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  • To the Ends of the Earth
    Sr. Maria Barbagallo MSC / Glenn Alan Cheney / Michael L. Bates
    Sr. Maria Barbagallo, MSC,  lived through some of the most turbulent times of the 20th century. Born in Italy during World War II and the reign of Mussolini, she became a Missionary Sister of the Sacred Heart of Jesus shortly before the Vatican II Council changed the focus of the Church and the orientation of its religious orders. Sr. Maria spent the 1970s in Central America. I...
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    25,19 €

  • The Best Chronicles of Rubem Alves
    Rubem Alves / Glenn Alan Cheney
    A collection of short essays by Brazil's most renowned philosopher, theologian, psychoanalyst, writer and professor, Rubem Alves, who died in 2014. The foreword is by his daughter, Raquel Alves, and the Introduction is by Brazilian culture critic Ana Lessa-Schmidt.Alves writes of deep topics in simple, pleasant style. He sees depths in popcorn, gardening, politics, old age,...
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    24,34 €

  • Quilombo dos Palmares
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares. An additional chapter discusses the myths and values emanating from Palmares. Another chapter explores the history and current problems of Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, a present-day quilombo. ...
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    29,59 €

  • Wanderings 2025
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Paintings, drawings, photographs and ceramics by Norwich Arts Center artists Karen Bartone, Glynis J. Blanker, Virginia Chase, Glenn Alan Cheney, Alison Ciarlante, Karen Coombs, Rita Dawley, Mark Dixon, Carol Dunn, Joyce E. Greene, Richard Paul Hoyer, Sandra Jeknavorian, Susan Scott Kenney, Melody Knight Leary, Gabe Lipman, Susan Masse, Howard McCalebb, Michael McCarter, Susan ...
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    21,06 €

  • The Reform of Nature
    Monteiro Lobato / Glenn Alan Cheney
    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 in Brazil, Sítio do Picapau Amarelo. The Reform of Nature is a novella that can be appreciated by children and grownups. Their reasons would be different, but both are astonished by the crazy creativit...
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    9,89 €

  • Wanderings 2024
    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 Coombs, Rita Dawley, Mark Dixon, Michael Dubenetsky, Carol Dunn, Richard Paul Hoyer, Susan Scott Kenney, Melody Knight Leary, Gerlinde Lehner, Ralph...
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    27,34 €

  • Just a Bunch of Facts
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Just a Bunch of Facts is the only book that answers such questions as:How many beehives equal the weight of one space shuttle?How many Americans can’t vote because they’ve been in jail?Why would you not want Oscar the Cat to sleep on your bed?What did Crown Prince Philip of France’s horse trip over?What is Hell Money?Who was the first cat in space and where was she from?Who sai...
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    28,50 €

  • Trio in A-Minor
    Ana Lessa-Schmidt / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Brazilian writer Machado de Assis is considered one of the greatest contributors to world literature. His work not only pushes the bounds of fiction but spans a crucial period in Brazilian history. In his early years, he set his stories in the New World version of Portugal’s rigid traditional social structure. His characters worked out their frivolous romantic concerns with exc...
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    26,90 €

  • Lurking Doubt
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Brief passages on the nature, causes, effects, history, and reform of incarceration. Among the topics are prison conditions, effect on prisoners and families, effectiveness of solitary confinement, famous prison breaks, education in prisons, societal benefits, quotes, and much more.  ...
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    17,52 €

  • Journey on the Estrada Real
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    Brazil's Estrada Real is a road built in 1697 to bring gold and diamonds down from the mountains of Minas Gerais to the ports of Rio de Janeiro and Paraty. The road is still there, most of it still unpaved, winding through historic Baroque cities such as Congonhas, Ouro Preto, Serro, and, at the northern end, Diamantina.As the 20th century rolled over into the 21st, life al...
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    26,19 €

  • Tender Returns
    Rubem Alves / Glenn Alan Cheney
    Collected short essays by Brazilian theologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Rubem Alves. Alves is one of the most popular and beloved writers in Brazil. He dives deeply into such topics as love, death, life, nature, society, history, sanity, old age, religion, and economics. He also goes into the symbolism of such commonplace things as popcorn, trees, violins, gardens, manur...
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    24,21 €

  • Quilombo dos Palmares
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrive through the entire 17th century. With a population estimated at 20,000 or more, it had a quasi-parliamentary government, egalitarian society, and a massive mountaintop citadel fortress. It was at almost constant war with the largest empires on earth. It was finally overrun in 1694. Not a single artifact remai...
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    18,87 €

  • Seasons of a Refractive Mind
    Glenn Alan Daley
    A wide-ranging collection of poems, aphorisms, and black-and-white photographs by an American writer and public policy scholar born in California in 1953 and raised in the American South and Pacific Northwest. Topics include faith and its loss, nature and the environment, war, social justice, friendship, teaching, chronic pain, mental health, and the struggle to communicate wit...
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    22,99 €

  • Operation Twin Cessna
    Glenn Alan Cannon
    Zack McGregor and his wife, Julie, find themselves thrust into the throes of a government sting operation--not once, but twice. A task force sanctioned by the President of the United States has intentionally involved the young couple in its clandestine operation. President Richard Nixon had just resigned the office of the President.Contributing to the suspense is a charismatic ...
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    12,56 €