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Sold outVisit 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.
7.82 "W x 10.27 "H x 0.84 "D
Hardcover
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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 →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
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Visit product page →A vibrant tour of Portugal, featuring more than 200 photographs that bring to life one of the most beautiful countries in the world.
In this gorgeous book, writer and photographer Christine Chitnis invites you to celebrate the unique, timeless beauty of Portugal through the stunning designs and hues that define Portugal’s countryside, coast, small towns, and cosmopolitan cities.
This collection features over 200 stunning photographs that illustrate the ways that color and pattern are woven into the very fabric of the country’s culture, history, architecture, and traditions. Each section features insightful essays that explore the artistry of azulejos, the colorful ceramic tiles covering much of Portugal’s architecture; the intricately embroidered details of traditional lavradeira costumes; the rich flavors of Portuguese cuisine, and so much more.
Throughout these vibrant pages, you’ll discover the vivid stories behind each color and pattern, transporting you to the gorgeous fields of Alentejo, the sparkling waters of the Algarve, the busy streets of Lisbon, the lush valleys of the Douro, and beyond. -
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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Sold outVisit product page →Brooch Heart of Amália in Gold Plated Silver, part of the Amália x Portugal Jewels Collection.
Amália and The Flowers Collection was developed in collaboration with the Amália Rodrigues Foundation and pays tribute to the iconic fado singer. This collection, inspired by Amália's connection with flowers, captures her unique bond with nature and her emotional approach to life.
Gold plated silver 925‰ brooch with 6,5cm and 17,0gr.
Handmade in Portugal
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Visit product page →Stormy Isles, originally published in Portuguese in 1944 and set in the Azores between 1917 and 1919, focuses on the vivacious and sharp Margarida, who, at twenty years of age, is a model of feminist aspirations and the paragon of her generation. A member of the elite, she foregoes some of the entitlements of her class and struggles with the morals of the bourgeois society in which her life unfolds. Narrated in realist and poetic language as a series of interconnected tales within a larger story, this completely revised translation of Stormy Isles provides a rich, vivid portrait of the Azores in the early twentieth century.
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Visit product page →Santa Isla makes jewelry in partnership with Embera Chami artisans of Colombia. The Embera Chami believe they weave spiritual intentions as a way to connect back to nature.
Established in 2013 by Jess Sanchez, Santa Isla is a love letter to Colombia. We celebrate the Embera’s weaving practice and respect its cultural significance, to create playful and intentional pieces that bring joy. A tiny piece of Colombia’s magic for you to hold.
20% of each sale goes back to the Embera Chami artisans.
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Visit product page →Santa Isla makes jewelry in partnership with Embera Chami artisans of Colombia. The Embera Chami believe they weave spiritual intentions as a way to connect back to nature.
Established in 2013 by Jess Sanchez, Santa Isla is a love letter to Colombia. We celebrate the Embera’s weaving practice and respect its cultural significance, to create playful and intentional pieces that bring joy. A tiny piece of Colombia’s magic for you to hold.
20% of each sale goes back to the Embera Chami artisans.
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Visit product page →More delicious, easy to follow recipes from the streets of Lisbon to the rustic countryside.
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Visit product page →Join our book club! We are starting our Saudade Book Club and are so excited to discuss, listen and learn alongside you. The themes will range from identity, to immigration, to gender, to race, to love, to heartbreak, to self-help, to aging. All books will have a thread connected to Saudade, either because it’s a Portuguese author, or about a Portuguese immigrant neighbourhood, or a forbidden love, or colonization, or a Canadian novel which has also been translated to Portuguese. Our goal is to host safe spaces where we connect, share, listen, learn and leave inspired. When you buy one session it includes the book and attending the book club event. We will reveal the book a few days after you join. If you already have the book we will give you a credit note towards another book. . Each book will have a Book Club date held at our shop or at another exciting location. On some book club dates we will be lucky to have the author or a special guest join us. 😍 Let’s be inspired together. ♥️ This is also a great gift!!! You can buy one session for $25 plus shipping or a package of 6 for $140 plus shipping of each book. 4-5 weeks before the date you will receive the book or you can pick up the book at our shop.
Session 1 Nov 18th
Session 2 Feb 10th
Session 3 April 28
Session 5 June 16th
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Visit product page →HER ONLY CRIME WAS TO BE AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN
When Mata Hari arrived in Paris she was penniless. Within months she was the most celebrated woman in the city.
