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"Tempestad" tiene la densidad de un diario íntimo filosófico con el pulso narrativo de una novela confesional. Si el corazón de la novela es el duelo amoroso, la historia dialoga con un duelo más amplio: el de la adultez, la promesa incumplida de la vida, la precariedad emocional, la fragilidad humana.Una mirada furtiva, un beso bajo la lluvia, un laberinto disruptivo, una erupcion, un misterio que se revela en pequeñas dosis y que lo cambia todo. A partir de ese instante, Emilio y Tempus se sumergen en una relacion marcada por la intensidad, la contradiccion y un deseo que arrastra tanto como devora. Entre cartas no enviadas, ciudades, insomnios y silencios devastadores, se despliega un universo intimo en el que el amor se convierte en refugio y amenaza, en salvacion y abismo."Tempestad" es una exploracion conmovedora de la fragilidad humana y de la persistencia del anhelo, una novela que entrelaza memorias, vinculos inesperados y momentos de epifania con una voz profundamente sensible, lucida y cargada de ironia. A traves de un puñado de personajes inolvidables, el autor retrata la experiencia contemporanea del amor y sus ruinas, entre madrigales, rituales intimos, mapas imaginarios y estallidos de belleza que irrumpen en el caos."Tempestad" es una novela atravesada por la literatura, la musica y la filosofia, donde cada revelacion es tambien una forma de resistencia frente al naufragio.

«[...] el agua en el séptimo carril está muy fría, casi helada. Mientras lucha con todas sus fuerzas por despertar de lo que espera sea solo un sueño, Santiago piensa que esa misma debe ser la temper

"O desconhecido empurrou com mais força, sentindo a resistência e depois o ceder dos tecidos internos. Ele girou a faca antes de puxá-la para fora. Sangue, de um vermelho surpreendentemente escuro, q

O impacto devastador do crime digital na vida das pessoas não é apenas uma violação virtual; suas consequências se materializam no mundo real de formas inimagináveis. Entre os golpes mais comuns, o p

Publicada originalmente em 1931, Cartucho é uma das obras mais singulares da literatura mexicana sobre a Revolução. A partir de breves relatos, quase estampas narrativas, Nellie Campobello reconstrói

Na Cidade do México do pós-guerra, em meio ao entusiasmo pela modernização e à crescente influência cultural dos Estados Unidos, o jovem Carlos vive uma paixão inesperada que marcará sua vida para se

ALGUMAS HERANÇAS SÃO COMO SENTENÇAS DE PRISÃO. PARA DESVENDAR O PASSADO, É PRECISO MERGULHAR NO LABIRINTO DE SEGREDOS ESCONDIDOS.Bogotá, 1923.No topo de uma imponente montanha na Colômbia, erguia-se

UM EXPERIMENTO QUE REACENDE UM PASSADO IMPOSSÍVEL DE IGNORAR.Como professora de química, Ashley Hutchinson sabe muito bem que amor e desejo não se misturam. Esses sentimentos derivam de hormônios esp

A New York Times Book Review Editors PickA riotously sharp novel about self-righteousness, control, and the unexpected afterlife of a dogRose Cutler prides herself on her principlesveganism, feminism, eco-consciousness, and general moral superiority. She runs a yogurt business she quietly despises and lives alone, comfortably distanced from the mess of human relationships. But, when her brother and sister-in-law let her watch her six-year-old nephew Nathan, things go spectacularly wrong. After Roses dog kills a corgi at the park, Nathan begins to bark, overeat, and claim that the dead dog has possessed his body. Rose assumes this is trauma. Nathan insists its metaphysical fact. As Rose embarks on a misguided quest to free Nathan from his canine passenger, what begins as an attempt at childcare devolves into a surreal, anarchic spiral of suburban chaos. Brimming with unhinged charm and moral ambiguity, The Hitch is a biting satire of the stories we tell ourselves to stay saneand the havoc we wreak when those stories fall apart.

