Wishful Drinking (Carrie Fisher)

Sinopse

Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. 

Publicado por: Simon & Schuster

Publicado em: 2009

Bad Girls Don't Die (Katie Alender)

Sinopse

Alexis thought she led a typically dysfunctional high school existence. Dysfunctional like her parents' marriage; her doll-crazy twelve-year-old sister, Kasey; and even her own anti-social, anti-cheerleader attitude. When a family fight results in some tearful sisterly bonding, Alexis realizes that her life is creeping from dysfunction into danger. Kasey is acting stranger than ever: her blue eyes go green sometimes; she uses old-fashioned language; and she even loses track of chunks of time, claiming to know nothing about her strange behavior. Their old house is changing, too. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner turns the house cold enough to see their breath in. Alexis wants to think that it's all in her head, but soon, what she liked to think of as silly parlor tricks are becoming life-threatening--to her, her family, and to her budding relationship with the class president. Alexis knows she's the only person who can stop Kasey -- but what if that green-eyed girl isn't even Kasey anymore?

Publicado por: Hyperion

Publicado em: 2009

Infiltrado: O FBI e a Máfia (Joaquin Jack Garcia)

Sinopse

Este livro é uma história verídica sobre a investigação feita aos Gambino, considerados a "primeira família" do crime organizado. Joaquin "Jack" Garcia era um dos agentes mais improváveis do FBI. Cubano, naturalizado americano, um metro e noventa de altura e cento e cinquenta quilos, não era o típico G-man - Govermente Man. Mas Jack tornou-se um dos poucos agentes dedicados exclusivamente ao trabalho sob disfarce. Usando pseudônimos, ele se infiltrou no crime. Quando surgiu a oportunidade de adentrar o mundo obscuro da Cosa Nostra, Jack não a deixou escapar. Pela primeira vez o FBI criou um "curso de máfia" para ensinar Jack a comer, falar e pensar como um mafioso. "Infiltrado - O FBI e a Máfia" é um relato empolgante da luta entre a lei e o crime organizado. 

Editora: Larousse

Publicado em: 2009

Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

Sinopse da 
edição brasileira

O livro conta a história de uma menina chamada Alice que cai em uma toca de coelho e vai parar num lugar fantástico povoado por criaturas peculiares e antropomórficas. O livro faz brincadeiras e enigmas lógicos, o que contribuiu para sua popularidade. Lewis Carroll também faz alusões a poemas da era vitoriana e a alguns de seus conhecidos, o que torna a obra mais difícil de ser compreendida por leitores contemporâneos. É uma das obras escritas da literatura inglesa que tiveram mais adaptações na história do cinema, TV e teatro.

Publicado por: Bloomsbury Publishing

Publicado em: 2009

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Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (Xiaolu Guo)

Sinopse

From the author of the 2007 Orange Prize finalist A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers comes a wholly original and thoroughly captivating coming-of-age story that follows a bright, impassioned young woman as she rushes headlong into the maelstrom of a rapidly changing Beijing to chase her dreams. Twenty-one year old Fenfang Wang has traveled one thousand eight hundred miles to seek her fortune in contemporary urban Beijing, and has no desire to return to the drudgery of the sweet potato fields back home. However, Fenfang is ill-prepared for what greets her: a Communist regime that has outworn its welcome, a city under rampant destruction and slap-dash development, and a sexist attitude seemingly more in keeping with her peasant upbringing than the country’s progressive capital. Yet Fenfang is determined to live a modern life. With courage and purpose, she forges ahead, and soon lands a job as a film extra. While playing roles like woman-walking-over-the bridge and waitress-wiping-a-table help her eke out a meager living, Fenfang comes under the spell of two unsuitable young men, keeps her cupboard stocked with UFO noodles, and after mastering the fever and tumult of the city, ultimately finds her true independence in the one place she never expected. At once wry and moving, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth gives us a clear-eyed glimpse into the precarious and fragile state of China’s new identity and asserts Xiaolu Guo as her generation’s voice of modern China.

Publicado por: Vintage

Publicado em: 2009

Casino Royale (Ian Fleming)

Sinopse da 
edição brasileira

Escrito originalmente em 1953, "Cassino Royale" foi o primeiro livro de Ian Fleming contando as aventuras de James Bond. O romance revela detalhes do homem e do universo de 007. Aqui, Bond está em uma missão para neutralizar um agente russo extremamente perigoso, conhecido como Le Chiffre. Bond tem de derrotar o espião russo na mesa de bacará para forçar seus mestres soviéticos a "aposentá-lo". Ao que parece, a sorte sorri para Bond. No entanto, algumas pessoas não sabem perder. Sem falar que a atração de 007 pela belíssima e misteriosa agente Vesper Lynd pode levá-lo ao completo desastre e finalmente à salvação pelas mãos de um inesperado benfeitor.

