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Visit product page →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.
101 Lições para Conquistar a Grandeza Pessoal e Profissional Todos temos um destino comum: a grandeza. Mas cabe a cada um decidir se aceita ou não essa chamada do destino… Podemos ter um impacto significativo no mundo à nossa volta e viver uma vida com sentido, se nos decidirmos a fazê-lo. Para todos aqueles que estão determinados a criar uma vida extraordinária, Seja Mestre na Arte de Viver é um manual poderoso, prático e cheio de inspiração. Tão provocante quanto cativante, este livro está repleto de grandes ideias que o irão desafiar e transformar, permitindo-lhe aceder a todo o seu potencial e despertar o que de melhor há em si. Dê hoje mesmo esse passo em frente – aprenda o que pode fazer melhor para ser excelente.
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Visit product page →O livro Frankenstein, de Mary Shelley, um clássico do horror e da ficção científica publicado originalmente em 1818.
Uma história arrepiante sobre os limites da criação humana
Obcecado com a geração da vida, o cientista suíço Victor Frankenstein recolhe corpos em cemitérios e hospitais para reunir material que possa dar vida a um novo ser. Contudo, a criatura hedionda que daí resulta, rejeitada por Frankenstein e à qual é negada companhia humana, revolta-se contra a sua triste condição e lança-se numa jornada para destruir o seu criador.
Um clássico do horror que explora os perigos da ciência, a ética da criação e as consequências do trauma. Frankenstein é um dos romances incontornáveis da literatura fantástica que influenciou gerações de autores, e aborda temas fulcrais que não deixam ninguém indiferente – especialmente numa época em que as questões da engenharia genética e do bioterrorismo estão cada vez mais presentes.
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Sold outVisit product page →A noite chegou, e com ela trouxe o soninho.
Os animais também têm sono, sabias?
Puxa as tiras e descobre onde os animais dormem, de noite e de dia! Um jogo de escondidas, perfeito para mãos pequeninas. -
Sold outVisit product page →Written by Isabel Minhos Martins and illustrated by Bernardo P. Carvalho.
Leve prosa poética sobre a doce e afetuosa reação de uma mãe aos atos e às descobertas do filho. Evidencia a importância de cada gesto do filho, por menor que seja, para o coração da mãe. Ideal para crianças que passam pelo processo de alfabetização.
Idioma Português Número de páginas 26 páginas ISBN-10 8564406020 ISBN-13 978-8564406025 -
Sold outVisit product page →Resumo“Foram buscar-me ao fim do mundo.”
As primeiras palavras do Papa Francisco calaram fundo no coração de milhões de fiéis.
A escolha do colégio de Cardeais surpreendeu o mundo e abriu três precedentes inesperados. Jorge Mario Bergoglio é o primeiro Papa oriundo da América Latina. É também o primeiro jesuíta a ser eleito para o mais alto cargo da Igreja Católica e o primeiro a escolher o nome “Francisco” em honra de S. Francisco de Assis, um exemplo máximo de humildade e abnegação.
Rezem por Mim – Citações do Papa Francisco revela-nos o essencial do pensamento deste Papa extraordinário. De temas tão polémicos como a eutanásia, o aborto ou o casamento entre pessoas do mesmo sexo a conceitos fundamentais do Cristianismo como o amor, a família, a dignidade e a fé, este é um livro obrigatório para todos – religiosos ou não – os que desejam conhecer o homem que está a revolucionar a Igreja e a renovar a fé e a esperança um pouco por todo o mundo. -
Visit product page →Author:Cody Caetano Language; English
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A family tries to learn from the mistakes of past generations in this whirlwind memoir from a wholly original new voice.
The Caetanos move into a doomed house in the highway village of Happyland before an inevitable divorce pulls Cody’s parents in separate directions. His mom, Mindimooye, having discovered her Anishinaabe birth family and Sixties Scoop origin story, embarks on a series of fraught relationships and fresh starts. His dad, O Touro, a Portuguese immigrant and drifter, falls back into “big do, little think” behaviour, despite his best intentions.
