Literature & Fiction

A Rede Gênesis—o conjunto dos três principais satélites de telecomunicação do território nacional, também conhecidos como a starlink brasileira, exigem observação e manutenção constante. Porém o seu bom funcionamento está ameaçado, desde que a astronauta Lilith, que chefia a nave de reparos sozinha, parou de desenvolver seu trabalho, além de não responder a seus superiores na Terra.

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good.

Thomas, ein junger Musiker aus München, liegt Ende der 1980er-Jahre im Sterben. Sein Freund, der wenige Jahre ältere, renommierte italienische Autor Leo, erträgt den langsamen Tod nicht. Stattdessen flüchtet er sich auf Reisen durch Europa und die USA. Zwischen Paris, Duisburg, New York, Berlin, Rom und Mailand überlappen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit, das Leben mit Thomas und die Unmöglichkeit des Weiterlebens ohne ihn.

«Una notte ho sognato un demone che mangiava i libri di casa mia.» E al risveglio, questo sogno diventa per l'autore un rovello: un ipotetico demone come sceglierebbe i titoli da aggredire? E quali sarebbe necessario salvare? Ma la cosa più importante che fanno i classici è renderci la vita insieme più intensa e più semplice, insegnandoci senza averne l'aria lezioni importantissime: cos'è l'identità, cos'è la politica, come si forma la coscienza di un popolo – e come esplode la sua ribellione.

From the author of Wild and Wicked Things comes a dark gothic fantasy about intoxication, obsession and a desperate hunger for knowledge—whatever the cost.

Firas Dareer wakes up on his twenty-third birthday with a sense of purpose: today he’ll jump from a Stage 3 to a Stage 6 in his self-determined Coming Out Scale, professing his sexuality to a captive audience of immediate and extended family, friends, acquaintances, coworkers, and neighbours. But despite the meticulously designed invitations, carefully chosen place settings and floral centerpieces, painstakingly curated playlist, and agonizingly fretted-over menu, factors begin to spin out of his control.

Un romance de verano en un pueblo conservador transformará para siempre las vidas de la hija de un político y la misteriosa hija de un pastor. Astrid, la hija de un impopular político, es forzada a pasar el verano de 1999 con sus tíos en un pequeño pueblo de la zona interiorana de Panamá. Lejos de su casa, lejos de la capital, lejos del caos. Pero la tranquilidad que esperaba se ve interrumpida por una carta de amor, las miradas de la hermosa hija del pastor y un grupo de marginados que solo buscan su lugar en el mundo.

Pete Morrow is an alienated FBI agent whose only escape from the colleagues and society he despises is through reading literary classics. When his boss sends him to warn away a drug dealer on an obscure army base, he discovers a murder and becomes obsessed with Jade McClellan, a mysterious man whose rock band just performed at the crime scene. Tough-guy Morrow has never been in love before—but Jade is almost magical, an embodiment of myth and literature who creates living fantasies that rapidly become the only thing Morrow values in his otherwise miserable life.

Fifty-five Ways to Survive offers a bilingual collection of graphic poetry tracing a journey from despair to resilience and spiritual connection. Queer artist Laurier Tiernan blends ethereal insights with human experiences, creating a deeply personal exploration of resilience.

When the one you love — but shouldn’t — is taken......you fight like hell to get them back. Adam DuBois is a true hero—a Navy SEAL dedicated to his team and country. You can see it in everything he does. That’s what I tell people when they ask me about him. But he’s so much more than a hero. We’ve been through hell and back since we were two eighteen-year-old guys trying to survive boot camp. Fast forward eight years, and we’re still friends — albeit with benefits, at least on Adam’s part. I fell in love along the way, while Adam discovered a love for my… uh…

Richard struggled for much of his life with a mystery. Why was he uneasy and uncomfortable? Why did he feel like an imposter? In his sixties, he made a discovery that would change his life and his creative work. He realized that his life as a man did not fit with who he knew himself to be. He began the journey of transition that led him to emerge in his San Francisco community as "Richelle Lee," leaving "Richard" behind.

À la mort de sa mère, Youssef, un professeur marocain exilé en France depuis un quart de siècle, revient à Salé, sa ville natale, à la demande de ses sœurs, pour liquider l'héritage familial. À travers lui, les voix du passé résonnent et l'interpellent, dont celle de Najib, son ami et amant de jeunesse au destin tragique, happé par le trafic de drogue et la corruption d'un colonel de l'armée du roi Hassan II.

Jayce has spent her whole life by the ocean as part of the close-knit communities found across the Îles de la Madeleine. With a place to call her own, a job she adores, and a girlfriend she loves, her life has always been a comfortably predictable one. But after a night in the waters at Pointe aux Loups Beach, Jayce quickly finds her world upended as something calls to her from the ice-cold waves. When blisters filled with saltwater ooze from her skin and ropes of seaweed slither from her body, Jayce realizes she can’t ignore the voice for much longer.

