Quando Ben De Backer decide revelar aos pais que se identifica como uma pessoa não-binária — não é um rapaz, nem uma rapariga —, elu é expulse de casa e tem de ir viver com a sua irmã mais velha, Hannah, e o marido dela que nunca conheceu. De repente, a vida de Ben muda drasticamente numa questão de dias: nova casa, nova escola... e uma perturbação de ansiedade provocada pela confissão da sua verdadeira identidade aos seus pais. Na nova escola, Ben apenas deseja ser invisível, por isso, decide manter a sua verdadeira identidade escondida dos seus colegas. Porém, os seus esforços para passar despercebide não duram muito quando Nathan Allan — um rapaz extrovertido e carismático — decide pôr Ben sob a sua asa, determinado a ajudar nesta adaptação. Embora reticente, a amizade cresce rapidamente. À medida que vão passando mais tempo juntes, os seus sentimentos evoluem e o que começou como uma série de acontecimentos infelizes pode tornar-se na oportunidade perfeita para começar uma nova vida, sem máscaras ou esconderijos.

From USA Today bestselling author Emily McIntire comes a dark and delicious fractured fairy tale reimagining of Peter Pan. He wants revenge, but he wants her more… James has always had one agenda: destroy his enemy, Peter Michaels. When Peter’s twenty-year-old daughter Wendy shows up in James’s bar, he sees his way in. Seduce the girl and use her for his revenge. It’s the perfect plan, until things in James’s organization begin to crumble. Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game. Wendy has been cloistered away most of her life by her wealthy cold father, but a spontaneous night out with friends turns into an intense and addictive love affair with the dark and brooding James. As much as she knows James is dangerous, Wendy can’t seem to shake her desire for him. But as their relationship grows more heated and she learns more about the world he moves in, she finds herself unsure if she’s falling for the man known as James or the monster known as Hook. Hooked is a dark contemporary romance and the first complete standalone in the Never After Series: A collection of fractured fairy tales where the villains get the happy ever after. It is not a literal retelling and not fantasy. Hooked features mature themes and content that may not be suitable for all audiences. Reader discretion is advised. For all content warnings, check the author's website.

The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister. It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family. Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane grew up far from the arcane society she was born into, where human bloodlines gain power through vampire companionship. When her sister, June, disappears, Kidan is convinced a vampire stole her—the very vampire bound to their family, the cruel yet captivating Susenyos Sagad. To find June, Kidan must infiltrate the elite Uxlay University—where students study to ensure peaceful coexistence between humans and vampires and inherit their family legacies. Kidan must survive living with Susenyos—even as he does everything he can to drive her away. It doesn’t matter that Susenyos’s wickedness speaks to Kidan’s own violent nature and tempts her to surrender to a life of darkness. She must find her sister and kill Susenyos at all costs. When a murder mirroring June’s disappearance shakes Uxlay, Kidan sinks further into the ruthless underworld of vampires, risking her very soul. There she discovers a centuries-old threat—and June could be at the center of it. To save her sister, Kidan must bring Uxlay to its knees and either break free from the horrors of her own actions or embrace the dark entanglements of love—and the blood it requires.

Hannah's a witch, but not the kind you're thinking of. She's the real deal, an Elemental with the power to control fire, earth, water, and air. But even though she lives in Salem, Massachusetts, her magic is a secret she has to keep to herself. If she's ever caught using it in front of a Reg (read: non-witch), she could lose it. For good. So, Hannah spends most of her time avoiding her ex-girlfriend (and fellow Elemental Witch) Veronica, hanging out with her best friend, and working at the Fly by Night Cauldron selling candles and crystals to tourists, goths, and local Wiccans. But dealing with her ex is the least of Hannah's concerns when a terrifying blood ritual interrupts the end-of-school-year bonfire. Evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, and Hannah's sure it's the work of a deadly Blood Witch. The issue is, her coven is less than convinced, forcing Hannah to team up with the last person she wants to see: Veronica. While the pair attempt to smoke out the Blood Witch at a house party, Hannah meets Morgan, a cute new ballerina in town. But trying to date amid a supernatural crisis is easier said than done, and Hannah will have to test the limits of her power if she's going to save her coven and get the girl, especially when the attacks on Salem's witches become deadlier by the day.

