Cultural Region/Latin America
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Jonestown
$20.00 Add to cart“A gripping account of how decent people can be taken in by a charismatic and crazed tyrant” (The New York Times Book Review).
In 1954, a past or named Jim Jones opened a church in Indianapolis called- Author: Scheeres, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1416596402
- Language: English
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Díganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraíso: Memorias de una prisionera política
$17.99 Add to cartDíganle a mi madre que estoy en el paraíso recoge las memorias de una joven salvadoreña de espíritu curioso y rebelde, que la lleva a recorrer el mundo. Al regresar a su patria, se inserta en las
- Author: Gasteazoro, Ana Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736231650
- Language: Spanish
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A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written: An Anthology of Venezuelan Poets in Chile
$39.95 Add to cartBronze medal winner of the International Latino Book Awards Best Poetry Anthology
A Scar Where Goodbyes Are Written is a bilingual anthology of poetry written by fifteen Venezuelan poets who are curre- Author: Brunson, David M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: February 08 2023
- ISBN10: 0807179191
- Language: English
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Nursing Through Shot and Shell: A Great War Nurse’s Story
$24.95 Read moreThis recently discovered memoir gives an intimate glimpse into the Great War service of Beatrice Hopkinson, a Territorial Forces Nursing Service Sister, who remained steadfastly and true to her profes… [more below]
- Author: Newman, Vivien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1399023217
- Language: English
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A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas
$50.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conve
- Author: Rivera, Luis N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0664253679
- Language: English
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Canto General: Volume 7
$33.68 Add to cartThe Canto General, thought by many of Neruda’s most prominent critics to be the poet’s masterpiece, is the stunning epic of an entire continent and its people.
- Series: Latin American Literature and Culture #07
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 17 2011
- ISBN10: 520269977
- Language: English
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Neruda: Selected Poems
$19.99 Add to cartThe collected poems of prolific Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda succeeded in becoming what many poets have aspired to but never achieved: a public voice, a voice not just for the peo… [more below]
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 10 1990
- ISBN10: 0395544181
- Language: Spanish
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Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690
$24.95 Add to cartAn English translation of Chapa’s Historia de Nuevo Le, the first history of the region that eventually became Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Winner, Presidio La Bah僘 Award, Sons of the Republic- Author: Chapa, Juan Bautista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 247
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0292717954
- Language: English
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Of Form & Gather
$17.00 Add to cartOf Form & Gather marks the dazzling debut of Felicia Zamora, whose poems concern themselves with probing questions, not facile answers. Where does the self reside? What forms do we, as human beings, i
- Series: Andr駸 Montoya Poetry Prize
- Author: Zamora, Felicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0268101787
- Language: English
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Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria: Congo
$18.95 Read moreEn abril de 1965, el Che Guevara se marcha de La Habana al Congo para dirigir a 200 veteranos cubanos que asisten al movimiento de liberación africana contra los colonialistas belgas, cuatro años desp
- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1644211408
- Language: Spanish
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Saints and Sinners in the Cristero War: Stories of Martyrdom from Mexico
$17.95 Read moreThis provocative account of the persecution of the Catholic Church in Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s tells the stories of eight pivotal players. The saints are now honored as martyrs by the Catholic Ch
- Author: Murphy, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1621642623
- Language: English
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The Conquest of New Spain
$22.99 Add to cartVivid, powerful and absorbing, this is a first-person account of one of the most startling military episodes in history: the overthrow of Montezuma’s doomed Aztec Empire by the ruthless Hernan Cortes … [more below]
- Author: Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Diaz Del Casti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 28 2009
- ISBN10: 1607961806
- Language: English
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The Infinite Loop/El Lazo Infinito
$18.95 Add to cart“This bilingual edition displays poems in English and Spanish on facing pages, so readers can jump between languages, an additional draw to this dynamic collection.” —Booklist
Oneyda Gonz疝ez’s astou
- Author: González, Rigoberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1636141439
- Language: English
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Makeshift Altar: Poems
$21.95 Add to cart“Amy M. Alvarez explores the cultural, spiritual, and place-based experiences of Afro-Caribbean and African American diasporic peoples in this haunting and emotionally charged collection of poems that… [more below]
- Author: Alvarez, Amy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0813199034
- Language: English
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The General and the Jaguar: Pershing’s Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge
$26.95 Add to cartOn the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa–el jaguar–and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the tiny town of Columbus, New Mexico. It was a vicious… [more below]
- Author: Welsome, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803222246
- Language: English
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Maya-English/English-Maya Dictionary and Phrasebook
$16.95 Add to cartYucatec Maya, the most widely spoken Maya language, can be heard throughout Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, in Belize, and in parts of Guatemala. This unique guide is the perfect reference for visitors to… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0781808596
- Language: English
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The Fascinating Origin of the Dominican Republic
$22.95 Add to cartA story of fratricidal rivalries, cruel confrontations and battles, unexpected betrayals, unlikely alliances, tragic decisions, and shared ideals. It’s a story of slavery and race and how both so dist… [more below]
- Author: Redolad, Esteve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1977248454
- Language: English
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Mi Mar?: Surviving the Storm: Voices from Puerto Rico.
$19.95 Add to cartPuerto Rican voices share their stories of surviving Hurricane Mar? and its aftermath.
- Series: Voice of Witness
- Author: Chansky, Ricia Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: September 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1642595799
- Language: English
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Dēmos: An American Multitude
$16.00 Add to cartAn Electric Literature “Most Anticipated Poetry Book of 2021”
From the intersection of Onondaga, Japanese, Cuban, and Appalachian cultures, Benjam? Naka-Hasebe Kingsley’s newest collection arrives brim
- Author: Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Benjamín
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 157131525X
- Language: English
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Antiguas Civilizaciones: Una Fascinante Guía sobre la Historia de los Mayas, Aztecas y el Imperio Inca
$29.99 Add to cartExplore la cautivadora historia y mitolog a de tres civilizaciones antiguas
Tres manuscritos en un libro
- Civilizaci n Maya: Una gu a fascinante de la historia y la mitolog a maya
- Azteca: Una Gu a Fasc
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1647483999
- Language: Spanish
