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O livreiro de Cabul faz um relato emocionante do cotidiano do povo islâmico recuperando-se da guerra, das dificuldades para obter conhecimento e se comunicar e de como um homem simples conseguiu levar esperança para milhares de pessoas....

Le sentiment de l'exil, l'étrangeté au monde, la mélancolie, que Clarice Lispector exprimait dans les lettres à ses sœurs écrites de Berne où elle résidait dans les années 1940, sont la matière même de ses œuvres et se retrouvent dans les nouvelles lues par Fanny Ardant. "Ce qui était arrivé à Ana avant d'avoir un foyer était à jamais hors de sa portée: une exaltation perturbée qui si souvent s'était confondue avec un bonheur insoutenable."

It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him—and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church. The long-awaited new work from the author of Foster, Small Things Like These is an unforgettable story of hope, quiet heroism and tenderness.

Em agosto de 1939, a jovem Grace Bennett abandona sua vida no interior da Inglaterra e chega a Londres com o sonho de esquecer seu passado conturbado e ter um novo começo. Só que o clima sombrio que encontra não tem nada do charme cosmopolita que tanto havia idealizado. Nos meses que se seguem, as forças de Hitler começam a varrer a Europa e o ataque alemão à cidade se torna cada vez mais iminente.

De volta à Inglaterra, após bem-sucedidas missões na Índia e na Espanha, a carreira de Sharpe parece chegar ao fim. Longe da amada Lady Grace e relegado ao posto de intendente, Sharpe recebe uma arriscada tarefa: fazer companhia a John Lavisser, nobre oficial que vai a Copenhague subornar o príncipe-herdeiro dinamarquês, e com isso impedir uma nova guerra.

El libro más fascinante de Natalia Ginzburg, por cuyas líneas autobiográficas se pasea en bata la historia de la Italia antifascista y donde brilla todo el talento de la autora y uno de los 40 libros imprescindibles escritos por mujeres según Elena Ferrante.

Jenny Sutherland is pretty, but the lovely country girl is also vain. Her guardian has decided that a London season is just the thing to give the fair Jenny a sorely deserved set-down. Meanwhile, the handsome Duke of Pelham, owner of 67 Clarges Street, has returned from Europe at last - to find a wife. Used to women doting on him, the Duke turns the ton against the disdainful Jenny who dares to spurn him at her very first London soiree. Alas, he’s fallen in love with the miss he’s just ruined!

They say Black Dow's killed more men than winter and clawed his way to the throne of the North up a hill of skulls. The King of the Union, ever a jealous neighbor, is not about to stand smiling by while he claws his way any higher. The orders have been given, and the armies are toiling through the northern mud. Thousands of men are converging on a forgotten ring of stones, on a worthless hill, in an unimportant valley, and they've brought a lot of sharpened metal with them.

Once upon a Regency time, an author created a family.... But not just any family. Eight brothers and sisters, assorted in-laws, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (not to mention an overweight corgi), plus an irrepressible matriarch who's a match for any of them.... These are the Bridgertons. Through eight best-selling novels, listeners laughed, cried and fell in love. But they wanted more. What happened next? Does Simon ever read his father's letters? Do Francesca and Michael become parents? Who would win in a Pall Mall grudge match?

Cornwell se aventura por um dos mais conhecidos e enigmáticos mistérios do planeta: construído há mais de 4.000 anos, o famoso templo de pedra Stonehenge, um dos maiores símbolos da Grã-Bretanha, instigou o autor a lançar luz sobre esse distante período da história britânica. Stonehenge narra a trajetória de três irmãos e de duas tribos rivais que dão vida à história do grande templo.

Filha de uma família rica e importante da Nigéria, Olanna rejeita participar do jogo do poder que seu pai lhe reservara em Lagos. Parte, então, para Nsukka, a fim de lecionar na universidade local e viver perto do amante, o revolucionário nacionalista Odenigbo. Sua irmã Kainene de certo modo encampa seu destino. Com seu jeito altivo e pragmático, ela circula pela alta roda flertando com militares e fechando contratos milionários.

Daisy Jones & The Six... Le groupe de rock le plus mythique de tous les temps. Leurs concerts remplissaient les stades aux quatre coins de la planète et ils ont enflammé les nuits de toute une génération. De leurs débuts dans les bars miteux d'une Sunset Strip écrasée de soleil californien à la gloire, leur histoire est celle d'une ascension fulgurante.

There's only one thing notorious thief Lyta loves more than a big score: her little brother, Kit. But when Kit is arrested for producing seditious pamphlets, he stands to lose not only his printing press, but possibly his life. In exchange for her brother's freedom, Lyta strikes a daring bargain with the king -she will steal the infamous Book of Gold: a mysterious manuscript reputed to be hiding vast magical power within.

Will the hero and heroine of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice find their happily-ever-after when the odds and the wickedest of enemies are against them? Follow Elizabeth and Darcy in this novel-length Regency romance as J. Dawn King takes them through a sweet adventure where their happiness comes only if they obey The Letter of the Law.

The Earl of Tredair has had his fill of balls, routs, and silly misses, and he despairs of finding anyone out of the ordinary - that is, until he meets Miss Fanny Waverley. Most unique and intriguing, she and her two sisters are the adopted daughters of the reclusive bluestocking Madame Waverley. They have been raised as her disciples to spread the word of women's rights and to encourage poor oppressed females to stand up against the iniquities of the male sex.

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain, a seer shows two children their fates. For a family’s eighth-born son, there’s greatness. For the second daughter, nothing. In 1345, China lies restless under harsh Mongol rule. And when a bandit raid wipes out their home, the two children must somehow survive. Zhu Chongba despairs and gives in. But the girl resolves to overcome her destiny. So she takes her dead brother's identity and begins her journey. Can Zhu escape what’s written in the stars, as rebellion sweeps the land?

O ano é 1805, e o Calliope (que tem entre seus passageiros o alferes Richard Sharpe) é atacado pelo Revenant, um formidável navio de guerra francês que há algum tempo aterroriza o tráfego náutico no Oceano Índico. Quando parte rumo à segurança de sua própria frota, a nau francesa carrega um tratado roubado que pode levar a Índia a uma nova guerra com os britânicos... e jogar por terra tudo o que Sharpe conquistou até agora.

Anna Maria may have no name, no fortune, no family. But she has her ambition, and her talent. Her best hope lies in her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi. Soon she is his star pupil. But as Anna Maria’s star rises, not everyone is happy. Because Anna Maria’s shining light is threatening to eclipse that of her mentor… She will leave her mark, whatever it takes. And her story will be heard.

Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, The House on Mango Street tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong, not to her rundown neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Esperanza's story is that of a young girl coming into her power, and inventing for herself what she will become.

Em seu elogiado romance de estreia, Nathan Hill conta o drama tragicômico de Samuel Anderson, um escritor fracassado obrigado a lidar com antigas feridas, reabertas pelo inesperado ressurgimento da mãe, Faye, que abandonou a família quando ele era criança.