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DK Eyewitness Top 10 Rio de JaneiroNewly revised, updated, and redesigned just in time for the 2016 Olympic Games.True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Rio de Janeiro covers all the city's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use top 10 lists that help you plan the vacation...
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Príncipes de ArcaEl príncipe Cam navegará hasta el misterioso reino de Enher, para hallar a su hermana perdida antes de la boda del heredero al trono. La princesa Catara, prometida del futuro rey de Tides, intentará vivir una última aventura y huir de un matrimonio arreglado....
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Ways of Going HomeA brilliant novel from the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction (Marcela Valdes, The Nation) Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who lives in an undistinguished middle-class housing development...
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Like Flies from AfarThis novel should come not with blurbs but with a hazardous-material warning: There's bone and gristle here, be ready for that taste in your mouth you can't spit out. First words to last, it's strong stuff. --James Sallis, author of Drive The first novel...
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The Way to ParadiseWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Flora Trist n, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844,...
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Myth of the Rain Forest Monster: 4The Aldens are joining Dr. Iris Perez as she investigates legendary creatures around the world. In the last leg of the journey, the children travel to the Amazon Rain Forest. They love learning about all the different plants and animals they have never seen...
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Portuguese Short Stories for Beginners Book 3: Over 100 Dialogues & Daily Used Phrases to Learn Portuguese in Your Car. Have Fun & Grow Your VocabularImmerse Yourself in Learning Brazilian Portuguese with Short Stories that Make the Language Come Alive & Easy to Learn Want to learn Brazilian Portuguese the easiest and most exciting way possible? You came to the right place Learning a second language is a great...
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Why Do Men Go To Brazil For Love?Why Do Men Go To Brazil For Love?, a thriller, romance, and thought-provoking, daring read that challenges readers to look beyond the prism of their everyday lives.Following the story of one man's search for love in a Brazilian paradise, quickly discovering that life isn't...
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False Calm: A Journey Through the Ghost Towns of PatagoniaA bold, beautiful book.--The New York TimesA marvelous chronicle.--Publishers WeeklyPart reportage, part personal essay, part travelogue, False Calm is the breakout work by Argentinian author Mar a Sonia Cristoff. Writing against romantic portrayals of Patagonia, Cristoff returns home to chronicle the ghost towns left...
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May I Quote You, General Lee? (Volume 2): Observations & Utterances of the South's Great GeneralsThis second volume of words and statements of Robert E. Lee speak of duty and principle, faith and doubt, bravery in the face of certain defeat, hard choices, and the qualities of leadership that made him great. Lee's command was characterized by gallantry and...
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Faces of Tradition: Weaving Elders of the AndesIn this revealing cultural study, dozens of ancient weavers and the landscapes that they occupy in the Cusco region of the Andes are vividly portrayed through personal stories and life experiences, bringing to life the decades of endurance, skill, fortitude, and natural pride honed...
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The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, PoliticsSpanning a period of over 450 years, The Rio de Janeiro Reader traces the history, culture, and politics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through the voices, images, and experiences of those who have made the city's history. It outlines Rio's transformation from a hardscrabble...
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The Masked MonkeyFrank and Joe are called upon to find a wealthy industrialist's son who has mysteriously disappeared. The only clue in the case leads the two young detectives to South America, where the intrigues of evil adversaries almost cost them their lives. Only through their...
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O CortiçoO Cortiço Os meus honrados collegas do jornalismo, e todos esses grandes publicistas que fatigam o co e a terra para provar que esta em que estamos a verdadeira epoca de transio, esses nos diro se a Providencia andaria bem ou mal se hoje...
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Cuentos chilenos de nunca acabarCuentos chilenos de nunca acabarEl recuerdo de las personas que conocimos i el de las acciones, casi siempre insignificantes, que ejecutamos en el rpido curso de nuestra infancia, son, sin duda, los que mas persisten en nuestra memoria. La zancadilla que dimos al compaero...
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Een kwart eeuw tusschen de keerkringenNaar den equator, met een voorspel: van pastoor soldaatNa de verschillende aanvallen, die mijn Borneo van Zuid naar Noord te verduren heeft gehad, en waarbij men hoofdzakelijk nevenzaken aangetast heeft, met het kennelijk, zelfs eens met het erkend doel om de waarheidsliefde omtrent de...
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The Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles' Walk Across South AmericaThe Pampas and Andes: A Thousand Miles' Walk Across South AmericaIn placing this little volume before the public, a few words, regarding the manner in which the incidents and material composing it were acquired, may be of interest to the reader. The young gentleman...
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Atlantic readings, number 17On reading in relation to literatureAs the term approaches its close, I wish to keep my promise regarding a series of lectures relating to literary life and work, to be given independently of texts or authorities, and to represent, as far as possible, the...
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Helps and hints for Hallowe'enHelps and hints for Hallowe'enOn Halloween when elves and witches are abroad, we find it the custom over all the world to build bonfires, to keep off evil spirits; and this is the night of all nights to entertain friends with stunts similar to...
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Lost on the Orinoco or, American boys in VenezuelaLost on the Orinoco; or, American boys in VenezuelaLost on the Orinoco is a complete tale in itself, but forms the first volume of the Pan-American Series, a line of books intended to embrace sight seeing and adventures in different portions of the three...
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