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Author Mark Manson translated to Portuguese

Do autor do bestseller A Arte Subtil de Saber Dizer Que Se F*da

Vivemos numa época estranha. Apesar de termos mais liberdade, saúde e riqueza do que em qualquer outra época da história, tudo à nossa volta parece terrivelmente f*dido: aquecimento global, queda de governos, economias em colapso e todos permanentemente ofendidos nas redes sociais. Temos acesso a tecnologia, a educação e a formas de comunicar que os nossos antepassados nem sequer imaginavam, mas ainda assim sentimos uma esmagadora desesperança. Afinal, o que é que se passa connosco?

Com a sua habitual mistura de erudição e humor, Mark Manson desafia-nos a olhar para o mundo com outros olhos. Com base em investigação psicológica e na sabedoria intemporal de filósofos como Platão e Nietzsche, o autor disseca a política e a religião e mostra como as duas se tornaram desconfortavelmente semelhantes. Analisa a nossa relação com o dinheiro, o entretenimento e a internet, desafiando as definições de fé, felicidade, liberdade e até da própria esperança.

Um livro de leitura obrigatória que nem todos merecemos, mas de que todos precisamos.

Autor

Mark Manson cresceu em Austin, no Texas, viveu em Boston e viajou por todo o mundo durante sete anos. É um autor bestseller do The New York Times e escreve sobre uma grande variedade de temas, no âmbito do desenvolvimento pessoal. Para além da sua atividade de bloguer e empreendedor, publica regularmente artigos com a BBC,CNN, Business Insider, Time, entre outros. Vive atualmente em Nova Iorque.

Autor Louise L. Hay translated to Portuguese by Jose De Freitas Cruz

Pode Curar a Sua Vida é o maior best-seller da área do desenvolvimento pessoal e um livro de referência indispensável para todas as pessoas interessadas em ser tudo aquilo que podem — e merecem — ser. A mensagem que transmite é muito simples e não tem segredos: os nossos pensamentos criam as nossas realidades; aquilo em que acreditamos profundamente torna-se realidade para nós. Há mais de vinte e cinco anos que Louise Hay tem vindo a praticar e a ensinar este princípio transformador, que tem ajudado dezenas de milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo a alcançar a felicidade que lhes pertence por direito. Este livro revolucionário e inspirador é uma introdução perfeita à filosofia de Louise Hay, que irá certamente curar — e transformar — a sua vida!

Autor

Louise L. Hay, the author of the international bestseller You Can Heal Your Life, is a metaphysical lecturer and teacher with more than 50 million books sold worldwide. For more than 30 years, she has helped people throughout the world discover and implement the full potential of their own creative powers for personal growth and self-healing. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and many other TV and radio programs both in the U.S. and abroad.

Websites: www.LouiseHay.com® and www.HealYourLife.com®

Facebook page: www.Facebook.com/LouiseLHay

Author Kathryn Stockett translated to Portuguese by Fernanda Semedo

Skeeter tem 22 anos e acaba de regressar da universidade. Pode ter uma licenciatura, mas estamos em 1962, no Mississípi, e a sua mãe só a deixará em paz quando a vir com uma aliança no dedo.

Aibileen é uma empregada negra que criou 17 crianças brancas. Mas, desde que o seu fi lho morreu, algo mudou dentro de si. Minny, a sua melhor amiga, é a mulher com a língua mais afi ada do Mississípi.

Cozinha divinamente, mas tem sérias difi culdades em manter o emprego… até ao momento em que encontra uma nova e insólita patroa.

Estas três personagens extraordinárias vão cruzar-se e iniciar um projeto que mudará a sua cidade e as vidas de todas as mulheres de Jackson.

São as suas vozes que nos contam esta história inesquecível, cheia de humor, esperança e tristeza.

Author

Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. The Help is her first novel.

Author: Carlos Souza

The rattling sound of a tram, the scent of freshly baked pastel de nata, the sight of the glistening waters of the Tagus―welcome to Lisboa. Portugal’s capital of labyrinthine streets, azulejo tiles, and blooming jacarandas beckons travelers with an indescribable charm and quiet nostalgia. Fado is Lisboa’s most iconic sound―a traditional music born in the city’s oldest neighborhoods and expressing its deep emotion and heritage. From the grandeur of Belém to the bohemian spirit of Bairro Alto, Lisboa has the heart of a poet and the pulse of a port.

