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Visit product page →Alegria! é um guia prático e ilustrado dos princípios do método KonMari, que ajudou já dezenas de milhões de pessoas em todo o mundo a organizar o espaço em que vivem — e a transformar as suas vidas! Com dicas práticas para arrumar tudo — de roupas a CD, de materiais de limpeza a brinquedos e objetos de coleção —, bem como indicações sobre os princípios básicos da arrumação e da organização («Uma casa com alegria é como o seu museu pessoal» ou «"Pode dar jeito" é um tabu»), este livro vai ajudá-lo a viver rodeado apenas daquilo que lhe traz realmente… alegria!
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Visit product page →de Helena Ales Pereira; Fotografia: Inês Subtil
Fotografias, entrevistas e os bastidores da série Portuguesa mais vista de sempre.
No dia 26 de maio de 2023, estreava, na Netflix, Rabo de Peixe. Dois dias depois, a série portuguesa era número 1 no top nacional da Netflix, onde se manteve ao longo de mais de dois meses, tornando-se assim a série mais vista de sempre em Portugal.
Além-fronteiras, chegou a mais de 190 países e, em mais 38, a história de quatro amigos que tentam escapar ao seu destino alcançou o top das séries mais vistas, acumulando mais de 45 milhões de horas de visualizações, segundo dados divulgados pela empresa em junho deste ano.Hardcover
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Visit product page →From celebrated author Anthony De Sa comes a raw and compelling novel of love, war and the heartbreaking effects of memory.
"'You must listen to my words. You must promise to tell my story the way I have shared it with you.'"
Tanzania, 1956. A Maasai woman gives birth to a child with albinism. The child is seen as a curse upon her tribe, and so begins Pó's tumultuous story. As Pó navigates the world, she must claim her life in the face of violence and ostracism.
Further south, in Portuguese-controlled Mozambique, Ezequiel struggles for acceptance too. Adopted by missionaries, he is not recognized by his Portuguese father's community, or by his Makonde mother's tribe. When civil war erupts, he must choose who to fight for and who to leave behind.
Pó and Zeca come together in a time of momentous change. Love connects these two outsiders, forcing them to confront the shattering impact of colonialism and war. Children of the Moon is a stunning and unforgettable exploration of the love of two people at once bound and separated by forces beyond their control.Paperback Edition
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Visit product page →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. -
Visit product page →The worldwide bestseller by the author of The Alchemist takes us on a journey back in time, from South America to Holland to Nepal, drawing on the rich experiences of his own life to relive the dreams of a generation that longs for peace. • "A novelist who writes in a universal language." —Los Angeles Times
In Hippie, he tells the story of Paulo, a young, skinny Brazilian man with a goatee and long, flowing hair, who dreams of becoming a writer, and Karla, a Dutch woman in her twenties who has been waiting to find a companion to accompany her on the fabled hippie trail to Nepal.
After meeting each other in Amsterdam, she convinces Paulo to join her on a trip aboard the Magic Bus that travels from Amsterdam to Istanbul and across Central Asia to Kathmandu. As they embark on this journey together, Paulo and Karla explore a love affair that awakens them on every level and leads to choices and decisions that will set the course for their lives thereafter. -
Visit product page →From the moment of her birth in 1920 Violeta’s 100 year life is marked by extraordinary events. Told in letter form this is a story of heartbreak, passion, poverty, wealth, loss and joy.
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Visit product page →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
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Visit product page →Here and Elesewhere: An Anthology of Portuguese Canadian Writers.
Twelve singular voices, each responding to a question that travels across oceans and generations: Where do you call home?
