57. Despedida de Solteiro, Peter James

382 páginas

Quatro corpos. E um suspeito sem rasto... Estava destinado ser uma inofensiva noite de despedida de solteiro, uma paródia sem consequências. Mas, algumas horas mais tarde, quatro dos seus melhores amigos estão mortos e Michael Harrison desapareceu.

Apenas a três dias do casamento, o detective Roy Grace, um homem também amargurado pelo desaparecimento da mulher, é contactado pela noiva de Michael, uma mulher bonita mas preocupada. Grace descobre que aquele que deveria conhecer melhor o caso, o sócio de Michael, não tem nada a revelar, mas tem muito a ganhar... mais do que se pode imaginar. A desgraça de uns pode ser a sorte de outros...

56. Open Season, Linda Howard

337 páginas

Be careful what you wish for.... On her thirty-fourth birthday, Daisy Minor decides to make over her entire life. The small-town librarian has had it with her boring clothes, her ordinary looks, and nearly a decade without so much as a date. It's time to get a life -- and a sex life. The perennial good girl, Daisy transforms herself into a party girl extraordinaire -- dancing the night away at clubs, laughing and flirting with abandon -- and she's declared open season for manhunting. But her free-spirited fun turns to shattering danger when she witnesses something she shouldn't -- and becomes the target of a killer. Now, before she can meet the one man who can share her life, first she may need him to save it.

55. O Priorado do Cifrão, João Aguiar

384 páginas

Em Londres, na sala do Museu Britânico onde está exposto o Estandarte de Ur, foi encontrado morto Sir Alastair Hopkins-Smith, um conhecido académico inglês. O corpo estava numa estranha posição, com o polegar da mão direita metido na boca, como se estivesse a chuchar no dedo.

Paralelamente, há outras ocorrências: o desaparecimento misterioso, na Áustria, de outro académico, o Prof. Heinrich Loewe; e a morte, num acidente de viação suspeito, de um escritor português, Alfredo Estria, um velhote excêntrico que escreve e publica obras de cunho esotérico.

Há algo de comum nos três homens: todos eles se preparavam para atacar violentamente um livro que acaba de ser lançado nos Estados Unidos e promete ser um êxito mundial, o romance The Caravaggio Papers, de Ben Browning, que, através de um suspense bem urdido, passa a mensagem de que, na sua origem, a doutrina cristã era de tipo orgiástico…

The Caravaggio Papers foi publicado por um grande grupo editorial de origem americana, a Thoth International, que detém uma editora portuguesa, a Codex 3, onde trabalha Miguel, o jovem protagonista deste romance.

E mais não se pode dizer… Quem leu estas linhas já certamente percebeu que O Priorado do Cifrão é uma (excelente) charge a realidades que todos nós conhecemos e que têm hoje em Portugal uma inesperada actualidade.

54. The Tales of Beedle the Bard, J.K.Rowling

128 páginas

'You've never heard of The Tales of Beedle the Bard?' said Ron incredulously. 'You're kidding, right?' (From Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) Published by the Children's High Level Group in association with Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, The Tales of Beedle the Bard is the first new book from J. K. Rowling since the publication of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The Tales of Beedle the Bard played a crucial role in assisting Harry, with his friends Ron and Hermione, to finally defeat Lord Voldemort. Fans will be thrilled to have this opportunity to read the tales in full. An exciting addition to the canon of Harry Potter, the tales reveal the wonderful versatility of the author, as she tackles with relish the structure and varying tones of a classic fairy tale. There are five tales: 'The Tale of the Three Brothers', recounted in Deathly Hallows, plus 'The Fountain of Fair Fortune', 'The Warlock's Hairy Heart', 'The Wizard and the Hopping Pot', and 'Babbitty Rabbitty and her Cackling Stump'. Each has its own magical character and will bring delight, laughter and the thrill of mortal peril. Translated from the original runes by Hermione Granger, the tales are introduced and illustrated by J. K. Rowling. Also included are notes by Professor Albus Dumbledore, which appear by kind permission of the Hogwarts Headmasters' Archive.

53. Lightning, Dean Koontz

355 páginas

The first time the lightning strikes, Laura Shane is born...The second time it strikes, the terror starts...though eight-year-old Laura is saved by a mysterious stranger from the perverted and deadly intentions of a drug-crazed robber. Throughout her childhood, she is plagued by ever more terrifying troubles, and with increasing courage she finds the strength to prevail - even without the intervention of her strange guardian. But, despite her success as a novelist, and her happy family life, Laura cannot shake the certainty that powerful and malignant forces are controlling her destiny. Then, the lightning strikes once more and shatters her world. The adventure - and the terror - have only just begun.

