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Author
Series
Inspector Espinosa mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
43) Eden-Brazil
Author
Series
Brazilian literature in translation volume 7
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Adamastor is a freshly divorced, frustrated bureaucrat trying to reinvent his life. Richie is a young, struggling actor. Together with Ernesto, a rakish, expat Argentine showman, they create Eden-Brazil, an ecotourism destination in a stunning swath of coastal rainforest. Inspired to provide visitors with the ultimate return to nature, they decide to stage the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, complete with Adam, Eve, snake, apple, the works....
46) Spilt milk
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly recounts his past to passing nurses, his visiting daughter and the whitewashed ceiling. His eccentric stories are seemingly nothing more than the ramblings of a dying man, yet as he overlaps each confused memory, they begin to coalesce into a brilliant and bitter eulogy for himself and for Brazil. Charting...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
A charismatic salesman's participation in a series of financial scams escalates to the point that he becomes the head of a violent gold mining operation in the Brazilian jungle before forging a relationship with a darkly ambitious woman.
50) Hell's gate
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"1944. As war rages in Europe and the Pacific, Army Intel makes a shocking discovery: a 300-foot Japanese sub marooned and empty, deep in the Brazilian interior. A team of Army Rangers sent to investigate has already gone missing. Now, the military sends Captain R.J. MacCready, a wisecracking, brilliant scientific jack-of-all-trades to learn why the Japanese are there-and what they're planning. Parachuting deep into the heart of Central Brazil, one...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Maurer family prepares to leave Brazil a year after the disappearance and presumed death of the eldest daughter, a tragedy that gives way to the father's bipolar extremes, his long-suffering wife's consequential affair, and the growing awareness of their two surviving children.
52) Resistance
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A young couple, involved in the struggle against the military dictatorship in 1970s Argentina, must flee the country. The brutality and terror of the regime is closing in around them. Friends are being disappeared. Their names are on a list. Time is running out. When they leave, they take with them their infant son, adopted after years of trying for a child without success. They build a new life in Brazil and things change radically. The family grows...
Author
Series
Seven sisters volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Maia D'Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis'--a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva--having been told that their beloved father, who adopted them all as babies, has died. Each of them is handed a tantalizing clue to her true heritage--a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of...
56) Perfect days
Author
Language
English
Description
"A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of one of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writers. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver--that is, until he meets...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Euridice is young, beautiful and ambitious, but when her rebellious sister Guida elopes, she sets her own aspirations aside and vows to settle down as a model wife and daughter. And yet as her husband's professional success grows, so does Euridice's feeling of restlessness. She embarks on a series of secret projects from creating recipe books to becoming the most sought-after seamstress in town -- but each is doomed to failure. Her tradition-loving...
58) The fugitivities
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A singular and powerful debut novel about a young black American learning the difficulties of forming your own identity when society has already assigned you one. Like most recent college graduates, Jonah Winters is unsure of what's next. A young black American raised in France and living in New York City, he tries on a couple of careers only to find that nothing feels right. And as Jonah struggles to envision his future, he feels pressured by his...
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