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1) Trash
Language
Portuguese
Description
When three trash-picking boys from Rio's slums find a wallet in amongst the daily detritus of their local dump, little do they imagine that their lives are about to change forever. But when the local police show up, offering a handsome reward for the wallet's return, the boys realize that what they've found must be important.
Language
Portuguese
Description
A multi-sensory language immersion system that uses a story about Muzzy, an extraterrestrial being who pays a visit to the kingdom of Gondoland, to introduce Brazilian Portuguese to learners at the beginning to early intermediate levels. Features words and phrases related to greetings, numbers, shapes, colors, clothing, people, house and home, school, transportation, parts of the body, days, months, seasons, and more.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal,...
Language
Portuguese
Description
Cuca's cozy rural life in Brazil is shattered when his father leaves for the city. Determined to reunite his family, he embarks on a journey into civilization, where despite the harsh life and industrialized landscape, he finds that peoples' hearts continue to beat together in song.
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Series
Harry Potter volume 1
Language
Portuguese
Description
Harry Potter nunca tinha ouvido falar em Hogwarts até o momento em que as CARTAS começam a aparecer no capacho do número 4 da rua dos Alfeneiros. Endereçadas com um LACRE PÚRPURA, elas são repidamente confiscadas por seus tios TERRÍVEIS. E então, no décimo primeiro aniversário de Harry, um homem GIGANTESCO com olhos luzindo como besouros negros chamado RÚBEO HAGRID entra intempestivamente com uma notícia ASSOMBROSA: Harry Potter é um...
Language
Portuguese
Description
Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He's a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family and his wife announces that she wants a divorce. Yet nothing prepares him for the day when he comes home to discover that his fifteen-year-old son, Pedro, has disappeared. Theo takes to the road in search of his son. In a journey that leads him throughout Brazil, Theo discovers what...
Series
Language
Portuguese
Description
Pixote: The life of a boy in the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution and drugs.
Dos monjes: In a Gothic-styled monastery, a monk named Javier sees the face of another monk, Juan, and suddenly attempts to bludgeon him to death with a heavy crucifix. Both men then relate their own versions of a story of romantic rivalry between them. Javier, a consumptive musician, fell in love with and was betrothed to Anita. When his old friend...
9) Pixote
Series
Language
Portuguese
Description
With a blend of harsh realism and aching humanity, Pixote offers an electrifying look at youth fighting to survive on the bottom rung of Brazilian society, and a stinging indictment of the country's military dictatorship and police.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Gay single father Santiago has reached a tipping point in his life. Reeling from a bitter breakup, Santiago is also facing the impending departure of his daughter Laila, with whom he shares a close yet emotionally charged relationship. As the fear of being alone threatens to swallow him whole, his behavior becomes increasingly erratic. Over the course of a chaotic summer divided between Argentina and Brazil, Santiago must learn to let go of Laila...
Author
Language
Portuguese
Description
A raposa levou uma vida longa e feliz na floresta. Mas quando sentiu-se muito, muito cansada, entendeu que era hora de partir. Tristes, os animais da floresta reúnem-se em volta da amiga para relembrar os momentos felizes que viveram junto com ela. Mas uma agradável surpresa irá aquecer o coração de cada um deles e transformar a dor da saudade em um alegre farfalhar de folhas ao vento.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Tito is a shy ten-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quickly discovers that the cure is somehow related to his missing father's research on bird song. He embarks on a journey to save the world from the epidemic with his friends. Tito's search for the antidote becomes a quest for his missing father and his own identity.
Series
Language
Portuguese
Description
"Ten-year-old Pixote (Portuguese slang for 'Peewee') is one of three million homeless children in Brazil. Hauled off to a crowded detention center, wide-eyed Pixote witnesses rapes, beatings and other acts of random violence by both the guards and the inmates. With the transvestite Lilica and his lover Dito, Pixote escapes from the reform school where he and his friends hit the streets alone, embarking on a life of violence and crime."--Container.
Ten-year-old...
14) Boy & the world
Language
Portuguese
Description
An amazing Brazilian animation that truly exemplifies the power of imagery and music as a combination that has more than enough to portray a powerful and deep message. It shows an adventurous quest that illustrates the issues of the modern world through the eyes of a child.
Series
Language
Portuguese
Description
Designed specifically to introduce foreign languages to young children and is the perfect road map to beginning children's language learning journey. Children can learn more than 180 basic Portuguese words and phrases in this 21-episode set. The lovable animated panda combines animation and real kids, teaching simple Portuguese vocabulary to describe everyday activities.