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Don't get mad, get even is advice Jamie Silver takes to heart when she discovers her boyfriend is sleeping with her best friend. What she doesn't bank on is her hateful professor placing her on academic probation and it's all her ex's fault. When his rival, Ryan Sommers, offers her a way to get back into her professor's good books as well as get back at her ex, what's a girl to do? Revenge is a dish best served hot.

Obra literária obrigatória para o vestibular UFRGS 2025. Aqueles que se empolgaram com a narrativa de Os supridores vão encontrar nas crônicas reunidas neste volume uma ampliação do universo do autor. Publicados originalmente na revista digital Parêntese, os textos revisitam o gênero que é uma das tradições literárias brasileiras, mas trazem a contribuição única de seu autor: falam do cotidiano com lirismo e o olhar atilado de um observador da vida ao sul do país. Um retrato sem retoques da vida de trabalhadores da periferia.

Um retrato (único e cativante) de personagens sobre os quais prestamos pouca atenção. Com este seu primeiro romance, José Falero já se apresenta como um dos nomes mais relevantes da nova literatura brasileira. Ao criar um narrador culto e perspicaz — que contrasta com o dialeto a um só tempo urbano e filosófico da periferia —, o autor mostra seu talento incomum, fazendo uma verdadeira arqueologia da pobreza. Falero nos leva direto ao supermercado Fênix, na região central de Porto Alegre.

The Supernatural War is reaching its conclusion, and what's coming is worse than vampire-witch Kat Troy ever expected. There's no such thing as a good monster. That's the motto of Colonel Sheila Baxter and the Hunter Network. The hunters don't care who gets in the way. Human casualties are the cost of war. Kat and her team race to prevent the humans from developing a devastating weapon that threatens the existence of all supernaturals.

Journalistin Hazel soll den maskierten Mann ausfindig machen und interviewen, der auf einem Foto aus dem exklusiven Phoenix-Club zu sehen ist. Nichts leichter als das - es handelt sich schließlich um ihren neuen Mitbewohner Kieran Black. Doch auch wenn Hazel schon seit Langem geheime Fantasien hegt, scheitert sie immer wieder an ihrer Schüchternheit und würde lieber im Erdboden versinken, als Kieran zu dem Club und seiner Mitgliedschaft dort zu befragen. Kieran Black sieht keinen Sinn in festen Beziehungen.

Vier Geschwister finden Zuflucht in einem verwunschenen Haus in einem Gewerbegebiet am Rande der Stadt. In vollständiger Abschottung von der Außenwelt werfen sie sich ihre Gedanken zu, entfalten so ungewöhnliche Dialoge und ausgefallene Verhaltensformen. Ein kammerspielartiges, anspruchsvolles Werk, in dem Kulturkritik und meisterhafte Prosa Hand in Hand gehen.

Thirty-two-year-old Charlie Brown has a plane to catch. As Christmas approaches, she is New York bound, to be reunited with boyfriend Harry after work has kept them apart. But once she lands, Harry is nowhere to be found… There’s no hand-drawn sign with her name being brandished at the gate. No answer from Harry's phone. And all at once, Charlie’s worst fears come true. What has happened to Harry? And what should Charlie do now that she’s an ocean away from home?

When Liv finds herself locked in a shed with handsome stranger Ben (after they try to rescue a cat together), the instant connection they make feels like fate had a hand in it. Has Liv finally found her perfect match? But everything about the timing means there’s no way they can be together. Not least because Ben has a girlfriend and Liv is moving from London to Paris the next day. Over the coming years their paths weave in and out of each other’s lives – together, but always fleetingly. If only they could stop missing each other, who knows what fate may have in store for them.

À 17 ans, Aleisha travaille dans la petite bibliothèque de son quartier : un job d’été tranquille qui lui permet de reprendre son souffle loin de sa mère bipolaire. Elle, qui ne lit que très peu, s’y ennuie terriblement jusqu’au jour où elle découvre une mystérieuse liste de lecture en rangeant un exemplaire de Ne tirez pas sur l’oiseau moqueur. Intriguée, elle décide de se plonger dans tous les ouvrages de la liste pour pouvoir conseiller les usagers de la bibliothèque, dont un vieil homme isolé à la recherche des livres grâce auxquels il réussira à se rapprocher de sa petite-fille.

A retired employee of the Illinois Department of Motor Vehicles, Mrs. Washington runs the mean, cold streets of Chi-town messing with all types of young thugs with multiple felonies. A widow for some time now, Vernita is determined to make up for her stale marriage. However, when a major health scare sets her back, she finds herself losing everything. Reality sets in that her time on Earth is about to come to a close. Now faced with a death sentence, Vernita seeks to live out her remaining days being the biggest old super freak.

