Luísa's bookshelf: all en-US Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:48:04 -0700 60 Luísa's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Colega de Quarto 26076763 280 Victor Bonini 8562409502 Luísa 0 3.68 2015 Colega de Quarto
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]]> Tales of the Jazz Age 702817 "The Camel's Back"
"May Day"
"Porcelain and Pink"
"The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"
"Tarquin of Cheapside"
"Oh Russet Witch!"
"The Lees of Happiness"
"Mr. Icky"
"Jemina"]]> 319 F. Scott Fitzgerald 1434100014 Luísa 0 3.89 1922 Tales of the Jazz Age
author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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]]> <![CDATA[Tom Brown's Schooldays (Tom Brown, #1)]]> 1147633 466 Thomas Hughes 0192835351 Luísa 0 to-read 3.40 1857 Tom Brown's Schooldays (Tom Brown, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth – The Greatest Scientific Find of the Century: An Extinct Prehistoric Creature]]> 539138 Just before Christmas in 1938, the young woman curator of a small South African museum spotted a strange-looking fish on a trawler's deck. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes and remarkable limb-like fins, unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve her unusual find, she searched for days for a way to save it, but ended up with only the skin and a few bones.

A charismatic amateur ichthyologist, J.L.B. Smith, saw a thumbnail sketch of the fish and was thunderstruck. He recognized it as a coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth), a creature known from fossils dating back 400 million years and thought to have died out with the dinosaurs. With its extraordinary limbs, the coelacanth was believed to be the first fish to crawl from the sea and evolve into reptiles, mammals and eventually mankind. The discovery was immediately dubbed the "greatest scientific find of the century."

Smith devoted his life to the search for a complete specimen, a
fourteen-year odyssey that culminated in a dramatic act of international piracy. As the fame of the coelacanth spread, so did rumors and obsessions. Nations fought over it, multimillion-dollar expeditions were launched, and submarines hand-built to find it. In 1998, the rumors and the truth came together in a gripping climax, which brought the coelacanth back into the international limelight.

A Fish Caught in Time is the entrancing story of the most rare and precious fish in the world--our own great uncle forty million times removed.

]]> 220 Samantha Weinberg 0060932856 Luísa 0 to-read 4.09 2001 A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth – The Greatest Scientific Find of the Century: An Extinct Prehistoric Creature
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]]> Thunderwith 1961313 320 Libby Hathorn 0340739886 Luísa 0 to-read 3.80 1989 Thunderwith
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]]> The Remains of the Day 28921 Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.]]> 258 Kazuo Ishiguro Luísa 0 to-read 4.15 1989 The Remains of the Day
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]]> The Golden Bowl 259020 591 Henry James 0140432353 Luísa 0 to-read 3.78 1904 The Golden Bowl
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 13079982
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.]]> 249 Ray Bradbury Luísa 0 3.97 1963 Fahrenheit 451
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]]> To the Lighthouse 59716
As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph—the human capacity for change.]]> 209 Virginia Woolf Luísa 0 to-read 3.81 1927 To the Lighthouse
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average rating: 3.81
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]]> <![CDATA[A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man]]> 7588 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of sexual awakening, religious rebellion and the essential search for voice and meaning that every nascent artist must face in order to blossom fully into themselves.]]> 329 James Joyce 0142437344 Luísa 0 to-read 3.64 1916 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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]]> Mrs.Dalloway 25908061
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and is on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present, and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.]]> Virginia Woolf Luísa 0 3.60 1925 Mrs.Dalloway
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]]> Shantaram 33600
So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear.

Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere.

As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power.

Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.]]> 936 Gregory David Roberts 192076920X Luísa 0 to-read 4.27 2003 Shantaram
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]]> <![CDATA[Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow]]> 58784475 In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have created their first blockbuster, Ichigo. Overnight, the world is theirs. Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Spanning thirty years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is a dazzling and intricately imagined novel that examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love. Yes, it is a love story, but it is not one you have read before.]]> 399 Gabrielle Zevin 0735243344 Luísa 0 to-read 4.09 2022 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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]]> The Name of the Rose 119073 552 Umberto Eco 0156001314 Luísa 0 to-read 4.14 1980 The Name of the Rose
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]]> <![CDATA[Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)]]> 43263680
Still searching for answers to this herself, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale’s secret societies. These eight windowless “tombs” are well-known to be haunts of the future rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street and Hollywood’s biggest players. But their occult activities are revealed to be more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive.]]> 461 Leigh Bardugo 1250313074 Luísa 0 to-read 3.99 2019 Ninth House (Ninth House Trilogy, #1)
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]]> The Goldfinch 17333223
Aged thirteen, Theo Decker, son of a devoted mother and a reckless, largely absent father, survives an accident that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. He is tormented by an unbearable longing for his mother, and down the years clings to the thing that most reminds him of her: a small, strangely captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld. As he grows up, Theo learns to glide between the drawing rooms of the rich and the dusty antiques store where he works. He is alienated and in love - and his talisman, the painting, places him at the centre of a narrowing, ever more dangerous circle.

The Goldfinch is a haunted odyssey through present-day America and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettably vivid characters and thrilling suspense, it is a beautiful, addictive triumph - a sweeping story of loss and obsession, of survival and self-invention, of the deepest mysteries of love, identity and fate.]]> 771 Donna Tartt 0316055433 Luísa 0 to-read 3.95 2013 The Goldfinch
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]]> The Thirtenth Tale 17792869
The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish life histories for herself -- all of them inventions that have brought her fame and fortune but have kept her violent and tragic past a secret. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who loved her most, remains an ever-present pain. Struck by a curious parallel between Miss Winter's story and her own, Margaret takes on the commission.

As Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family, including the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire.

Margaret succumbs to the power of Vida's storytelling but remains suspicious of the author's sincerity. She demands the truth from Vida, and together they confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.

The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children. Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday life.]]> Diane Setterfield Luísa 0 to-read 4.09 2006 The Thirtenth Tale
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]]> Rebecca 17899948 Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again...

The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives--presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

First published in 1938, this classic gothic novel is such a compelling read that it won the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Century.]]> 449 Daphne du Maurier 0316323705 Luísa 0 to-read 4.28 1938 Rebecca
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]]> Katabasis 210223811 Dante’s Inferno meets Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi in this all-new dark academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld.

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.]]> 559 R.F. Kuang Luísa 0 to-read 3.69 2025 Katabasis
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]]> Babel 57945316 From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire's quest for colonization.

For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . .

Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?]]> 544 R.F. Kuang 0063021420 Luísa 0 to-read 4.13 2022 Babel
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]]> Wilder Girls 42505366
It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves on their island home, the girls don't dare wander outside the school's fence, where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure they were promised as the Tox seeps into everything.

But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.]]> 357 Rory Power 0525645586 Luísa 0 to-read 3.45 2019 Wilder Girls
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]]> If We Were Villains 30319086
As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.]]> 354 M.L. Rio 125009528X Luísa 0 4.06 2017 If We Were Villains
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]]> Vovo Fugiu De Casa 69645242 0 Sérgio Capparelli 8525403199 Luísa 0 0.0 1981 Vovo Fugiu De Casa
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]]> The Hour of the Star 51283876 The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved. Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn’t seem to know how unhappy she should be. As Macabéa heads toward her absurd death, Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator—edge of despair to edge of despair—and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader’s preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last book she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.]]> 128 Clarice Lispector 081123004X Luísa 0 to-read 4.15 1977 The Hour of the Star
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]]> The Picture of Dorian Gray 489732 'The horror, whatever it was, had not yet entirely spoiled that marvellous beauty'

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life, indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins, and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.

This definitive edition includes a selection of contemporary reviews condemning the novel's immorality, and the introduction to the first Penguin Classics edition by Peter Ackroyd.]]> 253 Oscar Wilde 0141439572 Luísa 0 did-not-finish 4.19 1890 The Picture of Dorian Gray
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]]> The Queen's Gambit 62022 258 Walter Tevis 1400030609 Luísa 0 to-read 4.14 1983 The Queen's Gambit
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]]> The Historian 30236962
The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers that humanity has ever known and to a centuries-long quest to find the source of that darkness and wipe it out. It is a quest for the truth about Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler whose barbarous reign formed the basis of the legend of Dracula. Generations of historians have risked their reputations, their sanity, and even their lives to learn the truth about Vlad the Impaler and Dracula. Now one young woman must decide whether to take up this quest herself--to follow her father in a hunt that nearly brought him to ruin years ago, when he was a vibrant young scholar and her mother was still alive. What does the legend of Vlad the Impaler have to do with the modern world? Is it possible that the Dracula of myth truly existed and that he has lived on, century after century, pursuing his own unknowable ends? The answers to these questions cross time and borders, as first the father and then the daughter search for clues, from dusty Ivy League libraries to Istanbul, Budapest, and the depths of Eastern Europe. In city after city, in monasteries and archives, in letters and in secret conversations, the horrible truth emerges about Vlad the Impaler's dark reign and about a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive down through the ages.]]> 704 Elizabeth Kostova Luísa 0 to-read 3.93 2005 The Historian
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]]> The Love Hypothesis 56732449 When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos

As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn't believe in lasting romantic relationships—but her best friend does, and that's what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.

That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor—and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford's reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. And when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive's career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding. . . six-pack abs.

Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.]]> 373 Ali Hazelwood 0593336828 Luísa 0 4.07 2021 The Love Hypothesis
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]]> The Old Man and the Sea 2165 Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

Using the simple, powerful language of a fable, Hemingway takes the timeless themes of courage in the face of defeat and personal triumph won from loss and transforms them into a magnificent twentieth-century classic. Written in 1952, this hugely successful novel confirmed his power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.]]> 96 Ernest Hemingway 0684830493 Luísa 0 3.82 1952 The Old Man and the Sea
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]]> Os Caras Malvados - Volume 3 43079491 0 Aaron Blabey 856642851X Luísa 0 4.13 2016 Os Caras Malvados - Volume 3
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average rating: 4.13
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]]> The Catcher in the Rye 5107 It's Christmas time and Holden Caulfield has just been expelled from yet another school...

Fleeing the crooks at Pencey Prep, he pinballs around New York City seeking solace in fleeting encounters—shooting the bull with strangers in dive hotels, wandering alone round Central Park, getting beaten up by pimps and cut down by erstwhile girlfriends. The city is beautiful and terrible, in all its neon loneliness and seedy glamour, its mingled sense of possibility and emptiness. Holden passes through it like a ghost, thinking always of his kid sister Phoebe, the only person who really understands him, and his determination to escape the phonies and find a life of true meaning.

The Catcher in the Rye is an all-time classic in coming-of-age literature- an elegy to teenage alienation, capturing the deeply human need for connection and the bewildering sense of loss as we leave childhood behind.

J.D. Salinger's (1919–2010) classic novel of teenage angst and rebellion was first published in 1951. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It has been frequently challenged in the court for its liberal use of profanity and portrayal of sexuality and in the 1950's and 60's it was the novel that every teenage boy wants to read.]]> 277 J.D. Salinger 0316769177 Luísa 5 3.81 1951 The Catcher in the Rye
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]]> <![CDATA[Mentiras Em Que Garotas Acreditam e a Verdade Que as Liberta]]> 55036713 0 Nancy Leigh DeMoss 8527505517 Luísa 1 4.33 Mentiras Em Que Garotas Acreditam e a Verdade Que as Liberta
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]]> Opúsculo humanitário 222940758 216 Nísia Floresta 8582852088 Luísa 0 did-not-finish 3.05 1989 Opúsculo humanitário
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average rating: 3.05
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]]> <![CDATA[O Diário de Um Banana (O Diário de Um Banana, #1)]]> 7872387 223 Jeff Kinney 9896680000 Luísa 0 3.90 2007 O Diário de Um Banana (O Diário de Um Banana, #1)
author: Jeff Kinney
name: Luísa
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2007
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]]> O Caçador de Pipas 65438 365 Khaled Hosseini 8520917674 Luísa 4 4.40 2003 O Caçador de Pipas
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average rating: 4.40
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> The Epic of Gilgamesh 19351 Epic of Gilgamesh is, above all, about mankind’s eternal struggle with the fear of death.

