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    <title>The Elegance of the Hedgehog</title>
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    <author_name>Naomi Alderman</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[O Clube do Crime das Quintas-feiras]]></title>
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    <title>Demon Copperhead</title>
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    <author_name>Barbara Kingsolver</author_name>
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    <author_name>Matt Dinniman</author_name>
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                                      author: Matt Dinniman<br/>
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    <title>Travel Light</title>
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  <i>Riding on that horse you would need nothing, no cloak even. She dropped it on the edge of the marshland. Nothing. You could travel light.</i>
</b><br /><br />Halla is the daughter of a king, cast out as a baby into a world of danger and enchantment. She is raised by bears, lives amongst dragons, converses with Valkyries and avoids warmongering heroes. But times are changing, and an encounter with the Wanderer, Odin All-Father, finds her at a crossroads. Cutting a fold from his night-blue cloak and laying it over her shoulders, the Wanderer sends her on a journey into the unknown. With only her bear-like kindness, her dragonish wisdom and her own fierce spirit to guide her, Halla must forge her own path . . . <br /><br />Weaving folklore, fairy tale and Norse myth into a shimmering, witty and slyly subversive tapestry, <i>Travel Light</i> is a rediscovered gem of classic fantasy writing - perfect for fans of Tolkien, Philip Pullman and Ursula K. Le Guin.<br /><br /><b>A rediscovered fantasy classic, introduced by Samantha Shannon</b>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Naomi Mitchison</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[It Used to be Witches: Under the Spell of Queer Cinema]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[A Obscena Senhora D e Outras Histórias]]></title>
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  <strong> Uma obra provocadora e profundamente crua, muitas vezes tomada como imoral, que rompeu cânones literários e expandiu horizontes.</strong>
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</p><p>Cultivou uma escrita provocadora e muitas vezes considerada imoral e atentatória dos bons costumes; libertou a linguagem de espartilhos formais; misturou a ficção mais desabrida com a biografia confessional mais comovente e o lirismo sempre latente: resgatada da marginalidade nos anos recentes, Hilda Hilst tem arrebatado os leitores e a crítica. A sua voz hipnótica não deixa ninguém indiferente.</p><br /><p>Neste livro – composto por histórias escritas ao longo de onze anos, várias das quais até agora inéditas em Portugal – somos iniciados nos temas de eleição de uma escritora inquietada e inquietante: o sexo, a insanidade, a relação com o pai, as escolhas da mulher numa sociedade castradora, o lugar da escritora num panorama impreparado para a receber.</p><br /><p> «Fico pensando em todos os motivos que levam de repente uma pessoa a escrever e penso que a raiz disso em mim está na vontade de ser amada, numa avidez pela vida. Quem sabe também se não é uma necessidade de viver o transitório com intensidade, uma força oculta que nos impele a descobrir o segredo das coisas. Uma necessidade imperiosa de ir ao âmago de nós mesmos, um estado passional diante da existência, uma compaixão pelos seres humanos, pelos animais, pelas plantas.» –<strong> Hilda Hilst</strong></p><br /><p>Inclui <strong><em>A obscena senhora D</em></strong>; <strong><em>Com os meus olhos de cão</em></strong>; <strong><em>Rútilo nada</em></strong> (Prémio Jabuti); e a chamada «trilogia obscena», composta por <strong><em>O caderno rosa de Lori Lamby</em></strong>, <strong><em>Contos d’escárni</em>o</strong> e <strong><em>Cartas de um sedutor</em></strong>.</p>]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Hilda Hilst</author_name>
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    <author_name>Choi Jin-young</author_name>
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    <author_name>Mariko Tamaki</author_name>
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</p><p>The Curies' newly discovered element of radium makes gleaming headlines across the nation as the fresh face of beauty, and wonder drug of the medical community. From body lotion to tonic water, the popular new element shines bright in the otherwise dark years of the First World War.</p><p>Meanwhile, hundreds of girls toil amidst the glowing dust of the radium-dial factories. The glittering chemical covers their bodies from head to toe; they light up the night like industrious fireflies. With such a coveted job, these "shining girls" are the luckiest alive—until they begin to fall mysteriously ill.</p><p>But the factories that once offered golden opportunities are now ignoring all claims of the gruesome side effects, and the women's cries of corruption. And as the fatal poison of the radium takes hold, the brave shining girls find themselves embroiled in one of the biggest scandals of America's early 20th century, and in a groundbreaking battle for workers' rights that will echo for centuries to come.</p><p>Written with a sparkling voice and breakneck pace, <em>The Radium Girls</em> fully illuminates the inspiring young women exposed to the "wonder" substance of radium, and their awe-inspiring strength in the face of almost impossible circumstances. Their courage and tenacity led to life-changing regulations, research into nuclear bombing, and ultimately saved hundreds of thousands of lives.</p>]]></book_description>
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    <title>I&apos;m Glad My Mom Died</title>
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    <title>Witchcraft for Wayward Girls</title>
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    <title>It&apos;s Not Her</title>
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    <author_name>Mary Kubica</author_name>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Gun Show!<br /><br />The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face.<br /><br />The Iron Tangle. An impossibly complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down. Down is up. Close is far. The cars are filled with monsters, the railway stations are less than safe, and the exit is always just a few stops away.<br /><br />But there is hope. For the first time, the crawlers are all working together. The loot is better than ever. And the secret to unraveling it all may be hidden in the pages of a seemingly useless book.<br /><br />Welcome, crawlers. Welcome to the fourth floor of the dungeon.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Matt Dinniman</author_name>
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    <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:25:56 -0700]]></pubDate>
    <title>The Home for Unwanted Girls</title>
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    <author_name>Rufi Thorpe</author_name>
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    <author_name>Monika Peetz</author_name>
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    <author_name>José Rodrigues dos Santos</author_name>
