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Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves. What happens next is entirely everyone else’s fault.

Brasília, décadas de 1980 e 1990. Uma jovem sai do interior para trabalhar como empregada doméstica na casa de um casal rico na cidade grande. Lá, enquanto tenta entender a dinâmica diária dos dois, ela começa a ver algumas meninas passando diariamente para algum tipo de entrevista a portas fechadas. Depois de meses sem achar a escolhida, o casal finalmente faz a proposta a Damiana (apesar de acharem o tom da sua pele um pouco mais escuro do que gostariam): que ela seja barriga de aluguel para eles.

Beren was a mortal man, but Lúthien was an immortal Elf. Her father, a great Elvish lord, was deeply opposed to Beren, and imposed on him an impossible task that he must perform before he might wed Lúthien. Undaunted by Lord Thingol’s challenge, Beren and Lúthien embark on the supremely heroic attempt to rob Morgoth, the greatest of all evil beings, of a Silmaril, one of the hallowed jewels that adorn the Black Enemy’s crown.

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. 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.

O visconde partido ao meio, publicado originalmente em 1952, veio a compor com O cavaleiro inexistente e O barão nas árvores uma trilogia a que Italo Calvino (1923-85) chamou de Os nossos antepassados, uma espécie de árvore genealógica do homem contemporâneo, alienado, dividido, incompleto. É a história de Medardo di Terralba, o voluntarioso visconde que, na defesa da cristandade contra os turcos, leva um tiro de canhão no peito, mas sobrevive, ficando absurdamente partido ao meio. A metade direita atormentada pela maldade, e a esquerda, pela bondade.

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth - or Minitrue as it is called in Newspeak - altering newspapers and reports to follow the arbitrary dictates of Big Brother’s propaganda.

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.

Quando lançado, em 1969, O complexo de Portnoy se tornou best-seller e foi saudado como a consagração definitiva do talento de Philip Roth. A crítica, porém, teve certa dificuldade em classificá-lo. Seria "literatura séria" ou apenas humor? Não era a primeira vez na história do romance que um livro engraçadíssimo parecia uma obra importante; mas havia ao menos dois elementos que causavam estranheza. Em primeiro lugar, o traço caricatural na construção dos personagens lembrava o humor dos grandes comediantes judeus da época, como Lenny Bruce e Woody Allen, que se apresentavam em boates.

“Numa manhã, ao despertar de sonhos inquietantes, Gregório Samsa deu por si na cama transformado em um gigantesco inseto.” É assim que começa a história do caixeiro viajante Gregório, publicada em 1915 e que se tornou a obra mais conhecida e estudada de Kafka. O texto aborda as relações humanas em meio à sociedade burocrática, misturando absurdo, tragédia e realismo, temas recorrentes nos trabalhos deste mestre da literatura ficcional.

Edgar Wilson é "um homem simples que executa tarefas". Trabalha no órgão responsável por recolher animais mortos em estradas e levá-los para um depósito onde são triturados num grande moedor. Seu colega de profissão, Tomás, é um ex-padre excomungado pela Igreja Católica que distribui extrema unção aos moribundos vítimas de acidentes fatais que cruzam seu caminho.

1939. Léa Delmas a dix-sept ans. Sa famille possède le domaine de Montillac, au cœur du vignoble bordelais. Sa vie se résume aux senteurs de cette terre, à la lumière, à la tendresse des siens. La maison s'affaire aux préparatifs du bal... Mais la déclaration de guerre anéantit l'harmonie de cette fin d'été, et jette Léa dans le chaos. Elle découvre et affronte la débâcle, l’exode sous les bombes, la mort, l'occupation nazie, l'exploitation du domaine, la violence du plaisir, la fragilité des sentiments.

El día en que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levantó a las 5.30 de la mañana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el obispo. Acaso sea Crónica de una muerte anunciada la obra más "realista" de Gabriel García Márquez, pues se basa en un hecho histórico acontecido en la tierra natal del escritor.

Manuelzão e Miguilim configura-se em um edifício de alta densidade literária, construído com a engenhosidade ímpar de João Guimarães Rosa.

The Story of a New Name follows Elena Ferrante's critically acclaimed My Brilliant Friend, featuring Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their 20s, and marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile Elena continues her journey of self-discovery.

In the rigid theocracy of Salem, Massachusetts, rumors that women are practicing witchcraft galvanize the town. In a searing portrait of a community engulfed by panic—with ruthless prosecutors, and neighbors eager to testify against neighbor—The Crucible famously mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria that held the United States in its grip in the 1950’s.

Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep south - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred, available now for the first time as a digital audiobook. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the 20th century by librarians across the country.

Nessa espécie de romance de cavalaria às avessas, Italo Calvino põe em marcha toda a sua habilidade construtiva e capacidade alegórica, mas também a sua verve humorística, para contar as aventuras e desventuras de Agilulfo Emo Bertrandino dos Guildiverni e dos Altri de Corbentraz e Sura, o cavaleiro inexistente da corte de Carlos Magno. Circundado por uma galeria de personagens que compõem um verdadeiro exército brancaleônico, Agilulfo serve com fé a causa da cristandade.

Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executor of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd in to help or confuse her. But gradually, death, drugs, madness, and marriage combine to leave Oepida in isolation on the threshold of revelation, awaiting The Crying of Lot 49.

1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory – a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with his lover on a winter night, his childhood on a faraway coast – as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to North Yorkshire, near another river – alive, but not still whole. Reunited with Helena, an artist, he reopens his photography business and endeavours to keep on living. But the past erupts insistently into the present.

Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the 20th century’s most acclaimed popular author.