Livro: THE PHOTOGRAPH
Autor: Penelope Liely
Idioma: Inglês

Lively likes historians. Her most famous novel on this side of the Atlantic , the Booker Prize-winning Moon Tiger, told the story of a popular historian; her latest narrates the quest of a "landscape historian" in search of what Proust called "lost time": the living past of his dead wife. Glyn Peters, a famous British archeologist, discovers a compromising photograph of his wife, Katherine Targett, sealed in an envelope in a closet at home. Peters specializes in excavating the long defunct gardens, buried fields and covered-over roads of the British landscape. Reverting to professional habits, he treats Kath's infidelity as a sort of archeological dig. The photo depicts Kath and Nick Hammond, the husband of Kath's sister, Elaine, surreptitiously holding hands on some outing, with Elaine and Mary Packard, Kath's best friend, in the background. Glyn decides to interview this cloud of witnesses, beginning with Elaine. Elaine is a successful, and somewhat cold, landscaper; Nick, her polar opposite, is a man one degree away from being a Wodehouse dilettante. Lively, who is never shy of letting us know her opinion of her characters (like Trollope), makes her disapprobation of Nick plain. Elaine, after learning of the affair, kicks Nick out. He takes refuge with Polly, their daughter, in London , and goes rapidly downhill. Glyn, meanwhile, has searched out Nick's ex-business partner, Oliver Watson, who took the photograph, and Mary Packard. Lively is always a discerning, keenly intelligent writer. This, for instance, is how she describes, in three irrevocable words, Elaine's pregnancy: "She is pregnant: heavy, hampered, irritable." Unfortunately, Kath, a demon-haunted beauty with little depth, remains unconjurable. Her insubstantiality and the much-foreshadowed nature of her death, not revealed until late in the novel, drains this story of its full emotional impact.

Livro: THE DEVIL THAT DANCED ON THE WATER: A DAUGHTER'S MEMOIR
Autor: Aminatta Forna
Idioma: Inglês
Doado pela sócia Jessica Mary Macnally

An intimate and moving portrait of a family combined with an account of the events which swept through Africa in the post-independence period. Aminatta Forna's intensely personal history is a passionate and vivid account of an African childhood -- of an idyll that became a nightmare. As a child she witnessed the upheavals of post-colonial Africa, the bitterness of exile in Britain and the terrible consequences of her dissident father's stand against tyranny. Mohamed Forna, a man of unimpeachable integrity and great charisma, was a new star in the political firmament Sierra Leone as the country faced its future as a fledgling democracy. Always a political firebrand, he was one of the first black students to come to Britain after the war. In Aberdeen he stole the heart of Aminatta's mother, to the dismay of her Presbyterian parents, and returned with her to Sierra Leone . But the new ways of Western parliamentary democracy were tearing old Africa apart, giving rise only to dictatorships and corruption of hitherto undreamed-of magnitude. It was not long before Aminatta's father languished in jail as a prisoner of conscience, and there was worse to come. Aminatta's search for the truth that shaped both her childhood and the nation's destiny begins among the country's elite and takes her into the heart of rebel territory. Determined to break the silence surrounding her father's fate, she ultimately uncovered a conspiracy that penetrated the highest reaches of government and forced the nation's politicians and judiciary to confront their guilt.

Livro: LULUZINHA TEEN Nº 6
Idioma: Português
Doado pelo sócio Julio Cesar B. Coelho

EEles cresceram!
E agora é toda a galera num clube só. Muita aventura, humor, ação, romance e muitas surpresas a cada edição.!

Livro: LAÇOS DE FOGO
Autor: Nora Roberts
Idioma: Português

Neste primeiro volume da 'Trilogia da Fraternidade', o leitor conhecerá as irmãs Concannon - mulheres modernas, ligadas ao eterno e intempestivo espírito da terra. 'Laços de Fogo' é a história de uma artista impetuosa que não pode fugir de seu passado, tampouco de um grande amor.

Livro: KATE CATERINA
Autor: William Riviere
Idioma: Inglês

A spry English woman marries an Italian doctor on the eve of World War II and tries to come to terms with a dual national identity in this plodding historical novel, the American debut of British writer Riviere. Caterina, as she is called in Italy (she thinks of herself as Kate Caterina), lives with her husband, Gabriele D'Alessandria, in a crumbling Renaissance palace in Arezzo . Surrounded by extended family and occupied in raising her young daughter, she has begun to make a place for herself. Then, three days after Germany attacks Poland , Gabriele, an inveterate Socialist, is taken into custody as a political prisoner. For Gabriele's sake, Caterina must maintain good relations with her sister-in-law and one-time best friend, Esmeralda, who has just married a high-ranking Fascist officer: this involves socializing with the Fascist elite. Meantime, she must also worry about her brother, Giles, who is fighting on the side of the Allies. Closest to her is Gabriele's father, Luigi, a sad but wise old man, weary of partisanship and more at ease with leisurely chronicles of the war's events. Riviere's plot encompasses plenty of fascinating historical material, particularly Italy 's internal divisions during the war, but his long-winded exposition, minimal dialogue and flat prose sink the story. Much care is put into the development of Caterina and Luigi's characters, but neither quite transcends stereotype, undermined by Riviere's tendency to tell rather than show. For a novel set in a war-torn country, Riviere's tale is strangely lacking in drama. Agent, Emma Parry, Carlisle & Co