França, 1714: num momento de desespero, uma jovem faz um trato para viver para sempre que implica a maldição de ser esquecida por todos que encontra. Assim começa a vida extraordinária de Addie LaRue, uma aventura deslumbrante que se desenrola através de séculos e continentes, através da história e da arte, enquanto uma jovem aprende até onde irá para deixar sua marca no mundo.

Um documento único e inédito que revela todos os segredos, motivações e métodos de trabalho da polícia política do Estado Novo. » A PIDE enquanto instituição; » Forma de lidar com os principais adversários; » Métodos utilizados; » A vida nas prisões. Críticas de imprensa Ao longo de quase seis anos a historiador Irene Flunser Pimentel investigou detalhadamente os arquivos da PIDE depositados na Torre do Tombo. O resultado desse trabalho, uma tese de doutoramento, surge agora editado em livro. "A História da PIDE" ,será lançado no próximo dia 30 com a chancela do Círculo de Leitores da Temas e Debates. " Sou de uma geração que viveu o tempo da PIDE. Era algo que gostava de perceber melhor para ajudar a eliminar os mitos e ver como funcionava. O que mais me surpreendeu nesta investigação foi a quantidade de informadores com que a antiga polícia política do Estado Novo podia contar. Na verdade nunca se chegará a saber o número exacto já que parte significativa desses registos foi destruída", disse ao JN a historiadora. " É um lado impressionante da sociedade portuguesa que por si só merecia um trabalho de investigação. Acho que ainda não fez o luto desta realidade", acrescentou. O livro "A História da PIDE" será lançado na Torre do Tombo. A apresentação da obra é da responsabildiade de José Medeiros Ferreira. in Jornal de Notícias

A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family--and a new love--changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she's used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos pretending to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously. But someone does. An unexpected message arrives, begging her to travel to the remote and mysterious Nowhere House to teach three young witches how to control their magic. It breaks all of the rules, but Mika goes anyway, and is immediately tangled up in the lives and secrets of not only her three charges, but also an absent archaeologist, a retired actor, two long-suffering caretakers, and...Jamie. The handsome and prickly librarian of Nowhere House would do anything to protect the children, and as far as he's concerned, a stranger like Mika is a threat. An irritatingly appealing threat. As Mika begins to find her place at Nowhere House, the thought of belonging somewhere begins to feel like a real possibility. But magic isn't the only danger in the world, and when a threat comes knocking at their door, Mika will need to decide whether to risk everything to protect a found family she didn't know she was looking for....

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world’s most elite universities on a full ride. What’s the catch, and why her? 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.

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?

Momentos. A vida é uma sucessão de momentos. Alguns, profundamente dolorosos e cheios de mágoas do passado. Outros, cheios de esperança e promessas para o futuro. Tive muitos momentos na minha vida, momentos que me modificaram, que me desafiaram. Momentos que me assustaram e atormentaram. No entanto, os mais importantes - os momentos mais comoventes e arrebatadores - sempre o incluíram a ele. Eu tinha dez anos quando perdi a voz. Uma parte de mim foi -me roubada, e a única pessoa que conseguia ouvir verdadeiramente o meu silêncio era o Brooks Griffin. Ele era a luz dos meus dias escuros, a promessa do amanhã, até que a tragédia o encontrou. A tragédia que acabou por afogá-lo num mar de memórias. Esta é a história de um rapaz e de uma rapariga que se amavam um ao outro, mas não se amavam a si mesmos. Uma história de vida e de morte. De amor e de promessas quebradas.