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Author
Publisher
Companhia das Letras
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Portuguese
Description
They call themselves 'Captains of the Sands, ' a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys of Bahia. Led by fifteen-year-old 'Bullet, ' the band-including a crafty liar named 'Legless, ' the intellectual 'Professor, ' and the sexually precocious 'Cat'-pulls off heists and escapades against the right and privileged of Brazil. But when a public outcry demands the capture of the 'little...
26) Em chamas
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 2
Publisher
Rocco Jovens Leitores
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Portuguese
36) A esperanc̦a
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume livro 3
Publisher
Rocco Jovens Leitores
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Portuguese
Description
Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings of anger and distrust and serve as their pawn. She must accept responsibility for countless lives in order to change the course of the future of Panem. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. Tthere are new leaders. A...
Author
Series
Language
Portuguese
Description
Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1911, como folhetim do Jornal do Commercio. Ambientado no final do século XIX, o romance tem como figura central o major reformado Policarpo Quaresma, nacionalista extremado cuja visão sublime do Brasil é alvo de desdém e sarcasmo. Se outros livros de Lima Barreto refletem diretamente sobre os reveses de sua trajetória pessoal, este romance versa sobre a vida simples no subúrbio,...
39) Caim: romance
Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
Two decades after Portuguese novelist and Nobel Laureate José Saramago shocked the religious world with his novel The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, in 2009 he again provoked the outrage of the Catholic church with Cain, a satirical and imaginative re-telling of stories from the Old Testament.
Author
Publisher
Sextante
Language
Portuguese
Description
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins...
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