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O sol é para todos

Harper Lee • 2015

The Illiad

Homer • 2017

Beautiful World, Where Are You A Novel

Sally Rooney · 2021

<p><b>AN INSTANT #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER</b><br><b><i><br>Beautiful World, Where Are You</i> is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of <i>Normal People </i>and <i>Conversations with Friends</i>.</b><br><br>Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.<br><br>Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?</p>

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion • 2007

Normal People

Sally Rooney • 2020

<b>NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (<i>People</i>) from the author of <i>Conversations with Friends,</i> “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan).</b><br> <br><b>“[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br><br><b>ONE OF <i>ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY</i>’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE</b><br><br><b>TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>People, Slate,</i> The New York Public Library, <i>Harvard Crimson</i></b><br><br>Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins.<br><br>A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.<br><br><i>Normal People</i> is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t.<br> <br><b>WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, <i>Sunday Times </i>Young Writer of the Year Award</b><br><br><b>BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time,</i> NPR, <i>The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country</i></b>

Bunny: A Novel

Mona Awad • 2020

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka • 2009

"The Metamorphosis" (original German title: "Die Verwandlung") is a short novel by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It is often cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is widely studied in colleges and universities across the western world. The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into an insect.

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf • 1989

<p>“Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.”—Eudora Welty, from the Introduction.The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women.</p>

A hora da Estrela

Clarice Lispector

The White Album: Essays

Joan Didion • 2017

New York Times Bestseller: An “elegant” mosaic of trenchant observations on the late sixties and seventies from the author of Slouching Towards Bethlehem (The New Yorker). In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own “bad dreams” with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of 1960s counterculture.   From a jailhouse visit to Black Panther Party cofounder Huey Newton to witnessing First Lady of California Nancy Reagan pretend to pick flowers for the benefit of news cameras, Didion captures the paranoia and absurdity of the era with her signature blend of irony and insight. She takes readers to the “giddily splendid” Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the cool mountains of Bogotá, and the Jordanian Desert, where Bishop James Pike went to walk in Jesus’s footsteps—and died not far from his rented Ford Cortina. She anatomizes the culture of shopping malls—“toy garden cities in which no one lives but everyone consumes”—and exposes the contradictions and compromises of the women’s movement. In the iconic title essay, she documents her uneasy state of mind during the years leading up to and following the Manson murders—a terrifying crime that, in her memory, surprised no one.   Written in “a voice like no other in contemporary journalism,” The White Album is a masterpiece of literary reportage and a fearless work of autobiography by the National Book Award–winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking (The New York Times Book Review). Its power to electrify and inform remains undiminished nearly forty years after it was first published.

Everything I Know About Love

Dolly Alderton • 2019

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY*Winner of Autobiography of the Year at the National Book Awards 2018**Shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2018*Award-winning journalist Dolly Alderton survived her twenties (just about) and in Everything I Know About Love, she gives an unflinching account of the bad dates and squalid flat-shares, the heartaches and humiliations, and most importantly, the unbreakable female friendships that helped her to hold it all together. Glittering with wit, heart and humour, this is a book to press into the hands of every woman who has ever been there or is about to find themselves taking that first step towards the rest of their lives.***************'Alderton is Nora Ephron for the millennial generation' Elizabeth Day'Steeped in furiously funny accounts of one-night stands, ill-advised late-night taxi journeys up the M1, grubby flat-shares and the beauty of female friendships, as Alderton joyfully booze-cruises her way through her twenties' Metro'Deeply funny, sometimes shocking, and admirably open-hearted and optimistic' Daily Telegraph'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands . . . that will help heal a broken heart. Alderton's wise words can resonate with women of all ages. She feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug' Evening Standard'A sensitive, astute and funny account of growing up millennial' Observer'I loved its truth, self awareness, humour and most of all, its heart-spilling generosity' Sophie Dahl 'Alderton proves a razor-sharp observer of the shifting dynamics of long term female friendship' Mail on Sunday'It's so full of life and laughs - I gobbled up this book. Alderton has built something beautiful and true out of many fragments of daftness' Amy Liptrot

The Waves

Virginia Woolf • 1978

Franny and Zooey

J. D. Salinger · 1991

"Perhaps the best book by the foremost stylist of his generation" (New York Times), J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey collects two works of fiction about the Glass family originally published in The New Yorker.<br/><br/>"Everything everybody does is so--I don't know--not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and--sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."<br/><br/>A novel in two halves, Franny and Zooey brilliantly captures the emotional strains and traumas of entering adulthood. It is a gleaming example of the wit, precision, and poignancy that have made J. D. Salinger one of America's most beloved writers.

Slanting Towards the Sea

Lidija Hilje · 2025

National Bestseller * Dazed Best Book of the Year Spanning twenty years and one life-altering summer in Croatia, Slanting Towards the Sea is at once an unforgettable love story and a powerful exploration of what it means to come of age in a country younger than oneself. Ivona divorced the love of her life, Vlaho, a decade ago. They met as students at the turn of the millennium, when newly democratic Croatia was alive with hope and promise. But the challenges of living in a burgeoning country extinguished Ivona’s dreams one after another—and a devastating secret forced her to set him free. Now Vlaho is remarried and a proud father of two, while Ivona’s life has taken a downward turn. In her thirties, she has returned to her childhood home to care for her ailing father. Bewildered by life’s disappointments, she finds solace in reconnecting with Vlaho and is welcomed into his family by his spirited wife, Marina. But when a new man enters Ivona’s life, the carefully cultivated dynamic between the three is disrupted, forcing a reckoning for all involved. Set against the mesmerizing Croatian coastline, Slanting Towards the Sea is a cinematic, emotionally searing debut about the fragile nature of potential and the transcendence of love.

Our Wives Under the Sea

Julia Armfield • 2022

Notes of a Crocodile

Qiu Miaojin • 2017

Fome azul

Viola Di Grado · 2022

Após a perda do irmão gêmeo, uma professora se muda de Roma para Xangai, onde passa a ensinar italiano em uma escola de idiomas. Em meio ao torpor do luto e o choque cultural, ela conhece a enigmática Xu, para quem entregará o seu corpo e sua mente até confundir os limites entre prazer e dor, afeto e desprezo, desejo e obsessão. Mas é justamente nessas tensões entre opostos, excitadas pelas luzes e sabores de uma cidade que evoca o melhor e o pior do Oriente e do Ocidente, que ambas vão saciar uma fome que vai muito além daquilo que os dentes podem mastigar.

Agonia do Eros

Byung-Chul Han · 2021

O Eros se aplica, em sentido enfático, ao outro, que não pode ser abarcado pelo regime do eu. No inferno do igual, que iguala cada vez mais a sociedade atual, não mais nos encontramos, portanto, com a experiência erótica, que pressupõe a transcendência, a radical singularidade do outro. O terror da imanência, que transforma tudo em objeto de consumo, destrói a cupidez erótica. O outro que eu desejo e que me fascina é sem-lugar; ele se retrai à linguagem do igual. O desaparecimento do outro é um sinal da sociedade que vai se tornando cada vez mais narcisista; a sociedade, esgotada a partir de si, não consegue se libertar para o outro. É uma sociedade sem eros.

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang · 2018

One of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time “I have no doubt this will end up being the best fantasy debut of the year...I have absolutely no doubt that [Kuang’s] name will be up there with the likes of Robin Hobb and N.K. Jemisin.” — Booknest From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, the brilliantly imaginative debut of R.F. Kuang: an epic historical military fantasy, inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic, in the tradition of Ken Liu’s Grace of Kings and N.K. Jemisin’s Inheritance Trilogy. When Rin aced the Keju—the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies—it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who realized she was finally free of the servitude and despair that had made up her daily existence. That she got into Sinegard—the most elite military school in Nikan—was even more surprising. But surprises aren’t always good. Because being a dark-skinned peasant girl from the south is not an easy thing at Sinegard. Targeted from the outset by rival classmates for her color, poverty, and gender, Rin discovers in this grimdark fantasy that she possesses a lethal, unearthly power—an aptitude for the nearly-mythical art of shamanism. Exploring the depths of her gift with the help of a seemingly insane teacher and psychoactive substances, Rin learns that gods long thought dead are very much alive—and that mastering control over those powers could mean more than just surviving school. For while the Nikara Empire is at peace, the Federation of Mugen still lurks across a narrow sea. The militarily advanced Federation occupied Nikan for decades after the First Poppy War, and only barely lost the continent in the Second. And while most of the people are complacent to go about their lives, a few are aware that a Third Poppy War is just a spark away . . . Rin’s shamanic powers may be the only way to save her people. But as she finds out more about the god that has chosen her, the vengeful Phoenix, she fears that winning the war may cost her humanity . . . and that it may already be too late.

Correntes (Em Portugues do Brasil)

Olga Tokarczuk · 2019

Minha energia vem do movimento ? do chacoalhar dos ônibus, do barulho dos aviões, do balançar das balsas e dos trens, escreve a narradora deste livro único, que investiga as possibilidades do gênero romanesco para falar sobre o corpo, o mundo e as estratégias sempre insuficientes com as quais tentamos mapeá-los. Inquieto como ela, Correntes não para nem por um segundo: de ônibus, avião, trem e barco, o texto a acompanha em saltos de país em país, de tempos a tempos, de história a história, compondo um panorama do nomadismo moderno. E são os vestígios da nossa batalha com o tempo que a autora observa nos quatro cantos do mundo: das figuras de cera dos museus de anatomia aos meandros da internet, passando por mapas e planos de fuga. Correntes mobiliza e encena nossas grandes inquietudes, como a história de Kunicki, que, durante as férias, é obrigado a enfrentar o desaparecimento da esposa e do filho, assim como seu reaparecimento enigmático e enlouquecedor. Ou o da bióloga que retorna ao seu país para se reconectar com seu primeiro amor, agora nas últimas. Esta obra atesta, mais uma vez, a maestria da autora polonesa em criar personagens e situações que encantam, assustam e fazem pensar. O resultado é um livro irresistível e iluminador a cada página.

