60. Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell

325 Páginas

Eleanor is the new girl in town, and with her chaotic family life, her mismatched clothes and unruly red hair, she couldn't stick out more if she tried. 

Park is the boy at the back of the bus. Black T-shirts, headphones, head in a book - he thinks he's made himself invisible. But not to Eleanor... never to Eleanor. 

Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall for each other. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose.

59. NYPD Red, James Patterson, Marshall Karp

331 Páginas

Existem 35 mil polícias em Nova Iorque. Apenas 75 pertencem à unidade especial que protege os mais ricos e poderosos. A NYPD Red é uma unidade especial da polícia de Nova Iorque, encarregada de proteger os interesses dos cidadãos mais ricos e poderosos de Manhattan. Quando um produtor de cinema mundialmente famoso é envenenado no primeiro dia de um festival de cinema de Nova Iorque, a unidade NYPD Red é a primeira a ser chamada. A este crime hão de seguir-se o assassínio de um ator no local de filmagens e a explosão de um cocktail molotov durante um dos eventos do festival. O detetive Zach Jordan e a sua nova parceira e ex-namorada, a detetive Kylie MacDonald, são destacados para o caso. O assassino planeou cada homicídio e cada fuga até ao último pormenor, como se do guião de um filme se tratasse. E concebeu um final explosivo que irá arrasar Nova Iorque e Hollywood.

58. The Burning, Jane Casey

483 Páginas

The media call him The Burning Man, a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death, before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London's parks. And now the fifth victim has been found...

Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve's empathy makes her weak, but the more she learns about the latest victim, Rebecca Haworth, from her grieving friends and family, the more determined Maeve becomes to bring her murderer to justice. 

But how do you catch a killer no one has seen? And when so much of the evidence they leave behind has gone up in smoke?

57. A Estação dos Ossos, Samantha Shannon

496 Páginas

2059. Paige Mahoney tem dezanove anos e trabalha no submundo do crime da Londres de Scion, na zona dos Sete Quadrantes, para Jaxon Hall. O seu trabalho consiste em procurar informações invadindo a mente de outras pessoas. Paige é uma caminhante de sonhos, uma clarividente - e, no seu mundo, no mundo de Scion, comete traição pelo simples facto de respirar. Está a chover no dia em que a sua vida muda para sempre. Atacada, drogada e raptada, Paige é levada para Oxford - uma cidade mantida em segredo há duzentos anos e controlada por uma raça poderosa, vinda de outro mundo, os Refaim. Paige é atribuída ao Guardião, um Refaíta com motivações misteriosas. Ele é o seu mestre. O seu professor. O seu inimigo natural. Mas, para Paige recuperar a sua liberdade, tem de se deixar reabilitar naquela prisão onde tem por destino morrer.

56. Harry Potter Film Wizardry, Brian Sibley

164 Páginas

Immerse yourself in the world of the spectacular Harry Potter film series, and learn why Yule Ball ice sculptures never melt, where Galleons, Sickles and Knuts are really "minted", how to get a Hippogriff to work with actors, about the inspiration behind Hogwarts castle, and why Dementors move the way they do. Written and designed in collaboration with the cast and crew that brought J.K Rowling's celebrated novels to the silver screen, Harry Potter: Film Wizardry delivers an enchanting interactive experience, transporting readers to the wizarding world by sharing filmmaking secrets, unpublished photography and artwork, and exclusive stories from the stars. Full of removable, facsimile reproductions of props and paper ephemera from the movies, this collectible volume offers a privileged look at the Harry Potter films and the talented group of Muggles that has made true movie magic.

55. Looking for Alaska, John Green

272 Páginas

Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

54. Gritos do Passado, Camilla Lackberg

430 Páginas

Numa manhã de um Verão particularmente quente, um rapazinho brinca nas rochas em Fjällbacka - o pequeno porto turístico onde decorreu a acção de A Princesa de Gelo - quando se depara com o cadáver de uma mulher. A polícia confirma rapidamente que se tratou de um crime, mas o caso complica-se com a descoberta, no mesmo sítio de dois esqueletos. O inspector Patrick Hedström é encarregado da investigação naquele período estival em que o incidente poderia fazer fugir os turistas, mas, sem testemunhas, sem elementos determinantes, a polícia não pode fazer mais do que esperar os resultados das análises dos serviços especiais. Entretanto, Erica Falk, nas últimas semanas de gravidez, decide ajudar Patrick pesquisando informações na biblioteca local e novas revelações começam a dar forma ao quadro: os esqueletos são certamente de duas jovens desaparecidas há mais de vinte anos, Mona e Siv. Volta assim à ribalta a família Hult, cujo patriarca, Ephraim, magnetizava as multidões acompanhado dos dois filhos, os pequenos Gabriel e Johannes, dotados de poderes curativos. Depois dessa época, e de um estranho suicídio, a família dividiu-se em dois ramos que agora se odeiam.

