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Obra-prima do realismo, este romance singular de Machado de Assis narra a história de um homem consumido pelo ciúme e pela desconfiança. Fixação e notas de Manoel M. Santiago-Almeida Introdução de Amândio Reis Dom Casmurro é Bento Santiago, Bentinho, marido ciumento e desconfiado de Capitolina, Capitu, seu amor de infância, por quem abandona o seminário e os sonhos da mãe. Perturbado com a semelhança do próprio filho com o melhor amigo e obcecado por uma suposta infidelidade que não consegue provar, Bentinho delira, acusa Capitu, rejeita Ezequiel e cai em desgraça. Embora a sofisticação e virtuosismo da trama urdida em Dom Casmurro sejam comuns à restante obra de Machado de Assis, tais características são, a este nível, ímpares na literatura em língua portuguesa. Publicada em 1899, a história de Bento e Capitu - e as infinitas leituras a que se presta - constitui uma obra-prima do realismo e um dos romances mais traduzidos e importantes do cânone ocidental.

The latest in writer and visual artist Renee Gladman's ever-expanding body of imaginative investigation is a sui generis novel of queerness and art-making, philosophy and sex.The narrator of My Lesbian Novel is Renee Gladman, an artist and writer who has produced the same acclaimed body of experimental art and prose as real-life Renee Gladman, and who is now being interviewed by an unnamed interlocutor about a project in process, a seeming departure from her other works, a lesbian romance. Between reflections on art making and on the genre of lesbian romance—“though aspects of the formula drive me crazy... people who write these stories understand how beautiful women are”—a romance novel of her own takes shape on the page, written alongside the interview, which sometimes skips whole years between questions, so that time and aging become part of the process. The result is a beautifully orchestrated dialogue between reflection and desire, or clarity and confusion, between the pleasures of form and the pleasures of freedom in the unspooling of sentences over time.

1920s Cairo. A young and ambitious prosecutor is dispatched from the bustling city to a provincial village to investigate a serious crime. Armed with his European education, the prosecutor is confident that he will dispense justice in this rural outpost. But he finds himself increasingly befuddled by an alien legal system and the clueless bureaucrats who enforce it. As he teases out the facts of the case only one thing becomes clear: justice is never as simple as it seems. First published in 1937, this classic by one of the Arab world's leading dramatists has lost none of its bite.

A contemporary, high-stakes thriller about how reality becomes more twisted than the fantasy novel two friends are writing when the real-life subject of their fiction turns up dead and they're the suspects, for fans of Mare of Easttown and One of Us Is Lying.Celeste is the talk of the town when she moves to Montana from Montreal, but the only friend she makes is Vivvy, the heir to the town's founder and a social pariah. Inspired by a passion-fueled school incident, they begin writing a love-story fanfic between the popular guy and the school stoner, one that gradually reveals Celeste's past. While her bond with Vivvy makes Celeste feel safe and alive again, Vivvy keeps prodding Celeste to turn fantasy into reality. When they finally try, one drunken night on a dark mountainside, Celeste is the one who ends up kissing golden boy Joss. And Joss ends up dead.Celeste doesn't remember the end of that night and can't be sure she didn't deliver the killing blow. Could she still be that scared of getting close to a boy? Secrets are hard to keep in a small town, and even Vivvy seems to suspect her. Exploring the winding passages of the cave where Joss died, Celeste learns he had his own dark secrets, as does Vivvy. The town isn't as innocent as it appears.

A disillusioned Parisian writer finds inspiration in the ordinary lives of his neighbours, the Martins. ‘A wonderful surprise'L'Express Is it true that every life is the stuff of novels? Or are some people just too ordinary?This is the question a struggling Parisian writer asks when he challenges himself to write about the first person he sees when he steps outside his apartment. Secretly hoping to meet the beautiful woman who occasionally smokes on his street, he instead sets eyes on octogenarian Madeleine. She's happy to become the subject of his project, but first she needs to put her shopping away…Wondering if his project is doomed to be hopelessly banal, he soon finds himself tangled in the lives of Madeleine's family. Though calm on the surface, the Martins have secrets, troubles and woes, and the writer discovers that the most compelling story is that of an ordinary life.

'Meet Me in the Margins is a delightfully charming jewel of a book that fans of romantic comedy won't be able to put down!'--Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times bestselling author of A Happier LifeYou've Got Mail meets The Proposal--this romance is one for the books.Savannah Cade's dreams are coming true. The Claire Donovan, editor-in-chief of the most successful romance publishing company in the country, has requested to see the manuscript Savannah's been secretly writing. The only problem: she's an editor for a different company, and their philosophy is only highbrow works are worth printing and romance should be reserved for the lowest level of Dante's inferno.But when Savannah drops her manuscript during a staff meeting and nearly exposes herself to the whole company--including William Pennington, the new boss and son of the romance-despising CEO herself--she has no choice but to hide the manuscript in a hidden room.When she returns, she's dismayed to discover that someone has not only been in her hidden nook but has written notes in the margins--quite critical ones. But when Claire's own reaction turns out to be nearly identical to the scribbled remarks, and, worse, Claire announces that Savannah has six weeks to resubmit before she retires, Savannah finds herself forced to seek the help of the shadowy editor after all.As their notes back and forth start to fill up the pages, however, Savannah finds him becoming pivotal not just to her work but her life. There's no doubt about it: she's falling for her mystery editor. If she only knew who he was.Meet Me in the Margins is a delightful rom-com that combines the witty banter and tension of You've Got Mail with the clean and heartwarming romance found in Katherine Center's novels. With its fun premise and charming characters, this book is perfect for book clubs and girls'nights. Plus, it includes discussion questions to spark engaging conversations about love, literature, and the power of second chances.