A vontade de muitos

James Islington · 2025

AUDI. Conto a eles que meu nome é Vis Telimus. Conto que fiquei órfão após um trágico acidente há três anos... e que ter sido aceito na Academia, o centro de estudos mais prestigiado da República, foi apenas uma questão de sorte. Conto que, quando me formar, me juntarei de bom grado ao resto da sociedade, permitindo que minha força, minha motivação e meu foco – o que eles chamam de Vontade – sejam drenados e somados ao poder dos que estão acima de mim, como milhões de pessoas já fazem. Como todos terão de fazer, inevitavelmente. Digo que sou um deles, e eles acreditam. VIDE. Mas a verdade é que fui enviado à Academia para encontrar respostas. Para solucionar um assassinato. Para buscar uma arma ancestral. Para desvendar segredos que podem provocar a queda da República. E eu nunca, jamais, cederei minha Vontade ao império que executou minha família. TACE. Para sobreviver, porém, ainda terei de conquistar meu lugar na Academia. Terei de sorrir, fazer amigos, fingir pertencer a esse sistema – e vencer. Se eu não conseguir, aqueles que querem me controlar, os que sabem meu verdadeiro nome, serão inúteis para mim. E, se a Hierarquia descobrir quem eu realmente sou, eles vão me matar.

Sangue sobre Bright Haven

M. L. Wang · 2026

Todo poder tem um preço e o conhecimento pode ser o segredo mais letal de todos. Nesta fantasia sombria e envolvente, Sciona alcança o impossível ao se tornar a primeira mulher aceita na Alta Magistratura da Universidade de Magia e Indústria. No entanto, o triunfo é ameaçado pela sabotagem de seus colegas, que a relegam ao laboratório mais desprestigiado sob a assistência de Thomil, um funcionário tratado como invisível. O que ninguém suspeita é que Thomil, um antigo caçador nômade, guarda as cicatrizes de um povo dizimado e busca respostas sobre as forças que destruíram sua terra natal. Unidos por uma aliança frágil, a maga e o forasteiro tropeçam em um segredo ancestral que sustenta o sistema mágico da cidade e ameaça o destino de toda a civilização. Perfeito para entusiastas de tramas políticas complexas, este livro apresenta um sistema de magia intrincado onde a verdade exige sacrifícios inimagináveis. Enfrente uma jornada sobre ambição, privilégio e as verdades dolorosas ocultas sob a superfície do progresso.

A paixão segundo G. H.

Clarice Lispector • 2020

Clássico de Clarice Lispector que inspirou o filme A Paixão de G.H., do diretor Luiz Fernando Carvalho com Maria Fernanda Cândido. Clarice, me dá tua mão. Tudo parece de novo impossível nesse frêmito de eternidade que é o presente, mas confio na nossa aproximação: aconteceu daquela vez o impensável; adaptar A paixão segundo G.H. para o teatro. Não fui sozinha como você, embora quando estive ali, cara a cara com a barata, era eu mesma, sozinha como um caco de vidro, um cachorro e uma galinha estão sós e cara a cara. Com o quê? Consigo. Eu fui, ao encarnar durante mais de dois anos a G.H. num monólogo para o teatro – adaptado por Fauzi Arap e dirigido por Enrique Díaz –, uma pessoa sem a pessoa que eu era antes para fazer companhia para mim mesma. Fui perdendo as cascas, o invólucro, mergulhando em águas cada vez mais densas e profundas, perdendo o contorno humano, transladei para outra, outro lugar, desconhecido, terrível e maravilhoso, que não eu. Mas houve as mãos que me ajudaram na travessia. As suas mãos, Clarice. As suas mãos de escritora que tantas vezes anseiam as nossas para irmos contigo, nessa grande odisseia de uma mulher que viaja para dentro de si e se despersonaliza. Ela desvira o Eu. Ela se te revira. Não é brincadeira o que acontece aqui, é coisa que se lê e se toma e entra no próprio sangue, é saber xamânico, potente, destruidor e revivificador. Nada se cria sem desfazer essas camadas de noções fossilizadas sobre nós mesmos e o mundo. Tuas palavras agem sobre mim, ainda e sempre. Agora, neste ano de 2020, é seu aniversário de 100 anos. A paixão foi escrito em 1964. Imagino você aqui escrevendo sobre o agora, o momento presente atravessando as paredes de sua casa e de seu corpo e se metamorfoseando em palavras que você escreve e essas palavras agem, transformam a vida. Nós estamos olhando a vida que se nos olha, Clarice. A vida se nos é, e se me é, tão radicalmente agora, que voltei a andar com teu livro colado em mim. Livro que é registro desse tempo eterno onde fracassamos e vamos de novo, com o fracasso das nossas existências e palavras. Das milhares de apresentações possíveis que eu poderia fazer, eu escolho dizer sim; sim, leia este livro como experiência que se vive. Entrar pelo corpo, e ir com as palavras mais "pelo que elas fazem do que pelo que elas falam", ir com G.H., atravessando esses portais e ir se perdendo nas paredes, nos hieróglifos da casa, nas marcas deixadas pelo outro, e ir indo, parando e recuperando o fôlego até mergulhar completamente nesta obra extraordinária que nunca mais vai parar de acontecer. — Mariana Lima, Atriz e produtora

The Woman Destroyed

Simone De Beauvoir • 1987

Água Viva

Clarice Lispector • 2012

Madonna in a Fur Coat

Sabahattin Ali • 2021

O perigo de estar lúcida

Rosa Montero • 2023

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami • 2010

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami • 2005

The Lover

Marguerite Duras • 1998

The Secret History

Donna Tartt • 2004

<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>

Rouge

Mona Awad • 2023

"<i>Rouge</i> is a fever dream--a brilliant, intense, unforgettable horror story about a beauty cult with a deeply moving mother-daughter story at its core. Mona Awad's signature and singular imagination and black humor and empathy are on full display here, and her wild-ride of a tale is masterfully grounded in the emotional devastation of childhood and grief. I loved every word of this."<br> <b>--Laura Zigman, author of <i>Small World</i></b><br> <br> "There is nobody else like Mona Awad, daring enough to plunge her hands--rings and all--into the viscera of story and discover an unsettling beauty within. ROUGE is her most magnetic work yet, a thrilling dystopian romp that knows that beneath the glossy, aspirational veneer of self-care lurks the same old gothic abyss."<br> <b>--Alexandra Kleeman, author of <i>Something New Under the Sun</i></b><br> <br> "A brilliant, biting critique of western beauty standards as well as a soaring, phantasmagoric, Angela Carter-esque fairy tale about trauma and the loss of self. <i>Rouge</i> is deeply unsettling, funny, obsessive, and unlike anything I've read. A truly mesmerizing read."<br> <b>--Paul Tremblay, author of <i>The Cabin at the End of the World </i>and<i> A Head Full of Ghosts </i></b><br> <br> "Unsettling, whimsical, and moving, <i>Rouge</i> is an authentic, innovative kind of narrative magic that's both surreal and absolute. A striking novel of incandescence and heart."<br> <b>--Iain Reid, author of <i>I'm Thinking of Ending Things</i></b><br> <br> <b>From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother's unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother's fate--and find a connection that is more than skin deep?</b><br> <br> For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother's considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother's demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of <i>La Maison de Méduse</i>, the same lavish, culty spa her mother to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother's) obsession with the mirror--and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass.<br> <br> <i>Snow White</i> meets <i>Eyes Wide Shut</i> in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, <i>ROUGE</i> explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry--as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, <i>ROUGE</i> holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

Heart the Lover

Lily King • 2025

Deep Cuts

Holly Brickley • 2025

Four Squares

Bobby Finger • 2024

Intermezzo

Sally Rooney • 2024

Before We Were Innocent

Ella Berman • 2023

Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh • 2022

A Certain Hunger

Chelsea G. Summers • 2021

If We Were Villains

M. L. Rio • 2017

Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago.As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers change up the casting, a good-natured rivalry turns ugly, and the plays spill dangerously over into life.When tragedy strikes, one of the seven friends is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.

Babel

R. F. Kuang • 2022

The Piano Teacher

Elfriede Jelinek • 2002

The Lamb

Lucy Rose • 2025

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors • 2024

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong • 2020

The Trial

Franz Kafka • 1999

100 Selected Poems, Rumi

Rumi • 2022

10 minutos e 38 segundos neste mundo estranho

Elif Shafak • 2021

Olhai os lírios do campo

Erico Veríssimo • 2005

Esboço

Rachel Cusk • 2019

Mudar: Método

Édouard Louis • 2024

The Book of Disquiet

Fernando Pessoa • 2017

Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Coco Mellors • 2023

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoevsky · 2024

Sociedade paliativa

Byung-Chul Han · 2024

Este é o resumo de Infocracia. A democracia em tempo real sonhada nos inícios da digitalização como democracia do futuro se mostra como uma ilusão completa. Enxames digitais não formam um coletivo responsável, que age politicamente. Os followers, na condição de novos súditos das mídias sociais, deixam-se adestrar em gado de consumo por smart influencers, influenciadores inteligentes. Ficam despolitizados. A comunicação dirigida pelos algoritmos nas mídias sociais não é nem livre, nem democrática.

