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1) Medusa
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Portuguese
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Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, but underneath it all they harbor a deep rage. By day they hide behind their manicured facade, and by night they form a masked, vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her view of community,...
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Harry Potter volume 1
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Portuguese
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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...
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Portuguese
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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.
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Portuguese
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100 Regras para Ser Feliz é um livro de auto-ajuda inspirador onde pode encontrar tudo o que precisa de saber para ter uma vida feliz. Neste livro, vai descobrir respostas para muitos dos problemas da vida, o que vai ajudar não só a desenvolver a sua auto-estima como a dar mais significado e alegria à vida, tal como você merece.
Na sua forma iluminada de estar no mundo, Beverley propõe sugestões práticas e estimulantes para sabermos...
Na sua forma iluminada de estar no mundo, Beverley propõe sugestões práticas e estimulantes para sabermos...
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Portuguese
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A Cape Verdean woman who has traveled to Lisbon to reunite with her husband, after two decades of separation, only to arrive mere days after his funeral. Alone in a strange forbidding land, she perseveres and begins to establish a new life. Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival.
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Portuguese
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"Things in this world are always appearing and disappearing. But does a stone really vanish when it turns into sand? And do lost socks really go missing? And, more importantly, do people ever really disappear? This book holds lots of ideas to help you answer the age-old question: where do we go when we disappear?"--P. [4] of cover.
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Portuguese
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Sara is a genderfluid blue-collar worker who lives as her male birth identity by day while caring for her religious grandmother in Sobradinho, a small town in northeast Brazil. Daniel, who teaches in a police academy in southern metropolis Curitiba, has been placed on unpaid leave after a violent incident that's all over the news. The only thing holding him together is his online romance with Sara, whom he has never met in person. When she suddenly...
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Jodie Broom série volume livro 1
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Portuguese
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"Com seu cartão da biblioteca de estudante, que dá a ela a habilidade de viajar no tempo, Jodie descobre que ela e seus amigos podem presenciar eventos históricos e encontrar personagens legendários."
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Portuguese
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"Just released from prison, Léa returns home to the Brasilia favela of Sol Nascente and joins up with her half-sister Chitara, the fearless leader of an all-female gang that steals and refines oil from underground pipes and sells gasoline to a clandestine network of motorcyclists. Living in constant opposition to Jair Bolsonaro's fiercely authoritarian and militarized government, Chitara's women claim the streets for themselves as a declaration of...
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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.
14) Boy & the world
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Portuguese
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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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Portuguese
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Following a spectacular opening number, a lip-synched rendition of Jane Russell's sultry You Kill Me, the film's hero, in voiceover, sets the tale in motion. He has come to Macao in search of Candy, an old friend who he fears has been kidnapped by a shadowy crime syndicate. He searches the city streets, back alleys, gambling dens, and music halls, but Candy's whereabouts elude him, until a larger, more sinister plot comes into focus.
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Portuguese
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The story centers on Val, a hard-working live-in housekeeper in modern-day São Paulo. Val is perfectly content to take care of every one of her wealthy employers' needs, from cooking and cleaning to being a surrogate mother to their teenage son, who she has raised since he was a toddler. But when Val's estranged daughter Jessica shows up, the unspoken but intrinsic class barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray.
18) Aquarius
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Portuguese
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Clara, a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is the only remaining apartment owner in a beautiful older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. As the builders’ tactics to remove Clara become increasingly hostile, Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with. Nominated for the Palm d'Or and the Queer Palm at the **Cannes Film Festival**....
19) Trash
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Portuguese
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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.
20) Blue desert
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Portuguese
Description
Modernist Brazilian sci-fi offering a dreamy take on new age spirituality and the physical realm.