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1) The games
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English
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Two years ago Jack Morgan - the head of the renowned worldwide investigation firm Private - was in charge of security for the World Cup in Bazil. During the championship final, the action nearly spilled from the field into the stands. Fortunately, Jack and his team averted disaster on football's biggest stage. Now he has returned to Rio to secure the Olympics. But before the torch is lit, the threats come fast and furious as Jack discovers that someone...
2) Face
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Publisher
Wings Press
Language
English
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When a Brazilian man's face is disfigured, he attempts a grisly self-surgery in this novel of survival.
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Three friends, Aurora, a scientist and researcher, Antero, an avant-garde artist turned publicist, and Emiliano, a journalist, once worked together on a digital fanzine that became worshiped all over Brazil. Now, nearly two decades later, the death of the fourth member of the group reconnects them. The novel explores lives trapped between unfulfilled promises and apocalyptic yearnings, capturing the generation that grew up in the midst of the beginning...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
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...
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Publisher
William Morrow and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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...
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English
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Skinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Grąca, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly different worlds, they quickly bond over shared mischief, and then, on a deeper level, over music. One has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes...
8) Dom Casmurro
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English
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"Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson's critically acclaimed translations of Posthumous Memoirs of Br�as Cubas and The Collected Stories of Machado de Assis introduced a new generation of readers to one of Brazil's most groundbreaking authors. Hailed as "the greatest writer ever produced in Latin America" (Susan Sontag), Machado's genius is on full display in this fresh translation of the 1899 classic Dom Casmurro. In his supposed memoir, Bento...
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