52. Darkest Fear, Harlan Coben

319 páginas

Life isn't going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling, and his father, recently recovered from a heart attack, is facing his own mortality - and forcing Myron to face it too. Then comes another surprise. Emily Downing, Myron's college sweetheart, reappears in his life with devastating news: her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and can be saved only by a bone-marrow transplant - from a donor who has vanished without trace. Before Myron can absorb this revelation, Emily hits him with an even bigger shocker: Jeremy is Myron's son, conceived the night before Emily's wedding to another man. Staggered by the news, Myron plunges into a search for the missing donor. But for Myron, finding the only person who can save the boy's life means cracking open a mystery as dark as it is heartbreaking - a mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and a cat-and-mouse game between an ambitious reporter and the FBI.

51. Uma Última Noite, Nora Roberts

146 páginas

Kasey Wyatt recebe uma oferta de emprego do escritor Jordan Taylor. Como antropologista especializada na cultura dos nativos norte-americanos, a sua função é pesquisar e fornecer referências para o próximo livro do famoso e solitário Jordan. Instalando-se na mansão do escritor, Kasey sente-se aborrecida com as restrições impostas pela mãe do escritor. Mas, sempre vibrante e bem-disposta, começa a explorar os arredores da mansão, divertindo-se e desafiando as regras rígidas da casa.

É então que Jordan repara em Kasey. A princípio não se aproxima muito dela, mas o trabalho em conjunto obriga-o a reconhecer que se sente fascinado pela sua beleza… e surpreendido pela sua boa disposição contagiante. Tão contagiante que, pela primeira vez desde a morte do irmão, Jordan sente-se vivo. Mas infelizmente nem todos vêem com bons olhos a aproximação de Kasey e Jordan… e há quem esteja disposto a tudo para os separar.

50. See Jane Score, Rachel Gibson

363 páginas

Jane Alcott, a Seattle Times columnist, has a shot at a full-time assignment. She badly needs the income, but unfortunately, the opening is for a sports reporter traveling with the Seattle Chinooks hockey team and she knows nothing about the game. To add to her difficulty, the team doesn't want her, especially Luc "Lucky" Martineau, the Chinooks million-dollar goalie. The team stonewalls when she tries to interview them and they haze her mercilessly; it isn't until the superstitious Luc decides that she brings good luck that Jane gets a shot at being a real journalist.
But when her acceptance by the team leads to spending more time with Luc, Jane finds to her dismay that he's more than a handsome, empty-headed sports jock and her heart is in danger.
For his part, Luc learns that behind "plain Jane's" boring dark clothing and black-rimmed glasses lies a quick wit, nerves of steel, and a personality that charms him. And when Jane appears at a team banquet with a new haircut, makeup, and a killer red dress with matching stilettos, Luc's affection fast forwards into a major case of lust. But if Jane lets herself fall in love, she'll have to find a way to explain the secret she's hiding before it becomes public knowledge and Luc's passion turns to hate. Can she bring herself to tell him the truth? And if she does, will he forgive her?

49. O Jogo do Anjo, Carlos Ruiz Záfon

568 páginas

Na Barcelona turbulenta dos anos 20, um jovem escritor obcecado com um amor impossível recebe de um misterioso editor a proposta para escrever um livro como nunca existiu a troco de uma fortuna e, talvez, muito mais.

Com deslumbrante estilo e impecável precisão narrativa, o autor de A Sombra do Vento transporta-nos de novo para a Barcelona do Cemitério dos Livros Esquecidos, para nos oferecer uma aventura de intriga, romance e tragédia, através de um labirinto de segredos onde o fascínio pelos livros, a paixão e a amizade se conjugam num relato magistral.

"Um escritor nunca esquece a primeira vez em que aceita umas moedas ou um elogio a troco de uma história. Nunca esquece a primeira vez em que sente no sangue o doce veneno da vaidade e acredita que, se conseguir que ninguém descubra a sua falta de talento, o sonho da literatura será capaz de lhe dar um tecto, um prato de comida quente ao fim do dia e aquilo por que mais anseia: ver o seu nome impresso num miserável pedaço de papel que certamente lhe sobreviverá. Um escritor está condenado a recordar esse momento pois nessa altura já está perdido e a sua alma tem preço."

