Cultural Region/Latin America
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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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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 Add to cartA 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
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Alicia and the Hurricane / Alicia Y El Huracán: A Story of Puerto Rico / Un Cuento de Puerto Rico
$20.95 Read moreBestselling author Lesl?a Newman offers a tender and timely story of a Puerto Rican child facing a hurricane and her concern for the beloved coqu?es of her home island.
La autora de bestsellers Lesl?a
- Author: Newman, Lesl?a
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0892394552
- Language: Spanish
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Building an Orchestra of Hope: How Favio Chavez Taught Children to Make Music from Trash
$18.99 Add to cartAn exuberantly illustrated true story about innovation, community, and the power of music.
In Cateura, Paraguay, a town built on a landfill, music teacher Favio Chavez longed to help the families liv- Series: Stories from Latin America
- Author: Oliver, Carmen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0802854672
- Language: English
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Birds of Peru
$49.95 Add to cartThe best guide to the birds of Peru–now in a revised paperback edition
Birds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features every one o- Series: Princeton Field Guides #63
- Author: Schulenberg, Thomas S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: May 24 2010
- ISBN10: 069113023X
- Language: English
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National Parks of Costa Rica
$50.00 Add to cartThe unique geography and climate of Costa Rica provide the small country with extraordinary biodiversity–North American and South American species of flora and fauna can be found side by side there,
- Series: Zona Tropical Publications
- Author: Basco, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0801454018
- Language: English
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El Canto de Los Elefantes / Singing with Elephants
$12.95 Add to cartUna poderosa novela en verso escrita por Margarita Engle, ganadora de los prestigiosos premios Newbery y Pura Belpré. Una historia sobre la sanadora amistad que surge entre una jovencita nacida en Cu… [more below]
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1644735903
- Language: Spanish
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The Year I Flew Away
$9.99 Add to cartIn this magical middle grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle
- Author: Arnold, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0358733332
- Language: English
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Different: A Story of the Spanish Civil War
$17.99 Read moreA resonant, captivating book about a brother and sister caught in a dark chapter of world history.
Between 1936 and 1939, a civil war raged across Spain. For almost three years, ordinary citizens live- Series: Stories from Latin America
- Author: Monta??s, M?nica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0802855989
- Language: English
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The Feast of the Goat
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
In The Feast of the Goat, this ‘masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written’ (Bookforum), Mario Var- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: November 09 2002
- ISBN10: 312420277
- Language: English
