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The Book of Emma Reyes

A Memoir

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**“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York TimesA literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood**This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by ... Read more

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**“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York TimesA literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood**This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by
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**“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York TimesA literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood**This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by ... Read more

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**“Startling and astringently poetic.” —The New York TimesA literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela’s Ashes, of a Colombian woman’s harrowing childhood**This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author, who was encouraged in her writing by
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The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 ... Read more

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**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • "An American masterpiece" (NPR) that chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30
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A Gentleman in Moscow

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**The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel**In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by ... Read more

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**The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” PickFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel**In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by
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Alive

The Story of the Andes Survivors

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#1 New York Times Bestseller: The true story behind Netflix's Society of the Snow —A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes.Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The ski... ... Read more

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#1 New York Times Bestseller: The true story behind Netflix's Society of the Snow —A rugby team resorts to the unthinkable after a plane crash in the Andes.Spirits were high when the Fairchild F-227 took off from Mendoza, Argentina, and headed for Santiago, Chile. On board were forty-five people, including an amateur rugby team from Uruguay and their friends and family. The ski...
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Hunter of Stories

by Eduardo Galeano ...

Translated by Mark Fried ...

A fearless and poetic final work by a legendary Latin American writer that masterfully blends history, social commentary, and personal ruminations to capture a brilliant mind at work, and a region in constant flux"More generous, wise, and wonderful than I dared hope." — Naomi Klein, author of DoppelgangerIn Hunter of Stories, master storyteller Eduardo Galeano brings his signature style to the ... Read more

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A fearless and poetic final work by a legendary Latin American writer that masterfully blends history, social commentary, and personal ruminations to capture a brilliant mind at work, and a region in constant flux"More generous, wise, and wonderful than I dared hope." — Naomi Klein, author of DoppelgangerIn Hunter of Stories, master storyteller Eduardo Galeano brings his signature style to the
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El general fray Félix Aldao

by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ...

El general fray Félix Aldao es una semblanza de la vida de Félix Aldao, una de las grandes figuras militares de la Argentina del siglo XIX.Félix Aldao tuvo una valerosa participación en la batalla de Chacabuco, decisiva en la emancipación de Chile. Más tarde ascendió ocupando diversos puestos en las jerarquías militares.Entre los acontecimientos que protagonizó estuvo la batalla en los Potreros de ... Read more

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El general fray Félix Aldao es una semblanza de la vida de Félix Aldao, una de las grandes figuras militares de la Argentina del siglo XIX.Félix Aldao tuvo una valerosa participación en la batalla de Chacabuco, decisiva en la emancipación de Chile. Más tarde ascendió ocupando diversos puestos en las jerarquías militares.Entre los acontecimientos que protagonizó estuvo la batalla en los Potreros de
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The One Before

by Juan José Saer ...

Translated by Roanne Kantor ...

Featuring some of Juan Saer's most loved characters, The One Before is his first story collection to appear in English. ... Read more

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Featuring some of Juan Saer's most loved characters, The One Before is his first story collection to appear in English.
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Don’t Come Back

by Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas ...

Series series 21st Century Essays
In this collection of linked lyrical and narrative essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity, family history and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really feel at home.Don’t Come Back intermixes translations of Spanish adages and adaptations of major ... Read more

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In this collection of linked lyrical and narrative essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity, family history and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really feel at home.Don’t Come Back intermixes translations of Spanish adages and adaptations of major
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The Closed Hand

Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature

by Rebecca Riger Tsurumi ...

Series Book 54 - Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese community in South America. She analyzes how non-Japanese Peruvian narrators unlock the unspoken ... Read more

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In her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese community in South America. She analyzes how non-Japanese Peruvian narrators unlock the unspoken
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The New Brazil

Regional Imperialism and the New Democracy

by Raúl Zibechi ...

Translated by Ramor Ryan ...

In the midst of a rapidly shifting global economy, Brazil has emerged as a powerful new player on the geopolitical stage. Against all odds, the Latin American nation managed, in just three years, to repay a 2002 $15.5 billion IMF bailout loan thanks to aggressive economic restructuring and a series of alliances that have placed it at the center of political and economic power in the region.From ... Read more

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In the midst of a rapidly shifting global economy, Brazil has emerged as a powerful new player on the geopolitical stage. Against all odds, the Latin American nation managed, in just three years, to repay a 2002 $15.5 billion IMF bailout loan thanks to aggressive economic restructuring and a series of alliances that have placed it at the center of political and economic power in the region.From
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Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro

Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security

by Enrique Desmond Arias ...

Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America’s new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview research in three favelas (shantytowns) in Rio de Janeiro over a nine-year period, Arias closely ... Read more

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Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America’s new democracies. Employing participant observation and interview research in three favelas (shantytowns) in Rio de Janeiro over a nine-year period, Arias closely
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