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Print: $12.26 Download: $4.00 A fictional narrative recounted through time by a boy tracing his family’s search for acceptance, safety, and stability across three continents from 1880 to the present. It is a touching story of wondering, a tale of our innate need to be different yet the same as those around us, to somehow blend in with our surroundings while not losing our sense of uniqueness and individuality.
The narrator, a nameless boy from an immigrant family, finds himself caught up in the tides of political struggle, forced to watch as his family, community, and country are torn apart by the tyranny of Apartheid. Through events beyond his control, he is swept from Africa to a new land and compelled to confront his own individuality, while trying to find acceptance from others for his own deep secrets.
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Print: $13.20 Download: $5.00 Botafogo, a Portuguese word meaning “to set fire”, Botafogo is also a neighbourhood that features prominently in this novel, and was once home to one of Rio de Janeiro’s most famous football teams: Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas.
Drugs, corruption, murder, deceit, passion, and hate – all rolled into one in Glen Albert Phillips’ latest novel, set in Rio de Janeiro. This is a story of two worlds, told through a dozen lives in a city of fire: rich and poor, old and young, peaceful and violent, loving and deceitful, black and white, good and evil.
Rio de Janeiro, with its stunning geographical setting, its diversity of races and religious beliefs, and its explosive mix of rich alongside poor, is indeed a place to set fire.
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Print: $8.48 Download: $2.39 I always believed one could never be a philosopher without one or two catch phrases, several glossy terms, and the odd quotable thought. Thus, over the past couple of years, I have taken the time to put thoughts to paper, memories to journals, and tongue in cheek expressions to post-it notes. This book has neither structure nor form. Rather, it is none other than a scrapbook of journal entries and poems written by me, myself, and I.
Open at your own risk, hopefully you’ll have a good laugh, and a deep enough reflection on some of the things I have had to say over the past few years.
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Print: $30.95 Images of the world from a roving camera.
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Print: $10.70 Download: $5.00 * Para qualquer brasileiro que tenha o desejo de morar fora do país e possa considerar o Canadá como uma das opções.
* O meu objetivo é o de oferecer um guia informativo sobre o processo de residência canadense.
* Quando iniciei o meu processo de residência canadense o meu maior desafio foi o de encontrar informações de pessoas que já haviam recebido a residência canadense.
* Para saber mais sobre Canadá para Brasileiros, explore www.canada-brasil.com.
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Print: $15.44 Download: $7.50 Short stories, essays, poems, and memories. This is the first in a series of annual collective works produced by the Vancouver Jewish Writers Group. Laughter, tears, and life experiences - from cover to cover!
Glen Phillips, Dan Propp, Hymie Joy, Miriam Joy, Ben Katz, Elizabeth Stern, Sally Rogow, Bernardo Berdichewsky, Batia Karton
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Who am I?
An African American: I was born in Southern Africa three decades ago, from a lineage of Jewish immigrants who settled there at the turn of the 19th century. Even though I have left to live in the Americas, my heart and soul still wander those shores, gazing up at the brilliant African sky.
A Canadian: Canada symbolizes creativity, openness, sharing, and mutual understanding - values I hold close to heart.
An athlete: Racing sprints kayaks, telemark skiing, running muddy trails, or twisting into contorted shapes in yoga, I am at peace when in motion.
A guitarist: Bossa Nova, fingerpicking, Jazz, Blues, and poetry.
A lover of literature: Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, James Michener, George Orwell, Michel Tremblay.
A quiet activist: Blessed to have grown up in a land of privilege and democracy, I believe I have a moral duty to stand up and be active in society.
Glen Phillips's Blog
2007 Apr 24 This is Glen Albert Phillips' first post on this blog. He currently has three books published at www.poeticgypsy.com : Botafogo, The Road to Benguela, and The Poetic Chronicles of a Wandering Jew. This summer he is involved in a project with a number of authors to produce a collection of stories based on the Jewish experience from the Holocaust and beyond.
My Interests
adam smith, adolf hitler, africa, afrikaans, afrique, agua, aids, argentina, barcelona, berlin wall, bikes, bill clinton, bloc quebecois, bossa nova, brasil, brian mulroney, buenos aires, cape town, catholics, chemistry, chess, chile, chocolat, cinema repertoire, cold war, colour, communism, cooperatives, cuba, deaf, deafness, depression, desmond tutu, disabilities, diversity, diversité, esade, espagne, feminist, fidel castro, frederik de klerk, french, french men, gay, geography, geology, george h. bush, george orwell, george w. bush, glasnost, green party of canada, guitar, health, hearing, hec, henri salvador, homosexuality, internet, ipanema, islam, israel, james michener, japan, jazz, jean chretien, joao giberto, joe clark, judaism, karate, kayak, kibbutzim, kinetics, kurt cobaine, le parti vert, lizards, london, margaret thatcher, marijuana, marx, mathematics, mecs français, michael moore, michel tremblay, mikhail gorbachev, montreal, mozart, multi-culturalism and cross-cultural parterning, music, napoleon, ndp, nelson mandela, noam chomsky, palestine, paris, paris metro, parti quebecois, paul martin, paulo coelho, peace, peresroika, portugal, portuguese, poverty, quebec, reaction rates, reading, religion, rick hansen, rocks, ronald reagan, running, russia, sida, sign language, skiing, south africa, soviet union, spanish, spiderman, suicide, surfing, surfista, terry fox, the gipper, tolstoy, tom jobim, trees, vancouver, vegetarian, vivaldi, water, writing, yoga, гла́сность
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