Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Glenn Alan Cheney
Paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs, and other artwork by 31 Connecticut artists associated with Norwich Arts Center: Gabriela Aisenberg, Glynis J. Blanker, Michael David Brathwaite, Virginia Chase, Glenn Alan Cheney, Karen…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato is one of Brazil's most popular and beloved writers. He is best known for his series of imaginative children's books about Yellow Woodpecker Farm, or, as they say…
Glenn Cheney
Glenn Cheney arrived in Kiev during those first days when the Soviet Union ceased to exist and Ukraine was reborn. Almost immediately he found himself talking with scientist, journalist, refugees…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
Excerpts from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations by Glenn Alan Cheney, including
Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims’ First Year in America,
Love and Death in the Kingdom of Swaziland
The Cat Caboodle…
A satiric fictional philosophy, a surreal look at small-town life, American life, and life in general.
Available to order, ships in approx 2 weeksAvailable to order
Brief passages on the nature, causes, effects, history, and reform of incarceration.
A collection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs and other creations by arts at Norwich Arts Center in Norwich, Connecticut, USA.
Thanksgiving isn’t about a holiday. It’s about what a small group of people did after reaching a new world. This book covers just about every known detail of what happened…
Le Sue Mane sulla Terra scruta nelle vite e nel lavoro delle Suore cabriniane in alcuni dei luoghi piu difficili e disperati del mondo. Alcune hanno affrontato l'epidemia dell'AIDS nello…
Death is a many splendored thing. And complicated. The issues around it touch on mythology, religion, rites, science, technology, biology, history, psychology, chemistry, stupidity, fossil fuels, body-snatching, racism, buzzards, Congress…
Sister Leonora Brunetto lives and works in Brazil’s state of Mato Grosso. In 1978, rainforest covered the region. Today, cattle pastures stretch to the horizon, their unshaded grass rippling with…
A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil’s Quilombo dos Palmares, with chapters relating Palmares to modern Brazil.
Brazil’s Estrada Real is a road built in 1697 to bring gold and diamonds down from the mountains of Minas Gerais. Glenn alan Cheney hiked much of the road, recording…
A fascinating collection of succinct facts about bees, cats, incarceration, death and burial, and the end of the world.
A collection of paintings, photography, and design by Glenn Alan Cheney with a foreword that explores his development through genres in a career that has stretched over the course of…
A comprehensive, well documented history of the Quilombo dos Palmares, with a chapter on archeology and how it relates to the myths of Palmares, and a chapter on Conceicao da…
A collection of brief essays from Glenn Alan Cheney’s newspaper columns. Topics relate to the environment, the Covid pandemic, the human condition, remarkable individuals, pawnshops, submarines, penmanship, alarm clocks, terrorism…
Brief essays by Glenn Alan Cheney, written for The Day and The Norwich Times between January 2020 and August 2021. Cheney discusses wide variety of topics-dogs, skunks, the Pilgrims, submarines…
A small family ventures up the Amazon, and then up a tributary, and then another, with The Gumball King. They soon get into lots of trouble with gold miners, timber…
Select newspaper editorials, reports, and opinions published in the days prior to and following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, with a foreword by U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney.
Rubem Alves
Collected short essays by Brazilian theologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Rubem Alves. Translated by Glenn Alan Cheney
Brief, intriguing thoughts and ideas from one of Brazil’s most popular writers.
Short essays by Rubem Alves, touching on life, sex, nature, soup, childhood, crime, Brazil, bovine wisdom, magnolias, ants, stepmothers, fiddles, death, hope, and a whole lot more.
Rubem Alves takes a friendly but philosophical look at the stages of life–an unusual baptism, a child’s belief in the unseen, adolescent rebellion, teens with exceptional vision, male sexuality, old…
A translation of Monteiro Lobato’s A Chave do Tamanho. Though on one level a children’s novel, the book also carries deep socio-political undertones. It tells the story of a rag…
Santa Francisca Cabrini, fundadora de las Misioneras del Sagrado Coraz n de Jes s, fue la primera ciudadana americana canonizada. Su vida fue un torbellino de logros y generosidad. Nada…
Glenn Alan Cheney,Rachel Kopit,Luciana Tanure
Twenty-one short stories by Machado de Assis translated by various scholars and presented in English and Portuguese.
A collection of short essays by Brazil’s most renowned philosopher, theologian, psychoanalyst, writer and professor, Rubem Alves.
Portraits of missionary sisters in Italy, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil, Swaziland, and Argentina.
Pope Francis
Over 120 thoughts and ideas expressed by Pope Francis
More than 120 brief thoughts from Pope Francis, with lengthy excerpt from his Laudato Si encyclical and full speeches to Congress and the U.N.
Two stories from Machado’s formative period, never before translated, and three from his more literary period.
Brazil’s most renowned writer wrote a series of newspaper chronicles in 1888 and 1889. In that first year, Brazil abolished slavery. In the second, Brazil ended its monarchy and became…
Joao Do Rio
Accounts of several religions in early 20th century Rio de Janeiro by literary journalist Joao do Rio, a bilingual edition in Portuguese and English.
Joao de Rio
A translation of Joao do Rio’s Vida Vertiginosa, a collection of articles on the dizzying pace of change in Rio de Janeiro in 1911. Bilingual edition with Portuguese and English…
Originally titled The Black President, or The Clash of the Races, by Brazilian writer Monteiro Lobato, the story is about a young man and woman in Brazil who use a…
Sr Maria Barbagallo Msc
The autobiography of Sister Maria Barbagallo, MSC, including her childhood in Italy in the 1940s, her time in Central America during the upheavals, and her experience as General Superior of…
Yin Shih Tzu
This is the Taoist Master Yin Shi Zi’s inspirational testament and practical guide to the healing power and spiritual benefits of meditation. The book offers in-depth documentation of the theory…
