Títulos em Ficção Literária

They stole his bread. They mocked his speech. Now, he's taking it all back—one quack at a time. Meet Thaddaeus McQuack: a furious, foul-mouthed duck with a grudge the size of a city pond and a speech impediment that only makes his threats funnier. After a mime-related incident lands him in a zoo, Thaddaeus breaks free—and declares war on mankind. With a deranged cockatoo named Steve, a flying squirrel militia, and a revolution built on stale bread and pure rage, Duck Off: The Quack Chronicles is a wild, action-packed satire you never knew you needed.

In the present day, a woman lies in a hospital bed, watched over by her attentive, caring grandmother. The young woman was recently at a party and was seen jumping from the roof—but that couldn’t have been what happened, surely? In fits and starts, the grandmother begins to explain to her granddaughter the long tail of their family’s history, nestled in which may be the secret to why hardship and mystery have followed them through the centuries….

In the shadows of grief, physicist Alex Mercer has lost his way. His beloved wife, Emily, passed too soon, trapping him in painful nostalgia. With each day, Alex feels his grip on reality slipping, his logical mind yearning for solace he can't find in science alone. Desperate for peace, he embarks on an unexpected journey into the quantum realm through meditation. Along the way, he encounters guides and teachings that reveal more about life-and the universe-than he ever thought possible.

Dan and Tamma are two teenagers in their last year of high school in the southern Mojave Desert. One is a gifted golden child, the other a mouthy burnout. Climbing boulders in trash-strewn parking lots during cold desert nights, they seal their unique bond and dream of a life of adventure. As the year progresses and adult reality looms, they are rocked by change and pulled apart by irreconcilable obligations. Differences of class, talent, and prospects take on new importance; options dwindle, and their decisions grow ever more consequential and perilous.

From warm Kampala to gloomy London, Goretti Kyomuhendo's novel charts the joys and tribulations of Ajuna and her fiancé, Kagaba. Young, highly skilled, and ambitious, both are caught up in financial hardship in their native Uganda. When Kagaba leaves for the UK as an economic immigrant, Ajuna's happy, fulfilling relationship is under threat. And in the indifferent UK, Kagaba must battle the cold, and the cold shoulder of London.

After witnessing a crime, I ran. For three years, I’ve hid from everyone. I abandoned Birchwoods Spring, my home, my plans, and the life I planned to build. I told myself it was the only way to stay safe. But when my grandmother falls ill, I have no choice but to come back—even if it means confronting the past I tried to escape. The moment I step onto my land, I feel it. The unease creeping in.

Clinton Salter is the sheriff who never wanted to be sheriff. A World War II veteran and widower, he is elected due to the political machinations of his brother. His new territory is the fabled Madison County, North Carolina—a place of the steepest mountain ridges and most isolated coves and valleys. A place where the seasons matter more than the calendar and the past is as real as the present.

Climate disaster–induced fugue states, mutinous polar bears, support groups for recently displaced millionaires, men who hear trees, and women who lose their wives on environmental refugee resettlement trips. In these dispatches from a weirding world, the absurd and fantastic are increasingly indistinguishable from reality. Exploring this liminal moment, Ashley Shelby's collection of climate fictions imagines a near future that is both unnervingly familiar and subversively strange.

This delightfully clever, artfully layered novel begins when a scientist who has written a popular book of non-fiction attends a literary festival, where she strikes up a friendship with a charismatic novelist. The novelist reveals that her new work is an experiment: a novella she wrote in English only to have it translated and published solely in French—a language the novelist cannot read. Moreover, she has lost her original English manuscript of this work. Hearing this, the scientist, who is fluent in French, impulsively offers to retranslate the novella back into English for the novelist.

A debut collection of four intriguing stories from a talent that will leave you wanting more.

When war sends five displaced children to her door, Dodie Fitznorton knows life will never be the same. Eight-year-old Olive trembles when spoken to and won't say how she got a bruised lip, and her brother Peter seems angry at the entire world. With whispers of spies in the village and the children's precious futures at stake, Dodie must decide who to trust before everything she's built crumbles to ashes around her.