As a dancer, she shocked and delighted audiences; as a courtesan, she bewitched the era’s richest and most powerful men.
But as paranoia consumed a country at war, Mata Hari’s lifestyle brought her under suspicion. In 1917, she was arrested in her hotel room on the Champs Elysees, and accused of espionage.
Told in Mata Hari’s voice through her final letter, The Spy is the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to defy convention and who paid the ultimate price.hardcover
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Visit product page →Lisbon 1943. As two American librarians are drawn into a city of dangerous subterfuge and unexpected love affairs, they are forced to choose between their missions and the men they love. Brimming with evocative writing and meticulous research, award-winning author Suzanne Nelson spins a web of secret aliases, sweeping romance, and great sacrifice. Inspired by real historical figures, this is the captivating story of two remarkable young women, their bravery and heartache, and a friendship that withstands the ravages of war.
With World War Two raging across Europe, best friends Selene Delmont and Beatrice Sullivan are enlisted by the U.S. Intelligence Office and sent to Lisbon—a sparkling city and hotbed of trouble, harboring exiled royalty, hunted refugees, and spies trading double-edged secrets in seductively dark corners. In official capacity, librarians Selene and Bea have been recruited to catalog the vast mountain of information gathered by the Allies, but by night, both women are undercover agents tasked with infiltrating the Axis spy network.
Where Selene is confident and brash, Bea is bookish and careful. Selene longs to escape her family’s impossible expectations and embrace her independence, while all Bea wants is to heal from heartbreak and keep impulsive Selene out of trouble. But soon, both librarians are caught up in treacherous games of deception alongside two of Lisbon’s most notorious men—the outcast Portuguese baron, Luca Caldeira, and the lethal double-agent, Gable. As Selene charms her way through lavish ballrooms and fêtes with Luca, Bea is plunged into Gable’s shadowy underworld of informants. Victory depends upon the joint success of their missions, but when an unexpected betrayal throws a carefully spun web of lies into chaos, everything they’ve sacrificed is put at risk. As Selene and Bea are pushed to their breaking points can their friendship, and their hearts, survive the cost of war? -
Visit product page →Devin Meireles
a narrative photo expedition about finding kinship in a faraway land.
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Visit product page →From the #1 best-selling author of The Alchemist comes an inspiring story about a young man seeking wisdom from an elder, and the teachings imparted along the way.In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but who has since retired from public life, the challenger who comes searching for him, and the boy who observes their competition. Afterwards, the boy has many questions, and in answering them Tetsuya illustrates the way of the bow and the tenets of a meaningful life.
Paulo Coelho's story is a powerful reminder that action and the soul are inextricably connected, and that a life constricted by fear of rejection or failure is not a life worth living. Instead one must take risks, build up patience and courage, and embrace the many unexpected turns fate has to offer.
With the wisdom, generosity, and grace that have made him an internationally best-selling writer, Paulo Coelho provides the framework for a rewarding life: hard work, passion, thoughtfulness, the willingness to fail, and the urge to make a difference. -
Visit product page →E se a verdadeira história de Rabo de Peixe for ainda mais rocambolesca do que aquela que é contada na série da Netflix?
No dia 6 de junho de 2001, Antonino Giuseppe Quinci, o protagonista da história que mudou o destino de várias gerações de rabopeixenses, aportou na vila, depois de ter escondido, pela costa de São Miguel, mais de 700 quilos de cocaína.
O açoriano Rúben Pacheco Correia empreendeu uma longa viagem à procura da verdade dos factos, assim como dos protagonistas de carne e osso, da história que inspirou a série. Sem saber até onde o iria levar a investigação a que se dedicou durante quase dois anos e que o fez viajar até à Itália e ao Brasil, o autor, conhecido gastrónomo e comentador televisivo, partiu com o desígnio de fazer justiça à verdade e também à vila onde nasceu em 1997.
Passados mais de vinte anos, o país e o mundo podem, finalmente, conhecer o rosto dos protagonistas reais e as suas histórias, inéditas e peculiares, que se desenrolaram naquele trágico ano e que mudaram, para sempre, o destino de Rabo de Peixe.
Será que, realmente, as pessoas panaram peixe com a cocaína do traficante italiano? Fizeram linhas de campo de futebol com a droga? Houve, de facto, algum padre que sofreu uma overdose? E, afinal, quem era e onde está o protagonista de todo este desastre? Como fugiu da prisão? E quem são os demais envolvidos nesta história?
