Títulos em Literatura Mundial

Academy Award winning actress Viola Davis and the world's #1 bestselling author James Patterson’s Judge Stone "delivers first-class courtroom drama, small-town excitement, and strong characters all wrapped in a moral dilemma. Tense, readable, and relevant.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred...

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Magnificent Ruins comes the electric story of two sisters who have to navigate a terrible betrayal from within their family. Indian-American Mira Guhathakurta is a poetry editor at a distinguished literary magazine in New York. She reconnects with...

An electrifying anti-Western from an exciting new Indigenous writer. As teenage boys begin to disappear from a great plains Métis community, a young man attempts to uncover the evil force lurking out of sight. In 1885, Nikosis “Niko” Eriksen spends his days playing buffalo hunter, even...

In A Delicate Delivery, Ndaba Sibanda masterfully weaves words into powerful poetic tapestries, unveiling the silenced struggles, uncelebrated triumphs, and raw resilience of Africa's unsung heroes. With evocative imagery and poignant rhythm, these poems echo the unheeded cries of history, the weight of injustice, and the enduring spirit of those who fought, suffered, and dreamed of a better tomorrow.

Claire, wealthy and recently widowed, is adrift. She has access to tools to make a real difference but can't figure out where to apply them. Erica, a young outreach worker to the homeless, has grown so cynical about the broken system that she's breaking rules herself—and for that, she's about to get fired. One day, Erica finds Claire giving away gourmet sandwiches and twenty-dollar bills at a homeless encampment, and yanks her out of there with a lecture about systemic problems and feel-good solutions.

A major bestseller and prize-winner in France: a young man journeys from Paris to Rwanda to discover the truth about his mother's past and the country of her birth, from the internationally renowned Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Gaël Faye "Gaël Faye’s talent is breathtaking.”...

'Brutal and unflinching...You won't be able to look away as this book cuts you to pieces.' Kylie Lee Baker, author of Bat Eater 'Combining feminist fury with creeping horror... Fans of Bunny will love this.' Eve Kellman, author of How to Kill a Guy in Ten Ways THE NEW NOVEL BY THE SUNDAY TIMES...

“Ahmad’s compassion, her deep care for the psychological and emotional nuances of her characters, never wavers.” – The New York Times Book Review In a searing collection by the award-winning author of The Return of Faraz Ali, characters seek to make their futures their own in a Pakistan...

It's unprecedented, even in the 21st century, for a young Sicilian woman to incur infamy and defy the centuries old mandate, “Family is everything!” Twenty-two-year old Mariella Russo is desperate to flee Sicily, that, while her lifelong home, has become a claustrophobic island. She’s being relentlessly coerced into an engagement with her wealthy college sweetheart from a prominent, powerful, family, and her envious and erratic mother hopes the match will increase her own ignominious social status. To fight for independence and escape entrapment, Mariella flees to San Francisco.

'Touching, infuriating and painfully true, Strange Girls is a superlative novel by one of our most perceptive writers. Sarvat Hasin is an artist whose work demands to be read.' Julia Armfield, author of Private Rites 'Simply sublime-about that feverish, feral first finding of true friendship...

When six-year-old Dolores Hummingbird arrives at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, she has a difficult time adjusting. She has never before spent one night away from her parents. Renamed “Cries in her Sleep” by the girls in her dorm, Dolores eventually finds companionship and love in the person of an orphaned Irish girl called “Sky Eyes.” Both girls are exemplary artist. After graduation, they live and paint in Greenwich Village and receive instruction from Robert Henri of the Ashcan School. But Paris is calling them from across the ocean.

Sulaco, provincia immaginaria della repubblica di Costaguana, vive sotto il battito incessante della miniera di San Tomé: è da lì che prende avvio Nostromo, capolavoro assoluto di Joseph Conrad e una delle più grandi epopee del Novecento. L'argento, motore segreto di potere, ambizione e rovina, accompagna e divora i destini di uomini e donne in un intreccio dove politica, passione e tragedia si confondono. Conrad intreccia tensione politica e inquietudine interiore, restituendo un romanzo che è insieme cronaca storica, allegoria morale e indagine dell'animo umano.

Als die beiden dank dieser Eigenschaft gezwungen sind, ihre Heimat Hals über Kopf zu verlassen, landen sie unplanmäßig auf einer windgepeitschten Insel vor der Küste Neufundlands. Lita freundet sich schnell mit der gehörlosen Tochter der Gastgeber an, der einzigartigen Oona McGregor. Als sie den auf der Insel lang herbeigesehnten Mr. Saito das erste Mal begegnet, der mit seinem Wanderkino Nachrichten aus aller Welt zu ihnen bringt, ahnt Lita nicht, dass er ihr Leben für immer verändern wird.

From New York Times bestselling author Margaret Coel comes a tightly crafted mystery that blends Native American culture and history with contemporary issues and fast-paced action! When the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his tepee at the Ethete powwow, the evidence points to the chairman's nephew, Anthony Castle. But Father John O'Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, and Vicky Holden, the Arapaho lawyer, do not believe the young man capable of murder. Together they set out to find the real murderer and clear Anthony's name.

As she covers the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes' claim for their ancestral lands, Catherine becomes the target of a relentless killer. With her commitment to uncovering the truth unwavering, she risks everything to expose the dark secrets hidden beneath the surface. Gripping and atmospheric, Coel takes listeners on a thrilling journey into a web of deception, where the pursuit of justice becomes a matter of life and death.

En la casa nueva de Guinea, las paredes están tapadas con espejos de piso a techo; las cortinas, casi siempre cerradas, y los cuartos apestan a jabón y a desinfectante con olor a pino. El nuevo papá de Guinea se unta tantos aromas que a ella le pica la nariz cuando él se le acerca; y odia la luz, igual que los vampiros. Este papá vampiro dice ser sonámbulo y pasa el tiempo rondando a Guinea. Nadie más parece notar que es un vampiro, salvo su nuevo hermano mayor, Pascual, quien le cuenta historias para dar sentido a lo que no se puede entender.

When I find a little girl standing on my doorstep, I don't know what to do. But as I take her small hand in mine, she whispers words that will change my life. "Mummy said you'd look after me." As I tuck the children into bed, I feel a familiar longing stirring in my heart. I press a gentle kiss onto their foreheads, then remind myself that they are not mine. So why are they here?

Jess desperately wants to be a mother, so when she discovers a young boy lost in the woods near her home, her heart goes out to him. The boy, who Jess and her husband call “Buddy,” can’t tell them his name or anything about his family, but he’s clearly been through a lot. When her husband cautions her not to get too involved, Jess brushes him off. She would do anything for this child—and soon, she’ll have to prove it.

Nobody likes being on agricultural rotation, and with this heat wave, it’s almost more than Ester can take. She’s itching for something she can’t put words to—something she has no memory of wanting. But then, she can’t remember much beyond the past couple of years. She’s sent to the husband archive for a cure, but the man she checks out comes with baggage: stacks and stacks of paper he calls “books.” What they teach each other may prove hard to forget.

Russ commutes to work—not across town but through time. An ambitious employee stuck in Oracle Marketing Solutions’ mundane “near past” division, he longs for the excitement of ancient eras and distant futures. But Oracle’s secretive management has refused every one of his transfer requests, and Russ can’t understand why…until he makes a devastating discovery about his own timeline.