La résidence K, édifice de briques rouges abritant des femmes célibataires, apparaît aux habitants de Tokyo comme une demeure tranquille pour dames respectables. Lorsque le passe-partout qui permet de pénétrer dans les cent cinquante chambres de I'immeuble disparaît de la loge de la gardienne, les locataires retiennent Ieur souffle. Car la clé n'ouvre pas seulement les portes, mais donne aussi accès aux secrets les plus intimes des résidentes. Certaines femmes ont tout intérêt à brouiller les pistes. Publié en 1962 au Japon, Le Passe-Partout est un grand classique du roman noir. Une pépite pleine de tension délicieusement tokyoïte.

"Eine dreckige Geschichte mit einem reinen Herzen." The New York Times. Raizl lebt mit ihrer jüdischen Großfamilie in Brooklyn. Sie teilt sich ein Zimmer mit ihrer kleinen Schwester, sie liebt ihren Großvater über alles und sie unterstützt ihre Mutter im Haushalt. Aber außerhalb der Familie hat Raizl einen Studienplatz, einen Nebenjob und eine Therapeutin. Und da ist noch etwas: Sie liebt Pornos! Bald erlebt sie ein sexuelles Erwachen, lange bevor der Matchmaker den richtigen Ehemann für sie finden kann.

Brooklyn is a fierce, no-nonsense woman who is about stacking paper and building a good life. Meeting the handsome Jihad was pure coincidence, but she quickly catches feelings for this smooth-talking brother. A whirlwind romance develops between them, and before you know it, Brooklyn is thrown in a love triangle she was not aware of. Common sense and her Ivy League education couldn’t prepare her for what is to come in her once quiet life.

Cal “Freeway” Moore, a well-known hitta and kingpin, knows all too well that running his New Orleans-based empire comes at a price. “Shoot first and ask questions later” is his motto as he fights to hold down his kingdom and maintain a healthy relationship with the love of his life, Belladonna. They say you keep your friends close but your enemies closer, but what if both are the same—and coming for his spot?

Beth is walking her dog in a secluded wooded area around Manchester, when she's viciously attacked. After fighting the man off, she gets away with her life, but is left with a horrifying secret. As Beth moves on from her trauma with new husband Brady, she seems a happy, successful career girl. But he senses she is harbouring something dark... And when the truth is finally revealed, Brady blackmails Beth into bankruptcy.

Juleena always knew she wanted to go away to college; she just didn't know it would be in New York. That was until she met and fell in love with her boyfriend, Mooski, a few summers ago. Juleena knew she wanted to be close to him, so she applied to every college possible in the tri-state area just so she could be close to him. Ju's plan was to always attend NYU, so when she got accepted into Fordham University, she felt herself straying from her life's path. Juleena thought moving to New York would make her and Mooski closer. Instead, the two of them couldn't be further apart.

Sie werden ihr Ziel niemals erreichen: Reichtum und Glück. Da können sie noch so lange zu San Antonio beten, dem Heiligen des Unmöglichen. Denn sie sind Immigranten. Das Brüderduo Tito und Paul Andino schlägt sich gemeinsam in New York als Illegale durch. Sie arbeiten für einen mexikanischen Lieferservice und tragen Burritos und Chili-Tacos aus. Vor allem aber lieben sie die mysteriöse Kristin. Arnon Grünberg zieht den Leser mit hinein in eine Welt der Illusionen und der Hoffnung wider alle Hoffnung. Ein Gefühlskarussell, bei dem einem das Lachen im Hals steckenbleibt, während man die Tränen nur mit Mühe zurückhält.

Georgie Deacon thinks nothing of it when a gang of girls led by Yasmin, a member of the notorious Marx family, knock at her door and threaten to hurt her daughter—that is until her daughter doesn't return home. Detective Clark Kims ignores Georgie's plea to have the gang of girls brought in for questioning. He insists it is the work of the Kent serial killer, until Georgie realizes that the detective's daughter is part of the gang.

Kailani had been scarred from her last relationship and love was the last thing on her mind, but when Hendrix makes an appearance, she can't seem to shake, she learns to lower her guard. The two build a bond that seems unbreakable until someone from Kailani's past threatens to ruin it all.

Ironico e dissacrante, impietoso ritratto dell’Italia di oggi nelle sue infinite piccolezze, Che la festa cominci è un’irresistibile commedia umana. E sullo sfondo del party più esclusivo della nuova Repubblica, Ammaniti mette in scena un moderno Satyricon, con il palazzinaro Sasà Chiatti nelle vesti di novello Trimalchione e una schiera di improbabili invitati a rappresentare, oggi come allora, una società alla deriva.