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📖 "Human Rights: The Case for the Defence" | Shami Chakrabarti | Penguin Books

🇬🇧 "Our human rights are endangered. After the devastation of World War Two the international community united to enshrine fundamental rights to refuge, health, education and living standards. They protected privacy, fair trials and free speech and outlawed torture, slavery and discrimination. Their goal was greater global justice, equality and peace. That settlement is now under attack from opponents on both left and right and populist and authoritarian movements worldwide. Simultaneously, we are threatened by war, inequality, new tech and climate catastrophe, crises human rights can help us address.

In this urgent, powerful book, Shami Chakrabarti, demonstrates why human rights matter and why we need to secure further rights to deal with challenges of the present and future. Outlining the historic national and international struggles for human rights, from ancient Babylon to the present day, Chakrabarti is an indispensable guide to the law and logic underpinning human dignity and universal freedoms. This book equips supporters in the battle of ideas and will encourage doubters to think again.

To believe in human rights is to believe in human beings. If they - and we - are to survive, these rights must be owned and understood by everyone."

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📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 | Piso 1, Lisboa📍

📖 “A Beleza de Viver Duas Vezes" | Sharon Stone | Guerra e Paz

"Uma hemorragia cerebral fez com que Sharon Stone, uma das actrizes mais famosas do mundo, visse a saúde, a carreira, a família, a fortuna e a fama desabarem como um castelo de cartas. Agora conta na primeira pessoa o lento caminho de recuperação e como reconstruiu a vida. Num meio que não aceita o fracasso, Stone encontrou forças para voltar, coragem para falar e vontade de fazer a diferença na vida de homens, mulheres e crianças em todo o mundo.

Num tom pessoal e intimista, faz revelações chocantes sobre os bastidores de Instinto Fatal e outros papéis, fala das maiores decepções e das grandes concretizações. Conta como passou de uma infância traumática e violenta para uma carreira numa indústria onde acabou por encontrar o mesmo tipo de problemas, mas disfarçados pelo dinheiro e o glamour. Descreve também a força e o propósito que encontrou nos filhos e nas causas humanitárias a que se dedica e como se reconciliou com a família."

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📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 - Piso 1, Lisboa📍

📖 "Before We Say Goodbye" | Toshikazu Kawaguchi | Pan MacMillan

🇬🇧 "Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?

The regulars at the magical Cafe Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary, secret menu time travel offering. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family, and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks and there are rules to follow. Travellers must have visited the cafe previously and most importantly, must return to the present in the time it takes for their coffee to go cold.

In the tradition of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, readers will once again be introduced to a new set of visitors:

The husband with something important left to say; the woman who couldn’t bid her dog farewell; the woman who couldn’t answer a proposal; the daughter who drove her father away...

In the hauntingly beautiful Before we say goodbye, Kawaguchi invites us to join his characters as they embark on a journey to revisit one crucial moment in time."

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📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 | Piso 1, Lisboa📍

📖 "Strangers - A Memoir of Marriage" | Belle Burden | Ebury Publishing

🇬🇧 How do we go on when a loved one betrays us?

On a chilly day in March of 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Belle Burden’s husband of twenty years announced, with no prior warning, that he was leaving her. His decision shocked Belle to her core: she believed he was a happy man, a committed partner, and a devoted father to their three children.

She thought he was a man who had settled into the life he had always wanted: a successful career, summers spent at their beloved home on Martha’s Vineyard, lots of tennis. Overnight, he transformed from her steady companion into a stranger.

As she pieces her life together in the wake of a loss she had never imagined coming, she finds she is much stronger than she ever expected.

Exploring the transformation of a shy, quiet girl, nicknamed Belle the Good to a powerful, brave, determined woman who has learned to use her voice to expose the patriarchal structures that have forced women to be discreet and compliant for far too long, Strangers is a must-read memoir of self-discovery."