Left alone at the house in Happyland, Cody and his siblings must fend for themselves, even as the pipes burst and the lights go out. His protective big sister, Kris, finds inventive ways to put food on the table, and his stoic big brother, Julian, facilitates his regular escapes into the world of video games. As life yanks them from one temporary solution to the next, they steal moments of joy and resist buckling under “baddie” temptations aplenty.
Capturing the chaos and wonder of a precarious childhood, Cody Caetano delivers a fever dream coming-of-age garnished with a slang all his own. Half-Bads in White Regalia is an unforgettable debut that unspools a tangled family history with warmth, humour, and deep generosity.Publisher: Penguin CanadaShipping dimensions: 8" H x 6" W x 1" LISBN: 9780735240858
AuthorCODY CAETANO is a writer of Anishinaabe and Portuguese descent and an off-reserve member of Pinaymootang First Nation. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto, where he wrote this memoir under the mentorship of Lee Maracle. Excerpts of Half-Bads in White Regalia earned him a 2020 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose.
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Visit product page →Author Giovani Martins and translated to English by Julia Sanches.
From one of Brazil’s most acclaimed new literary stars, a twenty-first-century epic set in Rio’s largest favela.
Life on the morro, the hill, is good. Five young people—the brothers Washington and Wesley and their friends Douglas, Murilo, and Biel—live close to Rocinha’s main avenue, Via Ápia, just a quick bus ride from the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.
But the rhythms of their lives stutter and scratch when Brazil’s militarized police storm Rocinha as part of “pacification” efforts ahead of the upcoming World Cup and an influx of international tourists. Via Ápia charts the expectant anxiousness before the police’s invasion, the chaos born from their occupation of the hill, and the aftermath of their silent withdrawal from the favela after one year.
Told in heated bursts and marked by the charged chronology of the protagonists’ lives, Geovani Martins’s prodigious debut novel knits together the dramas and dreams of the favela during a peak of turbulent unrest. Like the boom boom kat of Brazilian funk, the unbridled ambitions and resolute friendships of these characters blare throughout Via Ápia, delivering a resonant counternarrative to the notion that violent interventions are the state’s only remedy to the afflictions of crime and poverty. The favela retorts: life, life is the answer.Author
Geovani Martins was born in 1991 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the author of The Sun on My Head, named one of the Best Brazilian Books of the Century by Folha de São Paulo. He grew up with his mother in the Rio neighborhood of Vidigal. He supported his writing by working as a sandwich- board man and selling drinks on the beach, and was discovered during creative writing workshops at FLUP, the literary festival of the Rio favelas. Via Ápia is his first novel.
Julia Sanches translates works from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. Her translations include Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández, for which she won a PEN/Heim Award, as well as works by Noemi Jaffe, Daniel Galera, and Geovani Martins. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators’ collective, and she lives in Providence, Rhode Island.Publisher: Farrar, Straus And GirouxShipping dimensions: 8" H x 5" W x 1" LISBN: 9780374612986length:352 -
Visit product page →Author Conceição Lima Translated to English by shook.
WINNER OF THE 2021 WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS—ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS POEMS IN TRANSLATION CONTEST
No Gods Live Here, the first book-length collection by a woman from São Tomé to appear in English, is grounded in the lush islands' history of slavery, colonialism, and independence.
A career-spanning collection from giant of Santomean poetry Conceição Lima, No Gods Live Here catalogues and memorializes the cruelties and triumphs of the country's past alongside the poet's own childhood poems set against the tiny island nation's distinctive flora and geography. Through vivid imagery, Lima evokes São Tomé and Príncipe, from popular Santomean music to imagery of fishermen on the beach, while remaining ever aware of the subjective meeting of memory, time, and place.
Through poetry, Lima unites past and present to resurrect hope in human creation and the possibility of metamorphosis.