In this highly-lauded novel, a filmmaker meets a woman named Cosima at an Italian espresso bar, spinning a gorgeous tale of love and the creative process. An auteur, together with his lead actors, is at a prestigious European festival to premiere his latest film. Alone one morning at a backstreet café, he strikes up a conversation with a local woman who takes him on a walk to uncover the city's secrets, historic and personal. As the walk unwinds, a story of love and tragedy emerges, and he begins to see the chance meeting as fate. He is entranced, wholly clear in his mind: her story must surely form the basis for his next film. This is a novel about cinema, flâneurs, and queer love — it is about the sometimes troubled, sometimes ecstatic creative process, and the toll it takes on its makers. But it is also a novel about stories, and the persistent question of who has the right to tell them.

Atrévete a mirar al amor a los ojos en las páginas de En cada latido, la novela debut de Alejandro Ordóñez, autor de Ojalá te enamores, entre otros éxitos de prosa poética. A pesar de ser una románticaempedernida, la vida amorosa de Eva deja mucho que desear: la relación con su novio está desgastada y sabe que solo es cuestión de tiempo para que la bomba estalle… y quién sabe qué quede de pie cuando el humo se disipe. Cuando inevitablemente llega el punto de quiebre, Eva decide dejarlo todo atrás, incluido ese trabajo que tanto odia, lanzándose al vacío en la búsqueda de su propósito verdadero, aquello que la hace realmente feliz: escribir las historias de amor de personas desconocidas. Así es como un día llega a ella el caso de un amor que ha perseverado a través de los años y la distancia. Tratando de llegar al fondo de esta historia, Eva logrará sanarse a sí misma y, quizá, encontrará aquello que tanto ha estado buscando.

Literary Critters is a truly unique picture book, introducing young readers to classic literary figures and encouraging them to use their imaginations. As William Shakesbear visits his fellow Literary Critter Guild members, he's greeted with lots of advice from his author friends and has some adventures along the way.This playful story promotes literacy and storytelling as quirky playwright William Shakesbear sets off to find some inspiration for his new play. Along the way, Will asks his Literary Critter friends about what inspires them to write—including Mole Dahl, Crane Austen, Beatrix Trotter, Edgar Talon Crow, Yak Kerouac, C.S. Shrewis, Langston Mews, and more. He also invites young readers to become part of the Literary Critters Guild and continue growing in their love for all things reading, writing, and books.Literary Critters includes:A playful introduction to iconic authorsA personalized page in the book that invites the reader to become a member of the Literary Critters GuildWhimsical art and characters created by Sophie CorriganContent for children ages 4-8, perfect for instilling a love of reading and literature If your child loves Literary Critters, check out these other titles by Sophie Corrigan:Pugtato Finds a ThingPugtato Babysits the SnoutsAnd board book—Pugtato Let's Be Best Spuddies

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, and a BuzzFeed and New York Post'Best Book of 2022''If you've ever felt tempted to ‘keep tabs on'a partner's ex on Instagram and then found yourself down a rabbit hole of their vacation posts from three years ago, this debut novel—which follows a 24-year-old New Yorker named Naomi who becomes obsessed with her boyfriend's former girlfriend—is for you.'—Vogue, “Best New Beach Reads”Twenty-four-year-old New York bookseller Naomi Ackerman is desperate to write a novel, but struggles to find a story to tell. When, after countless disastrous dates, she meets Caleb—a perfectly nice guy with a Welsh accent and a unique patience for all her quirks—she thinks she's finally stumbled onto a time-honored subject: love. Then Caleb's ex-girlfriend, Rosemary, enters the scene. Upon learning that Rosemary is not safely tucked away in Caleb's homeland overseas, but in fact lives in New York and also works in the literary world, Naomi is threatened and intrigued in equal measure. If they both fell for the same man, what else might they have in common? The more Naomi learns about Rosemary, the more her curiosity consumes her. Before she knows it, her casual Instagram stalking morphs into a friendship under false pretenses—and becomes the subject of her nascent novel. As her lies and half-truths spiral out of control, and fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to untangle, Naomi must decide what—and who—she's willing to sacrifice to write the perfect ending.

Book Four in the Tree Street Kids SeriesSomething fishy is going on in Crooked Creek Woods. Does it have anything to do with the weird lights coming from Ruthie's neighbor's yard? Or are the kids'imaginations running away with them? After all, Jack and Ellison have been hard at work writing a mystery. The Tree Street Kids decide to investigate. Not only do they discover what's been hidden for centuries in the woods, they also learn about placing their trust in the adults who love and care for them... but not before placing themselves in peril.

While every writer's dream is to write characters that come to life, Michael Schatten wakes up in a nightmare.Suffering from writer's block, Michael Schatten books himself into a remote beachside cabin to find inspiration. In an antique shop in the nearby town, he stumbles upon a quaint typewriter, and begins to type a short story. On a walk on the beach the next day, he stumbles upon a dilapidated house just like the one he described in his story. And at lunch in a diner he overhears other patrons talk, using the very lines he composed the night before. What is going on? Has he entered the twilight zone? Gone mad? Or purchased a magic typewriter?Soon he realizes that his typewriter is a secret Cold War weapon and connects to a powerful computer capable of converting fiction to reality. Trouble is, there are others. Schatten must pit his writing skills against those of an acclaimed Russian author bent on subjugating the world, and he has only seven days to foil the plot.

