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written by Clarice Lispector. Language in Portuguese.

Há livros que desviam para sempre o curso de uma literatura inteira. Não o fazem sozinhos - ora ecoam as vanguardas da sua época, ora rasgam preceitos vigentes; em casos mais raros, antecipam um certo futuro.

É assim com Perto do coração selvagem, romance de estreia de Clarice Lispector. Publicado no ano em que a escritora completou 23 anos, conta a história de Joana: desde a infância marcada pela morte do pai e pela solidão do colégio interno, até à idade adulta, com um casamento longe do sonhado, a maternidade, a paixão por um homem enigmático e, por fim, uma inevitável dispersão do eu, da identidade, do rumo da vida.

Joana é uma mulher supremamente livre, não confinável aos limites do seu tempo, indisponível para conter a sua voz, o seu pensamento ou o seu desejo vital, determinada a não dar passos que não sejam os seus rumo ao coração da existência. Enquanto acedemos à intimidade desta criação de Clarice - por entre admiráveis epifanias e monólogos interiores - chegamos mais perto da genialidade da sua criadora.

Dialogando, mesmo se inadvertidamente, com Virginia Woolf, Hermann Hesse ou James Joyce, na reflexão sobre as inquietações da modernidade, este romance subsiste como um clarão na literatura em lingua portuguesa, valendo a Clarice Lispector toda a admiração dos leitores, da crítica e dos pares.

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

Part of a new travel series, Portugal: The Monocle Handbook is a practical guide that will introduce you to the best the country has to offer as we present our favourite spots across the country. We’ve travelled from north to south (via the islands) to find innovative retailers and traditional ateliers, the chefs turning out the tastiest dishes and the sleekest hotels – not to mention undiscovered beaches and world-leading cultural venues. We even reveal the best neighbourhoods to invest in should you wish to put down roots in this sunny nation, plus the plucky entrepreneurs who’ve already made the move. It’s time to pack your bags for Portugal.

Features: 208 pages, hardcover

Published by: Monocle

Printed in: Italy

Dimensions: 24.1cm x 18.6cm x 2.2cm

Brush up on your Portuguese language skills in 3 months! 

Whether you’re visiting Portugal or simply want to improve your Portuguese vocabulary and grammar, this practical language learning course is packed with learning tips and an audio app that makes learning fun!

Inside this Portuguese language book, you’ll find:

   • “Imitated pronunciation” sections that make unfamiliar Portuguese sounds less daunting to English learners
   • Word lists, key phrases and model sentences that build vocabulary 
   • Three self-assessment sections that allow the learner to engage with their own learning, and exercises follow each grammar lesson, reinforcing what has just been taught
   • Includes two mini bilingual dictionaries, meaning you can check words in both English and Portuguese

Paperback

Author: Luís V. Lopes Language: Portuguese,

O que muda no nosso cérebro quando nos apaixonamos? E quando sofremos um desgosto de amor? Existem diferenças entre os cérebros masculinos e femininos quando as pessoas se enamoram? E quando envelhecem? Em "Programados para Amar", a neurocientista Luísa V. Lopes dá resposta a estas e a outras questões, partilhando o que a neurociência sabe sobre o amor, de forma acessível, mas rigorosa. E, claro não esquece temas como a infidelidade, a violência, o impacto da tecnologia no amor moderno e as alterações cerebrais na terceira idade. Ao longo destas páginas, reencontramos a emoção mais universal de todas, habitualmente descrita por poetas e pensadores, mas aqui com o precioso e esclarecedor auxílio da ciência. Quem nunca sentiu o coração bater mais forte, ou perdeu o sono e o apetite por causa de uma paixão, mais ou menos correspondida? A ciência ajuda a explicar aquilo que muitas vezes não conseguimos expressar por palavras, mas, neste livro, Luísa V. Lopes não se limita a descrever o funcionamento do cérebro nas várias fases do amor e da dor. Em "Programados para Amar" ajuda os leitores a refletirem sobre as experiências e relações que vivem, ou viveram, e a compreenderem, de modo mais global, o que significa, afinal, amar e ser amado.

