Títulos em Ficção Literária

New York in the 1900s. A young girl, fascinated by rare books, defies the odds and climbs all the ranks. She becomes the director of the fabulous library of the magnate J. P. Morgan and the darling of the international aristocracy, under the false name of Belle da Costa Greene. Although she looks white, she is actually African American and, moreover, the daughter of a famous black activist who sees her desire to hide her origins as a betrayal.

Die Wiedertäufer in Münster: Sie wollen Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit, doch sie bringen Gewalt, Willkür und Schrecken. Das große historische Hörbuch über eine Idee und ihre Wirklichkeit – und über einen Mann und eine Frau zwischen den Fronten. Das Hörbuch des mit dem »Goldenen Homer« ausgezeichneten Autors erscheint zum 500jährigen Jubiläum der Täuferbewegung. 1534: Die Bewegung der Täufer wächst von Tag zu Tag. Die religiöse Gemeinschaft, die Freiheit verspricht, zieht viele an.

Dans une société américaine à peine affranchie de ses lois racistes, les Afro-Américains, en exerçant leurs droits civiques, peuvent enfin accéder à leur vie. Cette nouvelle liberté suscite une exaltation et un bouillonnement racontés par Kathleen Collins à travers les relations amoureuses et filiales d'une femme noire, installée à New York. Mais être soi, c'est inévitablement faire l'expérience de la différence, d'une autre vie, et parfois d'une autre couleur de peau.

1955. Quatre ans se sont écoulés depuis la mort d'Olof Morin. Sa fille Martina, qui a désormais 17 ans, a quitté l'école pour se consacrer à plein temps aux débuts de sa brillante carrière de chanteuse lyrique. C'était sans compter son coup de foudre pour un jeune musicien de jazz américain qu'elle revoit à Venise. Mais le jour où tout bascule pour Martina, Betty doit affronter son passé et faire des choix.

Determined to become gangsters by killing a dreaded don, three youths joined the crowd of mediapersons, posing as journalists. These journalists were covering the event live, and the entire country was watching the prime-time news, when the assassins shot Babar Qureshi and his brother Taimur point-blank. Who ordered this hit? Who hatched this conspiracy? And who were these men who were slaughtered while in police custody?

En manos de Francisco Martín Moreno el arte narrativo es un eficaz instrumento para ahondar en nuestra realidad histórica, política y social. En esta novela, que combina ficción y realidad, se desentraña la intimidad de un hombre poderoso, paradigma de aquellos que detentan el poder político y económico en nuestro país, el cual se ha convertido para ellos en una necesidad existencial. A través siempre de una absorbente narración, el poderoso es sometido a un análisis exhaustivo de su cotidianidad, sus relaciones, su intimidad...

Agatha's husband has bought her a first-class ticket on the scenic six-hour train from Toronto to Montreal as a gift―a one-day writing retreat so she can get some serious work done on her new book, a highly-anticipated follow-up to Agatha's runaway bestseller debut novel. But Agatha has other plans for her day out… plans that are unexpectedly derailed when the train breaks down in the middle of the frigid Canadian woods and one of Agatha's fellow passengers dies quietly in his seat.

Una historia en homenaje a la amistad, de una calidad humana extraordinaria. Magda Szabó relata en La puerta su relación con Emerenc Szeredás, la fascinante heroína de esta novela. Si bien la fuerte personalidad de Emerenc cohíbe en un primer momento a la escritora, poco a poco se irá desvelando como un ser extraordinario: bondadosa, ejemplar y a la vez severa, representa el esfuerzo del ser humano por vivir una existencia digna y que sirva de ayuda a otros. No obstante, nunca acepta nada a cambio y prohíbe terminantemente que nadie cruce la antecámara y penetre en su casa y su intimidad.

In Echoes of the Lost: The Guardian of the Forgotten, Chandraish Sinha spotlights an engrossing tale of strength, mystery, and the tenacious pursuit of justice.

And thus, Inés de la Rota—the youngest daughter of an Italian nobleman and a Colombian poet—begins to speak in a bitter, sweet voice. Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Colombia, where the Catholic Church exercises total control over women, Orange Wine weaves an unforgettable story of sisterhood, love, passion, and betrayal. Isolated in a society that opposes her desires, Inés struggles with her identity as a mother, artist, sister, lover, and woman.

Jeune, naïve et passionnée de romans gothiques, Catherine Morland quitte sa campagne pour découvrir la ville de Bath, ses bals et ses intrigues mondaines. Elle y fait la rencontre de la vive Isabella Thorpe et du séduisant Henry Tilney. Invitée au mystérieux domaine de Northanger Abbey, Catherine laisse libre cours à son imagination débordante… jusqu'à confondre fiction et réalité. Dans ce roman à la fois drôle et subtil, Jane Austen mêle satire sociale, roman d'apprentissage et parodie du genre gothique.

On the Six-Thousand Ship, things have started to feel changed. Since bringing aboard a number of strange objects from a newly discovered planet, the crew – both human and humanoid – have begun to feel a yearning. They want to be near the objects, to feel them pressed against their skin, but they also all now feel a curious new hunger for home: Earth, that place many cannot even remember. The Board of Directors are eager to understand more, and so instruct a commission to interview each of the employees.

The crumbling Gothic mansion of Thornwalk, long-term home of the Gilbert family, is being handed over to a chain of luxury 'historic' hotels. Millions will be spent in its restoration. But for every 'improvement', what will be lost? What value can there possibly be in a threadbare carpet, a tarnished spoon and a thousand empty jam jars? Before the hotel people arrive, with their clipboards and their skips and their bottles of bleach, Maximus, loyal guardian of the Gilberts' legacy, invites us on a final tour of the once-stately home, where each room holds a secret.

「とにかくヘンな小説をお願いします」そんな型破りな依頼に応えるべく、炒めて煮込んで未知の旨味を引き出した傑作集。

Pride and Prejudice unfolds the timeless tale of spirited Elizabeth Bennet and the brooding Mr. Darcy, set against the elegant backdrop of Regency-era England. This classic Jane Austen novel weaves sharp social commentary with an enduring romance that has captivated readers for over two centuries.

As a prospective barrister, Zaid Saban is on the cusp of achieving everything he has dreamed of. His social and professional world is far removed from his schoolyard days in the suburbs of western Sydney, even more far removed from the traumatic events of his final year of school in which best friend, Hass, was arrested for murder. Zaid thinks he has put all this behind him. But when Hass’s sister, Amira, finds him and asks him to read her brother’s diary, Zaid is pulled back to the very world he had left behind. Is it possible that Hass was innocent?

America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states—locked in a cold war—lies a neutral buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies . . .

The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love each other deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds.

In 1978, two tenements on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville burn to the ground, killing one resident and displacing dozens of others. It remains unclear who set the buildings ablaze, but the survivors are convinced the culprit is Mr. Wong. Who exactly is Mr. Wong, and what allegedly drove him to this extraordinary act of violence, is the question that consumes this novel as it plunges into four generations of Wong family history.

日銀、東京駅…近代日本を建てた男の一代記！日本銀行本店や東京駅など、近代日本を象徴する建物を矢継ぎ早に設計した、明治を代表する建築家・辰野金吾。