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Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A James Beard Award-nominated bartender explores the history and culture of Latin American spirits in this stunningly photographed travelogue--with 70 irresistible cocktails featuring tequila, rum, pisco, and more. Through its in-depth look at drinking culture throughout Latin America, this gorgeous book offers a rich cultural and historical context for understanding Latin spirits. Ivy Mix has dedicated years to traveling south, getting to know Latin...
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Cócteles de América Latina ha ganado el premio al mejor libro de cócteles del año, otorgado por la International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP). Ivy Mix, bartender nominada al premio James Beard, explora la historia y la cultura de los licores latinoamericanos en esta crónica de viaje asombrosamente fotografiada, con más de 100 cócteles irresistibles que incluyen tequila, ron, pisco y más. A través de un profundo análisis...
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Series
Everyman's library volume 88
Language
English
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In a tale of a South American revolution, an Italian named Nostromo is the most feared man at the headquarters of a great silver mine. He successfully removes the silver treasure but informs everyone involved that it has gone down on a sunken ship.
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English
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"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 in the Andean cordillera of Peru, the highest human habitation...
10) Violeta: a novel
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English
Description
Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of five boisterous sons. The ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. As the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known, Violeta's family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote part of the country. She...
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Steeped in Hispanic folklore since childhood, middle schooler Charlie Hernández learns the stories are true when, shortly after his parents disappearance, he grows horns and feathers and finds himself at the heart of a battle to save the world.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Drug transporters. Money launderers. Killers. Street drug vendors. Weapons traffickers. Kidnappers. Extortionists. Bonello reports from the trenches in this first-ever in-depth...
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts.
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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 something new with the pile of broken mirrors that is loss...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers and prison guards in two days. In southern Mexico, a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing...
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