# Where can I buy books in Portuguese...Amazon has let me down! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 13, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952 "2003-11-13T02:19:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952/1 "2003-11-13T02:19:45Z")
A friend has recommended that I read a book entitled “A Moreninha” by Joaquim Manuel de Macedo. I would like to buy a copy of the book rather than borrow hers since I tend to underline difficult words (and they usually are plentiful). The problem – Where can I buy books by Brazilian authors on the Internet? I have checked all of the usual suspects and came up empty handed. Maybe I’m just not Googling right, but I get lots of stuff _about_ such books and plenty of pages offering dictionaries and language courses, but not much else. ---
**Author:** ![Peregrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Peregrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peregrine)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952/2 "2003-11-13T03:29:04Z")
I’m thinking [Brazilianbooks.com](http://www.brazilianbooks.com/cgi-bin/brazilian.storefront/EN/Product/5727) might be a good start. Or, there appears to be an online version (PDF file) [here](http://www.protexto.com.br/classicos/a_moreninha.pdf). ---
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952/3 "2003-11-13T04:11:52Z")
Rather ironic you can’t buy Brazilian books at Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952/4 "2003-11-13T12:36:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Peregrine \* > **I’m thinking [Brazilianbooks.com](http://www.brazilianbooks.com/cgi-bin/brazilian.storefront/EN/Product/5727) might be a good start.** Great! This is precisely what I was looking for. I wonder why I couldn’t find this site using Google? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952/5 "2003-11-13T15:10:18Z")
[Schoenhof’s Foreign Books](http://schoenhofs.com/app/search:ccd97e56d9c15879?action=search&keywords=A+moreninha) in Boston, MA is another resource you might try. Nice user name, by the way! It’s a bit of a pain to type, though. You mind if I call you **Locrian** instead? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952/6 "2003-11-14T01:16:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Olentzero \* > \*\*[Schoenhof’s Foreign Books](http://schoenhofs.com/app/search:ccd97e56d9c15879?action=search&keywords=A+moreninha) in Boston, MA is another resource you might try. > > Nice user name, by the way! It’s a bit of a pain to type, though. You mind if I call you **Locrian** instead? 😉 \*\* That’s the one I have been looking for all along. I just ordered three books: _Dom Casmurro_, and _Memórias Postumas de Bras Cubas_ by Machado de Assis, and the aforementioned _A Moreninha_. I don’t have to patiently await a Rio trip to buy my books anymore 🙂 Thanks, folks! And **Olentzero** – a while back, **Musicat** asked me the following in the middle of a heavy discussion about movie projection: > [@](#): > > Question and hijack: what does “bdfa” mean to you? My mind was so far away from the origin of my username that I had absolutely no clue what he was talking about. Of course, he had found the single unique half-diminished chord that has no sharps or flats to give it away. ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952/7 "2003-11-14T03:18:42Z")
Personally I think “A Moreninha” sucks badly… but its your choice. Another site is www.submarino.com.br ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952/8 "2003-11-14T05:34:02Z")
Also, [Half.com](http://Half.com) is a good place to look for books out of print its run by e-bay 😉 ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-buy-books-in-portuguese-amazon-has-let-me-down/212952/9 "2003-11-14T11:52:08Z")
Yea… I read it for one of my classes, I was not very impressed by it. Iracema by José de Alencar is better. Quincas Borba by Machado is even better. One thing about A Moreninha… it is easy read. Much easier than Cidade de Deus. 😉 So you won’t be underlining as much.