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1	Revelations more books like this by Melissa de La Cruz add to wishlist Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: Is the young woman in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by the Silver Bloods, the Blue Bloods will need Schuyler on their side. see all copies from $4.72! new only from $4.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Samba more books like this by Alma Guillermoprieto add to wishlist This travel book explores the samba, with all its ritual, and through it presents a picture of Brazil. The author is a Mexican by birth and upbringing and a dancer by training. She recounts a Carnival season in Rio, offering an interpretation of the history and culture of black Brazilians, and the social and spiritual forces that are expressed in ... see all copies from $4.71! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bodies and Souls: The Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas more books like this by Isabel Vincent add to wishlist Isabel Vincent's groundbreaking exploration brings to light a dark chapter in our recent history: the white slave trade and the international Jewish mobsters behind it. From the end of the 1860s until the beginning of the Second World War, thousands of young, impoverished Jewish women, most of them from the hard-scrabble shtetls of Eastern Europe ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The hour of the star more books like this by Clarice Lispector add to wishlist Clarice Lispector died of cancer at the age of fifty-six on 9th December 1977. "The Hour of the Star" was published that same year and acclaimed by the critics as 'a regional allegory' of extraordinary awareness and insight. Lispector herself defined "The Hour of the Star" as a book 'made without words...a mute photograph...a silence...a question' ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $5.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	City of God more books like this by Paulo Lins, Alison Entrekin (Translator) add to wishlist Now available in English for the first time, "City of God" is the searing novel upon which the acclaimed hit film was based. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.00! \| SVS
6	Pursuit more books like this by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, Benjamin Moser (Translator) add to wishlist In the fifth novel in the beguiling Brazilian crime series, a hospital psychiatrist feels he's being stalked by a young patient. As Espinosa learns more about the doctor's history, it becomes harder to discern the stalker from the stalked, reality from fantasy, and the sane from the diabolical. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 more books like this by Kirsten Schultz add to wishlist This text tells the story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World. In 1807, to escape an invading Napoleonic army, the Portuguese Prince Regent and some 10,000 functionaries set sail for Brazil. Following the transfer of the court, Rio de Janeiro, became a "tropical Versailles," a seat of European imperial power ... see all copies from $14.24! new only from $23.49!
8	A Window in Copacabana more books like this by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza, Benjamin Moser (Translator) add to wishlist Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. Espinosa, chief of the 12th Precinct, doesn't have much to go on. When the body of a woman connected to one of the dead cops is found on the sidewalk below her apartment window, things get even more complicated, as a reputed "witness"--the wife of a high ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Frommer's Portable Rio de Janeiro more books like this by Shawn Blore, Alexandra de Vries add to wishlist You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go-they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series offers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
10	Asphalt Angels more books like this by Ineke Holtwijk add to wishlist "Asphalt Angels" centers around a boy named Alex, a street child of 13 in Brazil, who has been kicked onto the streets by his stepfather after his mother dies. Alone and scared, Alex quickly adapts to life in the streets with a group of other children. A raw, poignant story of a band of Brazilian street kids who survive--if they can--by their wits ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro more books like this by Andrew Draffen, Heather Schlegel add to wishlist This guide provides accommodation and restaurant listings to suit all budgets and features: details on local transport; details on day trips from the city; tips on buying local crafts; notes on festivals and entertainment; and a language section. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
12 view cover	Turbulence more books like this by Chico Buarque add to wishlist The narrator of this tale is haunted by nostalgia for the places of his childhood set in a city that can only be Rio de Janeiro. A drop-out from the privileged world of luxury beach apartments and sybaritic obsessions, he has entered the "other" Brazil of wretched poverty and petty crime. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions
13 view cover	Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro more books like this by Regis St Louis add to wishlist A guide to the sexiest city in the Americas - Rio. This work contains maps and also includes a Carnival chapter that tells how to join the world's best party. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97!