Aurel est tourmenté par le passé, l'amour et la page blanche. Viennent à son secours des personnages fabuleux, avec leurs potions et leurs talismans. Un périlleux voyage s'amorce au cœur du désarroi d'un homme, qui mènera à des sentiers accidentés.

Library Journal: Best World Literature of the Year A fable, parable, and confession, the second novel from the acclaimed author of The Meursault Investigation pays homage to the essential need for fiction and to the freedom from tradition afforded by an adopted language. Having lost his mother and been shunned by his father, Zabor grows up in the company of books, which teach him a new language. Ever since he can remember, he has been convinced that he has a gift: if he writes, he will stave off death; those captured in the sentences of his notebooks will live longer. Like a kind of inverted Scheherazade saving his fellow men, he experiments night after night with the delirious power of the imagination. Then, one night, his estranged half brother and the other relatives who would disown him come knocking at the door: his father is going to die and perhaps only Zabor is capable of delaying that fateful moment. Sitting next to the father who has ostracized him, the son writes compulsively, retracing an existence characterized by strangeness, abandonment, and humiliation, but also by wondrous encounters with fictional worlds that he alone in the entire village can access.

'Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today; just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. […] But it's quite possible that if I go on writing – as I usually do – with no plan; although this time I know very well what I want to say; things will start to take shape; to come together. I can feel the familiar taste of a literary adventure in my throat. I'll take that as confirmation; then; and start describing what I think was the beginning of my spiritual awakening – though nobody should expect religious sermons at this point; they'll come later. It all began with some ruminations prompted by a dog.'A writer attempts to complete the novel for which he has been awarded a big fat Guggenheim grant; though for a long time he succeeds mainly in procrastinating – getting an electrician to rewire his living room so he can reposition his computer; buying an armchair; or rather; two:'In one; you can't possibly read: it's uncomfortable and your back ends up crooked and sore. In the other; you can't possibly relax: the hard backrest means you have to sit up straight and pay attention; which makes it ideal if you want to read.'Insomniacs; romantics and anyone who's ever written (or failed to write) will fall in love with this compelling masterpiece told by a true original; with all his infuriating faults; charming wit and intriguing musings.

A young boy attempts to transform his aunt's boring children's book into an exciting one in this funny, fast-paced adventure perfect for fans of the Book Scavenger series!Books aren't supposed to be dangerous. Are they? Alex Harmon prefers running over sitting still reading. But when his aunt offers to pay him to point out the boring parts in her children's book, he figures it's an easy way to make ten bucks. The problem is that her book is about a grumpy frog and a prize-winning zucchini. It doesn't have only a few boring pages…the whole thing is a lost cause. Alex gives his aunt some ideas to help her out—like adding danger and suspense. But books can't just be interesting. They also have to be believable. Soon Alex recruits his friends to help him act out scenes so he can describe all the important details. He's even getting plot twists from a mysterious stranger (who might also be a ghost). Too late, Alex discovers that being a real-life stunt double for a fictional character can land you in terrible trouble—even if your friends are laughing their heads off!

A New York Times Top Historical Fiction Pick of 2020A stunningly original new novel exploring race, truth in authorship, and the legacy of past exploitation, from the Windham-Campbell lifetime achievement award winner When Zoëml; Wicomb burst onto the literary scene in 1987 with You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, she was hailed by her literary contemporaries and reviewers alike. Since then, her carefully textured writing has cemented her reputation as being among the most distinguished writers working today and earned her one of the inaugural Windham Campbell Prizes for Lifetime Achievement in Fiction Writing. Wicomb's majestic new novel Still Life juggles with our perception of time and reality as Wicomb tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet Thomas Pringle, whose only legacy is in South Africa where he is dubbed the'Father of South African Poetry.'In her efforts to resurrect Pringle, the writer summons the specter of Mary Prince, the West Indian slave whose History Pringle had once published, along with Hinza, his adopted black South African son. At their side is Sir Nicholas Green, a seasoned time traveler (and a character from Virginia Woolf's Orlando). Their adventures, as they travel across space and time to unlock the mysteries of Pringle's life, offer a poignant exploration of colonial history and racial oppression.

Um dos romances mais representativos da literatura brasileira. Amizade, ciúme, adultério, paixão, rancor, amargura e ironia… Bentinho e Capitu, adolescentes apaixonados, fazem um juramento antes de ele partir para o seminário. Ele consegue escapar da batina, casa-se com Capitu e segue sua vida feliz… até a morte do seu melhor amigo… Uma incrível história de amor na qual dúvidas e mistérios acompanham Dom Casmurro até a sua solitária velhice. Nesta obra do Realismo, nota-se uma fixação pelo olhar dúbio de Capitu, que era extremamente objetiva e tinha força de caráter; a jovem conduz toda a ação, apesar de a trama romanesca predominar. Com certa influência teológica, referências a alguns santos, à igreja, pois Bentinho, o narrador, estuda por certo tempo no seminário, e sua mãe é extremamente beata, a história trata das intempéries da vida dele contadas por ele mesmo.

