John Updike

Ink spot on base, dust jacket has edge clipped. See photos. Otherwise pristine. Fitst Trade Edition 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

Trista+a1o, an African-Brazilian street kid, and Isabel, an upper-class teen fresh from convent school, fall in love and flee from her rich father and the toughs he has sent in pursuit of them. Simultaneous.

Brazil

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Alabama

Brazil, Paradise of Gemstones

Samuel Park

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

A FALL 2018 HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SELECTION BY * PEOPLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY * VULTURE * CHICAGO TRIBUNE * THE MILLIONS * FAST COMPANY * SEATTLE TIMES * ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH * BOOKPAGE * BOOKRIOT * CONDE NAST TRAVELER * "[A] luminous mother-daughter saga."—ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "Lovely and heartbreaking."—PEOPLE "A beautiful testament to [Park’s] extraordinary talents as a storyteller…A ferocious page-turner."—KIRKUS REVIEWS (STARRED REVIEW) From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes a gorgeous, emotionally wise tale about a daughter who unearths the hidden life of her enigmatic mother. Mara Alencar's mother Ana is her moon, her sun, her stars. Ana, a struggling voice-over actress, is an admirably brave and recklessly impulsive woman who does everything in her power to care for her little girl. With no other family or friends her own age, Ana eclipses Mara's entire world. They take turns caring for each other—in ways big and small. Their arrangement begins to unravel when Ana becomes involved with a civilian rebel group attempting to undermine the city's torturous Police Chief, who rules over 1980s Rio de Janeiro with terrifying brutality. Ana makes decisions that indelibly change their shared life. When Mara is forced to escape, she emigrates to California as an undocumented immigrant and finds employment as a caregiver to a young woman dying of stomach cancer. It’s here that she begins to grapple with her turbulent past and starts to uncover vital truths—about her mother, herself, and what it means to truly take care of someone. Told with vivid imagery and subtle poignancy, The Caregiver is a moving and profound story that asks us to investigate who we are—as children and parents, immigrants and citizens, and ultimately, humans looking for vital connectivity

The Caregiver

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Tight binding. Pages in like new condition. 


Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

The Ruler of the Springs: A Tale from Brazil

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Minnesota

"A novel that opens with a young man's murder on the day of the tumultuous 2007 election in Kenya, but then goes into the history of his family and of the splintered African nation around them--in scenes stretching back to a shocking political assassination in 1969 and the Mau Mau uprisings against British colonial rule in the 1950s"--

Dust

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Darcy. Ribeiro

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Maira

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Jeremy V. Jones

Obvious shelf wear on the jacket. Slight tear at the top of the spine. Small series of dog ears at the bottom right that transfers through to a series of pages. Pages in decent shape. Acceptable. Sharp photography. Please see photos for transparency.

Ohio

Toward the Goal: The Kaká Story (Revised Edition)

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Daniel Galera

Alison Entrekin

Oregon

"A young man wakes up at dawn to drive to the Andes, to climb the Cerro Bonete--a mountain untouched by ice axes and climbers, one of the planet's final mountains to be conquered--as an act of heroic bravado, or foolishness. But instead, he finds himself dragged, by the undertow of memory, to Esplanada, the neighborhood he grew up in, to the brotherhood of his old friends, and to the clearing in the woods where he witnessed an act that has run like a scar through the rest of his life. Back in Esplanada, the young man revisits his initiation into adulthood and recalls his boyhood friends who formed a strange and volatile pack..."--

The Shape of Bones

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New Jersey

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Investing in BRIC Countries: Evaluating Risk and Governance in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

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Joseph A. Page

This book is aged, but it is really good condition otherwise.

A country warmly hospitable and surprisingly violent, physically beautiful, yet appallingly poor--these are the contrasts Joseph Page explores in The Brazilians, a monumental book on one of the most colorful and paradoxical places on earth.Once one of the strongest market economies in the world, Brazil now struggles to emerge from a deep economic and social crisis, the latest and deepest nose-dive in a giddy roller-coaster ride that Brazilians have experienced over the past three decades. Page examines Brazil in the context of this current crisis and the events leading up to it. In so doing, he reveals the unique character of the Brazilian people and how this national character has brought the country to where it is today--teetering on the verge of joining the First World, or plunging into unprecedented environmental calamity and social upheaval. Not since Luigi Barzini's The Italians has a society been so deeply and accurately portrayed.

The Brazilians

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Missouri

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Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes

From leading global voice in palliative care Dr. Ana Claudia Quintana Arantes comes the international bestseller Death Is a Day Worth Living, now in English for the first time. Lyrical and tender, this book outlines a revolutionary vision for us to reconsider the act of dying so that we may fully live.

Death Is a Day Worth Living

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Dan Smith

This is a library withdrawal 
Proceeds will go to my son’s teacher for the book fairs- to allow each student to go home with something during these days. 

Maine

Leaving behind his life of violence in Brazil's darkest shadows, Zico is determined to become a better man. But it seems his old life isn't quite done with him yet when he's tasked with making one last kill. It's one that could get him everything he has ever wanted; a house, some land, cash in his pocket, a future for him and his girlfriend, Daniella. But this one isn't like all the others. This one comes at a much higher price.The Darkest Heart is a journey through the shadowy heart of Brazil and the even darker mind of a killer, where fear is a death sentence and the only chance of survival might mean abandoning the only good thing you've ever known.

