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  • Spilt Milk

    A Novel

    by Chico Buarque ...
    Translated by Alison Entrekin ...
    The revered Brazilian songwriter and novelist "has breathed the story of a whole country into a single, unforgettable man with a soul as big as Brazil" (Nicole Krauss, author of Forest Dark).As Eulálio d'Assumpção lies dying in a Brazilian public hospital, his daughter and the attending nurses are treated—whether they like it or not—to his last, rambling monologue. Ribald, hectoring, and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My German Brother

    A Novel

    by Chico Buarque ...
    Translated by Alison Entrekin ...
    An uproarious novel about a man's often sordid, lifelong search for his possibly imaginary half brotherMy 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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Spilt Milk

    by Chico Buarque ...
    Narrated by Buck Schirner ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 4 min

    From world-renowned Brazilian writer Chico Buarque comes a stylish, imaginative tale of love and loss. Spilt Milk is the story told by hundred-year-old Eulálio d’Assumpção as he lies on his deathbed, rambling to his nurses and visitors through a haze of morphine and memory. Ribald, hectoring, and occasionally delusional, Eulálio jumps through time and space, melding history and fantasy to unravel ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    The Goldfinch

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    by Donna Tartt ...
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    by Donna Tartt ...
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  • 2666

    A Novel

    Translated by Natasha Wimmer ...
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    by Philip Kerr ...
    Series Book 5 - A Bernie Gunther Novel
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  • I'm Off Then

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    Translated by Shelley Frisch ...
    “Written with a gentle, wry humor that recalls Bill Bryson,” (The New York Times), this international bestseller about a modern pilgrimage by one of Germany’s most popular comedic entertainers has struck a nerve.Overweight, overworked, and physically unfit, Kerkeling was an unlikely candidate to make the arduous hike across the French Alps to the Spanish Shrine of St. James, a 1,200-year-old ... Read more

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  • Loot

    by Aaron Elkins ...
    A long-lost painting stolen by the Nazis turns up at a Boston pawnshop—and leads to a string of murders—in this "fast-paced and tightly written thriller" ( The Seattle Times).In April 1945, the Nazis, reeling and near defeat, frantically work to hide the huge store of art treasures that Hitler has looted from Europe. Truck convoys loaded with the cultural wealth of the Western world pour in an ... Read more

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  • The Company of Strangers

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    by Robert Wilson ...
    A poignant, "top rank" espionage thriller spanning from WWII to the Cold War from the award-winning author of A Small Death in Lisbon ( The Guardian).Portugal, 1944. Recruited by British intelligence to help uncover Nazi secrets of atomic warfare, math prodigy Andrea Aspinall soon disappears into the crowds of Lisbon, hiding behind a new identity. Karl Voss, an attaché for German intelligence, ... Read more

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