'In his latest pulp horror gem, Janz channels early Stephen King to twist the story of a secluded writers'retreat into something unique and thought-provoking.'- BooklistTen writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing, about magic, about the untapped potential that each of them possesses. Most of all, he plans to teach them about the darkness in their hearts. The writers think they are signing up for a chance at riches and literary prestige. But they are really entering the twisted imagination of a deranged genius, a lethal contest pitting them against one another in a struggle for their sanity and their lives. They have entered into Roderick Wells's most brilliant and horrible creation. The Dark Game. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

From a master of contemporary fiction, a tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico CityTwo young poets, Jan and Remo, find themselves adrift in Mexico City. Obsessed with poetry, and, above all, with science fiction, they are eager to forge a life in the literary world--or sacrifice themselves to it. Roberto Bolaño's The Spirit of Science Fiction is a story of youth hungry for revolution, notoriety, and sexual adventure, as they work to construct a reality out of the fragments of their dreams.But as close as these friends are, the city tugs them in opposite directions. Jan withdraws from the world, shutting himself in their shared rooftop apartment where he feverishly composes fan letters to the stars of science fiction and dreams of cosmonauts and Nazis. Meanwhile, Remo runs headfirst into the future, spending his days and nights with a circle of wild young writers, seeking pleasure in the city's labyrinthine streets, rundown cafés, and murky bathhouses. This kaleidoscopic work of strange and tender beauty is a fitting introduction for readers uninitiated into the thrills of Roberto Bolaño's fiction, and an indispensable addition to an ecstatic and transgressive body of work.

A powerful middle grade debut that weaves together folklore and history to tell the story of a girl finding her voice and the strength to use it during the final months of the Communist regime in Romania in 1989.Ileana has always collected stories. Some are about the past, before the leader of her country tore down her home to make room for his golden palace; back when families had enough food, and the hot water worked on more than just Saturday nights. Others are folktales like the one she was named for, which her father used to tell her at bedtime. But some stories can get you in trouble, like the dangerous one criticizing Romania's Communist government that Uncle Andrei published—right before he went missing. Fearing for her safety, Ileana's parents send her to live with the grandparents she's never met, far from the prying eyes and ears of the secret police and their spies, who could be any of the neighbors. But danger is never far away. Now, to save her family and the village she's come to love, Ileana will have to tell the most important story of her life.

Winner of the EBRD Literature Prize 2019 On New Years'Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, he attempts to mentally reconstruct the novel he was writing at the time of his arrest – based on the tragic life of the Uzbek poet-queen Oyhon, married to three khans in succession, and living as Abdulla now does, with the threat of execution hanging over her. As he gets to know his cellmates, Abdulla discovers that the Great Game of Oyhon's time, when English and Russian spies infiltrated the courts of Central Asia, has echoes in the 1930s present, but as his identification with his protagonist increases and past and present overlap it seems that Abdulla's inability to tell fact from fiction will be his undoing. The Devils'Dance brings to life the extraordinary culture of 19th century Turkestan, a world of lavish poetry recitals, brutal polo matches, and a cosmopolitan and culturally diverse Islam rarely described in western literature. Hamid Ismailov's virtuosic prose recreates this multilingual milieu in a digressive, intricately structured novel, dense with allusion, studded with quotes and sayings, and threaded through with modern and classical poetry. With this poignant, loving resurrection of both a culture and a literary canon brutally suppressed by a dictatorship which continues today, Ismailov demonstrates yet again his masterful marriage of contemporary international fiction and the Central Asian literary traditions, and his deserved position in the pantheon of both.

Due romanzi brevi pubblicati assieme per la prima volta compongono questo volume, e sono due narrazioni parallele ricche di sorprese e di enigmatici contatti. «I romanzi brevi e i racconti di Zambra hanno la grazia e la leggerezza dei racconti di Cortázar e Borges» (Francesco Pacifico, LA REPUBBLICA).

Combining romance and humor with elements of the paranormal, this is a profound novel about one teenage girl's decision to redefine her life in the wake of supernatural events.Teddi Alder is just trying to figure out her life. When she joins SUMMERTEENS, a library writing group, she's only looking to keep herself busy, not go digging around in her subconscious. But as she writes, disturbing memories of her lost childhood friend Corey bubble to the surface, and Teddi begins to question everything: her friendship with her BFF Willa, how much her mom really knows, and even her own memories. Teddi fears she's losing her grip on reality—as evidenced by that mysterious ghost-girl who emerges from the park pool one night, the one who won't leave Teddi alone. To top it all off, she finds herself juggling two guys with potential, a quirky new boy named Joy and her handsome barista crush Aidan, who has some issues of his own. As the summer unfolds, Teddi is determined to get to the bottom of everything—her feelings, the mysterious ghost-girl, and the memories of Corey that refuse to be ignored.

Exploring the power of stories and storytelling, Sarah Beth Durst presents the mesmerizing adventure of a girl made of living stone who braves unforeseen dangers and magical consequences on a crucial quest to save her family. Mayka and her stone family were brought to life by the stories etched into their bodies. Now time is eroding these vital marks, and Mayka must find a stonemason to recarve them. But the search is more complex than she had imagined, and Mayka uncovers a scheme endangering all stone creatures. Only someone who casts stories into stone can help—but whom can Mayka trust? Where is the stonemason who will save them? Action and insight combine in this magical coming-of-age novel as the young heroine realizes the savior she's been searching for is herself.

