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You can find an alternative cover for this ISBN here.Esta é a história de Crisóstomo que, chegando aos quarenta anos, lida com a tristeza de não ter tido um filho. Do sonho de encontrar uma criança que o prolongue e de outros inesperados encontros, nasce uma família inventada, mas tão pura e fundamental como qualquer outra.As histórias do Crisóstomo e do Camilo, da Isaura do Antonino e da Matilde mostram que para se ser feliz é preciso aceitar ser o que se pode, nunca deixando contudo de acreditar que é possível estar e ser sempre melhor. As suas vidas ilustram igualmente que o amor, sendo uma pacificação com a nossa natureza, tem o poder de a transformar.Tocando em temas tão basilares à vida humana como o amor, a paternidade e a família, O filho de mil homens exibe, como sempre, a apurada sensibilidade e o esplendor criativo de Valter Hugo Mãe.

Jose de Alencar's prose-poem Iracema, first published in 1865, is a classic of Brazilian literature--perhaps the most widely-known piece of fiction within Brazil, and the most widely-read of Alencar;s many works. Set in the sixteenth century, it is an extremely romantic portrayal of a doomed live between a Portuguese soldier and an Indian maiden. Iracema reflects the gingerly way that mid-nineteenth century Brazil dealt with race mixture and multicultural experience. Precisely because of its nineteenth-century romanticism, Iracema strongly contributed to a Brazilian sense of nationhood--contemporary Brazilian writers and literary critics still cite it as a foundation for their own work.

Perhaps Brazil’s most influential and beloved composer and musician, Chico Buarque is also a highly praised poet, playwright, and novelist. In Budapest, Buarque introduces the story of a ghostwriter who immerses himself in the Hungarian language. José Costa lives in Rio de Janeiro. Fated to remain in the shadows of his illustrious clients, Costa breaks free of this fate and spontaneously buys a ticket to Budapest. In the city by the Danube, he falls in love with a strangely enchanting woman named Kriska, who offers to teach him the Magyar language in the most intimate of ways. First, however, he must observe the old proverb “There is no life outside Hungary” and abandon his thoughts of samba, sunbathers on Ipanema, Sugarloaf Mountain, and his wife in Rio, to turn himself over to a strange, hallucinogenic world of pumpkin rolls, late-night discos in old Buda, endless bottles of Trojak wine, and, of course, Kriska, the willful seductress and disciplinarian who is as hard to fathom and tame as the language she speaks. But what will become of José, now Zsoze, when his time in Budapest comes to an end and life as he knows it is turned upside down?

Um livro comovente que traz a herança dos clássicos. Bibiana e Belonísia são filhas de trabalhadores de uma fazenda no Sertão da Bahia, descendentes de escravos para quem a abolição nunca passou de uma data marcada no calendário. Intrigadas com uma mala misteriosa sob a cama da avó, pagam o atrevimento de lhe pôr a mão com um acidente que mudará para sempre as suas vidas, tornando-as tão dependentes que uma será até a voz da outra. Porém, com o avançar dos anos, a proximidade vai desfazer-se com a perspectiva que cada uma tem sobre o que as rodeia: enquanto Belonísia parece satisfeita com o trabalho na fazenda e os encantos do pai, Zeca Chapéu Grande, entre velas, incensos e ladainhas, Bibiana percebe desde cedo a injustiça da servidão que há três décadas é imposta à família e decide lutar pelo direito à terra e a emancipação dos trabalhadores. Para isso, porém, é obrigada a partir, separando-se da irmã.Numa trama tecida de segredos antigos que têm quase sempre mulheres por protagonistas, e à sombra de desigualdades que se estendem até hoje no Brasil, Torto Arado é um romance polifónico belo e comovente que conta uma história de vida e morte, combate e redenção, de personagens que atravessaram o tempo sem nunca conseguirem sair do anonimato.

Coletânea de poemas - 'O rio' (1953), 'Morte e Vida Severina' (1954-55), 'Paisagens com Figuras' (1955) e 'Uma Faca sem Lâmina' (1955) - de João Cabral de Melo Neto publicados na década de 1950. Para Cabral, esta década foi crucial para a consolidação da linguagem que viria a refinar nos anos seguintes. No poema 'O Rio', Cabral trata do rio Capibaribe e de seu povo, só que, desta vez, sob uma ótica mais documental e narrativa. Já 'Morte e vida severina', publicado pela primeira vez em 1956, retrata a fuga da seca de retirantes que seguem o curso do rio Capibaribe. Em 'Paisagens com Figuras' (1955), o poeta mescla, descrições das paisagens de Pernambuco e da Espanha. Por fim, em 'Uma Faca sem Lâmina' (1955), Cabral remete a um tema que lhe é caro - a composição poética.

