New book on Brazil "Samba, Axe and pitada de Pimenta malagueta"

Stories on Brazil, its culture, people, and customs.  It should be fun and easy to read.  Kind of a beginner's book on Brazil for gringos..

In gringos I mean non-Brazilians like me, not necessarily north of the Rio Grande.   

I must say I did not find Brazil an easy place to comprehend, even though I am a next door neighbor.  Brazil has magic, secrets, mystique, power, extreme love and anger... powerful combination of vibrant emotion.

Two Brazilian journalists, Marcia Carmo, and Monica Yanokiev wrote an insightful book on Argentina... their book instigated me to work on a similar project.