53. Honeymoon in Paris, Jojo Moyes

75 Páginas

At the heart of Jojo Moyes' heartbreaking new novel, The Girl You Left Behind, are two haunting love stories - that of Sophie and Edouard Lefevre in France during the First World War, and, nearly a century later, Liv Halston and her husband David. 

Honeymoon in Paris takes place several years before the events to come in The Girl You Left Behind when both couples have just married. Sophie, a provincial girl, is swept up in the glamour of Belle poque Paris but discovers that loving a feted artist like Edouard brings undreamt of complications. Following in Sophie's footsteps a hundred years later, Liv, after a whirlwind romance, finds her Parisian honeymoon is not quite the romantic getaway she had been hoping for... 

This enthralling self-contained story will have you falling in love with Liv and Sophie, and with Paris then and now, and it is the perfect appetizer for the The Girl You Left Behind, a spellbinding story of love, devotion and passion in the hardest of times.

52. Me before You, Jojo Moyes

480 Páginas

Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. 

What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.

Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that. 

What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.

51. Gone, James Patterson

386 Páginas

Forced into hiding from a mass murderer seeking vengeance, Detective Michael Bennett must decide whether to stay and protect his family, or hunt down the man who is hunting them. When Bennett arrested Manuel Perrine, he thought he had brought an end to the drug cartel boss's reign of terror and would get justice for the murder of his best friend. But then, during the trial, Perrine escaped. In a bloody shoot-out, Bennett killed Perrine's wife. Now he wants nothing more than to make Bennett suffer, to make him pay. The whole family are moved to a safe-house in California. But as Perrine's attacks on US soil become more vicious and more daring, it's clear there is a war coming. No one, anywhere, is safe.

50. As Fantásticas Aventuras de Dog Mendonça e Pizzaboy III - Requiem, Filipe Melo, Juan Cavia, Santiago Villa

128 Páginas

Um lobisomem com mau feitio, um distribuidor de pizzas, um demónio de seis mil anos e a cabeça de uma gárgula estão de regresso para uma nova aventura. Desta vez, os nossos heróis vão enfrentar uma ameaça muito mais pessoal: um velho inimigo regressa para transformar a vida de Dog Mendonça num pesadelo. Uma comovente história de amor, vingança e aranhas gigantes! Publicado nos EUA pela Dark Horse Comics, chega finalmente o terceiro volume do best-seller de banda desenhada multi-premiado no Festival Internacional de BD da Amadora. O destino do mundo vai ser decidido em Lisboa...

49. Allegiant, Veronica Roth

526 Páginas

One choice will define you. 

What if your whole world was a lie? 

What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? 

What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected? 

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered—fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she’s known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. 

But Tris’s new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind. Old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless. Explosive new truths change the hearts of those she loves. And once again, Tris must battle to comprehend the complexities of human nature—and of herself—while facing impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice, and love. 

Told from a riveting dual perspective, Allegiant, by #1 New York Times best-selling author Veronica Roth, brings the Divergent series to a powerful conclusion while revealing the secrets of the dystopian world that has captivated millions of readers in Divergent and Insurgent.

48. Like This, for Ever, S.J.Bolton

391 Páginas

Bright red. Like rose petals. Or rubies. Little red droplets. Barney knows the killer will strike again soon. The victim will be another boy, just like him. He will drain the body of blood, and leave it on a Thames beach. There will be no clues for detectives Dana Tulloch and Mark Joesbury to find. There will be no warning about who will be next. There will be no good reason for Lacey Flint to become involved... And no chance that she can stay away. Keep telling yourself it's only fiction...

