Títulos em Literatura e Ficção

My coach wants me to take figure skating lessons so I can gracefully pivot around the net. That's a whole lot of hockey hooey if you ask me. Making matters worse, the class is with my sister's best friend, who I'm convinced hates me after what happened back in high school. We're faced with something of a Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet reversal—she said it's her favorite, so I read it. Since she's totally over me and I shouldn't be interested in her, I set her up on a few dates that go sideways, which does not help me shake these newfound feelings.

Mid-19th century Britain—and America—come to life in this darkly humored classic by Charles Dickens. Martin Chuzzlewit the elder is an old man whose death will result in a vast inheritance—but for whom is the question. Though his avaricious and sycophantic relatives hope to benefit from his demise, Martin has other plans. He raises an orphan, Mary Graham, who looks after him and draws an income—so long as the old man lives. But young Martin—named for his grandfather who has raised him along with Mary—falls in love with the orphan, which threatens to spoil the elder Chuzzlewit's plans.

Peter Grant, unser Londoner Lieblings-Bobby und Zauberlehrling, steht vor völlig neuen privaten Herausforderungen. Beruflich bekommt er es mit der Serious Cybernetics Corporation zu tun, dem neuesten Projekt des Internet-Genies Terrence Skinner. Und prompt holt die Magie ihn wieder ein. Denn in den Tiefen der SCC ist ein Geheimnis verborgen, eine geheime magische Technologie, die zurückreicht bis weit ins 19. Jahrhundert, das Zeitalter von Ada Lovelace und Charles Babbage.

Seltsame Dinge ereignen sich in der ländlichen Idylle Cumbrias im Nordwesten von England. Immer wieder werden dort verwirrte Menschen auf den Landstraßen aufgegriffen, denen nichts als das Hemd auf dem Leib und keinerlei Erinnerung geblieben ist. Die Anwaltskanzlei ›Harrowmore Souls‹, die von Allison Harrowmore und ihrem Partner Conny Bligh geführt wird, erhält den Auftrag, diese Frage zu beantworten. Als ihr Weg die beiden selbst ernannten ›Anwälte für Geister‹ in das bescheidene Mayflower Hotel führt, sind sie der grausamen Wahrheit bereits gefährlich nahe gekommen.

Mrs. Shim needs money. She’s lost her husband and her job, and she's got three mouths to feed at her kitchen table. If she doesn't find work soon, she and her children are going to lose their home. So when she answers a vague job ad for the Smile Detective Agency, Mrs. Shim expects the job will be some kind of cleaning position. But when they only ask her questions about her experience as a butcher and what she can do with a cleaver, she begins to realize they want her to do a very different kind of cleaning—they want her to be an assassin.

Dorothy Darling, 77 Jahre alt und misstrauische Eigenbrötlerin, lebt schon fast ihr halbes Leben in Shelley House im beschaulichen Chalcot. Als die 25-jährige Kat, die nicht nur pinke Haare hat, sondern auch noch ein schrottreifes Auto fährt, (illegalerweise!) bei Dorothys Nachbarn Joseph zur Untermiete einzieht, wittert die alte Dame Ärger. Shelley House soll abgerissen und durch ein Gebäude mit Luxusapartments ersetzt werden. Kat und Dorothy müssen sich verbünden, um den Frieden wiederherzustellen und Shelley House zu retten.

At forty-six, Sophie Bianco’s life is half baked—trapped in a controlling marriage and estranged from her critical mother. Her only solace? The Invisible Baker, her secret business helping overwhelmed moms create Pinterest-worthy moments. When her mother’s death coincides with the last straw in her marriage, Sophie grabs her chance. Armed with divorce papers and her savings, she reclaims her childhood home. But freedom comes with complications: hoarder-level chaos, plumbing disasters, and an ex-husband plotting revenge.

Mike is an exceptional student with aspirations of becoming a pharmacist. He is anxious to succeed, yet he also harbors a desire to break out of his caste-like existence. While re-evaluating his use of recreational drugs, circumstances lead to a rash decision. He embarks on a road trip to escape arrest. A series of misfortunes is catching up faster than he can outpace it. A tour de "farce" ensues, with compounding crimes leading to seemingly inescapable turmoil.

