Títulos em Literatura Mundial

Peaces of Saturn, is Elizabeth Asarte's, debut literary fiction novel. This work blends poetic introspection with mystical realism. Peaces of Saturn is a lyrical meditation on the eternal cycle of birth, death, and renewal.

That Dazzling Sun, Book 2 in The Tinsmith's Apprentice trilogy, continues the vivid coming-of-age story of Isaac Granger, slave to Thomas Jefferson, begun in Bechtel's marvelously adept debut novel, "A Partial Sun" in which Isaac begins his complicated apprenticeship at age fifteen as a tinsmith in Philadelphia in the fall of 1790.

The selection of poems in this book by Janet Coplin includes aspects of the author’s life in some unexpected ways. The trip from childhood to adulthood is a trail of trial and error, love and laughter, and relationships with all living things. The title, Loose Change, is a metaphor for emotions and memories that float and for which there is no certain home. The inevitability of change is as loose as the coins in our pockets.

Bendito follows Maritza Cruz, a young woman who is the girlfriend of the talented and successful artist, Omar Rivera. Feeling distressed about her derailed creative dreams and jealous of her boyfriend, Maritza decides to start her own magazine, but it doesn’t get the attention she wants. She therefore accepts her best friend’s invitation to attend a Santería party and seeks the help of a santero, Baz Santiago, to hasten her success.

They say youth is fleeting, but what if you could fake it for a little while longer—even forever? It’s possible thanks to the Crown Serum. As the twentieth anniversary for the world’s only legitimate wrinkle wonder cure approaches, newspaper reporter Goldie Hays lands an interview with its elusive maker, Sarah Crown. Too bad Goldie’s dealing with a broken heart at the same time. And to think, it was only a month ago on her fortieth birthday that she was saying “I love you” for the first time to her much younger boyfriend.

Tras el ataque sufrido en 2022, en el que casi pierde la vida y que relató en su anterior libro, Cuchillo, «nuestro Scheherazade»—como lo llamó Ursula K. Le Guin—regresa a la ficción. En estos cinco relatos, la desbordante imaginación de Salman Rushdie adopta un tono crepuscular. Vuelve a sus orígenes, a las calles del Bombay de Hijos de la medianoche, donde se reencuentra con viejos personajes de la novela de 1981, y completa un recorrido por los tres países donde ha vivido: India, Inglaterra y Estados Unidos.

Quand Mathias, 11 ans, violoniste prometteur, demande à sa mère de participer à la " Tournée des étoiles ", un concours de jeunes talents, elle choisit de tout faire pour qu'il réalise son rêve, malgré la sclérose en plaques précoce dont il est atteint. Gustave, son grand-père, un compositeur distrait et loufoque, décide d'acheter un van afin de transformer cette tournée d'auditions en véritable aventure. Tandis que Mathias nourrit le secret espoir, grâce à la musique, de renouer avec son père dont il reste sans nouvelles...

En apparence, Diane forme un couple parfait avec Hervé, son mari : une jolie maison, une fille qui a pris son envol, un groupe d’amis fidèles et elle possède sa propre boutique de décoration qui ne désemplit pas. Pourtant, une petite boule s’est logée dans sa gorge et ne cesse de croître. À bientôt quarante-huit ans, entre un quotidien sans saveur et la désagréable impression de devenir invisible, aux yeux de son époux et de l’univers en général, elle n’est plus heureuse.

2227, Système solaire. Alors qu’il effectue une mission à bord de son W-Orca, Adam gravite trop près d’un trou noir et se retrouve propulsé dans le futur. La Terre qu’il découvre n’a plus rien à voir avec celle qu’il a connue. Des humains au bord de l’extinction, un Esprit omniscient, des robots indépendants et surtout des octomes, une nouvelle espèce toute puissante issue de recherches en xénogénomique.

Depois de anos longe, um misterioso homem regressa a sua cidade natal. Do autor de Sátántangó e ganhador do prêmio Nobel. Uma alegoria extrema do fim das ilusões. . Após décadas de exílio na Argentina, um velho aristocrata arruinado por dívidas de jogo, o barão Béla Wenckheim, regressa à sua cidade natal, uma localidade húngara perdida no mapa e mergulhada em poeira, loucura e ressentimento. Os habitantes, desesperados, projetam no Barão a figura de um salvador, alguém que poderá trazer redenção e prosperidade ao lugar.

In 1968 the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia. The Prague Spring, with an opening of minds and actions, was suppressed by an authoritarian regime. In Truth and Debris, a Czech psychologist escapes from suppressed Czechoslovakia and becomes a psychologist in a Canadian school.

When Kimberly Bowman, a guarded English teacher with a bruised heart, is assigned to co-lead the high school Homecoming Committee with the school’s new football coach, sparks fly—but not the kind she wants. Coach Zach Preston is arrogant, image-obsessed, and determined to rebuild his career on the backs of teenage athletes. Kim wants nothing to do with him—or with love, for that matter. But when a student is seriously injured on the field, the fallout forces Zach to confront his past failures and Kim to confront the walls she’s built around her heart.

It is the autumn of 1913. Sir Randolph Nettleby has assembled a brilliant array of guests at his Oxfordshire estate for the biggest hunt of the season. An army of gamekeepers, beaters, and servants has rehearsed the intricate age–old ritual, the gentlemen are falling into the prescribed mode of fellowship and sporting rivalry, the ladies intrigued by the latest gossip and fashion. Everything about this splendid weekend would seem a perfect consummation of the pleasures afforded the privileged in Edwardian England.

Father O'Malley and Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden must uncover a baby-selling scheme at a clinic forty years ago.

Father O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden return! When a sacred tribal artifact disappears from a museum, it's more than Arapaho history that is lost—it's an Arapaho student's life . . .

This collection of poems explores the movements, excesses, and extremes of existing as a postmodern person, connecting these experiences to ancestry by reimagining memories, history, homesteads, migration, and the intersections of the past, present, and possible futures.

Roy Bowers wins a 160-acre lot in the 1832 Georgia land lottery. He leaves his successful Macon business in the hands of his oldest son and takes his sixteen-year-old boy with him on a long journey through the frontier to North Georgia. Roy finds the land rich in resources, and Tim meets a lovely half-Cherokee maiden. Still, the Bowers must overcome attacks and take big risks in developing a thriving community along the Toccoa River in the North Georgia mountains.

Step into the heart-wrenching world of "Sacred Duty," set on the eve of WWII in a quaint German village. A devoted anti-war activist Pastor faces an impossible choice: embrace pacifism or safeguard his family's well-being. His decision triggers a devastating chain of events, leading to his wife's torment and execution, and his son's transformation into a fervent Nazi.

The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of a doomed love and a young man’s education in hope. In the crowded streets of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Waseem has learned to navigate life with quiet resilience. Born with a disability that leaves him largely unable to speak or walk, Waseem’s world is shaped by the small, intimate details of camp life.

The fate of a fractured and embattled nation hangs by a thread. Lord Beornoth, the Viking-killer lives on, beset by the ravages of age and tortured by his past. At the King's bequest he is plunged into the brutal twilight of Saxon rule, where loyalty, courage, and sacrifice are tested on blood-soaked fields. Armies clash and the throne of England becomes the ultimate prize. In the face of a Viking invasion, Beornoth faces his greatest battle in this unflinching fight through the last days of Saxon England.