Títulos em Gênero Ficção

In Oceania, one of three totalitarian states that rule the world, Big Brother is watching. The Thought Police are listening. Reality is defined by the Party. And in London, at the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith’s job is to rewrite history. His dream, however, is to rebel. Winston is beginning to think for himself. In defiance of the State, he falls into a criminal love affair with his coworker Julia. But it isn’t until he joins the Brotherhood, an underground network of revolutionaries, that Winston discovers how high the cost of freedom may be.

Penelope Keelings liebster Besitz ist ein Gemälde mit dem Titel "Die Muschelsucher". Als ihre Kinder erfahren, dass das Werk ein Vermögen wert ist, entbrennt heftiger Streit darum. Doch Penelope kann sich nicht von dem Bild trennen. Zu viele Erinnerungen sind damit verbunden: an ihre unkonventionelle Kindheit in Cornwall, an die Kriegsjahre - und an ihre große Liebe.

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him—and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe, sidelined on the royal staff, magnificently siezes command at the final moment of the great victory. It is 1815. Sharpe is serving on the personal staff of the prince of Orange, who refuses to listen to Sharpe's reports of an enormous army, led by Napoleon, marching towards them. The Battle of Waterloo commences, and it seems as if Sharpe must stand by and watch the grandest scale of military folly.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.

Pat Peoples, um ex-professor de história na casa dos 30 anos, acaba de sair de uma instituição psiquiátrica. Convencido de que passou apenas alguns meses naquele “lugar ruim”, Pat não se lembra do que o fez ir para lá. O que sabe é que Nikki, sua esposa, quis que ficassem um "tempo separados".

The final book of Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove tetralogy is an exhilarating tale of legend and heroism. Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena -- once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. This long chase leads them across the last wild streches of the West....

Kathy H. tem 31 anos e está prestes a encerrar sua carreira de "cuidadora". Enquanto isso, ela relembra o tempo que passou em Hailsham, um internato inglês que dá grande ênfase às atividades artísticas e conta, entre várias outras amenidades, com bosques, um lago povoado de marrecos, uma horta e gramados impecavelmente aparados. No entanto, esse internato idílico esconde uma terrível verdade: todos os "alunos" de Hailsham são clones, produzidos com a única finalidade de servir de peças de reposição.

A assistente social Claudia Morgan-Brown está prestes a realizar o sonho de sua vida: vai dar à luz uma menininha. Apesar da ausência do marido ao longo da gravidez–James é oficial da Marinha e fica semanas e até meses longe de casa–ela mal pode esperar para segurar seu bebê nos braços após várias tentativas e perdas. Porém, as diversas tarefas de Claudia, além da responsabilidade de cuidar dos gêmeos Oscar e Noah, filhos do primeiro casamento de James, deixam o casal preocupado. A próxima partida de James se aproxima, e eles decidem contratar uma babá.

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth - or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak - altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda.

Fun and fearless, Cora Lewis knows how to keep her tattooed "bad boy" friends at the Marked in line. But beneath all that flash and sass is a broken heart. Cora won't let herself get burned again. She's waiting to fall in love with the perfect man - a baggage-free, drama-free guy ready for commitment. Then she meets Rome Archer.

De bonde ou a pé, Naziazeno atravessa ruas mergulhado em um estado de angústia existencial. Uma série de desencontros e rejeições reforça o cenário de vulnerabilidades, tanto sociais quanto psicológicas, que servem de motor para o romance. Em 28 capítulos curtos, escritos numa prosa descarnada, acompanhamos a perambulação do pobre homem por uma então provinciana Porto Alegre.

Tout au long de ses livres, Marguerite Duras a étendu sa recherche aux dimensions ignorées ou méconnues du désir, pierre angulaire de son œuvre. Avec "Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein", elle nous entraîne dans la quête acharnée et troublante des splendeurs de l'amour fou entrevues par son héroïne. Suivant le sillage d'une parole sobre et mystérieuse, l'auditeur se laisse emporter jusqu'à l'horizon de cette magnifique histoire qui brille d'une inoubliable intensité. Envoûtant récit auquel Fanny Ardant prête sa voix exceptionnelle.

When her daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, Isabel Allende began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. Bizarre ancestors are introduced; delightful and bitter childhood memories are shared; amazing anecdotes of youthful years are relived, and the most intimate secrets are quietly passed along. Like Allende’s first novel, The House of the Spirits, this powerful memoir is infused with the real, the magical, and the spiritual, creating a haunting, sad, and beautiful tale.

In fifth grade my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed. It didn't take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. Android vs. iPhone. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever. For the next seven years, it was us. She's the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am.

A psychopath is terrorizing Copenhagen. His calling card is a “chestnut man” - a handmade doll made of matchsticks and two chestnuts - which he leaves at each bloody crime scene. Examining the dolls, forensics makes a shocking discovery - a fingerprint belonging to a young girl, a government minister’s daughter who had been kidnapped and murdered a year ago. A tragic coincidence - or something more twisted? To save innocent lives, a pair of detectives must put aside their differences to piece together the Chestnut Man’s gruesome clues.

Un hombre parado ante un semáforo en rojo se queda ciego súbitamente. Es el primer caso de una «ceguera blanca» que se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos en la ciudad, los ciegos tendrán que enfrentarse con lo que existe de más primitivo en la naturaleza humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio. Ensayo sobre la ceguera es la ficción de un autor que nos alerta sobre «la responsabilidad de tener ojos cuando otros los perdieron».

Amigas de infância, Erika e Clementine não poderiam ser mais diferentes. Erika é obsessiva-compulsiva. Ela e o marido são contadores e não têm filhos. Já a completamente desorganizada Clementine é violoncelista, casada e mãe de duas adoráveis meninas. Certo dia, as duas famílias são inesperadamente convidadas para um churrasco de domingo na casa dos vizinhos de Erika, que são ricos e extravagantes.

Hope Anderson está numa encruzilhada. Aos 36 anos, namora o mesmo homem há seis, mas não tem perspectivas de casamento. Quando seu pai é diagnosticado com uma grave doença degenerativa, ela resolve passar uma semana na casa de praia da família, na Carolina do Norte, para pensar nas difíceis decisões que precisa tomar em relação ao próprio futuro. Tru Walls nasceu numa família rica no Zimbábue. Nunca esteve nos Estados Unidos, até receber uma carta de um homem que diz ser seu pai biológico, convidando-o a encontrá-lo numa casa de praia na Carolina do Norte.