Paulo Coelho
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Paulo Coelho : Adultery
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Linda is 31 years old and, in the eyes of all, a perfect life: she has a loving husband, well-bred children, a rewarding job as a journalist and lives in a magnificent property in Geneva. However, she can no longer pretend to be happy when, in truth, she feels nothing but a growing feeling of indifference and apathy. Until the day she finds a former boyfriend. Jacob is a leading politician and, in an interview, he a…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : Aleph
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Deciding. Changing. Reinventing. Acting. Experimenting. Successful. Oser. Dreaming. Winning. Discover. Demanding. Engaging. Thinking. Belief. Growing. Appearing. Awakening. Sometimes we need to regain a sense of our life, to give it breath and balance. What if a book had the power to make you discover a new world? And if, thanks to the magic of words and history, you start a new chapter in your life? Aleph is this b…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : Brida
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Brida is a young Irish woman with supernatural powers who embarks on an unbridled quest for wisdom and magic. Enchanting characters, wise men, magicians and other mysterious beings will help her discover the world around her while discovering herself. A novel about self-searching, the mysteries of life, love, desire, fidelity and communication.
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : The Alchemist
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"My heart fears suffering," said the young man to the Alchemist, one night that they were looking at the sky without a moon.""Tell him that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. "And that no heart has ever suffered while he was in pursuit of his dreams." Santiago, a young Andalusian shepherd, leaves in search of a treasure buried at the foot of the Pyramids. When he meets the Alchemist in the desert,…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : The Spy
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Arriving in Paris without a penny, Mata Hari quickly imposed herself as a star dancer of the early 20th century. She was indissociable and independent, and seduced the public, enchanting the richest and most powerful men of the time. But her flamboyant way of life made a scandal and soon attracted suspicions while the paranoia seized the country at war. Arrested in 1917 in her hotel room on the Champs-Elysées, she w…
- Historical
- Biography
- Novel
Paulo Coelho : The Fifth Mountain
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Nine centuries B.C.E., God commanded the prophet Elijah to leave Israel, who had fallen into the power of the ungodly kings. His path led him to Phoenicia, to the city of Sarepta, besieged by the Assyrians. There he would lose everything, especially that which he loved. And he would revolt against God. Why evil, tragedy, suffering? To this eternal question of humanity, an angel would give the answer. Elijah would th…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : The Witch of Portobello
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Athena is the adopted daughter of a Lebanese couple. She goes to live in London with her family when the war breaks out in their country, a war of which she predicted the advent and gravity. At the university, she gets acquainted with the one who will be the father of her child. The two young men marry against the opinion of their families, but their marriage does not last long. Being a mother, Athena cannot help bu…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : The Devil and Miss Prym
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"Isolated in a mountainous region, the small village of Bescos lives as if out of time. Evil does not seem to have taken place. Until the day when a mysterious stranger occurs. Temptation and envy enter the hearts of the inhabitants: the village has seven days to choose between honor and misery, crime and fortune. Is man born good or bad? Through the thoughts of Miss Prym, the young and pretty barmaid of the hotel, …
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : The Pilgrimage
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In 1986, Paulo Coelho began the pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostela, on the road taken by millions of believers since the Middle Ages. From this initiatory journey, the stages of which he recounts here, the man came out transformed, convinced that "the extraordinary is on the path of ordinary people". He restores, in a simple and fluid style, his adventure as a universal experience. "This edition is published with …
- Biography
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : The Zahir
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A famous writer questions all the principles that governed his life when his wife disappeared without leaving any trace. As he travels from Paris to Central Asia, he crosses the steppe, his desert, his magic and his legends to find the one that gives more meaning to his life. Paulo Coelho revisits ancient myths and distant traditions to evoke the themes of the quest for love, eternal woman, pilgrimage, the search fo…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : The Valkyries
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In 1988, the year in which the Alchemist was published, Paulo Coelho and his wife, Chris, began a forty-day journey into the Mojave Desert, California. There they met Vahalla, the first of the Valkyries – the mysterious bunch of women crisscrossing the desert on horseback. Following his example, Paulo Coelho faced the demons of his past, sought his guardian angel and asked: Are we condemned to destroy what we love m…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : Maktub
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Maktub is a collection of stories, parables that, if they have no claim to constitute an apprenticeship, represent a colorful treasure of wisdom in fragments. These short texts, inspired to the author by the most diverse sources and folklores, were born from a contribution by Paulo Coelho to the Brazilian daily La Folha de São Paulo. In view of the success encountered by the section, the author decided to select his…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : Manual of the Warrior of Light
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The warriors of light recognize themselves at first glance. They are in the world, they are part of the world. Often, they find that their life has no meaning. But they have not renounced to give it one. They question themselves, refuse passivity and fatalism. This is what makes them warriors of light. This short, simple and precious book offers a true synthesis of Paulo Coelho's humanist philosophy: a message of tr…
- Novel
- Essay
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : Eleven Minutes
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"Every young Brazilian from the Nordeste, Maria only aspires to the Adventure, to the Great Love. During a week of holiday in Rio de Janeiro, on the beach of Copacabana, a Swiss offers her to become a cabaret dancer in Geneva. She sees there the beginning of a fairy tale ... But the reality will be very different. Maria comes to prostitute herself - without shame, since she teaches her soul not to complain about wha…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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A story of love contains all the secrets of the world. Pilar and his companion have known each other in childhood, far away during their adolescence, and here they find themselves eleven years later. She, a woman to whom life has learned to be strong and not to be overwhelmed by her feelings. He, a man who has the gift to heal others and seeks in religion a solution to his inner conflicts. Both are united by the des…
- Novel
- Self-help
Paulo Coelho : Veronika Decides to Die
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Veronika has the same dreams, the same desires as all the young people of the world. She has a reasonable job and lives in a small apartment, thus offering the pleasure of having a corner to her. She goes to bars, meets men. Yet, she is not happy. Something she misses. So, on the morning of November 11, 1997, Veronika decides to die. Imagination and dreams, love and madness. Desire and death. As she approaches, Vero…
- Novel
- Self-help
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