L'étrange dernière rencontre d'un éditeur sceptique et de son auteur à succès...Ce premier livre, que je vous suggère de prendre pour le premier chapitre d'une œuvre plus large, regardez-le comme une épure. Il retrace l'étrange dernière rencontre d'un éditeur sceptique et de son auteur à succès… Ils se retrouvent bouleversés lors d'un échange d'une teneur que rien n'annonçait, de sorte qu'ils ne peuvent « enfin » se sentir soulagés mais soulagés tout de même.Quentin, éditeur, a vainement tenté d'écrire son autobiographie, un projet que lui arrache son plus cher auteur dans une tentative tout aussi vaine. Une femme paraît (les prochains livres nous apprendront qui elle est et ce que deviendra ce livre)… Un livre d'abord sans écriture car ici seule compte et parle à l'auteur sa nouvelle écriture lorsqu'elle lui devient impossible.A travers ce premier chapitre, plongez-vous dans une saga poétique et littéraire!EXTRAITSeul, je m'attardais à suivre leur éloignement, je me figeais à leur allure, trop arrangée pour ne pas être parlante, et puisque mes pensées me retenaient d'aller au-devant d‘eux, à distance je me laissais entraîner par la transparence de leur esprit vers ce qu'ils cristallisaient. J'écartais cette femme qui marchait devant lui mais que plus rien ne colorait. Je m‘arrêtais au silence de leur séparation, lui portant une attention plus délicate que la tendresse ressentie par un prêtre à une quelconque célébration. Je fixais Quentin tandis qu'ils restaient un dernier instant à se dévisager; de son regard familier je m'attirais ses volontés de recouvrer nos bavardages passés. Enfin, je me levais et sortais seul, le regard fugacement tourné vers un homme autrement brisé qui s‘empressait de prendre place dans ce décor desséché.À PROPOS DE L'AUTEURRien ne prédestinait Adel Benabdallah à l'écriture. Né dans un milieu populaire, sans livres, mais riche en histoires, il a aujourd'hui 45 ans, et écrit ce qui lui était venu lorsqu'il en avait 20. Au lecteur, il demande de porter à ce livre l'attention que réclame son écriture. Elle est celle d'un homme qui d'abord inculte, se reprend au terme de deux décennies d'un progrès qui ne l'auront avancé en rien.

This is a squirrel... “Hey, I may be a squirrel, but my name is Taco! And I don't eat nuts and tree bark—blech—I prefer tacos!” The natural predator of squirrels is... “Whoa, whoa, whoa! Who is writing this book? I do not like where this is going.” This hilarious send-up of a children's nature primer teaches kids that the most important story is the one you write yourself.

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents. The Country of the Pointed Firs, written by the American author Sarah Orne Jewett, is a series of stories that take place in the New England area that share a similar theme.

A autora best seller de romance, Lexy Timms, traz para você uma nova série que irá roubar seu coração e deixá-la sem fôlego. “Uma das coisas mais difíceis da vida é se libertar...” Conrad e Leslie finalmente anunciaram seu noivado para o mundo. O filme do primeiro livro de Leslie está sendo gravado, com Conrad como o protagonista masculino. Tudo deveria ser perfeito. Mas então nuvens escuras começam a se agrupar. Kyra, a ex de Conrad, anuncia que está escrevendo um livro contando tudo sobre sua vida com Conrad, mas as coisas escandalosas que ela está contando nunca aconteceram realmente. Pior, Kyra contratou Jedidiah Lockwood, o mais sórdido assessor de imprensa do mundo, para promover todo o pacote de mentiras antes mesmo que seja escrito. Alguém quer comprar os direitos para transformar mais livros de Leslie em filmes, mas o lance mais alto é de um estúdio rival. Todo o acordo poderia comprometer o projeto atual. Além disso, Leslie e Conrad precisam fazer os planos do casamento e os dois têm uma ideia muito diferente sobre como a sua segunda viagem pela nave da igreja deveria ser. Como Leslie e Conrad podem resolver seus problemas quando tudo poderia desmoronar em um piscar de olhos? Seus planos futuros sempre permanecerão Em Branco? Série Identidade Desconhecida Desconhecido Inédito Protegido Inseguro Em Branco

Este relato autobiográfico tem valor documental porque nele a autora não se limita relatar somente a história da sua própria vida, mas apresenta um testemunho do tempo e do espaço em que ocorreram as suas vivências. Nascida em 30 de Abril de 1960 em Voronej, na Rússia Soviética, Eléna Tchérnikova publicou o seu primeiro poema aos 15 anos. Ao entrar na Faculdade de Letras com dezassete, aprendeu que «existem editores, ideologia, dificuldades sociais, familiares, situacionais» e, por isso, quando terminou, escolheu a arte jornalística para se esconder «em jornais e rádio, e por muito tempo». Esperou quase até reforma pelo o momento em «que proibissem a luta de classes, qualquer ideologia, censura e redactores, para que pudesse escrever prosa.» (A presente edição não segue a grafia do novo Acordo Ortográfico.)

This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes'Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the New York Times. To hone his skills and learn more about the power of words, he enrolls in Mr. Ward's class, known for its open-mic poetry readings and boys vs. girls poetry slam. Everyone in class has something important to say, and in sharing their poetry, they learn that they all face challenges and have a story to tell—whether it's about health problems, aging out of foster care, being bullied for religious beliefs, or having to take on too much responsibility because of an addicted parent. As Darrian and his classmates get to know one another through poetry, they bond over the shared experiences and truth that emerge from their writing, despite their private struggles and outward differences.