The Babylonian version has been known for over a century, but linguists are still deciphering new fragments in Akkadian and Sumerian.]]> 72 Unknown 0141026286 Luísa 0 3.70 -1800 The Epic of Gilgamesh
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]]> Never Let A Ginger SNAP 55469577 229 Claudia Hagen Luísa 0 to-read 3.50 Never Let A Ginger SNAP
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]]> Red: A History of the Redhead 22750512
With an obsessive fascination that is as contagious as it is compelling, author Jacky Colliss Harvey (herself a redhead) begins her exploration of red hair in prehistory and traces the redhead gene as it made its way out of Africa with the early human diaspora to its emergence under Northern skies. She goes on to explore red hair in the ancient world; the prejudice manifested against red hair across medieval Europe; red hair during the Renaissance as both an indicator of Jewishness during the Inquisition and the height of fashion in Protestant England, under the reign of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I; the modern age of art and literature, and the first positive symbols of red hair in children's characters; modern medicine and science and the genetic and chemical decoding of red hair; and finally, red hair in contemporary culture, from advertising and exploitation to "gingerism" and the new movement against bullying.]]> 230 Jacky Colliss Harvey 157912996X Luísa 0 to-read 3.49 2015 Red: A History of the Redhead
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]]> <![CDATA[The Curious Case of Benjamin Button]]> 747746
In 1860 Benjamin Button is born an old man and mysteriously begins aging backward. At the beginning of his life he is withered and worn, but as he continues to grow younger he embraces life -- he goes to war, runs a business, falls in love, has children, goes to college and prep school, and, as his mind begins to devolve, he attends kindergarten and eventually returns to the care of his nurse.

This strange and haunting story embodies the sharp social insight that has made Fitzgerald one of the great voices in the history of American literature.]]> 56 F. Scott Fitzgerald 1416556052 Luísa 0 to-read 3.57 1922 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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]]> Tonico 13455298 96 José Rezende Filho 8508027702 Luísa 0 3.42 1977 Tonico
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book published: 1977
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]]> A Separate Peace 5148 A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.

Set at a boys boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.

A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.]]> 208 John Knowles Luísa 0 to-read 3.60 1959 A Separate Peace
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]]> Never Let Me Go 6334
And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed – even comforted – by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham's nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood – and about their lives now.]]> 288 Kazuo Ishiguro 1400078776 Luísa 0 to-read 3.85 2005 Never Let Me Go
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]]> Lord of the Flies 7624 182 William Golding 0140283331 Luísa 0 to-read 3.71 1954 Lord of the Flies
author: William Golding
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average rating: 3.71
book published: 1954
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]]> The Bell Jar 56616095 (back cover)]]> 288 Sylvia Plath 0060837020 Luísa 0 to-read 3.99 1963 The Bell Jar
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book published: 1963
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]]> The Great Gatsby 41733839 Alternate covers of this ISBN can be found here, here and here.

James L. W. West III to include the author’s final revisions and features a note on the composition and text, a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan—and a new introduction by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward.

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.]]> 180 F. Scott Fitzgerald Luísa 0 3.94 1925 The Great Gatsby
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]]> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 24583 244 Mark Twain Luísa 0 to-read 3.92 1876 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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]]> The Witches 6327 Note: This edition shares ISBN 0590032496 with another edition.

This is not a fairy-tale. This is about real witches. Real witches don't ride around on broomsticks. They don't even wear black cloaks and hats. They are vile, cunning, detestable creatures who disguise themselves as nice, ordinary ladies. So how can you tell when you're face to face with one? Well, if you don't know yet you'd better find out quickly-because there's nothing a witch loathes quite as much as children and she'll wield all kinds of terrifying powers to get rid of them.]]> 208 Roald Dahl 0590032496 Luísa 0 4.18 1983 The Witches
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average rating: 4.18
book published: 1983
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]]> <![CDATA[They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)]]> 33385229
Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.

Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.]]> 389 Adam Silvera 0062457799 Luísa 3 3.75 2017 They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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average rating: 3.75
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rating: 3
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]]> The Wedding People 198902277
Phoebe is there because she’s dreamed of coming for years. She hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is a nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250899576.]]> 367 Alison Espach Luísa 0 to-read 4.03 2024 The Wedding People
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]]> O mercador de Veneza 18243124 128 William Shakespeare 8525417033 Luísa 0 3.85 1596 O mercador de Veneza
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book published: 1596
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]]> <![CDATA[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)]]> 2956 327 Mark Twain 0142437174 Luísa 0 to-read 3.82 1885 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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average rating: 3.82
book published: 1885
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]]> David Copperfield 58696 882 Charles Dickens Luísa 0 to-read 4.03 1850 David Copperfield
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]]> Little Woman 49696720 456 Louisa May Alcott Luísa 0 to-read 4.19 1868 Little Woman
author: Louisa May Alcott
name: Luísa
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1868
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]]> A Chistmas Carol 114488968 270 Charles Dickens Luísa 0 to-read 4.18 1843 A Chistmas Carol
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]]> Of Human Bondage 31548
Marked by countless similarities to Maugham’s own life, his masterpiece is “not an autobiography,” as the author himself once contended, “but an autobiographical novel; fact and fiction are inexorably mingled; the emotions are my own.”]]> 684 W. Somerset Maugham 0451530179 Luísa 0 to-read 4.14 1915 Of Human Bondage
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]]> Anna Karenina 15823480 Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]> 964 Leo Tolstoy 0345803922 Luísa 0 to-read 4.12 1878 Anna Karenina
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]]> A Tale of Two Cities 1953 A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens’s great historical novel, set against the violent upheaval of the French Revolution. The most famous and perhaps the most popular of his works, it compresses an event of immense complexity to the scale of a family history, with a cast of characters that includes a bloodthirsty ogress and an antihero as believably flawed as any in modern fiction. Though the least typical of the author’s novels, A Tale of Two Cities still underscores many of his enduring themes—imprisonment, injustice, social anarchy, resurrection, and the renunciation that fosters renewal.]]> 489 Charles Dickens 0141439602 Luísa 0 to-read 3.87 1859 A Tale of Two Cities
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average rating: 3.87
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]]> East of Eden 4406
Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness.

First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis.]]> 601 John Steinbeck 0142000655 Luísa 0 to-read 4.44 1952 East of Eden
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]]> The Outsiders 192566704 214 S.E. Hinton 014240733X Luísa 0 to-read 4.23 1967 The Outsiders
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]]> Dracula 17245 You can find an alternative cover edition for this ISBN here and here.

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes a series of horrific discoveries about his client. Soon afterwards, various bizarre incidents unfold in England: an apparently unmanned ship is wrecked off the coast of Whitby; a young woman discovers strange puncture marks on her neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the 'Master' and his imminent arrival.

In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

This Norton Critical Edition includes a rich selection of background and source materials in three areas: Contexts includes probable inspirations for Dracula in the earlier works of James Malcolm Rymer and Emily Gerard. Also included are a discussion of Stoker's working notes for the novel and "Dracula's Guest," the original opening chapter to Dracula. Reviews and Reactions reprints five early reviews of the novel. "Dramatic and Film Variations" focuses on theater and film adaptations of Dracula, two indications of the novel's unwavering appeal. David J. Skal, Gregory A. Waller, and Nina Auerbach offer their varied perspectives. Checklists of both dramatic and film adaptations are included.

