Moon handbooks: Brazil
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Moon handbooks: Brazil

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Author: Michael Sommers Journalist Michael Sommers guides travelers to the best that Brazil has to offer, from surfing, hang gliding, and enjoying the sizzling nightlife in Rio to venturing into the Amazon to witness the Meeting of the Waters, where the Rio Negro and Rio Solimões join to form the world’s mightiest river: the Amazon….

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Lipstick Jungle

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Genre: Drama, Comedy, chick-lit, romance, contemporary.  Author: Candace Bushnell In this book, Victory Ford is the darling of the fashion world. Single, attractive, and iconoclastic, she has worked for years to create her own signature line. As Victory struggles to keep her company afloat, she learns crucial lessons about what she really wants in a relationship….

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The Star Zoo

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Genre: Cientific fiction, Futuristic In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has the…

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

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Genre: children’s novel, Little Lord Fauntleroy is a novel by the English-American writer Frances Hodgson Burnett, her first children’s novel. It was published as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine from November 1885 to October 1886, then as a book by Scribner’s (the publisher of St. Nicholas) in 1886. Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Lord Dorincourt…

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The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-baked Heroes from Comic Book History!

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Genre: Comics, superheroes, graphic novels, humor. Author: “Calamity” Jon Morris You know about Batman, Superman, and Spiderman, but have you heard of Doll Man, Doctor Hormone, or Spider Queen? In The League of Regrettable Superheroes, you’ll meet one hundred of the strangest superheroes ever to see print, complete with backstories, vintage art, and colorful commentary. So prepare yourself…

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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life

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Genre: sports Since the 1950s, when Pelé first started playing, soccer has been how the world sees Brazil, but it is also how Brazilians see themselves. The essence of their game is one in which prodigious individual skills outshine team tactics, where dribbles and delicate flicks are preferred over physical challenges or long-distance passes, where…

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Alpha Library

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▪ Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass ▪ A Midsummer Nights Dream ▪ Animal Farm ▪ Animals Of The World ▪ Arabian Nights ▪ Batman/Superman Vol. 1 ▪ Catch a Thief  ▪ Don Quixote ▪ Eleven short stories ▪ Frankenstein ▪ Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life ▪ Grimms’ Fairy Tales ▪ Harley Quinn – Hot in the city Vol.1 ▪ Heatcliff – Olympic champ ▪ Les…

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Frankenstein

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Author: Mary Shelley Genre: Horror, Gothich Literature, Cientific Fiction, Romance. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18,…

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Grimms’ Fairy Tales

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Author: Brothers Grimm Genre: Fairy Tale, Foklore. Collected by the German Grimm brothers, these folk tales have captured the imaginations of children and adults alike since they were first published in 1812. The best-known stories such as The Golden Goose, Hansel and Gretel, The Frog Prince, and Snow-White and Rose-Red remain as popular today as…