Títulos em Gênero Ficção

Outline is a novel in 10 conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.

May 1941. The Royal Navy’s Eastern Mediterranean fleet has its back to the wall. Hearts of Steel traces a history of the Royal Navy from a fresh perspective beginning in 1918 to World War 2 and its darkest hour. During peacetime we sail with the crews of HMS Effingham and Hawkins, Flagships to the East Indies Station, cruising the Indian Ocean to protect and support the British Empire. As WW2 looms we join the hand picked crew of Tribal Destroyer HMS Nubian.

In Everthing Is F*cked, Mark Manson turns his gaze from the inevitable flaws within each individual self to the endless calamities taking place in the world around us. Drawing from the pool of psychological research on these topics, as well as the timeless wisdom of philosophers such as Plato, Nietzsche, and Tom Waits, he dissects religion and politics and the uncomfortable ways they have come to resemble one another. He looks at our relationships with money, entertainment, and the internet, and how too much of a good thing can psychologically eat us alive.

Em Shaker Heights tudo é planejado: da localização das escolas à cor usada na pintura das casas. E ninguém se identifica mais com esse espírito organizado do que Elena Richardson. Mia Warren, uma artista solteira e enigmática, chega nessa bolha idílica com a filha adolescente e aluga uma casa que pertence aos Richardson. Em pouco tempo, as duas se tornam mais do que meras inquilinas: todos os quatro filhos da família Richardson se encantam com as novas moradoras de Shaker.

Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena’s a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn’t even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena’s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.

It is a perilous time for the New Republic. Just when unity is needed most, mistrust is on the rise. Even the Jedi feel the strain, as rogue elements rebel against Luke's leadership. When alien invaders known as the Yunnan Vong strike without warning, the New Republic is thrown on the defensive. Merciless warriors, the Yunnan Vong glory in torture. Their technology is as strange as it is deadly. Most ominous of all, they are impervious to the Force.

A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves.

A bibliotecária Sloane Parker vive uma vida invisível na pequena e pacata cidade onde mora. Ela não se considera solitária, mas aguarda ansiosamente pelo momento do dia em que o velho mesquinho Arthur McLachlan virá folhear livros pelas prateleiras e insultá-la alegremente―o embate entre eles torna-se o ponto alto do seu dia

Diego espera tudo de ruim dos próprios parentes, mas tudo mesmo. Que o pai tenha uma segunda família. Que a mãe comande um esquema de tráfico humano. Que o irmão lave dinheiro. Por serem versados em todos os crimes do manual da família tóxica, Diego decidiu ser gay bem longe deles. E tudo vai muitíssimo bem, obrigado.

Há dezoito meses, a Escola Raxter para Meninas entrou em quarentena. Há dezoito meses, uma misteriosa doença virou a vida de Hetty do avesso. Começou devagar. Primeiro, as professoras foram morrendo, uma a uma. Então, começou a infectar as alunas, transformando o corpo delas em algo cada vez mais estranho. Isoladas do resto do mundo e deixadas à própria sorte, as meninas não se atrevem a ultrapassar o limite da escola. Hetty, Byatt e Reese esperam a cura prometida enquanto a doença se alastra.

La economía de Estados Unidos se encuentra en ruinas. Las empresas cierran, en las tiendas es imposible encontrar los productos básicos y la población empieza a perder la esperanza en recuperar la prosperidad y la autonomía. La respuesta del gobierno es aumentar cada vez más las regulaciones, el control de cualquier actividad y el colectivismo.

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.

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.

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.

Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.

Einem Team von Wissenschaftlern um den Milliardär John Hammond ist Sensationelles gelungen: Sie habe 15 Saurierarten neu gezüchtet...

Em Amores improváveis, o jornalista e escritor Edney Silvestre conta a história de quatro irmãs e seus amores. A obra tem como pano de fundo a travessia do Atlântico por imigrantes vindos para substituir a mão de obra escravizada, o golpe militar da Proclamação da República em 1889, o florescer de São Paulo como metrópole de diversidade étnica no início do século XX, a construção da Madeira-Mamoré na Amazônia, os primeiros sinais da liberação feminina ― e uma trágica consequência para quem ousou desafiar as convenções.

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.

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.

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.