Albuquerque: 33 books

From its humble beginning in 1972 when 13 hot-air balloons ascended from an Albuquerque shopping center parking lot to a stunning annual gathering of 500-plus aeronauts, the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta lives on as the most-photographed air show on the planet. As you page through this...

Brazilian Tales Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839 – 1908), was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer, and advocate of monarchism. Widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature, nevertheless he did not gain...

The Sundial Salesman: "My phone in my pocket rang. I didn't answer. Because it could only be a woman, one of my shady parents or someone I owed money to. And I didn't want to speak to any of them." Downtown Tokyo, New York - Things to do in Downtown? Well, you could get stabbed, see...

The Short Skirt And Other Problems : "Morning's come and gone and appears not to be out of breath. Whereas I'm still crawling out of the wrecked night on all fours screaming all kinds of rabid sh*t." Short skirts have a way of making a man's mind wander. Short skirts were everywhere....

Letters From A Bum: "It was probably at about this time I got into narcotics. Not selling, just using them. Recreationally, at first. Then every day. Cocaine mostly. Actually, just cocaine." Who's Frank Bruce? Exactly - who the hell is Frank Bruce? Frank Bruce is a sacked CIA accounts analyst...

This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder. The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to the...

Welcome to the Meld, an inhospitable dimension in time where Joshua, a chrononaut, finds himself trapped. With no memory or feedback from the team of scientists that sent him, he can't count on anything but his heart and a stranger's voice to guide him to his destiny. This book collects issues...

«É uma história que faz arrepiar os cabelos.» Assim principia Camilo Castelo Branco um dos seus romances, e, pese embora o sensacionalismo, da mesma forma poderíamos descrever os vinte e sete contos e novelas incluídos nesta antologia, onde se pretende apresentar uma amostra representativa...

Brazil's Northeast has traditionally been considered one of the country's poorest and most underdeveloped areas. In this impassioned work, the Brazilian historian Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Jr. investigates why Northeasterners are marginalized and stereotyped not only by inhabitants of other parts...

From detachable balloons and GDC coils to the recent advent of flow diversion, practitioners of have endovascular neurosurgery been fortunate to work in an era of rapid and exciting advances. The first commercially available flow diverter in the U.S. was approved specifically for a small subset of...

Esta coletânea reúne a história de milhares de ex-escravos e de seus descendentes dos últimos anos do século XIX até a década de 1980. De forma plural e inovadora, analisa os significados do pós-abolição - período de propostas, lutas e expectativas - por meio de biografias, da trajetória...

Joshua stürzt mit seiner Zeitkapsel ab und landet im Meld, einem mysteriösen und hoffnungslosen Ort. Er kann sich weder an seine Vergangenheit erinnern, noch daran, warum er sich vor seinem Crash die Zahl 8 aufs Handgelenk gemalt hat. Dann ertönt plötzlich eine Frauenstimme aus seinem Funkgerät...

Joshua stürzt mit seiner Zeitkapsel ab und landet im Meld, einem mysteriösen und hoffnungslosen Ort. Er weiß nur noch, dass er durch die Zeit reisen und einen Nazi aufspüren sollte. Doch was bedeutet die Zahl 8, die er sich vor seinem Crash aufs Handgelenk gemalt hat, und welche Rolle spielt sie...

Joshua stürzt mit seiner Zeitkapsel ab und landet im Meld, einem mysteriösen und hoffnungslosen Ort. Er kann sich weder an seine Vergangenheit erinnern, noch daran, warum er sich vor seinem Crash die Zahl 8 aufs Handgelenk gemalt hat. Dann ertönt plötzlich eine Frauenstimme aus seinem Funkgerät...