48. Não Quero ser Mãe - Quando as mulheres decidem não ter filhos, Laura Alves

118 páginas

Em Portugal, o «fazer bebés» tem sido elevado a prioridade nacional, com espaço e interesse político. Face ao declínio da natalidade e a visões tradicionais do papel da mulher que teimam em persistir, enquanto dona-de-casa e vocacionada para a procriação, muitas são as pressões sofridas pelo sexo feminino, num terreno que deveria ser meramente o das suas opções pessoais e individuais. Optar por ser mãe é uma delas. Não querer ter filhos é outra. À procura de respostas e, mais importante ainda, das perguntas certas, Laura Alves encontrou oito mulheres distintas, que expõem a sua vida pessoal e as suas opções de vida, falando dos seus medos e motivações, dos seus anseios e das múltiplas pressões. Uma obra que é um verdadeiro documento social, contrapondo também análises à partida contraditórias, como as de Júlio Machado Vaz, da Associação Portuguesa de Famílias Numerosas ou da própria Igreja Católica entre outras. Uma obra que lhe permite descobrir porque é que algumas mulheres decidem não ter filhos.

47. Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult

532 páginas

In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn, color your hair, watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five.... In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world, or you can just jump off it.

In nineteen minutes, you can get revenge.

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens -- until the day its complacency is shattered by a shocking act of violence. In the aftermath, the town's residents must not only seek justice in order to begin healing but also come to terms with the role they played in the tragedy. For them, the lines between truth and fiction, right and wrong, insider and outsider have been obscured forever. Josie Cormier, the teenage daughter of the judge sitting on the case, could be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened in front of her own eyes. And as the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show, destroying the closest of friendships and families.

46. Sequestro em Directo, Sebastian Fitzek

390 páginas

A psicóloga criminal Ira está prestes a cometer suicídio.

Precisamente nesse momento é chamada a uma emissora de rádio para resolver um caso dramático: um psicopata acaba de fazer reféns e começa a telefonar a diferentes pessoas em directo; estas têm que adivinhar os enigmas que o psicopata lhes indica sob pena de, se não os conseguirem resolver, matar os reféns um a um por cada tentativa falhada. O homem exige que a sua noiva compareça na rádio, mas ela está morta. Ira terá que negociar com o criminoso em directo...

45. Have You Seen Her?, Karen Rose

499 páginas

High Point, North Carolina is gripped with fear as a serial killer is in action. State Bureau of Investigation Agent Steven Thatcher vows to bring down this predator killing children. He knows first hand how parents feel as his preadolescent son Nicky was abducted, but fortunately rescued though six months later mental scars remain on the lad, his dad, and his teenage brother Brad. He takes a break from his obsession when Brad's chemistry teacher Dr. Jenna Marshall asks to see him. Brad's grades have collapsed and Jenna is worried about him. Jenna has other problems with threats from a wealthy father who demands she reinstate his failing son back on the football team. Still she finds she is attracted to Steven, who feels the same way. As they fall in love and he tries to uncover a killer with high level protection, a relationship seems impossible. Not only have both have suffered from previous relationships, his children remain traumatized by the abduction.

44. Português Suave, Margarida Rebelo Pinto

267 páginas

Na década de 40, Mercês Perestrello é dada como louca e afastada dos seus filhos, Joana e Nuno. Nos anos 60, as gémeas Maria Teresa e Maria Luisa Belchior seguem caminhos opostos em busca de felicidade. Quarenta anos mais tarde, as primas Leonor e Naná desvendam segredos familiares nunca imaginados.
A narrativa é contada alternadamente pelos vários personagens na primeira pessoa, reflectindo uma visão particular da realidade, revelando histórias dentro de histórias, como quem faz vários puzzles ao mesmo tempo.

43. The Ex-Boyfriend's Handbook, Matt Dunn

407 páginas

"It's not me - it's you. You've let yourself go, so I'm letting you go too." When Edward Middleton hears those words from Jane, his girlfriend of the past ten years, he knows he's in serious trouble. Determined to get her back, Edward must learn how to make women fancy him again. But what makes for a good boyfriend nowadays? Right now, he's the kind of man who puts the 'ex' into 'sexy'. One thing is certain: if he's to be Jane's Mr Right, he needs to turn himself into a bit of all right. From Atkins and Botox, Edward begins working his way through the makeover alphabet. But can cuddly Teddy really become sexy Eddie? Can he rise from the ranks of discarded exes? Or has his journey of self-discovery taken him in a different direction entirely?

