Summary: The story of 14 year-old Basilio Vargas and his 12 year-old brother Bernardino as they work in the sixteenth century Bolivian silver mines of Cerro Rico (Potosí). Cerro Rico miners believe that Satan, as represented by hundreds of statues constructed in the mines, determines whether they live or die there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run/Icarus Films [distributor] 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVGhinsberg, Yossi.
Summary: "What begins as a dream adventure for four amicable--if hastily met--mochileros (backpackers) quickly becomes a struggle for survival as they unravel under the duress of the jungle. They are an odd mix, to be sure: Marcus, the Swiss mystic; Karl, the shady Austrian geologist; Kevin, the well-intentioned American photographer; and Yossi, the Israeli adventurer"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boomerang New Media 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.412 GHIWeiss, Mitch.
Summary: Based on government documents and eyewitness testimony, describes the U.S. Special Forces mission that led to the capture and execution of violent revolutionary leader Che Guevera.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.035 WEIHuang, Chi-Cheng.
Summary: "When Dr. Chi Huang took a year off from Harvard Medical School to work with orphans and street children in La Paz, Bolivia, he had no idea it would take only that one year to change his life forever. The son of immigrants from Taiwan, he had grown up feeling like an outsider in an alien culture, one that eventually rewarded him with a coveted spot in medical school. And then he chose to thrust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: SaltRiver 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVEColeman, Laura
Summary: Presents the story of the author's journey in the Amazon jungle, where she fell in love with a magnificent cat who changed her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little A 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COLEMAN, LAURA COLGrupo Aymara
Contents: Aririña = Arise : medley (6:53): Ancestro = Ancestor ; Aliriña = Arise ; Awki awki = Old -- Evocacion a los apus = Evocation of the chiefs : medley (5:06): Evocacion a los apus ; Jacha ayllis = Great communities -- Navidad en el altiplano = Christmas in the highlands : medley (6:02): Jiska imillita = Little girl ; Ilaqui chuyma = Sad heart -- Pachamama = Mother Earth (2:13) -- Ilabeña (5:16) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Flying Fish 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AMERICAN GRUCarpio, Luzmila
Contents: Riqsiqa kasunchik -- Ch'uwa yaku kawsaypuni -- Warmip kawsaynin -- Uqhumanta -- Warmikuna yupag-chasqapuni kasunchik -- Arawi -- Yanapariway takiriyta -- Killpa -- Pachamamata t'ikanchasun -- Kusichisun wawitata -- Tillpi tillpilla -- Sumaq awaq warmi -- Jiwasay -- Qalay qalay -- Kawsay jap'isunchik -- Wataq killasnin -- Amautayku avelino siñani.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Squirrel Thing 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AME CARMacQuarrie, Kim.
Summary: Where the Andes Meet the Amazon" is a lavishly-illustrated, coffee-table style book that portrays some of the biological, ethnographic, and historical diversity of one of the largest protected rainforest areas in the world: the fabulously rich wilderness areas of Bahuaja-Sonene and Madidi National Parks. This handsome, 336-page book is illustrated with 336 color photographs from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jordi Blassi 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 980 MACGhinsberg, Yossi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pier Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.412 GHISummary: In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When an uncommonly long drought threatens everything they know, Virginio and Sisa must decide whether to stay and maintain their traditional way of life...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN UTAPaz Soldan, Edmundo
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAZSummary: A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist "Calamity" Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Our 2016Summary: "Follows James Carville, Jeremy Rosner and a team of political consultants as they launch a media-savvy campaign for Bolivian presidential candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada. With unprecedented access to think sessions, media training and the making of smear campaigns, witness a shocking example of America 'spreading democracy' overseas and its earth-shattering aftermath"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OURYomtov, Nelson
Summary: "This book details the history, culture, geography and government of Bolivia."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 984 YOMGrey, Melissa
Summary: In Potosai, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GREArtist Not Provided
Summary: The hosts present the culture, history, and natural sights as they journey through South America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pilot Productions 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 918.5 SOUInka Kings
Contents: Condor pasa -- Virgenes del sol y tinkus -- Dos palomitas -- Italaque y cacharpaya del indio -- San Juanitos y amores hallaras -- Llorando se fue -- Comprende me -- Humuwaqueno -- Ojos azules y nayaritay -- Bolivia
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sound Productions
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/SOUTH AMERICAN INKFerencik, Erica
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scout Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Ferencik 2019Steil, Jennifer
Summary: "An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEAlfieri, Annamaria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ALFPfarrer, Chuck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PFAPfarrer, Chuck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007