Criticism collects seven theoretical interpretations of Dracula by Phyllis A. Roth, Carol A. Senf, Franco Moretti, Christopher Craft, Bram Dijkstra, Stephen D. Arata, and Talia Schaffer.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are included.]]> 488 Bram Stoker 0393970124 Luísa 0 to-read 4.03 1897 Dracula
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]]> <![CDATA[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]> 12697427
He's a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the ward of a mental hospital and takes over...

He's a lusty, profane, life-loving fighter who rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Big Nurse. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women. At every turn, he openly defies her rule.

The contest starts as sport (with McMurphy taking bets on the outcome) but soon it develops into a grim struggle for the minds and hearts of the men, into an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Big Nurse, backed by the full power of authority... McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will.]]> 277 Ken Kesey 067002323X Luísa 0 to-read 4.21 1962 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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average rating: 4.21
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]]> Moby-Dick or, The Whale 153747 "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it."

So Melville wrote of his masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, the book can be seen as part of its author's lifelong meditation on America. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby-Dick is also a profound inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.

This edition of Moby-Dick, which reproduces the definitive text of the novel, includes invaluable explanatory notes, along with maps, illustrations, and a glossary of nautical terms.]]> 720 Herman Melville 0142437247 Luísa 0 to-read 3.55 1851 Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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]]> Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.]]> 288 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Luísa 0 to-read 3.99 1932 Brave New World
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]]> Cem Anos de Solidão 3234419 Com estas palavras - tão célebres já como as palavras iniciais do Dom Quixote ou de À Procura do Tempo Perdido - começam estes Cem Anos de Solidão, obra-prima da literatura contemporânea, traduzida em todas as línguas do mundo, que consagrou definitivamente Gabriel García Márquez como um dos maiores escritores do nosso tempo.
A fabulosa aventura da família Buendía-Iguarán com os seus milagres, fantasias, obsessões, tragédias, incestos, adultérios, rebeldias, descobertas e condenações são a representação ao mesmo tempo do mito e da história, da tragédia e do amor do mundo inteiro.]]> 378 Gabriel García Márquez 9722000314 Luísa 0 to-read 4.47 1967 Cem Anos de Solidão
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average rating: 4.47
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]]> <![CDATA[A Megera Domada (Série Reencontro)]]> 31829425 120 Hildegard Feist 8526241842 Luísa 0 3.42 A Megera Domada (Série Reencontro)
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average rating: 3.42
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]]> Enquanto eu não te encontro 57738024 Em seu livro de estreia, Pedro Rhuas traz uma história sobre amor à primeira vista, encontros e desencontros, cultura nordestina, música pop e drag queens.

Nenhum encontro é por acaso.

A vida tem sido boa para Lucas. Ele passou no Enem para estudar publicidade; se mudou com Eric, seu melhor amigo, do interior do Rio Grande do Norte para a capital; e conseguiu sua tão aguardada liberdade. Mas, no amor, Lucas é um desastre. O maior fã de Katy Perry no Nordeste tem certeza de que nem toda a sorte do mundo poderia fazer com que ele finalmente se apaixonasse pela primeira vez.

Até que, em uma despretensiosa noite de sábado em 2015, tudo muda. Quando Lucas e Eric vão na inauguração do Titanic, a mais nova balada da cidade, Lucas esbarra (literalmente!) em Pierre, um lindo garoto francês que parece ter saído dos seus sonhos. Em meio a drinques, segredos e sonhos partilhados, Lucas e Pierre se conectam instantaneamente. Eles vivem o encontro mais especial de suas vidas, mas o Universo tem outros planos para o futuro… Até a noite acabar, o que será que vai acontecer com eles?

Com uma voz original e divertida, repleta de referências pop e à cultura do Rio Grande do Norte, o livro de estreia de Pedro Rhuas vai te fazer rir alto e se apaixonar.]]> 272 Pedro Rhuas 8555341531 Luísa 2 3.73 2021 Enquanto eu não te encontro
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average rating: 3.73
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]]> O garoto do cachecol vermelho 41435265 O garoto do cachecol vermelho traz uma história comovente, recheada de drama, suspense e romance. Esta história intensa e apaixonante vai conquistar a todos com os altos e baixos da vida de personagens incríveis e extremamente complexos.

Além de ser uma garota linda, rica e mimada, Melissa é dona de um gênio muito forte, sempre consegue o que quer e tem todos na palma da mão. Ela sempre acreditou no seu sonho e tem certeza de que a carreira de bailarina é a única coisa que realmente importa, porém suas certezas são abaladas quando faz uma aposta com um garoto misterioso, que parece ter como objetivo virar sua vida de cabeça para baixo.

Com tudo isso, de uma hora para outra, Melissa se vê dividida entre dois caminhos: realizar seu maior sonho, pelo qual batalhou a vida inteira, ou viver um grande amor. Mas, não importa aonde ela vá, todas as direções apontam para o garoto do cachecol vermelho...

Com O garoto do cachecol vermelho, Ana Beatriz Brandão vai emocionar e surpreender o leitor, provando que é uma jovem autora que tem muito a dizer.]]> 403 Ana Beatriz Brandão 8576865459 Luísa 3 3.96 2016 O garoto do cachecol vermelho
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average rating: 3.96
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Um de nós está mentindo (Um de nós está mentindo, #1)]]> 41214075 389 Karen M. McManus 8501114189 Luísa 3 3.69 2017 Um de nós está mentindo (Um de nós está mentindo, #1)
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> <![CDATA[Vermelho, Branco e Sangue Azul]]> 53100986
O encontro entre os dois sai pior do que o esperado, e no dia seguinte todos os jornais do mundo estampam fotos de Alex e Henry caídos em cima do bolo real, insinuando uma briga séria entre os dois. Para evitar um desastre diplomático, eles passam um fim de semana fingindo ser melhores amigos e não demora para que essa relação evolua para algo que nenhum dos dois poderia imaginar ― e que não tem nenhuma chance de dar certo. Ou tem?]]> 392 Casey McQuiston 8555340942 Luísa 4 4.06 2019 Vermelho, Branco e Sangue Azul
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average rating: 4.06
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Além do tempo (Portuguese Edition)]]> 223161798
Com o poder de congelar momentos, Lucas tenta aliviar a pressão, ajustar suas escolhas e até entender seus sentimentos por Laura, a prima do seu melhor amigo Gustavo. Só que brincar com o tempo não é tão simples quanto parece. Entre decisões complicadas e a chance de mudar sua vida, Lucas precisa até onde ele pode ir sem perder quem ele realmente é? Uma história sobre escolhas, amor e o que significa aproveitar o agora e não temer o futuro.]]> 68 Ísis Caroline Souza Luísa 2 2.00 Além do tempo (Portuguese Edition)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)]]> 233093 Have a ball with Dr. Seuss and the Cat in the Hat in this classic picture book...but don't forget to clean up your mess!