Tudo sobre o amor

bell hooks · 2021

O que é o amor, afinal? Será esta uma pergunta tão subjetiva, tão opaca? Para bell hooks, quando pulverizamos seu significado, ficamos cada vez mais distantes de entendê-lo. Neste livro, primeiro volume de sua Trilogia do Amor, a autora procura elucidar o que é, de fato, o amor, seja nas relações familiares, românticas e de amizade ou na vivência religiosa. Na contramão do pensamento corrente, que tantas vezes entende o amor como sinal de fraqueza e irracionalidade, bell hooks defende que o amor é mais do que um sentimento — é uma ação capaz de transformar o niilismo, a ganância e a obsessão pelo poder que dominam nossa cultura. É através da construção de uma ética amorosa que seremos capazes de edificar uma sociedade verdadeiramente igualitária, fundamentada na justiça e no compromisso com o bem-estar coletivo. *** Em uma sociedade que considera falar de amor algo naïf, a proposta apresentada por bell hooks ao escrever sobre o tema é corajosa e desafiadora. E o desafio é colocarmos o amor na centralidade da vida. Ao afirmar que começou a pensar e a escrever sobre o amor quando encontrou "cinismo em lugar de esperança nas vozes de jovens e velhos", e que o cinismo é a maior barreira que pode existir diante do amor, porque ele intensifica nossas dúvidas e nos paralisa, bell hooks faz a defesa da prática transformadora do amor, que manda embora o medo e liberta nossa alma. Assim, ela nos convoca a regressar ao amor. Se o desamor é a ordem do dia no mundo contemporâneo, falar de amor pode ser revolucionário. — Silvane Silva, no Prefácio à edição brasileira

Half His Age

Jennette McCurdy · 2026

<p>The highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power - and the (often misguided) lengths we'll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of I'm Glad My Mom Died.</p> <br> <br> <p>Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher.</p> <p>Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn't know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films that she doesn't? Or are they actually kindred spirits, sharing the same filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it's just enough that he sees her when no one else does.</p> <p>Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is an incisive study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen, to be desired and to be loved.</p>

Villette

Charlotte Bronte · 2004

<b>"I am only just returned to a sense of real wonder about me, for I have been reading Villette..." —George Eliot</b><br><br>With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls’ boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school’s English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor, Paul Emmanuel. Charlotte Brontë’s last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Third Body

Helene Cixous · 2009

"In The Third Body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist Helene Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotal presentations, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical insights, and intertextual citations of and conversations with other authors and thinkers. Cixous evokes the relationship of the female narrator and her lover, a relationship of alternating presences and absences, separations and rejoinings - a passionate and ever-buoyant relationship in which the partners partake of life and death, memory and oblivion, desire and discovery, the transgressive and the visionary, and the chimerical and the "real." This relationship assumes protean forms within a complex web of writing, creating a "third body" out of the entwined bodies of the narrator and her lover. This is a sensuous body endowed with flesh-and-blood reality, and it is also the body of the text: for Cixous, writing is grounded in the physical body, and the physical body becomes writing." "The three dominant texts that Cixous cites or alludes to Wilhelm Jensen's novel Gradiva; Freud's interpretation of that work in the essay "Delusion and Dream"; and Kleist's "Earthquake in Chile" - are integrated with reminiscences of the narrator's dead father, juxtaposed with thoughts about her lover; evocations of the narrator's mother; and ruminations on figures taken from Scripture, classical mythology, and fairy tales." --Book Jacket.

Animal Triste

Monika Maron · 2000

In an autumnal love story of erotic obsession, possessiveness, remembrance, oblivion, and time, an elderly woman dwells upon a failed love affair of some time past, when she was no longer young but not yet old. The narrator relives meeting her lover, Franz, at the natural history museum, when, for the first time in her life, she experiences all-consuming love and absolute happiness. Ultimately the affair founders because of her inability to believe that Franz will actually leave his wife. After he disappears from her life, she withdraws from the world, waiting for his return and revisiting their time together over and over in a never-ending cycle of obsession. Her love for Franz becomes a compulsive suffering from which she can neither free herself nor withhold anything.

Girls Against God

Jenny Hval · 2020

Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her past, her practice and her hatred, things start stirring themselves up around her. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic.<br><br>Jenny Hval's latest novel is a radical fusion of feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art.

The Wall

Marlen Haushofer · 2022

While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness.<br> <br> <br> <br> Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman and her animals, a thrilling survival story, a Cold War-era dystopian adventure, and a truly singular feminist classic.

Veleiro para o fim dos dias

Bruna Duarte Lage • 2025

Tudo que já nadei

Leticia Novaes • 2021

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna • 2024

Owls Do Cry

Janet Frame • 2016

A Book of Common Prayer

Joan Didion · 1995

<p><b>A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, <b><b>from the bestselling, award-winning author of <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> and <b><i>Let Me Tell You What I Mean</i></b></b></b></b><br><br><b>"[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful ... glows with a golden aura of well-wrought classical tragedy.”  <i>—Los Angeles Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of Boca Grande's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," Charlotte has come to Boca Grande vaguely and vainly hoping to be reunited with her fugitive daughter. As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully emblematic of an age of conscienceless authority and unfathomable violence. <br><br><i>A Book of Common Prayer</i> is written with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made Didion one of our most distinguished journalists.</p>

Death Valley

Melissa Broder · 2023

<p><b>'Riotously original ... A triumph'</b> <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i><br> <br> <b>'</b><b>A journey unlike any you've read before</b><b>'</b> NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH<br> <br> <b>'</b><b>Her most profound book yet ... Surreal, hysterical and beguiling in every sense</b><b>'</b> <i>GLAMOUR</i><br> <br> <b>The most profound book yet from the visionary author of <i>Milk Fed</i> and <i>The Pisces</i>, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.</b><br> <br> A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrow -- for both her father in the ICU and a husband whose illness is worsening. What the motel provides, however, is not peace but a path, thanks to a receptionist who recommends a nearby hike.<br> <br> Out on the sun-scorched trail, the woman encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there, with a gash through its side that beckons like a familiar door. So she enters it. What awaits her inside this mystical succulent sets her on a journey at once desolate and rich, hilarious and poignant.<br> <br> This is Melissa Broder at her most imaginative, most universal, and finest. This is <i>Death Valley</i>.<br> <br> <b>PRAISE FOR</b> <i><b>THE PISCES</b></i><br> <br> 'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite. It really blew me away' <b>DOLLY ALDERTON</b><br> 'Frank, provocative and brilliant' <b><i>INDEPENDENT</i></b><br> 'Hilarious, poignant, sexy. A brilliant story about why we crave connection and how to find ourselves' <b><i>ELLE</i></b><br> 'Laugh-out-loud funny' <i><b>i</b></i></p>

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan · 2021

Sunburn

Chloe Michelle Howarth · 2023

** Shortlisted for the 2024 Book of the Year: Discover Award by the British Book Awards ** ** Shortlisted for the 2023 Nero Book Award for Debut Fiction ** ** An Evening Standard 'One to Watch in 2023 ** ** An Independent 'Best Romantic Summer Reads' ** It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish village of Crossmore, Lucy feels out of place. Despite her fierce friendships, she's always felt this way, and the conventional path of marriage and motherhood doesn't appeal to her at all. Not even with handsome and doting Martin, her closest childhood friend. Lucy begins to make sense of herself during a long hot summer, when a spark with her school friend Susannah escalates to an all-consuming infatuation, and, very quickly, to a desperate and devastating love. Fearful of rejection from her small and conservative community, Lucy begins living a double life, hiding the most honest parts of herself in stolen moments with Susannah. But with the end of school and the opportunity to leave Crossmore looming, Lucy must choose between two places, two people and two futures, each as terrifying as the other. Neither will be easy, but only one will offer her happiness.

Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2015

Now a major motion picture streaming on Hulu, starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize “Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first-person narrator is one of the strangest, most messed-up, most pathetic—and yet, in her own inimitable way, endearing—misfits I’ve encountered in fiction. Trust me, you have never read anything remotely like Eileen.” —Washington Post So here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes—a prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels appropriate. In a week, I would run away from home and never go back. This is the story of how I disappeared. The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father’s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of the neighborhood and a day job as a secretary at the boys’ prison, filled with its own quotidian horrors. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping to the big city. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard named Randy, and cleaning up her increasingly deranged father’s messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene as the new counselor at Moorehead, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship. In a Hitchcockian twist, her affection for Rebecca ultimately pulls her into complicity in a crime that surpasses her wildest imaginings. Played out against the snowy landscape of coastal New England in the days leading up to Christmas, young Eileen’s story is told from the gimlet-eyed perspective of the now much older narrator. Creepy, mesmerizing, and sublimely funny, in the tradition of Shirley Jackson and early Vladimir Nabokov, this powerful debut novel enthralls and shocks, and introduces one of the most original new voices in contemporary literature. Ottessa Moshfegh is also the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Homesick for Another World: Stories, and McGlue.

Villette

Charlotte Brontë · 2008

"Villette", Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian era novel which was originally published in 1853, is the story of Lucy Snowe, who following a family tragedy travels to the fictional town of Villette to teach at an all-girls school. There she finds herself unwillingly drawn into adventure and romantic entanglement. A must read for fans of the Bronte sisters, "Villette" is often praised for its exploration of repression and the role of women in society.

Educação da tristeza

Valter Hugo Mãe · 2025

Cupim

Layla Martínez · 2024

<p> <b>Sucesso de vendas na Espanha e fenômeno literário, <i>Cupim</i> é um romance de terror feminista, duro, poético e visceral, carregado de rezas, maldições, anjos e santos. Layla Martínez cria uma narrativa poderosa em que a raiva e o rancor crescem como um cupinzeiro diante da injustiça social.</b> </p> <p>Todas as casas guardam a história daqueles que as habitaram. As paredes dessa construção perdida no meio do nada falam de vozes que surgem sob as camas, de santas que aparecem no teto da cozinha, de desaparecimentos que nunca se esclarecem. À luz do dia, os vizinhos evitam suas duas moradoras, mas todos as procuram pedindo ajuda quando se veem desamparados. A avó passa os dias conversando com as sombras que vivem atrás das paredes e dentro dos armários, enquanto a neta, que não residia mais ali, volta a viver na casa após um incidente com a família mais rica do povoado. Agora, desenredando a história do lugar, as duas começam a perceber que as sombras que vivem ali sempre estiveram ao seu lado. <br>Considerada uma das vozes mais originais da nova literatura espanhola, Layla Martínez faz deste romance um marco da ficção especulativa e do horror.</p> <p>"Este livro é a vingança de uma ferida intergeracional, da aceitação da barbárie, da perda dos limites quando se trata de proteger os seus. É o livro das miseráveis e das infelizes que dizem basta." — Alana Portero</p>

Adults

Emma Jane Unsworth · 2020

US edition published as 'Grown Ups'. `A DAZZLING book' Marian Keyes `HEARTBREAKING and HILARIOUS ... I completely and utterly adored it' Dolly Alderton `Funny, arch and tender ... A MUST-READ' Jessie Burton Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool magazine and has hilarious friends just a message away. But the thing is: * She can't actually afford her house since her criminally sexy ex-boyfriend Art left, * her best friend Kelly is clearly trying to break up with her, * she's so frazzled trying to keep up with everything you can practically hear her nerves jangling, * she spends all day online-stalking women with beautiful lives as her career goes down the drain. And now her mother has appeared on her doorstep, unbidden, to save the day... Is Jenny ready to grow up and save herself this time? Deliciously candid and gloriously heartfelt, ADULTS is the story of one woman learning how to fall back in love with her life. It will remind you that when the world throws you a curve ball (or nine), it may take friendship, gin & tonics or even your mother to bring you back...

