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Clarice Lispector

Translated by

Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

In the magnificent feast of Clarice Lispector’s writing, her crônicas—short, vivid, off-the-cuff newspaper pieces—are the toothsome canapés she whipped up every SaturdayI am convinced that during the Stone Age, I must have been wounded by the love of some man, because a certain secret fear of mine dates from that time.The crônica, a literary genre peculiar to Brazilian newspapers, allows writers (or even soccer stars) to address a...

The stories you won't find in history books.History comes alive when told through firsthand accounts-and American diplomats tell a host of riveting, unforgettable stories, from the amusing to the tragic to the headline-making.For decades, the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training's Foreign Affairs Oral History collection has provided a treasure trove of great moments in history for historians, authors, journalists, researchers, genealogis...

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Aaron Patterson, Melody Carlson, Robin Parrish & K.C. Neal

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The 'Naturals

***This book is a Serial. Serials are stories published in episodes, with future episodes released every three weeks. This book contains four episodes out of an estimated twenty total episodes.***The 'NaturalsSeason One: "Awakening"A small town full of secrets. A coming darkness. Teenagers with supernatural abilities. Think you know the story?Think again.As Summer ends, the students at Silverwood High are getting ready to go back to school and resume ...

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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Translated by

Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

A masterpiece of realism, Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro probes the mind of a distrustful husband with delusions of grandeur.Originally published in 1899, Dom Casmurro is widely considered to be Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s masterpiece and a progenitor of twentieth-century Latin American fiction. This exuberant new translation captures all the hilarious, maddening, and utterly compelling idiosyncrasies of one of Machado’s most complex charact...

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Aaron Patterson, Melody Carlson, Robin Parrish & K.C. Neal

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The 'Naturals

* * * THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON * * *For fans of For fans of Veronica Roth, James Dashner, Brandon Sanderson, The Rho Agenda Series by Richard Phillips, and The Host by Stephenie Meyer.THE 'NATURALS SEASON ONE DESCRIPTIONA small town full of secrets. A coming darkness. Teens with supernatural abilities. Think you know the story? Think again.As Summer ends, the students at Silverwood High are getting ready to go back to school and resume their normal, everyday...

by

Vladimir Netto

Translated by

Robin Patterson

INTRODUCTION BY MISHA GLENNY**, author of McMafia**A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering uncovered the biggest corruption scandal in human history.When a small team of investigators discovered that a black market currency dealer was operating out of a Brazilian petrol station, they could never have imagined that their work would destroy the g...

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Clarice Lispector

Translated by

Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

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Penguin Modern Classics

A TLS Book of the YearThis exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?'Between 1967 and 1977, the internationally renowned author Clarice Lispector wrote weekly dispatches from her desk in Rio for the Jornal do Brasil. Already...

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Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Translated by

Margaret Jull Costa, Robin Patterson

“Is it possible that the most modern, most startlingly avant-garde novel to appear this year was originally published in 1881?”—Parul Sehgal, New York TimesNow considered a progenitor of South American fiction, Machado de Assis’s highly experimental novel is finally rendered as a stunningly contemporary work. Narrating from beyond the grave, Brás Cubas—an enigmatic, amusing and frequently insufferable antihero—describes his childhood spent tormenting house...

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Robin Parrish, Aaron Patterson, Melody Carlson & KC Neal

Book 4 -

The 'Naturals

***This book is a Serial. Serials are stories published in episodes, with future episodes released every three weeks. This book contains four episodes out of an estimated twenty total episodes.***The 'NaturalsSeason One: "Awakening"A small town full of secrets. A coming darkness. Teenagers with supernatural abilities. Think you know the story?Think again.As Summer ends, the students at Silverwood High are getting ready to go back to school and resume ...

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Ian Patterson

Narrated by

Robin Miles

A new world is emerging, one parthenogenetic birth at a time.In a near-future America where women have just gained access to asexual reproduction, Samara yearns for freedom from her dying relationship, and a child of her own—fully her own.As parthenogenetic birth takes hold and the role of men in the survival of the species diminishes, protest and outcry sweep across the nation. Sierra, one of the first “partho babies”, is bullied relentlessly as she grows up and seeks her ...

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Jose Luandino Vieira

Translated by

Robin Patterson

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Dedalus Africa

Our Musseque is a tale of growing up in one of the vibrant shanty towns (musseques) of Luanda during the 1940s and 1950s. Weaving back and forwards through his half-remembered childhood, the narrator draws us into a close-knit world of labourers, shopkeepers, drunks, prostitutes and determined women battling to bring up their families, as Angola hurtles towards the beginning of its armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule. Meanwhile the children laugh, play, squabble and fight, puzz...

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Aaron Patterson, Robin Parrish, Melody Carlson & K.C. Neal

Book 2 -

The 'Naturals

*** This book is a Serial. Serials are stories published in episodes, with future episodes released every three weeks. This book contains four episodes out of an estimated twenty total episodes. ***The 'NaturalsSeason One: "Awakening"A small town full of secrets. A coming darkness. Teenagers with supernatural abilities. Think you know the story?Think again.As Summer ends, the students at Silverwood High are getting ready to go back to...