Trade Books of the Month

The Angolan Clan
THE ANGOLAN CLAN takes the reader on a heart-stopping roller coaster ride, from past to present and back again. It is a deadly intercontinental treasure hunt laced with secrets, deceit and murder. The prize is a fortune in Angolan diamonds - .or death at the hands of a pathological killer.
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Portugal’s Guerilla Wars in Africa
Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guiné-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam. Yet they are among the most underreported conflicts of the modern era.
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Saint Christopher: A Novella
Set in the Middle Ages but written in the early twentieth century, Eça de Queirós's novella, Saint Christopher, is a powerful indictment of those who profess the value of morality but who do not practice it.
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Happy People in Tears
Happy People in Tears is an award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds - the island home of São Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada - experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean family of nine.
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Fernando Pessoa as English Reader and Writer
With Pessoa's digitized private library online, the importance of English to Pessoa has become indisputable, particularly in his formative years: numerous English authors served as the bedrock from which his poetic sensibility emerged, developed and soared.
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