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Conceição Lima was born in 1961 in the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe, where she resides today. She studied journalism in Portugal and attended graduate school in London, where she later worked as a producer at the BBC’s Portuguese Language Service. She has published four books of poetry: O Útero da Casa (The Womb of the House) in 2004, A Dolorosa Raiz do Micondó (The Painful Root of the Micondó) in 2006, O País de Akendenguê (The Country of Akendenguê) in 2011, and Quando Florirem Salambás no Tecto do Pico(When Velvet Tamarinds Flower on Pico de São Tomé) in 2015. Her work in Shook’s translation has appeared in the Literary Review, Jai-Alai, and World Literature Today.
Shook is a poet and translator whose work with Conceição Lima has been recognized with a 2017 Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and as a winner of the 2021 Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets Poems in Translation Contest.
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Sold outVisit product page →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 selfPublisher: Farrar, Straus And GirouxShipping dimensions: 8" H x 5" W x 0" LISBN: 9780374611286Langauge: EnglishLength: 128 -
Visit product page →Sobre Lisboa
Os escritores portugueses mais acarinhados e um fotógrafo de património.
O mesmo horizonte para a ficção e a realidade, em que criatividade literária e riqueza fotográfica mergulham na nossa geografia.
Um percurso concelho a concelho, ilha a ilha, escritor a escritor.
The whole of Lisbon in one book.
The most cherished Portuguese writers and a photographer specialising in heritage.
The same horizon for fiction and reality, in which literary creativity and photographic richness immerse themselves in our geography.
This is a journey that covers county after county, island after island, writer after writer.
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Visit product page →The Iliad by Homer adapted by Frederick Lourenço«Do lado dos Troianos, alinhados com todos os seus chefes, levantou-se um grito enorme: era como o grito dos grous que ressoa do céu quando fogem ao inverno e às desmedidas tempestades e com gritos se lançam no voo até às correntes do Oceano. Porém os Gregos não se deixaram impressionar: avançavam em silêncio, respirando força, cada um desejoso de auxiliar o companheiro.»
Esta é uma das passagens mais emocionantes de "A Ilíada de Homero" Adaptada para Jovens, de Frederico Lourenço, que também traduziu para a nossa língua o original de Homero – um dos textos fundamentais da nossa civilização. Como escreve o próprio Frederico Lourenço, a Ilíada «propõe uma circunstância redentora para a vida humana: levarmos os nossos objetivos até ao fim, custe o que custar, doa a quem doer, e nunca abdicarmos do bem supremo pelo qual devemos lutar com unhas e dentes (ou, melhor dizendo, lanças e espadas): a nossa própria autoestima».
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Frederico Lourenço (Lisboa, 1963) é professor de línguas clássicas desde 1988. Desde 2024 é professor catedrático na Universidade de Coimbra. Tem-se dedicado à tradução de obras da Antiguidade Clássica (Homero, Eurípides e outros autores antigos) e também à tradução e estudo do Novo Testamento grego e da Bíblia dos Septuaginta. Recebeu vários prémios pelos seus trabalhos, mais recentemente o Prémio Pessoa pela tradução em curso da Bíblia na Quetzal, que publicou a sua Nova Gramática do Latim, além de Latim do Zero, a reedição da sua antologia de poesia grega clássica, a tradução das Bucólicas, de Vergílio, a sua tradução dos Evangelhos Apócrifos (em edição bilingue latim-português e grego-português) e a reunião da obra completa de Horácio.
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Visit product page →Author Nicolau Maquiavel translated to Portuguese
Um tratado clássico sobre a política ou a arte de bem governar que, embora tenha sido escrito no século XVI, mantém toda a sua atualidade, podendo facilmente transpor-se para os dias de hoje. Inspirado na figura de César Bórgia e na admiração desmedida que manifestava por ele, Maquiavel faz uma abordagem racional para aconselhar os aspirantes a líderes, desenvolvendo argumentos lógicos e alternativas para uma série de potenciais problemas, a forma de lidar com os domínios adquiridos e o tratamento a dar aos povos conquistados, de modo consolidar o poder. Obra de referência e de um pragmatismo radical e implacável.
