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These 5 items are available for $75, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXBZL52)

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)
Rio de Janeiro  •  Ruy Castro TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  HARD COVER  • 224 PAGES A marvelous, diverse portrait of Rio, its history, culture and challenges. Castro is a Brazilian journalist who has written widely on music, sports and contemporary affairs. The fifth book in Bloomsbury's Writer and the City series. (BZL42, $16.95)
The Brazilians  •  Joseph Page CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1996 •  PAPER  • 540 PAGES A clear and compelling introduction to the country, covering politics, history, economics, culture, and character. The turmoil and ecological destruction in the Amazon basin is discussed in one of the many thought-provoking chapters. (AMZ16, $22.95)
Samba  •  Alma Guillermoprieto TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1991 •  PAPER  • 244 PAGES A memorable account of life and music on the coast of Brazil by the talented and wide-ranging Guillermoprieto, a staff writer at the New Yorker and award-winning journalist. 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, $13.95)
Rio de Janeiro Map  •  Borch Maps 2006 •  MAP A laminated road map of Rio de Janeiro at a scale of 1:13,000. (BZL25, $8.95)

Rio de Janiero Destination Map  •  National Geographic    •  A laminated, folded map of Rio. (BZL24, $8.99)
Knopf Mapguide Rio De Janeiro  •  Knopf Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy set of full color, ingeniously folded maps, each indicating favorite sites, shops, restaurants and attractions. (BZL55, $9.95)
Lonely Planet Rio de Janeiro  •  Regis St. Louis   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide to the Brazilian city features maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and much nuts-and-bolts information (BZL19, $19.99)
Portuguese, Start Speaking Today (Brazilian)  •  Language/30   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A 90-minute primer on Brazilian Portuguese following the foreign service method. (BZL36, $21.95)
Rum & Reggae's Rio De Janeiro  •  Jonathan Runge   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact, opinionated guide of the "Rum & Reggae" series, known for its frank opinions, off-hand tone and focus on outdoor activities. (BZL76, $14.95)
Say It in Portuguese, Brazilian Usage  •  Alexander Prista  •  Francisco Da Costa   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy, palm-size phrasebook for travelers with 1,100 useful words and expressions. It provides the English phrase, Portuguese equivalent and transliteration. (BZL37, $4.95)
Wallpaper City Guide Rio De Janeiro  •  Wallpaper Magazine   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A stylish, thin (it fits in your back pocket) city guide compiled by the design magazine Wallpaper's local reporters. Well-organized, with chapter tabs, many photographs and of-the-moment recommendations. (BZL56, $8.95)
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)
The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics  •  Robert M. Levine  •  John J. Crocitti   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • COMING IN  •  A diverse selection of letters, interviews and other documents from early colonization to contemporary literature, this book is an excellent overview of the history and culture of Brazil. (BZL12, $25.95)
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, $15.00)
Travelers' Tales Brazil  •  Annette Haddad   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  A collection of stories, articles and excerpts on Brazil -- an excellent introduction to the people, culture and traditions of the country as seen through the eyes of modern writers. (BZL06, $18.95)
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, $14.95)
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, $15.00)
The Slum  •  Aluisio Azevedo   • LITERATURE  •  Azevedo tackles social issues, including racism and overwhelming material desire, in this classic tale of star-crossed lovers, first published in 1890. (BZL27, $24.95)
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)