Chico
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An uproarious novel about a man's often sordid, lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half brother
My German Brother is the renowned Brazilian musician and author Chico Buarque's attempt to reconstruct through fiction his obsessive lifelong search for a lost sibling.
In 1960s São Paulo, the teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a journalist and scholar, has spent his life...
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RAWLYNN A Message from an Uncooked Pool is the beginning of a soul journey into self the Unseen Genie. We are clowns upside down... "Face Paint Me Wild". I am the black man who frowns. We've been beaten down. Our world was taken and we rest with no crowns.
This pose of spoken words, a bare pour into a lake of my historia. Tall tales of my experiences in this unnatural light when I came to the ground. Born into ignorance of holistic systems so I...
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If you're looking to spend some time chasing one of the Atlantic's most popular sport fish, this book can help make it time well spent. Chico Fernández shares a lifetime of expertise and experiences fly-fishing for redfish up and down the Atlantic Coast, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Mexico.
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Durante la década de los sesenta, muchos trabajadores españoles abandonaron su lugar de origen y buscaron empleo en Europa. Tiempo después, con la crisis del petróleo y el auge de los movimientos xenófobos, algunos emprendieron el camino de regreso. Sin embargo, no todos volvieron a su pueblo natal, sino a una zona intermedia que ya había servido como ciudad de acogida años atrás: Barcelona. Esta novela relata uno de esos trayectos, el que...
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From world-renowned Brazilian writer Chico Buarque comes a stylish, imaginative tale of love, loss, and longing, played out across multiple generations of one Brazilian family. At once jubilant and painfully nostalgic, playful and devastatingly urgent, Spilt Milk cements Chico Buarque's reputation as a masterful storyteller. As Eulálio Assumpção lies dying in a Brazilian public hospital, his daughter and the attending nurses are treated-whether...
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En septiembre de 1940, un grupo de refugiados abandona Francia por un paso clandestino de los Pirineos. Esperan atravesar España y seguir su ruta hacia América, huyendo de la barbarie que se había apoderado de Europa. Su primera parada es un pequeño pueblo fronterizo, Portbou, una bahía perdida entre collados y senderos, y un lugar clave en la larga marcha del exilio. Sin embargo, no todos consiguen continuar su camino. Uno de ellos, un apátrida...
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Challenging the "two cultures" debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment. Tita Chico shows that early science relied on what she calls literary knowledge to present its experimental findings. More radically, she contends that science was made intellectually possible...
17) Demon Weather
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A magical battle is brewing... and the fate of the world hangs in the balance.The souls shall be gathered are seven in number for seven is a miraculous number. In turn of the century Portugal, Demon hunter and ship's captain, Luís da Silva is docked in his homeport, looking forward to a break from the seas, and enjoying a reunion with his wife. But an enemy from da Silva's past has other plans for him. When da Silva's friends start falling victim...
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About the Book Beastmode/Mamma's Cooking Cookbook is about discovering your own passion for cooking. Chef Range doesn't want people to cook exactly like he does, but instead to adapt to the way they cook with the knowledge and experience he provides. Taste while you cook and you will know exactly what you need. He hopes to inspire people to start dabbling in the kitchen and if you love being there, you're a chef too! About the Author Chico Range has...
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Elke Grunupp, Melissa Vassiliki, Elke Evremidis e apenas Elke, antes de ser
conhecida como Elke Maravilha.
Lembrada por muitos como uma personalidade televisiva, Elke foi atriz,
modelo, cantora e poeta. Mas também foi presa política por seis dias quando
peitou a ditadura, em 1971. Foi a modelo mais requisitada do país ainda que
sua personalidade forte atropelasse sua carreira. Foi mulher de oito. Foi
madrinha de ao menos oito mil. Foi apátrida....
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Portuguese
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Elke Grunupp, Melissa Vassiliki, Elke Evremidis e apenas Elke, antes de ser
conhecida como Elke Maravilha.
Lembrada por muitos como uma personalidade televisiva, Elke foi atriz,
modelo, cantora e poeta. Mas também foi presa política por seis dias quando
peitou a ditadura, em 1971. Foi a modelo mais requisitada do país ainda que
sua personalidade forte atropelasse sua carreira. Foi mulher de oito. Foi
madrinha de ao menos oito mil. Foi apátrida....