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Nicolau Maquiavel é considerado, por muitos, o pai do pensamento político moderno. Nascido em Florença a 3 de maio de 1469, foi um dos mais relevantes filósofos e políticos italianos do século XV. Emmeadosdadécadade1490, após a expulsão da família Médici do governo da região, tornou-se funcionário ao serviço da República Florentina. Foi nessas funções que fez serviços e viagens diplomáticas, o que lhe permitiu conhecer diferentes formas de exercer a política e o poder. Uma das pessoas que admirou terá sido o filho ilegítimo do Papa Alexandre VI, César Bórgia, um importante militar e estadista, que granjeou poder e fama pela força das armas e, sobretudo, da crueldade, da astúcia e do logro – era tão eficaz a levar à morte os adversários como a criar alianças, desde que favorecessem o seu estatuto. O percurso desta figura histórica terá servido a Maquiavel como principal inspiração para a sua obra mais famosa, O Príncipe, de 1513. Um ano antes, com o regresso dos Médici a Florença, Maquiavel perdera o seu cargo político e caíra em desgraça, tendo mesmo sido preso, torturado e exilado. Com a reconquista da liberdade dedicou-se à literatura, tendo então escrito várias das suas obras mais sonantes, como A Arte da Guerra (1519-1520) ou História de Florença (1520-1525). Faleceu a 22 de junho de 1527, na sua Florença, pouco tempo após apresentar este último livro ao seu patrono, o Papa Clemente VII – o mesmo que patrocinou vários obras-primas da História, como O Juízo Final, de Miguel Ângelo, ou A Transfiguração, de Rafael.
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Visit product page →Author Mark Manson translated to Portuguese
Do autor do bestseller A Arte Subtil de Saber Dizer Que Se F*da
Vivemos numa época estranha. Apesar de termos mais liberdade, saúde e riqueza do que em qualquer outra época da história, tudo à nossa volta parece terrivelmente f*dido: aquecimento global, queda de governos, economias em colapso e todos permanentemente ofendidos nas redes sociais. Temos acesso a tecnologia, a educação e a formas de comunicar que os nossos antepassados nem sequer imaginavam, mas ainda assim sentimos uma esmagadora desesperança. Afinal, o que é que se passa connosco?
Com a sua habitual mistura de erudição e humor, Mark Manson desafia-nos a olhar para o mundo com outros olhos. Com base em investigação psicológica e na sabedoria intemporal de filósofos como Platão e Nietzsche, o autor disseca a política e a religião e mostra como as duas se tornaram desconfortavelmente semelhantes. Analisa a nossa relação com o dinheiro, o entretenimento e a internet, desafiando as definições de fé, felicidade, liberdade e até da própria esperança.
Um livro de leitura obrigatória que nem todos merecemos, mas de que todos precisamos.Autor
Mark Manson cresceu em Austin, no Texas, viveu em Boston e viajou por todo o mundo durante sete anos. É um autor bestseller do The New York Times e escreve sobre uma grande variedade de temas, no âmbito do desenvolvimento pessoal. Para além da sua atividade de bloguer e empreendedor, publica regularmente artigos com a BBC,CNN, Business Insider, Time, entre outros. Vive atualmente em Nova Iorque.
ISBN: 9789898892379 Publisher: Desassossego Release Date: May of 2019 Language: Portuguese Dimensions: 162 x 231 x 17 mm Cover: Softcover Pages: 288 -
Visit product page →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!
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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
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Visit product page →Author Kathryn Stockett translated to Portuguese by Fernanda Semedo
Skeeter tem 22 anos e acaba de regressar da universidade. Pode ter uma licenciatura, mas estamos em 1962, no Mississípi, e a sua mãe só a deixará em paz quando a vir com uma aliança no dedo.