47. The Mummy Case, Elizabeth Peters

360 Páginas

Radcliffe Emerson, the irascible husband of fellow archaeologist and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, has earned the nickname "Father of Curses" -- and at Mazghunah he demonstrates why. Denied permission to dig at the pyramids of Dahshoor, he and Amelia are resigned to excavating mounds of rubble in the middle of nowhere. And there is nothing in this barren area worthy of their interest -- until an antiquities dealer is murdered in his own shop. A second sighting of a sinister stranger from the crime scene, a mysterious scrap of papyrus, and a missing mummy case have all whetted Amelia's curiosity. But when the Emersons start digging for answers in an ancient tomb, events take a darker and deadlier turn -- and there may be no surviving the very modern terrors their efforts reveal.

46. A Princesa de Gelo, Camilla Lackberg

399 Páginas

De regresso à cidadezinha onde nasceu depois da morte dos pais, a escritora Erica Falk encontra uma comunidade à beira da tragédia. A morte da sua amiga de infância, Alex, é só o princípio do que está para vir. Com os pulsos cortados e o corpo mergulhado na água congelada da banheira, tudo leva a crer que Alex se suicidou. Quando começa a escrever uma evocação da carismática Alex, Erica, que não a via desde a infância, vê-se de repente no centro dos acontecimentos. Ao mesmo tempo, Patrik Hedström, que investiga o caso, começa a perceber que as coisas nem sempre são o que parecem. Mas só quando ambos começam a trabalhar juntos é que vem ao de cima a verdade sobre aquela cidadezinha com um passado profundamente perturbador...

45. Room, Emma Donoghue

401 Páginas

This is the story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Jack is five and, like any little boy, excited at the prospect of presents and cake. He's looking forward to telling his friends it's his birthday, too. But although Jack is a normal child in many ways - loving, funny, bright, full of energy and questions - his upbringing is far from ordinary: Jack's entire life has been spent in a single room that measures just 12 feet by 12 feet; as far as he's concerned, Room is the entire world. He shares this world with his mother, with Plant, and tiny Mouse (though Ma isn't a fan and throws a book at Mouse when she sees him). There's TV too, of course - and the cartoon characters he thinks of as his friends - but Jack knows that nothing else he sees on the screen is real. Old Nick, on the other hand, is all too real, but only visits at night - like a bat - when Jack is meant to be asleep and hidden safely in Wardrobe. And only Old Nick has the code to Door, which is otherwise locked...Told in Jack's voice, "Room" is the story of a mother's love for her son, and of a young boy's innocence.

44. Quando Fores Mãe Vais Ver, Ana Saragoça

124 Páginas

Criar filhos exige doses gigantescas de paciência, estoicismo, resistência e imaginação. Ao cabo de milénios desempenhando primordialmente esse papel, as mulheres de todo o mundo acabaram por desenvolver um léxico quase comum, um glossário de frases feitas que todas ouviram às mães, e todas juraram que nunca repetiriam aos filhos - com os resultados que se conhecem. 

O vocabulário das mães é verdadeiramente um colar, mas não de pérolas. É mais daqueles a que se vão acrescentando penduricalhos ao longo da vida, sem nunca retirar nenhum. O folclore materno tem frases certeiras em todas as áreas e para todas as fases de crescimento dos filhos: infância, adolescência e idade adulta - embora, para as mães, o conceito de idade adulta nos filhos seja altamente discutível. E, claro, com a chegada dos netos, nunca perdem uma oportunidade de nos inundar de novo com a sua imensa sabedoria...

43. Six Years, Harlan Coben

368 Páginas

Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. 

But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for . . . but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, she's been married to Todd for more than a decade, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life - a time he has never gotten over - is turned completely inside out. As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either can't be found or don't remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart - and who lied to him - soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction.

42. O Outro Amor da Vida Dele, Dorothy Koomson

448 Páginas

Está a viver o amor com que sempre sonhou?

Libby tem uma vida perfeita com um marido maravilhoso e uma casa enorme em frente à praia. Mas, aos poucos, começa a duvidar do amor de Jack e não acredita que ele tenha realmente superado a morte da primeira mulher, Eve. 

Quando o destino interfere na relação de ambos, Libby sente necessidade de conhecer melhor o homem com quem se casou e a aparentemente perfeita Eve. 