The Darkest Heart

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Frances De Pontes Peebles

Pennsylvania

The Air You Breathe 

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Giant Brazil

National Geographic Magazine - September 1962

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Massachusetts

Diana Giovinazzo

Iowa

Experience the epic life story of Anita Garibaldi, the courageous, headstrong revolutionary who fought for freedom and self-determination in 19th-century Brazil, Uruguay, and Italy -- and had one of the most passionate love affairs in history. Destiny toys with us all, but Anita Garibaldi is a force to be reckoned with. Forced into marriage at a young age, Anita feels trapped in a union she does not want. But when she meets the leader of the Brazilian resistance, Giuseppe Garibaldi, in 1839, everything changes. Swept into a passionate affair with the idolized mercenary, Anita's life is suddenly consumed by the plight to liberate Southern Brazil from Portugal -- a struggle that would cost thousands of lives and span almost ten bloody years. Little did she know that this first taste of revolution would lead her to cross oceans, traverse continents, and alter the course of her entire life -- and the world. At once an exhilarating adventure and an unforgettable love story, The Woman in Red is a sweeping, illuminating tale of the feminist icon who became one of the most revered historical figures of South America and Italy.

The Woman in Red

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A spectacularly heartwarming story about food, family and finding your person, with the kind of lush prose you wish you could sink your teeth into.

Salt and Sugar 

Teresa A. Meade

Tennessee

History

Provides an overview of the history of Brazil from ancient times to the present.

A Brief History of Brazil

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Nevada

Let's spend a day in Brazil! Ride the ônibus to the beach, drink sugar cane juice at the feira and play capoeira. Brazilian author Ana Siquiera and illustrator Magda Azab draw on their personal experiences living in Brazil to create this appealing board book as part of the Our World Series for very young readers.

Our World: Brazil

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Illinois

Lucí Cavallero

Verónica Gago

Liz Mason-Deese

This book seeks to politicize and collectivise the issue of debt from a feminist perspective. Examining the intimate connection between gender-based violence and exploitation through debt, the authors argue that there is no universal debtor-creditor relationship. Debt cannot be separated from concrete situations because rather than homogenizing differences in gender, race and location, debt exploits these distinctions. This work seeks to expand and deepen our understandings of finance and reproduction, as well as provide useful accounts of how to resist debt from some of those most affected.The book includes five interviews with women from different organizations in Argentina and Brazil. These interviews draw a map of contemporary forms of exploitation, showing how different women are affected by debt, how they connect financial violence to other forms of gender violence, and how they resist the subjugation that debt seeks to impose on them. The book concludes with a series of manifestos coming out of the Argentine feminist movement that demonstrate this feminist reading of debt.

A Feminist Reading of Debt

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When her husband arrives home carrying a crate of colorful orchids, Ada Caswell Pryce thinks he is bringing her a gift, a peace offering during an unhappy time in their marriage; little does she know how much these strange looking flowers are going to change her life. By Boston standards of the 1890's, Ada is not a good wife. Strong-willed and beautiful, she longs for the days at university when she was free to be herself. Her husband Edward is intent on curbing her wild behavior, but she thwarts him at every turn -- she drinks wine with the housekeepers, gives feminist books to her maid, and sneaks out for midnight horseback rides along the Charles River. To treat Ada's "hysteria," Edward restricts her daily activities and her relationships, then carefully choreographs her sexuality. Unable to bear another day of her stultifying and demeaning existence, Ada secretly plots ways to leave. Ultimately, it is her husband's all-consuming passion for collecting rare orchids that provides Ada with a daring opportunity for escape. Once free, Ada's lust for adventure takes her through the dangerous slums of New York, across the high seas of the Atlantic, and finally deep into the lush jungles of Brazil.

The Disorder of Longing

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Ian MacKenzie

Florida

Intelligent and deeply felt, Feast Days follows a young wife who relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo -- a South American megacity that impresses and unsettles, conceals and erupts. Here in her new home, she reckons with the twenty-first century as she encounters crime, protests, refugees gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce, while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage.

In stylish prose and with piercing wit, Ian MacKenzie tells the story of Emma, a young woman who has moved from New York to Brazil just as massive demonstrations against the government are breaking out across the country amid growing economic inequality. Emma has come to Brazil for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in Sao Paulo are listless but privileged; she dines at high-end restaurants, tutors wealthy Brazilians in English, and observes the city she now calls home.

But when Emma volunteers at a local church to assist refugees and grows more deeply connected to the people she meets in the course of her days, she finds herself unable to resist the tug of Sao Paulo's political and social unrest.

As the country moves seemingly closer to a breaking point, so does Emma's marriage, as she and her husband can no longer ignore the silent, tectonic shifts beneath the surface of their relationship.

Feast Days is a sharply observed story of expatriate life, as well as a meditation on the hidden costs of modern living and how easily our belief systems can collapse around us.

"Devastating, funny and wise, it's among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad."-Garth Greenwell

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