Cultural Region/Latin America
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White Egrets: Poems
$15.00 Add to cartA DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career–the Caribbean’s complex colonia- Author: Walcott, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532702
- Language: English
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Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A harrowing, moving first-person account of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes–and one man’s quest to lead them all home–by N… [more below]
- Author: Parrado, Nando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 140009769X
- Language: English
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Bisa’s Carnaval
$18.99 Read moreDiscover the sights and sounds of Brazil through the eyes of a young girl and her great-grandmother as they share in the excitement of Carnaval!
BISA’S CARNAVAL is the 2022 Bronze Medal Winner of the A
- Author: Pastro, Joana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1338617621
- Language: English
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PoesÃa Completa / Complete Poetry Borges
$22.00 Add to cartLa obra poética completa del maestro argentino en un solo volumen
Además de extraordinario narrador y ensayista, Jorge Luis Borges fue un excelente poeta. De hecho, puede decirse que la poesÃa es- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0307743500
- Language: Spanish
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All Fires the Fire
$15.95 Read moreA traffic jam outside Paris lasts for weeks. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro meet on a mountaintop during the Cuban Revolution. A flight attendant becomes obsessed with a small Greek island, resulting in… [more below]
- Author: Cort?zar, Julio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0811229459
- Language: English
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Cartas de Cuba / Letters from Cuba
$13.95 Add to cartLa inspiradora historia de una joven jud?a que escapa de Polonia para rehacer su vida en Cuba, mientras trabaja para rescatar al resto de su familia.
Libro ganador del premio Junior Library Guild Gold- Author: Behar, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0593313518
- Language: Spanish
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A Warbler’s Journey
$17.99 Read more* NPR FAVORITE BOOK OF 2022
With poetic language and lush oil paintings, children will cheer on the tiny but mighty yellow warbler as she makes her perilous migration journey from the tropics of Centr
- Author: Weidensaul, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0940719479
- Language: English
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Encanto: A Tale of Three Sisters
$8.99 Read moreBased on Disney’s Encanto, this magical middle grade novel is perfect for fans of the film!
Everyone in the Madrigal family is magical, that is, except for Maribel. The youngest of three sisters, Marib… [more below]- Author: Fajardo, Anika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1368092187
- Language: English
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TaÃno Tales: The Miracle of Salomé
$14.99 Read moreWhen Salom? finds herself in trouble, she happily accepts a kind stranger’s helping hand…
…but her father and her people are far more wary. Despite the Taino warrior saving Salom?’s life, he is for… [more below]- Author: Weber, Vicky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1938447581
- Language: English
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The Native Mexican Kitchen: A Journey Into Cuisine, Culture, and Mezcal
$27.99 Add to cartWINNER of the 2020 US Gourmand Award for Food Heritage
A Deep Dive into the Complex and Vibrant Native Culture that is the Bedrock of Mexican Cuisine, with Over One Hundred Recipes, Including Moles,- Author: Glueck, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1510745246
- Language: English
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Epic Mexico: A History from Its Earliest Times
$24.95 Add to cartSpanning the full breadth of Mexico’s long and storied past in one compact volume, Epic Mexico provides an unparalleled view of Mexican history, at once comprehensive, succinct, and consistently engag
- Author: Rugeley, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: August 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0806167076
- Language: English
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Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartSelena Didn’t Know Spanish Either is a debut poetry collection which seeks Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla as a means of reconnecting to the speaker’s cultural identity. As Spanish language and cul… [more below]
- Author: Tirado, Marisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 46
- Publish Date: May 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1680032658
- Language: English
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Who Killed Palomino Molero?
$15.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
This wonderful detective novel is set in Peru in the 1950s. Near an Air Force base in the northern desert, a young airman is found murdered. Lieutenant Silva an- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0374525560
- Language: English
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El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America
$23.00 Add to cartA sweeping saga of the Spanish history and influence in North America over five centuries, from the acclaimed author of Empire’s Crossroads
Because of our shared English language, as well as the cele
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0802148360
- Language: English
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Fresh Dirt from the Grave
$16.95 Add to cartShipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science–this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet.
In Fresh Dirt from the Grave, a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.
- Author: Rivero, Giovanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 155
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 191386751X
- Language: English
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Floaters: Poems
$15.95 Add to cartMart? Espada is a poet who “stirs in us an undeniable social consciousness,” says Richard Blanco. Floaters offers exuberant odes and defiant elegies, songs of protest and songs of love from one of the
- Author: Espada, MartÃn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021810
- Language: English
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Bariloche
$16.95 Add to cartDemetrio Rota, a garbage collector from Buenos Aires, sleeps in the afternoons and assembles puzzles at night before leaving for work. His daily life is mediocre and he keeps his balance through sheer… [more below]
- Series: Argentine Literature
- Author: Neuman, Andrés
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1948830620
- Language: English
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Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Father’s Quest for Justice Volume 55
$27.95 Add to cartInvestigating the unsolved murder of a female law student and the pervasive violence against Guatemalan women that drives migration.
Part memoir and part forensic investigation, Textures of Terror is- Series: California Public Anthropology
- Author: Sanford, Victoria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0520393457
- Language: English
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
$21.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Mario Vargas Llosa’s brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author’s youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the ne- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2007
- ISBN10: 0312427247
- Language: English
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Two Green Birds
$14.99 Read moreA child in Brazil experiences the beauty and wonder of the natural world, and comes to understand his role within it.
Francisco’s grandmother has a surprise for him. In her backyard is a guava tree,
- Author: Valério, Geraldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1773067958
- Language: English
