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Vencedor do concurso Livros do Futuro, organizado pelo TikTok Brasil, Espectros de um crime é um suspense nacional cativante que une suspense, humor, romance e uma pitada generosa de elementos sobrenaturais.Diana Aguilar tem um dom especial: ela ve fantasmas. Para falar a verdade, e mais um inconveniente do que qualquer outra coisa Afinal, as apariçes tem o pessimo habito de dar as caras nos momentos mais inoportunos com os pedidos mais absurdos. Bom, pelo menos Diana consegue tirar algum proveito disso trabalhando como consultora do Departamento de Homicidios e fazendo bicos como medium.Ate que um psicopata da inicio a uma serie de ataques brutais na pacata cidade de Nova Orie. Agora, ela precisa se unir a Daniel, o detetive cetico que a tira do serio (de varias maneiras), e usar seus dons para descobrir quem esta por tras dos assassinatos. Mas, quando os fantasmas das vitimas começam a desaparecer sem explicaço, Diana percebe que essa investigaço no sera como as outras e que o sobrenatural pode ser muito mais perigoso do que ela imaginava

Tomás Mena mal pode esperar para entrar na universidade e conseguir sua liberdade. A família, o bairro e a ditadura já não cabem mais na vida que ele quer. Tomás deseja experimentar tudo, sentir-se i

Há algo de irresistível num homem de fato e com uma mente atrevida... mais ainda se for o teu professor.Há algo de irresistível num homem de fato e com uma mente atrevida... mais ainda se for o teu professor.Quando Caine West me conheceu, no foi um dos meus melhores momentos - eu tinha bebido demais, confundi-o com outra pessoa e ele devorava-me com os olhos, o suficiente para me tirar do serio.So depois, ao encontra-lo na universidade, descobri: o sensual Caine West, com o seu sorrisinho presunçoso, viria a ser o meu novo professor. Melhor ainda: eu trabalharia para ele como sua assistente. Eu, Rachel, que o tratara como um imbecil e atacara os seus enormes... atributos.Bela maneira de te apresentares ao teu prof!Tentei desculpar-me, e ele fez questo de me relembrar da hierarquia da sala de aula. Desde ento, tento ser profissional, mas o magnetismo dele e inegavel. Com rosto (e corpo!) de deus grego e uma voz grave e aveludada, no me admira que as alunas suspirem a sua passagem. So no contava ficar tambem eu hipnotizada pelo charme do meu professor- E pela forma como a camisa lhe assenta nos braços bem definidos ou como as suas mos parecem saber sempre o que fazer...Bolas, Rachel, no que e que te estas a meter?No me faltam ideias sobre como poderiamos passar algum tempo sozinhos na sala de aulas!

UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DO ANOThe New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Post,People, Minnesota Star Tribune, NPR, Chicago Public LibraryUma cidade. Duas famílias. Um segredo que muda tudo.No exuberante rescaldo da vitoria dos Aliados na Europa, Cal Jenkins, um homem ferido no pela guerra, mas pela sua incapacidade de servir nela, vive um momento unico e transformador de paixo com Margaret Salt, uma mulher determinada a deixar o passado para tras. Cal e casado com Becky, cujos dons espirituais ajudam os vivos a comunicar com os seus mortos, enquanto o marido de Margaret, Felix, esta em serviço num navio de carga da Marinha, onde se acredita que esteja seguro - ate um telegrama sugerir o contrario.O que começa como uma transgresso passageira torna-se um segredo complexo que une irrevogavelmente os quatro de maneiras inesperadas. A medida que a pequena cidade do Ohio se reconstroi no pos-guerra, as familias Jenkins e Salt permanecem na orbita uma da outra, e as consequencias desse encontro antigo começam a emergir, reverberando na geraço seguinte e obrigando-as a repensar quem julgavam ter sido ate ento, bem como o que o futuro lhes reservava.Um romance epico sobre lealdade, sacrificio e perdo, fruto de um profundo conhecimento do espirito humano, que captura na plenitude o desejo universal de amor e bondade.Os elogios da critica:Amo este livro com todo o meu coraço. Ann NapolitanoUm romance glorioso. Ann PatchettUma luminosa saga do seculo XX sobre almas feridas e segredos que povoam qualquer pequena cidade. The GuardianA combinaço entre vidas privadas pouco comuns, um olhar sardonico e a historia dos Estados Unidos do seculo XX traz-nos a mente os primeiros romances de John Irving. No final, o grande triunfo deste livro e o modo como consegue capturar a natureza dos nossos erros, sejam os abismos que se criam, sejam as pontes que se constroem. Financial TimesElevado por uma sentimentalidade difusa, este drama discreto de Patrick Ryan invoca toda a complexidade que existe sob a fachada das vidas perfeitas de meados do seculo passado. The Washington PostEste fascinante e terno romance segue o percurso de duas familias do Ohio desde a decada de 1920 aos anos 60, periodo durante o qual o amor e encontrado e perdido pelo "desenrolar do tempo", como to bem uma das personagens o descreve. People, Must-Read Books of FallRyan tinha a ambiço de escrever um epico americano e fe-lo. NPRDe uma inteligencia aguçada e pleno de emoço, este romance e um hino glorioso as alegrias e as dores de todas as familias. Publishers Weekly

Entra no mundo de Game Changers, a série por trás do fenómeno de sucesso Heated Rivalry, e descobre como tudo começou com a história apaixonante de Scott e Kip.Quando um smoothie preparado pelo barista Kip Grady muda a sua sorte no jogo, Scott Hunter, astro do hoquei profissional e capito dos New York Admirals, fica ansioso por conhecer o rapaz sexy atras do balco.A atraço entre ambos e imediata e inegavel. Mas a medida que a temporada lhe corre cada vez melhor e Scott se ve no centro das atençes, torna-se cada vez mais impossivel manter esta relaço em segredo.Kip esta pronto para se comprometer com Scott, mas sera que este esta preparado para assumir tudo e virar o jogo?

Ele te convidou para entrar… mas será que você conseguirá sair?Depois que o namorado de Cathy termina o relacionamento de forma inesperada, ela fica arrasada. Além disso, precisa deixar o apartamento

A Piadas Para Crianças segue firme como compromisso de levar diversão saudável para toda a família! Aqui, o humor é atualizado, consciente e cheio de boas gargalhadas! Nosso objetivo é continuar send

Samantha Cooper está tendo um dia infernal.Primeiro, a namorada parte seu coração em um milhão de pedaços. Depois, ela recebe um ultimato para desocupar o apartamento que um dia dividiram. Para compl

A wild party. A friendship. A cherished pet. And a night that changes everything.Its Julies eighteenth birthday, and shes throwing a party in her fathers extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her longsuffering best friend Christine is trying to pick up the pieces. As the revellers pile into the booze, down in the kitchen Christine and her boyfriend Jon son of Julies cleaner clear up and dare to dream of the future.But as the volume goes up and the shots go down, Julie concocts a twisted cocktail of privilege, desire and destruction. The House Party spins Strindbergs classic play Miss Julie into intense, fizzing life for todays generation. Laura Lomass play was first performed at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2024, and then toured the UK in 2025, co-produced with Headlong in association with Frantic Assembly, and directed by Holly Race Roughan.