Here, within these pages, a father’s immigration story, shared with his bullied daughter, finds its echo in a suite of poems that trace the quiet weight of familial expectations. A two-part tale of a mining disaster, set deep in the mountains of Portugal, sits alongside a soldier’s letter written from a military barracks in Angola. High above the Azores, a widower drifts through a dream of lost love; elsewhere, a young man pleads with an ex for the return of his passport as anger gives way to forgiveness. For some, the journey circles back with a twist: You must go home again. One writer recounts the bureaucratic dance of claiming citizenship in their parents’ homeland; another follows a man’s pilgrimage to his family’s ancestral island to fulfill his sister’s final wish.
Uniting a dozen contemporary Portuguese Canadian writers, Here & Elsewhere is a vibrant record of cultural narratives—rooted in the homeland, yet always evolving, shifting across time and place.
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Sold outVisit product page →SINOPSE«O amor é cheio de armadilhas. Quando se quer manifestar, mostra apenas a sua luz - e não nos permite ver as sombras que essa luz provoca.»
O amor jovem raramente atinge o seu potencial pleno, mas o que pode acontecer quando dois jovens amantes se reencontram passados mais de dez anos? Com o passar do tempo, Pilar transformou-se numa mulher forte e independente, e o rapaz que amava tornou-se um carismático líder espiritual. Agora que uma jornada repleta de obstáculos juntou uma vez mais os seus caminhos de vida, o que acontecerá ao amor que outrora nutriam? Numa pequena aldeia dos Pirenéus, na margem do rio Piedra, uma relação muito especial é revisitada à luz de algumas das maiores questões da vida. -
NÉVEDA NAS AMÉRICAS / NÉVEDA IN THE AMERICAS(português & english)Visit product page →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.
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Visit product page →SINOPSEO Alquimista relata as aventuras de Santiago, um jovem pastor andaluz que abandona a sua terra natal e viaja pelo Norte de África em busca de uma quimera — um tesouro enterrado sob as pirâmides. Uma cigana, um homem que diz ser rei e um alquimista irão ajudá-lo na sua busca. Ninguém sabe exatamente o que é o tesouro nem se Santiago conseguirá ultrapassar todos os obstáculos da sua travessia do deserto. Mas aquilo que começa por ser uma aventura por locais exóticos para procurar a riqueza material, acaba por se transformar numa viagem de descoberta de si mesmo e da riqueza da alma humana. O Alquimista recria um símbolo intemporal que nos recorda a importância de seguir os nossos sonhos e de ouvir a voz do coração.
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Visit product page →Nearly a century after his wrenching death, the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) remains one of our most enigmatic writers. Believing he could do “more in dreams than Napoleon,” yet haunted by the specter of hereditary madness, Pessoa invented dozens of alter egos, or “heteronyms,” under whose names he wrote in Portuguese, English, and French. Unsurprisingly, this “most multifarious of writers” (Guardian) has long eluded a definitive biographer—but in renowned translator and Pessoa scholar Richard Zenith, he has met his match.
Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Pessoa was all but destined for literary oblivion when the arc of his afterlife bent, suddenly and improbably, toward greatness, with the discovery of some 25,000 unpublished papers left in a large, wooden trunk. Drawing on this vast archive of sources as well as on unpublished family letters, and skillfully setting the poet’s life against the nationalist currents of twentieth-century European history, Zenith at last reveals the true depths of Pessoa’s teeming imagination and literary genius.
Much as Nobel laureate José Saramago brought a single heteronym to life in The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Zenith traces the backstories of virtually all of Pessoa’s imagined personalities, demonstrating how they were projections, spin-offs, or metamorphoses of Pessoa himself. A solitary man who had only one, ultimately platonic love affair, Pessoa used his and his heteronyms’ writings to explore questions of sexuality, to obsessively search after spiritual truth, and to try to chart a way forward for a benighted and politically agitated Portugal.
