Summary: Examines the myth and reality of Che Guevara including his friendship with Castro, his world travels, his days as guerilla leader and his death at age 39.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1997
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHEDe León, Jason
Summary: "An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist. Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 DE LOesterheld, H. G. (Héctor Germán)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GUEVARA, CHE OESBataan, Joe
Contents: Mi nube (2:41) -- Muchacho ordinario (4:10) -- When Sunny gets blue (3:41) -- Mujer mia (4:26) -- Fin (2:49) -- Latin strut (3:59) -- Johnny (4:35) -- Peace, friendship, solidarity (4:01) -- Aftershower funk (5:06) -- Continental square dance (5:42)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL LATIN BATThurow, Roger.
Summary: "When famine, drought, and malnutrition plagued their communities, these farmers tried something revolutionary--and managed to nourish their families and their land in the process. Farmers in some of the world's oldest agricultural areas--Africa's Great Rift Valley, India's Indo-Gangetic Plain, the Highlands of Central America, and the Great Plains of the U.S.--were toiling year after year,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Midway Books, Agate Publishing 2024
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Summary: A bilingual collection in English and Spanish of fairy tales from Latin America. The 15 entries include Mayan and Aztec versions of the creation of the world. Fifteen stories, full of momentos magicos and presented in equally vibrant English and Spanish, include tales of the supernatural, of animals and tricksters, of strong women, and myths. In stories from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: August House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 LOYContents: The girl from Ipanema (Stan Getz with Antonio Carlos Jobim) -- Mucha machacha (Juan Esquivel) -- Guantanamera (the Sandpipers) -- Cast your fate to the wind (Baja Marimba Band) -- Papa loves mambo (Xavier Cugat) -- Surfin' senorita (the Mexicans) -- Look of love (Sergio Mendez and Brasil '66) -- Soul sauce (Cal Tjader) -- Brazil (Edmundo Ros) -- Intermezzo (David Rose) -- Mais que nada (Sergio...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicles 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD LATIN LATStocking, Kathleen
Summary: The Long Arc of the Universe - Travels Beyond the Pale, the latest book from award-winning Michigan essayist Kathleen Stocking, completes a trilogy. Dubbed a rural "seer" by The New York Times in 1991 for her first book, Letters from the Leelanau, she followed that with Lake Country, essays about Michigan. In Long Arc of the Universe Stocking takes us all over the world: from California where...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stocking Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.74 STOLiniers
Summary: Three Latin American folktales include the story of the Iara, a mermaid who lures men to her underwater domain, the tale of La Lechuza, an enormous owl with the face of a woman, and two gauchos' encounter with La Luz Mala, a spooky light that terrorizes travelers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LINRobertson, Joanne
Summary: "A translation of The Water Walker into Anishinaabemowin. The book contains both Anishinaabemowin and English. The Water Walker is the story of a determined Ojibwe Grandmother who walked around all of the Great Lakes to protect our water."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Second Story Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROBStonehouse, Frederick.
Summary: "From deep sea diver to ship's captain, lighthouse keeper and rescuer, women fill virtually every job of the Great Lakes maritime trade--both past and present. This book relates many untold stories of these remarkable women and their impact on the Great Lakes and sailors lives"--Back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 STO1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 920.72 STO
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STOBruchac, James
Summary: This book "plays" on the widespread American Indian belief that you can learn while you play and play while you learn. Annotation. Recognizing the widespread American Indian belief that you can learn while you play and play while you learn, "Native American Games and Stories" provides young readers with stories and games that educate and entertain them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fulcrum Resources 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 796.089 BRUGilio-Whitaker, Dina
Summary: "Interrogating the concept of environmental justice in the U.S. as it relates to Indigenous peoples, this book argues that a different framework must apply compared to other marginalized communities, while it also attends to the colonial history and structure of the U.S. and ways Indigenous peoples continue to resist, and ways the mainstream environmental movement has been an impediment to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019