Os Imortalistas (Chloe Benjamin)

Sinopse

É 1969 no Lower East Side de Nova York e os rumores na vizinhança são sobre a chegada de uma mulher mística, uma vidente que se diz ser capaz de dizer a qualquer um qual será o dia de sua morte. As crianças Gold – quatro adolescentes que estão começando a conhecer a si mesmos – saem de casa sorrateiramente para saber sua sorte. As profecias informam as próximas cinco décadas de sua vida. Simon, o menino de ouro, escapa para a costa oeste, procurando por amor na São Francisco dos anos 80; a sonhadora Klara se torna uma ilusionista em Las Vegas, obcecada em misturar realidade e fantasia; Daniel, o filho mais velho, luta para se manter seguro como um médico do exército após o 9 de setembro; e Varya, a amante dos livros, se dedica a pesquisas sobre longevidade, nas quais ela testa os limites entre ciência e imortalidade. Um romance notavelmente ambicioso e profundo com uma brilhante história de amor familiar, o livro explora a linha tênue entre destino e escolha, realidade e ilusão, este mundo e o próximo. É uma prova emocionante do poder da literatura, da essência da fé e da força implacável dos laços familiares.

Publicado por: HarperCollins

Publicado em: 2018

The Bookseller (Cynthia Swanson)

Sinopse

Denver, 1962: Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs with her best friend, Frieda, and enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence. She can come and go as she pleases, answering to no one. There was a man once, a doctor named Kevin, but it didn’t quite work out the way Kitty had hoped. Then the dreams begin. Denver, 1963: Katharyn Andersson is married to Lars, the love of her life. They have beautiful children, an elegant home, and good friends. It’s everything Kitty Miller once believed she wanted—but it only exists when she sleeps. Convinced that these dreams are simply due to her overactive imagination, Kitty enjoys her nighttime forays into this alternate world. But with each visit, the more irresistibly real Katharyn’s life becomes. Can she choose which life she wants? If so, what is the cost of staying Kitty, or becoming Katharyn? As the lines between her worlds begin to blur, Kitty must figure out what is real and what is imagined. And how do we know where that boundary lies in our own lives?

Publicado por: HarperCollins

Publicado em: 2015

Emily the Strange: Stranger and Stranger (Jessica Gruner, Rob Reger)

Sinopse

Emily evil genius and skateboarder extraordinaire, has invented many things in her time—golems, working cat translators, great names for bands. But the duplication device may have been a mistake, especially when an accident produces an identical Emily. At first OtherMe is cool and useful, but it quickly becomes apparent that she is evil and will take over the world if not stopped. Emily's second journal, a sequel to "The Lost Days" , is a dark delight, filled with all kinds of Strangeness: a broken leg, a Strange Manifesto that causes the entire town to go loony, an ex-spymaster neighbor, and an oddly understanding and absurdly patient mother, all described with demented wit and great relish, and accompanied by manga-style black-and-white cartoons. Does it all make sense? No, not really. Does it matter? Not at all. Fans of the first book and newcomers alike will thoroughly enjoy the zaniness and clamor for more.

Publicado por: HarperCollins

Publicado em: 2010

Little Princes (Conor Grennan)

Sinopse

In search of adventure, 29-year-old Conor Grennan traded his day job for a year-long trip around the globe, a journey that began with a three-month stint volunteering at the Little Princes Children’s Home, an orphanage in war-torn Nepal. Conor was initially reluctant to volunteer, unsure whether he had the proper skill, or enough passion, to get involved in a developing country in the middle of a civil war. But he was soon overcome by the herd of rambunctious, resilient children who would challenge and reward him in a way that he had never imagined. When Conor learned the unthinkable truth about their situation, he was stunned: The children were not orphans at all. Child traffickers were promising families in remote villages to protect their children from the civil war—for a huge fee—by taking them to safety. They would then abandon the children far from home, in the chaos of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. For Conor, what began as a footloose adventure becomes a commitment to reunite the children he had grown to love with their families, but this would be no small task. He would risk his life on a journey through the legendary mountains of Nepal, facing the dangers of a bloody civil war and a debilitating injury. Waiting for Conor back in Kathmandu, and hopeful he would make it out before being trapped in by snow, was the woman who would eventually become his wife and share his life’s work. Little Princes is a true story of families and children, and what one person is capable of when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds. At turns tragic, joyful, and hilarious, "Little Princes" is a testament to the power of faith and the ability of love to carry us beyond our wildest expectations.

Publicado por: HarperCollins

Publicado em: 2011

The Grandmothers (Doris Lessing)

Sinopse da 
edição brasileira

Roz e Lil são amigas inseparáveis desde a infância. Cresceram, casaram, tiveram filhos, e vivem na paradisíaca bacia de Baxter, um lugar cercado de rochas por todos os lados. O ambiente protegido, "bocejante", além do qual o "verdadeiro oceano rugia e roncava", é o cenário ideal para uma relação cada vez mais simbiótica. Morando em casas vizinhas, elas criam os filhos por conta própria - e eles se tornam adolescentes encantadores.Tão encantadores e próximos, que Roz e Lil não tardam a se envolver uma com o filho da outra. Num efeito ambíguo e desconcertante, típico da grande literatura, o que poderia parecer repulsivo é tratado com naturalidade e bom-humor, fazendo a quebra de tabus soar como regra, e não como dramática exceção. O filme, inspirado no livro, traz Naomi Watts e Robin Wright como protagonistas.

Publicado por: HarperCollins

Publicado em: 2005

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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

Sinopse

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American literature. Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up. Like the slow-moving occupants of her fictional town, Lee takes her time getting to the heart of her tale; we first meet the Finches the summer before Scout's first year at school. She, her brother, and Dill Harris, a boy who spends the summers with his aunt in Maycomb, while away the hours reenacting scenes from Dracula and plotting ways to get a peek at the town bogeyman, Boo Radley. At first the circumstances surrounding the alleged rape of Mayella Ewell, the daughter of a drunk and violent white farmer, barely penetrate the children's consciousness. Then Atticus is called on to defend the accused, Tom Robinson, and soon Scout and Jem find themselves caught up in events beyond their understanding. During the trial, the town exhibits its ugly side, but Lee offers plenty of counterbalance as well--in the struggle of an elderly woman to overcome her morphine habit before she dies; in the heroism of Atticus Finch, standing up for what he knows is right; and finally in Scout's hard-won understanding that most people are essentially kind "when you really see them." By turns funny, wise, and heartbreaking, To Kill a Mockingbird is one classic that continues to speak to new generations, and deserves to be reread often.

Publicado por: HarperCollins

Publicado em: 2010

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