Títulos em Ficção Literária

Kay est entrée dans mon restaurant. Elle a posé une grosse liasse de lettres sur la table. Elle m'a dit : tu en fais ce que tu veux... L'histoire d'un amour haut comme une cathédrale, violent comme une bordée de pirates, avec des chants, des confessions, de l'encens, des abordages, des orages, des prises d'otages.

D'une mère en fuite sur une île à un jeune prodige des terrains de football en passant par une chirurgienne des grands brûlés hantée par des traumatismes, et enfin, un père qui monte dans un avion pour un voyage initiatique avec son fils, John Boyne crée un kaléidoscope de quatre récits entrelacés pour former une fresque magistrale. Grâce à une prose envoûtante, John Boyne sonde les éléments et les êtres avec une empathie extraordinaire et une honnêteté implacable, nous mettant sans cesse au défi de confronter nos propres définitions de la culpabilité et de l'innocence.

From the beloved author of The Divorcées comes a novel set in the 1970s during an island wedding, where the bride has recently left a sinister cult that might still be trailing her On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay...

A breathtaking debut novel about survival, hope, and second chances in an Asian American community in Massachusetts, when a false missile throws the residents' lives into chaos. On an otherwise unremarkable morning, the residents of a small town in Massachusetts all receive the same alert...

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Author of the New York Times Notable The Great Glass Sea (“The most unexpected second book by a writer of note to appear in years.” –John Freeman, Boston Globe) returns with a gripping adventure story that probes the expansive, shifting wilds of the Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush...

A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American commoner. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue tells the story of the Abdication of Edward VIII—and the two women at...

Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout’s new novel tells the story of a chance incident that sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher’s life—a poignant meditation on loneliness, friendship, parenthood, and the importance of truth in a...

A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine) “A genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai “One of the...

La filósofa Lectrice Santos es expulsada de la universidad tras atreverse a dictar una conferencia sobre el placer y la censura. Su único crimen: desafiar a sus alumnas a pensar por qué la novela más polémica de la literatura contemporánea ha desaparecido de todas las bibliotecas del mundo. Invitada a participar en un seminario sobre literatura y erotismo, hastiada de la Academia y agobiada por los fantasmas de su pasado, Santos reivindica la importancia de leer y releer clásicos como Lolita, de Vladimir Nabokov, sin dejarnos arrastrar por los prejuicios del presente.

The Perkins family has problems. They’re scattered across the globe. Lee, a glamorous reality-TV star, is struggling with her mental health in the spotlight. Reagan, her younger sister, has fallen for a romance scammer and vanished overseas. Cord, their charming brother, is one drink away from losing it all. And their mother, Charlotte, still longs for the love she let slip away a decade ago, a lover who sailed off with her heart to a remote island in Greece.

Las Parcas cohabitan entre las sombras del mundo terrenal con el único propósito de guiar a las almas al más allá. Una de ellas con una reciente grieta en la costilla, comienza a experimentar emociones humanas y, a través de sus encuentros con las personas, descubre la complejidad del cariño, la pérdida y la culpa mientras lucha por encontrar un método empático de aliviar el dolor de las almas con una transición amable y significativa, se enfrenta a la ironía de su propia existencia.

From the author of the classic coming-of-age memoir Fresh off the Boat, tragicomic autofiction about how one very messed up and haunted manchild finds love in spite of himself. Hubie lives an exciting life. He hosts a traveling food show, produces it with his two best friends, and tastes the...

Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best friend, Aldo, was the exception, but he died seven months ago. So she spends her days hidden away at an underfunded aquarium with her specimens and a draft of the jellyfish guide she and Aldo had been working on together. His voice is alive in the notes in the margins, and it’s enough. Almost. Until she receives a call from Nadia, one of the few other humans she’s loved but whom she hasn’t heard from in years, asking for her help.

Elenie ist es gewohnt, als Stieftochter von Frank Dax, dem Chef des berüchtigten Dax-Verbrecherrings, von allen Bewohnern der Kleinstadt Pine Springs verurteilt zu werden. Doch der neue Polizeichef Roman Martinez ist fasziniert von Elenie, die ganz anders zu sein scheint, als ihm alle weismachen wollen. Als ihr Stiefvater endgültig zu weit geht, beschließt sie, ihm das Handwerk zu legen und Informantin für die Polizei zu werden. Roman und Elenie dürfen sich nur noch heimlich treffen, dabei wächst die Anziehung zwischen ihnen mit jeder Begegnung.

Als Hanna unverhofft auf Amrum strandet, verliebt sie sich spontan in die nordfriesische Insel und in ein altes Haus, an dem sie zufällig vorbeikommt. Finn, der Besitzer des Hauses, ist von Hannas Vorschlag gar nicht begeistert und will erst mal in Ruhe renovieren, bevor er sich entscheidet, ob er das Haus überhaupt verkaufen will. Doch er hat nicht mit Hannas Hartnäckigkeit gerechnet und vor allem nicht damit, dass ihm die quirlige Frau ziemlich den Kopf verdreht. Auf der Nordseeinsel schlägt Hanna reichlich Gegenwind entgegen. War ihre Entscheidung, nach Amrum umzusiedeln, die richtige?

At 36, Finlay Hightower has attended countless incredible, cringe-worthy, and disastrous wedding celebrations with his best friends. Their secret to surviving wedding chaos? The Hour of Disrespect—a pact to reserve judgement to one hour after the couple’s Big Day, protecting the wedding glow and leaving only with the good memories. But this next wedding will test their decade-old tradition in more ways than one.

Mia Belhaj yearns to be free. A child of Morocco in the politically and socially turbulent 1980s, she flees her family and her homeland to seek her own place in the world. Years later, she finds it as a famous author, only for a bout with a virus to jeopardize her memory and the novel she wants to write about her past. When she’s advised to retrace her history to reclaim her present, Mia journeys around the world in search of herself, from Casablanca to Paris to New York, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, and finally back to her grandparents’ farm in Morocco.

Una mujer sin hogar deambula por la costa oeste de Estados Unidos, haciéndose pasar por una niña; un periodista catalán que ha logrado catapultar su carrera a partir de la fabricación de noticias falsas está a punto de ser desenmascarado; en una opulenta villa de la llanura de Escania, Suecia, un ama de casa se aferra como puede a una vida aparentemente perfecta, tratando de no prestar atención a los oscuros secretos de su marido… De geografías mentales y culturales distintas, a todos ellos los une la autocompasión y una enfermiza propensión al engaño.

With her country’s future and her own life at stake, an orphaned duchess must journey into a world of myth and there discover a power that may be her salvation—or her demise—in this enchanting historical fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale...