This story is based on a Brazilian legend about a songbird reputed to sing the most beautiful song in all the world.
Brazil
- Author:Page, P. K.Summary:
- Author:Giovinazzo, DianaSummary:
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....
- Author:Gage, LeightonSummary:
As Chief Inspector Mario Silva has learned, justice is hard to come by in Brazil, so when his niece tells him about a possible genocide deep in the jungle, he agrees to round up his team and charter a plane to Pará to check it out.
- Author:Tomlinson, H. M.Summary:
The author's travel narrative aboard a freighter bound for the Amazon in the winter of 1909.
- Author:GRISHAM, JohnSummary:
Danilo Silva, now living in Brazil, was once Patrick Lanigan, a young partner in a prominent law firm - a man now dead and buried.
- Author:Griffith, VictoriaSummary:
Profiles Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, who made great strides in the invention of flight.
- Author:Bergad, Laird W.Summary:
Laird Bergad presents a comparative history of slavery in Brazil, Cuba and the United States, countries in which the institutions of slavery survived long into the 19th century ; in Brazil as late as 1888. He assesses the various...
- Author:Greenwald, GlennSummary:
Takes readers on a fascinating ride through Brazilian politics as the author, his husband, the left-wing Congressman David Miranda, and a powerful opposition movement courageously challenge political corruption, homophobia, and tyranny...
- Author:Sweet, James H.Summary:
- Author:Jones, GaylSummary:
A New York Times "Biggest New Books Coming Out in September" Selection · A New York Times Book Review Editors Choice Pick · A Guardian "50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2021" Selection · An Esquire "Best Books of Fall 2021" Selection · A...
- Author:Gin, Pascal, Moser, WalterSummary:
La mobilité - la capacité à se déplacer ou à être déplacé - est un élément si omniprésent dans la vie moderne qu'elle est tenue pour acquise, presque imperceptible en raison de sa constante présence. Dans Mobilités culturelles -...
- Author:Machado, Ana Maria, Merola, Caroline, Unger, DavidSummary:
One day Isabel finds a box in her mother's closet and, inside, a photograph of a girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes. Ten-year-old Bel is enchanted to discover that the girl is her great-grandmother Beatrice, her Bisa Bea, and that...
- Author:Fonseca, Aleilton, Varin, Claire, Forget, DanielleSummary:
Un regard moqueur sur le quotidien des couples … Quiproquo, jalousies, tabous, propos machistes, ironie sur le monde savant, sans oublier l’importance du soccer… Un savoureux mélange à déguster en 26 petits récits. La femme de rêve est...
- Author:Smith, RolandSummary:
While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River to a jaguar preserve in Brazil, fourteen-year-old Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune hunters.
- Author:Machado, Ana Maria, Brandao, Lucia, Baeta, LuisaSummary:
Mariano and his friends are helping their parents turn an old Brazilian coffee plantation into an inn. The children sleep in a shed, which is being converted into guest rooms. One night they hear crying. Gradually, the ghost of Rosario...
- Author:EELLS, Elsie SpicerSummary:
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore.
- Author:Ba, GabrielSummary:
What are the most important days of your life? Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba answer that question in the critical and commercial hit series that took the industry by storm, winning praise from such comics veterans as Terry Moore, Craig...
- Author:Quaife, Darlene A.Summary:
When a plant collector is looking for new plant species on the Amazon, she meets an Albertan who is looking for the man who may be responsible for her husband's death.
- Author:Santos, José Rodrigues dosSummary:
Professor Tomas Noronha, hired to finish another scholar's research, finds a document with an encrypted message that leads him on a search for the true identity of Columbus.
- Author:Vandenbeld Giles, MelinaSummary:
Ever since anthropology PhD student Clara Lemont started researching the African-Brazilian religion of Odùn, her days and nights became filled with dreams of swirling figures of white, drum beats and yellow eyes haunting her in the...