42. Sem Dizer Adeus, Linwood Barclay

367 páginas

O terror de uma casa em silêncio. Cynthia Archer, uma típica adolescente, acorda, como sempre, de mau humor. Rabugenta vagueia pela casa até perceber que está completamente sozinha. Não se trate de um sonho nem de um pesadelo: a sua família desapareceu. Foram raptados, assassinados? Abandonaram-na? O mistério adensa-se com o passar dos anos. Hoje uma mulher adulta e mãe, Cynthia não consegue libertar-se do seu passado e decida investigar por conta própria o que aconteceu naquela noite. Um intenso e aterrador thriller a arrebatar-nos à normalidade dos dias lançando-nos no encalço de um negro segredo.
Cynthia tinha então catorze anos. O que parecia mais uma aborrecida manhã em família acabou por transformar toda a sua vida. Ao percorrer a casa, normalmente barulhenta logo pela manhã, sente um silêncio de morte. Vagueando pelas divisões não encontra vestígios dos pais, nem do irmão. Brincam com ela? Onde se escondem? Fugiram, e não a levaram com eles? Alguém os raptou? Cynthia nunca o saberá. Criada pela tia Tess, só vinte e cinco anos depois do misterioso desaparecimento da família percebe que não conseguirá sentir-se segura até descobrir a verdade. Ela entretanto casou, tem uma filha. O constante medo de, a qualquer momento, tudo perder não a deixam contudo ser feliz. Ao começar a procurar os pais e o irmão parece contudo mexer em pantanosas águas. As suas investigações podem afinal atrair os assassinos até si... Quererá ela de facto saber a verdade, toda a verdade?

41. You've Been Warned, James Patterson

310 páginas

For Karen Burns, a talented young photographer, it was only natural to go to New York to chase her dreams. And it was only normal - just to pay the rent while she waited for her big chance - to work as a nanny for a young power couple, an attorney and his socialite wife, looking after their two children. But for all the promise, the thrills, and the glitter, there are temptations and there are deadly dangers that come with life among the rich and powerful.

40. Uma Casa na Irlanda, Maeve Binchy

605 páginas

Ria e Marylin não se conhecem - vivem a milhares de quilómetros de distância, separados pelo oceano Atlântico: uma, numa grande e acolhedora casa vitoriana em Tara Road, Dublin, a outra numa casa moderna em Nova Inglaterra. Seria difícil encontrar duas mulheres mais diferentes; a vida de Ria centra-se na sua família e nos seus amigos, enquanto a de Marylin conheceu muito sofrimento. Mas quando cada uma delas precisa de sair do ambiente que as rodeia, uma troca de casas parece ser a solução ideial. Juntamente com as casas emprestadas surgem os vizinhos e os amigos, os mexericos e as especulações quando Ria e Marylin trocam de casas durante o Verão.

39. Fractured, Karin Slaughter

388 páginas

When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon, she walks into a nightmare. A broken window, a bloody footprint on the stairs and, most devastating of all, the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing, a man standing over her with a bloody knife. The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever. When the local police make a misjudgement which not only threatens the investigation but places a young girl's life in danger, the case is handed over to Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team - teamed with detective Faith Mitchell, a woman who resents him from their first meeting. But in the relentless heat of a Georgia summer, Will and Faith realise that they must work together to find the brutal killer who has targeted one of Atlanta's wealthiest, most privileged communities - before it's too late.

38. The Life and Soul of the Party, Mike Gayle

305 páginas

Meet Melissa and Paul: Five years after they split up he's still looking for love in all the wrong places while she wants the one thing she can't have: Paul.

Meet Chris and Vicky: They're so in tune they even brush their teeth in time with each other. So what is Chris doing risking it all for a meaningless affair?

Meet Cooper and Laura: He wants to settle down, she wants to take a grown-up gap year but can their relationship really survive a year apart?

Set across a year of leaving dos, birthday parties and anniversary celebrations The Life and Soul of the Party is a warm, funny and moving tale celebrating love, life and those special moments we've all spent in the kitchen at parties.

37. Mr Perfect, Linda Howard

405 páginas

What would make the perfect man?

That's the delicious topic heating up the proceedings at a certain table of professional women at their favorite restaurant, Ernie's, tonight: Mr. Perfect. What qualities would he have? Would he be tall, dark, and handsome? Caring and warmhearted -- or will just muscular do? Jaine Bright and her three girlfriends start off with the basics -- he'd be faithful and reliable, the responsible type, with a great sense of humor.

But as the conversation picks up momentum, so do the quartet's requirements for Mr. Perfect -- and they write down a tongue-in-cheek checklist that's both funny and racy. The next thing they know, the List, as it has come to be called, spreads like wildfire throughout their company and sizzles along e-mail lines. And it doesn't stop there: the List becomes an overnight sensation, grabbing the interest of local newspapers and television coverage. No one expected this avalanche of attention for something that began as a joke among friends. And the joke turns deadly serious when one of the four women is murdered...

The prime suspect in the case is the victim's boyfriend, who was one of a number of men who found the List sexist and offensive. But an impenetrable alibi gets him off the hook. Now, with the help of Jaine's neighbor, an unpredictable police detective, the puzzle must be solved -- and time is running out as a deadly stalker targets the three remaining friends. Now, knowing whom to trust and whom to love is a matter of survival -- as the dream of Mr. Perfect becomes a chilling nightmare.

