Mother's Day Gift Sets

Barnacle Love, Paperback, By Anthony De Sa

Shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Like Wayson Choy and David Bezmozgis before him, Anthony De Sa captures, in stories brimming with life, the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience.

At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son. A young fisherman washes up nearly dead on the shores of Newfoundland. It is Manuel Rebelo who has tried to escape the suffocating smallness of his Portuguese village and the crushing weight of his mother’s expectations to build a future for himself in a terra nova. Manuel struggles to shed the traditions of a village frozen in time and to silence the brutal voice of Maria Theresa da Conceicao Rebelo, but embracing the promise of his adopted land is not as simple as he had hoped.

Manuel’s son, Antonio, is born into Toronto’s little Portugal, a world of colourful houses and labyrinthine back alleys. In the Rebelo home the Church looms large, men and women inhabit sharply divided space, pigs are slaughtered in the garage, and a family lives in the shadow cast by a father’s failures. Most days Antonio and his friends take to their bikes, pushing the boundaries of their neighbourhood street by street, but when they finally break through to the city beyond they confront dangers of a new sort.

Anthony De Sa's novel of rare evocative power that captures the space between innocence and knowing--for a city, for a community and most especially for a trio of unforgettable boys.

     On a steamy summer day in 1977, Emanuel Jaques was shining shoes in downtown Toronto. Surrounded by the strip clubs, bars and body rub parlors of Yonge Street, Emanuel was lured away from his friends by a man who promised some easy money. Four days later the boy's body was discovered. He had been brutally raped and murdered, and Toronto the Good would never be the same. The murder of the Shoeshine Boy had particularly tragic resonance for the city's Portuguese community. The loss of one of their own symbolized for many how far they were from realizing their immigrant dreams.
     Kicking the Sky is told from the perspective of one of these children, Antonio Rebelo, a character first introduced in Barnacle Love. Twelve-year-old Antonio prizes his life of freedom and adventure. He and his best friends, Manny and Ricky, spend their days on their bikes exploring the labyrinth of laneways that link their Portuguese neighborhood to the rest of the city. But as the details of Emanuel's death expose Toronto's seedier underbelly, the boys are pulled into an adult world of danger and cruelty, secrets and lies much closer to home.
     Kicking the Sky is a novel driven by dramatic events, taking hold of readers from its opening pages, intensifying its force towards an ending of huge emotional impact.

Paperback Edition

Push for Happy: An Interactive Emotional Awareness + Regulation Children's Book

Push for Happy is an interactive emotional intelligence, awareness, and regulation book. It prompts children to label feelings, emotional triggers, and to put themselves into the storybook along the way. Children create their own character, drawing out body scans, by illustrating how they experience the feeling and where they feel it in their body. Children draw their triggers while thinking about how to regulate their emotions and considering the characters’ experiences.

This book was created by Tania DaSilva, a child, and youth therapist, it allows children to create a one-of-a-kind storybook, making themselves one of the main characters! It follows four friends throughout their day and their emotional ups and downs, the biggest lesson being emotions aren’t permanent and awareness helps us regulate. 

Paperback Children's Book:  "Néveda in Azores" is a bilingual (PT/ENG) illustrated book about a flower girl that travels all nine islands of Azores. A story for the child in all of us.

Text and characters: Terry Costa
Illustrations: Vera Bettencourt
Edition: Miratecarts, 2019

Children's Book

MÚSICA, MAESTRO! por Terry Costa, ilustrado por Sara Batista & Ivo Baptista Aka 47

A relação entre professor e aluno num conto de fantasia. Um livro para a criança em todos nós.

The first glass producing factory – A Real Fábrica de Vidros da Marinha Grande – was established by the Marquis of Pombal in 1769. Since then many factories have maintained the regions secular tradition. They produce high quality mouth blown glass.

The Depósito da Marinha Grande, with their vast variety of products, keeps up their tradition, introducing innovative techniques in the production of this sustainable, yet noble product.

