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Boró chegou a Brasília em 1960. Menino pobre, logo aprenderia sobre as diferenças que machucam: piscina e charco não eram iguais – nem tudo era para gente como ele.Quando moço, passou a enfrentar o m

CURSES ARE LIKE HEARTS. SOME ARE MORE EASILY BROKEN THAN OTHERS... the twist-filled, spooky heartbreaker from the global-bestselling author of My Sister, the Serial Killer--A haunting, twisty tale of curses and romance Ayobami AdebayoA sweeping love story... I lost myself within its gorgeous pages Jennie GodfreyFunny and fearless, soaked in secrets, spirit, heartbreak, and love... Impossible to put down Abi Dare No man will call your house his home. And if they try, they will not have peace... So goes the family curse, handed down from generation to generation, ruining families and breaking hearts as it goes. And now its calm, rational Eniiyis turn - who, due to her uncanny resemblance to her dead aunt, Monife, and her familys insistence that she must be a reincarnation, has long been used to some strange familial beliefs. Still, when she falls in love with the handsome boy she saves from drowning, she can no longer run from her familys history. Is she destined to live out the habitual story of love and heartbreak, or can she escape the family curse and the mysterious fate that befell her aunt?--Readers are falling hard for Cursed Daughters...Everyones going to fall in love with this bookA stunning read. Possibly my book of the year so farOne of the best endings of a book Ive read in a long time. So satisfyingSharp, brilliantly written...and broke my heart on more than one occasionI cannot express how much I adored this book - like truly, madly, deeply adored it

Seventeen-year-old Karel has been dreaming for something, anything, to shake up his humdrum existence. Soon his wish will be granted. When Hitler launches an invasion of the Netherlands, Karel is almost killed in an air raid and falls in love for the first time, with a Jewish girl. But the bliss this passion brings is short lived, as his new love and her mother are forced to flee for their lives before the Nazi advance... Inspired partly by Kouwenaars own experiences under occupation, this rediscovered literary gem tells a heart-breaking, witty and deeply empathetic story of a teenagers coming-of-age at the outbreak of war.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SNOW AND THE SEAEverything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . Winter 1899, and strange things are afoot. As the new century approaches, English hack writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst of a rift between Laura and her father, Evelyns plans for a substantial inheritance look to be dashed.Arriving in Venice for their belated honeymoon at Palazzo Dioscuri - the ancestral home of the charming but treacherous Count Barbarigo - the couple are met by a series of seemingly otherworldly occurrences, which exacerbate Evelyns already frayed nerves. Is it just the sea mist blanketing the floating city, or is he really losing his mind?A marvellous and rewarding novelist . . . He is a magician, really.THE SCOTSMANBanville has a grim gift of seeing peoples souls. DON DeLILLOThe most eminent innovator in Irish fiction of the last 50 years.IRISH TIMESOne of my favourite writers alive. REBECCA F. KUANGBanville writes prose of such luscious elegance.NEW YORK TIMES

Warm and funny, what a joy! Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself KissedSuperb. Brilliant. I adored it... Esther Walker is smart and so funny Georgia ToffoloA funny, clever, sparkling voice Kate WeinbergMairead is single, child-free and head of a successful influencer talent agency. The young people at work may be mean to her, she hasnt seen her only sister for nine years and shes one bad date away from giving up on men completely but other than that, shes got life sorted.Until Sunshine shows up. When her militant, off-grid sister has a mysterious accident, Maireads inscrutable niece comes to stay, turning life upside down. Its just for a couple of weeks surely Mairead can manage that?But Sunshine makes her look at every single aspect of her life with different eyes. And Maireads afraid nothing will be the same again.

"An irresistibly anxious book."The Washington Post"A family drama with a shocking twist."The New York Times"I was riveted until the very last shocking sentence!"Oprah WinfreyWhen the Cassidy-Shaws driverless minivan fatally collides with an oncoming car, seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the drivers seat. His father, Noah, is beside him, and in the back with his younger siblings is his mother, Loreleia renowned AI researcherwho is lost in her work.During a weeklong retreat on the Chesapeake Bay, the Cassidy-Shaws wrestle with the moral fallout of the crash as a routine police enquiry starts to unravel. As Loreleis increasingly odd behaviour stirs her husbands suspicions that there may be a darker truth behind the incident, the arrival of tech billionaire Daniel Monet (who has a mysterious history with Lorelei) cements them. When Charlie falls for Monets teenage daughter, tensions among the Cassidy-Shaws reach breaking point.A psychosocial thriller and a propulsive family drama, Culpability explores a world newly shaped by non-human forces such as chatbots and autonomous cars, and forces us to examine our own relationship to artificial intelligence, and the nuanced ways in which we are all, in fact, culpable.

