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Casa de Areia e Nevoa (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Andre Dubus III · 1900
Neste envolvente thriller. finalista do National Book Award e best-seller do New York Times. que deu origem ao filme estrelado por Ben Kingsley e Jennifer Connelly e indicado ao Oscar. Andre Dubus III conta a história de pessoas comuns. surpreendidas pelas circunstâncias e transformadas pelos acontecimentos. e nos leva à seguinte pergunta: até que ponto vale a pena ir em busca de um ideal? Massoud Amir Behrani. ex-coronel da Força Aérea iraniana. foi obrigado a deixar seu país após a queda do xá Reza Pahlavi. Nos Estados Unidos. ele se encontra em uma posição completamente diferente: antes um homem rico. agora sujeita-se a dois subempregos para manter o padrão de vida de sua família. Kathy Nicolo é uma mulher problemática. com um histórico de abuso de álcool e drogas. Abandonada pelo marido. ela cai em profunda depressão e acaba se desligando do mundo. Sem abrir suas correspondências. não tem ideia de que está sendo indevidamente cobrada pelo Estado e acaba sendo despejada. da noite para o dia. de casa. O destino coloca esses dois personagens frente a frente quando. em um leilão. Behrani compra a casa de Kathy. Por ter arrematado a propriedade a um valor irrisório. ele acredita ter encontrado a oportunidade de se recuperar financeiramente. vendendo o imóvel no futuro. Mas a ex-proprietária não descansará até recuperar a herança deixada pelo pai. Para isso ela contará com a ajuda de Lester Burdon. um policial disposto a tudo para ter o amor de Kathy.
Cartas A Um Jovem Poeta
Rainer Maria Rilke · 2000
Carrie, a estranha
Stephen King · 2001
Cão Raivoso
Stephen King
Os contos de Canterbury
Geoffrey Chaucer · 2025
Cândido ou o Otimismo
Voltaire
A CALDEIRA DO DIABO
Grace Metalious
Cachinhos Dourados e os Três Ursos
Alvin Granowsky
O Caçador De Pipas
Khaled Housseini · 2005
Cabana do Pai Tomás, A
Harriet Beecher Stowe · 2021
As bruxas de Salem
Arthur Miller, VALERIA CHAMON
Os Brutos Também Amam
Brigadoon
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe · 2009
Branca de Neve e Rosa Vermelha (Contos de Grimm Livro 21) (Portuguese Edition)
Brothers Grimm · 2021
Um Bonde Chamado Desejo
Tennessee Williams · 2022
Bondade
Carol Shield · 2007
O BOM SOLDADO
Ford Madox Ford · 2023
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
Mary McCarthy · 2002
Mary McCarthy was one of the leading literary figures of her time. In addition to the novels and memoirs for which she is best remembered, she was also a tireless literary and social critic. Starting out as a theater reviewer for Partisan Review in 1937, she quickly distinguished herself for her witty and fearless commentary on topics ranging from McCarthyism to the French New Novel to women’s fashion magazines. McCarthy was an eager controversialist, unsparing in her dissection of anything she found phony or hypocritical. Her reviews are sharp, sometimes malicious, and often very funny, but her criticism is also informed by deep erudition and enlivened by an inexhaustible capacity for enthusiasm. Her political writings, critical in equal measure of the Cold War consensus and of its critics, are less concerned with finding correct positions than with exploring the often absurd circumstances in which agonizing moral decisions are made.<br/><br/>While the soundness of McCarthy’s judgments can sometimes be doubted, her curiosity and intelligence cannot. The intellectual brio and acute judgment that characterizes her best fiction is vividly displayed in this selection of essays, which span McCarthy’s career from the late 1930s to the late 1970s. It includes her writings on topics such as fashion magazines, Eugene O’Neill, A Streetcar Named Desire, Look Back in Anger, Pale Fire, J.D. Salinger, Madame Bovary, Italo Calvino, and Watergate. The volume constitutes not only a valuable record of the ideological and cultural controversies that dominated American intellectual life from the Moscow trials to the Watergate hearings, but will also introduce a new generation of readers to a uniquely forthright and vibrant critical voice.
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Elizabeth Wurtzel · 2012
From the author of the bestselling Prozac Nation comes one of the most entertaining feminist manifestos ever written. In five brilliant extended essays, she links the lives of women as demanding and disparate as Amy Fisher, Hillary Clinton, Margaux Hemingway, and Nicole Brown Simpson. Wurtzel gives voice to those women whose lives have been misunderstood, who have been dismissed for their beauty, their madness, their youth. Bitch is a brilliant tract on the history of manipulative female behavior. By looking at women who derive their power from their sexuality, Wurtzel offers a trenchant cultural critique of contemporary gender relations. Beginning with Delilah, the first woman to supposedly bring a great man down (latter-day Delilahs include Yoko Ono, Pam Smart, Bess Myerson), Wurtzel finds many biblical counterparts to the men and women in today's headlines. She finds in the story of Amy Fisher the tragic plight of all Lolitas, our thirst for their brief and intense flame. She connects Hemingway's tragic suicide to those of Sylvia Plath, Edie Sedgwick, and Marilyn Monroe, women whose beauty was an end, ultimately, in itself. Wurtzel, writing about the wife/mistress dichotomy, explains how some women are anointed as wife material, while others are relegated to the role of mistress. She takes to task the double standard imposed on women, the cultural insistence on goodness and society's complete obsession with badness: what's a girl to do? Let's face it, if women were any real threat to male power, "Gennifer Flowers would be sitting behind the desk of the Oval Office," writes Wurtzel, "and Bill Clinton would be a lounge singer in the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock." Bitch tells a tale both celebratory and cautionary as Wurtzel catalogs some of the most infamous women in history, defending their outsize desires, describing their exquisite loneliness, championing their take-no-prisoners approach to life and to love. Whether writing about Courtney Love, Sally Hemings, Bathsheba, Kimba Wood, Sharon Stone, Princess Di--or waxing eloquent on the hideous success of The Rules, the evil that is The Bridges of Madison County, the twisted logic of You'll Never Make Love in This Town Again--Wurtzel is back with a bitchography that cuts to the core. In prose both blistering and brilliant, Bitch is a treatise on the nature of desperate sexual manipulation and a triumph of pussy power.