Material: Mouth Blown Glassware

Dimensions: Height 18.5 cm, Diameter 5.5 cm

Made in Portugal

Vintage Collection

Available in Turquoise, and Green.

The first glass producing factory – A Real Fábrica de Vidros da Marinha Grande – was established by the Marquis of Pombal in 1769. Since then many factories have maintained the regions secular tradition. They produce high quality mouth blown glass.

The Depósito da Marinha Grande, with their vast variety of products, keeps up their tradition, introducing innovative techniques in the production of this sustainable, yet noble product.

Material: Mouthblown Glassware

Dimensions: Diameter 6.5cm, Height 11cm

Made in Portugal

n The New Portuguese Table, David Leite provides a contemporary look at the flavorful food of this gastronomic region, sharing both the beloved classics he remembers from cooking at his grandmother’s side, such as Slowly Simmered White Beans and Sausage, as well as modern dishes defining the country today, like Olive Oil–Poached Fresh Cod with Roasted Tomato Sauce. With full-color photographs throughout and a contemporary perspective, The New Portuguese Table is the definitive handbook of the exciting cuisine of Portugal.

Nestled between the Atlantic Ocean and Spain, Portugal is today’s hot-spot vacation destination, and world travelers are enthralled by the unique yet familiar cuisine of this country. The New Portuguese Table looks at this fascinating country's 11 surprisingly different historical regions, as well as the island of Madeira and the Azores, and their food culture, traditional dishes, and wines. This book also showcases Portugal's pantry of go-to ingredients, such as smoked sausages, peppers, cilantro, seafood, olive oil, garlic, beans, tomatoes, and bay leaves—all common in American kitchens and now combined in innovative ways.

7.82 "W x 10.27 "H x 0.84 "D

Hardcover

Silver earrings in filigree, part of CICLO Collection.

The CICLO Collection is inspired by Nature - its forms and textures, and how it continuously renews, recreates and reinvents itself, without ever losing its essence.

Gold plated silver 925% earrings with 1.0cm and 2.0gr.

Handmade in Portugal

Adorable gift set including five lip balms from Benamôr's collection: Alantoíne, Gordíssimo, Nata, Rose Amélie, Jacarandá. Each lip balm is 12ml.

Made in Portugal

Part of Portuguese Icons Collection.

According to an old tale, a pair of earrings where offered to Queen Maria II during her visit to Viana do Castelo and the popular model quickly became known as the Queen Earrings.

Gold plated silver 925% 3cm pendant with Brown String

Silver 3cm pendant with Black string

Silver Heart of Viana necklace in filigree, Gold Plated Silver

Part of The Classics Collection.

The Heart of Viana was created as a symbol of devotion to the Sacred Heart but soon became an icon and emotional heritage of Portugal.

For those who own it the Heart of Viana is a symbol of honest and generosity.

Gold plated silver 925% 3 cm pendant with Brown String

Silver 3 cm pendant with Black string

Handmade in Portugal

 Silver String Bracelet Viana's "Conta" in filigree.

Gold Plated Silver 925%  with approximately 10 mm or 

Gold plated silver 925% 1.0cm pendant with Brown String

Silver 1.0cm pendant with Black string

Handmade in Portugal.

Necklace with pendant in filigree, Gold Plated Silver

Part of Portuguese Icons Collection.

The young women from Viana do Castelo had the ambition to own a necklace full of Viana’s ‘Conta’ at a time, with the money they raised from selling eggs and chickens.

Gold plated silver 925% necklace with 40 cm (plus 5cm of extension) and 1.5gr.

Size of pendant of 10mm.

Handmade in Portugal.

Necklace with pendant in filigree, Gold Plated Silver

Part of Portuguese Icons Collection.

St. Anthony is the patron saint of Lisbon, known as the matchmaker saint to whom the young people ask for help is finding their spouse.

Gold plated silver 925% necklace with 40 cm (plus 5cm of extension) and 1.5gr. Size of pendant of 2cm.

Handmade in Portugal.