«Cezanne Cardona es un escritor que rebasó la categoría de promesa: un escritor rotundo que merece leerse, aplaudirse, respetarse», Luis Rafael Sánchez.Javi vive en una casa de madera encima de la fe

Obra maestra pionera y reivindicativa de una de las escritoras más importantes de la literatura europea del siglo XIX. En el Madrid de finales del siglo XIX, Asís Taboada, joven viuda del marqués de Andrade, vive un intenso debate interno sobre la atraccion y el deseo que siente hacia el cautivador Diego Pacheco durante las fiestas de San Isidro.Con Insolacion, Emilia Pardo Bazan fue mas alla del naturalismo para adentrarse plenamente en la novela realista mas psicologica y transgredir los rigidos preceptos de la moral imperante de la epoca. El resultado es una novela corta pero muy poderosa, que no solo demuestra el enorme talento de la autora gallega, sino que tambien representa un grito liberador ante las restricciones sociales de las mujeres en un sistema abrumadoramente patriarcal.Complementa esta edicion una seleccion de relatos breves que plasman la modernidad y la amplitud estilistica y tematica de Pardo Bazan.

LA REVELACIÓN DE LA NUEVA LITERATURA PORTUGUESAPremio Literario Manuel de Boaventura«Es una obra tan perfecta, tan maravillosamente escrita, con tanta originalidad, que no puedo creer que sea una ópe

What does it mean to lose yourself and is that something you should be aiming for? A young woman with little interest in games takes up a job in Frankfurt at a famous gaming company, naively set on reinvention. On her morning commute, in the familiar clutches of tedium and self-loathing, she encounters a nice-eyed stranger who returns her forgotten umbrella and finds herself catapulted into a dizzying, year-long whirlwind of obsession not just with this endlessly attractive spectre, but also with the feverish karaoke trips from which she draws the ultimate solace. With astonishing existential acuity, Polly Bartons formidable debut novel renders the paradoxes of modern life in all its complexity, in deliriously self-conscious prose that is at once propulsive, titillating and bitingly funny. Echoing with the sounds of Whitney Houston and The Cure, reaching for the sublime in dark, sweaty boxes, What Am I, A Deer? is an exhilarating exploration of authenticity, fantasy, romance and intoxication.

On the eve of his wedding, young Alyoshka pines for an earlier love. Ilne chose to leave the nomadic Nenets community seven years before, moving to the city and taking his heart with her. Under increasing pressure to marry, Alyoshka struggles against the ancient Nenets customs of home and family, unwilling to give up his hope for another life. Meanwhile, other painful transitions shake the foundations of the small camp. Deep in grief, Ilnes father Petko feels he has no role left to play in the community, while Vanu strikes out on a difficult journey to try to soothe his troubled friends. Deep in northern Siberia, minor human tragedies play out against the cold expanse of the tundra. With bursts of lyricism and a Chekhovian eye for human frailty, Anna Nerkagi crafts a multi-voiced drama of lost love and the clash between youthful dreams and the complex ties of home.

Internationally recognized as a socially important work of gay literature Roger Austen. Originally published in Europe in the 50s to avoid prosecution for obscenity, The Gaudy Image is one of the most important lost gay novels. Set in New Orleans and featuring a colourful cast of louche but loveable characters, the story follows Titania aka Thomas Schwartz through the backstreets, bars and club of the French Quarter in search of the perfect lover the Gaudy Image. A beautifully written story that is both elegant and caustically humorous, erotic and sympathetic

In A State of Siege, Janet Frame brings her signature playfulness to paint a thrilling psychological portrait. After the death of her invalid mother, Malfred Signal, a retired New Zealand art teacher, leaves her birthplace in the south for a beach cottage on a sub-tropical island in the north. Freed from endless lessons on still life and the dominating presence of her family, she hopes at last to be alone with nature and the room two inches behind the eyes. But the solitude she has sought mocks her with echoes of her past, when, one stormy night, an intruder pounds ceaselessly and inexplicably on her door. Propulsive yet poignant, A State of Siege is a mesmerizing exploration of the artistic process, of selfhood and loneliness, and of death and its counterpart: the need to survive, to live.

Amerigo Jones grows up poor but surrounded by love in Jazz Age Kansas City. A precocious young dreamer, he longs for the college education that his parents could not have. But as Amerigo begins to venture further away from his doting mother and father, he encounters a world marred by prejudice, where amid the bustle and the beauty, violence and injustice stalk the streets.Such Sweet Thunder is a majestic and unforgettable childs-eye-view of Jim Crow America from a powerful chronicler of American family life.

Dogs may be mans best friend, but every friendship is different. Prepare to meet Nicholas, a gregarious Airedale whose arrival in a moneyed Long Island home unleashes complete and total chaos throughout the neighbourhood. Verdun Belle, the lady of the title, is a silky-eared spaniel whose loyalty - and litter of puppies - rallies an entire American regiment fighting on the Western Front during the First World War. Then theres Egon, a large - very large - German Shepherd, accustomed to summering on the Cote dAzur, and to managing the diaries and daily activities of his human charges, whether they want him to or not.This charmingly illustrated collection of three delightful stories, rediscovered after decades out of print, shows our canine companions in all their guises: comic, heroic, companionable.

