More than 120 succinct thoughts, ideas, positions, and philosophical notions from Pope Francis. T...

The Quilombo dos Palmares was a nation of fugitive slaves that thrive through the entire 17th cen...

Ten stories by Machado de Assis, most from his early, formative period. Foreword by ana Cláudia S...

A collection of paintings, photography, and design by Glenn Alan Cheney with a foreword that expl...

A translation of Monteiro Lobato's 'O Presidente Negro ou O Choque das Raças,' presented in a bil...

Break the Spell

Monteiro Lobato is one of Brazil's most popular and beloved writers. He is best known for his ser...

Ten short stories by the Brazilian master, most from his early, formative years. Most have never ...

Brief passages on the nature, causes, effects, history, and reform of incarceration. Among the to...

More than 120 brief thoughts from Pope Francis, with lengthy excerpt from his Laudato Si encyclic...

A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares. An add...

Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It's about something that a few dozen survivors did a...

Just a Bunch of Facts is the only book that answers such questions as:How many beehives equal the...

Brazil's Estrada Real is a road built in 1697 to bring gold and diamonds down from the mountains ...

A rich collection of newspaper articles, editorial, and opinions published in the days before and...

Sr. Maria Barbagallo, MSC,lived through some of the most turbulent times of the 20th century. Bor...

Short essays by Rubem Alves, touching on life, sex, nature, soup, childhood, crime, Brazil, bovin...

Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages...

Portraits of missionary sisters as they work in some of the most difficulty, dangerous, and turbu...

Collected short essays by Brazilian theologist, philosopher, and psychoanalyst Rubem Alves. Alves...

Rubem Alves was a theologian, philosopher, psychoanalyst, professor, writer, and just plain old n...

Rubem Alves takes a friendly but philosophical look at the stages of life--an unusual baptism, a ...

Brazil in the 1920s was going through many transformations. A new republic was shedding old moral...

A collection of short essays by Brazil's most renowned philosopher, theologian, psychoanalyst, wr...

Rio de Janeiro in 1911 was a venerable city in a new republic just a generation old. The people o...

In 1888 and 1889, Brazil's most renowned writer, Machado de Assis, wrote a series of chronicles, ...

Brazilian writer Machado de Assis is considered one of the greatest contributors to world literat...

Accounts of several religions in early 20th century Rio de Janeiro by literary journalist João do...

Who Made the West looks at the 30 most influential people in Western history. Some are familiar n...

A translation of Monteiro Lobato's 'A Chave do Tamanho.' Though on one level a children's novel, ...

Brief essays by Glenn Alan Cheney, written for The Day and The Norwich Times between January 2020...

A complete collection of the poetry of Brazilian poet Paulo Leminski, translated to English. Lemi...

A small family ventures up the Amazon, and then up a tributary, and then another, with The Gumbal...

Originally titled The Black President, or The Clash of the Races, by Brazilian writer Monteiro Lo...

Excerpts from fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and translations by Glenn Alan Cheney, includingThanks...

Paintings, drawings, sculpture, photographs, and other artwork by 31 Connecticut artists associat...

Fictional philosophy drawing on mysticism, stoicism, existentialism, transcendentalism, fantasy a...