Efémero
Translated title: Ephemeral
Author: Pereira, Teresa
Genre: Social Novel / Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 400 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 89996
Maria Mendes is a pastry chef in her mother's tea house. Dealing with the end of a relationship marked by rejection and lack of love, she begins to fantasize about a boy she sees every morning on the beach, in front of the tea house.
Tobias Stein is a young man tormented by a past of violence and loss. Raised by his grandparents, he believes he was not made for love and sees the vastness of the sea as an escape from his pain.
When the two meet, the chemistry is undeniable. Between encounters and missed encounters, shared secrets and heated moments, Maria and Tobias will challenge their beliefs about themselves and love. But can love be more powerful than the monsters that torment them?
Compendium Horribilis
Author: Count of Barroso
Genre: Short Stories / Horror
Year: 2026 | Pages: 178 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 93006
He had walked down that corridor countless times. But in the dim light, the shadows sent shivers down his spine with whispers that didn't exist.
What is Terror? Where do these chills come from? What to do when your heart flees from your chest?
The Count of Barroso tried to answer these and other questions for years, until Death came prematurely.
A pseudo-hermit, Diogo Ansures de Palma Lopes, the Count, wrote heartlessly, as if on the brink of the end of the World and Time. Today, finally, these cursed manuscripts, lost in dusty drawers, come to light.
From Antiquity to Space, mediating sarcasm and seriousness with realism and metaphysics, this compilation of stories from the Count of Barroso's repertoire is born. Who dares?
Singular Ocorrência e Outras Histórias de Mulheres
Translated title: Singular Occurrence and Other Stories of Women
Author: de Assis, Machado
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2026 | Pages: 256 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 93027
The art of Machado de Assis's short stories is unparalleled. One of the reasons for its superiority is that it can be defined as an art of description, observation, and understanding of women.
This anthology presents 15 superlative examples collected from different moments in Machado's literary evolution. Some are extraordinary portraits of female figures who occupy the center of the story with their unique character and actions.
Others bear witness to a very particular group of surprising stories of women who simply cross paths with men, and it is then that singular occurrences, fortuitous coincidences, the inability to understand, and the ever-perverse chance leave them agitated, bewildered - restless.
The enchantment of Machado de Assis's imagination and literary audacity is always infallible
Lisboa - Cidade de Tragédias
Translated title: Lisbon - City of Tragedies
Author: Pintomeira
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2025 | Pages: 514 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 93014
An aerial view of Lisbon shows a city serenely nestled on the right bank of the Tagus River. We are led to believe that all the tragedies suffered throughout the centuries have repressed it and placed it in a gentle repose. Terreiro do Paço has not forgotten the catastrophe of November 1, 1755, and Cais das Colunas seems like a sentinel, always attentive to any curse that may come up the Tagus. The Seven Hills watch the clouds and appear vigilant and prepared to sound the alarm when they darken and carry the omen of a tragedy similar to that of November 25, 1967. Is Chiado attentive and better prepared to handle a calamity like that of August 25, 1988?
Lisbon, the martyred city, carries the weight of longing, of the Sebastianist myth, and expresses its despondency in a mournful fado in a minor key to purge the misfortunes of the past. Lisbon - City of Tragedies, an account of a past of setbacks that befell an ancient and proud city of its history. Pintomeira, not being a historian, also does not intend this to be a history book. He does, however, discuss episodes from the history of Portugal, respecting the facts, but narrating in a personalized way
A Mulher da Suíte 11
Translated title: The Woman in Suite 11
Author: Ware, Ruth
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 372 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 92999
When a stay at a luxury hotel turns into a deadly game.
Lo Blacklock is desperate to relaunch her journalism career. The perfect opportunity arises when she's invited to cover the opening of a luxurious hotel in Switzerland.
The exclusive retreat on the shores of Lake Geneva boasts breathtaking views, and its owner, Marcus Leidmann, is as elusive as he is powerful. Lo plans to interview him, but quickly realizes it won't be easy. Until, in the middle of the night, she receives a phone call inviting her to his room.
Despite her doubts, Lo decides to meet Marcus. But she's greeted by a terrified woman who begs her for help escaping the hotel and the clutches of her lover, the billionaire Marcus.
When Lo agrees, everything spirals out of control. The tension is constant: she hears footsteps behind her, sees familiar faces where they shouldn't be, and notices coincidences that are too perfect. Are they really being followed, or is she being manipulated?