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski • 2000

This Is How You Lose the Time War

Amal El-Mohtar • 2020

A Short Stay in Hell

Steven L. Peck • 2012

The Night Guest

Hildur Knútsdóttir • 2024

Ulisse

James Joyce · 2013

"L''Ulisse' è un libro scritto da qualcuno che doveva diventare tenore (Joyce quando abitava a Trieste), uno che aveva imparato a trasmettere sulla pagina ciò che i musicisti chiamano 'orecchio interno', al di là del senso oggettivo delle parole. In effetti, se facessimo il calcolo di quante cantate spuntano nell''Ulisse' ogni poche pagine, vedremmo un ventaglio di citazioni canterine che sono la spina dorsale joyciana per scavalcare tutti i discorsi e intendersi con diversi richiami musicali: dall'opera lirica alla filastrocca oscena, da un canto gregoriano ('Gloria in excelsis Deo') al rumore della carrozza del viceré che passa sul lungofiume ('Clapclap, Crilclap'), dai nursery rhymes a una poesia tedesca sul canto delle sirene ('Von der Sirenen Listigkeit...'), dal verso del cuculo ('Cucù! Cucù') al Fiore di Siviglia (opera lirica), dalle battute per tenere il ritmo d'una pagina ('Tum' 'Tum') a quelle di altri suoni ('Pflaap! Pflaap! Pflaaaap'), alla cantata mozartiana, ricorrente nei pensieri di Mr Bloom: 'Vorrei e non vorrei, mi trema un poco il cor', e cosi via." (dalla prefazione di Gianni Celati)

Stay True

Hua Hsu • 2022

Only Alive on Sundays

Kim Rashidi • 2023

My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante · 2020

The international bestseller, now in B-format paperback with a brand new cover.

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott · 2014

<b>Louisa May Alcott's classic tale of four sisters in a deluxe hardcover edition, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.<br></b><br>Grown-up Meg, tomboyish Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. The four March sisters couldn't be more different. But with their father away at war, and their mother working to support the family, they have to rely on one another. Whether they're putting on a play, forming a secret society, or celebrating Christmas, there's one thing they can't help wondering: Will Father return home safely?

Garota sobre garota

Sophie Gilbert • 2026

Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami • 2020

A decadência da mentira e outros ensaios

Oscar Wilde • 1992

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories (Penguin Classics)

Leo Tolstoy • 2008

A guerra da papoula

R.F. Kuang • 2022

Querida tia

Valérie Perrin • 2025

The Wax Child

Olga Ravn • 2025

Lie With Me A Novel

Philippe Besson · 2019

<b><i>The Advocate</i>’s Best Gay Novel of 2019</b><br> <b>A <i>New York Times Book Review </i>Editor’s Choice</b><br> <b><i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>’s Best LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019</b><br> <b><i>The Wall Street Journal’</i>s Ten Books You’ll Want to Read this Spring</b><br> <b><i>Out</i>'s Best Queer Books of April 2019</b><br> <b><i>TheSkimm</i>’s LGBTQ+ books to celebrate Pride</b><br> <br><b>“Stunning and heart-gripping.” —André Aciman, author of <i>Call Me By Your Name</i></b><br> <br><b>The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson—“the French <i>Brokeback Mountain</i>” (<i>Elle</i>)—about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress/writer Molly Ringwald. </b><br><br><i>We drive at high speed along back roads, through woods, vineyards, and oat fields. The bike smells like gasoline and makes a lot of noise, and sometimes I’m frightened when the wheels slip on the gravel on the dirt road, but the only thing that matters is that I’m holding on to him, that I’m holding on to him </i><i>outside</i><i>.</i><br> <br>Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe chances upon a young man who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a gorgeous boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. Without ever acknowledging they know each other in the halls, they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.<br> <br>Dazzlingly rendered in English by Ringwald in her first-ever translation, Besson’s powerfully moving coming-of-age story captures the eroticism and tenderness of first love—and the heartbreaking passage of time.

The Lover

Marguerite Duras · 1998

<b>A modern classic and international bestseller with more than one million copies in print, <i>The Lover</i> has been celebrated by critics and readers across the globe since its first publication in 1984.</b><br><br> Set in the prewar Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its representation in the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts.<br><br> This edition of <i>The Lover</i> includes a new introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen that looks back at Duras's iconic work, winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, as it approaches its fortieth anniversary in print.

Beloved Pulitzer Prize Winner

Toni Morrison · 2004

<b>PULITZER PRIZE WINNER •</b> <i><b>NEW YORK TIMES</b></i><b> BESTSELLER • This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (<i>People) </i>is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author. <br><br>“A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard, <i>Los Angeles Times<br><br></i></b>Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved.<br><br><b>“Dazzling. . . . Magical. . . . An extraordinary work.” <i>—The New York Times</i></b>

Conversations on Love

Natasha Lunn · 2022

After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as well as drawing on her own, asking- <i>How do we find love? How do we sustain it? And how do we survive when we lose it?</i><br> <br> In <i>Conversations on Love</i> she began to find the answers-<br> <b><br> Philippa Perry on falling in love slowly<br> Dolly Alderton on vulnerability<br> Stephen Grosz on accepting change<br> Candice Carty-Williams on friendship<br> Lisa Taddeo on the loneliness of loss<br> Diana Evans on parenthood<br> Emily Nagoski on the science of sex<br> Alain de Botton on the psychology of being alone<br> Esther Perel on unrealistic expectations<br> Roxane Gay on redefining romance</b><br> and many more...

Mammoth

Eva Baltasar · 2024

<p><b>The followup novel to International Booker-shortlisted <i>Boulder</i> is a story of queer motherhood and survival deep in the countryside</b></p><p><i>Mammoth</i>'s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She's inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work--all in pursuit of life in the raw. <br>This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of social despair, leaving us at the mercy of Eva Baltasar's wild voice. <b><br></b></p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p> <p><br><b></b> <p> <p>

Simple Passion

Annie Ernaux · 2011

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, an unnamed narrator attempts to plot the emotional and physical course of her 2 year relationship with a married foreigner where every word, event, and person either provides a connection with her beloved or is subject to her cold indifference. With courage and exactitude, she seeks the truth behind an existence lived entirely for someone else, and, in the pieces of its aftermath, she is able to find it.

White Oleander

Janet Fitch · 2006

The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption. Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey through a series of foster homes and her efforts to find a place for herself in impossible circumstances. Each home is its own universe, with a new set of laws and lessons to be learned. With determination and humor, Astrid confronts the challenges of loneliness and poverty, and strives to learn who a motherless child in an indifferent world can become. Oprah Winfrey enjoyed this gripping first novel so much that she not only made it her book club pick, she asked if she could narrate the audio release.

Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

Durga Chew-Bose · 2020

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Simone de Beauvoir · 2005

<p>A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, <b>Simone de Beauvoir</b>'s <b>Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter</b> offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.</p> <p>She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.</p>

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo · 2015

<p><b>See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series,<i> Shadow and Bone</i> -- Season 2 streaming now!</b><br><br><b>Meet Kaz Brekker and his crew: Jesper, Inej, Wylan, and the star-crossed Nina and Matthias, on the heist of a lifetime in <i>Six of Crows </i>from #1 bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo. </b><br><br> Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone. . . .<br><br> <i>A convict with a thirst for revenge.<br><br> A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager.<br><br> A runaway with a privileged past.<br><br> A spy known as the Wraith.<br><br> A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums. <br><br> A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes. </i><br><br> Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz's crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don't kill each other first.<br><br> <i>Six of Crows</i> by Leigh Bardugo returns to the breathtaking world of the Grishaverse in this unforgettable tale about the opportunity—and the adventure—of a lifetime.<br><br> Read all the books in the Grishaverse!<br><br> <b><u>The Shadow and Bone Trilogy </u></b><br> (previously published as The Grisha Trilogy)<br> <i>Shadow and Bone</i><br> <i>Siege and Storm</i><br> <i>Ruin and Rising</i><br><br> <b><u>The Six of Crows Duology</u></b><br> <i>Six of Crows</i><br> <i>Crooked Kingdom</i><br><br> <b><u>The King of Scars Duology</u></b><br> <i>King of Scars<br> Rule of Wolves</i><br><br> <i>The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic</i><br> <i>The Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of Magic<br> The Lives of Saints</i></p>

Gallant

V. E. Schwab · 2022

Nevernight

Jay Kristoff · 2016

<p><i>Nevernight</i> is the first in an epic new fantasy series from the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author, Jay Kristoff.<br><br>In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.<br><br>Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.<br><br>Now, a sixteen year old Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic — the Red Church. Treachery and trials await her with the Church’s halls, and to fail is to die. But if she survives to initiation, Mia will be inducted among the chosen of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the only thing she desires.<br><br>Revenge.</p>

Katabasis A Novel

R. F. Kuang · 2025

<p>Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul--perhaps at the cost of their own. </p> <p>Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:</p> <p>The story of a hero's descent to the underworld</p> <p>Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.</p> <p>That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.</p> <p>Grimes is now in Hell, and she's going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams....</p> <p>Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.</p> <p>With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don't even like.</p> <p>But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn't always the answer, and there's something in Alice and Peter's past that could forge them into the perfect allies...or lead to their doom.</p>

