Cultural Region/Latin America
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Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood
$21.95 Read moreSet in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.
Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, fro
- Author: Delgado-Kling, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1682194477
- Language: English
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Mezcal: The History, Craft & Cocktails of the World’s Ultimate Artisanal Spirit
$26.99 Read moreIn Mezcal, two-time James Beard Award-winning author Emma Janzen explores what sets this cousin of tequila apart from the rest of the pack.
*Nominated for the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Award in- Author: Janzen, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0760352615
- Language: English
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Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mindvolume 67
$29.95 Add to cartFor at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #67
- Author: León-Portilla, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0806122951
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$28.00 Add to cartThe largest collection of poetry ever assembled in English by “the most important Spanish-language writer since Cervantes” (Mario Vargas Llosa)
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with flaps and deckle-e… [more below]- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140587217
- Language: English
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The Story of Spanish
$21.00 Add to cartThe authors of The Story of French are back with a new linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe.
Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern- Author: Nadeau, Jean-Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250049040
- Language: English
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Birds of South America: Non-Passerines: Rheas to Woodpeckers
$29.95 Read moreA stunningly illustrated field guide to non-passerine birds of South America
Here in an easy-to-use format is an essential guide to the nearly 1,300 species of non-passerine South American birds. It c- Series: Princeton Illustrated Checklists
- Author: Erize, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0691126887
- Language: English
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West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems
$16.00 Add to cartThe New York Times has called Mary Oliver’s poems “thoroughly convincing – as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.” In this stunning collection of forty poems – ni
- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0395850851
- Language: English
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Scribbled in the Dark: Poems
$15.99 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate, a collection of elegiac, irreverent new poems–an American master at the height of his talent
The latest volume of poetry from Charles Simic hums
- Author: Simic, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0062661183
- Language: English
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Nostalgia for Death & Hieroglyphs of Desire
$20.00 Add to cartNostalgia for Death is the sole book of Villaurrutia, who was one of the few openly homosexual Latin American writers and one of Mexico’s most important authors of the early twentieth century. “The la… [more below]
- Author: Villaurrutia, Xavier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 01 1992
- ISBN10: 1556590539
- Language: English
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The Undocumented Americans
$28.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – One of the first undocumented immigrants to graduate from Harvard reveals the hidden lives of her fellow undocumented Americans in this deeply personal and groundbreakin… [more below]
- Author: Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0399592687
- Language: English
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Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba…and Then Lost It to the Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartIn modern-day Havana, the remnants of the glamorous past are everywhere–old hotel-casinos, vintage American cars & flickering neon signs speak of a bygone era that is widely familiar & often romantic… [more below]
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0061712744
- Language: English
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Masters of the Lost Land: The Untold Story of the Amazon and the Violent Fight for the World’s Last Frontier
$24.99 Add to cart“Gripping. … Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia — and how hard it will be to eradicat
- Author: Araujo, Heriberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0063024276
- Language: English
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
$22.00 Add to cartWinner, American Library Association Booklist’s Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction
Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three driving forces that have- Author: Arana, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1501105019
- Language: English
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Ottawa’s Caribbean Community since 1955: History and Profiles
$28.00 Add to cartThe Caribbean. Images of white sandy beaches, blue skies, palm trees, warm temperatures year-round, places of leisure and fun, and pulsating rhythms of reggae and soca music, radiate throughout each i
- Author: Tulloch, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1989048889
- Language: English
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Silver People: Voices from the Panama Canal
$10.99 Add to cartIn 1914, the world celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal, which connected the world’s two largest oceans and signaled America’s emergence as a global superpower. It was a miracle, this path of wa
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 0544668707
- Language: English
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Journal of a Homecoming / Cahier d’Un Retour Au Pays Natal
$23.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1939, Aim? C?saire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal is a landmark of modern French poetry and a founding text of the N?gritude movement. This bilingual edition features a new… [more below]
- Author: Césaire, Aimé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: November 10 2017
- ISBN10: 082236896X
- Language: French
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
$22.00 Read moreThe basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the “definitive account of the Jonestown massacre” (Rolling Stone) — now available for the first time in paperback.
Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the s- Author: Reiterman, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 13 2008
- ISBN10: 1585426784
- Language: English
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The Little Deaths
$15.00 Add to cartIn The Little Deaths, Mercy Tullis-Bukhari shows us existential rebirths in everyday human interactions. The poems in this collection reveal self-discovery, human connection to the earth and to nature
- Author: Tullis-Bukhari, Mercy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218148539
- Language: English
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What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
$18.00 Add to cart2019 National Book Award Finalist
“Reading it will change you, perhaps forever.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Astonishing, powerful, so important at this time.” –Margaret Atwood What You Have Heard is- Author: Forché, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0525560394
- Language: English
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Brazil: A Biography
$30.99 Add to cartA sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extrao- Author: Schwarcz, Lilia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538484
- Language: English
