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El Espía del Inca / The Inca's SpyUna novela histórica colosal que recrea con sólida documentación histórica y con las licencias de la ficción novelística el infructuoso rescate del Inca. El Inca Atahualpa, Señor del Principio, ha sido capturado por unos extraños barbudos que han llegado hasta Cajamarca montados en llamas...
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The Year I Went AwayJulio Von Artens, after self-destructing his marriage and career in finance, is left with fourteen days to find a new place to live. Adrift in Buenos Aires, the city of fury, he takes up residence in a strange apartment alongside a tyrannical painter, a...
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Un Pianista de Provincias / Provincial Pianist«Federico Stahl es uno de los grandes personajes de la literatura latinoamericana de este principio de siglo . Edmundo Paz Soldán Todo pasó en los noventa: no solo se acabó el petróleo, sino que de los pozos agotados--y al mismo tiempo de las grandes...
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Conjuring the State: Public Health Encounters in Highland Ecuador, 1908-1945The First English-Language Book on the History of Public Health in Ecuador during the Early and Mid-Twentieth Century The Ecuadorian Public Health Service was founded in 1908 in response to the arrival of bubonic plague to the country. A. Kim Clark uses this as...
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The Spark in YouThis jubilant picture book filled with powerful affirmations celebrates the beautiful magic that makes each of us special. This is the perfect heartfelt gift for a birthday, graduation or other new beginnings. There is a spark in you! The spark in you shines when...
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La Conjura Contra Porky / The Plot Against Porky«Una de las voces más personales, controvertidas y exuberantes de la literatura actual en español . Jurado del Premio FIL de Literatura Entre ironías, burlas, improperios, maldiciones, blasfemias, este librito sin pretensiones hará reír a muchos e iluminará a montones. Trata modestamente de apresar...
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Buenos Aires: A Cultural HistoryThe an evocative exploration of the landmarks, events, people, and writing that shaped Buenos Aires. The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is...
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DesolaciónGabriela Mistral was the first Latin American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1945. Mistral has fascinated scholars, writers, and artists, who have tried to piece together the variegated layers of her persona and her "emotionally outspoken verses,"...
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The Simple Art of Killing a WomanFrom best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression--by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring.The Simple Art of Killing a Woman vividly conjures the epidemic of femicide in Brazil, the power...
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Pedro and Marques Take Stock: A Picaresque NovelThe Plotters meets Abundance in this modern picaresque novel, a vivid satire on social mobility where the lives of two Brazilian supermarket stock clerks are upturned after their small-time marijuana business takes off. In the favelas of Porto Alegre, Brazil, marijuana is hard to...
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JanuaryA revelatory, pioneering masterpiece about the life, rape, and abortion of a 16-year-old Argentine farmworker--now in English for the very first time With echoes of Edith Wharton's Summer, this radical feminist novel broke the silence around abortion to reshape the way women's bodies and...
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Ice for Martians: Hielo Para MarcianosClaudia Ulloa Donoso is an expert at writing gently alienated characters. Sometimes, their dislocation is the result of geography. Occasionally, it stems from their social conditions: consider "Alarm," in which every sound and moment is skewed by the narrator's terror of her abusive partner,...
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A Visit to ColombiaTake a trip to Colombia! Start in the city of Bogotá, where you'll find many colorful buildings. Then, go dance and wear costumes at the Barranquilla Carnival. And don't forget to visit the painted tombs or drink some coffee! Learn all about Colombia as...
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To Love, intransitive verbBrazil in the 1920s was going through many transformations. A new republic was shedding old moralities. Agrarianism was urbanizing. Social mobility was cutting across classes. A nation in search of a new culture was reaching out to the sophistication of Europe.In this setting, Mário...
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My Favorite ScarA teenage girl and her gangster father embark on a road trip toward revenge in this award-winning coming-of-age Argentinian noir. Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his--the life of a criminal. On...
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Spotlight on BrazilBrazil is one of the most diverse countries in the world. It is a global power in agriculture and industry. Discover the history of the country and learn what Brazil has in store for the future.Author: Isaac KerryPublisher: Lerner Publications (Tm)Published: 08/01/2023Pages: 32Binding Type:...
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Nosotros DOS En La Tormenta / Us Two in the Storm--Ese es tu problema. No se puede dudar en el medio de una guerra popular, Cabezón. --A vencer o morir, como dicen ustedes. -- Más bien que a vencer o morir! -- Y no pensaste qué pasa si no vencemos? Estás seguro de que...
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The Topless TowerThe Topless Tower is Silvina Ocampo's most imaginative work, one which takes the canon of Western fantasy and turns it on its head. A cross between Alice in Wonderland and the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, it packs a whole fantastical world into...
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ChileIn this book, readers will learn about the unique and defining features of Chile. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the key details of the country, including geography, climate, culture, and resources. Compelling questions...
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Focus on BrazilAs the fifth-largest country in the world, Brazil's landscapes range from the famous Amazon rain forest to biodiverse mangroves, flat grasslands, and mountain ranges. Read all about the country's land and resources, how Indigenous peoples live, and the impact of colonization by Europeans, as...
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