A jovem esposa descobre algumas verdades assustadoras sobre aquela família. Com receio das consequências, Libby começa a desconfiar que também ela terá o destino da primeira mulher que Jack amou… Pode um novo amor apagar uma grande paixão?

41. Não Abras os Olhos, John Verdon

554 Páginas

David Gurney sentia-se quase invencível... até que esbarrou com o assassino mais inteligente que alguma vez teve de enfrentar. 

Duas semanas é o prazo que Dave Gurney - inspetor de homicídios recém-reformado da Polícia de Nova Iorque e protagonista do primeiro romance de John Verdon, Pensa Num Número - se impõe para resolver um caso intrigante que lhe chega às mãos: uma jovem noiva é decapitada durante o copo-d'água, rodeada por centenas de convidados. Não há testemunhas, arma do crime ou qualquer pista do assassino. Um desafio ao qual é impossível resistir. Mas a que custo? Todos os indícios apontam para o novo jardineiro, um homem misterioso e conturbado, mas nada se encaixa - nem o motivo, nem a ausência da arma do crime e, acima de tudo, o cruel modus operandi. 

Deixando de lado o óbvio, Gurney começa a ligar os pontos longe de imaginar que está prestes a travar uma batalha épica com o pior dos inimigos, um sádico implacável, que não hesitará em arrastá-lo para a beira do precipício e, pior... à sua mulher, Madeleine.

40. The Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Galbraith

449 Páginas

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. 

Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that. The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man. 

You may think you know detectives, but you've never met one quite like Strike. You may think you know about the wealthy and famous, but you've never seen them under an investigation like this.

39. Cuidar de Frankie, Maeve Binchy

400 Páginas

Quando Noel descobre que a sua antiga paixão, agora terminalmente doente, está grávida com um filho seu, concorda com relutância em criar a menina. Com a ajuda de uma carinhosa rede de amigos, familiares e vizinhos - incluindo Lisa, apaixonadíssima por ele, e emily, a sua prima americana - Noel adapta-se às suas novas responsabilidades. 

Mas, quando uma assistente social resolve meter-se no assunto, ameaça destruir aquela estrutura pouco convencional, mas tão especial. Caberá a Noel convencê-la de que toda a gente da vizinhança tem alguma coisa importante a oferecer a Frankie…

38. A Vidente, Lars Kepler

532 Páginas

Flora Hansen diz-se espírita e garante ser capaz de falar com os mortos. Certo dia, ouve na rádio uma notícia sobre o caso de uma jovem assassinada num centro de acolhimento de menores e, na tentativa de ganhar um dinheiro extra, decide telefonar para a Polícia dizendo que o espírito da morta entrou em contacto com ela. No entanto, os resultados da investigação técnica atribuem a autoria do crime a outra das internas, uma jovem sensivelmente da mesma idade, que desde então está a monte. 

O comissário da Polícia Joona Linna resiste à versão oficial e inicia uma investigação por sua própria conta. Mas cada nova resposta parece apenas conduzir a um novo enigma e a mais um beco sem saída. 

E ninguém se dispõe a ouvir a vidente, embora ela fale com os mortos.

37. Insurgente, Veronica Roth

376 Páginas

A tua escolha pode transformar-te - ou destruir-te. Mas qualquer escolha implica consequências, e à medida que as várias fações começam a insurgir-se, Tris Prior precisa de continuar a lutar pelos que ama - e por ela própria. O dia da iniciação de Tris devia ter sido marcado pela celebração com a fação escolhida. No entanto, o dia termina da pior forma possível. À medida que o conflito entre as diferentes fações e as ideologias de cada uma se agita, a guerra parece ser inevitável. Escolher é cada vez mais incontornável... e fatal. Transformada pelas próprias decisões mas ainda assombrada pela dor e pela culpa, Tris terá de aceitar em pleno o seu estatuto de Divergente, mesmo que não compreenda completamente o que poderá vir a perder.

36. Private London, James Patterson

357 Páginas

For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private - the world's most exclusive detective agency - saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again.

In central London, young women are being abducted off the street. When the bodies are found, some days later, they have been mutilated in a particularly mysterious way. Dan Carter's ex-wife, DI Kirsty Webb, is involved in the investigation and it looks likely that the two cases are gruesomely linked. 

