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1966., Thames & Hudson Call No: 981 M367b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Introduces Brazil's history, geography, culture, and economy, focusing on the city of Recife as an example of life in this Latin American country.
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2015., Bitter Lemon Press Summary Note: One bright Sunday, alone on the banks of the Paraguay River, the narrator witnesses the fatal crash of a small plane. He finds a kilo of cocaine in the dead pilot's backpack and pockets it along with the pilot's expensive watch. Thus begins the protagonist's long slide into corruption. When police locate the crash site, the pilot's body is missing and a large-scale search ensues. Our hero, now involved in a busted cocaine deal, ends up owing a Bolivian drug gang so..
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-- Cidade de Deus.c2003, p2002., Adult, Miramax Home Entertainment ; Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc. Call No: DVD Fic City Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The world's most notorious slum, Rio de Janeiro's City of God, where combat photographers and police rarely go. The true story of a young man who grew up on these streets and whose ambition as a photographer is our window in and his only way out.
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c1964., Ulverscroft Call No: LP 918.81 N8955d Edition: Large print ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2010., Adult, Soho Press Call No: MYS Fic Gag Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Chief Inspector Mario Silva Volume: 4Summary Note: "The son of the Foreign Minister of Venezuela is found dead in his apartment in Brasilia. Due to the political nature of the crime, Chief Inspector Mario Silva of Brazil's Federal Police is called in to investigate. As he delves deeper into the murder, he discovers that a chain of murders have occurred throughout Brazil, all with the same MO: victims are first shot in the stomach, then brutally beaten to death, and, even more puzzling, they were all passengers on TAB flight 8101 from Miami to Sô Paulo. What sinister motive connects these killings? And why does it appear one passenger on that flight, a fifteen-year-old boy who was later raped and killed in prison, is at the heart of it all?"--Fantastic Fiction website.
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2009., Metropolitan Books Call No: 981.06 G75f Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The stunning, never-before-told story of the quixotic attempt to recreate small-town America in the heart of the Amazon, "Fordlandia" depicts a desperate quest to salvage the bygone America that the Ford factory system did much to dispatch.
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2004, 2005., Yellow Jersey Press Call No: Bio G241c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The World Cup Finals, Sweden 1958. Brazil vs the fearsome USSR. In the opening three minutes -- 'the greatest three minutes in the history of football' -- one man wrote himself into the record books alongside the game's greatest players, men like Pelé, Di Stefano, Puskas and Maradona. Brazil went on to win the cup, and, in Garrincha, a star was born.Garrincha was the unlikeliest of footballers -- with a right leg that turned inwards and a left that turned out, he looked as if he could barely walk, but with a ball at his feet he had the poise of an angel. He played for the love of the game, uninterested in money, and ignoring tactical advice. And he was as wild off the pitch as he was mesmerising on it -- mischievous, audacious and dripping with sex appeal. It was his affair and subsequent marriage to the singer Elza Soares that caught the imagination of a nation -- their mouth-watering combination of soccer and samba made them the toast of 1960s Rio. But by the age of forty-nine, Garrincha was dead, destroyed by the excesses that made him so compelling.
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[1972, c1971], Outerbridge & Dienstfrey; distributed by E. P. Dutton Call No: 980.4 B666g Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2005., Adult, Universal Call No: DVD Fic Motorcycle Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Focus Features spotlight series.Summary Note: An inspirational adventure, based on the true story of two young men whose thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America becomes a life-changing journey of self-discovery.
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1981., General, Anchor Bay Entertainment [distributor] Call No: DVD Fic Notorious Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The innocent daughter of a war criminal marries a Nazi renegade in order to help the U.S. agent, with whom she has fallen in love, to trap him.