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Este volume reúne contos em que Machado de Assis brinca com o limite entre o que parece normal e o que foge à lógica, trazendo histórias cheias de dúvida, mistério e surpresa. As narrativas colocam personagens diante de acontecimentos estranhos, coincidências inquietantes e situações difíceis de explicar, criando uma atmosfera em que certezas começam a ruir. Ideias como destino, fé, identidade e tempo atravessam os contos, sempre com ironia e tensão, conduzindo escolhas que escapam do controle racional.

Mergulhe na essência de Machado com 21 contos de crítica social, ironia, imoralidade, traição, conflitos e muita emoção. Conheça personagens marcantes, presos a escolhas que nunca levam a um final feliz, cujas ambições, desejos, culpa e apatia sempre vêm em primeiro lugar.

O amor nem sempre leva a um final feliz, e às vezes nem chega perto disso. Cheios de desejo, ciúme, vaidade, fúria e frustração, estes contos acompanham promessas de amor que terminam em tragédias, expectativas que só levam à desilusão e relações marcadas por silêncio e controle. Amar se torna um risco, e se entregar pode ser irreversível.

Um prédio elegante no centro de Paris; uma desconfiada zeladora de meia-idade, fã de Tolstoi e do Oriente; uma garota cáustica, às turras com a família; um senhor japonês sorridente e misterioso. As vozes da garota e da zeladora, primeiro paralelas, depois entrelaçadas, vão desenhando uma espiral em que se misturam argumentos filosóficos, instantes de revelação estética, birras de classe e maldades adolescentes, poemas orientais e filmes blockbuster.

Este volume reúne contos em que Machado de Assis desmonta as máscaras sociais e revela como poder, ambição e conveniência costumam falar mais alto que qualquer discurso moral. Os contos irônicos e cheios de tensão acompanham personagens que negociam valores, exploram brechas e se adaptam ao jogo para sobreviver ou se destacar. Em escolas, repartições, igrejas e salões, surgem disputas silenciosas, acordos velados e decisões que mostram até onde as pessoas estão dispostas a ir para conseguir o que querem.

Emily: I fell in love with him when I was 14. Under the stars, he told me he loved me, and under the stars, we promised to love each other, always. But under the stars, he broke my heart. He left me without a second glance. I was just an afterthought. Now he's back, but this time, I'm not falling for his Southern charm. Maybe. Ethan: On my 21st birthday, I found out that everything I thought I knew was a lie, that the man I had grown up thinking was my father wasn't. The pain I felt blinded me. I left them all behind, including her, my best friend and the woman I was going to marry.

When you find out that your fiancé is arrested for swindling more than 10 million dollars from his clients, you do what any sane woman would do. You escape reality and go undercover, trading in your city-girl Louboutins for country-pumpkin cowboy boots. It wasn't a forever change - it was temporary. I only had to stay here until things back home got straightened out, or so I thought.

I fell in love with him when I was seven. I scraped my knee, and he helped carry me inside. Our love story was the talk of the town until a woman told everyone she was pregnant with his baby. The only rational solution was to high-tail it out of town and never come back. My best friend needed a place to hide, and you can’t get much more covert than my family farm, so I came back. For her. It was supposed to be temporary, and I wasn’t supposed to see him, but that’s what happens when you live in a small town where everyone knows each other.

It's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a 30-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy's Opa (grandfather) - a devout Mennonite farmer - might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation, but as Wendy's life grows increasingly volatile, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa's truth.

A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runs away from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood - and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles. There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. Can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?

I'm the one who broke up the golden couple - the woman people still whisper about, point at, and give dirty looks to. Did I sleep with the prom king? No. Did I sleep with the town's golden boy on vacation from college? Yes. Did I believe that he was going to marry me? Wholeheartedly. Did he? Not even close. He got engaged right in front of me, and then his father threw $200 at me and told me to take the trash out.

Nico embarca em uma aventura emocionante até a Escócia para desvendar o mistério do lendário monstro do Lago Ness! Com a ajuda de Fiona, uma divertida especialista em criaturas misteriosas, e Angus, um pescador cheio de histórias, eles seguem pistas, investigam pegadas gigantes e mergulham nas profundezas do lago para tentar descobrir se Nessie é real. Será que Nico vai conseguir superar seu medo do escuro e encontrar o famoso monstro?

Framed for divulging state secrets, reformed hacker Valerie Sanchez has no choice but to run. Worse, when the proof of her innocence is destroyed, things turn fatal. She must decide if the sexy special operator who mysteriously turns up to protect her is an ally or the real threat. Scott Kramer’s job was supposed to be easy. Follow the hot computer geek who stole plans for classified weapons until she meets her buyer, then let law enforcement take over. But when Valerie becomes an assassin's target, Scott's gut says she’s innocent. Now, he must risk his life—and his heart—to keep her safe.

Erika Parker-Ward is living the dream—her professional soccer career is on the rise, and she's got her sights set on making the World Cup team for the US. But all of that could be over in a blink now that Erika's been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Her plan? Keep the diagnosis hush hush by paying for private medical care, but the cost is threatening to bury her alive.

Collateral damage to her parents' toxic marriage, Maya Rayes isn't sure she believes in love. Short relationships are safer. She's surprised by a scorching encounter with her best friend's infuriatingly sensible and contained older brother, but they're complete opposites who struggle to find common ground outside the bedroom. There's no way they could turn into something more, no matter how tempting she finds him.

Katie Carmichael may not be a scary badass dragon capable of toasting her enemies to a crisp, but that doesn’t mean she’s a pushover. And sure, the roaring, fire-breathing hottie is, uh, hot, but she’s a chick with a plan. A plan that includes a secluded old farmhouse and doesn’t include a tall, heavily muscled, and totally delicious weredragon.

In this cinematic memoir, follow one man's journey from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner–and the justice and redemption he fought for along the way. Inspired by Malcolm X, Russell Shoatz became a lifelong crusader for justice, a soldier in the most militant units of...

Aos 15 anos, o personagem Kevin mata 11 pessoas, entre colegas no colégio e familiares. Enquanto ele cumpre pena, a mãe Eva amarga a monstruosidade do filho. Entre culpa e solidão, ela apenas sobrevive. A vida normal se esvai no escândalo, no pagamento dos advogados, nos olhares tortos. Transposto o primeiro estágio da perplexidade, um ano e oito meses depois, ela dá início a uma correspondência com o marido, único interlocutor capaz de entender a tragédia, apesar de ausente. Cada carta é uma ode e uma desconstrução do amor.

Em uma ilha afastada na costa da Irlanda, convidados se reúnem para celebrar uma união de dar inveja. O noivo, bonito e charmoso, é uma estrela de TV em ascensão. A noiva, elegante e ambiciosa, é editora da própria revista. A festa de casamento é um reflexo de suas personalidades: vestido e terno de grife, localização remota e exclusiva, decoração luxuosa, uísque da melhor qualidade. Tudo rigorosamente planejado. Mas a perfeição só existe mesmo nos planos. E o perigo mora nos detalhes.

Nico mal podia imaginar que sua viagem dos sonhos em um cruzeiro pela Flórida o levaria direto para o coração de um dos maiores mistérios do mundo: o Triângulo das Bermudas! Ao lado da destemida Capitã Sophia, do atrapalhado marinheiro Mike e de uma bióloga marinha cheia de segredos, ele enfrentará tempestades assustadoras, luzes enigmáticas e até um 'monstro' marinho! Será que juntos eles conseguirão desvendar os mistérios que cercam essa região tão famosa?