Description : Pequenos gestos podem mudar o rumo de uma vida.Elias vive sozinho numa casa demasiado grande, já sem os três filhos, que emigraram, e sem a mulher, que morreu. Quando uma família se muda para a moradia ao lado — entre as muitas que de repente chegaram à Margem Sul do Tejo, desafiando-lhe o sossego —, desenvolve antipatia e desconfiança para com os vizinhos.Do outro lado, contudo, um rapaz negligenciado pelos pais e pela avidez da vida moderna vai-se aproximando, curioso, apesar das barreiras erguidas por Elias.

Description : So, fish, let's make a deal. You stay here, build your house and live your life. But no one can know that you speak the language of the people and that we both talk. If they find out I'm talking to a fish, they'll think I'm crazy and get me out of here. Did you hear? This river has a secret and that secret is mine alone.

Description : A 23-year-old, brilliant college student discovers she is pregnant. Overcome with shame, aware that that pregnancy will represent a social failure for her and her family, she knows that she will not be able to have that child. But in 1963 France, abortion is illegal and there is no one to turn to. Forty years later, the memories of that event are still present, in a trauma that is impossible to overcome and whose shadows extend beyond individual history. Written with razor-sharp clarity, without gimmicks, this is a powerful novel about suffering, justice and the condition of women. Written by Annie Ernaux in 1999, it was adapted to cinema in 2021 by Audrey Diwan, in a film that won the Golden Lion in Venice.

Description : A Escrava Isaura is one of the main works of Brazilian romanticism and a landmark in the literature in favor of the end of slavery. Isaura is a beautiful slave, raised as a daughter by the wife of Comendador Almeida, on a magnificent farm from the 19th century, in Campos de Goitacases, in Rio de Janeiro. Her beauty awakens multiple passions and libidinous desires, which Isaura tries to escape, particularly the advances of Leôncio, the commander's son, an authoritarian farmer who does not admit to being contradicted.

Description : A Mão e a Luva is the second novel by Machado de Assis that tells the beautiful romantic story of the boy who meets a poor girl sponsored by a rich old lady, with whom he falls madly in love. She has to compete with two other suitors: it remains to be seen who, between the man of spirit, the fool and the calculating man, the heroine will choose... But A Mão e a Luva is much more than that, and may even be the first Brazilian realist novel – is it?

Description : Each closed egg is a mystery! Is it a tortoise, a duck, an eagle, a lizard, some monster? Who guesses? Have fun discovering and following the tremendous confusions and adventures experienced by the good hen that hatched a clutch of strange eggs. And discover, at the same time, that, after all, differences can unite instead of separating, and that love is the most important thing in life.

Description : A fun way to discover the city of Porto! Don't forget to take a ride on the tram!

Description : Grandma What? I Forgot! is the story of Nifferces, who, when she moves to her new home, makes some very unlikely friends. Nifferces must think of a very unusual, yet colourfully clever idea to remember each of their names...will her plan succeed?

Description : In this Café de Lenine everything is possible: an ecological solution to avoid the end of the paper press, the rehabilitation of cockroaches from lunch with Arrabal, the descent into Hell's last circle in a Chilean copper mine where Lucifer waits for a social reintegration allowance, one night with Emma Bovary in a room in Luxembourg, Rousseau pointed out as an example in a conversation between Junqueiro and Lenin in a Bern cafe, the fruitless search for fighting in the Waterloo camp behind Fabrice del Dongo, escaped from Parma's Carthusian of Stendhal. An unusual work that, through various eras, steals characters from the great classics of literature, and combines fiction, chronicle, memories and reflection. A book for all who like fiction around books and literature. Very ingenious and imaginative text, between the biographical and the fictional where the narrator-author reflects on the literary creation and some of the questions that the writers ask themselves.

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