Títulos em Ficção sobre Desastres

Lesbos é a ilha grega onde viveu Safo, a mais célebre poeta lírica da Antiguidade. É também onde, até recentemente, se situou um dos mais degradantes campos de refugiados da Europa, conhecido como acampamento Moria. É justamente esta ilha que Ana Martins Marques escolhe como cenário desse poema longo. Nele, a autora coloca, lado a lado, os fragmentos de Safo e o drama humanitário e político do refúgio no mundo atual.

O local é o Egito Antigo. A época é o ano 2000 a.C. Em uma sociedade na qual o sentido da vida está intimamente relacionado aos rituais da morte, a jovem viúva Renisenb volta para a casa de seu pai, o sacerdote funerário Imhotep, para encontrar tudo aparentemente do jeito que deixou antes...

Anson: A 36-year-old sheriff on his way to a meeting. Quinn: A 21-year-old student returning to her senior year of college. Ava: A 6-month-old baby in the backseat of her mother's car. Three strangers who should've never met. But when the bridge all three are on collapses in a cataclysmic event, Quinn risks her life to save the trapped Ava. The baby's mother is dead, but her rescue is too little too late. They both hurtle for death, but before the poisoned river below claims them, Anson finds them and carries the girls to the safety of dry land.

¿Qué precio hay que pagar para dar una vuelta de timón y decidirse a vivir los propios sueños? Una vez más, Claudia Piñeiro demuestra su capacidad para construir personajes y contar historias en las que el suspenso no impide la pintura social ni la crítica. El matrimonio de Pablo Simo...

After agreeing it's safer to stick together, Anson takes Quinn and Ava to the one place he swore never to return to. He believes it's the only safe place left to survive the winter, but when it proves as dangerous as the rest of the world, the unlikely family is out of time. Winter has come, and...

Una vez cada cierto tiempo, la luna llena aparece dos veces en un mismo mes. Ese evento astronómico poco habitual se conoce como “luna azul”. Jack Reacher está en un autobús, ocupándose de sus propios asuntos sin ningún lugar en particular al que ir y con todo el tiempo del mundo para...

In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a mother who makes an agonizing decision that irrevocably changes her life and the lives of her children. In that devastating split second, her seven-year-old daughter, Xiaodeng, is separated from her brother and the mother she loves and trusts. All Xiaodeng remembers of the fateful morning is betrayal.

The rain in Aloisville is never-ending, and no one can remember when it started. There's not much they can remember. With every drop that hits their skin, a bit of memory is washed away. Stay too long in the wet, and you'll lose everything you used to be. By the time Laverne begins keeping a journal, the small town she calls home has been irreparably changed. Every drop of water is dangerous, from leaky faucets to the near-constant rainfall, and a careless trip outside can mean a life down the drain.

A CHRISTMAS PARTY WITH MURDER ON THE MENU It’s Christmas Eve, 1988 and Russell and Joe are among the guests at a lavish party in a celebrity mansion in the heart of Soho. Television presenter and national treasure, Nathan Bentley has a formidable reputation for legendary parties—with...

It’s 1988. A mild summer after a turbulent political year for LGBT rights. While working as an assistant to a successful Theatre Director, Joe Stone finds himself unwittingly embroiled in another murder investigation. Lexi Goode, a young, up and coming actress has her bright future cut short...

THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE NEVER RUNS SMOOTH It’s 1987, and Soho is in the grip of another hot summer. While working part-time in The Red Lion, Joe finds himself agreeing to help a notorious gangster search for her missing girlfriend. Antonia The Gecko Lagorio is daughter to the ruthless but...

Three years ago, a massive solar event shattered life on Earth. The EMP storms that followed wiped out every trace of modern technology, plunging humanity into chaos. Radiation, starvation, and violence claimed billions, and those who survived were left to rebuild—or simply endure. But survival was only the beginning. An unknown alien force has arrived, ruthless and relentless. They can’t be reasoned with. They can’t be understood. And no weapon we have seems to stop them. Entire continents are burning, and hope is fading fast.

When a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) strikes Earth, modern life ends in an instant. Power grids fail. Communication collapses. Transportation halts. Within hours, the world descends into chaos—and the fragile threads of civilization begin to snap. What follows is a rapid descent into apocalyptic turmoil as society unravels and survival becomes a daily battle. When the world falls apart, it's not the heroes who rise—it's the unexpected.

Tres historias repletas de misterio, traiciones, ambición, romance, temores, secretos...Tres historias, aparentemente independientes, que nos atrapan en una intriga constante.Mercedes Guerrero nos presenta a Laura y su madrastra Sofía, que llegan a Salzburgo huyendo de Carlos, padre de Laura...

La novela Plata quemada cuenta una historia real. Se trata de un caso de la crónica policial que tuvo como escenarios Buenos Aires y Montevideo en 1965. En el mes de septiemre de ese mismo año, una banda de ladrones asalta un banco en San Fernando, provincia de Buenos Aires. Junto con los...

LOOSE LIPS COST LIVES. It’s 1986, and Adam Cave, lead singer of the pop sensation Loose Lips, is struggling to stay in the closet, especially as his group is going through a messy split, and media speculation about the reasons behind the break up are high. Joe Stone has been assigned to Adam...

Twenty years ago, the Merge brought armies of monsters flooding into the West Coast. Dungeons popped up in shopping malls, airports, and Starbucks. Walls were built to contain the spread, but the promise of priceless loot dropped by the creatures inspired a new type of gold rush. Clay Jaeger has nothing left outside the walls. Civilization took everything he worked for, chewed it up, and spat it out. Now Clay, his wife Alex, and his beer-loving, chainsaw-toting brother, Joe, are going west to try their hand at monster killing.

Clay Jaeger finally has the chance to become the spellslinger he always wanted to be—the one his family needs him to be to survive the dangers of the wasteland. A teacup pig claiming to be a cursed Great Blue Wyrm has offered them a quest to take out a Dungeon Lord with the exact power set Clay’s been looking for. There’s just one problem. The Dungeon Lord can steal the souls of his enemies and summon them to fight his battles for him. Clay is more than willing to lay down his life to protect his family, but is he willing to risk his eternal soul on a gamble that might not pay off?

Two months ago, Clay Jaeger, his wife Alex, and his chainsaw-toting brother Joe came to the Infested Zone on a mission: kill a Dungeon Lord. What they found along the way was a land of opportunity. Gold-dropping monsters, magical weapons, and best of all, freedom—all there for the taking. If they can live long enough to grab it. Surviving in the wasteland has been a constant fight, but thriving in it, that’s going to take something more. Not just power, but the brains to use it in ways nobody’s seen before.

When silence became survival, humanity learned to whisper. Now even whispers are no longer safe. After the mountain’s collapse, the infected are no longer mindless. They move with purpose —guided by something unseen, something growing beneath the world’s broken systems. As new horrors emerge —weaponized Sirens, adaptive Renders, and the mysterious Veiled —Mara and the survivors face a threat unlike anything they’ve endured before. At the center of it all is Jonah… no longer fully human, yet not entirely lost.