Autor

Luísa V. Lopes é neurocientista, coordenadora de um grupo de investigação na Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa e na Fundação Gulbenkian de Medicina Molecular (GIMM). Licenciada em Bioquímica e doutorada em Neurociências, trabalhou na Universidade de Cambridge, no "Karolinska Institutet" e no centro de investigação da "Nestlé". Estuda os mecanismos sinápticos do envelhecimento e as alterações da memória, com mais de 70 publicações em revistas científicas de referência e diversos prémios nacionais e internacionais. Entre a investigação e a docência, dedica-se também à divulgação científica, assinando colunas no "Público" e participando no "podcast [In]Pertinente".

ISBN 9789896662066

PÁGINAS 160

overview in English

This book titled "Programados para AMAR"

(Programmed to LOVE) is written by neuroscientist Luisa V. Lopes and explores what neuroscience understands and ignores regarding love. The book focuses on the neurological and scientific aspects of human romantic connections.

the social and political milieu of nineteenth-century Brazil. These signature traits are on full display in Quincas Borba, a novel that sees Machado satirize a rapidly changing Rio de Janeiro.

Originally published in 1891, the story begins with the death of its titular character, a mad philosopher infamous for spouting pessimistic theories of “Humanitism.” Borba leaves his fortune—including his dog, also named Quincas Borba—to Rubião, his loyal caretaker and a schoolteacher by trade. Bestowed with opulence beyond his wildest dreams, Rubião is quickly coaxed into the comforts of a rich man’s life—the only stipulation being that he continues to care for the canine Quincas Borba with the same dedication he once did the human. Adrift in the big, bad, bustling world of late-1860s Rio de Janeiro, it isn’t long before Rubião is targeted by the city’s sycophants, who can smell his naïveté from a mile away.

Playfully told by an omniscient and possibly unreliable narrator, the novel is at once irreverent and ambitious, brimming with barbed wit and keen philosophical inquiry. Brilliantly translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson—the duo credited with introducing a new generation of readers to Machado through their translations of Dom Casmurro, The Collected Stories, and Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas—Quincas Borba is another strikingly modern tale from a blazing progenitor of twentieth-century fiction.

Author: James Nestor translated to Portuguese 

Pode fazer todo o exercício que quiser e seguir as últimas dietas e tendências de saúde: se não estiver a respirar bem, nada faz efeito. Nada é mais essencial para a saúde e o bem-estar do que a respiração. E parece simples: basta inspirar, expirar, e repetir cerca de 25 000 vezes por dia. Mas os seres humanos esqueceram-se de como se respira corretamente e isso traz graves consequências. A pesquisa mais recente nas áreas da Bioquímica, da Pneumologia e da Fisiologia demonstra que mesmo ligeiras alterações à forma como inspiramos e expiramos podem ajudar a melhorar o desempenho atlético e a postura, rejuvenescer o organismo e combater o ressonar, a alergia, a asma e as doenças autoimunes.Uma leitura fascinante que vai transformar tudo aquilo que pensa que sabe sobre o mais básico e fundamental dos nossos gestos. Respire fundo leia com atenção e transforme a sua vida!

Sobre o Autor:

James Nestor é um repórter premiado que já colaborou com a "Scientific American", "The Atlantic", "The San Francisco Chronicle" e "The New York Times", entre muitas outras publicações de destaque. O seu livro "Respira" foi "bestseller" do "The New York Times" e já vendeu mais de 3 milhões de exemplares em todo o mundo. James Nestor vive e respira em São Francisco

About Author

James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Outside Magazine, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Scientific American, Dwell Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more.

Nestor’s book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was released through Riverhead/Penguin Random House on May 26, 2020. Breath spent 18 weeks of the New York Times bestseller list in the first year of publication and was an instant bestseller in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Sunday London Times, and more. Breath was awarded the Best General Nonfiction Book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors and was a Finalist for the Royal Society Science Book of the Year. Breath has sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than 35 languages.

Breath explores how the human species has lost the ability to breathe properly over the past several hundred thousand years and is now suffering from a laundry list of maladies — snoring, sleep apnea, asthma, autoimmune disease — because of it. Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.

Língua:

Português

Capa:

Capa Mole

Author Clara Drummond & translated to English by Daniel Hahn.

Role Play is a searing satire narrated by a wealthy young woman in Rio on the verge of a class-consciousness awakening.