Yellowface

Rebecca F. Kuang · 2024

The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle's Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* *Fiction Book of the Year 2024 - British Book Awards* <br> <br> <p>'Addictive' Grazia</p> <p>'Hugely entertaining' Observer</p> <p>'Provocative' Mail on Sunday</p> <p>THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.</p> <p>IT'S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL.</p> <p>When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity... and takes it.</p> <p>So what if it means stealing Athena's final manuscript?</p> <p>So what if it means 'borrowing' her identity?</p> <p>And so what if the first lie is only the beginning...</p> <p>Finally, June has the fame she always deserved. But someone is about to expose her...</p> <p>What happens next is entirely everyone else's fault.</p> <p>'The book that everyone is talking about' Glamour</p> <p>'Ingenious, astute, hugely entertaining' David Nicholls</p> <p>'Breathtakingly clever on jealousy, talent, success, and who gets to tell which story' Elizabeth Day</p> <p>'Hard to put down. Harder to forget' Stephen King</p> <p>R.F. Kuang's book Yellowface was a #1 Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23</p> <p>R.F. Kuang's book Yellowface was a #5 New York Times bestseller w/c 04-06-23</p>

Babel

R. F. Kuang · 2022

A pediatra

Andréa del Fuego · 2021

<p> <b>Com humor mordaz, o novo romance de Andréa del Fuego apresenta a história de uma personagem muito peculiar: Cecília, uma pediatra nada afeita a crianças.</b> </p> <p>Cecília é o oposto do que se imagina de uma pediatra — uma mulher sem espírito maternal, pouco apreço por crianças e zero paciência para os pais e mães que as acompanham. Porém a medicina era um caminho natural para ela, que seguiu os passos do pai. Apesar de sua frieza com os pacientes, ela tem um consultório bem-sucedido, mas aos poucos se vê perdendo lugar para um pediatra humanista, que trabalha com doulas, parteiras e acompanha até partos domiciliares. Mesmo a obstetra cesarista com quem Cecília sempre colaborou agora parece preferi-lo. <br>Ela fará, então, um mergulho investigativo na vida das mulheres que seguem o caminho do parto natural e da medicina alternativa, práticas que despreza profundamente. Em paralelo, vive uma relação com um homem casado, de cujo filho ela acompanhou o nascimento como neonatologista. E é esse menino que irá despertar sentimentos nunca antes experimentados pela pediatra.</p>

Restoration

Ave Barrera · 2025

<p>Propelled by female desire, shaped by the violence of the male gaze, and inspired by the endless vitality of old stories remade anew, Restoration takes on Bluebeard, Salvador Elizondo, Juan Rulfo, Angela Carter, Octavio Paz, Mariana Enriquez, and Amparo Dávila to produce a novel of obsession, reclamation, and romance gone very, very wrong.Jasmina has been hired by her maybe-boyfriend to restore his family home, a grubby, abandoned time capsule where a great artist once lived. As she moves from room to room - scrubbing, scraping, plastering over cracks - the stories inhabiting them awaken, and the lives of the women who came before her begin to overlap with her own. Who is the woman in the photograph? And what secrets linger in that last locked room?Restoration is a ghost story with porous borders, between Jasmina and these forgotten women, between the novel and us. And the questions Barrera asks may be about what's behind our own barred door.</p>

Restoration

Ave Barrera · 2025

<p>Propelled by female desire, shaped by the violence of the male gaze, and inspired by the endless vitality of old stories remade anew, Restoration takes on Bluebeard, Salvador Elizondo, Juan Rulfo, Angela Carter, Octavio Paz, Mariana Enriquez, and Amparo Dávila to produce a novel of obsession, reclamation, and romance gone very, very wrong.Jasmina has been hired by her maybe-boyfriend to restore his family home, a grubby, abandoned time capsule where a great artist once lived. As she moves from room to room - scrubbing, scraping, plastering over cracks - the stories inhabiting them awaken, and the lives of the women who came before her begin to overlap with her own. Who is the woman in the photograph? And what secrets linger in that last locked room?Restoration is a ghost story with porous borders, between Jasmina and these forgotten women, between the novel and us. And the questions Barrera asks may be about what's behind our own barred door.</p>

On Photography

Susan Sontag · 2001

<p><b>Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism</b>.<br><br>One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, Susan Sontag's <i>On Photography</i> first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as "a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs." It begins with the famous "In Plato's Cave"essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching "Brief Anthology of Quotations."</p>

One, None and a Hundred Thousand

Luigi Pirandello · 2017

<p>2017 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Pirandello began writing it in 1909. In an autobiographical letter, published in 1924, the author refers to this work as the "...bitterest of all, profoundly humoristic, about the decomposition of life...." Vitangelo, the protagonist, discovers by way of a completely irrelevant question that his wife poses to him that everyone he knows, and everyone he has ever met, has constructed a Vitangelo persona in their own imagination and that none of these personas corresponds to the image of Vitangelo that he himself has constructed and believes himself to be. The reader is immediately immersed in a cruel game of confusing projections, mirroring the reality of social existence itself, which imperiously dictate their rules. As a result, the first, ironic "awareness" of Vitangelo consists in the knowledge of that which he definitely is not; the preliminary operation must therefore consist in the spiteful destruction of all of these fictitious masks.</p>

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition Collected Stories

Cookie Mueller · 2022

<b>The first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book <i>Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black</i>, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished.</b><br><br>Legendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's first calling was to the written word: "I started writing when I was six and have never stopped completely," she once confessed. Muellerís 1990 <i>Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black</i>, the first volume of the Semiotext(e) Native Agents series, was the largest collection of stories she compiled during her life. But it presented only a slice of Mueller's prolific work as a writer. This new, landmark volume collects all of Mueller's stories: from the original contents of <i>Clear Water</i>, to additional stories discovered by Amy Scholder for the posthumous anthology <i>Ask Dr. Mueller</i>, to selections from Mueller's art and advice columns for Details and the East Village Eye, to still "new" stories collected and published here for the first time. Olivia Laing's new introduction situates Mueller's writing within the context of her life—and our times.<br> <br>Thanks to recent documentaries like Mallory Curley's <i>A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia</i> and Chloé Griffin's oral biography <i>Edgewise</i>, Mueller's life and work have been discovered by a new generation of readers. <i>Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories</i> returns essential source material to these readers, the archive of Mueller's writing itself. Mueller's many mise en scènes—the Baltimore of John Waters, post-Stonewall Provincetown, avant-garde Italy, 1980s New York, an America enduring Reagan and AIDS—patches together a singular personal history and a primer for others. As Laing writes in her introduction, <i>Collected Stories</i> amounts to "a how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism, and cruelty."

Perto do coração selvagem

Clarice Lispector · 2019

<p> O surgimento de <i>Perto do coração selvagem</i> , em 1943, causou grande impacto no cenário literário brasileiro, proporcionando à autora aclamação imediata da crítica e de seus colegas escritores. </p> <p> Houve quem encontrasse no livro a influência de Virginia Woolf, ao passo que outros apostavam em Joyce, seguindo a falsa pista da epígrafe da qual Clarice pinçou seu título: "Ele estava só. Estava abandonado, feliz, perto do coração selvagem da vida." Ambos os grupos estavam errados, apesar do uso do fluxo de consciência pela escritora estreante a justificar tais correlações. Ocorre, no entanto, que esse havia sido um achado natural e espontâneo para Clarice Lispector, que admitiu como única influência neste caso <i>O lobo da estepe</i> , de Hermann Hesse. Não em termos estilísticos tampouco por se identificar com o caráter do protagonista, mas sim por compartilhar com ele e, sobretudo, com Hesse, o desejo imperioso de romper todas as barreiras e ultrapassar todos os limites na busca da própria verdade interior. Anseio personificado pela personagem central, Joana, com uma expressão que se tornou célebre: "Liberdade é pouco. O que desejo ainda não tem nome." </p> <p>Íntima e universal, destemida e secreta, Joana "sentia o mundo palpitar docemente em seu peito, doía-lhe o corpo como se nele suportasse a feminilidade de todas as mulheres" e ela destoava do sistema patriarcal em que se encontrava inserida da mesma forma que Clarice se distanciava da literatura de seu tempo, ainda dominada pelo regionalismo e o realismo. Ambas, autora e protagonista, eram forças divergentes, porém não dissonantes, já que introduziam uma nova musicalidade, uma harmonia própria, poética e triunfal, na aspereza circundante, enquanto buscavam "o centro luminoso das coisas" sem hesitar em "mergulhar em águas desconhecidas", deixando o silêncio e partindo para a luta. Deste embate à beira do íntimo abismo, Joana torna-se uma mulher completa e Clarice, uma escritora singular e inimitável.</p>

Te dei olhos e olhaste as trevas

Irene Solà · 2024

Uma mulher, tão antiga que não se sabe mais sua idade, espera sua partida assistida por suas descendentes enquanto suas ascendentes aguardam-na com festa. Todas são mulheres do Mas Clavell, propriedade nas montanhas da Catalunha, e ali testemunharam o passar dos séculos e compartilharam uma maldição: a ausência. Narradora de atmosferas, Irene Solà nesta obra retoma seu estilo marcante, um deslumbre para o leitor, e continua seu projeto artístico lastreado no folclore, nas tradições e na história da Catalunha, especialmente do ponto de vista feminino. Em Te dei olhos e olhaste as trevas, entre lobos, caçadores, fantasmas e bandoleiros, um pacto lendário estende seu reflexo sombrio sobre gerações de mulheres da mesma família.