Neste livro, Rúben Pacheco Correia leva o leitor a sentir-se parte da investigação, fá-lo vibrar a cada pista conseguida, levantar voo a cada viagem, e concluir que, nesta história, a realidade supera mesmo a ficção. -
Visit product page →A lyrical journey through the landscapes of love, exile, and justice
Bridges Beyond Silence is a poetic trilogy that unfolds in three arcs — From Indifference to Love, Release into Grace, and Justice Transfigured — traversing the intimate and the universal as it traces a path from the quiet ache of belonging to the luminous possibility of compassion.
Drawing on his life between the Azores and Canada, between public service and inner reflection, Dr. Mario Silva writes with the clarity of one who has witnessed both the fractures and the resilience of the human spirit. His verses explore how love survives migration, how memory shapes identity, and how justice transforms when grounded in empathy.
At once personal and political, Bridges Beyond Silence invites readers to listen — to the silences between words, to the echoes of history, and to the enduring call of hope that unites us across time and place.
Dr. Mario Silva, PhD (Law), is an international legal scholar, author, and former Canadian MP. Decorated by France, Portugal, and Brazil for his human rights work, he has served in senior diplomatic and tribunal roles. Bridges Beyond Silence is his poetic debut, reflecting a life devoted to justice and human connection.
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Sold outVisit product page →The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of love and emerging political awareness in an Africa beginning to challenge Portuguese colonial rule.e€" Ndani leaves her village to seek a better life in the capital, finding work as a maid for a Portuguese family. The mistress of the house, Dona Deolinda, embarks on a mission to save Ndani's soul through religious teaching, but the master of the house has less righteous intentions. Ndani is expelled from the house and drifts towards home, where she becomes the wife of a village chief. He has built a mansion and a school to flaunt his power to the local Portuguese administrator, but he abandons Ndani when he finds she's not a virgin. She eventually finds love with the school's teacher, but in tumultuous times, making a future with an educated black man involves a series of hurdles.e€" By turns humorous, heartrending and wise.
Author
Abdulai Silá was born in 1958 in Catió, Guinea Bissau. He moved to the capital, Bissau, to complete his school studies and then to Dresden, Germany, to complete a degree in Power Engineering.
He currently lives in Bissau and combines telecommunications work with writing.
He is the author of four novels, A Última Tragédia, Eterna Paixão [Eternal Passion], Mistida [Mixed] and Memórias (Mantic Memories], all of which deal with Bissau-Guinean culture and history. He is the co-founder of the publisher Ku Si Mon Editora and he has also written a play, As Orações de Mansat [Mansat's Prayers], a Bissau-Guinean Macbeth.
Translator
Jethro Soutar is a translator of Spanish and Portuguese. He has translated crime fiction from Argentina (Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo, nominated for an International Dagger) and Brazil (Hotel Brasilby Frei Betto, winner of a PEN award) for Bitter Lemon Press. His translation of By Night The Mountain Burns by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel was published by And Other Stories in November 2014. He also co-edited and co-translated The Football Crónicas for Ragpicker Press.
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Visit product page →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.
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Visit product page →The Turner of Silences written by Mia Couto translated by David Brookshaw.
Mwanito Vitalcio was eleven when he saw a woman for the first time, and the sight so surprised him he burst into tears. Mwanito's been living in a big-game park for eight years. The only people he knows are his father, his brother, an uncle, and a servant. He's been told that rest of the world is dead, that all roads are sad, that they wait for an apology from God. In the place his father calls Jezoosalem, Mwanito has been told that crying and praying are the same thing. Both, it seems, are forbidden.
The 8th novel by NY Times-acclaimed Mia Couto, The Tuner of Silences is the story of Mwanito's struggle to reconstruct a family history that his father is unable to discuss. With the young woman's arrival in Jezoosalem, however, the silence of the past quickly breaks down, and both his father's story and the world are heard once more. The Tuner of Silences was heralded as one of the most important books to be published in France in 2011, and remains a shocking portrait of the intergenerational legacies of war. Available for the first time in English.
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 professor of Hispanic, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the University of Bristol (London), and the General Editor of the HiPLA Monograph Series. He is the translator of six books by Couto, including Sleepwalking Land and The Last Flight of the Flamingo.
Language English
length 224 pages
ISBN: 9781926845951
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Visit product page →A Very Short History of Portugal is written by A.H. De Oliveira Marques.