I lettori di Bolaño l'hanno capito da tempo: l'universo narrativo di questo autore (oggetto di un culto fervido quanto ormai diffusissimo) è simile a una ragnatela, a un labirinto, alla mappa di un'isola misteriosa, a una galleria degli specchi come quella della'Signora di Shanghai', a una scacchiera, a un campo gravitazionale – o a un complesso organismo vivente. In ogni suo libro, infatti, quasi in ogni sua pagina, vi sono tracce, indizi, sintomi che rimandano ad altro, a qualcosa che era già – o che sarebbe poi stato – presente in altri libri. Qui, sullo sfondo di una Città del Messico concretissima e fantasmatica al tempo stesso, assistiamo all'iniziazione alla vita e all'amore di «un goffo poeta di ventun anni», «un nuovo arrivato piuttosto pretenzioso», il quale divide una stanza sul tetto con un giovanissimo scrittore che non esce mai di casa, vede topi mutanti sul soffitto e scrive lettere liriche e deliranti ad autori nordamericani di fantascienza. Un filo narrativo al quale (come sempre in Bolaño) se ne intrecciano altri: le lezioni radiotrasmesse del responsabile dell'Accademia della Patata di Santa Bárbara, scene della seconda guerra mondiale, aneddoti su altri scrittori... In questo libro – che è in sé stesso un rito di iniziazione, e un ritratto dell'autore da giovane – la scrittura di un Bolaño non ancora trentenne è letteralmente sfrenata: un fuoco d'artificio di effetti speciali, apparizioni, visioni, allucinazioni, sogni psichedelici e scene surreali – quasi una scrittura «in acido». E invece gli appunti che troviamo in appendice al volume rendono conto dell'intenso e meditato lavoro di messa a punto dell'architettura del romanzo.

Our culture is generated by machines. It's ten years after Android Writer PD121928 from An Android Awakes was fed into a sink grinder by its replacement PD121929. The human prostitute Sapphira, believing PD121929 to be PD121928 for all that time has tried and failed to save PD121929 from being destroyed for selling less than a hundred copies of its novel. Sapphira herself has written the bestselling novel Humans (An Arrangement of Minor Defects) based on the stories PD121928 told her on the night they first met. It has been marketed by Altostratus as the first work of fiction by a human for over a hundred years. Unhappy, a handful of zealot androids massacre the senate and a new regime is formed fuelled with a passion to eradicate the evil of fiction from android society. This message has been approved by The Bureau for Fictional Alignment Visit bit.ly/FictionalAlignment Writer: Mike French Art: Mike French Cover Art: Tony Allcock An Android Awakes Logo Design: Craig Nash Praise for An Android Awakes:'One of the coolest and most fascinating reads out there'– Starburst Magazine'Intriguing, surreal and evocative'– Geeky Monkey Magazine'A Blade Runner-esque future – different from anything else'– Sci-Fi Bulletin'The questions of what makes us truly human and what life means isn't anything new within the genre, but the presentation of those timeless questions here is exemplary and fresh'– AMO Magazine'One of the most pleasant surprises of the year'– Upcoming4Me'A thoughtful creation which will inspire thought in its readership'– SFBook Reviews'Smart, challenging and well worth any jaded fantasist's rapt attention'– Now Read This!'Real depth and resonance: A ramified, knotted artefact, existing beyond the normal two dimensions of the page'– Blue Book Balloon'Wizardry of character building – 2000AD meets LOBO'– Base5 Magazine'Great imagination, telling wonderful tales'– Geek Native'Entertaining, sexy, terrifying, and beautiful'– The Compulsive Reader'Each story is extraordinary'– Geek Syndicate'Had me totally hooked'– SF Crowsnest'A cult feel'– Comics Anonymous

“This book is epic.” —Cosmopolitan “A hopeful and moving love story.” —Publishers Weekly Fangirl meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this “sensitive and complex” (BCCB) coming-of-age novel from New York Times bestselling author Christina Lauren about two boys who fall in love in a writing class—one from a progressive family and the other from a conservative religious community.Three years ago, Tanner Scott's family relocated from California to Utah, a move that nudged the bisexual teen temporarily back into the closet. Now, with one semester of high school to go, and no obstacles between him and out-of-state college freedom, Tanner plans to coast through his remaining classes and clear out of Utah. But when his best friend Autumn dares him to take Provo High's prestigious Seminar—where honor roll students diligently toil to draft a book in a semester—Tanner can't resist going against his better judgment and having a go, if only to prove to Autumn how silly the whole thing is. Writing a book in four months sounds simple. Four months is an eternity. It turns out, Tanner is only partly right: four months is a long time. After all, it takes only one second for him to notice Sebastian Brother, the Mormon prodigy who sold his own Seminar novel the year before and who now mentors the class. And it takes less than a month for Tanner to fall completely in love with him.

With a charming voice, winning characters, and a perfectly-woven plot, Kat Yeh delivers a powerful story of friendship and finding a path towards embracing yourself. Everything in Bea's world has changed. She's starting seventh grade newly friendless and facing big changes at home, where she is about to go from only child to big sister. Feeling alone and adrift, and like her words don't deserve to be seen, Bea takes solace in writing haiku in invisible ink and hiding them in a secret spot. But then something incredible happens--someone writes back. And Bea begins to connect with new friends, including a classmate obsessed with a nearby labyrinth and determined to get inside. As she decides where her next path will lead, she just might discover that her words--and herself--have found a new way to belong.