Trilogia de Copenhagen Infância, Juventude e Dependência

Tove Ditlevsen · 2023

<p> <b>A joia literária redescoberta que se tornou sensação mundial. Eleito um dos melhores livros do século XXI pelo The New York Times. </b> </p> <p> <i>Trilogia de Copenhagen </i>é a obra-prima de Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976), uma das principais vozes da literatura dinamarquesa do século XX, e reúne três volumes autobiográficos. Em <i>Infância</i>, acompanhamos a história dos primeiros anos da escritora, que cresceu em um bairro operário e sonha em se tornar poeta. <i>Juventude </i>descreve suas primeiras experiências sexuais e profissionais e a conquista de sua independência. No terceiro volume, <i>Dependência</i>, Tove já é conhecida nos círculos literários — mas sua vida pessoal entra em colapso comcasamentos conturbados e o vício em opioides. <br>Ao longo de todo o livro, está presente o embate entre a vocação literária de Tove e as expectativas reservadas a uma mulher de classe trabalhadora. Sucesso internacional de público e crítica, a <i>Trilogia </i>pode ser considerada uma antecessora intelectual e temática da obra de Annie Ernaux e Elena Ferrante, destacando-se por sua honestidade brutal e pela representação das amizades femininas.</p> <p>"Uma escritora monumental." — Patti Smith</p> <p>"A <i>Trilogia</i> é fruto de um talento assombroso." — <i>New York Times</i> </p> <p>"Um tour de force absoluto. [A escrita de Ditlevsen] é límpida e vívida, dolorosamente crua." — <i>The Paris Review</i> </p> <p>"A <i>Trilogia de Copenhagen</i> e os romances napolitanos de Elena Ferrante retratam, com realismo e luminosa subjetividade, garotas estudiosas crescendo em bairros da classe trabalhadora. [...] Ditlevsen examina o que é intolerável aos olhos e o transforma em vidro lapidado." — <i>Times Literary Supplement</i> </p>

Tarântula

Eduardo Halfon · 2025

Prêmio Médicis Étranger Prêmio da Crítica Espanhola Até onde estamos dispostos a ir para proteger o coletivo? E a que custo? 1984. Dois jovens irmãos guatemaltecos, exilados há anos nos Estados Unidos, retornam à Guatemala para participar de um acampamento de crianças judias em uma floresta perdida nas montanhas do altiplano. Pouco sabem sobre seu país natal e já quase não falam espanhol. Seus pais insistiram que deveriam passar alguns dias no acampamento para aprender não apenas formas de sobrevivência na natureza, mas também formas de sobrevivência na natureza para crianças judias. O que não é a mesma coisa, disseram. Numa manhã, os meninos descobrem que o acampamento foi transformado em algo muito mais sinistro: agora, cada um terá de encontrar sua própria maneira de sobreviver. Neste livro, o autor retorna a um acontecimento de sua infância, na Guatemala complexa e violenta dos anos 1980, e a partir dele junta peças do quebra-cabeças que permitirá entender os eventos traumáticos que se desenrolaram durante aqueles dias — bem como a estranha lembrança de uma tarântula rastejante que o assombra. "Nunca se sabe se estamos diante de um relato ou de uma ficção. Essa ambiguidade é a marca do talento de Halfon, cuja prosa tem uma clareza quase ofuscante." Le Figaro Littéraire "Uma pequena joia narrativa." El País

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt · 2014

<p><b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2014</b></p> <p>Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.</p> <p><i>The Goldfinch</i> is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.</p>

The Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante · 2021

<p>NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY<br> The Washington Post * O, The Oprah Magazine * TIME Magazine * NPR * Financial Times * New York Post * Kirkus Reviews * Harper's Bazaar</p> <p>AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER</p> <p>In this powerful novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend, fourteen-year-old Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which wears a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity, where her guide is the unforgettable Aunt Vittoria.</p> <p>With this new novel about the passage from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante gives her readers another gripping, highly addictive, Neapolitan story.</p> <p>"Another spellbinding coming-of-age tale from a master."--People Magazine</p>

Esboço

Rachel Cusk · 2019

Ao mesmo tempo desprovido de artifícios e literário ao extremo, este romance inaugura uma trilogia que transformou a literatura contemporânea.<br/><br/>Quando Esboço foi publicado originalmente, em 2014, um pequeno furor tomou conta do mundo literário. Como era possível uma trama tão simples e uma escrita tão desprovida de artifícios produzir um efeito tão poderoso? Uma escritora vai a Atenas, num verão particularmente quente, para ministrar um curso de criação literária. Ela propõe aos alunos exercícios de narrativa. Ela vai a restaurantes com amigos. Ela sai para um passeio de barco com um grego que encontra no avião. As pessoas a seu redor falam livremente sobre suas fantasias, ansiedades, teorias, arrependimentos e desejos. A vida familiar ocupa o centro das conversas: relacionamentos interrompidos, casamentos frustrados, os dilemas da maternidade, as encruzilhadas profissionais à medida que a idade avança. Esboço é o primeiro de livro de uma trilogia magistral ? os seguintes são Trânsito e Kudos ?, a ser lembrada como uma das grandes conquistas literárias do nosso tempo<br/><br/>Capa comum: 192 páginas<br/>Editora: Todavia; Edição: 1 (5 de julho de 2019)<br/>Idioma: Português<br/>ISBN-10: 6580309237<br/>ISBN-13: 978-6580309238<br/>Dimensões do produto: 14 x 1,2 x 21 cm<br/>Peso de envio: 240 g

Who Killed My Father

Édouard Louis • 2023

Lutas e metamorfoses de uma mulher

Édouard Louis • 2023

Grey Dog

Elliott Gish • 2024

In the Swarm

Byung-Chul Han • 2017

Talking at Night

Claire Daverley • 2024

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah • 2015

The Night Circus

Erin Morgenstern • 2011

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke • 2020

Hamnet

Maggie O'Farrell • 2021

The Witch

Marie NDiaye · 2026

<p><b>Translated by Jordan Stump. In a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own.</b><br><br>'NDiaye at her most dazzling' Katie Kitamura<br><br>Lucie comes from a long line of witches, powers passed down from mother to daughter. Her own mom was formidable in her powers, but ashamed of her magic. Perhaps as a result, Lucie's own gift is weak: she can see into the future, sometimes-but more often, she can only see the present of some other location. Not very useful. And the worst part? All she can ever see are insignificant details - a scrap of outfit, the colour of the sky. Lucie's own children are initiated into their family's peculiar womanhood when they reach twelve years of age, and in a few short months, Maud and Lise are crying the curious tears of blood that denote their magical powers. Having learned, they take off quickly and fly the nest. Literally.<br><br>Witty, dreamlike, vaguely unsettling, and utterly enchanting (pun intended)<i>, The </i><i>Witch</i> brings the mysteries of womanhood and motherhood into sharp relief and leaves us teetering on the edge, unbalanced by questions as seemingly unbreakable relationships break down left and right.<br><br><b>Who is to blame for family failures? And how can you - can you? - build a nest that no one wants to fly?</b></p>

Hexes of the Deadwood Forest - 'Bold, Surreal, Feminist and Ferociously Funny' Service95

Agnieszka Szpila · 2026

A jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she's filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, an act that spirals her through history until she's united with a centuries-old coven of revolutionary women.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers · 1940

Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. The owner of the café where Singer eats every day, a young girl desperate to grow up, an angry drunkard, a frustrated black doctor: each pours their heart out to Singer, their silent confidant, and he in turn changes their disenchanted lives in ways they could never imagine

Bread of Angels

Patti Smith · 2025

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A radiant new memoir from artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award winner Just Kids A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, THE NEW YORKER “God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper,” writes Patti Smith in this moving account of her life. A post–World War II childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex where we enter the child’s world of the imagination. Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises, and searches for sacred silver pennies. The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry then lyrics, ultimately merging both into the songs of iconic recordings such as Horses, Wave, and Easter. She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. Here, she invents a room of her own, a low table, a Persian cup, inkwell and pen, entering at dawn to write. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start a family. A series of profound losses mark her life. Grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again—the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Smith on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.

Paixão Simples

Annie Ernaux • 2019

Miss Major Speaks Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary

Toshio Meronek · 2023

<b>2024 Stonewall Honor Award for Nonfiction<br><br>The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist </b><br><br>Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of America’s first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van.<br><br><i>Miss Major Speaks</i> is both document of her brilliant life–told with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity-and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today.<br><br>Her incredible story of a life lived and a world survived becomes a conduit for larger questions about the riddle of collective liberation. For a younger generation, she warns about the traps of ‘representation,’ the politics of 'self-care,' and the frequent dead-ends of non-profit organizing; for all of us, she is a strike against those who would erase these histories of struggle.<br><br>Miss Major offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an affirmation that our vision for freedom can and must be more expansive than those on offer by mainstream institutions.

Angela Davis

Angela Y. Davis · 2022

<p><strong>&#8220;An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.&#8221;<br>&#8212;Ibram X. Kendi<br><br>This beautiful new edition of Angela Davis&#8217;s classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author.</strong><br><br>&#8220;I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when so many are making collective demands for radical change and are seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of the past.&#8221; <strong>&#8212;Angela Y. Davis</strong><br><br>Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974,&#160;An Autobiography&#160;is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle.&#160;Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction, Angela Davis&#8217;s autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle with echoes in our own time.</p>

Coisa de rico A vida dos endinheirados brasileiros

Michel Alcoforado · 2025

<p> <b>Um mergulho preciso e mordaz no mundo dos endinheirados brasileiros.</b> </p> <p>Há um traço comum a boa parte dos endinheirados brasileiros: eles não se consideram ricos. Não existe um critério absoluto para a riqueza no Brasil. Sempre haverá alguém com mais dinheiro, mais pompa, mais patrimônio, mais próximo do topo da pirâmide. Logo, os ricos são sempre os outros. </p> <p>Com base nessa constatação, o antropólogo Michel Alcoforado faz um mergulho no mundo das elites brasileiras e destrincha tipos facilmente reconhecíveis: o casal emergente da Barra da Tijuca que vai a Miami comprar roupas de grife, a herdeira de uma família tradicional que leva uma vida longe dos holofotes na Suíça, o embaixador carioca inconformado que o Itamaraty não é o mesmo desde o aumento de vagas para a carreira diplomática. Capaz de traduzir um vasto repertório antropológico numa descrição analítica e cheia de humor, o autor traz para este livro a experiência acumulada de anos atuando como "antropólogo do luxo". Durante a pesquisa, ficou claro que, a partir de um certo patamar, aos ricos não interessa mais o tamanho da conta bancária, mas os códigos que precisam dominar para fazer parte das altas rodas.</p> <p>Exibir grifes espalhafatosas faz sentido para os emergentes empenhados em ostentar a nova posição, mas é sinal de arrivismo aos olhos de um rico tradicional, que tende a optar por roupas discretas e só reconhecíveis por quem domina o mesmo repertório. O jogo de distinção está em toda a parte: na escolha dos bairros para morar, na arquitetura e na decoração das casas, nos destinos de viagem, nos estudos e na linguagem. Coisa de rico examina as regras desse jogo. Com verve de comunicador tarimbado, Michel Alcoforado faz um diagnóstico mordaz e preciso das contradições da elite brasileira.</p>

Memórias de um paciente no fim do mundo

Matheus Serafim

Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.