From the moment the first men set foot in the Iberian Peninsula, around 2000 b.C., until the end of the «New State» and the independence of the ex‑colonies, through various kings, sea voyages to India and other destinations, these pages have a lot to tell.
The history of Portugal is long and complex, and so Oliveira Marques, one of the most renowned Portuguese historians, began by writing it down in three volumes which became a classic of Portuguese historiography. Based on them, he also prepared this very short version, which summarises all crucial events. This rare, small‑format book retains all the rigour and historical breadth of longer editions, and is as useful for scholars as it is for inquisitive people.
MARÇO DE 2018 | 258 PP | 18.5x13 CMISBN: 978-989-671-420-8AuthorA.H. de Oliveira Marques (1933-2007) was born in São Pedro do Estoril. He graduated in Historical-Philosophical Sciences from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. After an internship at the University of Würzburg, Germany, he began his teaching career in 1957 at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), where he obtained his PhD in History in 1960.In 1997, he received a PhD Honoris Causa from La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and in 1988 was decorated by the President of the Republic with the Grand Cross of the Order of Liberty. He is the author of a historiographical work with more than 60 volumes, and is considered one of the leading experts in Portuguese Medieval History. -
Visit product page →O Retorno by Dulce Maria Cardoso
1975, Luanda. A descolonização instiga ódios e guerras. Os brancos debandam e em poucos meses chegam a Portugal mais de meio milhão de pessoas. O processo revolucionário está no seu auge e os retornados são recebidos com desconfiança e hostilidade. Muitos nao têm para onde ir nem do que viver. Rui tem quinze anos e é um deles. 1975. Lisboa. Durante mais de um ano, Rui e a família vivem num quarto de um hotel de 5 estrelas a abarrotar de retornados — um improvável purgatório sem salvação garantida que se degrada de dia para dia. A adolescência torna-se uma espera assustada pela idade adulta: aprender o desespero e a raiva, reaprender o amor, inventar a esperança. África sempre presente mas cada vez mais longe.
English overview
1975, Luanda. Decolonization fuels hatred and wars. White people flee, and within a few months, over half a million people arrive in Portugal. The revolutionary process is at its peak, and the retornados (returnees) are received with suspicion and hostility. Many have nowhere to go and no means to live. Fifteen-year-old Rui is one of them.1975, Lisbon. For over a year, Rui and his family live in a 5-star hotel room packed with retornados—an unlikely purgatory with no guaranteed salvation that degrades day by day. Adolescence becomes a frightened wait for adulthood: learning despair and rage, relearning love, inventing hope. Africa is always present, yet increasingly distant.Language Portuguese Print length 272 pages ISBN-10 989671116X ISBN-13 978-9896711160
AuthorDulce Maria Cardoso is a celebrated Portuguese author known for exploring themes of memory, identity, and the lingering effects of Portugal's colonial past. Her major works include award-winning novels O Retorno (The Return) Eliete:A Normal Life, and her debut, Campo de Sangue. Her writing often focuses on personal crises amidst significant political or social shifts. -
Visit product page →Foste a maneira mais bonita de errar written by Pedro Chagas Freitas.
Foste a maneira mais bonita de errar, o livro em que Pedro Chagas Freitas volta aos grandes romances, com uma história de força e superação. Um livro de amores possíveis e impossíveis carregados de determinação e força de viver.
Uma história de uma mulher corajosa que, mesmo depois de a vida a levar a enfrentar vários desafios, nunca desiste de ser quem é e aprende a reinventar-se num mundo que insiste em não deixá-la ser forte.
Mais do que um romance, este livro é uma lição de vida, contada no estilo único de Pedro Chagas Freitas, que parece sussurrar-nos ao ouvido.
Uma história incrível, viciante e comovente, que nos mostra a importância do amor e de nunca deixarmos de ser quem somos.
Autor
Pedro Chagas Freitas escreve. Publicou 22 das mais de 150 obras que já criou. Foi, ou ainda é, jornalista, redactor publicitário, guionista, operário fabril, barman, nadador salvador, jogador de futebol, e muitas outras coisas igualmente desinteressantes. Orienta desorientadas sessões de escrita criativa por todo o país e arredores. Gosta de gatos, de cães e de pessoas. Não gosta de eufemismos e de bacalhau assado.
Tem mais de 100.000 fãs na sua página de Facebook.Idioma Português ISBN-10 9896609985 ISBN-13 978-9896609986
