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23) Exile music
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds the neighborhood in his thrall, and most of her eccentric and wonderful extended family live within the city limits. Only vaguely aware of Hitler's rise or how definitive her Jewish heritage will become to her...
24) Into the jungle
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of the "haunting, twisting thrill-ride" (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the jungle of Bolivia, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Over 40 years ago, on October 9, 1967, Ernesto Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army, aided by the CIA. Guevara's diary, a detailed, personal account of his futile 11-month attempt to foment revolution in Bolivia, is the basis of this moving portrait.
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Memoir by Ursula Pike (Karuk) of her time serving with the Peace Corps in Bolivia. Focusing on international travel from a California Indian perspective, the memoir asks what it means to be both colonizer and colonized, and inquires into the challenges of building relationships between Indigenous groups from very different places"--
28) Bolivia
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From beautiful landscapes to traditional folk arts, Bolivia has a lot to offer! This title encourages developing readers to learn about the nation's people, customs, landscape, wildlife, and more through thoughtfully leveled text and crisp images. Fun facts deepen the reader's understanding of the country, and special features introduce a famous face, recipe, game, and more!"--
29) Hunting Che: how a U.S. special forces team helped capture the world's most famous revolutionary
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The explorer and conservationist relives his amazing odyssey exploring the heart of the most biodiversity-rich place on the planet -- the Madre de Dios (Mother of God) region of Peru, where the Amazon River begins its massive flow from the Andean mountain cloud forests into the lowland Amazon rainforest.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
It's 1999 in Bolivia and Francisco's life consists of school, soccer, and trying to find space for himself in his family's cramped yet boisterous home. But when his father is arrested on false charges and sent to prison by a corrupt system that targets the...
34) Valiant ladies
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In Potosí, a silver mining city in the new Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, two teen vigilantes set out to expose corruption and deliver justice after Kiki's brother is murdered and the prostitute he loved disappears. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. When a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded with no equipment,...
Author
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
"Bautizado por la prensa internacional como 'el Rey de la Cocaína', Roberto Suárez Gómez llegó a exportar diariamente casi dos toneladas de la droga desde sus laboratorios en la amazonía boliviana a sus socios del cártel de Medellín, dirigido por Pablo Escober, a Estados Unidos, en una operación conjunta con la CIA, y a Europa. Protegida por la corrupción de mandatarios de varios países, así como por militares y gobernantes bolivianos,...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing-at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific-casts an eerily bright spell over the wreckage. Some stories seem to be set in a near future; all are superbly executed and yet hard to pin down; they often leave the reader wondering: Was that realistic or fantastic? Colanzi draws power from Andean cyberpunk...
38) Blackthorn
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
Surviving what everyone thought was a fatal ambush in Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.
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