36. Speaking in Tongues, Jeffery Deaver

357 páginas

Words are the most dangerous weapons on earth - and Tate Collier, who has a consummate skill with them, can talk his way into anyone's heart, and get them to do whatever he wants. Tate is a lawyer who used to defend death penalty cases in Virginia's Supreme Court; now he concentrates on work for the local community. When his teenage daughter goes missing all the signs are that she's run away. But Tate and his ex-wife, Bett, feel differently, and set out in search of her. To discover that Megan is in the hands of a man with no morals and as great a gift for words as Tate himself. Megan's is not the only life in danger...

35. The Servants of Twilight, Dean Koontz

499 páginas

The terrifying ordeal for Joey and his mother begins in the supermarket car park where the old woman accosts them and persues them with her terrible threats. To the Servants of the Twilight, he is an evil presence who must be destroyed - an anti-Christ who must die.

34. Black Ice, Anne Stuart

384 páginas

The job was a killer.

Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion -- even a little danger. So when she's offered a lucrative weekend gig translating at a business conference in a remote chateau, she jumps at the chance to shake things up.

Then by chance Chloe discovers her employers are anything but the entrepreneurs they appear, and suddenly she knows far too much. Her clients are illegal arms dealers, and one of them is ordered to kill her. But instead, Bastien Toussaint drags Chloe away, and the next thing she knows she's on the run with the most terrifying and seductive man she's ever met. What were his motives -- and would she live long enough to find out?

33. Certain Girls, Jennifer Weiner

384 páginas

It's been almost thirteen years since we last saw Cannie Shapiro, the heroine of Good in Bed, whose journey towards happy-ever-after made millions of women the world over laugh, cry and recognise themselves. The last decade of Cannie's life has brought some surprises. Her life story, in fictional form, became an unexpected bestseller, and Cannie has since retreated from fame's fallout, writing science-fiction under a pen name and praying that all her daughter inherited from her father, Cannie's ex-boyfriend Bruce Guberman, are her curls and her eye-colour, and not his predilection for smoking pot. Meanwhile Cannie's best friend, Samantha, is looking for love in all the wrong places, and Cannie's husband, Peter, has decided that he'd like to have a baby, and the family's first choice for a surrogate is none other than Cannie's flamboyant kid sister...

32. Recordação Perigosa, Mary Higgins Clark

314 páginas

No centro deste romance está Kay Lansing filha de um paisagista da poderosa família Carrington. A mansão da família tem uma capela secreta e um dia Kay com 6 anos descobre a capela. Aí ouve uma discussão entre um homem e uma mulher. O homem chantageia a mulher e diz-lhe que será a última vez. Nessa mesma noite numa festa dada pela família desaparece uma convidada...

31. The Empty House, Rosamunde Pilcher

249 páginas

Virginia Keile secretly dreams of having a second chance to love the tall, dark Cornish farmer she foolishly lost 27 years ago. Her life since has taught her harsh lessons about marriage and children, but now she is back in Cornwall with her children, to try and fill an empty house with love.

30. In Odd We Trust, Queenie Chan & Dean Koontz

190 páginas

The first graphic novel from Dean Koontz, featuring the famously well-loved character of Odd Thomas. Nineteen-year-old Odd Thomas, a young fry cook from Pico Mundo, California, can see the dead. Beautifully drawn by Australian artist Queenie Chan, this graphic novel tells the story of Odd's race to solve the murder of a young boy whose killer appears to be stalking a second child. With the help of his beautiful girlfriend Stormy, his friend Police Chief Porter and the ghost of Elvis Presley, Odd must find the killer before he strikes again.

29. The Final Detail, Harlan Coben

344 páginas

Myron screwed up. His job was to protect someone. He fell in love with that someone and then she died. End of story. So he's dropped out, left, run away to the Caribbean to escape his guilt. But now everything that he left behind has come back to haunt him. A friend is in trouble, murder trouble. The victim? One of his own clients. In order to help his friend, Myron must battle for her freedom - against her own wishes...

28. A Casa das Almas Perdidas, F.G.Cottam

319 páginas

Apenas algumas semanas depois de quatro estudantes terem entrado na Fisher House. um deles comete suicídio e os outros três estão a ceder à loucura. Para salvar a sua irmã. um dos quatro estudantes. o ex-soldado Nick Mason. tem de unir forças com Paul Seaton – que visitou a casa uma década antes e sobreviveu. Mas Paul é um homem perturbado. assombrado por visões de um acontecimento que ainda hoje atormenta a sua sanidade. Desesperado. Nick força Paul a regressar ao passado. ao diário secreto da bonita fotógrafa Pandora Gibson-Hoare. a uma reunião nos anos 20 e a Klaus Fisher – o responsável por um crime indescritível. A Fisher House está de volta. e alguns velhos amigos reúnem-se para dar as boas-vindas a Paul.