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                                      rating: 3<br/>
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    <author_name>Sophie Kinsella</author_name>
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    <author_name>Shirley Jackson</author_name>
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    <user_rating>4</user_rating>
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                                      author: Shirley Jackson<br/>
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                                      average rating: 3.98<br/>
                                      book published: 2016<br/>
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    <title>A Nossa Parte da Noite</title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish.<br /><br />Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died.<br /><br />Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her.]]></book_description>
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                                      rating: 1<br/>
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    <book_id>14891</book_id>
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    <author_name>Naomi Novik</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver]]></title>
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                                      author: Mary Oliver<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[<b>A world divided.</b><br /><b>A queendom without an heir.</b><br /><b>An ancient enemy awakens.</b><br /><br />The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door.<br /><br />Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.<br /><br />Across the dark sea, Tané has trained all her life to be a dragonrider, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.<br /><br />9781635570298<br /><br />An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42754834-the-priory-of-the-orange-tree" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a>.]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Samantha Shannon</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and mostly elderly residents. Neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building, and despite Rosemary's reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband takes a special shine to them. Shortly after Guy lands a plum Broadway role, Rosemary becomes pregnant, and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare. As the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castavets' circle is not what it seems...]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Ira Levin</author_name>
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                                      author: Ira Levin<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tomie 1 (The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection, #1)]]></title>
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    <book_id>13633</book_id>
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    <author_name>Junji Ito</author_name>
    <isbn>1588990842</isbn>
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    <book_id>35526715</book_id>
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    <title><![CDATA[Assassin's Fate (The Fitz and the Fool, #3)]]></title>
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      <num_pages>952</num_pages>
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    <author_name>Ana Maria Gonçalves</author_name>
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    <author_name>Ira Levin</author_name>
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    <title><![CDATA[Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)]]></title>
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  <i>What would you change if you could go back in time?</i>
</b><br /><br />In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.<br /><br />In <i>Before the Coffee Gets Cold</i>, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café’s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.<br /><br />But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the café, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .<br /><br />Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]></book_description>
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    <author_name>Toshikazu Kawaguchi</author_name>
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                                      average rating: 3.63<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[O árabe do futuro: Uma juventude no Oriente Médio (1978 - 1984)]]></title>
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    <book_id>25444833</book_id>
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    <author_name>Riad Sattouf</author_name>
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                                      author: Riad Sattouf<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.18<br/>
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                                      author: Robin Hobb<br/>
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                                      average rating: 4.55<br/>
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    <book_description><![CDATA[From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life.<br /><br />Why do we read? What is it that we hope to take away from the intimate, personal experience of reading for pleasure?<br /><br />Rarely do we ask these profound, expansive questions of ourselves and of our relationship to the joy of reading. But in this gentle, philosophical collection celebrating books, reading and language, Hwang Bo-reum doesn't just tell us, but shows us what living a life immersed in reading means.<br /><br />Every Day I Read provides many quiet moments for introspection and reflection, encourages book-lovers to explore what reading means to each of us. While this is a book about books, at its heart is an attitude to life, one outside capitalism and climbing the corporate ladder. Readers and non-readers will take away something from it, including a treasure trove of book recommendations blended seamlessly within.]]></book_description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy]]></title>
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    <title><![CDATA[Fool's Assassin (The Fitz and the Fool, #1)]]></title>
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    <author_name>Robin Hobb</author_name>
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                                      review: <br/>Have I ever despised a character more than Fitz? <br /> I scream, for I do not know. <br /><br />How can anyone with so much training be such an absolute moron? So dumb? It boggles the mind, it defies all logic. My burden is to be strong enough not to find something to burn while I read this trilogy, and to work on my character flaw of kinda wishing he had died 10 books ago *side eye*<br /><br />BUT other than this unprecedented idiot, I really enjoyed this book, the pace, the settings, and LOVE Bee!<br/>
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    <title><![CDATA[No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain]]></title>
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    <title>What Does It Feel Like?</title>
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