A Bíblia Sagrada
Traduzida Em Português Por João Ferreira De Almeida · 2017
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Seamus Heaney · 2000
Bel Canto
Ann Patchett · 2023
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist<br/>"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World<br/>Ann Patchett’s spellbinding novel about love and opera, and the unifying ways people learn to communicate across cultural barriers in times of crisis.<br/>Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.<br/>Patchett's lyrical prose and lucid imagination make Bel Canto a captivating story of strength and frailty, love and imprisonment, and an inspiring tale of transcendent romance.
Rosemarys Baby
Ira Levin · 2017
Bambi
Felix Salten · 2012
“Bambi, a Life in the Woods” is a 1923 novel by Austrian author Felix Salten. The story follows the life of a dear called Bambi from his birth, through his childhood and the death of his mother, to finding a mate, learning his father’s lessons, and discovering the dangers posed by human beings. This charming and timeless children’s story would make for perfect bedtime reading and is not to be missed by collectors of classic children’s literature. Felix Salten (1869 – 1945) was an Austrian author and critic. Other notable works by this author include: “Der Gemeine” (1899), “A Forest World” (1942), and “Renni the Rescuer” (1940). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Balzac E A Costureirinha Chinesa: Romance
Sijie Dai · 2000
Bagavadguitá
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi · 2006
<b>A new edition of the feminist classic, with an all-new introduction exploring the role of backlash in the 2016 election and laying out a path forward for 2020 and beyond<br></b><br><b>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • “Enraging, enlightening, and invigorating, <i>Backlash</i> is, most of all, true.”—<i>Newsday</i></b><br><br>First published in 1991, <i>Backlash</i> made headlines and became a bestselling classic for its thoroughgoing debunking of a decadelong antifeminist backlash against women’s advances. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, Susan Faludi brilliantly deconstructed the reigning myths about the “costs” of women’s independence—from the supposed “man shortage” to the “infertility epidemic” to “career burnout” to “toxic day care”—and traced their circulation from Reagan-era politics through the echo chambers of mass media, advertising, and popular culture. <br> <br>As Faludi writes in a new preface for this edition, much has changed in the intervening years: The Internet has given voice to a new generation of feminists. Corporations list “gender equality” among their core values. In 2019, a record number of women entered Congress. Yet the glass ceiling is still unshattered, women are still punished for wanting to succeed, and reproductive rights are hanging by a thread. This startling and essential book helps explain why women’s freedoms are still so demonized and threatened—and urges us to choose a different future.
Babe
Dick King-Smith · 1996
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 2020
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 2005
Uma Aventura Na Martinica
Hemingway Ernest · 2022
Apanhador no Campo de Centeio, O
J. D. Salinger · 2016
Autobiography of a Face
Lucy Grealy · 2003
Arte da Guerra
Sun Tzu · 2012
A Arte Da Ficção (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
Ardil 22 (em Portuguese Do Brasil)
Joseph Heller · 1995
The Archidamian War (A New History of the Peloponnesian War)
Donald Kagan · 1987
Ano Do Pensamento Magico, O
Joan Didion · 2009
Locução: Nathalia Timberg Tempo de duração: 7 horas
Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics)
Leo Tolstoy · 1997
Amante de Lady Chatterley
David Herbert Lawrence, Raul Bracho · 2015
Amada
Toni Morrison · 2018
Alta Fidelidade
Nick Hornby · 1998
Almas Mortas
federico alonso, Nikolái Gógol · 2021
Alice No Pais Das Maravilhas
Lewis Carroll · 2020
Alegres Matronas de Windsor, As
William Shakespeare · 2005
Em 1597, um pedido da rainha Elizabeth incumbiu Shakespeare (1564-1616) de escrever uma peça às pressas. O resultado, criado em quatorze dias, foi As alegres matronas de Windsor, esta comédia de costumes farsesca, protagonizada por Sir John Falstaff (personagem também da peça Henrique IV). A ação de passa na cidade de Windsor, na Inglaterra. Falstaff, um cavalheiro falido que se encontra numa maré de azar, inventa um plano para enriquecer. Seduzirá não uma, mas duas senhoras ricas da região, a sra. Ford e a sra. Pajem, na tentativa de pôr as mãos no dinheiro do marido de cada uma delas. Mas aparentemente as matronas de Windsor são mais espertas que ele, que vai se ver em apuros. Irônica, cheia de reviravoltas e peripécias, a peça acompanha de um modo engraçado, mas também fraterno, os ciúmes, as suspeitas, adultérios e outras cômicas situações matrimoniais. Falstaff é considerado por muitos um dos melhores personagens de Shakespeare. É o caso de Harold Bloom, para quem Falstaff figura, juntamente com Hamlet, no centro do universo criativo shakesperiano. Esta tradução de Millôr Fernandes conserva toda a hilariedade original da pena do bardo inglês.
Admiravel Mundo Novo
Aldous Huxley · 1993
A Abadia De Northanger
Jane Austen · 1900
31 Cancoes - 31 Songs (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Nick Hornby · 2005
1984
George Orwell · 1961
<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
