Canizales (Harold Jiménez Canizales)
Summary: Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. Only nineteen years old, she comes to mourn her lost child, carrying a box in her arms. And she comes with another mission. Andrea has hidden a camera upon herself. If she can capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family, it will mark the first step toward reclaiming their land.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphic Universe 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 CANFeiling, Tom
Summary: "The Island that Disappeared tells, for the first time, the story of the passengers aboard the Mayflower's sister ship (the Seaflower) who in 1630 founded a rival Puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence--so small it doesn't appear on most maps. Chaos ensued, and the great experiment failed. One-hundred years later the disaster repeated itself. Traveling to the island...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9 FEIDuBois, Jill
Summary: "The culture of Colombia is presented to readers in a fresh and vibrant way in this meticulously updated guide. Readers are inspired to think about both the history and current events that have affected and are still affecting this nation as they explore the detailed main text. Additional information is presented in sidebars, which also include short biographies of Colombian citizens who are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 986.1 DUBWeisman, Alan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Pub. 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.1 WEIDavis, Wade
Summary: "The award winning writer, photographer, filmmaker, and ethnographer--a longtime Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society--recounts an enthralling journey down Colombia's Magdalena River that illuminates the country's rebirth after decadesof political violence, drug cartels, and guerrilla warfare"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 986.1 DAVGolkar, Golriz
Summary: ""Engaging images accompany information about Colombia. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 986.1 GOLKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: In Bogotaa, Columbia, young Josae eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by Josae Alberto Gutiaerrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiaerrez's life and Bogotaa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUTKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiérrez's life and Bogotá.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 GUTGarcés, Juan M.
Summary: Love at Four Points is based on love letters and political intrigue written in code in an old Don Quixote volume from 1844. The people who wrote them, Sofía and Federico, exchanged secret messages during The Thousand Day War (1899-1902), between the military prison and the city in Popayán, Colombia. This book is a work of fiction about the micro-history of that horrendous civil and military...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Juan M. Garcés 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FIC GARBalf, Todd.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.87 BALGugliotta, Guy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.45 GUGFink, Jesse
Summary: "Pure Narco tells the tale of arguably America's biggest cocaine trafficker and his capture in Venezuela during one of the biggest anti-narcotics takedowns of all time. But it is more than that; Pure Narco is unique in that it is a story of a family caught up in a life on the run and Luis Navia's adjustment to civilian life after prison"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NAVIA, LUIS FINWilliams, Stanley
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 551.21 WILVargas Llosa, Mario
Summary: "Publicado a comienzos de la década de los setenta y desaparecido de las librerías desde hace muchos años, este ensayo, que en su origen fue la tesis que le valió a Vargas Llosa en 1971 el título de doctor por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, muestra la admiración del Nobel peruano por García Márquez y por su novela Cien años de soledad. En él se analiza en profundidad la obra del autor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfaguara 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH LLOGoldsworthy, Kaite
Summary: Describes the environment, history, industry, tourist attractions, arts, sports, and cultural groups that make British Columbia unique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weigl 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 971 GOLKimantas, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Whitecap 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.122 KIMSullivan, Randall
Summary: "A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure journalism, and memoir, bringing alive the history--and present--of one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world. Off the coast of Oregon, the Columbia River flows into the Pacific Ocean and forms the Columbia River Bar: a watery collision so turbulent and deadly that it's nicknamed the Graveyard...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.7 SULAbler, Amanda
Summary: "A heart-warming and true story about an orphaned orca named Springer who was found swimming alone in the Puget Sound in 2002. The book takes us on Springer's journey from being near starvation to rescued to then the challenges of her release, eventual adoption, and the start of her own family."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little bigfoot, an imprint of Sasquatch Books 2020
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Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14 returns with the riveting and revealing story of one of the most persistent "alternative facts" in American history: the story of a missionary, a tribe, a massacre, and a myth that shaped the American West In 1836, two missionaries and their wives were among the first Americans to cross the Rockies by covered wagon on what would...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.5 HARDe la Tour, Shatoiya
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Publisher / Publication Date: Storey Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 635.7 DELLarson, Erik
Summary: Tells the parallel stories of Daniel Burnham, the main architect of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, and serial killer Henry H. Holmes, discussing the challenges Burnham faced in creating the hugely successful White City, and looking at how Holmes used the opportunities afforded by the fair to lure victims to their deaths.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Press (Gale, Cengage Learning) 2013
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP 364.152 LARMowat, Farley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Steerforth Press 2000
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Summary: "The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells the story of the first and greatest visionary of the print age, a man who saw how the explosive expansion of knowledge and information generated by the advent of the printing press would entirely change the landscape of thought and society. He also happened to be Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, while his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2019