Cultural Region/Latin America
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A Comb of Wishes
$9.99 Add to cartSet against the backdrop of Caribbean folklore, Lisa Stringfellow’s spellbinding middle grade debut tells of a grieving girl and a vengeful mermaid and will enchant readers who loved Kacen Callender’s
- Author: Stringfellow, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063043440
- Language: English
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Anna Carries Water
$18.95 Add to cartAnna fetches water from the spring every day, but she can’t carry it on her head like her older brothers and sisters. In this charming and poetic family story set in Jamaica, Commonwealth Prize-winnin… [more below]
- Author: Senior, Olive
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1896580602
- Language: English
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Mexican Food: The Ultimate Cookbook
$39.99 Add to cartMexican Food: The Ultimate Cookbook is a beautiful and thorough collection of recipes drawn from the many rich traditions of Mexican cuisine and inspired by contemporary influences.
This comprehensive
- Series: Ultimate
- Author: Erales, Gabe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1646431898
- Language: English
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Ghost on the Mountain (Choose Your Own Adventure)
$8.99 Add to cartYOU are on a family vacation in Haiti which takes an unexpected turn when you discover a ghost in your room. The ghost tells you her name is Yvette, and that the mountains are calling you. Before you … [more below]
- Author: Jones, Kyandreia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1954232063
- Language: English
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The Alchemist: 25th Anniversary Edition
$34.00 Add to cartA special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho.
Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-
- Author: Coelho, Paulo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0062326775
- Language: English
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The Color of My Words
$9.99 Add to cartAm ricas Award Winner
“An achingly beautiful story.”–Kirkus (starred review) “Eloquent.”–Booklist (starred review) “Lovely and lyrical.”–School Library Journal
This powerful and resonant Am ricas Awa
- Author: Joseph, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0064472043
- Language: English
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The Delivery
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author ofFish Soup, a wickedly self-aware novel of family, memory, and possibility just this side of the uncanny.
A tolerable, ordinary life: an adequate, if boring, freelance job; r
- Author: GarcÃa Robayo, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 169
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1913867692
- Language: English
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A Piece of Black Cake for Santa
$18.65 Add to cartFemi and her friends plan to leave traditional Caribbean treats for Santa, including Black Cake. The children share warm wishes for their favourite dishes while enjoying winter activities at the Chris
- Series: Dear Books
- Author: Marshall, Yolanda T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1771055863
- Language: English
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Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity
$29.99 Add to cartThis excellent collection is the most complete anthology of Latin American philosophers in English available today. Leading philosophers from several different Latin American countries and from variou… [more below]
- Author: Gracia, Jorge J. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1573929786
- Language: English
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Betrayed by Rita Hayworth
$18.00 Read moreManuel Puig’s “dazzling and wholly original debut” (New York Times Book Review) is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own petty lusts, betrayals, scandals, thefts, and gossip–but mo… [more below]
- Author: Puig, Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 194602242X
- Language: English
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The New Neotropical Companion
$39.95 Read moreThe acclaimed guide to the ecology and natural history of the American tropics–now fully updated and expanded
The New Neotropical Companion is the completely revised and expanded edition of a book th- Author: Kricher, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0691115257
- Language: English
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Planting Hope: A Portrait of Photographer Sebastião Salgado
$18.99 Add to cartA gorgeously illustrated picture book biography about Brazilian photojournalist, humanitarian, and environmental advocate Sebastião Salgado.
As a young boy, Sebastião Salgado loved exploring his par- Author: Hoelzel, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1534477659
- Language: English
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On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey
$17.99 Add to cartThe legendary travel writer drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then takes the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind the everyday headlines. Paul Th
- Author: Theroux, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0358362792
- Language: English
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The Twilight Zone
$16.00 Add to cart* Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature *
An engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space Invaders It is 1984 in Chile, in the mi- Author: Fernández, Nona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 164445047X
- Language: English
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Looking for a Jumbie
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Tracey Baptiste and acclaimed illustrator Amber Ren take readers on a fun, creepy, storytime-ready romp through a forest filled with creatures from Caribbean folklore
- Author: Baptiste, Tracey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 006297081X
- Language: English
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Odes to Common Things
$28.00 Read moreA beautiful collection of 25 odes — in both English and Spanish — from one of greatest poets of the twentieth century.
Each poem in this collection is accompanied by a pair of exquisite pencil draw- Author: Krabbenhoft, Ken
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0821220802
- Language: English
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The Dragon Slayer: Folktales from Latin America: A Toon Graphic
$11.99 Add to cartHow would a kitchen maid fare against a seven-headed dragon? What happens when a woman marries a mouse? And what can a young man learn from a thousand leaf cutter ants? Famed Love and Rockets creator … [more below]
- Series: Toon Latin American Folktales
- Author: Hernandez, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1943145296
- Language: English
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Forest Fighter: The Story of Chico Mendes
$19.95 Read moreA picture book that tells the important story of Chico Mendes, who led the fight to protect the Amazon rainforest and demand fair treatment for the people whose livelihoods depended on it
Chico Mendes- Author: Ganeri, Anita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1623718562
- Language: English
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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works
$14.95 Add to cartSor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her “the Tenth Muse” and “the Phoe
- Author: de la Cruz, Juana In?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351882
- Language: English
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Still Another Day
$17.00 Add to cartPublished in 1984, this remains the first and only English translation of Neruda’s farewell to Chile.
- Series: Kage-An Books
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1556592248
- Language: Spanish
