Guiné, Dezembro de 1972. Em plena guerra colonial, um grupo de soldados portugueses é destacado para uma operação secreta no Senegal. Porém, à medida que vão sendo consumidos pela paranóia e pelo cansaço, esta missão aparentemente simples vai transformar-se num verdadeiro pesadelo. Embrenhados na selva, estes homens terão de contar com sucessivos demónios – os da guerra e os que trouxeram consigo.

Cassandra Calin returns with this charming and comical follow-up to The New Girl, her long-form graphic novel debut that became a New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller! This middle-grade graphic novel about crushing and being crushed is the perfect next read for fans of Guts by Raina Telgemeier, Fruitcake by Rex Ogle and Dave Valeza, and Parachute Kids by Betty C. Tang.Lia is finally feeling settled into her new life in Canada. Her friends are amazing, her French is improving, and her periods... ugh, those are still terrible. But Lia's crush, Julien, is noticing her. Lia thinks he likes her, but she can't tell for sure. And while she's obsessing over him, Lia's not noticing another person's growing crush on HER. With so many big feelings and even bigger changes, could things get any worse?In this follow-up to the breakout hit The New Girl, Lia's relationships -- with her friends, her crush, her mom, and even herself -- are all tested like never before.

An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers—each summoned in different ways by trees—are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, exploring the essential conflict on this planet: the one taking place between humans and nonhumans. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe. The Overstory is a book for all readers who despair of humanity’s self-imposed separation from the rest of creation and who hope for the transformative, regenerating possibility of a homecoming. If the trees of this earth could speak, what would they tell us? "Listen. There’s something you need to hear."

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories--the islands, atolls, and archipelagos--this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light. We travel to the Guano Islands, where prospectors collected one of the nineteenth century's most valuable commodities, and the Philippines, site of the most destructive event on U.S. soil. In Puerto Rico, Immerwahr shows how U.S. doctors conducted grisly experiments they would never have conducted on the mainland and charts the emergence of independence fighters who would shoot up the U.S. Congress. In the years after World War II, Immerwahr notes, the United States moved away from colonialism. Instead, it put innovations in electronics, transportation, and culture to use, devising a new sort of influence that did not require the control of space. Rich with absorbing vignettes, full of surprises, and driven by an original conception of what empire and globalization mean today, How to Hide an Empire is a major and compulsively readable work of history.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.

At birth, Ella is inadvertently cursed by an imprudent young fairy named Lucinda, who bestows on her the "gift" of obedience. Anything anyone tells her to do, Ella must obey. Another girl might have been cowed by this affliction, but not feisty Ella: "Instead of making me docile, Lucinda's curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally." When her beloved mother dies, leaving her in the care of a mostly absent and avaricious father, and later, a loathsome stepmother and two treacherous stepsisters, Ella's life and well-being seem to be in grave peril. But her intelligence and saucy nature keep her in good stead as she sets out on a quest for freedom and self-discovery as she tries to track down Lucinda to undo the curse, fending off ogres, befriending elves, and falling in love with a prince along the way. Yes, there is a pumpkin coach, a glass slipper, and a happily ever after, but this is the most remarkable, delightful, and profound version of Cinderella you'll ever read. Gail Carson Levine's examination of traditional female roles in fairy tales takes some satisfying twists and deviations from the original. Ella is bound by obedience against her will, and takes matters in her own hands with ambition and verve. Her relationship with the prince is balanced and based on humor and mutual respect; in fact, it is she who ultimately rescues him. Ella Enchanted has won many well-deserved awards, including a Newbery Honor.

Julia é filha de pais separados: sua mãe não suporta a ideia de ter sido abandonada pelo marido, enquanto seu pai não suporta a ideia de ter sido casado. Sufocada por uma atmosfera de brigas constantes e falta de afeto, a jovem escritora tenta reconhecer sua individualidade e dar sentido à sua história, tentando se desvencilhar dos traumas familiares. Entre lembranças da infância e da adolescência, e sonhos para o futuro, Julia encontra personagens essenciais para enfrentar a solidão ao mesmo tempo que ensaia sua própria coreografia, numa sequência de movimentos de aproximação e afastamento de seus pais que lhe traz marcas indeléveis. Escrito com a prosa original que fez de Aline Bei uma das grandes revelações da literatura brasileira contemporânea, Pequena coreografia do adeus é um romance emocionante que mostra como nossas relações moldam quem somos.

A vida de uma mulher, dos 8 aos 52, desde as singelezas cotidianas até as tragédias que persistem, uma geração após a outra. Um livro denso e leve, violento e poético. É assim O Peso do Pássaro Morto, romance de estreia de Aline Bei, onde acompanhamos uma mulher que, com todas as forças, tenta não coincidir apenas com a dor de que é feita.

Depois do sucesso de O peso do pássaro morto e Pequena coreografia do adeus, Aline Bei volta a explorar temas como maternidade e infância em Uma delicada coleção de ausências, um romance emocionante sobre três mulheres — neta, avó e bisavó — que precisam conviver em suas individualidades enquanto dividem traumas e mágoas que perpassam gerações. Numa humilde casa de portão laranja em Belva, vivem avó e neta. Enquanto Laura vai à escola, brinca com as amigas e pouco a pouco se despede da infância, Margarida lê mãos numa feira de antiguidades para prover o sustento da família. A avó se devota por completo ao cuidado da menina, elo mais forte com sua filha, com quem não tem contato. Da mesma forma, Laura entrega a Margarida o amor desmedido de uma criança.O universo particular das duas, porém, se quebra com a chegada de Filipa, bisavó de Laura e mãe de Margarida. A idosa, que perdera o lugar onde morava, logo se apodera dos pequenos cômodos com suas caixas e amarguras.A mudança na rotina provoca transformações imediatas. Laura se vê sozinha, sem a atenção de quem mais ama, além de ter que se habituar à estranha presença da bisavó. Margarida, por sua vez, passa a se dedicar integralmente aos cuidados da mãe. Sobrecarregada com o aumento das tarefas domésticas, ela encontra em Camilo, um amigo da feira, a ajuda de que precisava para seguir atendendo seus clientes.Neste romance, Aline Bei observa as mulheres em os corpos jovens e envelhecidos, os desejos primitivos, as frustrações geracionais, o trabalho de cuidado, as incontáveis violências às quais são submetidas. Ao mesmo tempo, como não poderia deixar de ser, a autora investiga a determinação inabalável feminina, os afetos que salvam e a força para romper com sofrimentos que parecem não ter fim. "Abrir estas páginas é deixar-se levar por muitos caminhos, das arquibancadas de um circo a quartos fechados cheios de segredos, e perceber, com os cinco sentidos, a vida que aí se desenrola, não só enquanto palavra escrita, mas com seus odores, sabores, texturas, sons de pranto ou de canto, luzes e sombras." — Maria Valéria Rezende "Aline Bei confirma o domínio da arte de contar uma história ao mesmo tempo que inventa uma linguagem poética que devolve à escrita o encanto das vozes que a todos nos pertencem." — Mia Couto