How can she help someone she doesn't trust... and survive the uncertainty?
Amor & Outras Mentiras
Translated title: Love & Other Lies
Author: Ramos, Andreia
Genre: Social Novel / Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 224 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 89995
Vanessa is the epitome of simplicity. Give her a funny t-shirt and a good glass of wine, and she can even put up with clients from the world's worst communications agency. But when her best friend reveals he needs a fake girlfriend to take to his sister's wedding - to hide his sexual orientation from a highly conservative family - Vanessa doesn't hesitate to transform herself into the dream suitor of any rich and demanding parents.
However, will she be able to keep up appearances when faced with an old flame? And will she be able to maintain her role as a well-mannered girl in the face of her friend's highly homophobic grandmother? And that horrible dog that's always following her around?
A Greve
Translated title: The Strike
Author: Corredoura, Luis
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 536 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 90005
Five thousand workers. Hundreds of factories, workshops, and quarries. Twelve days of protest. The regime's only option was violence.
In May 1965, five thousand workers from hundreds of factories, workshops, and quarries paralyzed the extraction and processing of lioz for 12 days, a stone unique to the Pêro Pinheiro region, in the northern municipality of Sintra, and with which some of Portugal's most emblematic buildings were constructed over its nine centuries.
At the height of the Salazarist dictatorship and facing the prospect of political embarrassment, the forces of law and order, faced with the usual: lies, threats, cavalry charges by the GNR (National Republican Guard), and countless arrests and torture by the PIDE (Political Defense Institute). It was, nevertheless, the largest strike the Estado Novo had ever faced
Uma Família Feliz
Translated title: A Happy Family
Author: Montes, Raphael
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 312 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 93036
Eva has the perfect life. Her husband is a rising young lawyer, and her twin daughters are beautiful, intelligent, and healthy. Her work, reborn art, is a success on the internet. Around her, the upper-middle-class gated community in Barra da Tijuca, Blue Paradise, offers her everything, preventing her from having to leave the comfort of her home. Eva has the perfect life, therefore - until she discovers she's pregnant and her world is turned upside down.
Known for his breathtaking stories, with over half a million copies sold, Raphael Montes innovates by beginning this psychological thriller with the last chapter. Thus, like a time bomb about to explode, we, as readers, follow surprising paths, witnessing the tensions that lead this happy family to a devastating end.
From the same author of the international bestseller Secret Dinner
Contos de Fadas Turcos
Translated title: Turkish Fairy Tales
Author: Various Authors
Genre: Short Stories / Fantasy
Year: 2026 | Pages: 176 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 93008
In Turkish Fairy Tales (or Masallari ) we will find vibrant stories that combine shamanic myths, Islamic folklore, and multicultural influences - it is therefore not surprising that there are tales of beautiful maidens, wicked witches, unlikely heroes, or envious villains.
However, we will undergo trials to reach the enchanted kingdoms of the Turks, where we will be helped by orange birds, burn pieces of wings, fly on a shield or a carpet, and descend to the seventh circle of Hell to save the most beautiful of maidens. Along the way, we will be enchanted by the melodious songs of the birds, and in the gardens where the trees shine, the most wonderful aromas will intoxicate our senses.
Characterized by their extravagant opening formulas, the presence of supernatural archetypes such as the pari or the efrits, as well as an implicit content that elegantly balances moral lessons with sometimes dark consequences, Turkish Fairy Tales will certainly take the reader on a journey through the deepest ethical, social and philosophical lessons of Turkish culture
Uma Questao de Culpa
Translated title: A Question of Guilt
Author: Horst, Jorn Lier
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2025 | Pages: 360 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 89981
Just entering the second week of his summer vacation, William Wisting follows a local disappearance case in the press that becomes national news. Agnete Roll has been missing for three days, and there is no trace of her whereabouts.
With this disappearance making headlines, Wisting receives a mysterious letter containing only a set of numbers, which he matches to the code of an old murder case in which he was not personally involved. On a summer night in 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was murdered on her way home from work.
Desperate for a quick conviction, the police considered the investigation's conclusions more than obvious and arrested her ex-boyfriend, Danny Momrak. Tone's family was able to grieve. The public felt justice had been served. But recent events reveal connections that were not visible twenty years ago. The letter is just the first in a series, all suggesting that the wrong man was convicted and, worse still, that the real killer is still at large