Then he said That is that.
And then he was gone
With a tip of his hat.

A dreary day turns into a wild romp when this beloved story introduces readers to the Cat in the Hat and his troublemaking friends, Thing 1 and Thing 2 – And don't forget Fish! A favorite among kids, parents and teachers, this story uses simple words and basic rhyme to encourage and delight beginning readers.

Originally created by Dr. Seuss himself, Beginner Books are fun, funny, and easy to read. These unjacketed hardcover early readers encourage children to read all on their own, using simple words and illustrations. Smaller than the classic large format Seuss picture books like The Lorax and Oh, The Places You'll Go!, these portable packages are perfect for practicing readers ages 3-7, and lucky parents too!]]> 61 Dr. Seuss 039480001X Luísa 3 4.20 1957 The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
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average rating: 4.20
book published: 1957
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Otelo [paperback] Shakespeare, William; Emílio Braz, Júlio; Stephania da Costa Flores, Maria; R. Braga Simon, Fernanda; Ribeiro, Karine and Ribeiro, Fernando]]> 98167521 0 William Shakespeare 6555521821 Luísa 0 4.10 1603 Otelo [paperback] Shakespeare, William; Emílio Braz, Júlio; Stephania da Costa Flores, Maria; R. Braga Simon, Fernanda; Ribeiro, Karine and Ribeiro, Fernando
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]]> Macbeth 137949733 Um clássico de Shakespeare sobre os inegáveis efeitos físicos e psicológicos da ambição e da sede de poder.
Um homem a braços com as consequências trágicas de uma ambição desmedida.
Uma história exemplar sobre o caminho sinistro até à loucura.



Tradução e introdução de Daniel Jonas (Grande Prémio de Tradução Literária 2022)

Plano Nacional de Leitura
Ciências e Tecnologia - Arte - 12-14 anos - dos 15-18 anos - maiores 18 anos

«Não volto lá:
Tenho medo de pensar no que fiz;
Nem quero olhar, não ouso olhar.»

No caminho de regresso de uma batalha ganha, dois generais de Duncan, rei da Escócia, recebem profecias inesperadas. A Banquo é vaticinado que dará origem a uma dinastia de reis. A Macbeth, porém, as bruxas anunciam que virá, ele próprio, a ocupar o trono. A partir desse momento, o outrora leal e corajoso general transforma-se numa alma sedenta de poder cuja ambição desmedida precipitará uma espiral de violência sobre a corte e o levará, a ele e a Lady Macbeth, à loucura.

Baseada na verdadeira história do rei Macbeth da Escócia, no século XI, e escrita e levada a cena nos primeiros anos do século XVII, a assombrosa Tragédia de Macbeth reflete sobre os limites do medo e da culpa numa mente dominada pela cupidez.

Da introduçã

«Macbeth opera uma solução de continuidade bastante peculiar no teatro de Shakespeare. De alguma forma, ela importa para a tragédia um discurso de género que parece razoavelmente reservado às comédias. O cariz genital das suas ambivalências sexuais e do seu travestismo a rodos admitido no espaço libertino das comédias de equívocos parece notoriamente arredado do espaço trágico. Por outro lado, a tragédia define com relativa clareza uma certa arrumação de género e procede a uma organização relativamente pacífica de papéis. O que temos de fulgurantemente estranho na "peça escocesa" traduz-se num certo travestismo mental localizado no debate entre as personagens de Macbeth e Lady Macbeth. Esta é, a certo passo, a figura mais máscula, modelo de virilidade para o primeiro, apelando a uma contenção dos receios femininos no general e à prossecução de uma empreitada necessariamente masculina. Esta transfusão frequente de certas expectativas sociais atinge altas temperaturas no momento em que se caracteriza Lady Macbeth como uma figura absolutamente demencial e sinistra que infunde terror no espectador.

É, justamente, de animalidade que se alimenta esta peça. Ela caminha vertiginosamente para um fim, como um barco impelido pelos empurrões de uma procela a um destino trágico. Macbeth é esse barco sem possibilidade de regresso, acometido por uma força animal e natural rumo a um desígnio obscuro.»]]> 161 William Shakespeare 9897870032 Luísa 0 4.23 1623 Macbeth
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]]> Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão 59819866 96 William Shakespeare 6555526467 Luísa 0 3.71 1595 Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão
author: William Shakespeare
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]]> <![CDATA[The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo]]> 32620332
Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband has left her, and her professional life is going nowhere. Regardless of why Evelyn has selected her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career.

Summoned to Evelyn's luxurious apartment, Monique listens in fascination as the actress tells her story. From making her way to Los Angeles in the 1950s to her decision to leave show business in the `80s, and, of course, the seven husbands along the way, Evelyn unspools a tale of ruthless ambition, unexpected friendship, and a great forbidden love. Monique begins to feel a very real connection to the legendary star, but as Evelyn's story near its conclusion, it becomes clear that her life intersects with Monique's own in tragic and irreversible ways.]]> 389 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1501139231 Luísa 0 to-read 4.38 2017 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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]]> Daisy Jones & The Six 40597810 Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.]]> 368 Taylor Jenkins Reid 1524798622 Luísa 0 to-read 4.19 2019 Daisy Jones & The Six
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]]> Romeo and Juliet 18135 Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a violent world, in which two young people fall in love. It is not simply that their families disapprove; the Montagues and the Capulets are engaged in a blood feud.

In this death-filled setting, the movement from love at first sight to the lovers’ final union in death seems almost inevitable. And yet, this play set in an extraordinary world has become the quintessential story of young love. In part because of its exquisite language, it is easy to respond as if it were about all young lovers.]]> 281 William Shakespeare 0743477111 Luísa 0 3.74 1590 Romeo and Juliet
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]]> Romeu e Julieta 6384978 96 William Shakespeare 9726116082 Luísa 0 3.88 1590 Romeu e Julieta
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]]> <![CDATA[Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)]]> 40495957
Charlie Spring is in Year 10 at Truham Grammar School for Boys. The past year hasn't been too great, but at least he's not being bullied anymore. Nick Nelson is in Year 11 and on the school rugby team. He's heard a little about Charlie - the kid who was outed last year and bullied for a few months - but he's never had the opportunity to talk to him.

