Summary: In 1980, Richard Boyle, a veteran war photographer whose career needs a boost, heads for El Salvador to cover the civil war there. He forms an uneasy alliance with both guerrillas in the countryside who want him to get pictures out to the US press, and the right-wing military, who want him to bring them photographs of the rebels. After the murder of Archbishop Romero, the rape and murder of an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SALDidion, Joan.
Summary: The author recounts her 1982 visit to El Salvador and describes the terror, fear and political repression that permeated the country.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.84 DIDBarron, Sandra Rodriguez.
Summary: En una clínica remota sobre una playa de arena negra, una mujer abre sus ojos ... Cuando la joven Mónica Winters Borrero pierde su madre encantadora en un accidente marítimo, ella se encuentra exiliada del paraíso tropical que una vez fue su hogar. En duelo y alejada de una vida dentro de la sociedad salvadoreña, Mónica y su padre estadounidense se mudan a Connecticut, jurando nunca mirar hacia...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 468 SPANISH BARSummary: Romero is the true story of the Catholic priest Archbishop Oscar Romero who lived in El Salvador during the political unrest in the 1970s. The government launched a 'terror campaign' against the guerillas in an attempt to crush them. Archbishop Romero's protests against governments' actions was perceived as disloyalty. As an example to others, the government began to destroy churches and murder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vision Video 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ROMLovato, Roberto
Summary: A journalistic memoir detailing the author's firsthand experiences with immigration, gang life, and guerilla warfare explores the violence that shaped generations of his impoverished Salvadoran family to connect today's immigration crisis to the realities of everyday families.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOVATO, ROBERTO LOVLovato, Roberto
Summary: Roberto Lovato shares a timely and no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerilla warfare, immigration, and intergenerational trauma.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As Chava nears his twelfth birthday, he and his mother struggle to avoid his conscription in the El Salvadoran army during the civil war of the nineteen eighties.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lightyear Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Basada en una historia real, Voces inocentes es una cuenta la conmovedora historia de Chava, un niño de once años que atrapado en medio de la guerra civil de los años 80 en El Salvador, tiene que convertirse en "el hombre de la casa" después de que su padre los abandona.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VOCZamora, Javier
Summary: "Trip. My parents started using that word about a year ago--'one day, you'll take a trip to be with us. Like an adventure.' Javier's adventure is a three-thousand-mile journey from his small town in El Salvador, through Guatemala and Mexico, and across the U.S. border. He will leave behind his beloved aunt and grandparents to reunite with a mother who left four years ago and a father he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZAMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio ZamoraCaceres, N.
Summary: Some desires refuse to be denied. Angie: My life has become anything but my own. The shiny rock, the sensible fiancé...and a forced "vacation" to El Salvador, courtesy of my insufferable boss. But I play the game, for the sake of my mother's aristocratic aspirations, and for some peace. Little did I know that El Salvador would lead me straight back to a wolfish grin -- the one that has me...
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Publisher / Publication Date: N. Caceres 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CACMarkham, Lauren
Summary: Identical twins Ernesto and Raul Flores, seventeen, must flee El Salvador, make a harrowing journey across the Rio Grande and the Texas desert, face capture by immigration authorities, and struggle to navigate life in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 MARMarkham, Lauren
Summary: "The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new lives in California--fighting to survive, to stay, and to belong. Growing up in rural El Salvador in the wake of the civil war, Ernesto Flores had always had a fascination with the United States, the faraway land of skyscrapers and Nikes, while his identical twin, Raul, never felt that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.84 MORDudley, Steven S.
Summary: Looks at the most dangerous street gang in America, MS-13, as seen through the lives of one family caught in its malicious web.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1066 DUDClements, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.84 CLEContreras-Rosado, Rosalina.
Summary: Tatiana and Irene visit for the first time their mother's homeland, El Salvador.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: WPR Pub. 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 468 ConCussler, Clive
Summary: "The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack by tomb raiders on an archaeological site along the banks of the Nile. Is there a link between these violent events? The answer may lie in the tale of an Egyptian princess forced to flee the armies of her father three thousand years ago. During what was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cussler 2019Kephart, Beth.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.84 KEPMattern, Joanne
Summary: In this book, readers will learn about the unique and defining features of El Salvador. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the key details of the country, including geography, climate, culture, and resources. Compelling questions encourage further inquiry. Includes reading tips for teachers and parents, a map, quick facts, a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around All El SalTobar, Héctor
Summary: "In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Tobar 2020Summary: Central America is the thin section of land that links the continents of North and south America. It is made up of seven small mostly tropical countries that share a wealth of natural beauty, Mayan history and culture and stunning wildlife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DVD Masters 2008
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Summary: "This book tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seek asylum. Based on extensive interviews with teen refugees, lawyers, caseworkers, and activists, Tracy White shines a light on five individual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 362.7 WHIMarquardt, Marie F.
Summary: After being mugged, seventeen-year-old Gretchen is still struggling to deal with her fears when she meets Phoenix, an eighteen-year-old immigrant from El Salvador.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARLittle Annie
Contents: Closet love -- Third gear kills -- Turkey girl -- Burnt offerings -- To know evil -- Sad shadows -- Viet not mine, El Salvador yours -- Waiting for the fun
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Records 0000