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Translated title: Behind the Net
Series: Book 1
Author: Archer, Stephanie
Genre: Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 368 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 93042
He never forgot her... but will he be able to overcome the barriers she erected?
After my ex crushed my dreams in the music industry, I'm determined to keep my heart intact. Being an NHL player's assistant was supposed to be a piece of cake, but nothing about Jamie Streicher is easy. He's a sexy jerk with a huge ego who can't stand me. I have to keep our relationship strictly professional... if I can forget the crush I've had on him since high school.
I know I'm grumpy, have a bad temper, and don't show my loving and protective side to everyone. When I realize the trauma Pippa has regarding her ex-boyfriend, I make it my mission to encourage her towards her dreams. Between games, team parties, and her return to music, I feel Pippa's heart giving way. In the game of love, I'm willing to risk my heart, but will she be able to overcome the traumas that haunt her?
A Nuvem no Olhar
Translated title: The Cloud in the Eye
Author: Melo, Joao de
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2025 | Pages: 232 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 90002
A Nuvem no Olhar brings together ten very distinct stories, offering diverse social approaches that go beyond merely criticizing customs and traditions, but also reflect on the underlying ideologies and mentalities. They feature intra-family relationships, caricatures of politicians, scenes from the daily lives of teachers and intellectuals in general, and even the simple story of a couple's honeymoon trip to the nine Azorean islands, presented as a crucial revelation
O Segredo de Tomar
Translated title: The Secret of Tomar
Author: Pinto, Rui Miguel
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 480 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 89975
For centuries, a mysterious Order has kept a secret that could threaten the faith of millions. Remaining in the shadows, its members are willing to do anything to prevent the truth from being revealed. Until one of Portugal's most renowned historians is hired for the risky mission of discovering what the Order of the Temple hid in Tomar. With the help of his most brilliant students, Jaime Morais embarks on an investigation that will lead him to surprising conclusions and put the lives of everyone involved at risk
A Greve
Translated title: The Strike
Author: Corredoura, Luis
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 536 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 90005
Five thousand workers. Hundreds of factories, workshops, and quarries. Twelve days of protest. The regime's only option was violence.
In May 1965, five thousand workers from hundreds of factories, workshops, and quarries paralyzed the extraction and processing of lioz for 12 days, a stone unique to the Pêro Pinheiro region, in the northern municipality of Sintra, and with which some of Portugal's most emblematic buildings were constructed over its nine centuries.
At the height of the Salazarist dictatorship and facing the prospect of political embarrassment, the forces of law and order, faced with the usual: lies, threats, cavalry charges by the GNR (National Republican Guard), and countless arrests and torture by the PIDE (Political Defense Institute). It was, nevertheless, the largest strike the Estado Novo had ever faced
Para Sempre Teu
Translated title: Forever Yours
Author: Jimenez, Abby
Genre: Romance
Year: 2025 | Pages: 392 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 89972
Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is getting worse and worse: her divorce is about to be finalized, her brother needs a kidney transplant, and she's running out of time to find a donor. What's more, the promotion she so desperately wanted seems to be going to the nosy newcomer who just arrived at the hospital where she works.
But just when Briana thinks she'll hate this doctor forever, Dr. Jacob Maddox turns the tables and sends her a letter... handwritten with a fountain pen and special paper. A letter so good it proves Jacob isn't actually the Devil, that he might actually be an incredibly funny and kind man
Promete que te Vais Lembrar de Mim
Translated title: Promise You'll Remember Me
Author: Jimenez, Abby
Genre: Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 352 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 93024
They met. They argued. And they fell madly in love.
The perfect man doesn't exist, but Xavier comes too close: a stunning, tall, and handsome veterinarian with a kitten in his lap. A dream, right? Until Xavier opens his mouth and proves that even the most perfect men can say the wrong things, becoming just another fool among many. If there's one thing Samantha loves, it's humiliating guys like that, unless, of course, he admits he was wrong... and turns out to be very interesting.
But after an incredible and seemingly endless encounter - perhaps the best in history - Samantha is forced to face reality: her family is in crisis, and any kind of relationship would be impossible.
Samantha begs Xavier to forget her. To remember their night as a perfect moment, however painful it may be. But not all the distance or time will be enough to erase what exists between them. And the only thing better than just a perfect memory is building a life - and even a love - worth remembering.
Love is easy. Life is hard
O Sr. Popular
Translated title: Mr. Popular
Series: Book 1
Author: Archer, Stephanie
Genre: Romance
Year: 2026 | Pages: 288 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 93039
A deal of convenience can mask very real feelings...
The arrogant and charismatic Emmett Rhodes says he wasn't made for relationships, but now that he's running for mayor of our small town, his bachelor past is hurting his campaign.
Luckily, I'm the last woman who would fall for him.
We're complete opposites - he's a golden boy and I'm sarcastic and determined - but he's promised to help me with my restaurant loan if I pretend to be his devoted fiancée. Between romantic dates, another prom night, and visits to a secret beach, things heat up and the line between real and fiction flares up. I see the other side of Mr. Popular and now I wonder if I was wrong at all.
We can't keep our hands off each other, but it's all for appearances... right?
Bunny
Author: Awad, Mona
Genre: Thriller / Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 93095
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't feel more out of place in her small, exclusive Master of Fine Arts program at Warren University in New England. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of people, Samantha is repelled by the rest of the students in her fiction writing course, a group of rich and insufferable girls who call each other Bunny and act and talk as if they were one person.
Everything changes when Samantha receives an invitation to the famous Salaz Salon, to which she finds herself inexplicably drawn, causing her to leave behind Ava, her only friend. As she delves into this new and sinister world, the boundaries of reality begin to blur.
Bunny is a story of loneliness and belonging, friendship and desire, and about the fantastic and terrifying power of imagination
Carrie
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Horror
Year: 2024 | Pages: 220 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 89985
Fifty years after the first edition, this continues to be the story of Carrie White, the misfit high school girl in Chamberlain, Maine, who gradually discovers she can make objects move with the power of her mind alone. Her gift, but also her curse, is firmly repressed, like everything else about Carrie. Subjugated by a domineering, ultra-religious mother and tormented by her classmates at school, her desire to fit in will lead to a dramatic confrontation on prom night
A Inquilina
Translated title: The Tenant
Author: McFadden, Freida
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2025 | Pages: 328 | Origin: POR | BA Seq Num: 89978
Blake Porter had it all: a successful career, a charming fiancée, and the house of his dreams.
But suddenly, everything changes. Fired from his prestigious position as vice president of marketing at his company, financial difficulties begin, and Blake is forced to rent out a room in the house he shares with his fiancée to make the mortgage payments.
And then Whitney appears! She's everything they were looking for: beautiful, friendly, polite, with a reliable air, and her feet firmly on the ground. The perfect tenant.
However, her presence brings with it something that doesn't quite add up. The atmosphere in the house changes, the neighbors behave strangely. A terrible odor - putrid, impossible to ignore - pervades the house, no matter how much Blake cleans it. And, as if that weren't enough, disturbing noises wake him in the middle of the night
