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    Jorge Amado

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    Jorge Amado escreveu mais de 30 livros, viajou por diversos lugares, ganhou premios e tem ate um museu em sua homenagem. Mas, quem foi a crianca Jorge Amado?

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    Jorge Amado: New Critical Essays

    Jorge Amado is one of Brazil’s most prolific writers. This volume seeks to offer his English-speaking audience the same range of critical thinking that surrounds his work in Brazil. The…

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    Jorge Amado: New Critical Essays

    This book provides critical thinking on one of Brazil’s most prolific and widely read novelists for his English-speaking audience, providing an introduction and chronology of his life and a comprehensive…

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    Shepherds Of The Night

    Jorge Amado

    A big, brawling novel of waterfront life in Bahia, packed with cardsharpers, prostitutes, pimps, drunks and homeless Don Juans and Messalinas. The things that happen in Shepherds of the Night…

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    Tent of Miracles

    Jorge Amado

    Set in a Brazilian locale, this is the story of Pedro Archanjo, beloved rogue and fierce activist for social justice, who becomes a posthumous hero when an American intellect discovers…

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    Captains of the Sands

    Jorge Amado

    Previously published: New York, N.Y.: Avon, c1988.

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    Mov la mano / I Moved My Hand

    Jorge Lujn

    A simple but empowering poem about creating a world, told from a young child's perspective.

    When a little girl moves her hand, she changes the world as she discovers it…

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    Home Is The Sailor

    Jorge Amado

    As if in answer to their calll, Captain Vasco Moscosco de Aragao (newly retired) arrives and soon has the townspeople enthralled with his tales of ocean-going daring and romance. But…

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    Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon

    Jorge Amado

    In 1925, the arrival of a beautiful mulatto girl named Gabriela from the backlands transforms the lives of many inhabitants of a provincial Brazilian city.

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    Showdown: A Novel

    Jorge Amado

    In his unanimously praised novel full of sex and adventure, violence and courage, Amado has created a South American Western and people it with wonderfully earthy characters from his childhood.

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    Dona Flor y sus dos maridos / Dona Flor and Two Husbands

    Jorge Amado

    ?Es posible que una mujer ame a dos hombres al mismo tiempo?

    A nadie sorprende cuando el encantador picaro Vadinho dos Guimares-empedernido jugador y mujeriego incorregible-muere durante el carnaval. Su…

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    Gabriela, clavo y canela / Gabriela Clove Cinnamon

    Jorge Amado

    La clasica historia de amor prohibido de la literatura latinoamericana.

    En 1925, la riqueza producida por el cacao ha permitido el desarrollo economico de Ilheus, pero la costumbres de sus…

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    The War of the Saints

    Jorge Amado

    The holy icon of Saint Barbara of the Thunder is bound for the city of Bahia for an exhibition of holy art. As the boat that bears the image is…

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    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

    Jorge Amado

    When Dona Flor’s husband dies suddenly, she forgets all his defects and remembers only his passion. Erotic nightmares haunt her. Dr Teodoro, a local pharmacist, proposes marriage and Dona Flor…

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    The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray

    Jorge Amado

    The great Brazilian novelist’s comic masterpiece-published in a new translation for the centennial of Jorge Amado’s birth.

    Here is the story of Joaquim Soares da Cunha, a Falstaff-like character who…

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    The Violent Land

    Jorge Amado

    The story of the fates of two feuding landowning families, set against the violent and colourful backdrop of the Brazilian rainforest. Jorge Amado is one of Latin America’s most celebrated…

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    The Discovery of America by the Turks

    Jorge Amado

    For the first time in English- legendary Brazilian author Jorge Amado’s spirited novella about Arab immigrants to South America -

    published for the centennial of Amado’s birth
    Two Arab immigrants…

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    As designacoes toponimicas em Terras do sem fim, de Jorge Amado

    Ribeiro de Queiroz Rita de Cassia

    O Homem, desde o momento em que dominou o espaco circundante, teve como uma de suas atividades a nomeacao. A partir de entao, o ser humano passou a nomear tanto…

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    Jorge, amado e desamado - A incrivel historia do treinador do Flamengo

    Luis Garcia

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    Tieta

    Jorge Amado

    Banished for promiscuity, Tieta returns to the seaside village of Agreste after 26 years. Thinking she is now a rich, respectable widow, her mercenary family welcomes her with open arms…

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    Gabriela: Clove and Cinnamon

    Jorge Amado

    The arrival of an intoxicating mulatto girl from the backlands changes the lives of the inhabitants of a provincial Brazilian town.

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    Tamalitos: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem

    Jorge Argueta

    Another playful book in the popular bilingual Cooking Poem series, now in paperback!

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    Rooster / Gallo

    Jorge Lujan

    The song of the rooster brings up the sun but in due course the night comes to continue the cycle.

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    Salsa: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem

    Jorge Argueta

    Unos hermanos preparan una salsa muy sabrosa en este poema para cocinar lleno de musicalidad que deleitaraa a toda la familia –Page 4 of cover.

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    Movi la mano / I Moved My Hand

    Jorge Lujan

    When a little girl moves her hand, she changes the world as she discovers it. As she moves her known world, she discovers her own power and creates everything anew…

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    Arroz con leche / Rice Pudding: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem

    Jorge Argueta

    Previously published by Groundwood Books, 2010.

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    Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds

    Jorge Argueta

    This book by award-winning Salvadoran poet Jorge Argueta describes the terrible process that leads young people to undertake the extreme hardships and risks involved in the journey to what they…

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    Guacamole: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem: Un poema para cocinar / A Cooking Poem

    Jorge Argueta

    Previously published by Groundwood Books, 2012.

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    Stephen and the Beetle

    Jorge Lujan

    Stephen attempts to squish a beetle but has second thoughts.

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    Instant Insights: Soil Erosion

    Professor Jane Rickson,Dr Santanu Bakshi,Dr Chumki Banik,Dr Zhenli He,Prof R. J. Rickson

    This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on soil erosion in agriculture.

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