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Anatomia de um Escândalo
by Sarah VaughanBestseller do Sunday Times Agora uma série Netflix A VERDADE É UM CONCEITO COMPLEXO. James Whitehouse é um bom pai, um marido dedicado e uma figura pública carismática e bem-sucedida. Um dia, é acusado de violação por uma colaboradora próxima. Sophie, a sua mulher, está convencida de que ele é inocente e procura desesperadamente proteger a sua família das mentiras que ameaçam arruinar-lhes a vida. SERÁ QUE É SEMPRE INTERPRETADA DA MESMA FORMA? Kate Woodcroft é a advogada de acusação. Ela sabe que no tribunal vence quem apresentar os melhores argumentos, e não necessariamente quem é inocente. Ainda assim, está certa de que James é culpado e tudo fará para o condenar. DE QUE LADO ESTARÁ A VERDADE? Será James vítima de um infeliz mal-entendido ou o autor de um sórdido crime? E estará a razão do lado de Sophie ou de Kate? Este escândalo — que irá forçar Sophie a reavaliar o seu casamento e Kate a enfrentar os seus demónios — deixará marcas na vida de todos eles. Elogios ao livro:«Sarah Vaughan tece habilmente a história do desenrolar de um escândalo, revelando gradualmente quão chocante é o que está em jogo. Um romance forte, fascinante e cheio de reviravoltas.» PUBLISHERS WEEKLY «Sarah Vaughan oferece-nos uma perspetiva fascinante sobre as maquinações escondidas num escândalo político e sobre o conflito entre justiça e privilégio. Um romance notável e arrebatador.» BOOKLIST «Um romance incrível, com um enredo inteligente, que levanta muitas questões atuais.» THE TIMES «Um romance impressionante da ex-correspondente política Sarah Vaughan.» KIRKUS REVIEWS «Um thriller jurídico e psicológico cativante que faz observações pertinentes sobre sexo, poder e privilégio.» THE GUARDIAN «Oportuno, bem escrito, de ritmo acelerado e cheio de reviravoltas.» THE INDEPENDENT «Os temas de assédio e privilégio estão no centro desta emocionante história de acontecimentos sombrios em Westminster… Oportuno, hábil e de leitura compulsiva.» THE OBSERVER
Anatomia dos mártires
by João TordoUm romance que parte da vida da lendária Catarina Eufémia para reflectir sobre a história recente de Portugal. No epicentro da crise financeira em Portugal, um jornalista demasiado ambicioso decide provar ao seu editor - Raul Cinzas, o inveterado comunista que os leitores de Tordo conhecerão de Biografia Involuntária dos Amantes - que é capaz de muito mais do que ser um mero repórter. Aproveitando a entrevista a um biógrafo de um mártir religioso, o jornalista faz uma analogia com a história de Catarina Eufémia, a camponesa assassinada, em 1954, por um tenente da GNR a mando da PIDE. Ícone da Esquerda revolucionária, Catarina Eufémia é uma figura envolta em mistério e objecto de exaltação, mais de cinquenta anos após a sua morte. Os ânimos estão inflamados pela contestação à austeridade imposta pelo Governo, e a publicação do artigo provoca acesas reacções na opinião pública. No rescaldo da convulsão, Cinzas é encontrado em coma numa rua de Lisboa, talvez brutalizado por defender o malfadado artigo. Também o jovem jornalista, nosso narrador, se encontra a braços com uma situação pessoal e profissional precária e se interroga sobre o que existirá por trás do mito para provocar tamanhos ódios e paixões. É então que decide investigar a vida e a morte de Eufémia, procurando decifrar o nevoeiro que envolve os mitos e os mártires de que a História sempre se apodera. Inculto da dimensão da ditadura que sufocou o país antes do 25 de Abril, o que descobre no caminho é bem diferente do que esperava. Sobre a obra de João Tordo: «João Tordo tem uma capacidade enorme de efabulação que não se encontra facilmente.»José Saramago «Tal como o Nobel José Saramago, João Tordo põe em questão, com o seu talento, a crença numa identidade própria à qual nós, os humanos, estamos apegados.»Le Monde, França «Um romance que se abre em escuridão e labareda, para que nos vejamos ao espelho.»José Tolentino Mendonça (sobre O luto de Elias Gro) «Uma escrita vibrante, capaz de momentos de grande intensidade expressiva ou de inesperado lirismo.»José Mário Silva, Expresso (sobre O luto de Elias Gro) «Há-de guardar lugar próprio e intransmissível entre as melhores obras da literatura portuguesa contemporânea.»João