Romance genre books (573)


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@mor by Daniel Glattauer, Eduardo Simões PT

Rating: 2 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
Num e-mail enviado por engano, começa um relacionamento virtual que testa as convicções de Leo Leike e Emmi Rothner. Leo Leike, ainda digerindo o fracasso de seu último relacionamento, responde de forma espirituosa a duas mensagens enviadas por engano por Emmi Rothner, casada. Inicialmente, ela só queria cancelar uma assinatura de revista. Depois, inclui Leo por engano entre os destinatários de um e-mail de boas festas. Na terceira troca de e-mails, o mal-entendido dá lugar à atração mútua, reforçada pelo fato de um nunca ter visto o outro. Nada como a curiosidade instigada por frases bem enca... continue

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A Banh Mi for Two by Trinity Nguyen EN

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Country: Asia / Vietnam flag Vietnam
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In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vietnam and they spend the semester unraveling their families' histories—and eating all the street food in Sài Gòn. In Sài Gòn, Lan is always trying to be the perfect daughter, dependable and willing to care for her widowed mother and their bánh mì stall. Her secret passion, however, is A Bánh Mì for Two, the food blog she started with her father, but has stopped updating since his passing. Meanwhile, Vietnamese American Vivi Huynh, has never been to Việt Nam. Her parents rarely even talk about the... continue

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A Bollywood Affair

A Bollywood Affair by Sonali Dev EN

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Country: Asia / India flag India
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"Deeply-felt emotions that will keep readers turning the pages." --Susan Elizabeth Phillips, New York Times bestselling author Mili Rathod hasn't seen her husband in twenty years--not since she was promised to him at the age of four. Yet marriage has allowed Mili a freedom rarely given to girls in her village. Her grandmother has even allowed her to leave India and study in America for eight months, all to make her the perfect modern wife. Which is exactly what Mili longs to be--if her husband would just come and claim her. Bollywood's favorite director, Samir Rathod, has come to Michigan to s... continue

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A Company of Swans by Eva Ibbotson EN

Rating: 4.5 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / Austria flag Austria
Description:
In 1912 England, 19-year-old Harriet Morton leads a dreary existence. Her ballet class is her only joy. When Father won't let her travel on a ballet tour to South America, Harriet creates a clever ruse that covers her escape and triggers an experience far beyond her dreams.

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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo EN

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Country: Asia / China flag China
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Communication is proving tricky for Ziao, a young woman fresh off the plane from China. When she finds herself pitched headlong into an affair, and living with her English boyfriend, she decides to write her very own dictionary, a Chinese-English dictionary for lovers. But will her new love survive the cultural chasms between East and West?

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A cor do Hibisco by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie PT

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Africa / Nigeria flag Nigeria
Description:
Os limites do mundo da jovem Kambili são definidos pelos muros da luxuosa propriedade da família e pelas regras de um pai repressivo. O dia-a-dia é regulado por horários: rezar, dormir, estudar e rezar ainda mais. A sua vida é privilegiada mas o ambiente familiar é tenso. Quando um golpe militar ameaça fazer desmoronar a Nigéria, o pai de Kambili envia-a, juntamente com o irmão, para casa da tia. É aí, nessa casa cheia de energia e riso, que ela descobre todo um novo mundo onde os livros não são proibidos, os aromas a caril e noz-moscada impregnam o ar, e a alegria dos primos ecoa.Esta visita ... continue

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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Description:
*Now a major Sky original production* THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. A Discovery of Witches is the first in the must-have, must-read ALL SOULS trilogy. It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches. Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling ALL SOULS trilogy. A world of witches, daemons and vampires. A manuscript which holds the secrets of their past and the key to their future. Diana and Matthew - the forbidden love at the heart of it. When ... continue

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A gorda : romance by Isabela Figueiredo PT

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Africa / Mozambique flag Mozambique
Description:
Maria Luísa, a heroína deste romance, é uma bela rapariga, inteligente, boa aluna, voluntariosa e com uma forte personalidade. E é gorda. E isto, esta característica física, incomoda-a de tal modo que coloca tudo o resto em causa. Na adolescência, sofre e aguenta, em silêncio, as piadas e os insultos dos colegas. Fica esquecida, ao lado da mais feia das suas colegas, no baile dos finalistas do colégio. Mas não desiste, não se verga, e vai em frente, gorda, à procura de uma vida que valha a pena viver.

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A Greek Love: A Novel of Cuba by Zoé Valdés EN

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Country: North America / Cuba flag Cuba
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For readers of Isabel Allende, Gabriela Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, the story of a woman who must fight for her love and her child in a Cuba suffocated by oppression A free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, where her friend Osiris is known as the “Greek sailormen's whore,” teenager Zé becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain's son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone. In her father's Cuba, an unwed teenage mother is a source of scandal and shame and a threat to his ambitions in the Party. He disowns her and brutall... continue