Summary: 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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BELMedina, Juana
Summary: "Juana's life in Bogotá, Colombia, is just about perfect. Every now and then a big problema comes along--like having to learn English or Juana's mami getting remarried--but things eventually settle down, and life goes back to feeling pretty perfect again. But then Mami springs two new sorpresas on Juana. One: Juana will be spending her school break going to skating camp instead of relaxing...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEDGrostephan, 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.
Format: text
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lil' Libros 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARD RODMedina, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2016
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEDKunkel, Angela Burke
Summary: In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Gutiérrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Gutiérrez's life and Bogotá.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH 921 GUTBarnes, Linda.
Summary: When she receives word that Paolina, the fourteen-year-old girl with whom she had been paired in a Boston mentoring program, has vanished, private detective Carlotta Carlyle embarks on her own search for the missing teen.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARMedina, Juana
Summary: When Juana's mother starts spending lots of time with her new friend Luis, Juana worries that these new developments will mean lots of change for her and her dog Lucas.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MEDRojas Contreras, Ingrid
Summary: A novel set against the violence of 1990s Columbia follows a sheltered girl and a teen maid, who forge an unlikely friendship as the families of both struggle to maintain stability amidst Bogot©Ł's rapidly escalating violence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROJCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROJEngel, Patricia
Summary: Moving their family to what they believe will be a safer but temporary home in Houston, two young parents are forced to choose between an undocumented status in America and returning to the violence of war-torn Bogataa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ENGRojas Contreras, Ingrid
Summary: "For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022