Dan Carter draws on the whole resources of Private International in a desperate race against the odds. But the clock is ticking... Private may be the largest and most technologically advanced detection agency in the world, but the only thing they don't have is the one thing they need - time.

35. The Sleeper, Emily Barr

416 Páginas

Iris's world is rocked when her friend Lara disappears while travelling on the sleeper train between Cornwall and London. The police investigation reveals that married Lara, a regular commuter on the night train, was secretly having an affair with another married commuter. Although they have yet to find Lara's body, the police suspect she was killed by her lover and dumped from the train as it sped through the countryside. Iris is unconvinced and starts to delve into what really happened to her friend. She soon discovers that Lara has been running away from a secret past and from someone who wants to do her harm. Iris's search takes her to the Far East where Lara travelled as a young woman. Here, Iris unveils the shocking truth and also finds herself in terrible danger...

34. Divergente, Veronica Roth

352 Páginas

Na Chicago distópica de Beatrice Prior, a sociedade está dividida em cinco fações, cada uma delas destinada a cultivar uma virtude específica: Cândidos (a sinceridade), Abnegados (o altruísmo), Intrépidos (a coragem), Cordiais (a amizade) e Eruditos (a inteligência). Numa cerimónia anual, todos os jovens de 16 anos devem decidir a fação a que irão pertencer para o resto das suas vidas. Para Beatrice, a escolha é entre ficar com a sua família... e ser quem realmente é. A sua decisão irá surpreender todos, inclusive a própria jovem. 

Durante o competitivo processo de iniciação que se segue, Beatrice decide mudar o nome para Tris e procura descobrir quem são os seus verdadeiros amigos, ao mesmo tempo que se enamora por um rapaz misterioso, que umas vezes a fascina e outras a enfurece. No entanto, Tris também tem um segredo, que nunca contou a ninguém porque poderia colocar a sua vida em perigo. Quando descobre um conflito que ameaça devastar a aparentemente perfeita sociedade em que vive, percebe que o seu segredo pode ser a chave para salvar aqueles que ama... ou acabar por destruí-la.

33. Dead Scared, S.J.Bolton

432 Páginas

When a Cambridge student dramatically attempts to take her own life, DI Mark Joesbury realizes that the university has developed an unhealthy record of young people committing suicide in extraordinary ways. Against huge personal misgivings, Joesbury sends young policewoman DC Lacey Flint to Cambridge, with a brief to work under-cover, posing as a depression-prone, vulnerable student. Psychiatrist Evi Oliver is the only person in Cambridge who knows who Lacey really is -- or so they both hope. But as the two women dig deeper into the darker side of university life, they discover a terrifying trend. And when Lacey starts experiencing the same disturbing nightmares reported by the dead girls, she knows that she is next.

32. The Fault in Our Stars, John Green

316 Páginas

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

31. Inferno, Dan Brown

551 Páginas

"Procura e encontrarás."

É com o eco destas palavras na cabeça que Robert Langdon, o reputado simbologista de Harvard, acorda numa cama de hospital sem se conseguir lembrar de onde está ou como ali chegou. Também não sabe explicar a origem de certo objeto macabro encontrado escondido entre os seus pertences. 

Uma ameaça contra a sua vida irá lançar Langdon e uma jovem médica, Sienna Brooks, numa corrida alucinante pela cidade de Florença. A única coisa que os pode salvar das garras dos desconhecidos que os perseguem é o conhecimento que Langdon tem das passagens ocultas e dos segredos antigos que se escondem por detrás das fachadas históricas. 

Tendo como guia apenas alguns versos do Inferno, a obra-prima de Dante, épica e negra, veem-se obrigados a decifrar uma sequência de códigos encerrados em alguns dos artefactos mais célebres da Renascença - esculturas, quadros, edifícios -, de modo a poderem encontrar a solução de um enigma que pode, ou não, ajudá-los a salvar o mundo de uma ameaça terrível...

30. Turning Forty, Mike Gayle

386 Páginas

How to turn forty:

1. Set yourself a personal challenge.

2. Clear wardrobe of all age-inappropriate clothing.

3. Relax.

How not to turn forty:

1. Have a complete meltdown...

High flier Matt Beckford's sole ambition is to turn forty with his life sorted. And with a Porsche on the drive and a job that requires him to spend more time in BA's club lounge than his own lounge, it looks like things are going in the right direction. But when Matt's wife unexpectedly calls time on their marriage, a chain of events is set in motion that very quickly sees him facing forty broke, homeless and completely alone. But all is not lost because Matt has a plan...

29. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, Jen Campbell

119 Páginas

From the hugely popular blog, a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments: 'Can books conduct electricity?' 'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops' blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor. From 'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?' to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year's weather; and from 'I've forgotten my glasses, please read me the first chapter' to'Excuse me... is this book edible?' This full-length collection illustrated by the Brothers McLeod also includes top 'Weird Things' from bookshops around the world.

28. The Child's Child, Barbara Vine

279 Páginas

When 30-something Grace and her brother Andrew inherit their grandmother's house in London they decide to move in together. They’ve always gotten on well and the house is large enough to split down the middle. Yet when Andrew's partner James moves in, the balance is altered – with almost fatal consequences. A master of psychological suspense, Barbara Vine takes us where violence and social taboos collide. She shows how society's treatment of those it once considered undesirable has changed – and how sometimes it hasn't.

27. Toque de Veludo, Sarah Waters

425 Páginas

Um romance irreverente, sensual e multifacetado, cuja acção se desenrola na Inglaterra vitoriana. Toque de Veludo acompanha a carreira fulgurante de Nan King - a rapariga humilde que se transformou em vedeta do music-hall e que, após um percurso dissoluto, se redescobre como lésbica no East End.

26. Skin Privilege, Karin Slaughter

560 Páginas

Lena Adams has spent her life struggling to forget her childhood in Reece, the small town which nearly destroyed her. She's made a new life for herself as a police detective in Heartsdale, a hundred miles away - but nothing could prepare her for the violence which explodes when she is forced to return. A vicious murder leaves a young woman incinerated beyond recognition. And Lena is the only suspect. When Heartsdale police chief Jeffrey Tolliver, Lena's boss, receives word that his detective has been arrested, he has no choice but to go to Lena's aid - taking with him his wife, medical examiner Sara Linton. But soon after their arrival, a second victim is found. The town closes ranks. And both Jeffrey and Sara find themselves entangled in a horrifying underground world of bigotry and rage - a violent world which shocks even them. But can they discover the truth before the killer strikes again?

25. Now You See Me, S.J.Bolton

512 Páginas

Lacey Flint is a London policewoman with a secret past, a morbid fascination with serial killers and a curiously empty flat. On the job she's quiet and plainly dressed. At night she has an unusual social life. 

When Lacey returns to her car one evening to find a woman fatally stabbed right by it, she is taken in for questioning, but then a hand-delivered letter suggests the killer has a special interest in Lacey herself. Suddenly she is at the centre of a terrifying murder hunt, working with the smart but damaged DI Dana Tulloch and the hostile DI Mark Joesbury, another person who seems curiously fascinated with Lacey. 

Is Joesbury's interest in Lacey personal or professional? Will Lacey cope as the case pushes her into the limelight? And does the team have the skill to outwit one of the nastiest serial killers Londoners have fallen prey to since the killer's infamous role model... Jack the Ripper.

24. O Palácio da Meia Noite, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

280 Páginas

No coração de Calcutá esconde-se um obscuro mistério.... Um comboio em chamas atravessa a cidade. Um espectro de fogo semeia o terror nas sombras da noite. Mas isso não é mais do que o princípio. Numa noite obscura, um tenente inglês luta para salvar a vida a dois bebés de uma ameaça impensável. Apesar das insuportáveis chuvas da monção e do terror que o assedia a cada esquina, o jovem britânico consegue pô-los a salvo, mas que preço irá pagar? A perda da sua vida. Anos mais tarde, na véspera de fazer dezasseis anos, Ben, Sheere e os amigos terão de enfrentar o mais terrível e mortífero mistério da história da cidade dos palácios.

23. Zits - Estar Morto é o Contrário de Estar Vivo, Jim Borgman & Jerry Scott

127 Páginas

Um novo álbum da família já conhecida dos leitores, que retrata a angústia, as contrariedades e as alegrias vividas pelos pais de adolescentes.

22. Baby Blues - Indo eu, Indo eu, a caminho do Museu, Rick Kirkman & Jerry Scott

128 Páginas

Os McPherson retratam, da melhor forma, as saídas em família... Com 3 crianças pequenas.