Creatives, dreamers, and sunseekers from across the globe have congregated in this singular location, enticed by the plentiful seafood, celebratory atmosphere, and legacy of craftsmanship. This book is a love letter to Lisboa, with original imagery provided by locals Carlos Souza and Charlene Shorto and a foreword by Miguel Guedes De Sousa. Lisboa Luz paints a portrait of a resilient metropolis that has endured earthquakes and revolutions to become a sought-after destination for those looking for a good time.

Language:English

length: 304 pgs

Author Mia Sosa Language English.

One engagement. Two best friends. Three's a crowd.

On the eve of their college graduation, best friends Javier Báez and Marisol Campos swore never to date someone the other doesn’t approve of. Now, almost a decade later, Javi has a problem. Mari, the woman he’s secretly pined for since sophomore year, is engaged—and Javi didn’t even get the chance to vet the Pedro Pascal knockoff she plans to marry.

A successful entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, Mari is no longer seeking Javi’s dating advice or waiting for him to declare his love. Instead, she’s made a different pact—with herself. And to succeed, Mari’s vowing to build a future with someone who wants to commit to her.

With his life and career finally on track, Javi’s ready to confess his feelings. Except Mari’s changed the script and moved on without him. Javi has just six weeks to convince Mari this marriage is a flop. If that means he needs to ruffle some feathers to help her avert disaster, well, he’s up for the challenge. After all, isn’t that what best friends are for?

About Author

Mia Sosa is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedies and contemporary romances that celebrate our multicultural world. She has received praise from The Washington Post, Bustle, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, POPSUGAR, BuzzFeed, Oprah Daily, and many more. A native of East Harlem and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School, she lives in Maryland with her college sweetheart, their two book-obsessed daughters, a gentle Cavalier King Charles spaniel, and one adorable rescue cat that rules them all.

Pages: 448

ISBN: 9798217044306

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Author Euclide Da Cunha translated to English by Elizabeth Lowe.

An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literature

Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia, which had been settled by 30,000 followers of the religious zealot Antonio Conselheiro. Far from just an objective retelling, da Cunha's story shows both the significance of this event and the complexities of Brazilian society.

Published here in a new translation by Elizabeth Lowe, and featuring an introduction by one of the foremost scholars of Latin America, this is sure to remain one of the best chronicles of war ever penned.

Author: Leighton Gage Language: English

The Awana tribe, who live in the remote Amazon jungle in the Brazilian state of Pará, have dwindled to only 41 members—and now 39 of them have dropped dead of what looks like poison. The neighboring white townsfolk don’t seem to be mourning the genocide much—in fact, the only person who seems to care at all is Jade Calmon, the official tribal relations agent assigned to the area. She wants justice for the two survivors, a father and his 8-year-old son. But racism is deeply entrenched and no one is going to help her get to the truth.

Unfortunately, this is far from the first time the Brazilian federal police have had a tribal genocide to investigate. Chief Inspector Mario Silva and his team are sent in from Brasilia to try to solve the increasingly complex case just as a local white man is discovered murdered. Someone has done their best to frame the surviving Awana man, and the town is about to erupt.

Author

Leighton Gage writes the Chief Inspector Mario Silva series, crime novels set in Brazil. He and his Brazilian-born wife divide their time between their home in Brazil and those of their children and grandchildren in Europe and the U.S.
Praise for the Chief Inspector:

Hard-hitting, atmospheric…. Despite their social conscience and ambitious reach, there's nothing stiff or programmatic about Mr. Gage's lively, action-filled chronicles. They have finely sketched characters, vivid geographical detail and their own brutal sort of humor. The vast size of Brazil, with its great economic and topographic differences, affords a diversity of locales. Each book is a bit of adventure-travel, with Silva and crew often feeling like tourists within their own country. Yet the Silva investigations have all the step-by-step excitement of a world-class procedural series…. The books' greatest appeal, though, is Silva. Even after five books and many glimpses into his past and present, he remains an enigma. The reader never knows what the detective might or might not do in order to balance the scales of justice. The Wall Street Journal
South America’s Kurt Wallander - Booklist
Top notch...controversial and entirely absorbing...irresistible -
The New York Times
Masterful - The Toronto Globe and Mail
Compelling - The Boston Globe
Fascinating, complex and riveting - Florida Sun Sentinel
Intelligent and subtle…suspenseful and sophisticated - Publisher’s Weekly
Highly recommended - Library Journal
Colorful characters and crackling banter - Kirkus Reviews

Food, as many other events, conveys the identity and culture of a people. Tasting and interacting with food allows our palate to withhold the experience, but our emotions also savour the moment. And History provides the context that lies beneath all of this.