The newspaper articles framing Jorge Amado’s Captains of the Sands provide a touch of realism while introducing the underlying conditions and hardships facing a group of orphans in Bahia. I liked this introduction and the first number of chapters that chronicled the exploits and streets smarts of the Captains of the Sands. This group is made up of about 100 youths who sleep in an abandoned warehouse and eke out a starvation existence by thieving. In the various chapters, the focus shifts between one of several characters in the gang. This makes it feel like a collection of stories rather than a novel. The pretext that this is an objective documentation of events also falls away with each successive story. Through it all, though, there is a sense that there are no alternatives for these orphans if they want to survive. They are led by Pedro Bala (Bullet). It took me quite some time to come to terms with the leader’s casual rape of a 15-year old girl. For a while, I tried to convince myself that we were not meant to approve of Bullet or the actions of the other Captains of the Sands. Cruelty is not a stranger in their lives. Why should they be expected to treat others with a humanity that is denied to them? However, with no more mention of the assault (he later thinks about his sport of ‘pulling little black girls onto the sand’ to have his way with them as different than his love for Dora), the narrative moves forward. Worse yet, it is clear that we are meant to admire Bullet. Frankly, to have him romanticized after that is a bit galling. What was still compelling was the inability of any of the other orphans to achieve their dreams. They recognize that such dreams are impossible and sabotage them if there’s a chance at them coming true. For instance, at one point, Legless is taken into a home with a woman who treats him like a mother. Instead of accepting the love he has yearned for he lets the gang know how best to rob the house and disappears. When the Professor’s artistic skill is admired by a man who is in a position to help him with his art, the Professor throws the man’s card away and tells Bullet that all they’ll ever be is thieves. Though some of the gang including the Professor move away from the gang near the end in order to chase after their dreams, a pervading feeling remains that nothing has changed the way a class-conscious society looks down on the less fortunate. That’s probably why the very last pages of Captains of the Sands resound with such revolutionary fervor. More than anything else, Amado wanted the world to understand the suffering of the Bahian people.

“I am a deceased writer not in the sense of one who has written and is now deceased, but in the sense of one who had died and is now writing.” So begins the posthumous memoir of Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian. Though the grave has given Cubas the distance to examine his rather undistinguished life, it has not dampened his sense of humor. In the tradition of Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shamdy, Epitaph of a Small Winner is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history.

Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it ﬁrst appeared in 1890, but though Wilde was attacked for the novel’s corrupting inﬂuence, he responded that there is, in fact, “a terrible moral in Dorian Gray.” Just a few years later, the book and the aesthetic/moral dilemma it presented became issues in the trials occasioned by Wilde’s homosexual liaisons, which resulted in his imprisonment. Of Dorian Gray’s relationship to autobiography, Wilde noted in a letter, “Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.

O delicioso livro-peça  de Ariano Suassuna se passa no sertão da Paraíba.Escrito em 1955 ,  Suassuna explora as tradicionais histórias contadas no sertão nordestino, histórias da literatura de cordel , histórias contadas de boca a boca, bem como também as histórias contadas pela cultura ocidental , e modificando a seu gosto os vários personagens , diferenciando os dos personagens originais a seu bel prazer, faz um livro  muito engraçado e divertido.Basicamente conta a história de dois grandes amigos, João Grilo e Chicó, sendo o primeiro muito esperto e o segundo medroso e ingênuo. Por causa das constantes mentiras, eles se metem nas maiores confusões, envolvendo padre, sacristão, cangaceiros, céu, inferno, diabo, um Jesus negro, um padeiro, Deus, e a Imaculada.As coisas mais inimagináveis acontecem como, bexigas de sangue sendo usadas para simular uma morte, gato que defeca  dinheiro, e cachorro sendo enterrado com direito a oração em latim.Ah esse cachorro é a raíz de todo mal…os interesses pessoais também.Ah esqueci de contar que o narrador é um palhaço...Gostei demais !! Um livro que faz uma crítica a religiosidade brasileira e  resgata as raízes da cultura Brasileira.

