New London Librarium: 14 books
by Pope Francis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
More than 120 succinct thoughts, ideas, positions, and philosophical notions from Pope Francis. Topics include the most crucial issues of our times: the worship of money, global warming, disposable people, the environment, poverty, slavery, human dignity, the nature of property, the war industry, and many more.
Good Days!
The Bons Dias Chronicles of Machado de Assis (1888-1889)
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
In 1888 and 1889, Brazil's most renowned writer, Machado de Assis, wrote a series of chronicles, or essays, for the Gazeta de Notícias, published in Rio de Janeiro. This was a very exciting time to be reporting in Brazil. In 1889, slavery was abolished, and in 1889, the country ended its monarchy...
Thanksgiving
The Pilgrims' First Year in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Thanksgiving is not a book about a holiday. It s about something that a few dozen survivors did after a year of suffering, death, struggle, and courage.
They bowed their heads to give thanks.
The Pilgrims journey began as a joint venture of business and religion,...
Journey on the Estrada Real:
Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2012
Brazil's Estrada Real — the Royal Road — was constructed in 1697 to bring the gold and diamonds from the mountains of Minas Gerais to ports at Rio de Janeiro and Paraty. The road is still there, winding through the mountains, passing through villages and towns once opulent, now in decadence....
by Glenn Alan Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Sister Diane DalleMolle and Sister Barbara Staley arrived in Swaziland at the height of an HIV epidemic that today afflicts a third of the population. Under under extremely difficult conditions in the harsh, semi-arid outback, they managed to establish a clinic, care for over 100 orphans, install...
Be Revolutionary
978-0-9905899-5-2
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This collection of opinions, commentary, and ideas comes from Pope Francis's speeches, writings, and press conferences. It includes more than 120 topics, such as the war industry, the wealth gap, the function of property in society, homosexuality, marriage, Christians as soul, the culture of consumption,...
by Glenn Alan Cheney, Luciana Tanure, Rachel Kopit
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Translations of 21 short stories by Machado de Assis, with Portuguese and English on facing pages. Most have never before appeared in English. Translators include Laura Cade Brown, Krista Brune, David George, Linda Ledford-Miller, Ana Lessa-Schmidt, Nelson López Rojas, John Maddox, Adam Morris,...
by Glenn Alan Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
A Cheney Sampler
Excerpts from Books by Glenn Alan Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Excerpts from books by Glenn Alan Cheney. Excerpts are from: -- Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims' First Year in America -- Journey on the Estrada Real: Encounters in the Mountains of Brazil -- Frankenstein on the Cusp of Something -- Passion in an Improper Place -- Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil's lost nation of fugitive slaves
-- Ex Cathedra: Stories by Machado de Assis
Quilombo dos Palmares
Brazil's Lost Nation of Fugitive Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
For almost a hundred years, a nation of fugitive Africans, Indians, whites, and mixed races fought off the world’s most powerful empires in a struggle to survive in freedom.
Over the span of the 17th century, the Quilombo dos Palmares melded several cultures to form its own language, religion,...
Promised Land
A Nun’s Struggle to Resist Landlessness, Lawlessness, Slavery, Poverty, Corruption, Injustice, and Environmental Devastation in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Sister Leonora Brunetto lives and works in Brazil’s state of Mato Grosso. In 1978, rainforest covered the region. Today, cattle pastures stretch to the horizon, their unshaded grass rippling with heatwaves. Ranches of tens of thousands of acres benefit single families who have no title to the land....
by Glenn Alan Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Ysa should have known better.
She shouldn't have believed Kit. Shouldn't have gone up the Amazon with the Gumball King. Should haven't let a Mundurucu take up her up a river in a canoe. Shouldn't have ventured alone into mining camp.
Kit should have known better. He shouldn't have...
Miss Dollar
Stories by Machado de Assis—Bilingual Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Wheresoe'er
Paintings by Colleen Hennessy
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
A collection of over 40 paintings in naif style by Denver artist Colleen Hennessy, with introduction by Glenn Alan Cheney.