Aibileen é uma empregada negra que criou 17 crianças brancas. Mas, desde que o seu fi lho morreu, algo mudou dentro de si. Minny, a sua melhor amiga, é a mulher com a língua mais afi ada do Mississípi.
Cozinha divinamente, mas tem sérias difi culdades em manter o emprego… até ao momento em que encontra uma nova e insólita patroa.
Estas três personagens extraordinárias vão cruzar-se e iniciar um projeto que mudará a sua cidade e as vidas de todas as mulheres de Jackson.
São as suas vozes que nos contam esta história inesquecível, cheia de humor, esperança e tristeza.
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Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in English and Creative Writing, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing for nine years. The Help is her first novel.
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11 x 17 cm
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624
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Visit product page →Leonard Cohen translated to Portuguese by Frederico Pedreira
Este livro reúne um romance e contos inéditos de Leonard Cohen.
O compositor canadiano de sucessos como “Hallelujah”, “Suzanne” e “Famous Blue Raincoat” aventurou-se pela primeira vez na escrita aos vinte e poucos anos, e é neste livro que os leitores descobrirão que a magia que animou o seu trabalho estava presente desde o início.
Escritos entre 1956 e 1961, estes textos oferecem revelações sobre a imaginação e o processo criativo deCohen, e neles o autor explora temas que estariam presentes no seu trabalho posterior, da vergonha e indignidade ao desejo sexual em todas as suas dimensões sagradas e profanas, passando pelo amor, a família, a liberdade ou a transcendência. Um Balé de Leprosos — nas suas palavras, um romance “provavelmente melhor” do que o celebrado O Jogo Preferido — analisa esses elementos, abordando relacionamentos tóxicos e os extremos que as pessoas atingem para os manter. Os quinze contos sondam os demónios interiores das suas personagens.Autor
Leonard Cohen nasceu em Montreal, Canadá, em setembro de 1934. Foi cantor, poeta, romancista e compositor.
Aos vinte e dois anos, publicou um livro de poemas, Comparemos Mitologias. O seu primeiro álbum, Songs of Leonard Cohen, saído em 1967, popularizou algumas das suas canções mais famosas, como “Suzanne”. Ao longo da vida, publicou doze obras, incluindo dois romances (Belos Vencidos e O Jogo Favorito).
Obteve reconhecimento mundial como cantor e compositor, editando dezassete álbuns, três deles nos últimos anos da sua vida.
Entre os numerosos prémios e distinções que recebeu, destacam-se o Prémio Príncipe das Astúrias das Letras (2011), o Prémio New England PEN Award for Song Lyrics of Literary Excellence (2012), o Prémio Glenn Gould (2012) e o Juno Award para Artista e para Álbum do Ano (2017). Leonard Cohen faleceu em Los Angeles, a 7 de novembro de 2016.- ISBN
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9789897833441
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272
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Visit product page →Author: Carol Bensimon; Translated from the Portuguese to English by Zoë Perry and Julia Sanches
After years spent outrunning her past, Cecília reexamines the case of a close family friend killed by a colleague and rival: her father.
In 1988, shortly after Brazil reestablishes democratic rule, a state congressman is shot and killed in Porto Alegre. The main suspect: a close friend and colleague in congress, Representative Raul Matzenbacher.
Many years later, Cecília Matzenbacher, his daughter, migrates from Southern Brazil to California, where she finds work as a taxidermist. Her temperament is ideally suited to this type of restoration and the careful reconstruction of a world frozen in time. But as Cecília confronts her own history and the memories of the investigation surrounding her father, her knack for composition frays.
When news arrives that Raul has suffered a stroke and Cecília’s chances to see him again may be limited, her past can no longer stay put, posed like a specimen behind glass. Her story emerges, the past stalking her present, threatening to derail the life she’s made for herself in the United States.
