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Books to read to travel to Portugal without ever leaving your home

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  • Three couples travel to the famous big-wave surfing town of Nazare for a destination wedding. What should be an idyllic getaway quickly devolves as secrets and suspicions come to a head, and marriages and friendships crash towards a fatal…
    Book, 2021New York : Minotaur Books, [2021] — JONE
  • Three interconnected stories of great love and great loss, all set in rural Portugal at three different points in the twentieth century. This is a tender and thought-provoking magical realism story of three men and their journeys through the…
    Audiobook CD, 2016New York, NY : Random House Audio, 2016. — AB MART HIG
  • Nothing is as it seems in this thrilling tale of a woman, Ariel, who wakes up in a hotel in Lisbon to discover her relatively new husband, John, has disappeared. As the tension mounts, secrets are revealed and Ariel must turn to someone from her…
    Book, 2022New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2022] — PAVO
  • Transfixed by the works of a Portuguese poet, a middle-aged professor leaves his lonely and dull life behind and journeys to Lisbon. Immersing himself in the streets of Lisbon and the footsteps of the poet’s life, the professor reflects deeply and…
    eBook, New York : Grove Press
  • The Librarian Spy

    a Novel of World War II

    Martin, Madeline,
    As World War II rages in Europe, American librarian Ava is recruited as a spy and sent to Lisbon to gather intelligence using her research skills. At the same time, in occupied France, Elaine takes on a job with the Resistance, helping to run an…
    Large Print, 2023Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2023] — LP MART
  • A twisty thriller about a vacation gone wrong. Best friends Orla and Kate travel to Lisbon for a long overdue girls weekend. But after a night out Orla wakes up to discover Kate is missing. As Orla frantically searches for her friend, she discovers…
    Book, 2021London : Avon, 2021. — ALDE
  • A remote national park in Portugal sets the scene for this atmospheric thriller about the disappearance of a young woman. A pair of siblings, on a trip to reconnect, get caught up in the mystery as they discover a mysterious map and a secretive…
    Book, 2024New York, New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, [2024] — PEAR
  • A rich and beautiful graphic novel about a comic artist whose trip to Portugal helps him break free from the rut he has been living in. This is a dreamy and hopeful story about family, creativity, and coming alive again.
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York : NBM Graphic Novels, [2017] — PEDR
  • Living in a dictatorship in 1967s Portugal, feisty teenager Sonia dreams of being a poet. But her life is upended when her family’s restaurant is shut down, her boyfriend is arrested, and she is forced to work a dangerous job. This novel-in-verse…
    Book, 2024Minneapolis, Minnesota : Carolrhoda Lab, [2024] — MILL