Títulos em Literatura e Ficção

Maya Sanchez never planned on starting over—not like this. After losing her wife in a tragic accident, she moves back to her Arizona hometown with her four-year-old daughter, determined to rebuild their lives. But their fixer-upper needs more than she can handle alone. Enter Nolan Wright—skilled contractor, ex-Army machinist, and exactly the kind of reliable help Maya needs. What she doesn’t need? The way Nolan makes her feel something she thought was long buried. Nolan is trying to move forward, too—one renovation, one day at a time.

Vivienne, a photographer from Manchester, arrives at a boarding house on a tiny Finnish island hoping to rekindle her creativity and heal her broken heart. Vivienne quickly grows close with Ilya, the affable caretaker, and Gagarin, a rebellious mycologist. The days pass in a blur of snow and birch trees and vodka. Yet the longer Vivienne spends in the forest, the more it consumes her.

Pity the living, not the dead they say. Trust is earned, not given. Clichés meant to make one feel better in a time of sorrow. How do these apply when the one you trust most isn’t among the living? Beware of things that go bump in the night when what you really need to fear is life itself. The one thing you will never get out of alive…

When Quinn Frank, a young man, wakes from a coma convinced he’s a woman named Erica Smith—someone who supposedly died in a plane crash—everyone thinks he’s suffering some sort of delusion. But Quinn knows things that he shouldn’t know: details about a plane crash that happened at nearly the exact moment he was actually in a car wreck.

A forbidden relationship between a boxer and the young ballet dancer hired to help him with his balance and footwork. Age Gap.

Inspired by long-buried true stories of enslaved people who dared to fight back, this powerful novel offers a searing portrayal of resistance. From Clay Cane, award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Grift, it's a must-hear for fans of Colson Whitehead, Jesmyn Ward, and Percival Everett. As turmoil simmers within a divided nation, smoke from another blaze begins to rise.

I’d dreamed of him again. Now, if I’d known that Juandre would haunt my thoughts day and night for the past ten years, I would never have had the man. I couldn’t dispute my incisors had prickled at the sexy Hispanic ever since he’d pulled over and smiled a cheeky smile at me. As if I couldn’t already read into that, I knew what he would ask me even before he asked. The thing was, I had felt a little peckish and hoped a meal would stop and take me home with him for the night. Prolonging my hunger was never good.

Obadiah Koplan’s world is shattered when his husband, Xander, is murdered. Overwhelmed and in shock, he assumes the voices he's hearing are a byproduct of his loss, a form of grief induced psychosis. But when these voices give way to terrifying hallucinations, Obie is left questioning his own sanity. Desperately trying to hold himself together while seeking justice for his husband, Obie is thrust into a bizarre and twisted game of chance where he is forced to confront a painful and abusive past, manipulated by two immortal beings he can’t be sure exist outside of his own insanity.

Ryder Clark was a wild child. The day he turned twenty-two, he got in his car, pointed it west, and never looked back. Life was clubbing, booze, and the mornings after. Until today. Swept up in events set in motion decades ago, Ryder can’t run from his past this time—not when his past flies across the country to visit him. Yet even his problems are mundane compared to those of his new boss. James is intelligent, handsome, and… a vampire. He’s also magnetic, and Ryder can’t resist the pull. Apparently neither can the person who keeps trying to kill them.

Mo Ellery’s 29th birthday is a disaster. After one small accident—the exposure of her boyfriend’s genitals (well, maybe not that small) on a work video call—she manages to get fired, dumped, and kicked out of their overpriced Chicago apartment. Luckily, a sign appears to guide Mo to her new life: “Looking for flexible part-time work? Become a school crossing guard!” It’s everything Mo has been looking for: health insurance. How hard can it be?

This is the story of Natasha and Trudy, two eighteen-year-old high school seniors who live in a beach city in southern California. They become good friends after meeting in a shoe store where Trudy works. They both attend the same high school and as they see each other during school, they form a very strong bond. During a sleepover, they sleep in the same bed and a playful kiss eventually turns into a passionate French kiss that leaves both of them questioning their sexuality.