They quickly become friends, and soon Charlie is falling hard for Nick, even though he doesn't think he has a chance. But love works in surprising ways, and sometimes good things are waiting just around the corner...]]> 288 Alice Oseman Luísa 2 4.40 2018 Heartstopper: Volume One (Heartstopper, #1)
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]]> Hamlet 1420 289 William Shakespeare 0521618746 Luísa 5 4.02 1601 Hamlet
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]]> <![CDATA[How the Grinch Stole Christmas!]]> 113946 "The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason."

Dr. Seuss's small-hearted Grinch ranks right up there with Scrooge when it comes to the crankiest, scowling holiday grumps of all time.

For 53 years, the Grinch has lived in a cave on the side of a mountain, looming above the Whos in Whoville. The noisy holiday preparations and infernal singing of the happy little citizens below annoy him to no end. The Grinch decides this frivolous merriment must stop. His "wonderful, awful" idea is to don a Santa outfit, strap heavy antlers on his poor, quivering dog Max, construct a makeshift sleigh, head down to Whoville, and strip the chafingly cheerful Whos of their Yuletide glee once and for all.

Looking quite out of place and very disturbing in his makeshift Santa get-up, the Grinch slithers down chimneys with empty bags and stealing the Whos' presents, their food, even the logs from their humble Who-fires. He takes the ramshackle sleigh to Mt. Crumpit to dump it and waits to hear the sobs of the Whos when they wake up and discover the trappings of Christmas have disappeared. Imagine the Whos' dismay when they discover the evil-doings of Grinch in his anti-Santa guise. But what is that sound? It's not sobbing, but singing! Children simultaneously adore and fear this triumphant, twisted Seussian testimonial to the undaunted cheerfulness of the Whos, the transcendent nature of joy, and of course, the growth potential of a heart that's two sizes too small.

This holiday classic is perfect for reading aloud to your favorite little Whos.]]> 64 Dr. Seuss 0007173040 Luísa 3 4.38 1957 How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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]]> Quem é Você, Alasca? 15770614 229 John Green 8578273427 Luísa 0 3.84 2005 Quem é Você, Alasca?
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]]> Dead Poets Society 67238 166 N.H. Kleinbaum 0553282980 Luísa 3 4.19 1988 Dead Poets Society
author: N.H. Kleinbaum
name: Luísa
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1988
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Não é como nos filmes (Melhor do que nos filmes, #2)]]> 218487520 Fenômeno literário no Brasil e no mundo, Melhor do que nos filmes ganha sequência recheada de referências aos filmes de comédia romântica

Wes e Liz viveram uma história de amor inesquecível e foram juntos para a Universidade da Califórnia. Mas o universo parecia ter outros planos para eles. De uma hora para outra, a vida de Wes virou de ponta-cabeça, e ele precisou voltar para casa e tomar uma decisão inesperada: terminar com Liz.

Dois anos depois, Wes convence os treinadores, ganha outra chance no time e volta à universidade. Mais maduro e determinado, ele vai fazer de tudo para reconquistar a garota dos seus sonhos. E conta com um plano perfeito para isso.

Liz, por outro lado, não parece disposta a facilitar as coisas. Afinal, não é tão simples perdoar o garoto que partiu seu coração. Além disso, ela precisa conciliar as aulas com um emprego e um estágio superimportante, mas o reencontro com Wes abala suas certezas. E tudo fica mais complicado quando ela começa a acompanhar a equipe de beisebol para um documentário.

Só que… Liz tem um novo namorado. Então talvez seja tarde demais para Wes reconquistar a garota que ele ama. Será que os dois estão dispostos a reescrever essa história? Ou será que, na vida real, o “felizes para sempre” não é como nos filmes?

Muito aguardada pelos fãs, a sequência do best-seller Melhor do que nos filmes faz inúmeras referências às músicas da Taylor Swift e a clássicos da comédia romântica e alterna os pontos de vista entre Wes e Liz.]]> 416 Lynn Painter 8551014153 Luísa 1 4.09 2024 Não é como nos filmes (Melhor do que nos filmes, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Melhor do que nos Filmes (Melhor do que nos filmes, #1)]]> 122991239
Mas Michael Young era diferente. O amor de infância de Liz estava à altura dos protagonistas das comédias românticas que ela tanto gostava, só que havia se mudado para longe quando os dois ainda eram crianças. Dez anos depois, ele estava de volta, mais lindo e charmoso do que nunca.

Esbarrar com o garoto na escola foi como um sinal do universo. O último ano do ensino médio clamava por acontecimentos grandiosos, um baile inesquecível e momentos apaixonantes. Por isso, como uma boa romântica incurável, Liz estava determinada a fazer qualquer coisa para conquistar o verdadeiro amor. Até mesmo pedir ajuda ao vizinho irritante.

O plano era infalível: fazer com que Michael notasse sua existência e a convidasse para o tão sonhado baile de formatura. Mas à medida que Wes e Liz se aproximam, ela vai questionar tudo o que sabe sobre o amor e descobrir que talvez seu “felizes para sempre” seja surpreendente ― e melhor do que ela poderia imaginar.]]> 353 Lynn Painter 6555607254 Luísa 1 4.25 2021 Melhor do que nos Filmes (Melhor do que nos filmes, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Longe de casa: Minha jornada e histórias de refugiadas pelo mundo]]> 44027578
Em Longe de casa, que é ao mesmo tempo um livro de memórias e uma narrativa coletiva, Malala explora sua própria trajetória de vida e apresenta as histórias de nove garotas de várias partes do mundo, do Oriente Médio à América Latina, que tiveram que deixar para trás sua comunidade, seus parentes e o único lar que conheciam.

Numa época de crises migratórias, guerras e disputas por fronteiras, Malala nos lembra que os 68,5 milhões de deslocados no mundo são mais do que uma estatística — cada um deles é uma pessoa com suas próprias vivências, sonhos e esperanças.]]> 184 Malala Yousafzai 8555340829 Luísa 0 4.34 2018 Longe de casa: Minha jornada e histórias de refugiadas pelo mundo
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]]> Eu e esse meu coração 42415340 424 C.C. Hunter 8555391210 Luísa 0 4.04 2018 Eu e esse meu coração
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]]> <![CDATA[Como sobreviver à realeza (Royals, #1)]]> 53946124 Como sobreviver à realeza é o primeiro livro da duologia Royals, que precede o aguardadíssimo Her Royal Highness

Perfeito para fãs de Jane Austen, O diário da princesa e com um toque de Gossip Girl, o livro conta a história de Daisy Winters, uma adolescente americana de cabelos vermelhos que trabalha em uma loja de conveniência, ou seja, uma jovem completamente comum. Exceto pelo fato de que sua irmã mais velha (e perfeita), Ellie, está noiva do herdeiro da Coroa escocesa.

