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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 PrestonBrown, Timothy C. (Timothy Charles)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.85 BROJohnson, Denis
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHPermanent Peoples' Tribunal
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Publisher / Publication Date: Synthesis Publications 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.85 ONTRushdie, Salman.
Summary: In this portrait of the people, the politics, the land, and the poetry of Nicaragua, Rushdie brings to the forefront the palpable human facts of a country in the midst of a revolution. Rushdie went to Nicaragua in 1986, "harboring no preconceptions of what he might find." What he discovered was for him overwhelming: a culture of heroes who had turned into inanimate objects and of politicians...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.285 RUSStewart, 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 STESummary: "A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity--and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WALBelli, Gioconda
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.85 BELOwings, Lisa.
Summary: Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America. Covered in thick forests, this tropical country was a part of the Spanish Empire for around 300 years. Become introduced to Nicaraguans and their way of life in this elementary title for young students.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bellwether Media, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 972.8 OWIGannon, Joe
Summary: "Sandinista Police Captain Ajax Montoya is six days sober and losing his mind. How else to explain his nights waking in bed, his hand wrapped around that bloody-minded stiletto from the old days, or the presence outside his window, a face with no eyes watching him? How far the heroic have fallen. Ajax was once the gallant comandante guerrillero. A hero of the Nicaraguan revolutionaries in their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gannon 2014White, Jonathan W.
Summary: "The riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, and Cuban liberation to the Civil War and Reconstruction"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.6092 WHISummary: The life of William Walker, a 19th century adventurer who abandoned his career in law and politics to become a soldier of fortune and dictator of Nicaragua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WALEngle, Margarita
Summary: A novel in verse about the life and work of Rubén Darío, a Nicaraguan poet who started life as an abandoned child and grew to become the father of a new literary movement. Includes historical notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGAlegría, Claribel.
Summary: From the Publisher: Sorrow Claribel Alegria Sorrow is a remarkable collection of love poems which Alegria wrote for her recently deceased husband. The poems are not only a recollection of their past, but also meditations on the meaning of death and the pain of separation as well as reflections on their eventual reunion. Most of the poems are brief piercing lyrics which radiate strength and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 ALEWhite, Randy Wayne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyon's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 WHICussler, Clive.
Summary: "At the end of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known about, twenty-three-year-old fraternal twins born to a woman he thought had died in an underwater earthquake. Both have inherited his love of the sea: the girl, Summer, is a marine biologist; the boy, himself named Dirk, is a marine engineer. And now they are about to help their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSMartin, Charles
Summary: Charlie Finn had to grow up fast, living alone by age sixteen. Highly intelligent, he earned a life-changing scholarship to Harvard, where he learned how to survive and thrive on the outskirts of privileged society. That skill served him well in the cutthroat business world, as it does in more lucrative but dangerous ventures he now operates off the coast of Miami. Charlie tries to separate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARRohmer, Harriet.
Summary: A bilingual folk tale from Nicaragua about a well-meaning man who can't figure out how to make changes in his life until his niece, Ambrosia, show him how.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Book Press 1989
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: J Spanish RhomerSummary: Examines a major 1931 earthquake in Nicaragua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Mojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas
Summary: "For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MOJSummary: In Nicaragua, a growing awareness of domestic violence and its consequences has spurred grassroots activism. This program documents the efforts of two groups, the Xochitl-Acatl Center and the Association of Men Against Violence, both of which confront gender and sexual abuse. Arguing that economic and political oppression influence male tendencies to exercise physical authority within the home,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DVD Masters 2008