Book type: fiction (6206)
Romania
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Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
London is hunting The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism. Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine, from a murder attempt by the mysterious Hester Shaw -- only to find himself thrown from the city and stranded with Hester in the Out Country. As they struggle to follow the tracks of the city, the sinister plan... continue
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Morte e vida severina : Auto de Natal pernambucano (edição especial 60 anos) by João Cabral de Melo Neto PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Um dos poemas mais populares de João Cabral de Melo Neto, Morte e vida severina dá voz aos retirantes nordestinos e ao rio Capibaripe, em cenas fortes e contundentes. Clara crítica social, o autor descreve a viagem de um sertanejo chamado Severino, que sai de sua terra natal em busca de melhores condições de vida. Durante a jornada, Severino se encontra tantas vezes com a Morte que, desiludido e impotente, percebe que a luta é inútil como ele, tantos outros severinos padecem com a miséria e o abandono. Apenas o nascimento de um bebê, uma criança-severina, renova as esperanças e o espírito cans... continue
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Morte na Praia by Agatha Christie PT
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Arlena Stuart adorava o sol, e era freqüente ver seu lindo corpo bronzeado estendido na praia, o rosto pousado na areia. Só que desta vez não havia sol... ela tinha sido estrangulada. Desde a chegada de Arlena, Poirot tinha percebido algo diferente entre os veranistas, uma tensão sexual pairando no ar. Poderia um crime aparentemente passional ter sido ao mesmo tempo uma ação premeditada, muito mais perversa? Os álibis parecem perfeitos neste empolgante mistério à beira-mar.
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Morte sul peste oeste by André Timm PT
Country: South America / Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Diante do terremoto que arrasou o Haiti, Dominique não vê outra alternativa a não ser converter-se em mais um dos imigrantes que, deixando mulher e filho para trás, se aventura em busca de trabalho no Brasil. Mas ao entrar no país, um incidente o obriga a mudar seus planos radicalmente, lançando-o em uma espiral de preconceito e xenofobia, cujo cenário é o universo brutal das linhas de corte dos frigoríficos no Oeste Catarinense. Brigite, por sua vez, uma menina de treze anos, transexual e aspirante a cineasta, vive uma conturbada r... continue
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Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Adams is back with the amazing, unprecedented, logic-defying, but-why-stop-now fifth novel in the Hitchhiker Trilogy. Random, the daughter of Arthur Dent, has grown up on a remote world at the edge of the universe. Now she sets out on a transgalactic quest to find the planet of her ancestors. . . . Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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PakistanDescription:
In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife and child, an expensive foreign education - and a corrupt father who bankrolls his lavish lifestyle. As jealousy sets in, Daru's life slowly unravels. He loses his job. Starts lacing his joints with heroin. Becomes involved with a criminally-minded rickshaw driver. And falls in love with Ozi's lonely wife. But how low can Daru sink? Is he guilty of the crime he finds himself on trial for?
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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht EN
GermanyDescription:
Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modem stage, Mother Courage and Her Children is Bertolt Brecht s most passionate and profound statement against war. Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ( Mother Courage ), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe s religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and ... continue