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1) The games
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil -- home to beautiful white-sand beaches, gorgeous women, stunning natural beauty, and the world largest Carnival celebration -- knows how to throw a party. So it a natural choice to host the biggest spectacles in sports -- the World Cup and the Olympics. To ensure that the games go off without a hitch, the organizers turn to Jack Morgan, the unflappable head of the renowned international security and consulting firm Private....
Author
Series
Blue bloods volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Schuyler Van Alen's blood legacy has just been called into question: Is the young woman in fact a Blue Blood, or is it the sinister Silver Blood that runs through her veins? When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by the Silver Bloods, the Blue Bloods will need Schuyler on their side.
Author
Series
Escape to paradise novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eager to leave the South after seeing the devastation caused by the Civil War, Blake Wallace embarks on a journey to Brazil, while widow Eliza Crawford seeks passage on Wallace's ship while harboring a dirty secret.
Author
Language
English
Description
The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A young wife relocates with her financier husband to São Paulo, where she encounters crime, protests, refugees, gentrification, and the collision of art and commerce while confronting the crisis slowly building inside her own marriage.
Emma has come to Brazil for her husband's career, with no job prospects of her own, a weak grasp of the language, and a deep ambivalence about having a child. Her early days in São Paulo are listless but privileged;...
7) Rio 2
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Jewel, Blu and their three kids are leaving their domesticated life in that magical city for a journey to the Amazon. They encounter a menagerie of characters that are born to be wild. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all: his father-in-law.
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 14
Language
English
Description
"Pike Logan tracks highly-trained Russian assassins to Brazil in this blistering, action-packed thriller from New York Times bestselling author and former Special Forces Officer Brad Taylor"--
10) Who is Pele?
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of the soccer star, discussing his childhood in Brazil, his relationship with his father, who taught him the sport, his role on the first Brazilian team to win the World Cup, and scoring his thousandth goal.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Set against the seductive world of 1960s Rio de Janeiro, an exquisite debut novel about family secrets, divided loyalties, and what we're willing to do to save ourselves.
This mesmerizing first novel follows a glamorous family as they prepare to leave the seeming paradise of Brazil for Canada in the wake to the mysterious disappearance -- and presumed drowning -- of their eldest daughter a year earlier. As the novel moves back and forth between...
12) Palmares
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a Brazil of the distant future, June Costa falls in love with Enki, a fellow artist and rebel against the strict limits of the government, knowing that, like all Summer Kings before him, Enki is destined to die.
14) Takeout
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Examines the reasons behind the Amazon forest fires and deforestation in Brazil.
15) Green Thumb
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret language used by the trees to communicate with each other and falls afoul of the dictatorial Dr. Carter, whose motives seem questionable.
16) Species hunter
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Marc van Roosmalen is a biologist with a passion for primates. His love of monkeys has taken him on the adventures of a lifetime, to the little known forests of Brazil. Here he has found such unique diversity of life that he has become a professional species hunter, discovering, naming and reclassifying species. He has already named 20 new kinds of monkeys. He is now searching for large unknown mammals in the forest.
17) Turistas
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2007
Language
English
Description
Americans Alex, Bea and Amy along with Brits Finn and Liam and Australian traveler Pru are together on a cross country bus in Brazil. After a near-fatal crash, all six are thrown together fighting for their survival. Further mishaps occur when the locals deprive them of their belongings & possessions. Searching for any sympathetic police, they meet familiar face Kiko. He offers to lead them to sanctuary. Upon reaching their destination, Amy soon vanishes....
18) Lea dives in
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2016: Lea volume 1
Girl of the year. Lea volume 1
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 1
Girl of the year. Lea volume 1
Girl of the year. 2016 Lea volume 1
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Lea Clark takes a family trip to Brazil where she learns to overcome her fear of the ocean and meets a new friend who inspires her to embrace the thrills and beauty of Brazil.
20) American drifter
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young veteran of the US Army, River Roulet is struggling to shake the horrors of his past. War is behind him, but the memories remain. Desperate to distract himself from the images haunting him daily, River abandons the world he knows and flees to the country he's always dreamed of visiting: Brazil. Rio de Janeiro is everything he hoped for and more. In the lead-up to Carnaval, the city is alight with music, energy, and life. With a few friends...
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