The seminal, multi-million-copy Icelandic bestseller, Snowblind, celebrates its tenth anniversary, including a never-before-published Dark Iceland series prequel, Fadeout.**Introduction by Anthony Horowitz***The blizzard returns`A modern Icelandic take on an Agatha Christie-style mystery, as twisty as any slalom Ian Rankin`Ragnar Jonasson writes with a chilling, poetic beauty Peter James`Seductive Ragnar does claustrophobia beautifully Ann Cleeves`A classic crime story seen through a uniquely Icelandic lens. First rate and highly recommended Lee Child**More than 5 million copies sold worldwide**_____SnowblindSiglufjorur: an idyllically quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland, where no one locks their doors accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thor Arason: a rookie policeman on his first posting, far from his girlfriend in Reykjavik with a past that hes unable to leave behind. When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theatre, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life.An avalanche and unremitting snowstorms close the mountain pass, and the 24-hour darkness threatens to push Ari over the edge, as curtains begin to twitch, and his investigation becomes increasingly complex, chilling and personal. Past plays tag with the present and the claustrophobic tension mounts, while Ari is thrust ever deeper into his own darkness blinded by snow, and with a killer on the looseFadeoutWhen Ari Thor Arason receives a staggeringly high bill for a foreign credit card that was taken out in his name, his life takes a turn he never anticipated. The bill in question belongs to his namesake his father, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances when Ari was only a child.Seeking answers, Ari Thor travels to London to investigate, hoping to learn the truth about what happened to his father all those years ago, and discovering far more than he could ever have imagined`All the skilful plotting of an old-fashioned whodunnit although it feels bitingly contemporary in setting and tone Sunday Express`A chiller of a thriller Washington Post`Required reading New York Post`Jonassons true gift is for describing the daunting beauty of the fierce setting, lashed by blinding snowstorms that smother the village in "a thick, white darkness" that is strangely comforting New York Times`Morally more equivocal than most traditional whodunnits, and it offers alluring glimpses of darker, and infinitely more threatening horizons Independent`A stunning murder mystery by one of Icelands finest writers Yrsa Sigurardottir`As dazzling as its title implies William Ryan`An isolated community, subtle clueing, clever misdirection and more than a few surprises combine to give a modern-day Golden Age whodunnit Dr John Curran`The best sort of gloomy storytelling Chicago Tribune`The prose is stark and minimal bleakly ...

I told Marta that each of us has two homes one actual home with a fixed location in time and space, and a second that is infinite, with no address and no chance of being immortalized in architectural plans and that we live in both of them simultaneously.A young woman settles in Nowa Ruda, a village in Lower Silesia, a few dozen metres from the Czech border. The communist regime has just collapsed, but that is not the only noticeable change: the -surrounding houses, gardens and forests are full of vestiges of the time when the region belonged to another country. Together with her enigmatic neighbour Marta, the narrator accumulates the stories of the hamlet, from the history of its foundation to the lives of its saints, from anecdotes about its wonderfully unique inhabitants to recipes and gossip. Published in English in its original form for the first time, in a new translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, House of Day, House of Night is a brilliantly imaginative epic novel of a small place by Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk, one of the most daring and ambitious novelists at work today.

Upon the death of her husband, Innocenzo Monti, Lalla Romano sought to distil the essence of their long life together. The result was In Farthest Seas: a piercingly intimate retelling of the first four years and final four months of their relationship, built from shard-like moments of connection and revelation.With precise artistry, Romano braids together seemingly minor details-the expressiveness of Innocenzos hands, the beauty of his face in sleep, a fleeting instance of pallor-that come to reveal the barest truths of life and death. Unsparing yet tender, minimal yet monumental, In Farthest Seas is a startlingly moving elegy for a great love by a vital Italian writer.

Alfred the Alligator wakes up on a sunny swamp morning feeling a bubbling sense of adventure and decides to explore parts of the swamp hes never seen before. Along the way, he meets Myrtle the Mud Turtle, a wise old friend who shares secrets about a magical hidden grove where fireflies glow even in daylight, but warns him that to reach it, he must first navigate the tricky Muddy Maze. With Myrtles guidance and his own determination, Alfred carefully ventures into the maze, learning to trust his instincts and the subtle signs around him. His journey is full of new sights, challenges, and wonders, marking the beginning of a magical and exciting adventure beyond his familiar home.

La transición española como nunca se la han contado: a través de las vivencias y la escritura alucinada de una adolescente que despierta al mundo adulto.«Dios no quiere que escriba esta novela», dice