27. Anyone But You, Jennifer Crusie

283 páginas

After unsuccessfully diving back into the dating pool, forty-year-old divorcee Nina Askew finally realizes what Fred, her newly acquired canine companion, has known all along--that her downstairs neighbor, a much-younger doctor, is perfect for her.

26. Odília ou a História das Musas Confusas do Cérebro de, Patrícia Portela

88 páginas

Patrícia Portela, conhecida (e reconhecida, nomeadamente com uma Menção Honrosa Prémio Acarte com o espectáculo WasteBand – 2003 e a Menção Especial do prémio da crítica pela Associação Portuguesa de Críticos de Teatro para a Dramaturgia da Trilogia Flatland) pelo seu trabalho na área do espectáculo, surge agora com a sua primeira obra de ficção publicada pela Editorial Caminho – Odília. Com minúscula, odília representa a classe das musas desempregadas e confusas; com maiúscula, é uma específica musa desempregada e confusa que procura, como qualquer ser mortal e normal, o seu lugar no mundo. E conquistar o nosso lugar no mundo é uma coisa difícil! Implica a existência de amigos (Penélope), de amores (obviamente, um poeta), de intrigas (os deuses descobrem que criaram tudo mas não criaram as musas e por isso resolvem roubar-lhes os sentidos), de reflexão (Odília esteve 1003 anos a pensar no seu destino), de coragem (como ultrapassar a teia labiríntica do quotidiano, quando se sofre de labirintite?)… E tudo acontece em simultâneo (ou será antes? ou será depois?) porque nas questões da existência, o tempo é um grande novelo que se enrola e desenrola sem nunca deixar de ser uma bola que entra numa baliza e, em simultâneo (ou será antes? ou depois?) ao grito: Gooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllooo!

25. The House at Riverton, Kate Morton

592 páginas

Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.

Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks.

A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could. A thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.

24. Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult

447 páginas

Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth? One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen.

For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat, though, something happens that changes everything for him. Now, he has one last chance for salvation, and it lies with June's eleven-year-old daughter, Claire. But between Shay and Claire stretches an ocean of bitter regrets, past crimes, and the rage of a mother who has lost her child.

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?

23. The Beach House, James Patterson

372 páginas

Jack Mullen is in law school in New York City when the shocking news comes that his brother Peter has drowned in the ocean off East Hampton. Jack knows his brother and knows this couldn't be an accident. Someone must have wanted his brother dead.

But the powers that be say otherwise. As Jack tries to uncover details of his brother's last night, he confronts a barricade of lawyers, police, and paid protectors who separate the multibillionaire summer residents from local workers like Peter. And he learns that his brother wasn't just parking cars at the summer parties of the rich. He was making serious money satisfying the sexual needs of the richest women and men in town.

The Beach House reveals the secret lives of celebrities in a breathtaking drama of revenge-with a finale so shocking it could only have come from the mind of James Patterson.

22. Never Too Late, Cathy Kelly

567 páginas

A lot can happen in a year - and Evie, Cara and Olivia are about to find out just how much...Evie is a hopeless romantic who's never had a chance to do her own thing, and deep down she knows that marrying Simon isn't going to help. Her sister Cara's a walking disaster when it comes to relationships, and she's not much better in the workplace either. And her best friend Olivia can't quite bring herself to admit that she's married to the wrong man - after all, what would she do without him? When they go home for Christmas, Evie's father announces that he's getting remarried. That shouldn't change anything - but then they don't know who they're going to meet at the wedding...

21. A Pecadora, Tess Gerritsen

284 páginas

Não existem lugares sagrados... Quando uma das noviças do convento é encontrada morta na capela o horror instala-se na comunidade. O sangue tinge os dias de medo e receio. A autópsia do corpo revela que a jovem freira tinha dado à luz recentemente. Maura Isles e Jane Rizzoli, a dupla de investigadoras, caem numa espiral de negros segredos que as levam aos meandros do fanatismo. O silêncio das antigas paredes do convento guarda uma verdade demasiado assustadora para ser revelada. Um arrepiante thriller de Tess Gerritsen.

20. Strange Highways, Dean Koontz

564 páginas

One rain-swept Sunday night when he was twenty years old, on his way back to college after a weekend with his family, Joey Shannon took the wrong highway - and from that moment, nothing ever went right for him again. Now, exactly twenty years later, on another rain-swept night, Joey finds himself at the same crossroads, looking down the road never taken. Which is odd. Because that road no longer exists. A superhighway replaced it nearly twenty years ago, and the old state route - which had crossed a web of perpetually burning, abandoned coal mines - was condemned as too dangerous and was torn up. But now the highway is exactly as it was on that long-ago night, and when Joey turns on to it, he begins an eerie, terrifying journey toward a truth so dark and stunning that it will change everything he believes about himself, his past, and the nature of life.