Reggio Calabria, primi anni Ottanta. La sedicenne Lucia Carbone, studentessa del liceo classico, sequestra un compagno di scuola e lo imprigiona nello scantinato della casa della nonna morta da pochi mesi. Il ragazzo, Rosario Cristallo, è figlio d'un boss dell'Aspromonte, e Lucia lo ha rapito per due buone (o cattive) ragioni: la prima è che la sua migliore amica ne è innamorata, e vuole tenerlo lontano da lei, la seconda è che forse Rosario sa qualcosa sull'assassinio di una zia amatissima.

“I wanted the knack of existing. I did not know the rules.” These words from Josephine, the heroine of Jennifer Dawson’s remarkable novel, encapsulate the journey of a young woman grappling with mental illness amidst the hallowed halls of Oxford University in the 1950s. Originally published in 1961, this novel met with critical acclaim, and is a rediscovered classic perfect for fans of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.

Sally Quinn, acclaimed Washington Post journalist, bestselling author, and cofounder with historian and author Jon Meacham of The Washington Post’s On Faith website, is known for sparking national conversations around politics, spirituality, and love. In her latest novel Silent Retreat, Quinn presents listeners with a vivid and provocative love story that walks the electric tightrope between faith and sensuality, restraint and ecstasy, duty and longing.

Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged 16, leaves her home and journeys across the sea to Venezuela. There, she gives birth to a baby girl, and leaves her with nuns to be given up for adoption. Dawn tries to carry on with her life - a move to England, a marriage, a career, two sons, a divorce - but through it all, she still thinks of the child she had in Venezuela, and of what might have been. When, forty years later, a woman from an internet forum gets in touch, saying that she might be Dawn's long-lost daughter, it stirs up a complicated mix of feelings.

北宇治高校吹奏楽部は、過去には全国大会に出場したこともある強豪校だったが、顧問が変わってからは関西大会にも進めていない。しかし、新しく赴任した滝昇の厳しい指導のもと、生徒たちは着実に力をつけていった。実際はソロを巡っての争いや、勉強を優先し部活を辞める生徒も出てくるなど、波瀾万丈の毎日。そんななか、いよいよコンクールの日がやってくる――。少女たちの心の成長を描いた青春エンタメ小説。

40万部突破の大人気シリーズ！「心神喪失者の行為は罰しない」刑法第39条vs連続殺人鬼救うべきは誰か。凄惨な殺害方法と、稚拙な犯行声明文で世間を震撼させた「カエル男連続猟奇連続殺人事件」。事件のキーマンである有働さゆりは医療刑務所から脱走し、行方知れずのままだった－－。

Adi has been dropped alone on Isla Santa Flora, a six-hour boat ride from the closest land mass, not a soul around for miles and miles and miles (excepting perhaps the occasional fisherman or shark finner). Adi's armed with maps, rations, a .308 bolt action rifle, a scope with German optics, and more than enough ammunition to rid Santa Flora of its invasive species.

マンションの13階からフックでぶら下げられた女性の全裸死体。傍らには子供が書いたような稚拙な犯行声明文。これが近隣住民を恐怖と混乱の渦に陥れる殺人鬼「カエル男」による最初の凶行だった。警察の捜査が進展しないなか、第二、第三と殺人事件が発生し、街中はパニックに……。無秩序に猟奇的な殺人を続けるカエル男の正体とは？どんでん返しにつぐどんでん返し。最後の一行まで目が離せない。

猛練習も日常となり、雰囲気もかなり仕上がってきた矢先、北宇治高校吹奏楽部に衝撃が走った。副部長で、部の要と言える三年生のあすかが、全国大会を前に部活を辞めるという噂が流れてきたのだ。母親との確執から、受験勉強を理由に退部を迫られているらしい。さらには、楽器に対する複雑な心境をあすかは久美子に打ち明ける。はたして大会の行方は――。“吹部”青春エンタメ小説の決定版！