When the mad philosopher Quincas Borba dies, he leaves to his friend Rubiao the entirety of his wealth and property, with a single stipulation: Rubiao must take care of Quincas Borba's dog, who is also named Quincas Borba, and who may indeed have assumed the soul of the dead philosopher. Flush with his newfound wealth, Rubiao heads for Rio de Janeiro and plunges headlong into a world where fantasy and reality become increasingly difficult to keep separate. Brilliantly translated by Gregory Rabassa, Quincas Borba is a masterful satire not only on life in Imperial Brazil but the human condition itself.

'The seed of madness exists in all of us and with no warning may attack, overpower, crush and bury us ... 'Policarpo Quaresma - fastidious civil servant, dedicated patriot, self-styled visionary - is a defender of all things Brazilian, full of schemes to improve his beloved homeland. Yet somehow each of his ventures, whether it is petitioning for Brazil's national language to be changed, buying a farm to prove the richness and fertility of the land, or offering support to government forces as they suppress a military revolt - results in ridicule and disaster. Quixotic and hapless, Quaresma's dreams will eventually be his undoing.Funny, despairing, moving and absurd, Lima Barreto's masterpiece shows a man and a country caught in the violent clash between illusion and reality, hope and decline, sanity and madness. (Penguin Classics)

For the first time, all five novels in the epic fantasy series that inspired HBO's "Game of Thrones "are together in one boxed set. An immersive entertainment experience unlike any other, A Song of Ice and Fire has earned George R. R. Martin--dubbed "the American Tolkien" by "Time" magazine--international acclaim and millions of loyal readers. Now here is the entire monumental cycle: A GAME OF THRONESA CLASH OF KINGSA STORM OF SWORDSA FEAST OF CROWSA DANCE WITH DRAGONS Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King's Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert's name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse--unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season.  Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen's brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister--the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms.  Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki--whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innocent sister, Daenerys."

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.

Announcing a major literary event: here is the first translation into English of a landmark precursor of Latin American magical realism, which has informed the work of contemporary writers from Garcia Marquez to Salman Rushdie. Macunaima, first published in Portuguese in 1928, and one of the masterworks of Brazilian literature, is a comic folkloric rhapsody (call it a novel if you really want) about the adventures of a popular hero whose fate is intended to define the national character of Brazil."Inventive, blessedly unsentimental," as Kirkus Reviews has it, and incorporating and interpreting the rich exotic myths and legends of Brazil, Macunaima traces the hero's quest for a magic charm, a gift from the gods, that he lost by transgressing the mores of his culture. Born in the heart of the darkness of the jungle, Macunaima is a complex of contradictory traits (he is, of course, "a hero without a character"), and can at will magically change his age, his race, his geographic location, to suit his purposes and overcome obstacles. Dramatizing aspects of Brazil in transition (multiracial, Indian versus European, rural versus urban life), Macunaima undergoes sometimes hilarious, sometimes grotesque transformations until his final annihilation and apotheosis as the Great Bear constellation in the heavens.

Um conto bem divertido onde o autor satiriza a falsa sabedoria, a artificialidade de alguns intelectuais, o poder dos títulos e dos cargos, a necessidade de fingir conhecimentos, a troca de favores, as aparências e tantas outras atitudes hipócritas da sociedade da época.O protagonista é um malandro, oportunista, esperto, mentiroso, mas como se costuma dizer "para haver malandro é preciso haver otário".

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive—and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won’t have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old “human error” are much more likely to kill him first. But Mark isn’t ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills — and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?

At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”

