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From the author of the critically acclaimed Fruit of the Drunken Treecomes a dazzling, kaleidoscopic memoir about liberating herself fromWestern notions of fact and fiction to reclaim her family's otherworldlylegacy. For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in theColombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?"was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy andviolence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, acommunity healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, curethe sick, and ...

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A visão impactante de uma criança sobre os conflitos culturais dos nossos tempos Chega às livrarias o terceiro volume da premiada série O árabe do futuro, que narra a infância nada comum do quadrinista Riad Sattouf, passada entre a Líbia, a Bretanha e a Síria. No mais novo capítulo da história do adorável menino de cabeleira loura e cacheada e de sua família itinerante, vemos um Riad no alto de seus sete anos, tentando a seu modo se adequar aos costumes e às dinâmicas do vilarejo em que mora na Síria e se entrosar com seus primos e amigos da escola. Entre armas de brinquedo,...

Verano de 1935. En un lago cerca de Berlín, un joven está pescando cuando ve a una mujer recostada en la proa de un barco que pasa. Sus miradas se cruzan... y nace una de las mayores conspiraciones de la historia. Harro Schulze-Boysen ya había derramado sangre en la lucha contra el nazismo cuando Libertas Haas-Heye y él iniciaron su romance arrollador. Ella se sumó a la causa y poco tiempo después los dos amantes ya dirigían una red de luchadores antifascistas repartidos por todo el bajo mundo del Berlín bohemio. El propio Harro se infiltró en la inteligencia alemana para comunicar...