by Manto Costa (1997)
É uma viagem no tempo. O romance nos leva ao Brasil dos anos 70, que viveu no período sob forte ditadura militar e, ao mesmo tempo, conheceu grande efervescência cultural. O livro emociona o leitor com amor, política, música e vida pulsante. Julinho da Adelaide, o eterno eterônimo de Chico Buarque, ganha vida e conduz a história: uma apaixonada aventura setentista.
Allen Drury
In this political thriller, Drury describes the chaos that overtakes America and the world with the suspicious death of the President just after his renomination. His death leaves the incumbent party without a candidate or an easy method for selecting one. Book 4 of 6 in *Advise and Consent Series*.
John Grenier
This book explores the evolution of American war, showing how the first war waged against Indian noncombatant populations and their agricultural resources became the standard method of war employed by early Americans and which ultimately defined their military heritage. The bloodthirsty American conquest of Indian communities east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror.
Lindsay Luterman
Wendy Austin has escaped from her captivity and the American government. She has everything she could ever want: her family, her brother, her best friend, and a house where she can live safely and not worry about being taken away. Yet, something is drawing her away from Canada and back to America. If there is any chance that Mike is still alive, she has to find out and save him. Through this rescue mission, she will learn what the American government is really capable of and what goes on inside their prisons from a guard's perspective. She may even find more than she came looking for. But even Wendy knows that when it comes to the American government, you only get one shot to make it out alive or end up dead.
A.J. Cronin
Story of Robert Shannon's experiences as a medical research worker and his love affair with a girl of different religious faith.