Apesar do esforço de se manter longe da nova vida de sua irmã e dos holofotes, Daisy acaba indo parar nas manchetes dos tabloides e é convidada ― ou melhor, intimada ― pelo palácio a passar suas férias na Escócia. Para se adaptar à nova realidade, o charmoso Miles é escalado para ensiná-la tudo sobre o mundo da família real. A Coroa fará de tudo para transformar Daisy em uma dama... mas ela pode acabar reescrevendo o livro de regras seculares da realeza.]]> 312 Rachel Hawkins 6580775130 Luísa 0 3.73 2018 Como sobreviver à realeza (Royals, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[O médico e o monstro: Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde]]> 1719003
Qual era a relação entre o respeitável Dr. Jekyll e o diabólico Edward Hyde?

Quem matou Sir Danvers, o ilustre membro do parlamento londrino?

Assim começa uma das mais célebres histórias de horror da literatura mundial. A história assustadora do infernal alter ego do Dr. Jekyll e da busca através das ruas escuras de Londres que culmina numa terrível revelação.

O escocês Robert Louis Stevenson é considerado um dos maiores escritores da literatura mundial. Inexcedível no gênero de romances de aventuras, é autor de A ilha do tesouro (1883), um dos livros mais célebres de todos os tempos. O Médico e o Monstro é um clássico entre os clássicos de horror e mistério. Stevenson escreveu ainda O raptado, As aventuras de David Balfour, O morgado de Ballantrae, entre outros. Stevenson nasceu em Edimburgo, Escócio, em 1850, e morreu em 1894, em Samoa, nos Mares do Sul. É considerado, ao lado de Melville, Jack London, Conrad, Defoe, um dos mestres dos romances de aventuras em todos os tempos. Quando morreu, trabalhava em sua obra-prima inacabada, Weir of Hermiston.]]> 112 Robert Louis Stevenson 852541123X Luísa 0 3.88 1886 O médico e o monstro: Dr. Jekyll e Mr. Hyde
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]]> <![CDATA[The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror]]> 51497 'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter'

Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward hyde; the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer; and the final revelation of Hyde's true identity is a chilling exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil. The other stories in this volume also testify to Stevenson's inventiveness within the Gothic tradition: 'Olalla', a tale of vampirism and tainted family blood, and 'The Body Snatcher', a gruesome fictionalization of the exploits of the notorious Burke and Hare.

This edition contains a critical introduction by Robert Mighall, which discusses class, criminality and the significance of the story's London setting. It also includes an essay on the scientific contexts of the novel and the development of the idea of the Jekyll-and-Hyde personality.]]> 224 Robert Louis Stevenson 0141439734 Luísa 4 3.91 1886 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
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]]> O peregrino 19388314 Alternative cover edition of B00E9CD9MQ can be found here

Um grande clássico para uma nova geração de leitores. Esta edição de O peregrino traz várias inovações. Resgata o texto integral da obra e divide o livro em dois volumes, como na publicação original (século 17). A nova tradução (1999) combina fidelidade ao texto de Bunyan com linguagem atual. O peregrino é uma narrativa cheia de emoção e suspense. Bunyan relata a viagem de Cristão, um peregrino espiritualmente abatido que viaja rumo à Cidade Celestial. No decorrer da aventura, ele se encontra com personagens de carne e osso, mas que possuem nomes alegóricos, tais como Evangelista, Adulação, Malícia, Apoliom e Vigilância. Passa por lugares sombrios e medonhos, como o Desfiladeiro do Desespero, o Pântano da Desconfiança, a Feira das Vaidades e o Rio da Morte. Surge em cada encruzilhada um novo desafio que ameaça sua chegada ao destino final. O enredo mescla-se à interpretação simbólica, e o resultado é uma incrível experiência literária e espiritual. O peregrino é a maior obra de ficção na história do cristianismo. Para milhões de leitores, a história de Cristão serve como supremo modelo de perseverança em meio a dificuldades.]]> 438 John Bunyan Luísa 0 4.37 1678 O peregrino
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]]> Fala sério, mãe! 20632046
Pois em Fala sério, mãe!, a autora Thalita Rebouças, com seu bom humor costumeiro, apresenta os dois lados da moeda. Ao longo do livro são descritas as queixas e alegrias da mãe coruja, e um tantinho estressada, Ângela Cristina, em relação à filha primogênita Maria de Lourdes, a Malu, assim como as teimosias e o sentimento de opressão desta em função dos cuidados, muitas vezes excessivos, de sua genitora.

Para retratar os dois pontos de vista, a autora lança mão do seguinte expediente: a primeira parte do livro, da gestação de Maria de Lourdes até seus treze anos, é narrada pela mãe, que, então, passa a palavra à filha de uma forma bastante inteligente e sensível:

"É a menina cedendo lugar não à mulher, mas a uma linda mocinha. A minha mocinha (...) que se orgulha de ter idéias e ideais, que me ensina muito, diariamente, e que se expressa com clareza e coerência através de gestos, atitudes e, principalmente, palavras.

É, palavras. A partir de agora, tenho certeza, ela já pode falar por si própria".

Nesse momento entra em cena a segunda narradora, a própria Maria de Lourdes, contando, de acordo com sua ótica, a relação de amor e ódio com a figura materna. Sua narração se estende até o fim da história, quando ela está com 21 anos.

No livro são descritas as habituais – e saudáveis –, discordâncias existentes entre mães e filhas. As discussões entre Maria de Lourdes e Ângela Cristina, às vezes sérias, outras vezes engraçadas; às vezes importantes, outras vezes irrelevantes, são, no entanto, sempre regadas a amor, possibilitando-lhes crescimento e amizade.