Gobern, Diário de Notícias (sobre O luto de Elias Gro) «Tordo não dá respostas. Alimenta cuidadosamente a ambiguidade, o paradoxo, como se fizessem parte de um silêncio cujo mistério não quer desvendar.» Isabel Lucas, Público (sobre O Paraíso segundo Lars D.) «João Tordo cria dois palcos contíguos, que equilibra entre o atrevimento cruel que o realismo comanda e o clima introspectivo que dele resulta, conjugados com particular desenvoltura e absoluta eficácia.» Lídia Jorge (sobre O deslumbre de Cecilia Fluss) «Um romance extraordinário, que se lê à transparência de um talento mais do que confirmado, porventura único entre nós, na primeira linha das vozes literárias da geração a que pertence.»João de Melo (sobre O deslumbre de Cecilia Fluss) «A trilogia dos lugares sem nome, assinada por João Tordo, está entre o melhor que a literatura portuguesa nos ofereceu nos últimos vinte ou trinta anos.»Pedro Miguel Silva, Deus me livro «Uma narrativa com um cunho muito próprio e um dos registos mais pessoais e intensos desta geração.»João Céu e Silva, Diário de Notícias (sobre Ensina-me a voar sobre os telhados) «Um romance poderoso, inquietante e profundamente lírico.»Helena Vasconcelos, Público (sobre Ensina-me a voar sobre os telhados)
Anatomical Forms: The Science of the Body in Early Modern Women’s Poetry (Alembics: Penn Studies in Literature and Science)
by Whitney SperrazzaDemonstrates how early modern women writers such as Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter wielded poetics as a tool for scientific workAnatomical Forms excavates the shared material practices of women’s poetic work and anatomical study in early modern England. Asserting that poetry is a dimensional technology, Whitney Sperrazza demonstrates how women writers wielded poetics as a tool for scientific work in order to explore and challenge rapid developments in anatomy and physiology.In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, anatomists were actively exploring the best ways to represent bodies in texts—to translate the work of the dissection room into the pages of books. When we recognize Renaissance anatomy as fundamentally a book-making project, Sperrazza insists, we find a complex and expansive history of anatomy in the pages of women’s poetry. Women poets have long been absent from histories of literature and science, but by shifting our focus from content to form, Sperrazza reveals complex engagements with questions on corpse preservation, dissection, obstetrics and gynecology, and skin theory in the poetry of Margaret Cavendish, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Mary Sidney Herbert, and Hester Pulter.Through close formal analysis and original research on early modern anatomy treatises, Anatomical Forms weaves together critical conversations in poetics, book history, the history of science, and women’s writing. Sperrazza challenges her readers to imagine science differently—to understand that science might not always look like we expect it to look—and, in the process, brings into focus a feminist history of poetic form centered on material practice.
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
by Northrop FryeNorthrop Frye wrote this work on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four essays on historical, ethical, archetypal, and rhetorical criticism, Frye reconceives literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time.
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
by Northrop FryeStriking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four brilliant essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary criticism as a total history rather than a linear progression through time.<P> Literature, Frye wrote, is "the place where our imaginations find the ideal that they try to pass on to belief and action, where they find the vision which is the source of both the dignity and the joy of life." And the critical study of literature provides a basic way "to produce, out of the society we have to live in, a vision of the society we want to live in."<P> Harold Bloom contributes a fascinating and highly personal preface that examines Frye's mode of criticism and thought (as opposed to Frye's criticism itself) as being indispensable in the modern literary world.
Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton Classics #70)
by Northrop FryeA landmark work of literary criticismNorthrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with the practice of close reading of individual texts, Frye seeks to describe a common basis for understanding the full range of literary forms by examining archetypes, genres, poetic language, and the relations among the text, the reader, and society. Using a dazzling array of examples, he argues that understanding "the structure of literature as a total form" also allows us to see the profoundly liberating effect literature can have.
Anatomy of Inspiration
by Rosamond E HardingFirst Published in 1967. This volume is a collection of works, like letters, autobiographies and eye-witness accounts, relating to historical data that exits relating to 'mind in creation'. It includes an appendix with 'The Birth of a Poem' by Robert B.M. Nichols.
Anatomy of Lost Things
by Shawn K. StoutA laugh-through-your-tears middle grade novel about what it&’s like to lose something precious. For fans of the Three Rancheros series by Kate DiCamillo.A necklace. A bugle. A lion statue. What do they have to do with each other? Absolutely nothing unless you&’re Tildy, Leon, or Nell. These items matter an awful lot to them. Not because of what they are, but what—and who—they represent.Anatomy of Lost Things shares the crisscrossing stories of Tildy, Leon, and Nell, of the impossible losses they&’ve each recently faced, and the unexpected histories of their prized objects. Written with heartbreaking honesty and humor, this novel unfolds in the tender space that exists between staggering loss and the start of recovery, and it finds plenty of hope and laughter waiting there.
Anatomy of Melancholy and Other Poems
by Robert WrigleyA powerful new collection from an award-winning poet Robert Wrigley has become one of his generation's most accomplished poets, renowned for his irony, power, and lucid style and for his ability to fuse narrative and lyrical impulses. Like its namesake--Robert Burton's seventeenth-century examination of human thoughts and emotions--Wrigley's new collection means to examine our world through the lens of melancholia. From imagined war memorials to insomniac chickens; from Descartes' lost daughter to a dreaming tree; from King Kong to Rush Limbaugh; and from Anna Karenina to a man named Lucy Doolin (short for Lucifer), these are poems that elegize and celebrate that most beautiful, exasperating, joyous, miserable, and perfectly imperfect of all creatures--the human being.
Anatomy of Murder
by Imogen RobertsonThe second historical suspense novel in Imogen Robertson's critically acclaimed Westerman and Crowther mystery series London, 1781. Harriet Westerman anxiously awaits news of her husband, a ship's captain who has been gravely injured in the king's naval battles with France. As London's streets seethe with rumor, a body is dragged from the murky waters of the Thames. Having gained a measure of fame as amateur detectives for unraveling the mysteries of Thornleigh Hall, the indomitable Mrs. Westerman and her reclusive sidekick, anatomist Gabriel Crowther, are once again called on to investigate. In this intricate novel, Harriet and Crowther will discover that this is no ordinary drowning--the victim is part of a plot to betray England's most precious secrets.
Anatomy of Murder
by Imogen Robertson'Makes you want to read every word...the plot is serpentine and satisfying, with enough false trails and distractions to create a genuine mystery'. Telegraph. The streets of London see the with rumour and conspiracy as the King's navy battles the French at sea. And while the banks of the Thames swarm with life, a body is dragged from its murky waters. In another part of town, where the air seems sweeter, the privileged enjoy a brighter world of complacent wealth and intoxicating celebrity. But as society revels in its pleasures, a darker plot is played out. Yet some are willing to look below the surface to the unsavoury depths. Mrs Harriet Westerman believes passionately in justice. Reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther is fascinated by the bones beneath the skin. Invited to seek the true nature of the dead man, they risk censure for an unnatural interest in murder. But when the safety of a nation is at stake, personal reputation must give way to the pursuit of reason and truth.
