Bruma Publications at the Portuguese Beyond Borders Institute at Fresno State is proud of the partnership we have with Nova Gráfica and Letra Lavadas in Ponta Delgada. The cultural activity and the record number of books published by this Publishing House and BookStore are truly impressive, We highly recommend a visit to the bookstore in Ponta Delgada and if you are visiting any other island in the Azores look for their books at the various arts and crafts and other variety stores.

Building on the theme of the recent Olympics in Paris, Letras Lavadas reminded us that in 2023 they published 73 books. This is astonishing for an archipelago with less than 250 thousand people.

In association with the cultural activities of the city of Ponta Delgada, the Azores Military Museum and Livraria Letras Lavadas are promoting the II Book Fair at Forte de São Brás, between August 13 and 17, with the exception of August 15, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. 📚🛍
At this fair, visitors will be able to buy books from the ‘house’ publisher, but also from other publishers, with discounts of up to 50%. During fair hours, entry to the museum will cost one euro, instead of the usual 3 euros per person.

The book “As Mais Belas Lendas dos Açores” (The Most Beautiful Legends of the Azores) is like an enchanted chest, where the fantasy of children and teenagers will be delighted by the sweet telling of thirty of the most beautiful legends of the nine Azorean islands. 🧡
📚The book is on sale now. Although in Portuguese, we hope to see this book in English in the near future.

One of the most beautiful novels in the world is coming out soon.
Now in Portuguese!

“News from Nowhere” is a prose work by William Morris, published serially in The Commonweal in 1890 and as a book later the same year.

Most of the work consists of a vision of England in the year 2090 presented as a dream of William Guest, a thin disguise for Morris himself. Poverty, misery, and the ugliness of factories have vanished, along with money, the legal system, and government itself; labor, art, and nature are ennobled. Those improvements prove to have been brought about by a violent socialist revolution.

“News from Nowhere” is the best-known novel of William Morris and the only significant English utopia to be written since Thomas More’s.  (from a description on Amazon)

To celebrate the 430th anniversary of the parish of Capelas, a book paying homage to one of São Miguel’s oldest communities.
The book “Paróquia das Capelas – História, Património e Vivências” is dedicated to heritage, sacred art, the cult of generations, and religious experiences.

Letras Lavadas– a cultural center in Ponta Delgada – has many unique activities, book presentations, cultural discussions, etc.

If you are visiting the Azores, any other island than São Miguel, where the bookstore is located, look for their books in local stores or you can order them online if you are in the Azores for a few weeks and they will be delivered to the home where you are staying

in the Azores, Madeira, or mainland Portugal for free.

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