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1) Missionaries
Author
Language
English
Description
"Neither Mason, a U.S. Army Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign correspondent, has emerged from America's long post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan unscathed. Yet war also exerts a terrible draw that neither can shake--the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go? All roads lead to Colombia, where the US, with its patented fusion of intelligence dominance and quick-striking...
Author
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"EXQUISITELY HARROWING . . . . Very strange and brilliantly conceived. . . . A sort of metaphysical murder mystery. . . . The murder will stand among the innumerable murders of modern literature as one of the best and most powerfully rendered."A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At the dawn of the new millennium, Columbia is a country devastated by half a century of violence. Elena and Mauro are teenagers when they meet, their blooming love an antidote to the mounting uncertainty of life in Bogotá. Once their first daughter is born, they travel to Houston, all the while weighing whether to risk overstaying their tourist visas or to return to Bogotá. When Mauro is deported, Elena, now tasked with caring for their three...
4) Amazona
Author
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
HL 430L
Language
English
Description
"Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. She comes to mourn her child-and to capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family"--
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's time to peek behind the curtain at the fantastically gifted family Madrigal! Mirabel and her extended family live together in an enchanted house named Casita, where the magic of their miracle keeps the Encanto going every day. But behind the scenes, everything can't be perfect all the time! From secret visions and making new friends, to talent shows and tall tales, the Madrigals face their share of challenges. Luckily, Mirabel is always there...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Retells the story of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family that lives in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed region called Encanto--a wondrous place whose magic becomes threatened and whose rescue depends on the only member of the Madrigal family who doesn't possess magical gifts"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Retells the story of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family that lives in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed region called Encanto-a wondrous place whose magic becomes threatened and whose rescue depends on the only member of the Madrigal family who doesn't possess magical gifts"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dolores Madrigal has the amazing ability to hear things that are very far away, from across the whole Encanto she calls home. But one morning when she wakes up, she doesn't hear something she usually does. But what? To find out, join Dolores and her magical Madrigal family as they team up to solve a mystery in this sweet and silly story set in the world of Disney Encanto!"--
10) Breaking Creed
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Ryder Creed and his dogs have been making national headlines. They've intercepted several major drug stashes being smuggled through Atlanta's airport. But their newfound celebrity has also garnered some unwanted attention. When Creed and one of his dogs are called in to search a commercial fishing vessel, they discover a secret compartment. But the Colombian cartels' latest shipment isn't drugs. This time, its cargo is human. To make matters worse,...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In six subtly connected stories, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from different strata of Colombian society. A former FARC guerilla fighter adjusts to urban life and faces the new violence of an editor co-opting her experiences. A woman adrift in the city she left as a child looks for someone to care for, even if it has to be by force, while another documents a flea infestation with a...
12) Retrospective
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as his films are on exhibit, Sergio recalls the events that marked his family's unusual and dramatic lives:...
13) Guayacanal
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"En Guayacanal, su obra más personal, William Ospina revive la historia de sus bisabuelos, de sus abuelos, de Padua -- el lugar donde nació --, de un tiempo lejano que si bien es el de su infancia, también podría ser el de su vida entera. Llena de alegría, de música, de personajes de una humanidad inverosímil, de fiestas, relatos, poesía, magia y naturaleza, así como también de mezquindades gratuitas, de hombres aviesos, de terribles crímenes,...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"When sixteen-year-old Marcos travels to Cartagena, Colombia to scatter his late father's ashes, he strikes up a friendship with Camilo, a boy his age who works as a local taxi driver and shares Marcos' love for the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude"--
15) The immortal boy
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Multiple
Description
"Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy."--Provided by the publisher.
"Dos historias entrelazadas de Bogotá. Una, una familia de cinco hijos, que se fue a vivir sola. La otra, una niña en un orfanato que hará cualquier cosa para hacerse amiga del misterioso Niño Inmortal."--Provided by the publisher....
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Hit-Girl is back. The pint-sized Punisher-meets-Polly-Pocket has left America behind and set off to serve justice around the world. First stop: Colombia. A mother seeking vengeance for the murder of her child enlists Hit-Girl to destroy his killer, but Mindy has bigger plans for Colombia's most feared hitman."--Amazon.com.
17) Muchos changes
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Juana's life in Bogòt, Colombia, is just about perfect but every now and then a problem comes along, like having to learn English or Juana's mami getting remarried. Then things eventually settle down, and life goes back to feeling pretty perfect again. But when Mami springs two new sorpresas on Juana. One: Juana will be spending her school break going to skating camp instead of relaxing (even though she doesn't know how to skate!). Two: Mami is going...
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