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Noviembre
By Jorge Galán. 2015
San Salvador, 1989. A group of armed men enters the Central American University and murders two women and six priests…
in cold blood. Father José María Tojeira is tasked with discovering the truth behind the massacre and identifying the guilty. Violence and strong language. Spanish language. 2015Century of the wind: Memory of fire, III
By Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage, Eduardo H Galeano. 1998
In the final installment of his Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano concludes his exploration of Latin American history using folklore,…
poetry, letters, political analysis, and anecdotes of historical figures. Covers the Americas' modern era from 1900 to 1986. Spanish edition 1986. Some violence. 1998Las profecías mayas (Best seller (Debolsillo (Firm)))
By Maurice Cotterell, Gilbert Cotterell. 2010
An author and a scientist explore the Mesoamerican civilization of the Maya. They analyze Mayan history, cosmology, and astronomy, with…
an emphasis on concepts of time and the predictions that the world will end in 2012. Translated from English. Spanish language. 2009The boat of longing
By O. E. Rolvaag. 1985
From the rocky, mist-enshrouded shores of Norway to the bustling streets of Minneapolis, O. E. Rolvaag lyrically chronicles the experiences…
of Nils Vaag, a young Norwegian immigrant. Abandoning the life of a fisherman in Nordland, a region poor but full of mystical beauty, Nils emigrates to the New World in 1912. There he sweeps saloons, lives in a boardinghouse called "Babel" for the many languages used by its residents, and begins to find his way among the people of the city. UnratedThe hotel years
By Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann. 2015
In 64 short essays written between 1919 and 1939, author and journalist Joseph Roth evokes life between the wars in…
his travels through hotels from Germany and Austria to Albania and the Soviet Union. UnratedIci n'est plus ici
By Tommy Orange. 2019
« Être Indien en Amérique n'a jamais consisté à retrouver notre terre. Notre terre est partout ou nulle part. »…
À Oakland, dans la baie de San Francisco, les Indiens ne vivent pas sur une réserve mais dans un univers façonné par la rue et par la pauvreté, où chacun porte les traces d'une histoire douloureuse. Pourtant, tous les membres de cette communauté disparate tiennent à célébrer la beauté d'une culture que l'Amérique a bien failli engloutir. À l'occasion d'un grand pow-wow, douze personnages, hommes et femmes, jeunes et moins jeunes, vont voir leurs destins se lier. Ensemble, ils vont faire l'expérience de la violence et de la destruction, comme leurs ancêtres tant de fois avant eux. Débordant de rage et de poésie, ce premier roman impose une nouvelle voix saisissante, véritable révélation littéraire aux États-Unis, où il a été consacré « Meilleur roman de l'année » par l'ensemble de la presse américaine. Finaliste du prix Pulitzer et du National Book Award, il a reçu plusieurs récompenses prestigieuses dont le PEN/Hemingway AwardSuperman: the high-flying history of America's most enduring hero
By Larry Tye. 2012
An award-winning journalist and lifelong Superman fan looks beyond the legend of the man of steel and explores the awkward…
Ohio teenager whose Depression-era yearnings gave birth to America's mightiest mythical character, now more than 70 years old. Contains some strong language. For high school and adult readersBright starry banner: a novel of the Civil War
By Alden R. Carter. 2003
Fictional account of the Battle of Stones River near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where Union troops under Major General William Starke Rosecrans…
confronted Confederate troops led by General Braxton Bragg from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863. Portrays soldiers on both sides. Violence, some strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2003The snow walker (The Farley Mowat Series)
By Farley Mowat. 2004
Short narratives depicting the experiences of Arctic inhabitants as they struggle to survive, raise families, and maintain their culture. Includes…
the title piece and "Walk Well, My Brother," an account of a downed pilot's unlikely rescue by his passenger, a native woman dying of tuberculosis. Some strong language. 1975All the brave fellows
By James L. Nelson, James L Nelson. 2000
United States coastline, 1777. Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is sailing with his wife and son to Philadelphia to take command of…
