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Jim’s portuguese-american-books shelf

The Conjurer and Other Azorean Tales by Darrell Kastin

My Darling Dead Ones by Erika De Vasconcelos

The Undiscovered Island by Darrell Kastin

Making History; Creating a Landscape by James W. Fonseca

Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories by Katherine Vaz

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Jim’s Bookshelves

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french-authors‎ (118)
american-authors‎ (113)
short-stories‎ (96)
japanese-authors‎ (92)
italian-authors‎ (82)
british-authors‎ (77)
detective-stories‎ (70)
spanish‎ (65)
nobel-prize‎ (58)

historical-novel‎ (51)
murder-mystery‎ (50)
favorite-books‎ (49)
fantasy‎ (46)
irish-authors‎ (44)
psychological-novel‎ (44)
mystery‎ (39)
police-procedural‎ (38)
french‎ (36)
novella‎ (36)
spanish-authors‎ (36)
german-authors‎ (35)

non-fiction‎ (34)
portuguese-authors‎ (33)
philosophy‎ (32)
brazilian-authors‎ (31)
thriller‎ (31)
coming-of-age‎ (30)
humor‎ (30)
rural-poverty‎ (30)
russian-authors‎ (30)
world-war-ii‎ (30)
swedish-authors‎ (29)
classic‎ (26)

paris‎ (25)
portuguese‎ (25)
war‎ (25)
colonialism‎ (24)
feminist‎ (24)
jewish-authors‎ (24)
violence‎ (23)
argentinian-authors‎ (22)
psychological-thriller‎ (22)
belgian-authors‎ (21)
canadian-authors‎ (21)
mexican-authors‎ (21)

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Jim’s Quotes

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

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“If it was true what her mother had once told her, then nothing rang the telephone like death in the middle of the night.”
― Edward P Jones

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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

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Jim’s Groups

Maigret (Jim and Ebba Buddy Read) — 2 members — last activity 30 mai 2023 01:51
The Misty Harbour

Portuguese-American & Portuguese-Canadian Literature — 33 members — last activity 20 avr. 2020 17:11
This group, dedicated to Portuguese-American and Portuguese-Canadian Literature, focuses on the increasingly present literary conversation between the ...more

Around the World in 80 Books — 30894 members — last activity 58 minutes ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more

South Shore Readers — 554 members — last activity 10 jan. 2026 02:50
A group for book lovers from the South Shore area of Massachusetts. We can discuss area bookstores, libraries, favorite books, book-related events, bo ...more

Reading the Classics — 4048 members — last activity 10 mai 2025 16:28
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more

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