Valeria Cossati queria apenas buscar cigarros para o marido na tabacaria, mas acaba comprando ilegalmente um caderno preto – um item que não poderia ser comercializado aos domingos –, e faz dele seu diário. Estamos na Roma dos anos 1950, e Valeria leva a vida entediante de uma mulher de classe média, dividindo-se entre os papéis de mãe, esposa e funcionária de escritório. Há anos ela não ouve o próprio nome – o marido só a chama de "mamãe" –, e sua relação com os filhos é marcada por conflitos geracionais. Porém, conforme alimenta aquelas páginas proibidas, Valeria começa a notar uma profunda transformação em si mesma – cujas consequências ela ainda não sabe prever. Alba de Céspedes foi uma das grandes autoras de língua italiana do século XX, com uma obra que se destaca pela profundidade das personagens femininas. Em Caderno proibido, a autora demonstra todo seu talento ao retratar a intimidade de uma mulher comum e as mudanças da sociedade italiana no pós-guerra.

High Fidelity meets Wayne’s World in this utterly charming graphic memoir about a young man’s life-long obsession with the rock band Queen. All of us have had that one band with which we identify, the band that was always there for us during good times and bad. For Mike Dawson it's always been Queen and Freddie Mercury. Not unlike “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Freddie & Me takes readers on a rock-opera-like journey—from Mike’s childhood in the UK, through high school in New Jersey, and into the nineties, when grunge ruled the day and Queen was terminally uncool. As Mike works to navigate the trials and tribulations that accompany the road to adulthood (with Queen behind him every step of the way), he must grapple with the fears we all find ourselves facing: committing to one person for the rest of our lives, pursuing our dream job, coming to terms with our familial responsibilities, and even facing our own mortality. With humor, sensitivity, and some wonderfully imagined appearances by Freddie Mercury, Brian May, George Michael, and Andrew Ridgeley (among others), Freddie & Me is a touching reminder of how our favorite music is the soundtrack for so many of our most important memories and moments. And how one note can bring them all flooding back.

National bestselling author Phil Stamper crafts the perfect summer friendship story, starring four queer boys with big hearts and even bigger dreams. Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are best friends, bonded in their small rural town by their queerness, their good grades, and their big dreams. They are about to embark on the summer before senior year of high school, where each is going on a new, big adventure. Reese is attending a design school in Paris. Gabriel is going to Boston to volunteer with a environmental nonprofit. Sal is interning on Capitol Hill for a U.S. Senator. And Heath is stuck going to Daytona Beach to help out at his aunt’s beachfront arcade. What will this summer of new experiences and world-expanding travel mean for each of them—and for their friendship?

An enchanting urban fantasy middle-grade debut―the first book in a trilogy―set in a magical hotel full of secrets. Orphan Elizabeth Somers’s malevolent aunt and uncle ship her off to the ominous Winterhouse Hotel, owned by the peculiar Norbridge Falls. Upon arrival, Elizabeth quickly discovers that Winterhouse has many charms―most notably its massive library. It’s not long before she locates a magical book of puzzles that will unlock a mystery involving Norbridge and his sinister family. But the deeper she delves into the hotel’s secrets, the more Elizabeth starts to realize that she is somehow connected to Winterhouse. As fate would have it, Elizabeth is the only person who can break the hotel’s curse and solve the mystery. But will it be at the cost of losing the people she has come to care for, and even Winterhouse itself? Mystery, adventure, and beautiful writing combine in this exciting debut richly set in a hotel full of secrets.

Neste romance, banido na Rússia, dois garotos vivem um relacionamento proibido na União Soviética dos anos 1980. Vinte anos depois de ter passado seu último verão no acampamento Andorinha, Iura decide voltar. Os tempos são outros: já não existe União Soviética, o muro de Berlim caiu, sua vida seguiu adiante. Então não é nenhuma surpresa que, ao chegar lá, ele só encontre ruínas. Ruínas repletas de memórias. Memórias daquele verão usando lenço vermelho no pescoço. O verão em que participou do clube de teatro ― e até acabou gostando. Em que inventou histórias de terror para divertir as crianças mais novas. Em que passeou de barco e deitou sob a sombra do salgueiro. O verão em que conheceu Volódia, um rapaz certinho, educado e muito inteligente. O verão em que viveu seu primeiro amor. Talvez, enterrada ali em algum lugar, exista alguma pista que o leve até Volódia. Afinal, algumas pessoas marcam nossa vida para sempre ― e, mesmo décadas depois, ainda vale a pena lutar por elas.

Valeria Cossati queria apenas buscar cigarros para o marido na tabacaria, mas acaba comprando ilegalmente um caderno preto – um item que não poderia ser comercializado aos domingos –, e faz dele seu diário. Estamos na Roma dos anos 1950, e Valeria leva a vida entediante de uma mulher de classe média, dividindo-se entre os papéis de mãe, esposa e funcionária de escritório. Há anos ela não ouve o próprio nome – o marido só a chama de "mamãe" –, e sua relação com os filhos é marcada por conflitos geracionais. Porém, conforme alimenta aquelas páginas proibidas, Valeria começa a notar uma profunda transformação em si mesma – cujas consequências ela ainda não sabe prever. Alba de Céspedes foi uma das grandes autoras de língua italiana do século XX, com uma obra que se destaca pela profundidade das personagens femininas. Em Caderno proibido, a autora demonstra todo seu talento ao retratar a intimidade de uma mulher comum e as mudanças da sociedade italiana no pós-guerra.

