The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression
By: Luiz Schwarcz
3.59
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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2. Holocausto Brasileiro
By: Daniela Arbex
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Neste livro-reportagem fundamental, a premiada jornalista Daniela Arbex resgata do esquecimento um … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- psychology
3. Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
By: Alan W. Watts , Mark Watts
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mark Watts compiled this book from his father's extensive journals and audiotapes of famous lecture… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- audiobook
4. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
By: Clayborne Carson , Martin Luther King Jr.
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Using Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including previously unpubl… read more
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5. Mar Morto
By: Jorge Amado
4.00
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Escrito em 1936, quando o autor tinha apenas 24 anos, Mar morto conta as historias da beira do cais… read more
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6. The Hundred-Year House
By: Rebecca Makkai
4.29
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents' wealth but nevertheless … read more
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7. Tudo é Rio
By: Carla Madeira
4.26
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Por este livro passa um rio. Em sua correnteza, a obsessão de três personagens que não sabem desist… read more
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"Deus não é um lugar de certeza, é só um pouco de esperança."-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
"Um dia feliz tem mais poder que a tristeza de uma vida inteira"-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
"Quem vê de fora faz arranjos melhores, mas é dentro, bem no lugar que a gente não vê, que o não dar conta ocupa tudo."-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
"Não sabia se livrar daquele sentir, e do sentir para o consentir é só um tombinho de nada, basta um descuido para quem está andando tropeçar."-Carla Madeira, Tudo é Rio
8. Torto Arado
By: Itamar Vieira Junior
4.49
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018) e Jabuti, finalista do Oceanos (2020). Um livro comovente que traz… read more
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"Olha, dona"-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado
"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado
"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado
9. Pequena Coreografia do Adeus
By: Aline Bei
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Julia é filha de pais separados: sua mãe não suporta a ideia de ter sido abandonada pelo marido, en… read more
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"fui a criança mais velha do mundo e estava me tornando a jovem mais antiga da rua"-Aline Bei, Pequena Coreografia do Adeus
10. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- memoir
- psychology
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
11. Anaïs Nin - Sur la mer des mensonges
By: Léonie Bischoff
4.20
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Début des années 30. Anaïs Nin vit en banlieue parisienne et lutte contre l’angoisse de sa vie d’ép… read more
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- nonfiction
12. Véspera
By: Carla Madeira
4.34
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Novo romance da autora do fenômeno Tudo é rio, Véspera retoma a escrita brilhante e contagiante de … read more
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"Mas, no coração, tudo que vaza é vermelho. A omissão sangra o amor a conta-gotas e o perde um pouco a cada dia. Pode durar anos, como durou, até que o silêncio irrompa com a força do tempo."-Carla Madeira, Véspera
13. A palavra que resta
By: Stênio Gardel
4.05
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Uma carta guardada por mais de cinquenta anos — e jamais lida. É essa a relíquia que Raimundo leva … read more
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14. Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice
By: Christine Kenneally
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, … read more
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- nonfiction
- religion
- history
- audiobook
15. O Som do Rugido da Onça
By: Micheliny Verunschk
3.86
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Neste romance embebido de lirismo, Micheliny Verunschk joga luz sobre a história de duas crianças i… read more
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- audiobook
16. A Vida Não É Útil
By: Ailton Krenak
4.37
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Em reflexões provocadas pela pandemia de covid-19, o pensador e líder indígena Ailton Krenak volta … read more
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- nonfiction
"Somos nós a praga que veio devorar o mundo."-Ailton Krenak, A Vida Não É Útil
"Vida é transcendência, está para além do dicionário, não tem uma definição."-Ailton Krenak, A Vida Não É Útil
"Viver a experiência de fruir a vida de verdade deveria ser a maravilha da existência."-Ailton Krenak, A Vida Não É Útil
"Os seres humanos não têm certificado, podem dar errado. Essa noção de que a humanidade é predestinada é bobagem."-Ailton Krenak, A Vida Não É Útil
17. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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- mental health
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
18. The Nursery
By: Szilvia Molnar
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more
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- psychology
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"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
19. Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
By: Camonghne Felix
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When Camonghne Felix goes through a monumental breakup, culminating in a hospital stay, everything… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
"It is through living, then dying, and living to die again that we discover what being alive is supposed to mean at all."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Pythagoreans believed that there are three ways humanity improves, one of which is dying. Death is biological, but where it is also metaphysical is where I find delight."-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Math is a form of faith, a faith of its own dynamic and complex language system, and to speak it is to agree to its principles: Input begets output. One becomes the other. One variable is subject to …"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
"Nobody has to care about what hurts you because that's not their job. It's not the world's job to understand you, it's your job to understand the world. And the more you understand it, the more you l…"-Camonghne Felix, Dyscalculia: A Love Story of Epic Miscalculation
20. Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By: Daniel Finkelstein
4.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy… read more
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- world war ii
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
21. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz
By: József Debreczeni
4.53
Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition
The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more
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- history
- memoir
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
22. Estela Sem Deus
By: Jeferson Tenório
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A vida soube ser difícil durante a era Collor, especialmente para a delicada e forte Estela. Aos tr… read more
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23. Barbara Isn't Dying Yet
By: Alina Bronsky
3.74
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, “comfortable” confines of traditional ge… read more
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24. O exercício da incerteza
By: Drauzio Varella
4.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
Relato franco da experiência de mais de cinquenta anos de carreira de Drauzio Varella, este livro é… read more
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25. The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter
By: Josef Lewkowicz
4.20
Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition
WINNER OF THE CANADIAN JEWISH LITERARY AWARD FOR HOLOCAUST LITERATURE An amazing, untold story of … read more
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- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- holocaust
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26. Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of His Family, and the Secret History of Poland in World War II
By: Judy Rakowsky
4.04
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
" Jews in the Garden reads like the best of narrator-guided murder-mysteries. But in this case the … read more
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- history
- memoir
- world war ii
- nonfiction
- holocaust
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27. Três camadas de noite
By: Vanessa Barbara
4.24
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Neste tão aguardado retorno ao romance, a escritora, jornalista e tradutora Vanessa Barbara se debr… read more
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28. Essa Coisa Viva
By: Maria Esther Maciel
3.48
Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition
Quando completa um ano da morte de sua mãe, que vivia no interior de Minas Gerais, uma botânica de … read more
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29. The Absent Moon: A Memoir of a Short Childhood and a Long Depression
By: Luiz Schwarcz
3.59
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A literary sensation in Brazil and now a global publishing event, Luiz Schwarcz's wise and tender m… read more
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- mental health
- world war ii
- biography memoir
- religion
- nonfiction
- holocaust
- audiobook
30. Estela a esta hora
By: Natália Zuccala
3.42
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
Uma residente de medicina divide seu tempo entre o hospital e a pensão modesta onde mora. A rotina … read more
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31. Puro
By: Nara Vidal
4.31
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
«São três mulheres velhas que moram em uma casa grande, também velha. Há no casarão um menino de m… read more
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