EM UM PAÍS ONDE A TERRA TREME E OS CORPOS DESAPARECEM, A MEMÓRIA TAMBÉM É UM CAMPO DE BATALHA.Tempos de amor e de guerra mergulha no coração convulso da Nicarágua pré-revolucionária, onde amores clan

Enjoy these famous legends from Portugal, now expanded and refined in a richly updated second edition!This book contains 56 notable Portuguese legends including four brand-new additions which have been told and retold by natives from Portugal across the centuries. Building on the success of the first edition, this version has been revised with new research and enhanced accuracy, offering one of the most authentic collections of Portuguese folklore available in English.Whether youre interested in legends from Portugal, local culture or simply looking for a collection of stories youve never read before, this book presents you with many notable tales covering a wide range of themes: Local legends which predate the foundation of Portugal in the XII century (such as Ulysses founding the city of Lisbon; Guesto Ansures; ...) Legends from the time of Afonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal (the famous "Miracle of Ourique"; the conquest of the city of Evora; ...) Medieval legends regarding the foundation of a few local cities and villages (such as Alenquer and Moura; ...) Legends about Portuguese kings (Martim de Freitas faithfulness; the Magpies of Sintra; the return of King Sebastio; ...) Legends connected to the notable Battle of Aljubarrota (the Twelve of England; the Female Baker; ...) Legends from the time of the Explorers and Portuguese Empire (Machims; the mysterious statue of the island of Corvo; the giant Adamastor; ...) Fantastic and religious legends (the Goat-footed ladies; Fuas Roupinho; the Enchanted Moors; the Olharapos; ...) And even some legends about famous places and notable people from Portugal (the Rooster of Barcelos; the love story of Ines de Castro; the Labours of Saint Engratia; the statue of the Duke of Coimbra; the recent story of Teresa Fidalgo; ...) This second edition also introduces seven translated primary sources, bringing some native documents - such as the Juramento de Ourique, the Nau Catrineta and the Canço do Figueiral - to English readers for the first time.Many of these legends were never made available in English before the first edition, and they are now further compiled, refined, and contextualized here, along with brief explanatory notes for those who dont speak Portuguese but would like to learn more about these myths, legends and stories from the country of Cames, Pessoa, Amalia and Cristiano Ronaldo.Step into the myths that built a nation. Discover Portugal through its most famous legends.

Disgusting and brilliant should earn Meades justifiable comparison to Joyce, Celine, Pynchon Paul Spike, Vogue.At first glance, this 1993 masterpiece is a post-war family saga set in and around the city of Portsmouth. This doesnt come close to communicating the scabrous magnificence of Meadess creation. Pompey is an obscene, suppurating vision of an England in terminal decline.The story begins with Guy Vallender, a fireworks manufacturer from Portsmouth, who has four children by different four different women. Theres poor Eddie, a feeble geek with a gift for healing; Mad Bantu, the son of a black prostitute, who was hopelessly damaged in the womb by an attempted abortion; Bonnie, who is born beautiful but becomes a junkie and a porn star; and finally Jean-Marie, a leather-wearing gay gerontophiliac conceived on a one-night stand in Belgium.The narrator is Jonathan Meades, cousin to poor Eddie and Bonnie, who tells the story of how their strange and poisonous destinies intersect. And although there is no richer stew of perversity, voyeurism, corruption, religious extremism and curdled celebrity in all of English literature, there is also an underlying compassion and jet-black humour which makes Pompey an important and strangely satisfying work of art. Prepare to enter the English novels darkest ride...

Meades makes everything sound so delicious that the non-cook will be moved to cook and the bad cook will cook better David Hare, The Guardian.The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is an anti-cookbook. Best known as a provocative novelist, journalist and film-maker, Jonathan Meades has also been called the best amateur chef in the world by Marco Pierre White. His contention here is that anyone who claims to have invented a dish is delusional, dishonestly contributing to the myth of culinary originality.Meades delivers a polemical but highly usable collection of 125 of his favourite recipes, each one an example of the fine art of culinary plagiarism. These are dishes and methods he has hijacked, adapted, improved upon and made his own. Without assuming any special knowledge or skill, the book is full of excellent advice. He tells us why the British never got the hang of garlic. That a purist would never dream of putting cheese in a Gratin Dauphinois. That cooking brains in brown butter cannot be improved upon. And why despite the advice of Martin Scorseses mother he insists on frying his meatballs.In a world dominated by health fads, food vloggers and over-priced kitchen gadgets, The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is timely reminder that, when it comes to food, its almost always better to borrow than to invent.