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📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 | Piso 1, Lisboa📍

🇬🇧 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 📚 There are always a few books that naturally stand out in our readers choices. The ones we find ourselves seeing again and again throughout the month. In June, these were the titles that the most readers took home with them. Shall we get to know the list? ;)

🎖️ Here’s our June Top Picks in English and Portuguese books!

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🇵🇹 𝐎𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐬 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐬 𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐡𝐨📚 Há sempre alguns livros que se destacam naturalmente nas escolhas dos leitores. Aqueles que voltamos a ver várias vezes ao longo do mês. Em Junho, foram estes os títulos que mais pessoas levaram consigo. Vamos conhecê-los? ;)

🎖️ Aqui está o nosso Top Picks de Junho de livros em inglês e livros em português!

📚 Esperamos por si. Boas leituras!

📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 - 1 piso, Lisboa📍

📖 “Yesteryear” | Caro Claire Burke | HarperCollins

🇬🇧 “Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle - and has the social media accounts to prove it. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautiful than the last. So what if there are nannies and producers and industrial-grade ovens behind the scenes? What Natalie’s followers don’t know won’t hurt them.

Then, one morning, Natalie wakes up in a strange, horrible version of reality. Her home, her husband, her children—they’re all familiar, but something’s off. Is this a hoax? A reality show? A test from God? Natalie knows just two things for sure: this isn’t her perfect life, and she must escape, by any means possible.”

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📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 | Piso 1, Lisboa📍

📖 “Greek Lessons" | Han Kang | Penguin Books

🇬🇧 In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon they discover a deeper pain binds them. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it's the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages.

Greek Lessons is a tender love letter to human connection, a novel to awaken the senses, vividly conjuring the essence of what it means to be alive."

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📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 | Piso 1, Lisboa📍

📖 “The Book-Makers” | Adam Smyth | Penguin Books

🇬🇧 “The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.

Some of these names we know. We meet jobbing printer (and American Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin. We watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the early twentieth century and the fifteenth. Others have been forgotten. We don’t remember Sarah Eaves, wife of John Baskerville, and her crucial contribution to the history of type. Nor Charles Edward Mudie, populariser of the circulating library – and the most influential figure in book publishing before Jeff Bezos. Nor William Wildgoose, who meticulously bound Shakespeare’s First Folio, and then disappeared from history.

The Book-Makers puts people back into the story of the book. It takes you inside the print-shop as the deadline looms and the adrenaline flows – from 1492 Fleet Street to 2023 New York. It’s a story of contingencies and quirks, of successes and failures, of routes forward and paths not taken. The Book-Makers is a history of book-making that leaves ink on your fingers, and it shows why the printed book will continual to flourish.”

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📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 | Piso 1, Lisboa📍

📖 “I Hope This Finds You Well” | Kate Baer | Orion Publishing

🇬🇧 “I’m sure you could benefit from jumping on a treadmill’

‘Women WANT a male leader . . . It’s honest to god the basic human playbook’

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These are some of the thousands of messages that Kate Baer has received online. Like countless other writers - particularly women - with profiles on the internet, as Kate’s online presence grew, so did the darker messages crowding her inbox. These missives from strangers have ranged from ‘advice’ and opinions to outright harassment.

At first, these messages resulted in an immediate delete and block. Until, on a whim, Kate decided to transform the cruelty into art, using it to create fresh and intriguing poems. These pieces, along with ones made from notes of gratitude and love, as well as from the words of public figures, have become some of her most beloved work.

I Hope This Finds You Well is drawn from those works: a book of poetry birthed in the darkness of the internet that offers light and hope. By cleverly building on the harsh negativity and hate women often receive - and combining it with heart-warming messages of support, gratitude, and connection, Kate Baer offers us a lesson in empowerment, showing how we too can turn bitterness into beauty.

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📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 | Piso 1, Lisboa📍

📖 “Doppelganger" | Naomi Klein | Penguin Books

🇬🇧 "What if you woke up one morning and found you'd acquired another self-a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you'd devoted your life to fighting against?

Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience-she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who.

Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise.

Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?"

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📍Time Out Market Lisboa | Av. 24 de Julho 49 | Piso 1, Lisboa📍