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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..
![The body snatcher [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT80970.JPG "The body snatcher [eBook]")
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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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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.
![The motorcycle diaries [DVD] (2004). Directed by Walter Salles.](/Library/images/~imageCT70421.JPG "The motorcycle diaries [DVD] (2004). Directed by Walter Salles.")
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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.
![Notorious [DVD] (1946). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.](/Library/images/~imageCT81629.JPG "Notorious [DVD] (1946). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.")
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2020., Penguin Books Call No: Fic de A Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the Americas. The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsburg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (translated also as Epitaph of a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and, in 160 brief chapters, tells of his failed romances and halfhearted political ambitions, serves up harebrained philosophies, and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave. Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty, and utterly unforgettable, it is a novel ahead of its time that has been compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to Sterne to Borges to Joyce to Nabokov to Calvino, and that has influenced generations of writers around the world. This new English translation is the first to include extensive notes providing crucial historical and cultural context and also includes excerpts from previous versions of the novel never before published in English.
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2020., 08:32:51, HighBridge Audio Edition: Unabridged. Click to access digital title. Summary Note: A revelatory new translation of the playful, incomparable masterpiece of one of the greatest black authors in the Americas The mixed-race grandson of ex-slaves, Machado de Assis is not only Brazil's most celebrated writer but also a writer of world stature, who has been championed by the likes of Philip Roth, Susan Sontag, Allen Ginsberg, John Updike, and Salman Rushdie. In his masterpiece, the 1881 novel The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas (translated also as Epitaph of a Small Winner), the ghost of a decadent and disagreeable aristocrat decides to write his memoir. He dedicates it to the worms gnawing at his corpse and tells of his failed romances and halfhearted political ambitions, serves up harebrained philosophies, and complains with gusto from the depths of his grave. Wildly imaginative, wickedly witty, and ahead of its time, the novel has been compared to the work of everyone from Cervantes to Sterne to Joyce to Nabokov to Borges to Calvino, and has influenced generations of writers around the world.
![The posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas [eAudiobook]](/Library/images/~imageCT102328.JPG "The posthumous memoirs of Brás Cubas [eAudiobook]")