Get ALL THREE books in the hilarious, award-winning, internationally bestselling Rabbit Factor trilogy in one GREAT VALUE set!An insurance mathematicians carefully ordered life is upended when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park with criminals, desperate schemes, dangerous enemies, impossibly high stakes and the bewildering chaos of family life. A darkly funny, tense and brilliantly offbeat trilogy from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen now in production for the screen, starring Steve Carell.The funniest writer in EuropeThe TimesDelightfully funnyGuardian`A thrilling and hilarious read Liz NugentThe king of the humorous crime caperAbir Mukherjee----------------------------------------The Rabbit Factor (Book One)An insurance mathematicians carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park with a whole host of problems. A quirky, tense and warmly funny thriller from award-winning Finnish author Antti Tuomainen, FIRST in a seriesThe Moose Paradox (Book Two)Insurance mathematician Henri has his life under control, when a man from the past appears and a shady trio take over the adventure parks equipment supply company Things are messier than ever in the absurdly funny, heart-stoppingly tense second instalment in Antti Tuomainens bestselling series The Beaver Theory (Book Three)Can everyones favourite insurance mathematician, Henri, combine the increasingly dangerous world of adventure parks with the unpredictability of blended-family life? Hes about to find out in the final instalment of the hilarious, nail-biting Rabbit Factor Trilogy.----------------------------------------Praise for The Rabbit Factor Trilogy`Finlands greatest export M.J. Arlidge`Thrilling and warmly human. In these uncertain times, what better hero than an actuary? Chris Brookmyre`Unlike anything else out there The Times`Charming, funny and clever, this is a novel to cheer up anyone who is finding life a little tough Literary Review`A delight from start to finish Big Issue`Original and brilliant story-telling Helen FitzGerald`A coruscating comedy Sunday Times`Right up there with the best Times Literary Supplement`A thriller with black comedy worth of Nabokov Telegraph

Get ALL FIVE dark, caustically funny, shocking thrillers in Simone Buchholzs international, bestselling Chastity Rileyseries in one GREAT-VALUE Box Set!Award-winning German noir an addictive, breathtakingly original detective series. State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her team investigate a series of dark crimes in Hamburg. From mafia networks and kidnappings to arson attacks and hostage situations, chain-smoking Chastity is drawn into some of the citys most dangerous cases.[A] nerve-racking narrative [with] a cunning climax that is shocking and deeply romanticThe TimesFierce enough to stab the heartSpectatorA stylish, whip-smart thrillerHerald Scotland----------------------------------------Blue Night (Book 1)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley has been side-lined to prevent her from causing trouble, but her new job turns out to be far from dull when she finds herself involved in taking down an Albanian mafia kingpin. First in an addictive, wildly original series from the Queen of KrimiBeton Rouge (Book 2)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her new sidekick Ivo investigate the case of newspaper executives who have been caged and tortured outside their offices on a trail that leads them to the hothouse world of boarding schools and some harrowing secretsMexico Street (Book 3)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series of arson attacks on cars across the city, which leads her to a startling and life-threatening discovery involving criminal gangs and a very illicit love storyHotel Cartagena (Book 4)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley and her friends are held hostage in a hotel bar by twelve armed men set on revenge, in a searing, breathtakingly original, and unexpectedly moving new thriller from the Queen of Krimi WINNER of the CWA Crime in Translation DaggerRiver Clyde (Book 5)Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley travels to Scotland to face the demons of her past, as Hamburg is hit by a major arson attack. Queen of Krimi, Simone Buchholz, returns with the emotive fifth instalment in the electrifying Chastity Riley series ----------------------------------------Praise for the Chastity Riley seriesReading Buchholz is like walking on firecrackers a truly unique voice in crime fictionGraeme Macrae BurnetA cunning climax that is shocking and deeply romanticThe TimesCombines nail-biting tension with off-beat humour Publishers WeeklyBuchholz doles out delicious black humorForeword ReviewsModern noir, with taut storytelling, a hard-bitten heroine, and underlying melancholy peppered with wry humourNew Zealand ListenerThe coolest character in crime fiction darkly funny and written with a huge heartBig IssueWith brief, pacy chapters and fizzling dialogue, this almost feels like American procedural noir and not a translationMaxim JakubowskiA smart and witty book that shines a probing spotlight on societyCultureFlyFans of Brookmyre could do worse than checking out Simone Buchholz, a star of the German crime lit scene who has been deftly translated into English by Rachel WardGoethe InstituteLyrical and pithySunday Times