a new gun frigate. But the British fleet stands in the way, and the city falls to the enemy. Sequel to Lords of the Ocean (DB 55314). Violence and strong language. 2000Tell my horse: voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica
By Zora Neale Hurston. 1990
Travelog and description of Neo-African religious practices based on the author's personal experiences in 1930s Haiti and Jamaica. Covers anthropology,…
natural history, and politics of these countries. Discusses the main Voodoo deities, ceremonies, and the strange phenomenon of possession. 1938. 1938Shaking the nickel bush
By Ralph Moody. 1994
This sequel to Mary Emma & Company (DB 43674) finds the author in 1918 diagnosed with diabetes and advised to…
seek a healthier climate. Raised in Colorado, nineteen-year-old Ralph looks forward to escaping Boston. He heads for Arizona, camps out, works as a stunt rider and sculptor, and travels throughout the Southwest. 1962To the Marianas: war in the central Pacific, 1944
By Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Edwin P. Hoyt. 1980
Examines the first successful U.S. amphibious operations in World War II, as American forces moved through the Pacific arena towards…
Japan, capturing the Mariana and Marshall Islands. Portrays the commanding officers and describes the battle perspectives of both the Americans and the Japanese. 1980Shiloh: the battle that changed the Civil War
By Larry J Daniel, Larry J. Daniel. 1997
Description of the battle in Tennessee in April 1862, when the combined deaths of 23,000 men and the capture of…
large portions of Confederate territory demoralized the South during the Civil War. Also uses contemporary sources to analyze the political infighting that beset both capitals. Some violence. 1997En el tiempo de las mariposas
By Julia Alvarez, Rolando Costa Picazo. 2014
Novela de la Rep´ublica Dominicana bajo el r´egimen de Rafael Trujillo. En 1960 las cuatro hermanas Mirabal luchaban por la…
libertad y tres de ellas fueron asesinados. La autora, un refugio de ese conflicto, recrea las vidas de las mujeres, martirizadas por sus creencias y su corajeThe Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: an experiment in literary investigation, I-II / Vol. 1, parts I-II
By Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. Whitney. 1974
A scathing portrayal of the Soviet prison system drawn from eyewitness accounts and the Nobel Prize winner's own recollection of…
his eleven-year internment in the Archipelago. Prequel to The Gulag...Volume 2, Parts 3-4 (DB 49270). Bestseller. 1973The fields of home
By Ralph Moody. 1993
In 1912, after the death of his father, the author and his family move from Colorado to Massachusetts. Not used…
to life in town, fourteen-year-old Ralph somehow finds himself catching trouble at every turn and is sent to live on his grandfather's farm in Maine. The old man is stubborn and crotchety, and Ralph cannot wait to leave. But his satisfaction in meeting the needs of the farm and his grandfather helps Ralph find a wonderful lifePersonal witness: Israel through my eyes
By Abba Solomon Eban, Abba Eban. 1992
Eban, who was on hand at the creation of the independent Jewish state, presents five decades of Israel's history as…
seen by him in his positions in the Israeli government, including ambassador to both the United States and the United Nations. He offers his views on political figures such as Bush, Truman, Churchill, Sadat, King Hussein, Ben-Gurion, and Begin, and his insights on world events, including the Gulf WarLife in the iron mills, and other stories: Second Edition
By Rebecca Harding Davis, Tillie Olsen. 1985
The title piece, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in April 1861, tells the story of an artist living in…
one of the early industrial towns of America and portrays the deprivation of the mill hands and their families. Also included are "The Wife's Story," "Anne," and a biographical sketch of Rebecca Harding Davis. These describe the lives of women constrained by society and by their own senses of dutyYankees in the land of the gods: Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan
By Peter Booth Wiley. 1990
Before Perry's 1853 expedition, contact between the United States and Japan occurred mainly through shipwrecked sailors, including Americans who stranded…
themselves on Japan's shore to try to enter the self-isolated country. Using newly translated Japanese documents as well as reports from Perry and his crew, Wiley provides both countries' perspectives on the historic encounter