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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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short-stories‎ (97)
japanese-authors‎ (94)
italian-authors‎ (83)
british-authors‎ (78)
detective-stories‎ (72)
spanish‎ (66)

nobel-prize‎ (60)
historical-novel‎ (51)
murder-mystery‎ (51)
favorite-books‎ (49)
fantasy‎ (46)
psychological-novel‎ (45)
irish-authors‎ (44)
mystery‎ (39)
police-procedural‎ (39)
french‎ (36)
german-authors‎ (36)
novella‎ (36)

spanish-authors‎ (36)
non-fiction‎ (34)
portuguese-authors‎ (34)
world-war-ii‎ (34)
philosophy‎ (32)
rural-poverty‎ (32)
brazilian-authors‎ (31)
coming-of-age‎ (31)
swedish-authors‎ (31)
thriller‎ (31)
humor‎ (30)
russian-authors‎ (30)

classic‎ (27)
war‎ (26)
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paris‎ (25)
portuguese‎ (25)
violence‎ (25)
colonialism‎ (24)
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Jim’s Quotes

“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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“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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Maigret (Jim and Ebba Buddy Read) — 2 members — last activity May 29, 2023 04:51PM
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Portuguese-American & Portuguese-Canadian Literature — 34 members — last activity Apr 20, 2020 08:11AM
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 — 31228 members — last activity Apr 27, 2026 06:40PM
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 — 567 members — last activity Apr 25, 2026 06:50PM
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 — 4044 members — last activity May 10, 2025 07:28AM
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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