A last-chance winter road trip for a Scottish band spirals into wild chaos seagull massacres, bomb tests, and darkly funny rocknroll madness on the edge. A raw, darkly funny novel by one of Scotlands finest authors newly reissued!ANNIVERSARY EDITION with an INTRODUCTION BY VAL MCDERMIDA drug-fuelled, counterclockwise state-of-the-nation rock n roll tour, captures where we were at better than any modern novel Ive readIrvine WelshA powerful and moving commentary on the country and its defining mythsIan RankinOne of the most vital books about modern Scotland our landscape, culture, identity, myths and lies of the twenty-first century. And despite the dinge, debauchery and danger, its still a joy to tour with the bandCallum McSorleyPacked with seedy, sticky bars, sullen punters and morose reflections in deteriorating weather, there is an atmospheric beauty to The OssiansIndependent on Sunday____Connor is twenty-four, brilliant, broken, and out of control. Hes the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on the brink of signing a major record deal.Desperate to make their mark, they head off on a two-week winter tour across the cities and hinterlands of Scotland a last-ditch attempt to find fame, purpose, and themselves.But the tour soon spirals into a surreal, chaotic odyssey. From seedy bars and snowbound towns to a final, defining Glasgow gig, the band hurtles through a whirlwind of seagull massacres, botched drug deals, a mysterious stalker, radioactive beaches, bomb-testing ranges, epileptic fits, riotous Russian submariners, deadly storms, epiphanies, regular beatings and random shootings.Raw, darkly funny and wild with energy, The Ossians is a gloriously anarchic story of rocknroll obsession, national identity and self-destruction, and what it means to belong in a band, in a country, in a life unravelling at speed.___The authentic ring of a man whos been thereGuardian Johnstone is good at describing the excitement, boredom, sniping and bonhomie of a touring band at the transit-van end of the career arcThe TimesA blastScotland on SundaySo exhilaratingly authentic, you can hear the chords and smell the vomitChristopher BrookmyreA gripping, compelling road trip around modern ScotlandNiall Griffiths This is This Is Spinal Tap for Scotlands lost generation. Johnstone has taken a small story of a small band lost in a small country and created an epicEwan MorrisonEntertains in the uncharted corners of an unseen ScotlandListPraise for Doug JohnstoneTense, funny and deeply movingMark BillinghamNobody portrays modern Edinburgh better than Doug Johnstone speaks volumes about the power of storyVal McDermidAn engrossing and beautifully written tale that bears all the Doug Johnstone hallmarks in its warmth and darkly comic undertonesHerald ScotlandWonderful characters: flawed, funny and braveSunday TimesGripping and blackly humorousObserverA must for those seeking strong, authentic, intelligent female protagonistsPublishers WeeklyThis enjoyable mystery is also a touching and often funny portrayal of grief ... more, pleaseGuardianSome of the most unique characters in crime fictionDaily ExpressUnderlines just how accomplished Johnstone has becomeDaily Mail

Livro vencedor do Prêmio Cidade de Belo Horizonte e finalista dos prêmios Jabuti e São Paulo de Literatura.Este é um livro sobre precisar crescer, sobre apaixonar-se e saber a hora de ir embora ou de

Set against the restless backdrop of 1967, *Never Date an Actor* is a coming-of-age story about ambition, desire, and the cost of choosing yourself in a world determined to define you.Susie Harper is a nineteen-year-old working-class girl from a small town that expects its women to marry young, stay quiet, and never ask for more. But Susie wants words-stories, ink-stained fingers, and a life shaped by her own voice. When she defies her family and enrols at Riverside University, she steps into a world alive with protest, creativity, and possibility.There, she finds herself caught between two intoxicating forces: the promise of becoming a writer and her growing attraction to Daniel Hartman, a charismatic theatre student whose charm is as dangerous as it is magnetic. As Susie navigates friendships, creative failure, artistic awakening, and first love, she must confront a truth shes been warned about since childhood-some passions uplift you, and others consume you.Rich with period detail and emotional honesty, *Never Date an Actor* explores female ambition, artistic identity, and the delicate line between loving someone and losing yourself. It is a story about finding your voice-and learning when to protect it.

A twisty tale full of surprises with a nail-biting finale. I didnt want it to end Sarah Ward, author of The Death LessonLeonie is on a jury deciding the fate of a nurse accused of murder. But just as deliberations begin, Britain comes under attack and the courthouse is locked down.Ordered to stay put for their own safety, the jurors soon realise the real danger lies inside the building. The accused has escaped his cell and hes playing twisted games with the group.Because he knows something about Leonie. She isnt on the jury by chance, and her reasons for being there are more personal than anyone suspects. As trust fractures, how far will Leonie go to tip the scales of justice in her favour?READERS CANT GET ENOUGH OF THIS HEART-POUNDING LOCKED ROOM THRILLER:So tense, so eerie. . . I was terrified. Easily one of the best books Ill read this year NetGalley ReaderA high-stakes psychological game where trust evaporates and paranoia takes over NetGalley ReaderThe pacing is sharp, the twists well-timed and the moral ambiguity gives the story real bite NetGalley ReaderGrabs you from the first page and refuses to let go NetGalley Reader

The Patience of Trees is a literary fiction collection spanning a century (1924-2024), chronicling generations of one family as their lives intersect with Fletcher Moss Gardens in Manchester. Across ten interconnected stories, the collection explores how love persistsand failsacross decades, shaped by class barriers, war, social constraints, and time itself. At its heart lies a question: can the patterns that trap us finally be broken?Each story stands alone as a complete narrative, but together they form a conversation about what endures and what transforms. The Gardens serves as both setting and silent witness. The trees stand unchanging while lives unfold beneath themmeetings, partings, grief, joy, transformation. They hold every moment with equal care, indifferent to human categories of success and failure, remembering everything, judging nothing.At its heart, this is a book about patience: the patience required to love across distance and silence, the patience of those who witness without fully understanding, and the patience of placeslike Fletcher Mossthat hold our stories long after weve forgotten we left them there.

Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable. We must trust the perfection of the creation so far, as to believe that whatever curiosity the order of things has awakened in our minds, the order of things can satisfy. Every mans condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefull

Tedd lives with her parents on a farm in the Icelandic wilderness. Its 1962, and the world is changing, although you wouldnt know it from the stark quiet of the lava fields and mountains that mark the boundaries of the young womans existence. But after two chance encounters, Tedds dreams of a world beyond begin to crystallise, albeit in strange and unexpected ways, as we follow one womans life over five decades, from farm to city to the skies. Taking us from the grandeur of rural Iceland to the glossy, sticky world of 1970s air travel, via check fraud, thwarted ambition and lost astronauts, Boudoir is a novel about reinvention, dislocation, and the forceful gravity of the lives and selves we think weve left behind.

"Muitas apresentacoes ja estavam esgotadas. Nas noites de estreia, rapazes brigavam pelos ultimos ingressos. As pessoas queriam participar, dar sua opiniao. Mas, sobretudo, queriam ver o judeu baixinho e inquieto que, por alguma razao inexplicavel, tinha conseguido disciplinar a melhor e mais teimosa orquestra do mundo."No conves de um navio que partiu de Nova York a caminho da Europa, esta sentado Gustav Mahler. Ele e famoso, o maior musico de sua epoca; mas seu corpo doi. Entre as conversas com o aprendiz de bordo designado a servi-lo, Mahler relembra os ultimos anos de sua vida os veroes nas montanhas, a morte de sua filha Maria, os conflitos na Opera de Viena. E sua ultima viagem.

Three women. One life-changing secret. Will honesty bind them together or tear them apart?Single mother Charlie can barely pay the rent, never mind give her son the chances he deserves. Desperate to escape mounting debt, she enters into a surrogacy deal with a stranger. It will solve all her problems, wont it?High-flying Suzie is used to getting what she wants. Yet her biggest dream of being a mother is beyond her grasp. So when a chance for happiness comes her way in the shape of Charlie, why shouldnt she take it?Meanwhile, Dawn, Suzies steadfast university friend, is discovering that finding her mojo is about as hard as finding a good-fitting bra. What has happened to her sex life? Is finding the missing lid of a Tupperware box the biggest thrill she can expect? She thinks not.As Charlies pregnancy progresses, the womens lives grow increasingly intertwined, revealing old betrayals and hidden connections. At a pivotal celebration, long-held secrets threaten their fragile unitybut also offer the possibility of forgiveness and fresh starts.Perfect for fans of Jojo Moyes and Marian Keyes, this is a powerful story of friendship, motherhood, and second chances.Please note: this title was originally published as A Year of Second Chances.

South of England, 1816.The Earl of Steald, a decorated hero of the Napoleonic Wars, arrives at the estate of Niant for a gathering, invited by an old school friend. Amid the refined noble familys festivities, he encounters Miss Isabella Marton and soon finds himself captivated by her sharp wit and spirit. In Isabella, he discovers a worthy opponent in the battle they both wage against falling in love.Set in the aristocratic world of early nineteenth-century English society, this novel is a homage to the Romantic Era.

Tara Selter is one of many.In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November. Her days with Henry, Ralf and Olga revolve around the daily routines of practical chores: gathering provisions, splitting firewood. But one morning, there are five new arrivals at their wrought-iron gate.As more people continue to arrive, their home fills with movement, voices fill the air; a flurry of people asking questions, sharing their eighteenths of November. Slowly, they settle into a new routine and Tara begins to breathe a little easier. Could they create a new world inside the eighteenth of November?Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and Winner of the Nordic Council Prize for Literature, On the Calculation of Volume IV is the fourth volume of the poetic, page-turning European masterpiece about one womans fall through the cracks of time. Absolutely, absolutely incredible.Karl Ove KnausgrdA total explosion.Nicole KraussUnforgettable.Hernan DiazBreathtaking. Chetna MarooBrilliant.Jon McGregorAbsolutely marvellous.Lauren Groff