Cultural Region/Latin America
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The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartIn the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Cla… [more below]
- Author: Whitaker, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0465057942
- Language: English
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Without: Poems
$19.99 Add to cartDonald Hall’s poignant and courageous poetry speaks of the death of the magnificent, humorous, and gifted Jane Kenyon. Hall speaks to us all of grief, as a poet lamenting the death of a poet, as a hus
- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0395957656
- Language: English
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Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope
$9.99 Add to cartAna’s story begins the day she is born with HIV, transmitted from her mother, who dies just a few years later. From then on, Ana’s childhood becomes a blur of secrets–about her illness, her family, a
- Author: Bush Hager, Jenna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0061379093
- Language: English
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Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: Hager, Jenna Bush
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0062960652
- Language: English
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A Sus Órdenes, Mi General / On Your Command, General
$17.95 Read more«En Nueva York, en la Corte del Distrito Este, hay un caso muy delicado que tiene que ver con tu pa?s. SE TRATA DE UN GENERAL DE LAS FUERZAS ARMADAS METIDO CON EL NARCOTR?FICO. Hablo de un gener… [more below]
- Author: Esquivel, J Jes?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073826133
- Language: Spanish
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The Inca Empire: An Enthralling Overview of the Incas, Their Civilization in Ancient Peru, and the Spanish Conquest
$26.99 Add to cartDid you know that the Incas worshiped the mummies of their emperors?
For the Incas, death didn’t exist; it simply took the dead to a different plane of life. So, the mummies of their emperors were trea
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887651446
- Language: English
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The Mammals of Costa Rica: A Natural History and Field Guide
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the raucous mantled howler monkeys and the charismatic white-nosed coatis to the elusive jaguar, The Mammals of Costa Rica offers authoritative accounts of the fascinating creatures of the neotro
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Author: Wainwright, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: July 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0801473756
- Language: English
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The Heights of Macchu Picchu: A Bilingual Edition
$17.00 Add to cartPablo Neruda’s most famous long poem, with the English translations and original Spanish presented side by side.
The Heights of Macchu Picchu is the finest and most famous of Neruda’s longer poems and- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 1967
- ISBN10: 0374506485
- Language: English
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Crypto-Jews: The Long Journey
$22.95 Add to cartAt one time Spain was the center of Jewish life in Europe. Most European Jews were Spanish Jews. The most important scholars and yeshivas were there. But, Spain turned against its Jews, who had been t
- Author: Duncan Hart, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 14 2020
- ISBN10: 193560483X
- Language: English
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The Seventh Heaven: Travels Through Jewish Latin America
$28.00 Add to cart2020 Natan Notable BookWinner, 2020 Latino Book Awards Best Travel Book
Internationally renowned essayist and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans spent five years traveling from across a dozen countrie… [more below]- Series: Pitt Latin American
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 082296631X
- Language: English
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El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency
$18.99 Add to cart“Essential reading.”-Steve Coll, NewYorker.com
A gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation’s democracy and reaches acro- Author: Grillo, Ioan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1608194019
- Language: English
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Jungle (Movie Tie-In Edition): A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon
$14.99 Add to cartThe basis for the gripping motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, etc.), Jungle is a true story of friendship and danger and an Amazon adventure like few others
Four travelers meet in- Author: Ghinsberg, Yossi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1510718613
- Language: English
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River Without a Cause: An Expedition Through the Past, Present and Future of Theodore Roosevelt’s River of Doubt
$29.95 Read moreA riveting journey down Theodore Roosevelt’s “river of doubt” with a diverse crew of adventurers, scientists, and Indigenous leaders who shine light on the past, present, and future of a natural wonde… [more below]
- Author: Moses, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1639365575
- Language: English
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Rutilio Grande: A Table for All
$14.95 Add to cartIn Rutilio Grande: A Table for All, veteran journalist Rhina Guidos explores the inspiring life and ministry of the Salvadoran priest whose killing changed the church in El Salvador and the life of hi
- Series: People of God
- Author: Guidos, Rhina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 16 2018
- ISBN10: 081464564X
- Language: English
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Amalia’s Mesoamerican Table: Ancient Culinary Traditions with Gourmet Infusions
$45.00 Read moreSouth-Central Mexican and Central American Gourmet Cuisine & Culture
With a wide array of edible plant biodiversity and historical wealth, Mesoamerica offers naturally vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free fo
- Author: Moreno-Damgaard, Amalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1634894510
- Language: English
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La Verdadera Noche de Iguala / The Real Night of Iguala
$16.95 Read moreAnte acontecimientos como el del 26 de septiembre de 2014, ning?n pa?s puede seguir adelante sin conocer la verdad a la que tienen derecho las v?ctimas y la sociedad.
Los hechos de Iguala nos obligan a… [more below]- Author: Hern?ndez, Anabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 6073149263
- Language: Spanish
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Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 New Academy Prize in Literature
In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Cond vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering- Author: Conde, Maryse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1569473471
- Language: English
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The Republic
$14.99 Add to cartThe Republic by Plato is a philosophical work that explores the ideal state and the nature of justice. Through dialogues and debates, Plato presents his vision of a just society, discussing topics su… [more below]
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 06 2023
- ISBN10: 935856167X
- Language: English
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Puerto Rico: A National History
$29.95 Add to cartA panoramic history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today
Puerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, P- Author: Mel?ndez-Badillo, Jorell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0691231273
- Language: English
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The Zapatista Reader
$25.99 Add to cartThe electrifying effect the Zapatista peasant rebellion has had on leading figures in the intellectual, political, and literary world since the Zapatistas woke them up on New Year’s Day, 1994, has pro… [more below]
- Series: Nation Books
- Author: Hayden, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 04 2002
- ISBN10: 1560253355
- Language: English
