Títulos em Literatura e Ficção

Remember that time you accidentally sexted your in-laws? Yeah. I just did that. Except worse. Now my million social media followers are reading and sharing the rude, smartass message I meant to send privately to my little sister...and I'm officially public enemy number one. I'm Beck Ryder. Former boy bander. Underwear model. Fashion mogul. And I just buried my entire leg in my mouth - not just my foot - modern internet style, and publicly insulted my sister's neighbor.

Desempregado e com uma filha pequena para sustentar, Danilo aceita a função de obituarista em um pequeno jornal. Influenciado pelas histórias de quem homenageia, faz questionamentos pouco óbvios sobre temas como morte e finitude, essência e aparência, verdade e ficção. Um romance bem-humorado e original.

The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down.

Myrna, Leonie, and Chrissy meet every Thursday to sample fine cheeses, to reminisce about their former lives as professors, and lately, to muse about murder. Decades ago, a vicious cabal of male poets contrived—quite publicly and successfully—to undermine the writing career, confidence, and health of their dear friend Fern. Now, after Fern has taken a turn for the worse, her three old friends decide that it’s finally time to strike back—in secret, of course, since Fern is far too gentle to approve of a vendetta.

One Thursday lunchtime the Earth gets unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this seems already to be more than he can cope with.

The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose.

Sarah Anderson has never been more excited about anything in her life. She’s going to her best friend’s wedding. And not just any wedding. An Irish wedding. Goodbye New York, hello rolling green hills and men with beautiful accents and twinkling eyes. But Sarah should have known that not all guests are fairy-tale princes....

Utopia (Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, "A little, true book, both beneficial and enjoyable, about how things should be in the new island Utopia") is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535), written in Latin and published in 1516. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social, and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Em Nu, de botas, Antonio Prata revisita as passagens mais marcantes de sua infância. As memórias são iluminações sobre os primeiros anos de vida do autor, narradas com a precisão e o humor a que seus milhares de leitores já se habituaram na Folha de S.Paulo, jornal em que Prata escreve semanalmente desde 2010.

A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Dessert with Buddha takes the eccentric, sort-of-Buddhist monk, Volya Rinpoche, and his skeptical, middle-of-the-road brother-in-law, Otto Ringling, on another enlightening road trip filled with meals, humor, social commentary, and good times. On this journey, the couple that traveled from New York to North Dakota in Breakfast with Buddha, Seattle to North Dakota in Lunch with Buddha, and North Dakota to Las Vegas in Dinner with Buddha heads down the Eastern Seaboard from Boston to points south.

Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox-Jewish woman intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam - by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family - and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk and honey.

Ein liebenswertes Trio und ein grandioser Plan: Bevor die Welt untergeht, soll sie noch ein wenig gerechter gemacht werden! Drei liebenswerte Außenseiter, von einem kuriosen Zufall zusammengeführt, brechen 2011 mit einem bunt angestrichenen Wohnmobil auf, um die Welt ein bisschen gerechter zu machen. Dabei lassen sie sich weder von arroganten Diplomaten-Brüdern noch von einem eigenwilligen Herrscher auf einer Insel im Indischen Ozean aufhalten.

Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.

O que você faria se descobrisse que o mundo vai acabar em menos de uma semana? Quando a avó de Camila diz que o mundo irá acabar dentro de cinco dias, Camila leva a notícia muito a sério, e resolve tentar aproveitar ao máximo seus últimos dias de vida na companhia das melhores amigas. Ao lado de Gabi, Teresa e Rafaela — que talvez seja mais do que uma amiga, se Camila tiver a coragem de se declarar.

L'"Utopia" di Thomas More rappresenta a pieno titolo il prototipo moderno della letteratura utopistica e visionaria. Suddiviso in due parti, l'audiolibro è incentrato sul dialogo di More con Raffaele Itlodeo ("il chiacchierone"). Questi, gran viaggiatore, esordisce con la descrizione a tinte vive dell'Inghilterra dell'epoca. Il fenomeno delle recinzioni, dell'espropriazione delle terre comuni a opera della nobiltà terriera, aveva condotto sul lastrico vaste componenti della società inglese, soprattutto i contadini.

Meet Percy Stinkson. He's just a normal kid, trying to have fun and make it through school doing as little homework as possible....until he finds out he's the son of a Greek god! And Percy's father isn't just any Greek god. He's Pooseidon, God of Farts! Percy's life is totally transformed as he travels to Camp Half-Wit, where he's trained to use his special farting powers. He's going to need these powers, because he soon learns it's up to him to save the universe by going on a quest to find Zeus's stolen iPhone! It'll be a dangerous quest, but Percy will have company: Grover, a weird kid who thinks he's a half-goat, and Annabeth, a super-hot girl who unfortunately doesn't want to date Percy. Yet. There'll be loads of action and tons of smelly farts as Percy's quest proceeds to its exciting conclusion: a showdown in the Underworld with Hades himself! The odds might be against Percy, but don't give up hope, because he'll have the ultimate weapon at his disposal: The Lightning Fart! Can a fart really save the universe?

Duny (lê-se Dani) é uma celebridade de alcance mundial, alçada ao estrelato por seu imenso talento, inteligência, classe e beleza incomparáveis. Ou, pelo menos, era isso o que ela esperava da vida—que, no caso de Duny, se resume basicamente a um loop infinito de lacres, barracos e baixarias cometidos em busca da fama. Meu livro. Eu que escrevi é o maior deles.

O mundo ao redor de Millicent Carmichael, também conhecida como Missy, de 79 anos, está diferente. Embora se apresse em dizer que considerava seu papel de dona de casa e mãe pouco satisfatório, a verdade é que Missy levou uma vida agitada cuidando de dois filhos e de um marido respeitado no mundo acadêmico. Agora que ele não está mais ao seu lado, que ela brigou com a filha e o filho se mudou para a Austrália, levando consigo seu amado neto, Missy passa os dias bebendo xerez, evitando as pessoas e vagando pela casa enorme e mal decorada esperando... o que exatamente?

In a small, tidy apartment on the outskirts of the frenzied metropolis of Seoul lives Kim Jiyoung. A 30-something-year-old “millennial everywoman”, she has recently left her white-collar desk job - in order to care for her newborn daughter full-time - as so many Korean women are expected to do. But she quickly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that alarm her husband, parents, and in-laws: Jiyoung impersonates the voices of other women - alive and even dead, both known and unknown to her.