Glenn Alan Cheney: 10 books

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

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....

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,...

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....

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,...

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...

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,...

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,...

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...