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

With this highly anticipated new novel, the author of the bestselling Life of Pi returns to the storytelling power and luminous wisdom of his master novel.

The High Mountains of Portugal is a suspenseful, mesmerizing story of a great quest for meaning, told in three intersecting narratives touching the lives of three different people and their families, and taking us on an extraordinary journey through the last century. We begin in the early 1900s, when Tomás discovers an ancient journal and sets out from Lisbon in one of the very first motor cars in Portugal in search of the strange treasure the journal describes. Thirty-five years later, a pathologist devoted to the novels of Agatha Christie, whose wife has possibly been murdered, finds himself drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest. Fifty years later, Senator Peter Tovy of Ottawa, grieving the death of his own beloved wife, rescues a chimpanzee from an Oklahoma research facility and takes it to live with him in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, where the strands of all three stories miraculously mesh together.
     Beautiful, witty and engaging, Yann Martel's new novel offers us the same tender exploration of the impact and significance of great love and great loss, belief and unbelief, that has marked all his brilliant, unexpected novels.

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.

A nova aventura da menina Néveda apresenta-nos a um novo meio de transporte e uma viajem pelas Américas. Do Canadá, passando por alguns lugares nos Estados Unidos, México, Brasil e terminando no Uruguai, a Néveda aprende sobre lugares, arte e muita cultura em geral.

conto/story: Terry Costa
ilustração/illustration: Vera Bettencourt

Gift Set includes a Casa Cubista soap dish, Ach Brito soap and Couto vaseline.

custom you can choose:

Ach Brito 90g soap: Pedra Pomes

Gently cleansing and luxuriously fragrancing the skin, each soap is manually stamped with a portuguese motif and hand-wrapped to ensure the highest quality and perfection. 

Soap wrapped in paper decorated with a satin ribbon and a small ceramic tile. Each wrapper replicates a traditional portuguese tile. 

Available Gift Sets:

- Olive Leaf & Green Tea and Cilantro & Lime

- Orange & Almond and Ginger & Orchid

- Lavender & Chamomile and Rhubarb & Cassis 

Weight: 2 x 200g / 2 x 7 oz

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

Do you know what Julius Caesar, Vasco da Gama, Fernando Pessoa, James Bond and Queen Elizabeth II have in common? They are all linked to the history of Lisbon! That’s right, Lisbon is a fascinating city! Throughout its more than 2000 year history, it welcomed Romans, Arabs and other civilizations, was the starting point for the Age of Discovery, which made Portugal one of the most influential countries on earth and even served as inspiration for the legendary British spy, James Bond. Today it is very much in fashion and a favorite destination for travelers from all over the world! This is not a history book but a compelling collection of engaging stories and fun-filled facts that will help you get to know Lisbon while testing your adventurous spirit and endless curiosity! At the end, there are several suggestions of things to do and places to visit with your family, as well as a little diary where you can jot down your memories.

Awaken the young explorer in you and embark on an amazing voyage of discovery as you explore this wonderful city! 

Paperback

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

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

 Escudo collection.

A unisex jewelry collection inspired by the Portuguese Escudo, a symbol of our nation since the 15th century.

Silver 925‰ bracelet in silk and 1,5gr.

Handmade in Portugal