21. 12th of Never, James Patterson

394 Páginas

It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loose. Lindsay Boxer's beautiful baby is born! But after only a week at home with her new daughter, Lindsay is forced to return to work to face two of the biggest cases of her career. A rising star football player for the San Francisco 49ers is the prime suspect in a grisly murder. At the same time, Lindsay is confronted with the strangest story she's ever heard: An eccentric English professor has been having vivid nightmares about a violent murder and he's convinced is real. Lindsay doesn't believe him, but then a shooting is called in-and it fits the professor's description to the last detail. Lindsay doesn't have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when Lindsay is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life.

20. Wedding Night, Sophie Kinsella

394 Páginas

Lottie just knows that her boyfriend is going to propose during lunch at one of London’s fanciest restaurants. But when his big question involves a trip abroad, not a trip down the aisle, she’s completely crushed. So when Ben, an old flame, calls her out of the blue and reminds Lottie of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. No formal dates—just a quick march to the altar and a honeymoon on Ikonos, the sun-drenched Greek island where they first met years ago. 

Their family and friends are horrified. Fliss, Lottie’s older sister, knows that Lottie can be impulsive—but surely this is her worst decision yet. And Ben’s colleague Lorcan fears that this hasty marriage will ruin his friend’s career. To keep Lottie and Ben from making a terrible mistake, Fliss concocts an elaborate scheme to sabotage their wedding night. As she and Lorcan jet off to Ikonos in pursuit, Lottie and Ben are in for a honeymoon to remember, for better... or worse.

19. Target, Simon Kernick

496 Páginas

Writer Rob Fallon, considerably the worse for wear, ill-advisedly visits the flat of Jenny, the girlfriend of his best friend. But before the guilt he’s feeling can really take hold, two men smash their way into the apartment, try to kill Rob and abduct the terrified Jenny. But when Rob attempts to report these events to the police, he finds himself in a markedly Hitchcockian situation; he is disbelieved on all sides. The doorman saw nothing, the apartment is undamaged, and Jenny’s father blithely claims she is vacationing in another country. Rob, however, won’t let things be, and begins investigations of his own; what is the nature of the cover-up? And will Rob find out the truth before the two men who tried to kill him finish the job?

18. Hotwire, Alex Kava

398 Páginas

On a crisp fall evening in western Nebraska, two teenagers are seemingly electrocuted when their drug-fueled party turns into an explosive light show. While Maggie O’Dell tries to make sense of the witnesses’ stories, sifting through what is real and what is hallucination, her friend, Colonel Benjamin Platt, is at the scene of a deadly outbreak that has infected children at a Virginia elementary school. Despite the miles that separate them, the two cases collide when Maggie and Platt uncover a threatening conspiracy that was meant to stay hidden in the remote Midwestern landscape...

17. How to Talk to a Widower, Jonathan Tropper

341 Páginas

Doug Parker is a widower at age twenty-nine, and in his quiet suburban town, that makes him something of a celebrity—the object of sympathy, curiosity, and, in some cases, unbridled desire. But Doug has other things on his mind. First there's his sixteen year-old stepson, Russ: a once-sweet kid who now is getting into increasingly serious trouble on a daily basis. Then there are Doug's sisters: his bossy twin, Clair, who's just left he husband and moved in with Doug, determined to rouse him from his Grieving stupor. And Debbie, who's engaged to Doug's ex-best friend and manically determined to pull off the perfect wedding at any cost. Soon Doug's entire nuclear family is in his face. And when he starts dipping his toes into the shark-infested waters of the second-time around dating scene, it isn't long before his new life is spinning hopelessly out of control, cutting a harrowing and often hilarious swath of sexual missteps and escalating chaos across the suburban landscape.

16. Faithless, Karin Slaughter

530 Páginas

The victim was buried alive in the Georgia woods–then killed in a horrifying fashion. When Sara Linton and Jeffrey Tolliver stumble upon the body, both become consumed with finding out who killed the pretty young woman. For them, a harrowing journey begins, one that will test their own turbulent relationship and draw dozens of life into the case. 

For as Jeffrey and Sara move further down a trail of shocking surprises and hidden passions, neither is prepared for the most stunning discovery of all: the identity of a killer who is more evil and dangerous than anyone could have guessed.