Livro: THE SECRET BOOK OF GRAZIA DEI ROSSI
Autor: Jacqueline Park
Idioma: Inglês
Doado pela sócia Jessica Mary Macnally

The Secret Book of Grazia dei Rossi' is a sweeping tale of intrigue and romance set in a time rife with court politics, papal chicanery, religious intolerance, and inviolable social rules. Grazia, private secretary to the world-renowned Isabella d'Este, is the daughter of an eminent Jewish banker, the wife of the pope's Jewish physician, and the lover of a Christian prince. In a 'secret book,' written as a legacy for her son, she records her struggles to choose between the seductions of the Christian world and a return to the family, traditions, and duties of her Jewish roots. As she re-creates Renaissance Italy in captivating detail, Jacqueline Park gives us a timeless portrait of a brave and brilliant woman trapped in an unforgiving, inflexible society.

Livro: MOLLY MOON E A INCRÍVEL VIAGEM NO TEMPO
Autor:Geogia Byng
Idioma: Português
Doado pelo sócio Victor Veronesi Dias

Em 'Molly Moon e a incrível viagem no tempo', terceiro livro da série, depois de derrotar um dos maiores vilões do hipnotismo e destruir seus planos para conquistar o mundo, a desengonçada e adorável Molly Moon está finalmente aproveitando sua nova vida e o novo lar, como qualquer outra criança.

Livro: A CANÇÃO DA ESPADA
Autor: Bernard Cornwell
Idioma: Português
Doado pelo sócio Pedro Maranhão

'A Canção da Espada' continua a história de Uhtred, guerreiro de Saxões que é um aliado relutante de Alfredo, o grande. Esta história, que ocorre uns cinco anos após os eventos descritos em Senhores do Norte, diz como as forças de Alfredo expulsaram os dinamarqueses de Londres. Wessex, reino de Alfredo, sobreviveu aos grandes assaltos dos Viking e agora, com Uhtred como um líder, as forças ocidentais de Saxões começam as campanhas de conquista que terminarão com um reino novo chamado Inglaterra.

Livro: LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
Autor: Laura Esquível
Idioma: Inglês

The author relates the bizarre history of the all-female De La Garza family. Tita, the youngest daughter of the house, has been forbidden to marry, condemned by Mexican tradition to look after her mother until she dies. But Tita falls in love with Pedro, and he is seduced by the magical food she cooks. In desperation Pedro marries her sister Rosaura so that he can stay close to her. For the next twenty-two years Tita and Pedro are forced to circle each other in unconsummated passion. Only a freakish chain of tragedies, bad luck and fate finally reunite them against all the odds.

Livro: BLACKBERRY WINE
Autor: Joanne Harris
Idioma: Inglês

As a boy, writer Jay Mackintosh spent three golden summers in the ramshackle home of 'Jackapple Joe' Cox. A lonely child, he found solace in Old Joe´s simple wisdom and folk charms. The magic was lost, however, when Joe disappeared without warning one fall. Years later, Jay´s life is stalled with regret and ennui. His bestselling novel, Jackapple Joe, was published ten years earlier end he has written nothing since. Impulsively, he decides to leave his urban life in London and purchases a farmhouse in the remote French village of Lansquenet . There, in that strange place, Jay hopes to re-create the magic of those golden childhood summers. And while the spirit of Joe is calling to him, reclusive woman who will ultimately help Jay find himself again.

Livro: A DROGA DA OBEDIÊNCIA
Autor:Pedro Bandeira
Idioma: Português
Doado pela sócia Susanne Dorothea Walker

Uma turma de adolescentes enfrenta o mais diabólico dos crimes. Num clima de mistério e suspense, cinco estudantes - os Karas - enfrentam uma macabra trama internacional - o sinistro Doutor Q.I. pretende subjugar a humanidade aos seus desígnios, aplicando na juventude uma perigosa droga. E essa droga já está sendo experimentada em alunos dos melhores colégios de São Paulo. Este é um trabalho para os Karas - o avesso dos coroas, o contrário dos caretas. ted entry into a period not always accessible to general readers of history.

Livro: A CAÇA DE HARRY WINSTON
Autor: Lauren Weisberger
Idioma: Português

A autora do livro 'O diabo veste Prada' está de volta. Emmy estava a dois passos do casamento perfeito quando seu namorado a trocou pela personal trainer. Leigh é considerada o novo talento na editora onde trabalha, mas sua vida amorosa não anda tão bem quanto pensava. A brasileira Adriana odeia a palavra compromisso. Para ela, quanto mais homens melhor. As três amigas decidem fazer um grande pacto - mudar radicalmente suas vidas em um ano.