Latin America Local History
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The Suicide MuseumA billionaire Holocaust survivor hires a writer to uncover the truth of Salvador Allende's death, and they must confront their own dark histories to find a path forward--for themselves and for our ravaged planet. An expansive, engrossing mystery for fans of Gabriel García Márquez,...
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Colorful Mondays: A Bookmobile Spreads Hope in HondurasA beautiful, empowering story about the impact of literacy in underprivileged communities, based on a real bookmobile program in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Luis's favorite day of the week is Monday, the day the bookmobile comes to his neighborhood. In Villa Nueva, sad stories can gather like...
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Slow Travel: Two Women of a Certain Age, and Modest Means, Leave HomeYouth is not a prerequisite for adventure. At ages 65 and 75, Martha and Sandy pull up deep New England roots, sell their house, acquire a couple of new knees, toss their doubts and fears out the window, and make a plan. They will...
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DK Eyewitness BrazilAuthor: Dk EyewitnessPublisher: DK Eyewitness TravelPublished: 11/28/2023Pages: 384Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsISBN: 9780241624494
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PeruPeru is a South American country with stunning sights and culture, including the multi-colored Rainbow Mountain, the ancient ruins of the Inca Empire, and so much more! Young readers are introduced to the beauty of Peru in this fact-filled title. Leveled text and crisp...
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ArgentinaThe Andes Mountains, Patagonian glaciers, tasty empanadas, and the colorful El Carnaval celebration are just a taste of Argentina's greatness! This title for early readers provides a look into the land and people of Argentina. Leveled text allows readers to engage in new information....
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Dream Beyond Shadows: No Ordinary TouristIf you are holding this book, there's a chance you may be at a crossroads in your life, as once the author of this book was.Feeling stuck and overwhelmed by society's pressures, how can we learn, in today's fast paced and results driven world,...
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Lonely Planet Brazil 13Lonely Planet's Brazil is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Explore the tropical Fernando de Noronha, experience wildlife watching in The Pantanal, and discover the baroque masterpieces in Ouro...
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Buenos Aires: A Cultural HistoryThe 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 neither of the Old World nor the New. The Argentine capital's rootlessness has famously found...
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Mystery of the Troubled Toucan: Brazil 1Welcome to Brazil Nine-year-old Sofia Diaz's world is coming apart. So is the rickety old boat that carries her far up the Rio Negro river in Brazil. Crocodiles swim in the dark waters. Spiders scurry up the twisted tree trunks. And a crazy toucan...
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Explorer Academy: The Forbidden Island (Book 7)A heart-pounding final showdown changes the life of Cruz Coronado forever in the seventh and final book in this thrilling fact-based fiction series. Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters of Antarctica to the bone-dry deserts of Argentina, Cruz...
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CousinsFour women from La Plata, Argentina, are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals thanks to their impoverished, dysfunctional family--in this darkly comic literary masterpiece from Aurora Venturini, never before translated into English At the age of eighty-five, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers...
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MacunaímaHere at last is an exciting new translation of the modernist Brazilian epic Macunaíma, by Mário de Andrade. This landmark novel from 1928 has been hugely influential. It follows the adventures of the shapeshifting Macunaíma and his brothers as they leave their home in...
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Human SacrificesA groundbreaking voice in contemporary Latin American literature, María Fernanda Ampuero's writing is "raw and savage" as she confronts machismo, inequity, and violence in this acclaimed short story collection (Vistazo).An undocumented woman answers a job posting only to find herself held hostage, a group...
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AustralFrom Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known. Julio is a disillusioned professor of literature, a per-petual wanderer who has spent years away from his home, teaching in the United States. He receives a...
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Listen, Beautiful MárciaMárcia is a nurse in a hospital near Rio and lives in a favela with her boyfriend, Aluisio, and her daughter, Jaqueline, whom she had very young with another man. Jaqueline, a troubled young adult, makes life difficult for her mother and Aluisio and...
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Cinco Esquinas / The NeighborhoodUna novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa. «Él había pensado que, después de todo, un periodista puede ser a veces útil. "Y también peligroso", concluyó. Tuvo el presentimiento de que nada bueno saldría de esta visita. «La idea de esta novela...
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PeruFrom the world-famous Machu Picchu Incan ruins high in the Andes Mountains, to Lake Titicaca in southern Peru, to the Iquitos area of Amazonian northeastern Peru, travellers want to experience tropical forests and other stunning habitats and catch glimpses of exotic wildlife: toucans and...
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TropicáliaIn the heady days before a New Year's Eve party on the bustling sands of Brazil's Copacabana Beach, a family reckons with a matriarch's long-awaited return, causing old secrets to come to light in this infectiously vibrant debut that explores the heartbreak and hope...
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Focus on ChileChile is a long narrow strip of land running half the length of South America and bordered on either side by the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Mountains. Read all about the country's land and resources, the mineral-rich Atacama Desert, and the impact of...
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