15. Depois, Rosamund Lupton

432 Páginas

É um incêndio e eles estão lá dentro. Eles estão lá dentro... Fumo negro mancha o céu azul de verão. Uma escola está a arder. E uma mãe, Grace, vê o fumo e corre. Sabe que Jenny, a sua filha adolescente, está lá dentro. Corre para o edifício em chamas para a salvar. 
Depois, Grace tem de descobrir a identidade do autor do incêndio e proteger a sua família da pessoa que continua determinada a destruí-los a todos. 
Depois, tem de forçar os limites da sua força física e descobrir que o amor não conhece limites.

14. The Woods, Harlan Coben

404 Páginas

Twenty years ago, four teenagers at summer camp walked into the woods at night. Two were found murdered, and the others were never seen again. Four families had their lives changed forever. Now, two decades later, they are about to change again. For Paul Copeland, the county prosecutor of Essex, New Jersey, mourning the loss of his sister has only recently begun to subside. Cope, as he is known, is now dealing with raising his six- year-old daughter as a single father after his wife has died of cancer. Balancing family life and a rapidly ascending career as a prosecutor distracts him from his past traumas, but only for so long. 

When a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the prosecutor's family are threatened. Is this homicide victim one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive? Cope has to confront so much he left behind that summer twenty years ago: his first love, Lucy; his mother, who abandoned the family; and the secrets that his Russian parents might have been hiding even from their own children. Cope must decide what is better left hidden in the dark and what truths can be brought to the light.

13. Two for the Dough, Janet Evanovich

301 Páginas

Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is still learning the ropes at her cousin Vinnie's bail bond office, so when she sets out on the trail of Kenny Mancuso—a suspiciously wealthy, working class Trenton boy who has just shot his best friend—the stakes are higher than ever. That Mancuso is distantly related to vice cop Joe Morelli—who is trying to beat Stephanie to the punch—only makes the hunt more thrilling... Taking pointers from her bounty hunter pal, Ranger, and using her pistol-packing Granda Mazur as a decoy, Stephanie is soon closing in on her mark. But Morelli and his libido are worthy foes. And a more sinister kind of enemy has made his first move…and his next move might be Stephanie's last.

12. Segunda Feira Triste, Nicci French

365 Páginas

Segunda-feira, o ponto mais baixo da semana. Um dia de impulsos negros… Um dia para roubar uma criança da rua...O sequestro do pequeno Matthew, de cinco anos, provoca uma indignação a nível nacional e buscas policiais desesperadas. Quando o seu rosto aparece nos jornais, a psicoterapeuta Frieda Klein fica inquieta: Yum dos seus doentes tem-lhe contado os seus sonhos em que deseja ardentemente uma criança. Uma criança que ele consegue descrever em todo o detalhe, e que é a cara chapada de Matthew. O detetive Karlsson não leva a sério as preocupações de Frieda até que surge uma ligação a um caso de rapto vinte anos antes. Chama Frieda para entrevistar a irmã da vítima, na esperança de que ela consiga suscitar memórias escondidas. Não tarda a que Frieda se encontre no centro das buscas. Mas a sua procura não é física. Ela tem de perseguir os lugares mais sombrios da mente para encontrar as respostas ao paradeiro de Matthew. E às vezes a mente é o sítio mais letal onde uma pessoa se perder.

11. Pompeii, Robert Harris

313 Páginas

Uma semana de calor escaldante no fim de Agosto: os cidadãos mais ricos do Império Romano descontraem-se nas suas "villas" luxuosas, enquanto a maior armada do mundo está pacificamente ancorada em Misenum. Só um homem está preocupado. O engenheiro Marcus Attilius acaba de ocupar o cargo de chefia do Aqua Augusta, o enorme aqueduto que transporta água para um quarto de milhão de pessoas das nove cidades ao redor da baía. As nascentes estão a falhar pela primeira vez há muitas gerações. O seu predecessor no cargo desapareceu, e agora há uma crise na conduta principal do aqueduto. Attilius - um homem respeitável, prático, incorruptível - promete a Plínio, o famoso intelectual que comanda a armada, que conseguirá reparar o aqueduto antes do reservatório de água secar. Consegui-lo-á?