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 CANSummary: The Madrigals live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal, every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ENCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD EncantoSummary: For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo traveled the villages of northern Colombia, playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows never to play again, and embarks on one last journey to return the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WINSummary: The origins of the Colombian drug trade, as seen through eyes of an indigenous Wayuu family that becomes involved in the booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion and honor collide, a fratricidal war breaks out and puts their lives, culture, and ancestral traditions at stake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Alicia is helpless. War memories invade her mind like threatening thunder. Uprooted by the armed conflict, she tries to reshape her life in La Sirga, a dilapidated hostel on the shores of a great lake in the highlands of the Andes. There, on a swampy and murky beach, she will try to settle down until her fears and the threat of war resurface again. --http://www.filmmovement.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SIRFernando Trueba
Summary: Narra de manera íntima la historia de un hombre bueno, el médico colombiano Héctor Abad Gómez, carismático líder social y hombre de familia, un destacado médico y activista por los derechos humanos en el Medellín polarizado y violento de los años 70. La trama relata la vida del doctor y padre de familia, preocupado tanto por sus hijos como por los niños de clases menos favorecidas. En su casa...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMSanchez, Santiago Jose
Summary: In America, his mother works as a waitress when she was once a doctor. The boy embraces his queer identity as wholeheartedly as he embraces his new home, but not without a sense of loss. As he grows, his relationship with his mother becomes fraught, tangled, a love so intense that it borders on vivid pain but is also the axis around which his every decision revolves. She may have once forgotten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SANSummary: In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogota, Colombia, and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's speaker system to participate in a series of murderous moral decisions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELQuintana, Pilar
Summary: "In Colombia's brutal jungle, childless Damaris develops an intense and ultimately doomed relationship with an orphaned puppy. Colombia's Pacific coast, where everyday life entails warding off the brutal forces of nature. In this constant struggle, nothing is taken for granted. Damaris lives with her fisherman husband in a shack on a bluff overlooking the sea. Childless and at that age 'when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: World Editions 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUISummary: After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years embark on a journey of reconciliation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BADSummary: The film centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals of two explorers (Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Richard Evans Schultes) who traveled through the Colombian Amazon during the last century in search of the sacred and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMBGrostephan, Alan.
Summary: In this taut, moving novel set in present-day Columbia, Wilfredo decides to relocate his family from their small town to a slum in Bogota with relatives. Plunged into a world of almost total ruin, fear, and violence, the family fights to stay alive and stay together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRORodríguez, Patty
Summary: Introduce your little readers to Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, one of the most famous cities for finding emeralds. Children will travel through colorful streets and find hidden gems rooted in history and culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lil' Libros 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD RODKunkel, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUTVasco, Irene
Summary: A woman explains to her son how she grew up in a remote village where almost no one could read and write, but she found a way to learn how when her sister began getting letters from a young doctor who used to live there.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lantana 2023
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Summary: An influential political cartoonist is paid an unexpected visit by a young woman who upends his sense of personal history and forces him to reevaluate his life, work, and position in the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASCervantes, Angela
Summary: The tale of an extraordinary family that lives hidden in the mountains of Colombia in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. Everyone in the Madrigal family has a unique gift, ranging from superstrength to the power to heal. Everyone except Mirabel. But when the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides she might just be her exceptional family's last hope.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Deveraux used to run Special Ops for the CIA, before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now the President has asked the man they call the Cobra to do anything he requires to destroy the cocaine industry. No rules, no questions asked. Just do it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORForsyth, Frederick
Summary: What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FORMedina, Juana
Summary: A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEDVásquez, Juan Gabriel
Summary: A man who was arrested for attempting to steal a suit belonging to a murdered politician from a Columbian museum sets of a series of public fixations on conspiracy theories, assassinations, and the country's historical secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASVásquez, Juan Gabriel
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VASAlessandri, Alexandra
Summary: "To save their father's life, a brother and sister must journey across a land full of magical beings from Colombian folklore and find the most powerful and dangerous of them all--the Madremonte"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALEGalbraith, Douglas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001