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Books

Books in Brazil are extraordinarily expensive and very few cities have large bookstores or even the combination bookstore/cafΘ we are used to in the US (Rio has a nice one in Ipanema and Sπo Paulo has at least one where you can have a cafezinho with a delicious pπo de queijo). To bring home, there are gorgeous books of photographs, from coffee plantations to Brazilian fruits, sold also at airport newsstands. Just remember, they'll cost you a bundle.

Newspapers and Magazines

In most Brazilian cities, newspapers - local and foreign - are sold at street corner kiosks called bancas de jornais, which also sell postcards, candies and phone tokens and cards. Don't be shocked by the nude pictures on many magazine covers..."nudies" are sold everywhere and if you stand there gawking they'll know you're an American right away!

This stand in front of the Nossa Senhora da Paz square in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, stays open 24 hours a day. American papers sell out pretty fast.

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