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Bolivar: American Liberator
A brilliant biography that "reads like a wonderful novel but is researched like a masterwork of history" (Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs), this is the epic story of the …
The Writing Life
Featuring a gathering of more than fifty of contemporary literature's finest voices, this volume will enchant, move, and inspire readers with its tales of The Writing Life . In …
Silver, Sword and Stone
The timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region: exploitation, violence, and …
La Plata, La Espada Y La Piedra: Tres Pilares Cruciales En La Historia de Améric a / Silver, Sword, and Stone: The Story of Latin America
Una lectura necesaria para comprender el tumultuoso pasado de Am rica Latina y la complejidad de su identidad. «Trazar el alma de un continente es una haza a extraordinaria, y …
Bolívar: Libertador de América / Bolivar: American Liberator
Un relato biogr fico vibrante que captura la pica historia de Sim n Bol var, El Libertador. Sim n Bol var se gan el sobrenombre de El Libertador tras poner fin al dominio espa ol …
Cellophane
Don Victor Sobrevilla, a lovable, eccentric engineer, always dreamed of founding a paper factory in the heart of the Peruvian rain forest, and at the opening of this miraculous …
Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
Winner, American Library Association Booklist's Top of the List, 2019 Adult Nonfiction Acclaimed writer Marie Arana delivers a cultural history of Latin America and the three …
Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
A sweeping yet personal overview of the Latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known …
Off the Page
How do writers approach a new novel? Do they start with plot, character, or theme? A. S. Byatt starts with color. E. L. Doctorow begins with an image. In Off the Page, authors tell …
Lima Nights
Carlos Bluhm leads the good life in upper-class Lima: He attends social functions with his elegant wife, goes out drinking with his three best friends, and has the occasional, …
American Chica
In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s …