Anatomy of Murder
by Imogen Robertson'Makes you want to read every word...the plot is serpentine and satisfying, with enough false trails and distractions to create a genuine mystery'. Telegraph. The streets of London see the with rumour and conspiracy as the King's navy battles the French at sea. And while the banks of the Thames swarm with life, a body is dragged from its murky waters. In another part of town, where the air seems sweeter, the privileged enjoy a brighter world of complacent wealth and intoxicating celebrity. But as society revels in its pleasures, a darker plot is played out. Yet some are willing to look below the surface to the unsavoury depths. Mrs Harriet Westerman believes passionately in justice. Reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther is fascinated by the bones beneath the skin. Invited to seek the true nature of the dead man, they risk censure for an unnatural interest in murder. But when the safety of a nation is at stake, personal reputation must give way to the pursuit of reason and truth.
Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989
by Bruce ChatwinThis is a collection of Chatwin's previously unpublished material. Short stories, travel sketches, essays, articles and criticism cover every period of Chatwin's career and reflect the abiding themes of his work: roots and rootlessness, exile and the exotic, possession and renunciation.
Anatomy of a Boyfriend
by Daria SnadowskyBefore this all happened, the closest I'd ever come to getting physical with a guy was playing the board game Operation. Okay, so maybe that sounds pathetic, but it's not like there were any guys at my high school who I cared to share more than three words with, let alone my body. Then I met Wes, a track star senior from across town. Maybe it was his soulful blue eyes, or maybe my hormones just started raging. Either way, I was hooked. And after a while, he was too. I couldn't believe how intense my feelings became, or the fact that I was seeing--and touching--parts of the body I'd only read about in myGray's Anatomytextbook. You could say Wes and I experienced a lot of firsts together that spring. It was scary. It was fun. It was love. And then came the fall. From the Hardcover edition.
Anatomy of a Crossword (Crossword Mysteries #8)
by Nero BlancSomeone&’s trying to write characters out of the script in this suspenseful crossword puzzler featuring PI Rosco Polycrates and crossword editor Belle Graham Belle Graham is mired in New England&’s snowy, late-January gloom when Hollywood comes calling. Seduced by visions of relaxing poolside in sunny Los Angeles, she heads to Hollywood to create a puzzle for a TV movie based on a crime she and her husband, Rosco Polycrates, recently cracked. The hook is that the show is interactive—viewers get to solve the crime on air with Belle. The trouble starts when Belle discovers that someone has replaced her crossword with a brand-new set of clues. Then a series of suspicious accidents culminates in murder. In a case in which everyone&’s under suspicion—and all are harboring secrets—the backstage backstabbing is heating up to a fever pitch. Now Rosco&’s jetting out to La-La Land to help Belle sort out the clues while the truth is still in development and a killer could make this show a done deal. This ebook includes six crossword puzzles that contain clues to solving the mystery and can be downloaded as PDFs, with answers in the back of the book.Anatomy of a Crossword is the 6th book in the Crossword Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel
by Hisham Matar<P>This mesmerizing literary novel is written with all the emotional precision and intimacy that have won Hisham Matar tremendous international recognition. In a voice that is delicately wrought and beautifully tender, he asks: When a loved one disappears, how does that absence shape the lives of those who are left? <P> Nuri is a young boy when his mother dies. It seems that nothing will fill the emptiness her death leaves behind in the Cairo apartment he shares with his father—until they meet Mona, sitting in her yellow swimsuit by the pool of the Magda Marina hotel. <P>As soon as Nuri sees Mona, the rest of the world vanishes. But it is Nuri’s father with whom Mona falls in love and whom she eventually marries. Their happiness consumes Nuri to the point where he wishes his father would disappear. Nuri will, however, soon regret what he’s wished for. <P>When his father, a dissident in exile from his homeland, is abducted under mysterious circumstances, the world that Nuri and his stepmother share is shattered. And soon they begin to realize how little they knew about the man they both loved.