Publicado por: Penguin

Publicado em: 2009

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Zombie Blondes (Brian James)

Sinopse da 
edição brasileira

A partir do momento que Hannah Sanders chegou à cidade, ela sentiu que havia algo errado. Muitas casas estavam à venda, e a cidade parecia infectada por um silêncio sobrenatural. E então, no primeiro dia de Hannah no colégio, ela correu para um grupo de cheerleaders, as meninas mais populares da escola. O estranho era que elas eram quase idênticas na aparência: loira, bonita, e pálida. Mas Hannah quer desesperadamente se adaptar independentemente do que seu amigo Lukas está dizendo a ela. Quando seu sonho de ser uma delas começa a se tornar realidade ela vê que isso pode ser um pesadelo!

Publicado por: Square Fish

Publicado em: 2009

Inside of a Dog (Alexandra Horowitz)

Sinopse

The answers will surprise and delight you as Alexandra Horowitz, a cognitive scientist, explains how dogs perceive their daily worlds, each other, and that other quirky animal, the human. Horowitz introduces the reader to dogs’ perceptual and cognitive abilities and then draws a picture of what it might be like to be a dog. What’s it like to be able to smell not just every bit of open food in the house but also to smell sadness in humans, or even the passage of time? How does a tiny dog manage to play successfully with a Great Dane? What is it like to hear the bodily vibrations of insects or the hum of a fluorescent light? Why must a person on a bicycle be chased? What’s it like to use your mouth as a hand? In short, what is it like for a dog to experience life from two feet off the ground, amidst the smells of the sidewalk, gazing at our ankles or knees? Inside of a Dog explains these things and much more. The answers can be surprising—once we set aside our natural inclination to anthropomorphize dogs. Inside of a Dog also contains up-to-the-minute research—on dogs’ detection of disease, the secrets of their tails, and their skill at reading our attention—that Horowitz puts into useful context. Although not a formal training guide, Inside of a Dog has practical application for dog lovers interested in understanding why their dogs do what they do. With a light touch and the weight of science behind her, Alexandra Horowitz examines the animal we think we know best but may actually understand the least. This book is as close as you can get to knowing about dogs without being a dog yourself.

Publicado por: Scribner

Publicado em: 2009

Trece Tristes Trances (Albert Sánchez Piñol)

Sinopse

Qué tienen en común un náufrago al borde de la locura, un esquimal a punto de morir en las garras de un oso polar y un espantapájaros que teme a la soledad? Tal vez, nada. Sin embargo, la prolífica imaginación y depurada prosa de Albert Sánchez Piñol hace que la respuesta sea: todo. "Trece Tristes Trances" es un volumen de cuentos poblado de personajes extraños que se enfrentan a la muerte, la locura, el abandono, la incomprensión y la soledad. Seres tan disímiles y fantásticos como cualquiera de nosotros. Trece breves fábulas modernas que conjugan un estilo cercano a la parodia pero que se parecen tanto a la realidad que no dejarán indiferente a ningún lector.

Editora: Alfaguara

Publicado em: 2009

Bob Dylan Revisited (Vários Autores)

Sinopse

Sixteen cartoonists, mostly European, interpret 13 of Bob Dylan's most familiar lyrics in this lavishly illustrated oversized book. Dylan's songs don't generally call out for visual accompaniment—they map out emotional states or tell stories, but provide all the images they require. There's plenty of stylishness and a wide range of illustrative technique; unfortunately, few of the contributors have anything in particular to say about or add to Dylan's words. Some artists settle for redundant representations of the lyrics, including Bramanti's western death scene for Knockin' on Heaven's Door and Gradimir Smudja's semiphotorealist Hurricane. Even Dave McKean, rendering Desolation Row with his usual multimedia technique and surreal distortion of space, can't help packing his story with literal renderings of individual lines. Other artists simply throw their hands up: Bézian accompanies Tombstone Blues ' hilarious torrent of language with apropos-of-nothing drawings of girders, railroad tracks and a crowd of people, and Jean-Claude Götting's Lay, Lady, Lay is a brief erotic scenario that just happens to involve a big brass bed. The most rewarding piece is actually a commentary on Dylan himself: Zep's interpretation of Not Dark Yet shows four sly caricatures of the songwriter in the various phases of his career.

Editora: Delcourt

Publicado em: 2009

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