Vivian is a curator, not just at her gallery gig in Rio de Janeiro, but in every aspect of her life. Her apartment has designer armchairs. Her wallet is Comme des Garçons. Everything is selected and arranged, even her lovers and friends. In Vivian’s world, everything comes in excess, including her own caustic selfawareness. As she informs us, “I’m a misandrist and a misogynist,” but she is fond of gay men, “the one type of human you can properly get along with as equals.”

Role Play examines the superabundances of Brazilian elites— their art, ethics, and monied ambivalence in the face of social inequality, machismo, and violence. As sharp and sparkling as broken champagne flutes, Clara Drummond’s prose is seductively frank and unflinching in its depiction of wealth’s power to warp the self

Seja Mestre na Arte de Viver é um manual poderoso e prático que o irá inspirar a investir numa melhor qualidade de vida, tanto a nível profissional como pessoal. Robin Sharma, autor de vários best-sellers publicados em mais de 40 idiomas, ajudou já milhões de pessoas (incluindo líderes de algumas das maiores empresas mundiais) a atingir o seu potencial máximo - e pode ajudá-lo a si, também! Através de 101 pequenas histórias, anedotas e parábolas.

Sleepwalking Land written by Mia Couto translated by David Brookshaw.

On almost every page of this witty magical realist whodunit, we sense Couto's delight on those places where language slips officialdom's asphyxiating grasp." The New York Times Book Review on The Last Flight of the Flamingo

The most prominent of the younger generation of writers in Portuguese-speaking Africa, Couto passionately and sensitively describes everyday life in poverty-stricken Mozambique." Guardian (London)

Quite unlike anything else I have read from Africa."

Doris Lessing

As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop in tandem. Written in 1992, Mia Couto's first novel is a powerful indictment of the suffering war brings.

Born in 1955 in Mozambique, Mia Couto ran the AIM news agency during the revolutionary struggle. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and heads the Mozambique side of the Limpopo Transnational Park. In 2007 he was the first African author to win the Latin Union Award for Romance Languages; in 2013 he was awarded the €100,000 Camões Prize for Literature, in recognition of his life's work. In 2014 he received the $50,000 Neustadt Prize for Literature, and in 2015 he was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

Author

Mia Couto was born in 1955 in Mozambique and is the most prominent writer in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He has been active as a journalist and during the revolutionary struggle headed the AIM news agency. He now lives in Maputo where he works as an environmental biologist and runs the Mozambique part of the Kruger National Park.

Translator

 David Brookshaw is a London-born professor of Brazilian Studies at the University of Bristol specializing in comparative literature, translation, and postcolonial Portuguese literature.  He has translated works by Mia Cuoto and Onésimo Almeida and compiled an anthology of stories by the Portuguese author José Rodrigues Miguéis.

That Hair written by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida and translated by Eric M. B. Becker. 

A Best Translation of the Year at World Literature Today

Finalist for the 2021 PEN Translation Prize

That Hair consists of universal subjects of racism, feminism, colonialism, immigration, identity and memory.

"The story of my curly hair," says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, "intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the underlying story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics." Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father.

She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from the jump. Through the lens of young Mila's indomitably curly hair, her story interweaves memories of childhood and adolescence, family lore spanning four generations, and present-day reflections on the internal and external tensions of a European and African identity.

In layered and luscious prose, That Hair enriches and deepens a global conversation, challenging in necessary ways our understanding of racism, feminism, and the double inheritance of colonialism, not yet fifty years removed from Angola's independence. It's the story of coming of age as a black woman in a nation at the edge of Europe that is also rapidly changing, of being considered an outsider in one's own country, and the impossibility of"returning" to a homeland one doesn't in fact know.

Author

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida was born in Luanda, Angola, and grew up in Lisbon. She has a PhD in literary theory from the University of Lisbon. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta.com, Words Without Borders, Granta Portugal, Observador, Somos Libros, Ler, serrote, and 451.

Translator

Eric M. B. Becker is a literary translator, critic, writer, and editor of Words without Borders. He is the recipient of fellowships and residencies from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright, PEN America, and the Louis Armstrong House Museum.

Becker has translated work by Mia Couto, Paulo Coelho, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, and Daniel Galera, among others. His work has been published in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Freeman's, Electric Literature, and many other publications. He is editor of several anthologies and magazine features devoted to the literature of Brazil.