Paulo Leminski foi corajoso o bastante para se equilibrar entre duas enormes construções que rivalizavam na década de 1970, quando publicava seus primeiros versos: a poesia concreta, de feição mais erudita e superinformada, e a lírica que florescia entre os jovens de vinte e poucos anos da chamada “geração mimeógrafo”.Ao conciliar a rigidez da construção formal e o mais genuíno coloquialismo, o autor praticou ao longo de sua vida um jogo de gato e rato com leitores e críticos. Se por um lado tinha pleno conhecimento do que se produzira de melhor na poesia - do Ocidente e do Oriente -, por outro parecia comprazer-se em mostrar um “à vontade” que não raro beirava o improviso, dando um nó na cabeça dos mais conservadores. Pura artimanha de um poeta consciente e dotado das melhores ferramentas para escrever versos.Entre sua estreia na poesia, em 1976, e sua morte, em 1989, a poucos meses de completar 45 anos, Leminski iria ocupar uma zona fronteiriça única na poesia contemporânea brasileira, pela qual transitariam, de forma legítima ou como contrabando, o erudito e o pop, o ultraconcentrado e a matéria mais prosaica. Não à toa, um dos títulos mais felizes de sua bibliografia é Caprichos &amp; relaxos: uma fórmula e um programa poético encapsulados com maestria.Este volume percorre, pela primeira vez, a trajetória poética completa do autor curitibano, mestre do verso lapidar e da astúcia. Livros hoje clássicos como Distraídos venceremos e La vie en close, além de raridades como Quarenta clics em Curitiba e versos já fora de catálogo estão agora novamente à disposição dos leitores, com inédito apuro editorial.O haikai, a poesia concreta, o poema-piada oswaldiano, o slogan e a canção - nada parece ter escapado ao “samurai malandro”, que demonstra, com beleza e vigor, por que tem sido um dos poetas brasileiros mais lidos e celebrados das últimas décadas. Com apresentação da poeta (e sua companheira por duas décadas) Alice Ruiz S, posfácio do crítico e compositor José Miguel Wisnik, e um apêndice que reúne textos de, entre outros, Caetano Veloso, Haroldo de Campos e Leyla Perrone-Moisés, Toda poesia é uma verdadeira aventura - para a inteligência e a sensibilidade.

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

A suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying baby pairs up with his 7-year old brother to stop the dastardly plot of the CEO of Puppy Co.

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.

Three buddies wake up from a bachelor party in Las Vegas, with no memory of the previous night and the bachelor missing. They make their way around the city in order to find their friend before his wedding.

A special bond develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who together team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife.

Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.

Two English comic book geeks traveling across the U.S. encounter an alien outside Area 51.

Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapaport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Jong-Un Kim, they are recruited by the CIA to assassinate him.

2014 American action comedy film directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg

In the near future, crime is patrolled by a mechanized police force. When one police droid, Chappie, is stolen and given new programming, he becomes the first robot with the ability to think and feel for himself.

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

2014 British-American science fiction film directed by Christopher Nolan

In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

Kazakh TV talking head Borat is dispatched to the United States to report on the greatest country in the world. With a documentary crew in tow, Borat becomes more interested in locating and marrying Pamela Anderson.

2006 mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.

2015 film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu

A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.

1997 science fiction film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true, now must decide between keeping the relationship with the bear, Ted or his girlfriend, Lori.

Determined to make her own path in life, Princess Merida (Kelly Macdonald) defies a custom that brings chaos to her kingdom. Granted one wish, Merida must rely on her bravery and her archery skills to undo a beastly curse.

2012 American computer-animated fantasy film

Rango is an ordinary chameleon who accidentally winds up in the town of Dirt, a lawless outpost in the Wild West in desperate need of a new sheriff.

In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.

2016 computer animated film by Walt Disney Animation Studios

A look into the daily (or rather, nightly) lives of three vampires, who've lived together for over 100 years, on Staten Island.

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Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts.

Four people and their otherworldly frienemy struggle in the afterlife to define what it means to be good.

2016 American fantasy comedy television series

A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.

The story of Easy Company of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, and their mission in World War II Europe, from Operation Overlord, through V-J Day.

The story of Saitama, a hero that does it just for fun & can defeat his enemies with a single punch.

Various chronicles of deception, intrigue and murder in and around frozen Minnesota. Yet all of these tales mysteriously lead back one way or another to Fargo, North Dakota.

Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes wakes up from a coma to learn the world is in ruins and must lead a group of survivors to stay alive.

American post-apocalyptic drama television series

A suspended lawyer is forced to enroll in a community college with an eccentric staff and student body.

American comedy television series created by Dan Harmon

Comedy series following the exploits of Det. Jake Peralta and his diverse, lovable colleagues as they police the NYPD's 99th Precinct.

Lumen Industries, a company that's looking to take work-life balance to a new level.

A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium.

The Roy family is known for controlling the biggest media and entertainment company in the world. However, their world changes when their father steps down from the company.

The absurd antics of an Indiana town's public officials as they pursue sundry projects to make their city a better place.

Three different but related families face trials and tribulations in their own uniquely comedic ways.

A streetwise, poor young man from Philadelphia is sent by his mother to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins in their Bel-Air mansion.

A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.

American political drama television series (2013-2018)

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