14 view cover	The lost manuscript more books like this by Rubem Fonseca add to wishlist What better place to hide a collection of priceless jewels than among the glitter and ostrich feathers of Rio's Carnival parade? The film-director narrator suddenly finds himself the custodian of such a valuable horde after the nocturnal visit of a young dancer who is soon found murdered. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $16.00! \| first editions
15 view cover	Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro City Guide more books like this by Regis St Louis add to wishlist The previous edition was the top-selling guide to the city in US bookstores during 2006 (BookScan). Gets travelers to the heart of the city with neighborhood walking tours. see all copies from $14.70! new only from $14.70! \| SVS
16 view cover	A Samba for Sherlock more books like this by Jose Eugenio Soares add to wishlist Sherlock Holmes is summoned from London to Rio in 1886 to investigate the theft of a Stradivarius violin--a gift from the Emperor of Brazil to his favorite lady friend. A bestseller in Brazil, and published to wide acclaim in Europe, this brilliant literary thriller is now poised to capture the imagination of American readers. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Civilizing Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930 more books like this by Teresa A Meade add to wishlist The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, made life worse for the majority of the city's residents. Their resistance to the changes is the focus of this study, tracing the rebellion that continued for more than 20 years after the renovation ended in 1909. see all copies from $1.99!
18 view cover	Grk and the Pelotti Gang more books like this by Joshua Doder add to wishlist ""Pure adventure fun."--"Kirkus Reviews Natascha and Max Raffifi, recently orphaned and new to England, are adjusting nicely to their new life. Anything's better than being on the run. Especially being reunited with their little black-and-white dog named Grk and living with their friend Tim. But one afternoon, Natascha sees a familiar name in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.65! \| SVS
19 view cover	How to Be a Carioca: The Alternative Guide for the Tourist in Rio more books like this by Priscilla Goslin add to wishlist An international bestseller since 1992, this is a humorous look at what makes up one of the world's most colorful characters: the Carioca--those charming inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, written by a U.S. native who has made Rio her home for more than thirty-eight years. If you dream of blending in with the locals while visiting Rio, help is at hand ... see all copies from $4.98! new only from $8.69! \| signed copies \| SVS
20 view cover	Senhora: Profile of a Woman more books like this by Jose Martiniano de Alencar, Catarina F Edinger (Translator), Catarina Feldman Esinger (Translator) add to wishlist "It is a truth universally acknowledged..." that a single woman in possession of a good character but no fortune must be in want of a wealthy husband - that is, if she is the heroine of a nineteenth-century novel. Senhora, by contrast, turns the tables on this familiar plot. Its strong-willed, independent heroine Aurelia uses newly inherited ... see all copies from $2.29! new only from $11.82! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil more books like this by Robin E Sheriff add to wishlist In the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist ideas of his day by defending the "African contribution" to Brazil's culture. In so doing, he proposed that Brazil was relatively free of most forms of racial prejudice and could best be understood as a "racial democracy." Over ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $21.53! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Mysterious Ways more books like this by Terry Davis add to wishlist The second volume in Terry Davis's celebrated coming-of-age trilogy, Mysterious Ways offers a fresh and penetrating view of how perilous it can be simply to grow up. Holden Caulfield comes to mind immediately, but Davis's protagonist, Karl Russell, travels a longer road, darkened by the death of his family, the shadow of the Vietnam War, and a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $84.24! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Carnival in Rio more books like this by Helmut Teissl add to wishlist This volume provides a photographic celebration of Rio de Janeiro's annual carnival. The book also includes an audio CD of the rhythms and sounds of the carnival. see all copies from $11.24! new only from $39.95! \| first editions
24 view cover	Noela & That Man in Rio more books like this by Muriel Maddox add to wishlist In two widely disparate novellas, Maddox explores different times and settings as she takes readers from present-day Switzerland where a past secret endangers the present, to the 1930s in Rio de Janiero as the threat of war in Europe creates only one of the dilemmas faced by an American Navy wife. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Portuguese Memory Book: A New Approach to Vocabulary Building more books like this by William F Harrison, Dorothy Winters Welker add to wishlist Mnemonics is an age-old device for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. The Portuguese Memory Book, by William F. Harrison and Dorothy Welker, makes use of this reliable memory help in a series of mnemonic jingles that are by turns playful, sardonic, touching, and heroic to help both students and independent learners acquire and ... see all copies from $3.45! new only from $26.17! \| first editions \| SVS

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