A collection of short fiction, including the title novel, nine novellas, and six stories, explores the variety of human adventures, terrors, joys, and more -- that occur along the path from birth to death.

19. Behaving Badly, Isabel Wolff

352 páginas

Stylishly written, sophisticated but warmhearted and accessible, this is Isabel Wolff at her inimitable best. All men are beasts...or so Miranda Sweet believes. As an animal behaviourist, she's good at understanding aggressive Airedales and irritated iguanas, but she can't understand why the men in her life have always behaved so badly. Especially Alexander, her ex-fiance and the biggest let-down of her romantic career. In Miranda's opinion, animals are braver, kinder and a lot more reliable. So she's given up on love to open her own clinic and work her magic on neurotic pets and their anxious owners. Can Miranda keep the whole male species at bay for ever? Her best friend, Daisy, an incurably romantic wedding-planner, doesn't think so, and when a delicious photographer comes into her life, even Miranda starts to wonder if she's been a bit hasty. But, just when she's letting her guard down, her past starts to catch up with her and she has to turn her expert eye on her own behaviour, which hasn't always been as sweet as she'd like to pretend...

18. One False Move, Harlan Coben

337 páginas

Brenda Slaughter, the star player of the Women's Professional Basketball Association, is getting threatening phone calls. Norm Zuckerman, owner of the league, convinces sports agent Myron Bolitar to protect Brenda by promising to deliver her as Myron's next big client. Brenda, who claims she doesn't need protection, enlists Myron to find her missing father--the assumed source of the phone calls and Myron's childhood mentor. It looks like a simple family dispute--overprotective father goes off the deep end when daughter decides to go her own way--until Horace Slaughter shows up dead and the police name Brenda as the primary suspect. What unfolds is a 20-year-old scandal, a series of disturbing family secrets, and an unexpected, if not entirely believable, ending. One False Move leads the reader through the dirty underbelly of the sports world. It has a little bit of everything: all-star athletes, dirty cops, corrupt politicians, and hired killers. It's a whirlwind of a story that Coben pulls off seamlessly with quirky but realistic characters and pages full of great one-liners. One False Move is a compelling thriller that no mystery fan should miss.

17. Hurting Distance, Sophie Hannah

408 páginas

Three years ago, something terrible happened to Naomi Jenkins -- so terrible that she never told anybody. Now Naomi has another secret -- the man she has fallen passionately in love with, unhappily married Robert Haworth. When Robert vanishes without trace, Naomi knows he must have come to harm. But the police are less convinced, particularly when Robert's wife insists he is not missing.In desperation, Naomi has a crazy idea. If she can't persuade the police that Robert is in danger, perhaps she can convince them that he is a danger to others. Then they will have to look for him -- urgently. Naomi knows how describe in detail the actions of a psychopath. All she needs to do is dig up her own troubled past...

16. Lição de Tango, Sveva Casati Modignani

446 páginas

Giovanna e Matilde não parecem ter nada em comum, excepto o facto de morarem no mesmo bairro de Milão e de às vezes se cruzarem na rua. A primeira é uma encantadora antiquária, casada e com uma filha adolescente; a outra é uma pobre idosa que vive sozinha numas águas-furtadas das quais obstinadamente não se deixa despejar. Uma série de circunstâncias dramáticas aproxima as duas mulheres, que aprendem a conhecer-se e a travar uma profunda amizade. Matilde ajudará a jovem a encontrar a serenidade e o amor, enquanto que Giovanna acompanhará Matilde ao longo da sua caminhada final. Uma história dominada pela paixão, que nos retrata, com o talento habitual de Sveva Casati Modignani, duas inesquecíveis figuras femininas.

15. The Fifth Child, Doris Lessing

133 páginas

Harriet and David Lovatt realize their dream of a home, four children and a happy family life. But when Harriet becomes pregnant for the fifth time, she instinctively knows that *this* baby is different. Her fear grows as she struggles to care for the new-born child, finding herself faced with a dark sub-continent of human nature, unable to cope ..