En 1956, à Paris, Guy Delrieu, étudiant habité par le désir d'écrire, se sent provoqué par le prodigieux succès d'une très jeune romancière, France Vinteuil qui incarne, en pleine guerre d'Algérie, une littérature du divertissement et de l'irresponsabilité. Cependant, ses premiers essais l'éloignent malgré lui de l'éthique de son engagement. Lorsque Guy et France se rencontrent, chacun est pour l'autre un mystère. De Paris à Saint-Tropez, tout un roman se manigance, des jeux de l'écriture aux jeux éditoriaux.

“A vast, beguiling…postmodern novel of ideas, misread intentions, and robots, told in words, pictures, symbols, and even blank pages” by the author of Well (Kirkus).Rooted in the western United States in the decade after 9/11, Matthew McIntosh's epic and elliptical novel follows a young writer and his wife as he attempts to write the follow-up to his first novel. He desperately searches for a form that will express the world as it has become, even as it continually shifts all around him. Pop-up ads, search results, web chats, snippets of conversation, lines of code, and film and television stills mix with alchemical manuscripts, classical works of literature—and the story of a man who wakes up one morning having lost his memory. His only clue to his own identity is a single blank document on his computer called theMystery.doc. From text messages to The Divine Comedy, first love to artificial intelligence, the book explores what makes us human—the stories we tell, the memories we hold on to, the memories we lose—and the relationships that give our lives meaning. Part love story, part memoir, part documentary, part existential whodunit, theMystery.doc is a modern epic about the quest to find something lasting in a world where everything—and everyone—is in danger of slipping away.“McIntosh is a slacker Proust, writing about the underclass of Spokane rather than the upper classes of Paris as he attempts to convert memories and experience into art…a remarkable achievement.”—Steven Moore, Washington Post

Regarded by some critics -- including Henry James -- as her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs is a short story cycle from American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. It follows the lives of several families in villages in coastal Maine as they struggle to survive amidst hardship and deprivation.

Have you ever wished you could receive a little guidance from your favorite book boyfriend? Ever dreamed of being the Chosen One in a YA novel? Want to know all the secrets of surviving the dreaded plot twist? Or maybe you're just really confused about what'opal-tinted, luminous cerulean orbs'actually are?Well, popular Twitter personality @broodingYAhero is here to help as he tackles the final frontier in his media dominance: writing a book. Join Broody McHottiepants as he attempts to pen Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me, a'self-help'guide (with activities--you always need activities) that lovingly pokes fun at the YA tropes that we roll our eyes at, but secretly love. As his nefarious ex, Blondie DeMeani, attempts to thwart him at every turn, Broody overcomes to detail, among other topics, how to choose your genre, how to keep your love interest engaged (while maintaining lead character status), his secret formula for guaranteed love triangle success, and how to make sure you secure that sequel, all while keeping his hair perfectly coiffed and never breaking a sweat.

A história se passa no Rio de Janeiro do Segundo Império e conta a trajetória de Bentinho e Capitu. A dúvida quanto à traição da mulher amada, Capitu, é o motor do grande clássico de Machado de Assis. Trata-se de um romance narrado em primeira pessoa por Bentinho, o que permite manter questões sem elucidação até o final, já que a história conta apenas com a perspectiva subjetiva de Bentinho. O romance Dom Casmurro, além de estar entre as grandes obras da literatura brasileira, é considerado a obra-prima de Machado de Assis. Neste volume, o professor Ricardo Leão faz comentários e notas acerca da estrutura literária, política e costumes, além de um glossário. As ilustrações são de Eduardo Burato. Um livro indicado para estudantes e aqueles que desejam conhecer mais profundamente a obra do bruxo do Cosme Velho. Esta edição traz comentários de estilo, de vocabulário, além de um índice cronológico importante na compreensão do tempo no qual se situa a história. Traz apresentação e posfácio fundamentais à compreensão da obra. É também ilustrado. O texto foi consolidado com edições originais. Integra a Coleção Clássicos Lazuli.

Blindness and Rage is a novel told in 34 cantos, somewhat in the manner of Pushkin's great Russian novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. Castro's hero Lucien Gracq is a townplanner from Adelaide who is writing a book-length poem, Paidia. Doubtful of its reception, he travels to Paris to join a literary club which guarantees its members anonymity, by having their books published under someone else's name, while the authors themselves are encouraged to commit suicide if they are not already, as in Gracq's case, facing death from a terminal illness. Castro's novel is a part-serious, part-comic fantasy on the present fate of literary authors, who might as well be anonymous, or dead, for all the recognition that they are likely to receive for their writing.

Sarah Orne Jewett, who wrote the book when she was 47, was largely responsible for popularizing the regionalism genre with her sketches of the fictional Maine fishing village of Dunnet Landing. Like Jewett, the narrator is a woman, a writer, unattached, genteel in demeanor, intermittently feisty and zealously protective of her time to write. The narrator removes herself from her landlady's company and writes in an empty schoolhouse, but she also continues to spend a great deal of time with Mrs. Todd, befriending her hostess and her hostess's family and friends.

Foi uma história verídica que ele ouviu ao viajar pelo Caribe. A história de um crime, de um assassino. Agora, repetindo-o casualmente em um bar no sudeste da Ásia, desencadeia uma resposta estranha e inesperada. Ele é um escritor de mochila na Ásia e encontra um lugar tranquilo para trabalhar. Instalando-se em uma casa de hóspedes na baixa temporada, ele quer trabalhar em uma história de crime. O cenário é agradável, e ele encontra uma garota do bar que quer ser sua musa. Depois que ele conta a história, girando para fora só porque a garota do bar quer ouvi-la, ficção e realidade se misturam em uma curiosa combinação. E o resultado tudo.