Get ALL THREE books in the riveting, thought-provoking, shockingly authentic The Forcing Trilogy from international bestselling author and leading environmental scientist Paul E. Hardisty in one GREAT VALUE set!In a world ravaged by climate collapse, power has fallen to the young and the generations blamed for the disaster are cast out. From exile and escape to a desperate search for the truth behind the catastrophe, and a teenage girl carrying the last fragments of human knowledge, this powerful, gripping dystopian trilogy about devastation, survival and the fragile possibility of hope confronts the cost of the climate emergency and the fight to rebuildPaul Hardisty is a visionaryLuke McCallin`A superbly handled tale of struggle and survival in a maimed world The TimesVery plausible and terrifyingly soSciFi Now----------------------------------------The Forcing (Book One)In a near future, where civilisation has collapsed, a government of youth has taken power in North America. All older people deemed responsible for the cataclysmic climate emergency are relocated, but a breakaway group escapes exile to seek freedom at devastating costThe Descent (Book Two)A young man and his young family set out on a perilous voyage across a devastated planet to uncover the origin of the events that set the world on its course to disaster The prescient, deeply shocking prequel to the bestselling, critically acclaimed Climate Emergency thriller, The Forcing.The Hope (Book Three)In a future devastated by climate collapse, a secret library is destroyed and a teenage girl gifted with perfect memory becomes the last refuge of human knowledge, hunted by those in power as she fights to save the last hope for humanity. The searing, unforgettable conclusion to the internationally acclaimed The Forcing trilogy.----------------------------------------Praise for The Forcing TrilogyAnnounces Paul E. Hardisty as the true heir to John ChristopherTim GlisterA novel that might have actually predicted our futureEwan MorrisonPaul Hardisty is a fine writerLee ChildThe book Ive been waiting and hoping forPaul WatersA riveting eco-thrillerCrime Fiction Lover

Virginia Woolf leu James Joyce? Joyce leu Virginia? A primeira tem resposta fácil, porque Virginia escreveu publicamente sobre Joyce, em especial, sobre Ulysses. Ele figura, centralmente, no ensaio "Os romances modernos", de 1919. Ele aparece novamente em 1925, no ensaio "A ficço moderna", verso ligeiramente modificada de "Os romances modernos". Pode-se dizer que Virginia tinha uma relaço ambigua com Joyce e seu Ulysses. Ela, sem duvida, admirava sua criatividade, mas tambem era essa criatividade que a incomodava. Joyce, por sua vez, que se comprazia em reproduzir, em seus livros, sobretudo em Finnegans Wake, frases de seus criticos, transcritos ao seu bel prazer, faz ao menos uma referencia a uma frase de Virginia, retirada justamente do ensaio em que ela trata dos romances modernos. E esse "encontro" (ou seria um "desencontro"?) entre os dois que o livro busca documentar.

