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In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in the United States. The move allows her to send money back home to Enrique so he can eat better... (more)

The Jaguar Smile

by Salman Rushdie

In this brilliantly focused and haunting portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Salman Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, harboring no preconceptions of what he might find. What he discovered was overwhelming: a culture of heroes who had turned into inanimate objects and of... (more)

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

by Rigoberta Menchu

This book recounts the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Guatemalan peasant woman. Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechist work as an expression of political revolt as... (more)

Red Glass

by Laura Resau

ONE NIGHT SOPHIE and her parents are called to a hospital where Pedro, 6-year-old Mexican boy, is recovering from dehydration. Crossing the border into Arizona with a group of Mexicans and a coyote, or guide, Pedro and his parents faced such harsh conditions that the boy is the only survivor. Pedro comes to live with Sophie, her parents, and Sophie's Aunt Dika, a refugee of the war in Bosnia. Sophie loves Pedro -... (more)

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird

by Bruce Barcott

“The first time we came here I didn’t know what to expect,” she told me as we paddled upstream. “What we found just blew me away. Jaguars, pumas, river otters, howler monkeys. The place was like a Noah’s Ark for all the endangered species driven out of the rest of Central America. There was so much life! That expedition was when I first saw the macaws.” As a young woman, Sharon Matola lived many lives. She was a... (more)

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Reader's Digest Natural Wonders Of The World

by Reader's Digest Association

Children of the world say "Good morning." (A Little owl book)

Children of the world say "Good morning." (A Little owl book)

by Herbert McClure

Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion

by Sara Miles

“Mine is a personal story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert.” –Sara Miles Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Then early one winter morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into a church. “I was certainly not interested in becoming a Christian,” she writes, “or, as I thought of... (more)

The Cloud Garden : A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture

The Cloud Garden : A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture

by Tom Hart Dyke

Kidnapped by terrorists, held hostage at gunpoint, two flower-hunting Britons live to tell their amazing tale.

Panama

by Eric Zencey

A national bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Panama marks the debut of an impressive literary talent. It is part detective novel, part historical thriller...and it all begins in 1892 when a woman vanishes and a corpse is found. Gunshots echo in the Paris streets. Blood flows to the Panama Canal...

How to Buy Costa Rica Real Estate without Losing Your Camisa

How to Buy Costa Rica Real Estate without Losing Your Camisa

by SCOTT OLIVER

The goal in writing this unique book is to help educate and protect you; to provide you with objective information from proven experts so that when you buy Costa Rica real estate, it’s not just a wonderful home but also a very profitable investment.

Aztec

by Gary Jennings

Aztec is the extraordinary story of the last and greatest native civilization of North America. Told in the words of one of the most robust and memorable characters in modern fiction, Mixtli-Dark Cloud, Aztec reveals the very depths of Aztec civilization from the peak and feather-banner splendor of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan to the arrival of Hernán Cortás and his conquistadores, and their destruction of... (more)

To the ends of the earthHugh Steven

To the ends of the earth

by Hugh Steven

A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya

A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya

by Linda Schele

The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. Now, two central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history available for the first time in all its detail. A Forest of Kings is the story of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the first... (more)

The Mythology of Mexico and Central America

The Mythology of Mexico and Central America

by John Bierhorst

In this expansive volume, John Bierhorst brings to light the gods and heroes of pre-Columbian times--and demonstrates that they are very much alive today. The book provides translations of twenty "basic myths," showing how these have influenced the artistic, literary, and political life of modern Mexico and Central America. Originally published in 1990, the text has been updated to reflect recent advances in... (more)

One Hundred Years of Solitude

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world, and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize–winning career. The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind.... (more)

The Mosquito Coast

by Paul Theroux

In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger. (more)

Malinche: A Novel

by Laura Esquivel

La princesa de la literatura latinoamericana, está de regreso con la historia el legendario amor entre el conquistador Hernan Cortés y su intérprete, la india Malinalli. FonoLibro se enorgullece en presentar la nueva novela de la laureada escritora mexicana Laura Esquivel, Malinche, narrada por la laureada estrella mexicana Lucia Méndez. Cuando Malinalli conoce a Cortés asume que se trata del... (more)

The Law of Love: Limited Edition

by Laura Esquivel

This romantic, innovative, and wildly comic New York Times bestseller by the author of Like Water for Chocolate tells a cosmic love story, a Mexican Midsummer Night's Dream that stretches from the fall of Montezuma's Mexico to the 23rd century. Includes eight sections of full-color illustrations.

The Pearl

by John Steinbeck

A fisherman finds the great pearl, only to lose it again.

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by Sonia Nazario

by Salman Rushdie

by Rigoberta Menchu

by Laura Resau

by Bruce Barcott

by Reader's Digest Association

by Herbert McClure

by Sara Miles

by Tom Hart Dyke

by Eric Zencey

by SCOTT OLIVER

by Gary Jennings

by Hugh Steven

by Linda Schele

by John Bierhorst

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

by Paul Theroux

by Laura Esquivel

by Laura Esquivel

by John Steinbeck