Títulos em Gênero Ficção

A century before A Game of Thrones, two unlikely heroes wandered Westeros.... A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms compiles the first three official prequel novellas to George R. R. Martin's ongoing masterwork, A Song of Ice and Fire. Before Tyrion Lannister and Podrick Payne, there were Dunk and Egg. A young, naïve but courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals - in stature if not experience.

Enchantments run deep on the magical Isle of Cadence: gossip is carried by the wind, plaid shawls can be as strong as armour and the smallest cut of a knife can instil fathomless fear. The capricious spirits that live there find mirth in the lives of the humans who call the land home, but that mischief turns to malevolence as girls begin to go missing. Adaira, heiress of the East, knows the spirits only answer to a bard’s music, enticing them to return the missing girls. But there’s only one bard capable of drawing the spirits forth by song: her childhood enemy, Jack Tamerlaine.

In AD 866, Uhtred, a boy of 10 and the son of a nobleman, is captured in the same battle that leaves his father dead. His captor is the Earl Ragnar, a Danish chieftain, who raises the boy as his own, teaching him the Viking ways of war. As a young man expected to partake in raids and bloody massacres of the English, he grapples with divided loyalties, torn between Ragnar, the warrior he loves like a father, and Alfred, whose piety and introspection leave him cold.

The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband - and of the man obsessed with uncovering her motive.... Famous artist Alicia Berenson shoots her husband in the head five times and then never speaks again. Five years later, forensic psychotherapist Theo Faber must find a way to get Alicia to talk if he wants to treat her. Only then can he unravel the shocking events of that tragic night five years before....

Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s 20, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne.

This is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.

Barba ensopada de sangue é um romance de força incomum, sobre solidão, família e os mitos que criamos e herdamos. Publicado em outubro de 2012, e vencedor do prêmio São Paulo de Literatura, tornou-se um marco na literatura brasileira contemporânea. Esta edição comemorativa traz textos inéditos sobre o livro e narração de Daniel Galera e Bibiana Petek.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself.

O cortiço, publicado em 1890, é um marco do Naturalismo no Brasil. Os personagens principais são moradores de um cortiço no Rio de Janeiro. Excluídos, humildes, e quem não se misturava com a bur

Uma terrível descoberta leva Rosa a largar uma carreira de sucesso em Londres e, num impulso, recomeçar a vida como sous-chef em Brighton. O trabalho é árduo e estressante, mas a distrai. Bem, pelo menos até ela conhecer a adolescente emburrada que mora no apartamento ao lado, que a faz questionar suas escolhas. Georgie se muda para o Sul com o namorado, Simon, atrás de uma incrível oportunidade...para a carreira dele. A princípio, a cidade parece recebê-la de braços abertos, mas não vai demorar muito até ela se meter em várias enrascadas.

In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former soldier famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and met many times, talking and unraveling the story of Onoda’s long war.

Durante 18 anos, Jude pôs as necessidades dos filhos em primeiro lugar, e o resultado disso é que seus gêmeos, Mia e Zach, são adolescentes felizes. Quando Lexi começa a estudar no mesmo colégio que eles, ninguém em Pine Island é mais receptivo que Jude. Lexi, uma menina com um passado de sofrimento, criada em lares adotivos temporários, rapidamente se torna a melhor amiga de Mia. E, quando Zach se apaixona por ela, os três se tornam companheiros inseparáveis.

It seems like just another morning. Around the world, people wake up, check the news, open the front door. On every doorstop is a box. Inside that box is the exact number of years that person has left to live. Whether they open it or hide it under their bed, each person must learn to live in this new world: a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush their life together, a doctor who cannot save himself from his own fate, best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything…

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain, a seer shows two children their fates. For a family’s eighth-born son, there’s greatness. For the second daughter, nothing. In 1345, China lies restless under harsh Mongol rule. And when a bandit raid wipes out their home, the two children must somehow survive. Zhu Chongba despairs and gives in. But the girl resolves to overcome her destiny. So she takes her dead brother's identity and begins her journey. Can Zhu escape what’s written in the stars, as rebellion sweeps the land?

Zecharia Sitchin’s best-selling series The Earth Chronicles provided humanity’s side of the story concerning our origins at the hands of the Anunnaki, “those who from heaven to earth came.” In The Lost Book of Enki we now view this saga from the perspective of Lord Enki, an Anunnaki leader revered in antiquity as a god, who tells the story of these extraterrestrials’ arrival on Earth from the planet Nibiru.

News on the docks is Adelaide Bradley is back in Seaside, and rumor has it she’s here to stay! (No ring was spotted on her finger, I might add!) After eight long years of living in the big city and working for Massachusetts General, she has decided to return to the shores. One can only imagine how thrilled Barbara and Keegan are to have their oldest daughter back. But it makes you wonder if Adelaide will continue to peruse her nursing career or is she here to help at her family’s restaurant, The Seaside Grill.

Em 1996, aos 16 anos, Maggie Dawes vai morar com uma tia que mal conhece em um vilarejo remoto na Carolina do Norte. Solitária e infeliz, ela só recupera o apetite pela vida quando conhece Bryce Trickett, um dos poucos adolescentes do lugar. Autêntico, bonito e inteligente, Bryce apresenta a Maggie as belezas do vilarejo e a fotografia, uma paixão que, assim como o jovem, vai definir o resto da vida dela. Em 2019, Maggie é uma renomada fotógrafa que mora em Nova York e se divide entre sua galeria de sucesso e as viagens a trabalho por todo o mundo.

E se, um belo dia ao acordar, você não encontrasse mais o seu nariz? Respire fundo antes de entrar nesta história, Gógol está prestes a deixá-lo sem ar. Ilustrado por Nicholas Steinmetz, com apresentação de Tamy Ghannam, este conto é explorado de forma mais profunda nas videoaulas de Raquel Toledo. Em uma manhã como qualquer outra, um barbeiro, conhecido pela quantidade de sangue que faz jorrar do rosto de sua clientela, toma seu café da manhã. Ao afundar a faca sobre um pão recém-assado, encontra um ingrediente que não estava na receita: um nariz.

Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, he watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. In the weeks and months before Max’s death, Hannah is haunted by the secrets she left Australia to escape. A relationship with Max seems to offer the potential of a different story, but the past refuses to stay hidden. It finds expression in the untold stories of the people she grew up with.

"Ninguém pode entender os homens. Como é que o Tony me despreza assim, se não tenho nada de errado em mim? […] Dei‑lhe amor, dei‑lhe filhos com que ele se afirmou nesta vida. Sacrifiquei os meus sonhos pelos sonhos dele. Dei‑lhe a minha juventude, a minha vida. Por isso afirmo e reafirmo, mulher como eu, na sua vida, não há nenhuma! Mesmo assim, sou a mulher mais infeliz do mundo." Esse é o desabafo de Rami, protagonista de Niketche, que depois de vinte anos de casamento descobre que seu marido está vivendo uma vida dupla — ou melhor, quíntupla.