorough.Several of these stories carry personal associations of some kind. Abomination was inspired when my writer friend Bret and I exhibited our books at a local paranormal cosplay fair, where I observed many people in weird costumes. It caused me to think this might be the perfect place for a real alien to appear without being noticed. The mouth of the Abomination is pictured at the end of that story.The writing of Beastly Bar was a challenge from a friend who sent me a beastly birthday card to base a story on. The card image appears at the end of the story.Catch and Release was inspired by my son-in-law, Jesse, after he returned from a fly-fishing trip in which only catch-and-release was allowed. The fishing fly mentioned in the story is pictured at its end.Mind-Locked was partially the product of witnessing my fathers locked-in mind condition for several months before he died.The Paper Knife draws on my career as a librarian. Early on I was tasked with inventorying a group of rare books in a spooky basement of the Fort Worth Public Library.Almost reflects my long-standing interest in both neuroscience and Neanderthals. I have written a thriller with a half-Neanderthal boy as the protagonist and I am currently writing a book on the neuroscience of poetry.Cabal uses the same time-travel conceit and location as the story "Elevator Talk" in my book Beyond Passing Strange.All the Worlds A Stage riffs on my experiences with the eccentricities of actors I encountered while producing plays during my library career.The other stories here, as I stated, are based on recent scientific discoveries I found interesting. See the author notes at the end of each for details.As with my other books in this series, these stories were written not only to entertain, but to stimulate thought and conversation. I hope that will be the case for you.