Although he preferred the world of his mind, Pessoa was nonetheless a man of the places he inhabited, including not only Lisbon but also turn-of-the-century Durban, South Africa, where he spent nine years as a child. Zenith re-creates the drama of Pessoa’s adolescence—when the first heteronyms emerged—and his bumbling attempts to survive as a translator and publisher. Zenith introduces us, too, to Pessoa’s bohemian circle of friends, and to Ophelia Quieroz, with whom he exchanged numerous love letters. Pessoa reveals in equal force the poet’s unwavering commitment to defending homosexual writers whose books had been banned, as well as his courageous opposition to Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, toward the end of his life. In stunning, magisterial prose, Zenith contextualizes Pessoa’s posthumous literary achievements—especially his most renowned work, The Book of Disquiet.
A modern literary masterpiece, Pessoa simultaneously immortalizes the life of a literary maestro and confirms the enduring power of Pessoa’s work to speak prophetically to the disconnectedness of our modern world.
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Visit product page →Celebrate Portugal’s vibrant, globally-influenced and highly influential food culture via more than 550 classic and contemporary recipes from the acclaimed chef Leandro Carreira
With its diverse cuisine and intriguing culinary history, Portugal is a top travel destination for food lovers worldwide. Portugal: The Cookbook gathers together dishes from every region of the country, including fish and shellfish dishes from the Algarve coast, hearty stews from the Douro Valley, and the famous and beloved pastries of Lisbon. Acclaimed chef Leandro Carreira has researched more than 550 traditional recipes for home cooks that encapsulate the breadth and diversity of the food of Portugal, a country whose immense culinary influence has spread far beyond its borders.
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- Format: Hardback
- Size: 270 x 180 mm (10 5/8 x 7 1/8 in)
- Pages: 448 pp
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Visit product page →A masterwork about backcountry life by one of Brazil's most celebrated novelists.
Paulo Honório is a sometime field hand who has kicked and clawed and schemed his way to prosperity, becoming master of the decrepit estate São Bernardo, where once upon a time he toiled. He is ruthless in his exploitation of his fellow man, but when he makes a match with a fine young woman, he is surprised to discover that this latest acquisition, as he sees it, may be somewhat harder to handle. It is in Paulo Honório’s own rough-hewn voice that the great Brazilian writer Graciliano Ramos, often compared to William Faulkner, tells this gritty and dryly funny story of triumph and comeuppance, a tour de force of the writer’s art that is beautifully captured in Padma Viswanathan’s new translation.Paperback
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Visit product page →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.
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Based on a True StoryVisit product page →The Portuguese Immigrant: Atlantic Heritage Story is a narrative non-fiction book about the author’s family history—particularly the lives of their paternal ancestors from Sao Miguel Island in Portugal. The story begins with their great-grandparents before shifting focus to their paternal grandparents and their unconditional love for each other. Their relationship overcame many obstacles of the time and they were physically separated for nearly three years after leaving the homeland. They became immigrants in Canada—a place where the author found themselves born and raised, being something that they are grateful for yet fascinated to reflect on the history of how it happened.Weaving a wonderful tale of the struggles and triumphs as well as the rich Portuguese culture of their ancestry, the book follows their grandfather, Vovô, who was the impetus for life in the New World. Embarking on the journey of lifetime, they carried out a mission guided by true love to carve out a fighting chance for the future of his family.The author speaks on various characteristics embodied and behavioural traits that have shaped their sense of self today while forging a deep connection with their ancestors. Understanding more about themselves than anticipated along the way to show that it really is all in the family. The history that behooves us has been set out for those with the privilege to continue down the path—a sentiment that the author draws out with great detail. Their descriptions of events set the scene that take the reader back in time. -
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The Angry Paper Catapult for messing with your co-workers, not your boss.CONTENT
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The untedious Card Organizer for cards, gift cards, whatever cards, but no credit cards.CONTENT
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The silly Pen Holder for pencils, rulers, cutters, scissors, tape and pens. Duh!CONTENT
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The Clip Burper for pins, elastics, clips and…buuurp.CONTENT
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The silly Pen Holder for pencils, rulers, cutters, scissors, tape and pens. Duh!CONTENT
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