The lives of two teenagers from the town of Govan in Scotland evolve amid a life of drugs and violence and sex. True to life drama with more than a few scrapes. Contains a lot of very strong language and sexuality... You have been warned!

Das ist die Geschichte eines Mannes, der seit frühester Kindheit mit seinem Namen auf Kriegsfuß steht. Es geht um Verwirrungen und Pannen, vielleicht auch nur um Pech, welches ständig an die Tür klopft oder von unserem Protagonisten scheinbar angezogen wird. Warum aber ein Tanga bei einer Hochzeit `lebensrettend´ sein kann, welche Rolle `Erika´ spielt oder weshalb fröhliche Kinder der Inquisition gleichkommen – all das erfährt der Leser in dieser lustigen und kurzweiligen Geschichte.

Pompiety: A Dialogue of the Damned is a satirical graveyard exchange between contemporaries, Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche, resurrected for one last reckoning on progress, piety, and the fate of a bruised planet. Through sharp dialogue and ecological critique, the two probe the limits of technooptimism, dismantle the determinism inherent to science worship, and wrestle with the moral debris of modernity.

The Cosmic Joke is a wildly original, spiritually sharp, and side-splittingly human look at the strange and beautiful mess of modern awakening. This audiobook is for seekers who’ve ever accidentally chanted in the wrong key, meditated through a cat attack, or wondered if that "sacred sign" was actually just a pigeon with bad timing.

In the fictional African country of Zambuena, Katmé Abbia enjoys a life of privilege and influence married to Tashun, the powerful prefect of Zambuena's capital. Yet after years spent playing the obedient, demure wife to a husband who has ceased to notice her, Katmé grows increasingly restless. Her one source of connection is Samy, a childhood friend, struggling artist, and gay man—an offense punishable by law in Zambuena.

For fans of Lights Out and You comes a dark rom-com debut about a woman who confides her fantasies to an AI boyfriend app—unaware she’s really talking to her hot, tattooed coworker who hacked her phone. When overworked department store manager Izzy Russo downloads an AI boyfriend app to fill...

As Blandings Castle slumbers in the sunshine, secret passions are astir: Lord Emsworth's niece, Millicent, wants to marry impecunious secretary, Hugo Carmody; and his nephew, Ronnie Fish, wants to marry chorus girl Sue Brown.

Los Angeles, 2001. Sonia is a single mother who spends her time running away from PTA moms, engaging in not-quite-illegal business activities involving rich Eastern Europeans and high-tech gadgets, and raising her beloved Milosh, Mila. Cast in her mother’s image, Mila is a precocious, intelligent girl with a burgeoning Shostakovich obsession. The pair live an unconventional life and are, all in all, quite happy together. But Sonia’s guarded life and refusal to discuss their family has left Mila lonely and isolated.

Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcée, she lives a contented life on New York City’s Upper West Side. Having discovered that the secret to happiness is to desire only what you have, she’s applied this insight to blissful effect: relishing her teenage daughter, the freedom of being solo, and her job as a moral tutor for the twin boys of an old-money family. Adora’s carefully curated life is humming along brilliantly until a chance meeting with a handsome stranger.

For decades, CeCe and Diane ruled New York's elite—frenemies locked in a glitzy battle for social supremacy. Then the FBI showed up. Their husbands vanished with millions in stolen money, leaving the queens of couture with nothing. No assets. No homes. Not even a yacht to fight over. Penniless, homeless, and humiliated, the longtime rivals have no choice but to take refuge in the only place they have left—a crumbling house in Ruinville, Louisiana, inherited from Diane’s long-lost aunt.

Readers will flock to NYT bestselling author Donna Andrews' latest installment in the award-winning Meg Langslow series. Two of Meg’s cousins, members of Mother’s vast Hollingsworth clan, are getting married, and both have chosen Caerphilly for their Christmas destination wedding . . on the...

Don't miss this utterly hilarious and laugh-out-loud debut, perfect for fans of Kristen Bailey and Sophie Ranald, available to pre-order now! Amy Elman's To Do List: - Start wedding planning - Buy lingerie - Have sex again Amy has her entire life planned out: marry her fiancé Josh, move out of...