At present, even cuisine has become a competitive branch with a constant need for updates and inventiveness in order to satisfy an increasingly travelled and experienced public, eager for a sample of difference.

The Illustrious House of Ramires, presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa, is the favorite novel of many Eça de Queirós aficionados. This late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal. Gonçalo—charming but disastrously effete, idealistic but hopelessly weak—muddles through his pampered life, burdened by a grand ambition. He is determined to write a great historical novel based on the heroic deeds of his fierce medieval ancestors.  But “the record of their valor,” as The London Spectator remarked, “is ironically counterpointed by his own chicanery. A combination of Don Quixote and Walter Mitty, Ramires is continually humiliated but at the same time kindhearted. Ironic comedy is the keynote of the novel. Eça de Queirós has justly been compared with Flaubert and Stendhal."

A genre-bending and thought-provoking examination of capitalism and cancer - and recent Brazilian history - based on the author's interviews with his truck driver father.
In What Is Mine, sociologist José Henrique Bortoluci uses interviews with his father, Didi, to retrace the recent history of Brazil and of his family. From the mid-1960s to the mid-2010s, Didi's work as a truck driver took him away from home for long stretches at a time as he crisscrossed the country and participated in huge infrastructure projects including the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a scheme spearheaded by the military dictatorship of the time, undertaken through brutal deforestation.
An observer of history, Didi also recounts the toll his work has taken on his health, from a heart attack in middle age to the cancer that defines his retirement. Bortoluci weaves the history of a nation with that of a man, uncovering parallels between cancer and capitalism - both sustained by expansion, both embodiments of the gospel of growth at any cost' - and tracing the distance that class has placed between him and his father. Influenced byauthors such as Annie Ernaux and Svetlana Alexievich, is a moving, thought-provoking and brilliantly constructed examination of the scars we carry, as people and as countries.

José Henrique Bortoluci was born in Jaú in 1984. He has a BA in International Relations and an MA in Social History from the University of São Paulo, as well as an MA and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan, where he lectured and was a Fulbright fellow. He is a professor of Sociology at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, where his lectures and research revolve around Brazilian politics, social theory, democracy and social movements. Rahul Bery is based in Cardiff, Wales and translates from Spanish and Portuguese to English. His published translations include novels by Vicente Luis Mora, Afonso Cruz, Simone Campos and David Trueba.

Life under Brazil’s brutal “cordial racism” comes painfully alive in this novel of fathers and sons.

How do you become the protagonist of your own life? For Pedro, it means searching for himself in the objects his father left behind: the layers that make up his life, and that of his parents, and the circumstances, geographies, and wounds that shaped them all. It’s an archaeology of affections, but also of life in southern Brazil, where being black on the streets of Porto Alegre manifests violences large and small. Where being a young woman, raised by a single mother, may find you seeking security in the untrustworthy arms of men. 

In Dark Side of Skin , Jeferson Tenório takes on fathers and sons, Shakespeare and Cervantes, and the inescapable bonds and burdens of family and history in one delicately rendered, painfully precise account of loved ones lost and found.

About the Author

By the International Booker Prize Shortlisted Author of On Earth As It Is Beneath

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the river runs septic with blood. Edgar Wilson makes the sign of the cross on the forehead of a cow, then stuns it with a mallet. He does this over and over again, as the stun operator at Senhor Milo’s slaughterhouse: reliable, responsible, quietly dispatching cows and following orders, wherever that may take him. It’s important to calm the cows, especially now that they seem so unsettled: they have begun to run in panic into walls and over cliffs. Bronco Gil, the foreman, thinks it’s a jaguar or a wild boar. Edgar Wilson has other suspicions. But what is certain is that there is something in this desolate corner of Brazil driving men, and animals, to murder and madness. 

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