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	Insight City Guide Rio de Janeiro  •   Insight Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES This eyecatching guidebook features beautiful full-color photographs, illuminating area maps, a separate pullout map, a street atlas and expanded practical information. (BZL60, $16.95)
	Lonely Planet Buenos Aires  •   Lonely Planet GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 248 PAGES In its hallmark style, this practical guide to Buenos Aires by Lonely Planet features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and a great deal of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. Most of the book focuses on what to see, do, buy and eat in the city. With color photographs and excellent travel information. (ARG10, $18.99)
	Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien  •  Brian Winter LITERATURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 336 PAGES Weaving politics and history with his own travails in seedy tango halls, Winters became, as he bemoans in the epilogue of this rollikcing portrait of Buenos Aires, "the most grotesque creature imaginable -- a Texan with an Argentine accent." He includes a memorable three-page riff on the famous La Biela Cafe, where he once saw Robert Duvall -- "one yangui son of a bitch who knew how to tango." (ARG80, $24.95)
	Buenos Aires Map  •   Borch Maps 2006 •  MAP A laminated street map of Buenos Aires and surroundings at a scale of 1:15,000. Two Sides. 20 X 39 inches. (ARG38, $8.95)
	Rio de Janeiro Map  •   ITMB 2006 •  MAP A laminated road map of Rio de Janeiro at a scale of 1:13,000. One Side. 39x27 inches. (BZL25, $8.95)

	Portuguese, Start Speaking Today (Brazilian)  •   Language/30   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A 90-minute primer on Brazilian Portuguese following the foreign service method. (BZL36, $24.95)
	Bossa Nova, The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World  •  Ruy Castro   • HISTORY  •  Journalist Ruy Castro interviewed everyone who had anything to do with Boss Nova for this animated history, capturing not only the personalities of pioneers like Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto but also the spirit of Rio de Janeiro in the 1960s. (BZL47, $17.95)
	Tango, The Art History of Love  •  Robert Farris Thompson   • HISTORY  •  A probing cultural history of the tango, its working class origins in 19th-century Buenos Aires and Afro-Argentine roots. (ARG56, $15.95)
	Tango: the Dance, the Song, the Story  •  Simon Collier   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A spirited, illustrated tribute to the tango, the now-elegant dance born in the brothels among the working class of 19th-century Buenos Aires. (ARG14, $29.95)
	The Brazilians  •  Joseph Page   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A clear, comprehensive and compelling introduction to Brazil, covering politics, history, economics, ecology, conservation and culture. (AMZ16, $22.95)
	Rough Guide Music Rio De Janiero  •   Rough Guide World Music   • MUSIC  •  Samba sounds of Carnaval and the groove of carioca, as well as an excellent sampling of other Brazilian beats. (BZL63, $14.95)
	The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil  •  Chris McGowan  •  Ricardo Pessanha   • MUSIC  •  A wide-ranging history of popular music in Brazil, revised with an undated discography of 1000 titles. The authors write for Billboard magazine. (BZL52, $31.95)
	A Death in Brazil  •  Peter Robb   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Peter Robb (Midnight in Sicily) flourishes his mastery of the complexities of Brazilian travel, politics, culture and history. This book is impressive for its prose, insight and the author's sheer bravura. (BZL43, $16.00)
	Evita, The Real Life of Eva Peron  •  Nicholas Fraser   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A sophisticated biography of Evita, tracing her humble origins to her place as a revered cult figure. Frazer also reveals Peronism and Argentine politics of the 1930s and 1940s. (ARG03, $14.95)
	Far Away and Long Ago  •  W.H. Hudson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Hudson's enthralling childhood remembrances are rich with descriptions of landscapes, birds and nature. (SAM11, $34.95)
	Rio de Janeiro  •  Ruy Castro   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Castro brings journalistic insight to this marvelous, diverse portrait of Rio, its history, diverse culture and contemporary challenges. (BZL42, $16.95)
	Samba  •  Alma Guillermoprieto   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A memorable account of life and music on the coast of Brazil by the talented and wide-ranging Guillermoprieto. A dancer herself, she lived for a year in Manguiera, a favela near Rio known for its samba school. Nominated for a National Book Award. (BZL38, $14.95)
	Buenos Aires, Cities of the Imagination  •  Alberto Manguel  •  Jason Wilson   • ANTHOLOGY  •  Wilson evokes the magic of the city as seen through its writers, artists and musicians in this exhilarating and erudite guide. (ARG21, $15.00)
	Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands  •  Jorge Amado   • LITERATURE  •  The best known novel by Brazil's much loved author. Amado spins a satiric tale of a young cooking teacher in Salvador, Bahia, who is haunted by her first husband, a philandering ne'er do well who dropped dead at carnival. (BZL35, $15.95)
	Imagining Argentina  •  Lawrence Thornton   • LITERATURE  •  A brilliant first novel that captures the hope and spirit of Argentina during the military rule of the late 1970s. This inventive tale focuses on Carlos Rueda and a group of citizens whose relatives disappeared. (ARG01, $15.00)
	The Buenos Aires Quintet  •  Manuel Vázquez Montalban   • LITERATURE  •  Montalban comments on not just wine, women and song, but also much of Argentina's political and cultural history in this riveting detective tale set against a backdrop of 1970s Buenos Aires culture and the era's repressive military junta. (ARG48, $14.00)
	The Silence of the Rain  •  Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza   • MYSTERY  •  A businessman is killed and Inspector Espinosa, an intellectual with a wandering heart, is on the case in this bestselling Brazilian mystery, memorably set in Rio de Janeiro. (BZL61, $17.00)
	The War of the End of the World  •  Mario Vargas Llosa  •  Helen Lane   • LITERATURE  •  An unforgettable historical novel about the rebellion of the lower-class citizens of Canudos, Brazil, in the late 19th century. (BZL18, $16.00)

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