In sleek, arresting prose imbued with the suspense-filled edge of a true-crime thriller, Diorama cements Carol Bensimon’s status as one of the most dynamic voices in contemporary Brazilian literature and demonstrates her narrative gifts at their apex. Fusing police procedural, coming-of-age story, and family drama, Diorama is a moving mystery about what and how we remember, a novel that endangers our notions of what is or isn’t still alive inside all of us.About Author
About the Author
Carol Bensimon was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1982. She is the author of the highly acclaimed novel O Clube dos Jardineiros de Fumaça, which won the Jabuti Award, the most prestigious literary award in Brazil, and was short-listed for the São Paulo Prize for Literature. She is the author of the novels We All Loved Cowboys and Sinuca embaixo d’água and of the acclaimed story collection Pó de parede. In 2012 she was selected by Granta as one of the Best Young Brazilian Novelists. Bensimon has a master’s degree in creative writing from PUCRS and lives with her girlfriend in Mendocino, California.
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MCD
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Visit product page →Set in Lisbon at the close of the nineteenth century, ‘The Maias’ is both a coming-of-age novel and a passionate romance. Our hero Carlos Maia, heir to one of the greatest fortunes in Portugal, is rich, handsome, generous and intelligent: he means to do something for his country, something useful, something that will make his beloved grandfather proud. However, Carlos is also a bit of a dilettante. He drifts along, becoming a doctor and pottering about in his laboratory, but spends more and more time riding his splendid horses or visiting the theater, having affairs or reading novels. His best friend and chief partner in crime, Ega, is likewise engaged in a long summertime of witticisms and pleasure. Carlos however is set on a dead reckoning course with fate?with the love of his life and with a terrible, terrible secret...Newly translated by the acclaimed translator Margaret Jull Costa (translator of José Saramago's ‘Blindness’), New Directions is proud to bring Eça de Queirós' brilliant prose to life for American readers for the first time.
About the Author
Eça de Queiroz was born on November 25, 1845, in Póvoa de Varzim and is considered one of the greatest novelists in all of Portuguese literature, the first and main Portuguese realist writer, a profound and insightful author of literary prose.
He entered the Law Course in 1861, in Coimbra, where he associated with many of the future representatives of the Generation of 70. After finishing his studies, he founded the newspaper , in 1866, an organ in which he began his journalistic experience. In 1871, he gave the lecture "Realism as a new expression of Art", integrated into the Lisbon Casino Conferences and a product of the aesthetic evolution that led him towards the Realism-Naturalism of Flaubert and Zola. In the same year, he began, with Ramalho Ortigão, the publication of As Farpas, satirical chronicles of inquiry into Portuguese life.In 1872 he began his diplomatic career, during which he held the position of consul in Havana, Newcastle, Bristol, and Paris. It was, therefore, with the critical distance afforded by his experience living abroad that he conceived most of his novels, dedicated to the critique of Portuguese social life, among which stand out *O Primo Bazilio*, *O Crime do Padre Amaro*, *A Relíquia*, and *Os Maias*, the latter considered his masterpiece. He died on August 16, 1900, in Paris.
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Visit product page →Author: Carlos Souza
The rattling sound of a tram, the scent of freshly baked pastel de nata, the sight of the glistening waters of the Tagus―welcome to Lisboa. Portugal’s capital of labyrinthine streets, azulejo tiles, and blooming jacarandas beckons travelers with an indescribable charm and quiet nostalgia. Fado is Lisboa’s most iconic sound―a traditional music born in the city’s oldest neighborhoods and expressing its deep emotion and heritage. From the grandeur of Belém to the bohemian spirit of Bairro Alto, Lisboa has the heart of a poet and the pulse of a port.
Creatives, dreamers, and sunseekers from across the globe have congregated in this singular location, enticed by the plentiful seafood, celebratory atmosphere, and legacy of craftsmanship. This book is a love letter to Lisboa, with original imagery provided by locals Carlos Souza and Charlene Shorto and a foreword by Miguel Guedes De Sousa. Lisboa Luz paints a portrait of a resilient metropolis that has endured earthquakes and revolutions to become a sought-after destination for those looking for a good time.Language:English
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Visit product page →Author Mia Sosa Language English.