Anatomy of a Dragon (The World of Dragons)
by Matt DoedenWe might think we know what dragons look like. But not all dragons look the same. This book describes what makes each one special, the different parts of dragon bodies and how dragons breathe fire.
Anatomy of a Girl Gang
by Ashley LittleA sharp and gritty novel told in multiple voices, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is the powerful story of a gang of teenage girls in Vancouver called the Black Roses, a.k.a. "the city's worst nightmare": Mac, the self-appointed leader and mastermind; Mercy, the Punjabi princess with a skill for theft; Kayos, a high-school dropout who gave birth to a daughter at age thirteen; Sly Girl, who fled her First Nations reserve for a better life, only to find depravity and addiction; and Z, a sixteen-year-old graffiti artist.Cast out by mainstream society, the Black Roses rob ATMs, cook crack on stoves, and savagely beat down anyone who dares to harm them. Brutal and broken, they claw at the knot of darkness and violence that tightens around their lives.Told in stark, vivid, and fearless prose, Anatomy of a Girl Gang is an unflinching story about lost girls struggling for power, voice, and hope.Ashley Little is author of Prick: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist and the YA novel The New Normal. She lives in British Columbia.
Anatomy of a Jury: The Inside Story of How Twelve Ordinary People Decide the Fate of an Accused Murderer
by Seymour WishmanAn acclaimed trial attorney presents a mock murder case to explore the jury system in this &“compelling . . . intelligent . . . provocative&” work (The New York Times Book Review). Creating a composite legal case based on real-life criminal investigations and trials, Seymour Wishman&’s Anatomy of a Jury carries us from crime scene to courthouse to jury room, providing a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the nation&’s criminal justice system. In autumn 1982, in the affluent New Jersey community of Glen Ridge, a woman is found brutally murdered in her home. The victim&’s distraught husband points police to a likely perpetrator: an African American handyman with a criminal record. A search of the suspect&’s home reveals nothing, but still the man is indicted for the crime. His ultimate fate is to be determined by &“a jury of his peers&”—twelve strangers with no special legal skills or training and a fervent desire to do what is right. As dramatic and riveting as it is educational, Wishman&’s staging and analysis of a criminal trial is a &“rousing endorsement of the jury and a superb description of how the system really operates&” (St. Louis Dispatch).
Anatomy of a Killer
by Peter RabeSam Jordan never lets emotion interfere with his work. He is a precise and ruthless killing machine, dealing out death for hire. But his last job had ended wrong for Jordan, and now Sandy is sending him out again - without a break, yet - to take care of someone named Kemp. Hell, he even has to case the job himself. The whole thing feels jinxed. That’s when Jordan meets Betty, who works at the diner. To her he is Mr. Smith, a button salesman. But to Jordan, Betty is a sweet moment in his life, a safe haven. And that’s where he makes his first mistake - he allows himself to feel human.
