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Action Audiobooks. bibliography biography Domestic fiction. Drama fiction Graphic novels. Novels. videorecordingPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 972.8 PREPreston, Douglas J
Summary: Recounts how the author and a team of scientists discovered a legendary sacred city, the Lost City of the Monkey God, hidden deep in the Honduran jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.8 PRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.85 PREPreston, Douglas J
Summary: "Since the days of conquistador Hern©Łn Cort©♭s, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God...In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 972.8 PrestonSummary: Over twenty-five years ago two Americans, Dr. Diana Frade and her husband, Episcopalian Bishop Leo Frade, founded Our Little Roses Home for Girls in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Until then abandoned girls were often given to prisoners since no such homes existed. Now Our Little Roses has some 60 rescued or orphaned girls in a city once considered the "murder capital of the world." Poverty and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: T́́́ía Chucha Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 COUStewart, Christopher S.
Summary: Relates the author's adventure deep inside "the little Amazon," the jungles of Honduras's Mosquito Coast, to expose the secrets of the fabled city of Ciudad Blanca, the White City, a place that has lured explorers for centuries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.83 STEGolkar, Golriz
Summary: "Engaging images accompany information about Honduras. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Fajardo, Kat
Summary: "Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. They live way out in the country, which means no texting, no cable, and no Internet! The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quinceañera for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOSFitzgerald, María José
Summary: Twelve-year-olds Barana and Abby come together to solve a sea turtle egg poaching mystery plaguing Barana's Honduran coastal village, and learn the true meaning of friendship, courage, and community along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FITSummary: Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MosquitoTheroux, Paul.
Summary: Allie Fox is a brilliant inventor. He's also a deeply paranoid man who is disenchanted with American materialism and conformity. Abandoning his old life, he believes he can build a better existence for his family in the Honduran jungle. But Allie's utopian ideals are more easily imagined than realized, and soon his dark obsessions lead his family down an extremely angerous path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THEEicher, Jerry S.
Summary: A best-selling fiction author recounts his young life in an Amish family which moved from Ontario to Honduras and then to America when the community failed, and his reasons for departing from his childhood faith later in life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvest House Publishers 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EICHER, JERRY S EICNazario, Sonia.
Summary: Based on the Los Angeles Times series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, this is a timeless story of families torn apart. When Enrique was five, his mother, too poor to feed her children, left Honduras to work in the United States. The move allowed her to send money back home so Enrique could eat better and go to school past the third grade. She promised she would return quickly, but she struggled...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.23 NAZCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.23 NAZSummary: Sayra is a beautiful young Honduran woman who joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin American countryside en route to the United States. Along the way she crosses paths with El Casper, a teenage Mexican gang member, who is maneuvering to outrun his violent past and elude his unforgiving former associates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SINZaldívar, Bessie Flores
Summary: Set during the controversial 2017 Honduran presidential election, seventeen-year-old Libertad finds purpose writing political poetry as she navigates her sexuality and concerns for her activist brother's safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ZALWard, Amanda Eyre
Summary: "In this novel, award-winning author Amanda Eyre Ward tells the story of Alice Conroe, a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION WARWard, Amanda Eyre
Summary: Alice Conroe is a forty year old Texas barbecue owner who has the perfect life, except she and her husband long for a child. Unable to conceive, she's trying desperately to adopt but her destiny is quickly altered by a young woman she's never met. Fearless thirteen-year-old Carla Trujilio is being raised by her grandmother in Honduras along with her four year old twin brothers. Her mother is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WARNazario, Sonia.
Summary: Documents the journey of a Honduran teen who braved hardship and peril to reunite with his mother after she was forced to leave him behind and seek migratory work in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ENRSummary: Central America is the thin section of land that links the continents of North and south America. It is made up of seven small mostly tropical countries that share a wealth of natural beauty, Mayan history and culture and stunning wildlife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DVD Masters 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.2804 ULTLoewenstein, Antony
Summary: Like the never-ending war on terror, the drugs war is a multi-billion-dollar industry that won't go down without a fight. Pills, Powder, and Smoke explains why. The war on drugs has been official American policy since the 1970s, with the UK, Europe, and much of the world following suit. It is at best a failed policy, according to bestselling author Antony Loewenstein. Its direct results have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.13365 LOEWhite, Tracy (Tracy A.)
Summary: "This book tells the true stories of five brave teens fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guinea, on their own, traveling through unknown and unfriendly places, and ultimately crossing into the US to find refuge and seek asylum. Based on extensive interviews with teen refugees, lawyers, caseworkers, and activists, Tracy White shines a light on five individual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2023