Three strangers all caught in the deep end… but can they help each other float through? After tragically losing her husband and being left a single mother to two children, Gabriella has only one escape for herself – swimming at a local London lido to clear her mind. A constant stream of both new and familiar faces visit the lido like Gabriella – but she doesn’t suspect any are suffering quite like her, until she meets Helen – who swims to escape her emotionless husband, and Ian – who feels lost in the deep end after becoming unemployed and unable to tell his husband. Grateful for new companionship, these three strangers decide to make their friendship into something more permanent: The Lonely Hearts Lido Club.

Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018), Jabuti (2020 e 2022), Oceanos (2020), Montluc Résisténce et Liberté (2024), Longlist/Dublin Literary Award (2024) e Shortlist/International Booker Prize (2024) e Oxford Prize (2024). Um livro comovente que traz a herança dos clássicos. Bibiana e Belonísia são filhas de trabalhadores de uma fazenda no Sertão da Bahia, descendentes de escravos para quem a abolição nunca passou de uma data marcada no calendário. Intrigadas com uma mala misteriosa sob a cama da avó, pagam o atrevimento de lhe pôr a mão com um acidente que mudará para sempre as suas vidas, tornando-as tão dependentes que uma será até a voz da outra. Porém, com o avançar dos anos, a proximidade vai desfazer-se com a perspectiva que cada uma tem sobre o que as rodeia: enquanto Belonísia parece satisfeita com o trabalho na fazenda e os encantos do pai, Zeca Chapéu Grande, entre velas, incensos e ladainhas, Bibiana percebe desde cedo a injustiça da servidão que há três décadas é imposta à família e decide lutar pelo direito à terra e a emancipação dos trabalhadores. Para isso, porém, é obrigada a partir, separando-se da irmã. Numa trama tecida de segredos antigos que têm quase sempre mulheres por protagonistas, e à sombra de desigualdades que se estendem até hoje no Brasil, Torto Arado é um romance polifónico belo e comovente que conta uma história de vida e morte, combate e redenção, de personagens que atravessaram o tempo sem nunca conseguirem sair do anonimato.

National bestselling author Phil Stamper crafts the perfect summer friendship story, starring four queer boys with big hearts and even bigger dreams. Gabriel, Reese, Sal, and Heath are best friends, bonded in their small rural town by their queerness, their good grades, and their big dreams. They are about to embark on the summer before senior year of high school, where each is going on a new, big adventure. Reese is attending a design school in Paris. Gabriel is going to Boston to volunteer with a environmental nonprofit. Sal is interning on Capitol Hill for a U.S. Senator. And Heath is stuck going to Daytona Beach to help out at his aunt’s beachfront arcade. What will this summer of new experiences and world-expanding travel mean for each of them—and for their friendship?

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all. Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris. Sure, nothing really compares to what they had, and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them, but—yeah. It's in the past. All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately. It's not until they board the tour bus that they discover they've both accidentally had the exact same idea, and now they're trapped with each other for three weeks of stunning views, luscious flavors, and the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy. It's fine. There's nothing left between them. So much nothing that, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is totally game. And why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition? But sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can't have.

Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, in love, and now estranged exes. After a brutal breakup on the transatlantic flight to their dream European food and wine tour, they exited each other's lives once and for all. Time apart has done them good. Theo has found confidence as a hustling bartender by night and aspiring sommelier by day, with a long roster of casual lovers. Kit, who never returned to America, graduated as the reigning sex god of his pastry school class and now bakes at one of the finest restaurants in Paris. Sure, nothing really compares to what they had, and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them, but—yeah. It's in the past. All that remains is the unused voucher for the European tour that never happened, good for 48 months after its original date and about to expire. Four years later, it seems like a great idea to finally take the trip. Solo. Separately. It's not until they board the tour bus that they discover they've both accidentally had the exact same idea, and now they're trapped with each other for three weeks of stunning views, luscious flavors, and the most romantic cities of France, Spain, and Italy. It's fine. There's nothing left between them. So much nothing that, when Theo suggests a friendly wager to see who can sleep with their hot Italian tour guide first, Kit is totally game. And why stop there? Why not a full-on European hookup competition? But sometimes a taste of everything only makes you crave what you can't have.

Il Virginian era un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, con il suo carico di miliardari, di emigranti e di gente qualsiasi. Dicono che sul Virginian si esibisse ogni sera un pianista straordinario, dalla tecnica strabiliante, capace di suonare una musica mai sentita prima, meravigliosa. Dicono che la sua storia fosse pazzesca, che fosse nato su quella nave e che da lì non fosse mai sceso. Dicono che nessuno sapesse il perché.