Hernandez, Jessica
Summary: "An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn't working--and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2082 HERLiniers
Summary: Three Latin American folktales include the story of the Iara, a mermaid who lures men to her underwater domain, the tale of La Lechuza, an enormous owl with the face of a woman, and two gauchos' encounter with La Luz Mala, a spooky light that terrorizes travelers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Books 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LINHagerty, Alexa
Summary: "An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against humanity in Latin America explores what science can tell us about the lives of the dead in this haunting account of grief, the power of ritual, and a quest for justice. "Exhumation can divide brothers and restore fathers, open old wounds and open the possibility of regeneration-of building...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.9 HAGMorlock, Rachael
Summary: "Latin America is a region that consists of 13 dependencies and 20 countries including Argentina and Brazil. Because of the area's wide breadth, diverse geography, and unique colonization patterns, there are many distinct sub-cultures that all offer a different perspective on life in the region. Along with eye-catching full-color images, this book's informative narrative examines these many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 980 MORLoya, Olga.
Summary: A bilingual collection in English and Spanish of fairy tales from Latin America. The 15 entries include Mayan and Aztec versions of the creation of the world. Fifteen stories, full of momentos magicos and presented in equally vibrant English and Spanish, include tales of the supernatural, of animals and tricksters, of strong women, and myths. In stories from Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Puerto...
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Publisher / Publication Date: August House 1997
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Summary: "Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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Summary: "A collection of three Latin American folktales retold in graphic novel form"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: TOON Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 HERBonello, Deborah
Summary: "Drug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists. VICE journalist Deborah Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth exploration of the hidden power women wield in Latin American drug cartels"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 BONBenson, Elizabeth P.
Summary: "Categorization of animals by domesticated, hunted, anomalous, birds, amphibians and reptiles, fish, crustaceans, and mollusks reveals common themes among depictions from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Florida 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 BensonLabrecque, Ellen
Summary: "Viva la revolucion! Find out how Che Guevara--a doctor turned communist leader and much more than a face on a T-shirt--ended up paying the ultimate price for his cause. His very image has become associated with a spirit of rebellion, but Ernesto Guevara--known around the world simply as Che--didn't dream of becoming a revolutionary. Author Ellen Labrecque takes readers on a journey through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 GUESummary: "Una extraordinaria selección de obras esenciales, en su mayoría inéditas, que celebran la fuerza, el talento y la diversidad de las mujeres latinas, y tienden puentes que nos conectan las unas con las otras. Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de la chamana María Sabina; desde las luchas revolucionarias de Audre Lorde, Lolita Lebrón y Berta Cáceres...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsEspañol 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 HIJDe León, Jason
Summary: "An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist. Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1 DE LMenéndez, Juliet
Summary: "In this board book adaptation of Latinitas, young readers meet inspiring women from all over Latin America and across the United States. With gorgeous, hand-painted illustrations, Juliet Menéndez shines a spotlight on the power of childhood dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD MENThomas, Hugh
Summary: A history of Spain's first thirty years in the Americas traces Columbus's pioneering voyage through Magellan's first circumnavigation of the earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 980.01 THOArana, Marie
Summary: "Against the background of a thousand years of vivid history, acclaimed writer Marie Arana tells the timely and timeless stories of three contemporary Latin Americans whose lives represent three driving forces that have shaped the character of the region:exploitation (silver), violence (sword), and religion (stone). Leonor Gonzales lives in a tiny community perched 18,000 feet above sea level...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.08 ARAFitz, Caitlin
Summary: "A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2016
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Summary: "Latin America is home to both the amazing Amazon rain forest and areas of desert where rain has never been recorded. Readers will learn about the varied landscapes of Latin America, from the Atacama Desert to the brilliant Caribbean coasts to the awesome Andes Mountains. In learning about major cities, such as Mexico City, readers will discover the ways people have changed the Earth to fit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 918.02 MIKMenendez, Juliet
Summary: "A celebration of Latinas and Latin American women who followed their dreams, with portraits and short bios"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920.72 MENGibson, Carrie
Summary: "Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, the nation has much older Spanish roots--ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.73 GIBFranco, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 860.998 FRAOliva, Alejandra
Summary: In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Astra House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.9 OLIMojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas
Summary: "Born into a large, close-knit family in Nicaragua, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez grew up surrounded by strong, kind, funny, sensitive, resilient, judgmental, messy, beautiful women. Whether blood relatives or chosen family, these tías and primas fundamentally shaped her view of the world-and so did the labels that were used to talk about them. The tía loca who is shunned for defying gender...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.85 MOJSummary: Articles present opposing viewpoints on such Columbus-related issues as the motives of the conquistadors, treatment of the Indians, and twentieth-century views of Columbus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenhaven Press 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.015 CHRHelferich, Gerard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gotham Books 2004