Penniless and newly orphaned Briar Monroe finds shelter at Thornby Manor, a brooding estate above a mist-shrouded lake. But whispers of a dead wife, an estranged son and locked-away secrets haunt its corridors Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril a spellbinding historical mystery of love, betrayal, obsession and a house that will not forgetGloriously and traditionally gothic, rich in mist, rattling windowpanes, hidden missives and feverish dreams an addictive Victorian mysteryJoanna MillerA gripping gothic tale, simmering with menaceA.J. WestFuses the brooding sense of menace of a Bronte novel with the twisty notes of a suspense thriller. A deliciously absorbing gothic mysteryVaseem KhanAtmospheric and accomplished steeped in the gothic tradition of mystery and griefEssie FoxThere suddenly was Thornby Manor. I would never forget the first time I saw itA talisman of darkness, an emblem of death.Warwickshire, 1891. Recently orphaned and left destitute, Briar Monroe accepts the protection of Lord Danville and the shadowed sanctuary of Thornby Manor. The great house looms above a mist-shrouded lake, its corridors heavy with secrets not least the mysterious death of Lady Elizabeth Danville, and the unspoken tensions between her formidable widower and his magnetic son, Gabriel.As Briar navigates the undercurrents of a household ruled by watchful servants and locked doors, she is drawn ever deeper into a web of suspicion, desire and fear. Whispers in the night, figures at windows, and a constant sense of being watched leave her questioning not only the truth about Thornby, but her own safety within its walls.Atmospheric, intoxicating and laced with peril, Thornby Manor is a gothic tale of betrayal, obsession and a house that never forgets.A simmering, haunting debut for readers who loved Jane Eyre, Rebecca, The Woman in White and The Silent Companions[An] enthralling gothic debut beautifully written, brimming with tension and full or intriguing, morally grey characters. A wonderfully dark historical mystery that kept me reading until 1am!Caroline LeaGothic fiction has a new starAnnie GarthwaiteDark, deliciously unsettling A spellbinding, emotionally intense, intelligent tale dripping with betrayal and obsessionBarbara HavelockeDarkly dramatic, delicious fun. If you love a gothic novel full of secrets to be unpacked this is one for you Liz HyderFull of darkness and twisted secretsKate GriffinThis tale of mystery and madness, of deception and defiance, of scandal and suspicion, will have readers compulsively turning pages deep into the nightNaomi KelseyA chilling gothic mystery as unsettling as the mist that swirls around the manor. The final twist took my breath awayEmma CowingImmersive and chilling gothic novel with a mystery that keeps you guessing until the final chapterRachel Louise DriscollA tense, atmospheric and masterful work of gothic fiction as chilling as it is intoxicatingCathryn KempA gripping gothic masterpieceGill PaulA gothic mystery written with beauty and eleganceLiv MatthewsBeautifully written, moody, hauntingLouise SwansonUnsettling, intoxicatingly gothic, highly original and laced with dread a must-read debutDan BassettThink Jane Eyre meets Rebecca meets Northanger Abbey with a sprinkling of Wilkie Collins. I absolutely loved it Joanna Miller

Every city has its ghosts. Ravn just hunts the ones that still breathe.Former investigator, Thomas Ravnsholdtknown as Ravndrifts like wreckage along Copenhagens harbour, numbed by cheap liquor and old wounds. But his peace is shattered when a desperate young woman shows up, pleading for help: her brother has vanished after stealing millions.The trail leads Ravn from the windy docks of Copenhagen to Berlin, where ghosts of the Cold War still linger: Stasi files, double agents, and brutality that never truly came to an end. Ravn soon realises that the missing is not merely lost, but ensnared in a deadly web.Dark and unnerving, The Missing blends a classic disappearance mystery with Nordic Noir slow-burning tension. Perfect for fans of Jo Nesbs and Jussi Adler-Olsens haunted detectives.

Entre o real e o lendário, o cômico e o trágico, Vasto mundo desenha um retrato coletivo feito de fé, injustiça e resistência. Com uma prosa ímpar, Maria Valéria Rezende, autora vencedora do prêmio J