One engagement. Two best friends. Three's a crowd.
On the eve of their college graduation, best friends Javier Báez and Marisol Campos swore never to date someone the other doesn’t approve of. Now, almost a decade later, Javi has a problem. Mari, the woman he’s secretly pined for since sophomore year, is engaged—and Javi didn’t even get the chance to vet the Pedro Pascal knockoff she plans to marry.
A successful entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles, Mari is no longer seeking Javi’s dating advice or waiting for him to declare his love. Instead, she’s made a different pact—with herself. And to succeed, Mari’s vowing to build a future with someone who wants to commit to her.
With his life and career finally on track, Javi’s ready to confess his feelings. Except Mari’s changed the script and moved on without him. Javi has just six weeks to convince Mari this marriage is a flop. If that means he needs to ruffle some feathers to help her avert disaster, well, he’s up for the challenge. After all, isn’t that what best friends are for?About Author
Mia Sosa is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic comedies and contemporary romances that celebrate our multicultural world. She has received praise from The Washington Post, Bustle, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, POPSUGAR, BuzzFeed, Oprah Daily, and many more. A native of East Harlem and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale Law School, she lives in Maryland with her college sweetheart, their two book-obsessed daughters, a gentle Cavalier King Charles spaniel, and one adorable rescue cat that rules them all.
Pages: 448
ISBN: 9798217044306
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Visit product page →Author Gabriella Burnham Language: English
A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after their mother disappears.
Elise is out dancing the night before her college graduation when her younger sister Sophie calls to tell her their mom is nowhere to be found. Elise leaves on the next flight back to her childhood home, Nantucket Island, for the first time in nearly four years. When she arrives she discovers the ways in which her whip-smart little sister has had to make do without her.
The sisters soon learn that police stopped their mother on her way home from work and deported her to São Paulo, Brazil. Intent on bringing her back, Elise stays and secures the same job she had in high school: monitoring endangered birds that have laid eggs on a remote beach. Meanwhile, her best friend from college, Sheba—a gregarious socialite and heir to a famed children's toy company—reveals that she has inherited her grandfather’s summer mansion on Nantucket. What will Elise do when the new life she created in college collides with the life she left behind on the island? As she confronts the emotional and material realities that have fractured her family, she is confronted by a world in Brazil that her mother has had to leave behind, too.About Author
Gabriella Burnham is the author of Wait and It Is Wood, It Is Stone, which was named a best book of the year by Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Publisher’s Weekly, and Good Housekeeping magazines. She holds an MFA in creative writing from St. Joseph’s College and has been awarded fellowships to MacDowell, where she was named a Harris Center Fellow, and Yaddo. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Harper’s Bazaar. She and her partner live in Brooklyn with their two rescue cats, Galleta and Franz.
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Visit product page →Author Frances De Pontes Peebles Language:English
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
Language English Print length 528 pages ISBN-10 0735211000 ISBN-13 978-0735211001 -
Visit product page →This collection of twenty-six stories is “a fine introduction to Latin American literature” ( The Washington Post Book World ).
This splendid collection of stories by twenty-six Latin American authors features the new voices and celebrated masters of one of the world's foremost literatures. Explore the gothic sexual ambiguities of Carlos Fuentes’ “The Doll Queen,” the psychological compression of Clarice Lispector’s “Love,” or the baroque pyrotechnics of Machado de Assis and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Discover the parodically hard-boiled detective fiction of Ana Lydia Vega and some decidedly soft-boiled criminals in Rubem Fonesca’s “Lonelyhearts.”
From erotic comedies by Isabel Allende and Jorge Amado to the playful labyrinths of Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s London streets or Armonia Somers’ roomful of clocks, A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes reveals the virtuosity of Latin American literature at its finest, and provides an illuminating journey into dreamlike and unexpected worlds.Language English Print length 448 pages ISBN-10 0452268664 ISBN-13 978-0452268661