O castelo de vidro

Jeannete Walls • 2014

East of Eden

John Steinbeck • 1952

O segredo das larvas

Stefano Volp • 2024

The Idiot

Elif Batuman · 2017

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction • A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ “Masterly funny debut novel . .  . Erudite but never pretentious, The Idiot will make you crave more books by Batuman.” —Sloane Crosley, Vanity Fair A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventing oneself. The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by accident, begins corresponding with Ivan, an older mathematics student from Hungary. Selin may have barely spoken to Ivan, but with each email they exchange, the act of writing seems to take on new and increasingly mysterious meanings.    At the end of the school year, Ivan goes to Budapest for the summer, and Selin heads to the Hungarian countryside, to teach English in a program run by one of Ivan's friends. On the way, she spends two weeks visiting Paris with Svetlana. Selin's summer in Europe does not resonate with anything she has previously heard about the typical experiences of American college students, or indeed of any other kinds of people. For Selin, this is a journey further inside herself: a coming to grips with the ineffable and exhilarating confusion of first love, and with the growing consciousness that she is doomed to become a writer. With superlative emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and pitch-perfect style, Batuman dramatizes the uncertainty of life on the cusp of adulthood. Her prose is a rare and inimitable combination of tenderness and wisdom; its logic as natural and inscrutable as that of memory itself. The Idiot is a heroic yet self-effacing reckoning with the terror and joy of becoming a person in a world that is as intoxicating as it is disquieting. Batuman's fiction is unguarded against both life's affronts and its beauty--and has at its command the complete range of thinking and feeling which they entail. Named one the best books of the year by Refinery29 • Mashable One • Elle Magazine • The New York Times • Bookpage • Vogue • NPR • Buzzfeed •The Millions

Promising Young Women

Suzanne Scanlon · 2012

“Suzanne Scanlon enters the inverted space of grief and near-madness with courage, intelligence, and wit—and with a small, sharp light for us to follow.” —Dawn Raffel A series of fragmentary tales tells the story of Lizzie, a young woman who, in her early twenties, unexpectedly embarks on a journey through psychiatric institutions, a journey that will end up lasting many years. With echoes of Sylvia Plath, and against a cultural backdrop that includes Shakespeare, Woody Allen, and Heathers, Suzanne Scanlon’s first novel is both a deeply moving account of a life of crisis and a brilliantly original work of art.

The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

Virginia Woolf · 1974

A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). "Exquisitely written" (New Yorker); "The riches of this book are overwhelming" (Christian Science Monitor). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.<br>

Conversations with Friends: A Novel

Sally Rooney · 2017

Paradise Rot

Jenny Hval · 2018

"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder.” —Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo’s sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh.This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.

Here After A Memoir

Amy Lin · 2024

<p><b>A <i>USA Today Bestseller</i></b><br> <br> <b>Starred reviews from <i>Kirkus</i>, <i>Booklist</i>, and <i>Library Journal</i></b><br> <br> <b>Best Book of 2024 Pick by <i>Esquire</i>, <i>ELLE</i>, <i>SheReads</i>, and <i>Kirkus</i></b><br> <br> <b>A 2024 NPR "Book We Love" Pick</b><br> <br> <b>A March 2024 Book of the Month Selection</b><br> <br> <b>An Apple Books Best Book of March</b></p> <p><b>Finalist for the 2024 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction</b><br> <br> <b>A Great Group Reads of 2024 from the Women's National Book Association</b></p> <p><b><i>Here After</i> is a poetic, raw depiction of an unlikely love followed by a dizzying loss. A stunning, taut memoir from debut Canadian author Amy Lin that will resonate deeply with anyone who has been in grief's grasp.</b></p> <p><i>When he dies, I fall out of time.</i></p> <p>Amy Lin never expected to find a love like the one she shares with her husband, Kurtis, a gifted young architect who pulls her toward joy, adventure, and greater self-acceptance. On a sweltering August morning, only a few months shy of the newlyweds' move to Vancouver, thirty-two-year-old Kurtis heads out to run a half-marathon with Amy's family. It is the last time she sees her husband alive.</p> <p>What follows is a rich and unflinchingly honest account of her life with Kurtis and the vortex created by his death. <i>Here After</i> is an intimate story of deep love followed by dizzying loss; a memoir so finely etched that its power will remain with you long after the final page.</p>

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Joan Didion · 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. With a forward by Hilton Als, these twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion's incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers ("the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it"), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In "Why I Write," Didion ponders the act of writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means." From her admiration for Hemingway's sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart's story is one "that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men," these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.

South and West

Joan Didion · 2017

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s Bazaar  Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape. “Notes on the South” traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. “California Notes” began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion’s signature irony and imagination in play, we’re also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process.

The Last Thing He Wanted

Joan Didion · 1997

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Didion at her finest" —<i>USA Today • </i>An intricate, fast-paced novel about trying to create a context for democracy and getting hands a little dirty in the process, complete with conspiracies, arms dealing, and assassinations. From the author of <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> and <i>Let Me Tell You What I Mean</i><br><br></b>The narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for <i>The Washington Post</i>. She finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father. She becomes embroiled in her his business even though "she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing." It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined. <br><br>Didion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points out how "spectral companies with high-concept names tended to interlock." As this book builds to its terrifying finish, we see the underpinnings of a dark historical underbelly.

Play It As It Lays A Novel

Joan Didion · 2005

<p><b>A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's <i>Play It as It Lays</i> captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. </b><br><br>Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.</p>

Talking at Night

Claire Daverley • 2023

A Suíça

Jen Beagin • 2025

Sociedade do cansaço

Byung-Chul Han · 2015

Os efeitos colaterais do discurso motivacional. O mercado de palestras e livros motivacionais está crescendo desde o início do século XXI e não mostra sinais de desaquecimento. Religiões tradicionais estão perdendo adeptos para novas igrejas que trocam o discurso do pecado pelo encorajamento e autoajuda. As instituições políticas e empresariais mudaram o sistema de punição, hierarquia e combate ao concorrente pelas positividades do estímulo, eficiência e reconhecimento social pela superação das próprias limitações. Byung-Chul Han mostra que a sociedade disciplinar e repressora do século XX descrita por Michel Foucault perde espaço para uma nova forma de organização coercitiva: a violência neuronal. As pessoas se cobram cada vez mais para apresentar resultados - tornando elas mesmas vigilantes e carrascas de suas ações. Em uma época onde poderíamos trabalhar menos e ganhar mais, a ideologia da positividade opera uma inversão perversa: nos submetemos a trabalhar mais e a receber menos. Essa onda do "eu consigo" e do "yes, we can" tem gerado um aumento significativo de doenças como depressão, transtornos de personalidade, síndromes como hiperatividade e burnout. Este livro transcende o campo filosófico e pode ajudar educadores, psicólogos e gestores a entender os novos problemas do século XXI.

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn • 2006

The Woods All Black

Lee Mandelo • 2024

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

James Joyce • 2003

The Act of Living

Frank Tallis · 2020

Life and its meaning is a mystery almost impossible to solve, but what can the leading theories teach us about the search for purpose? For most of us, the major questions of life continue to perplex: Who am I? Why am I here? How should I live? In the late nineteenth century, a class of thinkers emerged who made solving these problems central to their work. They understood that human questions demand human answers and that without understanding what it means to be human, there are no answers. Through the biographies and theories of luminaries ranging from Sigmund Freud to Erich Fromm, Frank Tallis show us how to think about companionship and parenting, identity and aging, and much more. Accessible yet erudite, The Act of Living is essential reading for anyone seeking answers to life's biggest questions.

Lost Lambs: A Novel

Madeline Cash · 2027

National bestseller. Finalist for the 2026 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.<br/><br/>“Extremely smart, impossibly funny, and just plain fun to read―this book hums with a brilliant, lunatic energy all its own. I finished it in a day.” ―Caro Claire Burke, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yesteryear<br/><br/>“If the Royal Tenenbaums were middle-class and likable, they’d be this madcap family.” ―The New York Times Book Review<br/><br/>“Madeline Cash is a voice like no other.” ―Lena Dunham, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Famesick<br/><br/>Rippling with humor, warmth, and style, Lost Lambs is a new vision of the charms and pitfalls of family dysfunction.<br/><br/>The Flynn family is coming undone. Catherine and Bud’s open marriage has reached its breaking point as their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone―or something―is monitoring the town’s citizens.<br/><br/>Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a billionaire shipping magnate. Rumors of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with a mysterious shipping container exposes a criminal conspiracy that unwittingly endangers her family―a crisis that just may bring them closer together.<br/><br/>Irreverent and addictive, pinging between the voices of the Flynns and the characters around them, Madeline Cash’s Lost Lambs is a debut novel of quick-witted observation and surprising tenderness. In it, Cash has crafted a family saga for the twenty-first century, all held together with crazy glue.