E, para fechar ( ou abrir?) com chave de ouro a obra, o texto da orelha traz as duas protagonistas apresentando o livro num diálogo divertidíssimo. Ali elas dão uma palhinha do que vai ser a história: o relato da convivência, por vezes selvagem, entre criadora e criatura.]]> 198 Thalita Rebouças 8579801206 Luísa 1 3.53 2004 Fala sério, mãe!
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]]> O Menino do Pijama Listrado 4071158
Em uma de suas andanças Bruno conhece Shmuel, um garoto do outro lado da cerca que curiosamente nasceu no mesmo dia que ele. Conforme a amizade dos dois se intensifica, Bruno vai aos poucos tentando elucidar o mistério que ronda as atividades de seu pai. O menino do pijama listrado é uma fábula sobre amizade em tempos de guerra, e sobre o que acontece quando a inocência é colocada diante de um monstro terrível e inimaginável.]]> 192 John Boyne 853591112X Luísa 0 4.18 2006 O Menino do Pijama Listrado
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]]> Frankenstein 35031085
This edition is the original 1818 text, which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley's original writing, as well as her unflinching wit and strong female voice. This edition also includes a new introduction and suggestions for further reading by author and Shelley expert Charlotte Gordon, literary excerpts and reviews selected by Gordon and a chronology and essay by preeminent Shelley scholar Charles E. Robinson.]]> 260 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 0143131842 Luísa 0 4.05 1818 Frankenstein
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]]> <![CDATA[Biblioteca de almas (O lar da srta. Peregrine para crianças peculiares #3)]]> 31426932 Biblioteca de Almas é o último volume da celebrada trilogia iniciada com O lar da srta. Peregrine para crianças peculiares. Neste terceiro livro, depois de sofrer com a morte do avô, conhecer crianças com habilidades peculiares em uma fenda temporal e partir pelo mar em uma busca desesperada para curar a srta. Peregrine, Jacob vai finalmente enfrentar a inevitável conclusão dessa turbulenta jornada.

Jacob descobre uma poderosa habilidade e não demora a explorá-la para resgatar os amigos peculiares e as ymbrynes da fortaleza dos acólitos. Junto com ele vai Emma Bloom, uma menina capaz de produzir fogo com as mãos, e Addison MacHenry, um cão com faro especial para encontrar crianças perdidas.

Partindo da Londres dos dias atuais, o grupo vai percorrer as ruelas labirínticas do chamado Recanto do Demônio, uma complexa fenda temporal que abriga todo tipo de vícios e perversões. É ali que o destino de peculiares de toda parte será decidido de uma vez por todas. Tal como os volumes anteriores da série, Biblioteca de Almas une fantasia, aventura e sombrias fotografias de época para criar uma experiência de leitura única.

“Tenso, emocionante e maravilhosamente estranho (…) uma história inesquecível.”John Green, autor de A culpa é das estrelas, sobre O lar da srta. Peregrine para crianças peculiares

]]> 546 Ransom Riggs 8580579678 Luísa 0 4.22 2015 Biblioteca de almas (O lar da srta. Peregrine para crianças peculiares #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Cidade dos Etéreos (Srta. Peregrine, #2)]]> 28572081
Neste segundo livro, o grupo de peculiares precisa deter um exército de monstros terríveis, e a srta. Peregrine, única pessoa que pode ajudá-los, está presa no corpo de uma ave. Jacob e seus novos amigos partem rumo a Londres, cidade onde os peculiares se concentram. Eles têm a esperança de, lá, encontrar uma cura para a amada srta. Peregrine, mas, na cidade devastada pela guerra, surpresas ameaçadoras estão à espreita em cada esquina. E, além de levar as crianças a um lugar seguro, Jacob terá que tomar uma decisão importante quanto a seu amor por Emma, uma das peculiares.

Telecinesia e viagens no tempo, ciganos e atrações de circo, malignos seres invisíveis e um desfile de animais inusitados, além de uma inédita coleção de fotografias de época — tudo isso se combina para fazer de Cidade dos etéreos uma história de fantasia comovente, uma experiência de leitura única e impactante.]]> 384 Ransom Riggs Luísa 0 4.04 2014 Cidade dos Etéreos (Srta. Peregrine, #2)
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]]> The Complete Maus 15195
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler’s Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father’s story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in “drawing us closer to the bleak heart of the Holocaust” (The New York Times).

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek’s harrowing story of survival is woven into the author’s account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century’s grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of the children who survive even the survivors. Maus studies the bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.]]> 296 Art Spiegelman 0141014083 Luísa 0 4.58 1992 The Complete Maus
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]]> <![CDATA[Crónica de uma Morte Anunciada]]> 3741488 178 Gabriel García Márquez 2831080657 Luísa 0 4.10 1981 Crónica de uma Morte Anunciada
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]]> The List of Suspicious Things 157591205
'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are we going to catch the Yorkshire Ripper, when the police haven't even managed to?'

I sighed. Her questioning my ideas was a recent and unwelcome element to our friendship. But it was a valid point. How would we catch him? We needed some sort of plan, a way of gathering clues and putting them into order.

I thought about what the policeman had said about structure, and then about Aunty Jean and her notebook, and the idea I had hardened like toffee. I knew exactly what we needed to do.

'We'll make a list,' I said. 'A list of the people and things we see that are suspicious.

And then . . . And then we'll investigate them.'

The List of Suspicious Things is a tender and moving coming of age story about family, friendship and community. Sometimes the strongest connections are found in the most unlikely of places.]]> 464 Jennie Godfrey 1529153298 Luísa 4 4.07 2024 The List of Suspicious Things
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]]> O teorema Katherine 17563250
Após o mais recente e traumático pé na bunda, o Colin que só namora Katherines resolve cair na estrada. Dirigindo o Rabecão de Satã, com seu caderninho de anotações no bolso e o melhor amigo no carona, o ex-garoto prodígio, viciado em anagramas e PhD em levar o fora, descobre sua verdadeira missão: elaborar e comprovar o Teorema Fundamental da Previsibilidade das Katherines, que tornará possível antever, através da linguagem universal da matemática, o desfecho de qualquer relacionamento antes mesmo que as duas pessoas se conheçam.

Uma descoberta que vai entrar para a história, vai vingar séculos de injusta vantagem entre Terminantes e Terminados e, enfim, elevará Colin Singleton diretamente ao distinto posto de gênio da humanidade. Também, é claro, vai ajudá-lo a reconquistar sua garota. Ou, pelo menos, é isso o que ele espera.

"Bastante divertido, desafiadoramente complexo e extremamente interessante." Kirkus Reviews

"Divertido, espirituoso e fascinante." School Library Journal

"O humor rasgado [dos personagens] oscila entre o deliciosamente pretensioso e o sutilmente intelectualizado." Booklist

"Engraçado, cativante e imprevisível." The Minneapolis Star Tribune]]> 304 John Green 8580573157 Luísa 0 3.10 2006 O teorema Katherine
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