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

nobel-prize‎ (60)
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murder-mystery‎ (51)
favorite-books‎ (49)
fantasy‎ (46)
psychological-novel‎ (45)
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novella‎ (36)

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philosophy‎ (32)
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thriller‎ (31)
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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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“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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“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 — 31237 members — last activity 7 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 — 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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