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah · 2015

<p><b>A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK<br></b><b><br>A #1<i> New York Times</i> bestseller, <i>Wall Street Journal</i> Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. </b><br><br>With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. <i>The Nightingale </i>tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.<br><br><b>Goodreads Best Historical Novel of the Year • People's Choice Favorite Fiction Winner • #1 Indie Next Selection • A Buzzfeed and <i>The Week</i> Best Book of the Year</b></p>

Amêndoas

Won-pyung Sohn · 2023

<p> <b>Livro recomendado pelo BTS!</b> </p> <p> <i>Eu tenho amêndoas em mim. <br>Assim como você. <br>Assim como quem você ama e quem odeia. <br>Mas ninguém consegue senti-las. <br>Você só sabe que elas existem. <br>Esta história é, em resumo, sobre um monstro encontrando outro monstro. Um dos monstros sou eu.</i> </p> <p>Yunjae nasceu com uma condição neurológica chamada alexitimia, ou a incapacidade de identificar e expressar sentimentos, como medo, tristeza, desejo ou raiva. Ele não tem amigos — as duas estruturas em forma de amêndoas localizadas no fundo de seu cérebro causaram isso —, mas a mãe e a avó lhe proporcionam uma vida segura e tranquila. O pequeno apartamento em que moram, acima do sebo da mãe, é decorado com cartazes coloridos com lembretes de quando sorrir, quando agradecer e quando demonstrar preocupação.</p> <p>Então, no seu décimo sexto aniversário, véspera de Natal, tudo muda. Um ato chocante de violência destrói tudo que Yunjae conhece, deixando-o sozinho. Lutando para lidar com a perda, o garoto se isola no silêncio, até a chegada do problemático colega de escola Gon.</p> <p>Conforme começa a se abrir para novas pessoas, algo se modifica lentamente dentro dele. Quando suas novas amizades passam a apresentar níveis de complexidade, Yunjae precisará aprender a lidar com um mundo que não compreende e até se colocar em risco para sair de sua zona de conforto.</p> <p> <b>Livro vencedor do Prêmio Changbi de Ficção para Jovens Adultos e Prêmio Jeju 4.3 Peace Literary.</b> </p> <p> <i>"Uma obra de ficção ousada e original que mergulha nas profundezas da condição humana com muito humor."</i> — <b>Entertainment Weekly</b> </p>

Animal

Lisa Taddeo • 2021

Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2006

<b>NOBEL PRIZE WINNER <b>•</b> From the acclaimed, bestselling author of <i>The Remains of the Day</i> comes “a Gothic tour de force" (<i>The New York Times</i>) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.<br><br>One of <i>The New York Times</i>’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>Best Fiction Book of the Century • A <i>Los Angeles Times</i> Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years</b><br><br>As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. <br><br>Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman • 2019

My Sister, the Serial Killer

Oyinkan Braithwaite • 2018

Open Wide

Jessica Gross • 2025

Immaculate Conception

Ling Ling Huang • 2025

Boy Parts

Eliza Clark • 2020

Devotions

Mary Oliver • 2020

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2019

<b>The <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller • <b><i>New York Times </i>Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century</b> • Named a Best Book of the Year by <i>The Washington Post, Time, </i>NPR, <i>Vice, Bustle</i>, <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The Guardian</i>, <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>,<i> Entertainment Weekly</i>, and The AV Club<br><br>“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.” — <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> <br><br>“Darkly hilarious . . . [Moshfegh’s] the kind of provocateur who makes you laugh out loud while drawing blood.” <b>—<i>Vogue<br><br></i>“Ottessa Moshfegh is easily the most interesting contemporary American writer on the subject of being alive when being alive feels terrible.” —Jia Tolentino, <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br><br></b>From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature and the battery of medicines she prescribes.<br><br>Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend, Reva. It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong?<br><br><i>My Year of Rest and Relaxation</i> is a powerful answer to that question. Through the story of a year spent under the influence of a truly mad combination of drugs designed to heal our heroine from her alienation from this world, Moshfegh shows us how reasonable, even necessary, alienation can be. Both tender and blackly funny, merciless and compassionate, it is a showcase for the gifts of one of our major writers working at the height of her powers.

O peso do pássaro morto

Aline Bei · 2017

A vida de uma mulher, dos 8 aos 52, desde as singelezas cotidianas até as tragédias que persistem, uma geração após a outra. Um livro denso e leve, violento e poético. É assim O peso do pássaro morto, romance de estreia de Aline Bei, onde acompanhamos uma mulher que, com todas as forças, tenta não coincidir apenas com a dor de que é feita.

Sem ar

Jennifer Niven · 2021

<p> <b> O romance mais pessoal da autora de <i>Por lugares incríveis</i>. </b> </p> <p>Passar o verão numa ilha remota não era o plano de Claudine Henry. Ela deveria estar viajando de carro com sua melhor amiga, aproveitando cada minuto antes de ir para a faculdade. Mas depois que seus pais anunciam o divórcio, o mundo dela vira de cabeça para baixo — e Claude vai parar nesse destino improvável, acompanhando a mãe que tenta se reconstruir depois da separação. <br>Ali, a garota não tem internet, sinal de celular ou amigos. Até que conhece Jeremiah. Com o espírito livre e um passado misterioso, a química entre os dois é imediata e irresistível. Enquanto vivem aventuras pelas praias, dunas e florestas, Claude e Miah tentam não se apaixonar — afinal, esse relacionamento tem os dias contados. Mas talvez viver esse romance seja exatamente do que Claude precisa para começar a escrever sua própria história.</p>

Play It As It Lays A Novel

Joan Didion · 2005

<p><b>A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's <i>Play It as It Lays</i> captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. </b><br><br>Set in a place beyond good and evil---literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and the barren wastes of the Mojave Desert, but figuratively in the landscape of an arid soul---it remains more than three decades after its original publication a profoundly disturbing novel, riveting in its exploration of a woman and a society in crisis and stunning in the still-startling intensity of its prose.</p>

A Book of Common Prayer

Joan Didion · 1995

<p><b>A shimmering novel of innocence and evil: the gripping story of two American women in a failing Central American nation, <b><b>from the bestselling, award-winning author of <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> and <b><i>Let Me Tell You What I Mean</i></b></b></b></b><br><br><b>"[Didion's] most ambitious project in fiction, and her most successful ... glows with a golden aura of well-wrought classical tragedy.”  <i>—Los Angeles Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>Grace Strasser-Mendana controls much of Boca Grande's wealth and knows virtually all of its secrets; Charlotte Douglas knows far too little. "Immaculate of history, innocent of politics," Charlotte has come to Boca Grande vaguely and vainly hoping to be reunited with her fugitive daughter. As imagined by Didion, her fate is at once utterly particular and fearfully emblematic of an age of conscienceless authority and unfathomable violence. <br><br><i>A Book of Common Prayer</i> is written with the telegraphic swiftness and microscopic sensitivity that have made Didion one of our most distinguished journalists.</p>

Democracy

Joan Didion · 2011

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean—a gorgeously written, bitterly funny look at the relationship between politics and personal life. Moving deftly between romance, farce, and tragedy, from 1970s America to Vietnam to Jakarta, Democracy is a tour de force from a writer who can dissect an entire society with a single phrase. Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around Inez have made careers out of losing track. Her senator husband wants to forget the failure of his last bid for the presidency. Her husband's handler would like the press to forget that Inez's father is a murderer. And, in 1975, America is doing its best to lose track of its one-time client, the lethally hemorrhaging republic of South Vietnam. As conceived by Joan Didion, these personages and events constitute the terminal fallout of democracy, a fallout that also includes fact-finding junkets, senatorial groupies, the international arms market, and the Orwellian newspeak of the political class.

The Last Thing He Wanted

Joan Didion · 1997

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Didion at her finest" —<i>USA Today • </i>An intricate, fast-paced novel about trying to create a context for democracy and getting hands a little dirty in the process, complete with conspiracies, arms dealing, and assassinations. From the author of <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> and <i>Let Me Tell You What I Mean</i><br><br></b>The narrator introduces Elena McMahon, estranged from a life of celebrity fundraisers and from her powerful West Coast husband, Wynn Janklow, whom she has left, taking Catherine, her daughter, to become a reporter for <i>The Washington Post</i>. She finds herself boarding a plane for Florida to see her father. She becomes embroiled in her his business even though "she had trained herself since childhood not to have any interest in what he was doing." It is from this moment that she is caught up in something much larger than she could have imagined. <br><br>Didion makes connections among Dallas, Iran-Contra, and Castro, and points out how "spectral companies with high-concept names tended to interlock." As this book builds to its terrifying finish, we see the underpinnings of a dark historical underbelly.

Blue Nights

Joan Didion · 2011

<b>A <i>Kirkus Reviews </i>Best Nonfiction Book of the Century</b><br><br>From one of our most powerful writers, a work of stunning frankness about losing a daughter. Richly textured with bits of her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion examines her thoughts, fears, and doubts regarding having children, illness, and growing old.<br><br><i>Blue Nights</i> opens on July 26, 2010, as Didion thinks back to Quintana’s wedding in New York seven years before. <i>Today would be her wedding anniversary.</i> This fact triggers vivid snapshots of Quintana’s childhood—in Malibu, in Brentwood, at school in Holmby Hills. Reflecting on her daughter but also on her role as a parent, Didion asks the candid questions any parent might about how she feels she failed either because cues were not taken or perhaps displaced. “How could I have missed what was clearly there to be seen?” Finally, perhaps we all remain unknown to each other. Seamlessly woven in are incidents Didion sees as underscoring her own age, something she finds hard to acknowledge, much less accept.<br><br><i>Blue Nights</i>—the long, light evening hours that signal the summer solstice, “the opposite of the dying of the brightness, but also its warning”—like <i>The Year of Magical Thinking</i> before it, is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty, haunting and profoundly moving.

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Joan Didion · 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. With a forward by Hilton Als, these twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion's incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers ("the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it"), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In "Why I Write," Didion ponders the act of writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means." From her admiration for Hemingway's sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart's story is one "that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men," these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.

South and West

Joan Didion · 2017

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s Bazaar  Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape. “Notes on the South” traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. “California Notes” began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion’s signature irony and imagination in play, we’re also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process.