14. The Quickie, James Patterson

310 páginas

James Patterson takes us on a twisting roller-coaster ride of thrills in his most gripping novel yet. Lauren Stillwell is not your average damsel in distress. When the NYPD cop discovers her husband leaving a hotel with another woman, she decides to beat him at his own game. But her revenge goes dangerously awry, and she finds her world spiralling into a hell that becomes more terrifying by the hour. In a further twist of fate, Lauren must take on a job that threatens everything she stands for. Now, she's paralyzed by a deadly secret that could tear her life apart. With her job and marriage on the line, Lauren's desire for retribution becomes a lethal inferno as she fights to save her livelihood - and her life. This story of love, lust and dangerous secrets will have reader's hearts pounding to the very last page.

13. Os Reinos do Norte, Philip Pullman

340 páginas

Mundos Paralelos é uma trilogia mágica e poderosa, recheada de aventuras, imaginação e mistério. A sua protagonista é Lyra, uma menina de onze anos que anda sempre na companhia do seu génio. E é justamente com Pantalaimon que ela irá fazer uma perigosíssima viagem até às vastidões longínquas do Norte, para tentar desvendar os seus mistérios… Mas a realidade revela-se assustadora… Lyra irá conhecer criaturas fantásticas, feiticeiras que cruzam os céus gélidos, espectros fatais e ursos blindados numa luta terrífica entre a vida e a morte, o bem e o mal, a sobrevivência ou a aniquilação do mundo…

12. What the Lady Wants, Jennifer Crusie

250 páginas

Nothin' like a dame...

Mitch Peabody was learning pretty fast that the life of a private detective was not all it was cracked up to be. Cheating husbands, suspicious wives, unsuspecting mistresss -- case after case left him cynical and disillusioned. This was nothing like the world of tough-talking detectives and smart-mouthed, stunning dames he'd envisioned . . . until she walked through the door.

Right down to her stilettos, Mae Sullivan was a knockout with a lethal body -- and a lethal family to go with it. There was something not quite on the up-and-up about her, but she came with a case he couldn't afford to refuse . . . and left him with a case of lust like he hadn't had since high school. It didn't take long for him to fall for her, hook, line and sinker. But was Mae only interested in catching the double-crossing crooks who murdered her uncle . . . or did the lady want to catch him?

11. O Lírio Vermelho, Nora Roberts

263 páginas

Neste cativante último romance da trilogia No Jardim, da brilhante autora de sucesso de vendas Nora Roberts, três mulheres aprenderam que o coração da sua histórica casa é habitado por um mistério antigo. Hayley Phillips procura em Memphis um novo começo para si e para a sua filha. Aí encontra um lar e grandes amizades, incluindo Harper, que se torna mais do que um amigo... Mas Hayley receia ceder ao desejo, pois suspeita que os sentimentos que nutre não são só seus, mas copiados da Noiva. Imagens do passado e um comportamento imprevisível levam-na a acreditar que a Noiva Harper se introduziu na sua mente e no seu corpo. Está na altura de a Noiva descansar em paz; só assim Hayley poderá perceber de novo o seu coração e saber se está disposta a correr o risco...

10. O Assassino 50/50, Steve Mosby

321 páginas

Quando começa os seus ataques, o assassino já conhece muito bem as suas vítimas.

Após semanas de preparação, ele escolhe jovens casais que sujeitará a uma única noite de tortura e manipulação, testando e destruindo o amor que os unia.

E ele obriga-os a escolher: têm oito horas para decidir qual dos dois morrerá ao nascer do Sol...

9. Remember Me?, Sophie Kinsella

346 páginas

Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 - she's twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, she's the boss of her department - and she's married! To a good-looking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life??! She can't believe her luck - especially when she sees her stunning new home. She's sure she'll have a fantastic marriage once she gets to know her husband again. He's drawn up a 'manual of our marriage', which should help. But as she learns more about her new self, chinks start to appear in the perfect life. All her old colleagues hate her. A rival is after her job. Then a dishevelled, sexy guy turns up...and lands a new bombshell. What happened to her? Will she ever remember? And what will happen if she does?

8. O Sétimo Selo, José Rodrigues dos Santos

500 páginas

Um cientista é assassinado na Antárctida e a Interpol contacta Tomás Noronha para decifrar um enigma com mais de mil anos, um segredo bíblico que o criminoso rabiscou numa folha e deixou ao lado do cadáver: 666.
O mistério em torno do número da Besta lança Tomás numa aventura de tirar o fôlego, uma busca que o levará a confrontar-se com o momento mais temido por toda a humanidade.
O apocalipse.
De Portugal à Sibéria, da Antárctida à Austrália, O Sétimo Selo transporta-nos numa empolgante viagem às maiores ameaças que se erguem à sobrevivência da humanidade.
Baseado em informação científica actualizada, José Rodrigues dos Santos volta com este emocionante romance aos grandes temas contemporâneos, numa descoberta que poderá abalar a forma como cada um de nós encara o futuro da humanidade e do nosso planeta.
Prepare-se para o choque.