The last traitor of Arnadore turned his back on his people for a misguided love. Now, he must confront his cursed past, reconnect with his culture, and unlock the magic hidden inside his heart. Exiled and alone, Osman finds himself thrust back upon the shores of the homeland he deserted a decade before. To repay the debt he owes the brother he betrayed, Osman must traverse the Uldani Isles. Across the frozen tundra of Kyflenor, to the mist shrouded giant forests of Mornaserin, and beyondhis journey will unravel a secret legacy left to him by his father.

For as far back as she can remember, Vicky has been fascinated and obsessed with death as the only inevitable thing in life. From living above a Chinatown funeral parlour to working at a celebrity start-up for bespoke urns, she has surrounded herself with death - in her home, in her work, and in her ever-growing collection of zhizha, paper creations meant to be burned for the dead, adorning the walls of her apartment. Yet, though living in Manhattan and working her dream job is all she ever wanted, she still struggles to have meaningful connections-or find any meaning at all-in her life.

Five interlocking lives. One beloved story. A dazzling adventure across centuries and continents in search of the things that hold us together. “A joy—at once a gripping mystery that confidently spans centuries, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human...It kept me up...

Bailey Chambers mourns the loss of her lover, Nessa, in an unsolved carjacking. When Tommy, Bailey’s brother becomes a victim of a gay bashing, Bailey assumes his case will be handled the same way as her lover’s—lackadaisically. Desi Dexter assigned to Tommy’s case, feels Bailey’s disdain toward her and her partner. Through tenacious police work, Desi, is able to uncover the reason for Bailey’s attitude, and convinces her that she is sincere in solving the case.

Nell has accepted, at age twelve, that hers will likely be a friendless existence. But then, a new girl arrives at school. Eve has short hair like a boy's, a wicked sense of humor and an unshakable confidence that she will one day find her place in the world. From their childhood to their twenties and thirties, Eve and Nell will love each other and hurt each other - through teenage feuds and the chlorine-scented savagery of all-girls' schools; through long, drunken nights in scruffy share houses; through the highs and lows of coparenting a child together without being romantically involved.

En el centro de la historia está Isak Baydoun, un joven árabe obligado a esconder su identidad en un entorno hostil. Juntos desarrollan una relación secreta y apasionada, marcada por el miedo, la intimidad y el desafío de existir en un mundo que a menudo margina lo diferente. A lo largo de un viaje en tren por Europa y experiencias compartidas con Isak, Alberto explora la belleza de la identidad árabe y la fuerza de un amor que debe permanecer oculto. A su vez, Isak no imagina que el peor de sus miedos está a punto de hacerse realidad.

Jedes Gefängnis hat ein Schlupfloch. Das weiß der Chicagoer Cop Thomas Monroe nur zu gut. Deshalb ist er nicht allzu beunruhigt, als er eines Nachts überfallen, unter Drogen gesetzt und entführt wird. Monroe, der sich selbst gerne als sturen Bullen bezeichnet, wird von seinen Entführern gezwungen, zwischen Unterwerfung und Folter zu wählen. Als er erkennt, dass alle, die ihm nahe stehen, einen hohen Preis für seine Unbeugsamkeit bezahlen müssen, beginnt für ihn ein Ringen um Liebe, Freiheit und Identität.

There are a lot of things that pop-culture aficionado Melanie Hoffman is great at: rattling off storylines from The Real Housewives, reciting the Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen filmography from memory, and quoting Gossip Girl like it’s The Godfather, to name a few. And then there are the things she’s not good at: maintaining a healthy work-life balance, sleeping (in general), and being a functioning adult who isn’t completely destroyed by the death of her best friend, Ari.

Thirty years old and reeling from her mother’s recent death, Frances feels as if she’s lost her sense of purpose, her joy; her husband, Ben, will do anything to help her. So when she suggests that they open their marriage, he’s willing—and maybe even a little intrigued. They invite a young woman into their bedroom, create a joint dating profile, and go on dates with other exploring couples, with mixed but often exciting results.