At the age of seventeen, Nora Falcon is already a best-selling author of vampire lit, with fans lining up around the block to read the next installment of her Better off Bled series. So it might seem like she's something special. But at the Nightshade Preparatory Academy for Exemplary Boys and Girls in Beverly Hills, Nora is just another student.One day a handsome stranger shows up at one of Nora's book signings. Reece Rothchild is not only tall, dark, and handsome—he's downright irresistible, and he has recently transferred to Nightshade Academy.But Reece is not just eye candy: he's an actual vampire who wants Nora to write a book specifically for vampires—and he's very persistent. So persistent he kidnaps Nora's friends to get her to comply.Nora is torn. If she does what Reece wants, thousands of vampires will converge on an unsuspecting town and use its inhabitants as a human snack bar. If she doesn't, her friends will die. Now Nora must find a way to defeat Reece and save her friends—all while juggling a full course load!

Gena and Finn would have never met but for their mutual love for the popular show Up Below. Regardless of their differences—Gena is a recent high school graduate whose social life largely takes place online, while Finn is in her early twenties, job hunting and contemplating marriage with her longtime boyfriend—the two girls realize that the bond between them transcends fanfiction. When disaster strikes and Gena's world turns upside down, only Finn can save her, and that, too, comes with a price. Told through emails, text messages, journal entries, and blog posts, Gena/Finn is a story of friendship and love in the digital age.

Bentinho Santiago, cosseted only child of a rich widow, lives next door to Capitu, the daughter of a lowly government official. As childhood friendship turns to adolescent love, an obstacle to the union exists in the form of a vow made by Bentinho's mother before his birth: her son is to be a priest. The lovers'situation appears hopeless, but resourceful Capitu is not easily discouraged. De Assis weaves a powerful and ultimately tragic story of love and disillusionment, full of the subtle irony that is the hallmark of his writing. In Capitu, his enigmatic heroine, he has also created one of the most fascinating characters in Brazilian fiction.

“The house of fiction,” wrote Henry James, “has... not one window, but a million.” In this, his latest work, Gerald Murnane, one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary authors, takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from their respective rooms? His answer, A Million Windows, is a gorgeous (if unsettling) investigation into the glories and pitfalls of storytelling. Focusing on the importance of trust and the inevitability of betrayal in writing as in life, its nested stories explore the fraught relationships between author and reader, child and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane's fiction is woven from images-the reflections of the setting sun on distant windowpanes, seemingly limitless grasslands, a procession of dark-haired women, a clearing in a forest, the colors indigo and silver-grey, and the mysterious death of a young woman-which build to an emotional crescendo that is all the more powerful for the intricacy of its patterning.

Twelve-year-old Autumn loves to write, and she can't wait to grow up and be a published author. She finds inspiration all around her, but especially in Cameron, the dreamy boy in her journalism class who she has a major crush on. When her older brother Hunter makes fun of one of her most personal poems—about Cameron—Autumn decides to prove that she is talented enough to become a published author. But when her essay about Hunter wins a contest, and her dream of being published is finally within reach, Autumn has to decide whether being a real writer is worth the cost of sharing her family's secrets and hurting people she loves. This touching story is sure to resonate with readers, and prove that the heart is mightier than the pen.A Margaret Ferguson Book

I'm your protagonist-Reshma Kapoor-and if you have the free time to read this book, then you're probably nothing like me. Reshma is a college counselor's dream. She's the top-ranked senior at her ultra-competitive Silicon Valley high school, with a spotless academic record and a long roster of extracurriculars. But there are plenty of perfect students in the country, and if Reshma wants to get into Stanford, and into med school after that, she needs the hook to beat them all. What's a habitual over-achiever to do? Land herself a literary agent, of course. Which is exactly what Reshma does after agent Linda Montrose spots an article she wrote for Huffington Post. Linda wants to represent Reshma, and, with her new agent's help scoring a book deal, Reshma knows she'll finally have the key to Stanford. But she's convinced no one would want to read a novel about a study machine like her. To make herself a more relatable protagonist, she must start doing all the regular American girl stuff she normally ignores. For starters, she has to make a friend, then get a boyfriend. And she's already planned the perfect ending: after struggling for three hundred pages with her own perfectionism, Reshma will learn that meaningful relationships can be more important than success-a character arc librarians and critics alike will enjoy. Of course, even with a mastermind like Reshma in charge, things can't always go as planned. And when the valedictorian spot begins to slip from her grasp, she'll have to decide just how far she'll go for that satisfying ending. (Note: It's pretty far.) In this wholly unique, wickedly funny debut novel, Naomi Kanakia consciously uses the rules of storytelling-and then breaks them to pieces.

Brian Higman—called Big Hig by his friends—is about to be in big trouble. It's Monday morning, and his teacher Miss Fromme is about to collect homework... and Brian didn't do his. There's a big red zero heading his way, and he knows his parents are going to explode when they hear about it. But Big Hig has a good reason for having forgotten his'sloppy copy'first draft, involving his impossible five-year-old brother, a rock band practice at his house, and the mysterious disappearance of his entire life savings right when he needed it most. It's a long, crazy story—but will it be enough to convince a teacher so stern they call her The General to give him another chance? A perfect read for students who never know what to write about in school, The Sloppy Copy Slipup includes Big Hig's writing tips. Named to the Sunshine State Young Readers Award Master List and the Garden State Children's Book Award Master List! A Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year