Títulos em Literatura Mundial

On Piāo, the floating empire of lotuses, Xīlián discovers the royal advisors' ploy to overthrow her brother, Yún, the emperor, in the same way they had murdered their parents, by creating a deadly flood that will make Yún's death seem as though an accident. She flees to the drowning continent of Opera, a place of high tech and near environmental collapse where companies vie to sell a chance at immortality. There Xīlián seeks out her exiled brother Làng to help in her efforts to disrupt the advisors' plans and remove them from court.

Publicado em 1985, Annie John é um romance intimista e poderoso sobre relações familiares, autodescoberta e identidade. Ao narrar a trajetória da jovem Annie para a vida adulta em Antígua, Jamaica Kincaid — um dos maiores nomes da literatura caribenha.

US Marshal Katelyn Landers never expected her estranged sister-in-law, Vivienne Chandler, to show up on her doorstep, especially not with a chilling claim that her husband has emptied their bank accounts and vanished. But what begins as a shocking revelation takes a darker turn when Vivienne herself disappears in the dead of night, leaving behind three young children and a trail of unsettling questions. As Katelyn juggles the demands of her job and the sudden responsibility of caring for three traumatized kids, she delves into the murky mystery of her missing family members.

When Dr. McKenzie vanishes from a top-secret State Department lab, U. S. Marshals Kate Landers and Joleen Parker are thrust into a dangerous investigation to uncover the truth. As they dig deeper, they stumble upon a staggering secret: a biological breakthrough capable of empowering dictators and destabilizing entire nations. Now the marshals must race against time and an unstoppable enemy to prevent global catastrophe.

Investment banker Daphne Harris never planned to return home, but when her father falls ill, she's forced to step into the financial firm that bears her name. What she finds on his computer stops her cold: a multi-seven-figure loss that makes no sense. The numbers don't add up, the trades don't track, and the deeper she digs, the worse it gets. As whispers of fraud and bankruptcy swirl, Daphne races to uncover the truth before Savannah Capital collapses, taking her family's reputation and her own hard-earned career with it. But the past isn't done with her yet.

Beatriz Rivas ha cincelado una joya literaria que resplandece en la penumbra. El último viaje no es una simple novela; es un canto de cisne a la belleza de lo perecedero, una oda a la arquitectura invisible que sostiene a una familia. Con una prosa sensible y reveladora, la autora nos presenta a Antonia y Gaspar, un matrimonio que, tras más de seis décadas juntos, enfrenta los desafíos de la edad con lucidez y humor. Antonia se topa de frente con la «vejez» como diagnóstico, mientras Gaspar lidia con sus primeros y dolorosos lapsus de la memoria.

Between 1819 and 1969, the United States government sent hundreds of thousands of Native American children to cruel Indian boarding schools that it had funded in an effort to eliminate Indigenous people and culture. Of the 408 federal Indian boarding schools across 37 states that operated in our country for over 150 years, New Mexico had at least 43 of these schools, which was the third most in the country just behind Oklahoma with 76, and Arizona, who had 47 schools. Little Star…

A poetic and fiercely moving Russian novel of tradition, change, and thwarted desire by an internationally celebrated writer from the Indigenous Nenets community of northern Siberia. Perfect for readers of Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, the work of Louise Erdrich, and other emotionally...

Lucy—single, childless, in her thirties—studies insects and ecosystems, in part to make sense of human behavior. That insight is shattered when her mother dies prematurely, her sister claims the California family home, and Lucy learns that her biological father is apparently a Costa Rican they knew when the family spent summers in the coastal village of Palmita. Reeling, Lucy heads south in search of this father. But he is nowhere to be found, and none of the locals seem to remember her. The dreamy, off-grid paradise she recalls from childhood has become a hard-edged town leery of outsiders.

Mississippi River, 1879. Delta Jarrett is desperate to end the recurring dreams that haunt her: disturbing, passionate dreams about her ancestor, pirate Anne Bonny, and Anne's lover, Calico Jack. In need of distraction, Delta agrees to serve as a reporter for her brother-in-law Hollis's...

Nach dem Tod ihres Vaters kehrt Alma in ihre Heimatstadt Triest zurück – eine Stadt an der Grenze zwischen Ost und West. Hier begegnet sie Vili wieder, ihrer Jugendliebe, der ihr nun das väterliche Erbe übergeben soll. Zwischen den Erinnerungen an die Habsburger Kaffeehäuser ihrer Großeltern, an endlose Kindheitssommer und die Straße gen Osten, auf der ihr Vater einst immer wieder verschwand, wird Alma mit Fragen nach Herkunft, Liebe und Identität konfrontiert.

Top three reasons why I shouldn't eff around and find out with my older brother's best friend. 1. He's eight years older than me. 2. My family would never approve. 3. He's hiding something. So we become roommates. And I become his greatest temptation. I play his game of cat and mouse until we collapse between the sheets with a promise to tell no one.

Already the gateway for illegal Canadian liquor during Prohibition, the Motor City becomes a crucible for American class conflict during the Great Depression, with an army of laid off Ford workers drifting into the ranks of the burgeoning union movement—Henry Ford's worst nightmare.

For 13-year-old Sarah Waldman, life in the small Polish town of Olkusz is idyllic, grounded in her loving, close-knit family and the traditions of their Jewish faith. But in 1939, as the Nazis come to power, a storm is gathering—a relentless, unforgiving storm that will sweep Sarah and her family into years of misery in the ghetto and concentration camps, tearing them apart. Will Sarah's strong will and determination be enough for her to survive when everything she loves is taken from her?

Easton Walker is the bane of my existence. A thorn in my side. And . . . my new fake husband. As the hottest hockey player in the league, he has everyone eating out of the palm of his hand. Everyone except for me. I'm not falling for his crooked grin, chiseled jaw, or broad shoulders. I made that mistake once, before I knew who he was, and I still felt the sting of his rejection. Now I'm stuck working with him. He does everything in his power to get under my skin, but no matter how much he vexes me, I can't deny the electric attraction that sparks between us.

This is not a romance, but it is about love - and set in a cute coffee shop! One crescent moon, an azure cat takes over the running of the Full Moon Coffee Shop. The evening's first customer is an aging mother living alone in a crumbling cottage perched on a sea cliff. Fujiko hasn't seen her...

When Cody Desmond returns to the small coastal town of Bay Springs, Mississippi after a disastrous months-long stint working aboard a cruise ship, he finds himself uncertain of his future. With his first real relationship sunk beneath the waves and his sense of self adrift, Cody grapples with feelings of inadequacy.

'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle 'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this' Grazia 'Like wandering through a painting - riotous with colour, overflowing with imagery... it...

In this streamlined, lightly modernized version of an ancient legend, Cupid, the eternal God of Love, himself falls in love with the human Psyche. The tale can be enjoyed at many levels: as an exciting adventure, a romantic love story, a mystical parable of humanity’s quest for union with the divine, an expression of the troubled Irish political situation in the early nineteenth century, and for the unfailing beauty and musicality of its verse.

A young woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her immigrant childhood and confronts a haunting guilt, in this debut work by a brilliant new talent. Anne Kim is a lawyer in New York, her success built on forgetting the past. When her father dies, she returns to Edmonton for the...