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      • Fiction
        July 2018

        Risk Commitment

        by Maria Ana de Carvalho Ameixa

        Joana, a paediatrician by heart working in the Santa Maria Hospital, is able to read the mind of other people, sort of speak. She’s also waiting for a meeting with love. An unusual incident will take her right to the arms of her loved one, but Joana never imagined that this Israelite would become so deeply mysterious. The mind of that man holds undecipherable thoughts. Is he a terrorist? A member of a radical secret organization? Ho will she act when she finds out the truth?A magnificent plot that will take the main character to Lisbon, Lagos, Jerusalem and Telavive, an unflinching narrative that will make the reader wonder about our goals in life.

      • Fiction
        May 2019

        Assesta's Short Stories - Water

        by Assesta

        In this second volume of short stories by the authors of Assesta (Writers Association of Alentejo), water was the chosen theme to bring to life the imagination of writers and illustrators of Assesta.Short stories or poetic prose wanderings, the reader will find everything in these small texts followed by marvellous illustrations, all made in Alentejo.

      • Fiction
        April 2019

        nothing else to append... book 3

        by Vítor Encarnação, Joaquim Rosa

        A series of two year newspaper chronicles (2017-2019) in the form of beautiful poetic prose, with no particular theme in the background, with the exception of people and their general behaviour towards life, death, family, love or the lack of it, nature, land, home.

      • Fiction
        April 2017

        nothing else to append... book 2

        by Vítor Encarnação, Joaquim Rosa

        A series of two year newspaper chronicles (2015-2017) in the form of beautiful poetic prose, with no particular theme in the background, with the exception of people and their general behaviour towards life, death, family, love or the lack of it, nature, land, home.

      • Fiction
        August 2020

        I Crave For Euthanasia

        by José Martins Gago

        A piercing plot about the choice of life and death. I Crave for Euthanasia tells the story of a man who sees himself struggling with a terminal disease and wishes to take control of his own faith, with the help of his wife. Will she convince the governmental and ecclesiastical institutions to accept the end of her husband suffering and of thousands of other people around the world? Or will the Vatican choose to keep their eyes closed to the petitions of their faithful? In this in-depth novel, José Martins Gago raises questions that leads us to the limits of our own existence, and to debate in our own minds one of the most contemporary controversies of mankind, whilst takes the reader in a journey around the world, to the most exotic and remote places.

      • Fiction
        April 2016

        In The Name Of The Order - The Knights Of The Fig-Tree

        Os Cavaleiros da Figueira

        by Norberto Horta

        Portugal. It is 1546, and after an entire life of sole dedication, Master João da Piedade (John Piety) departs on a final mission in the name of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword. Sent to the plain lands of Além Tejo in an apparently easy task, Master John, with his eternal horse companion Thunder, puts at risk his own life on his Majesty’s service.Unexpectedly, Master John ends his days in the village that would turn out to become Knight’s Fig-Tree (Figueira dos Cavaleiros), after a hard existence powered with exciting adventures and full of emotions.   This is the path to cross... In The Name Of The Order!An outstanding novel with an engaging plot and excellent characters. A stirring adventure full of dramatic battles, slavery, treachery and intrigue, but also love, loss and friendship, that reveals the legacy of a man forever connected to the origins of a village.Peopled with characters both fictional and historical, this debut novel of Norberto Horta is the author’s description of the still unknown origins of Knight’s Fig-Tree (Figueira dos Cavaleiros), a beautiful country village in the heart of Alentejo, in Portugal. Possibly, a true story!

      • Fiction
        February 2018

        The Knight Of Nobody's Land

        by Sinval Medina

        With a combination of documental record and pure fiction, Brazilian Sinval Medina brings us in this great work an historical figure that had his life on the wire in Brazil.Cristóvão Pereira de Abreu, the protagonist, was born in Portugal in 1678, and travelled to Brazil in an early age. Bonded with family ties to the economical elite of Rio de Janeiro, he becomes a man of great local deals. The true life of Cristóvão is novelized here in this stunning journey through the south of Brazil, since he was the man responsible for the discovering of the new land rails to the territories of the South.

      • Fiction
        April 2018

        My House Is Not My House Anymore

        by Eva Guimarães

        What happens when a woman is deprived of her belongings? She left her land for love. Far away, she realizes that all she had dreamed with becomes slowly into a nightmare. Meanwhile, she is unbelievably forced to self-isolation in her own house. Baruch, the dog, was her only and loyal friend. What if she was deprived even from that friend? Fear, harassment, violence.A true story disguised as pure literature that tells the story of a woman that never lost her dignity, despite all the abuse and humiliation. She never stopped fighting for her freedom.

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