Language English

Print length 200 pages

Item weight 159g

Dimensions 12.85 × 1.07 × 19.84 cm

Author Frances De Pontes Peebles Language:English

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The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride--and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other.

Some friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.

Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Graça, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly different worlds, Dores and Graça quickly bond over shared mischief, and then, on a deeper level, over music.

One has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes lyrics to match. Music will become their shared passion, the source of their partnership and their rivalry, and for each, the only way out of the life to which each was born. But only one of the two is destined to be a star. Their intimate, volatile bond will determine each of their fortunes--and haunt their memories.

Traveling from Brazil's inland sugar plantations to the rowdy streets of Rio de Janeiro's famous Lapa neighborhood, from Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood back to the irresistible drumbeat of home, The Air You Breathe unfurls a moving portrait of a lifelong friendship--its unparalleled rewards and lasting losses--and considers what we owe to the relationships that shape our lives.

About Author

Frances de Pontes Peebles is the author of the novel, THE SEAMSTRESS (HarperCollins), translated into nine languages and winner of the Elle Grand Prix for Fiction, the Friends of American Writers Award, and the Michener-Copernicus Fellowship. Born in Pernambuco, Brazil, she is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in O. Henry Prize Stories, Zoetrope: All-Story, Missouri Review, and Indiana Review. Her story, THE SERRAMBI CASE, has been adapted into a short film by Australian director Emily Avila and entitled, IN A CANE FIELD. Her novel, THE SEAMSTRESS, was adapted for film and mini-series in Brazil as ENTRE IRMÃS

Written by Paulo Coelho, Translated to English by Alan R. Clarke

The extraordinary international bestseller.

“It’s a brilliant, magical, life-changing book that continues to blow my mind with its lessons."—Neil Patrick Harris, actor

“Translated into 80 languages, the allegory teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily

Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, this beloved work of philosophical fiction, The Alchemist, has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

This story, dazzling in its powerful simplicity and soul-stirring wisdom, is about an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago who travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried near the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself a king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles in his path. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a profound journey of spiritual self-discovery.

Lush, evocative, and deeply humane, the story of Santiago is an eternal testament to the transforming power of our dreams and the importance of listening to our hearts.

About Author:

Paulo Coelho, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1947, is one of the bestselling and most influential authors in the world.The Alchemist,The Pilgrimage,The Valkyries,Brida,Veronika Decides to Die,Eleven Minutes,The Zahir,The Witch of Portobello,The Winner Stands Alone,Aleph,Manuscript Found in Accra, andAdultery, among others, have sold 150 million copies worldwide.

Written by Jose Saramago, translated by 

A wry, fictional account of the life of Christ by the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, “Illuminated by ferocious wit, gentle passion, and poetry” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). For José Saramago, the life of Jesus Christ and the story of his Passion were things of this earth: a child crying, a gust of wind, the caress of a woman half asleep, the bleat of a goat or the bark of a dog, a prayer uttered in the grayish morning light. The Holy Family reflects the real complexities of any family, but this is realism filled with vision, dream, and omen. Saramago’s deft psychological portrait of a savior who is at once the Son of God and a young man of this earth is an expert interweaving of poetry and irony, spirituality and irreverence. The result is nothing less than a brilliant skeptic’s wry inquest into the meaning of God and of human existence.

About Author

JOSE SARAMAGO is one of the most acclaimed writers in the world today. He is the author of numerous novels, including All the Names, Blindness, and The Cave. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Giovanni Pontiero (10 February 1932 - 10 February 1996) was a British scholar and translator of Portuguese fiction, most notably the works of José Saramago. His translation of the Saramago work The Gospel According to Jesus Christ was awarded the Teixeira-Gomes Prize for Portuguese translation.

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.

Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved.

Rodrigo recoils from her wretchedness, and yet he cannot avoid the realization that for all her outward misery, Macabéa is inwardly free. She doesn’t seem to know how unhappy she should be. As Macabéa heads toward her absurd death, Lispector employs her pathetic heroine against her urbane, empty narrator—edge of despair to edge of despair—and, working them like a pair of scissors, she cuts away the reader’s preconceived notions about poverty, identity, love, and the art of fiction. In her last book, she takes readers close to the true mystery of life and leaves us deep in Lispector territory indeed.

Hardcover | 128 pages | 5.40" x 8.40"