Anatomy of a Killer
by Romy HausmannThe scorching, heart-pounding new thriller of a killer that leaves no trace, from the internationally bestselling author of Dear ChildThey say he's a murderer. But how could he be?Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red ribbons show the police the way to their bodies, but there's no trace of the killer. One evening, internationally renowned philosophy professor and anthropologist Walter Lesniak is arrested on the suspicion of the murders in the presence of his daughter, Ann.'Professor Death' becomes the headline of the tabloid press and Lesniak himself refuses to cooperate with the police. Ann is certain this is all some kind of mistake. And she will prove it. Yet, with the arrest of her father, she begins a journey into the unknown . . .'Hausmann is a force to be reckoned with' DAVID BALDACCI(P) 2023 Quercus Editions Limited
Anatomy of a Killer: an unputdownable thriller full of twists and turns, from the author of DEAR CHILD
by Romy Hausmann'Hausmann is a force to be reckoned with' DAVID BALDACCIThey say he's a murderer. But how could he be?Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red ribbons show the police the way to their bodies, but there's no trace of the killer. One evening, internationally renowned philosophy professor and anthropologist Walter Lesniak is arrested on the suspicion of the murders in the presence of his daughter, Ann.'Professor Death' becomes the headline of the tabloid press and Lesniak himself refuses to cooperate with the police. Ann is certain this is all some kind of mistake. And she will prove it. Yet, with the arrest of her father, she begins a journey into the unknown . . .READERS LOVE ROMY HAUSMANN'Ingenious' 5 * reader review'Loved every minute' 5* reader review'The best thriller I have ever read' 5* reader review'Spellbinding' 5* reader review'Absolutely brilliant' 5* reader review
Anatomy of a Miracle: A Novel*
by Jonathan Miles“A remarkable combination of medical mystery, satire and war story. Like Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, it captures the long-lasting effects of war by focusing on those for whom war is only a tangential thing somewhere far away.” — Shelf Awareness"Miles's powerful prose nudges readers to seek the soft spots between faith and judgement, story and science, and fact and fiction." — CJ Lotz, Garden & GunA profound new novel about a paralyzed young man’s unexplainable recovery—a stunning exploration of faith, science, mystery, and the meaning of life Rendered paraplegic after a traumatic event four years ago, Cameron Harris has been living his new existence alongside his sister, Tanya, in their battered Biloxi, Mississippi neighborhood where only half the houses made it through Katrina. One stiflingly hot August afternoon, as Cameron sits waiting for Tanya during their daily run to the Biz-E-Bee convenience store, he suddenly and inexplicably rises up and out of his wheelchair. In the aftermath of this “miracle,” Cameron finds himself a celebrity at the center of a contentious debate about what’s taken place. And when scientists, journalists, and a Vatican investigator start digging, Cameron’s deepest secrets—the key to his injury, to his identity, and, in some eyes, to the nature of his recovery—become increasingly endangered. Was Cameron’s recovery a genuine miracle, or a medical breakthrough? And, finding himself transformed into a symbol, how can he hope to retain his humanity? Brilliantly written as closely observed journalistic reportage and filtered through a wide lens that encompasses the vibrant characters affected by Cameron’s story, Anatomy of a Miracle will be read, championed, and celebrated as a powerful story of our time, and the work of a true literary master.
Anatomy of a Misfit
by Andrea Portes<P>In this Mean Girls meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower tale, narrator Anika Dragomir is the third most popular girl at Pound High School. But inside, she knows she's a freak; she can't stop thinking about former loner Logan McDonough, who showed up on the first day of tenth grade hotter, bolder, and more mysterious than ever. Logan is fascinating, troubled and off-limits. <P>The Pound High queen bee will make Anika's life hell if she's seen with him. So Anika must choose--ignore her feelings and keep her social status? Or follow her heart and risk becoming a pariah. Which will she pick? And what will she think of her choice when an unimaginable tragedy strikes, changing her forever? <P>An absolutely original new voice in YA in a story that will start important conversations--and tear at your heart. Who needs him when Jared Kline, the bad boy every girl dreams of, is asking her on dates? <P>Who? <P>Andrea Portes's emotionally devastating debut YA novel lays bare the futility in pretending to be something we're not and the value in finally celebrating all that we are--inside.
Anatomy of a Murder: The Original Classic Courtroom Thriller
by Robert TraverFFirst published by St. Martin's in 1958, Robert Traver's Anatomy of a Murder immediately became the number-one bestseller in America, and was subsequently turned into the successful and now classic Otto Preminger film. For the twenty-fifth birthday of a work that is not only the most popular courtroom drama in American fiction, but one of the most popular novels of our time, St. Martin's is proud to introduce this special anniversary edition, with a new introduction by the author. A gripping tale of deceit, murder, and a sensational trial, Anatomy of a Murder is unmatched in the authenticity of its settings, events, and characters. This new edition should delight both loyal fans of the past and an entire new generation of readers.