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Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: “Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954”. Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida estivesse, aos poucos, se...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: “Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954”. Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida estivesse, aos poucos, se...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: “Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954”. Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida estivesse, aos poucos, se...

Oito dias antes de morrer, Frida Kahlo usou seus pincéis pela última vez, deixando em um quadro a mensagem: “Viva la vida. Coyoacán, 1954”. Poucos meses antes, sua perna direita havia sido amputada e ela sentia que toda sua energia a abandonara, como se a vida estivesse, aos poucos, se...

Nenhum alarme soou no 78o andar da Torre Norte do World Trade Center e ninguém sabia o que tinha acontecido às 8h46 do dia 11 de setembro de 2001 – uma manhã que teria sido de um dia normal de trabalho para milhares de pessoas. Cego desde o nascimento, Michael também não via nada naquele...

Uma revolução feminina toma a cidade de Oz e depõe seu novo governador, o Espantalho. O menino Bizu, fugindo de sua mãe adotiva, a malvada bruxa Mambi, faz amizades insólitas pelo caminho até Oz. Os amigos mais improváveis, como João...

Meet the brilliant writer, fiercely independent mother, and passionate woman who captured the heart of C.S. Lewis and inspired the books that still enchant and change us today, from the?New York Times?bestselling author of?The Story She Left Behind. When poet and writer Joy Davidman began...

From the internationally bestselling author of Fair Rosaline comes a captivating historical novel—a powerful retelling of the life of one of the most beguiling and misrepresented female figures in history, Cleopatra. The favored daughter of the Pharaoh, Egyptian Princess Cleopatra spent her...

From the acclaimed author of the Harlem Detectives series, a masterful autobiographical novel about the injustices of the prison system and the humanity that flourishes despite it Jimmy Monroe is serving a twenty-year sentence for robbery. Terror and chaos reign in the prison, where corrupt...

Read by actor Alex Jennings, At Last is the fifth and final novel in Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical series, The Patrick Melrose Novels, filmed for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Mother's Milk is the fourth of Edward St Aubyn's semi-autobiographical Patrick Melrose novels, adapted for TV for Sky Atlantic and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as aristocratic addict, Patrick. This audiobook edition is read by stage and screen actor Alex...

The Pope recently referred to the continuing ‘mystery of Judas’. This intriguing book – the result of an intense collaboration between one of the world’s most popular storytellers and one of the world’s leading biblical scholars – throws a new light on the events leading up to the...

'As unexpectedly beguiling as it is affecting.' Daily Mail Since his award-winning debut collection of stories, Last Days of the Dog-Men, Brad Watson's work has been as melancholy, witty, strange, and lovely as any in America. Inspired by the true story of his own great-aunt, he explores the...

'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence, humour and joy' - Sarah Waters Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize In 1838 Frédéric Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce, to live a simple life...

From the bestselling author of The Frozen River comes an enthralling historical mystery that unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson’s fifty-year battle to be recognised as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian grand duchess or the thief of another woman’s legacy?...

CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2024 The Winnipeg Free Press' Best Books of 2024 A dazzling, richly imagined novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself, by the award-winning author of Under the Bridge. "Brilliantly resurrects the avant-garde...

Composed in small scenes, Followed by the Lark is a novel of meditationson loss, on change, on the danger and healing that come from communion with the natural world. Henry David Thoreau's connection to nature was tied to his feelings of grief: before he was twenty-seven years old and went to...

Inspired by his journals and writing, this moving novel inhabits the life and mind of renowned nineteenth-century naturalist, poet and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau, revealing the deep connections between his time and our own. Composed in short, compelling scenes, Followed by the Lark is a...

Beautiful People. Beautiful Places. Escape into the glittering world of Lilly Pulitzer and the 1960s Jet Set in this stylish novel. It’s 1961, and for Margo Hightower, everything is about to change. True, her engagement is off, her family has fallen in scandal and she’s completely broke. But...

A powerful novel of survival, resilience and enduring love, based on an incredible true Holocaust story. Our dance. Do you remember how I spun and twirled? How I became more than a Jewish girl with battered shoes and dirty clothes ... We did not know then what it would mean, how that dance would...