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Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Listen, Beautiful M�arcia is a gripping story about a family pushed to the brink. M�arcia is a nurse in a hospital near Rio and lives in a favela with her boyfriend, Aluisio, and her daughter, Jaqueline, whom she had very young with another man. Jaqueline, a troubled young adult, makes life difficult for her mother and Aluisio and rebelliously hangs out with members of a neighborhood gang, leading to violent altercations between mother and daughter....
2) Crema
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost... also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts. Yara, the elegant heir to a coffee plantation, is always seen, but only has eyes for Esme. Their world is turned upside down when the strange ghost of an old-world nobleman begs Esme to take his letter from New York City to a haunted coffee farm in Brazil, to reunite him with his lost love of a century ago. Bringing sinister tidings...
3) Two brothers
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Twin brothers Omar and Yaqub may share the same features, but they could not be more different from one another. And the possessive love of their mother, Zana, stirs the troubled waters between them even more. After a brutally violent exchange between the young boys, Yaqub, "the good son," is sent from his home in Brazil to live with relatives in Lebanon, only to return five years later as a virtual stranger to the parents who bore him, his tensions...
4) Open bar
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Lenny and Beardo are two childhood friends with a lot of road behind them. When Beardo’s deadbeat dad dies and leaves them his old bar, they make a go of it as business partners. Easy enough, right? Maybe not. Running a business in a low-traffic area of town isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, but luckily for the boys, the one-two punch of viral media attention when their neighbor gets crushed by a 747 engine that falls from the sky and a sorta...
5) Red tag
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While searching for justice on the streets of São Paulo, Lis. Lu, and Leco - three friends bonded by their love for Brazil's unique street art "pixo" - find themselves entangled in a life-threatening plot. Dangerous people, holdovers from the country's brutal dictatorial past, are plotting against the movement for reform in São Paulo, and our three heroes may be the only ones who can stop them. RED TAG is a fast-paced thriller set in Brazil, starring...
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