Los vampiros son monstruos condenados, y la única manera de conservar su humanidad y no convertirse en bestias sanguinarias es a través del amor. Viktor Zalatoris, un vampiro incapaz de enamorarse desde hace más de un siglo, podría ver su destino cambiar cuando conoce a Dorian Welsh, el vocalista de una banda de rock.

The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer—deeply closeted and pathologically repressed—begins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her. As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to her—and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control.

Om at rejse væk og betale 300.000 for at få opereret en vingemuskel ud fra ryggen og omformet til en pik. Om at rejse hjem med ar og et nyt stykke kød mellem benene. Om at have set et stjerneskud som barn og ønsket sig en supersoaker eller at blive en dreng. Om angsten ved at leve i en krop man ikke rigtig kender indholdet af og udløbsdatoen på.

Travis Keeping, Star der Formel 1, hat den Titel fest im Blick – als sein heimlicher Freund, der aufstrebende Formel-2-Fahrer Jacob Nichols, bei einem Rennen schwer verunglückt. Während Jacob um sein Leben ringt, kämpft Travis mit sinkenden Leistungen auf der Rennstrecke und gegen den erbitterten Widerstand von Jacobs queerfeindlichen Eltern. Travis hofft, dass alles wieder gut wird, sobald Jacob aus dem Koma erwacht. Doch er ahnt nicht, wie weitreichend der Einfluss von Jacobs Familie ist – und wie sehr sich ihr Leben bereits verändert hat.

Deceased drag queen Pearly Gates has the worst job in the afterlife: cosmic sanitation worker. When her soulmate leaves her, claiming she’s incapable of growth, Pearly hatches a plan to win him back. By striking an illicit deal to take over the caseload of a burnt-out spirit guide, she’ll prove she’s worthy of love—and redemption.

Cory Dirkwood is not excited about moving from spooky Salem, Massachusetts to the boring little town of Blackford, Indiana. At least not until he spots his new home, an old funeral home, abandoned in the 1980s and left exactly as it was the day it closed. It will be the perfect place to film vlogs for his 50,000 MacabreVid followers. Cory soon discovers the builder of the house had his own secrets, including grave robbing and conducting medical experiments without a license, but Phineas Blackford was a man of even darker secrets.

Die exzentrische Urologin Ulli und ihre medizinische Fachangestellte Nathalie sind seit Kurzem ein Paar. Gemeinsam mit Nathalies pubertierendem Sohn planen sie zum ersten Mal als Familie einen Urlaub nach Griechenland. Weil Timmy ein Einzelkind ist, darf er einen Freund einladen. Doch kurz vor Urlaubsantritt verliebt Timmy sich und möchte statt eines Freundes gerne seine Freundin mitnehmen.

Returning with her newest poetry book, beloved poet Courtney Peppernell combines storytelling, poetry, and prose in a uniquely inspirational way. Filled with heartfelt anecdotes and insightful messages, The Way Back Home is a tribute to rebuilding our lives after loss. Divided into sections that draw on themes of courage, resilience, purpose, and hope, the collection has Peppernell once again walking us through a redemptive journey of the heart, mind, and soul.

Ruth, an only child of recent immigrants to New England, lives in an emotionally cold home and attends the local Catholic girls’ school on a scholarship. Maria, a beautiful orphan whose Panamanian mother dies by suicide and is taken care of by an ill, unloving aunt, is one of the only other students attending the school on a scholarship. Ruth is drawn forcefully into Maria’s orbit, and they fall into an easy, yet intense, friendship. Her devotion to her charming and bright new friend opens up her previously sheltered world.

Alison is mired in loneliness and grief. Freshly twenty-three and mourning the loss of her younger sister, who has drowned at sea, she’s moved out of her hometown and into a cramped apartment on New York’s Lower East Side. Now she’s living the cliché, barely making rent as a restaurant hostess and avoiding her roommates, while watching the bright, busy passersby from her bubble of grief. She doesn’t need originality; she just needs to be alive.

From the bestselling author of Pillow Thoughts and Watering the Soul comes another deeply honest and moving collection of poetry and prose that explores the strength and resilience we embody in the face of hardship and change. Presented in six captivating sections—Reflecting, Repairing, Change, Awakening, Emerging, and Rebirth—Time Will Tell tells the story of a curious, lost soul who crashed down to Earth on the search for purpose.

Lemon, poppy seed, sun-warmed sand. These visions convince Aoife to quit her job, leave her manipulative boyfriend, and escape to the isolated shores of the Farmstead commune. There, among its charismatic and hedonistic residents, Aoife finds everything she’s been missing: a community that adores her, the freedom to indulge, and the promise to be a part of something miraculous. But darkness underpins her airy new way of life. A disappearing cave looms above an ocean no one dares step foot in, mysterious crying fills the night hours, and a rot is spreading across the island.