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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Veinticinco ąos antes, Virginia Vallejo era la presentadora de televisi̤n m̀s importante de Colombia y la belleza profesional que aparec̕a en las portadas de las principales revistas. Cortejada por multimillonarios tradicionales, conoci̤ en 1982 a Pablo Escobar, un misterioso pol̕tico de treinta y tres ąos que en realidad manejaba los hilos de un mundo de riqueza inigualable en el que gran parte del incesante flujo de dinero procedente del...
Author
Publisher
Little Libros, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Introduce little ones to Policarpa Salvarrieta, a notable figure in Colombian history. La Pola, as she is better known, was a seamstress who spied for the revolutionary forces seeking independence from Spain. While altering and mending clothing for royalist families, she overheard conversations and collected critical intelligence on their whereabouts and plans, which she passed on to patriots and spies. She is considered a heroine of the independence...
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Doubleday, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
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Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A man, his burros, and his books bring joy to children in remote Colombian villages in this inspiring book based on a true story by celebrated picture book creator Jeanette Winter. Luis loves to read, but soon his house in Colombia is so full of books there's barely room for the family. What to do? Then he comes up with the perfect solution-a traveling library! He buys two donkeys-Alfa and Beto-and travels with them throughout the land, bringing books...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"THE INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER! When Pablo Escobar died in 1993, his seventeen-year-old son initially vowed revenge. But Juan Pablo quickly recognized that reaction entailed following in his father's footsteps--something neither he nor his father ever wanted. Their lives in immense danger, Juan Pablo, his mother, and his sister assumed new identities and fled to Argentina, where he would spend the next two decades grappling with his father's legacy....
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Manuel Betancourt has long lustfully coveted masculinity--in part because he so lacked it. As a child in Bogotá, Colombia, he grew up with the social pressure to appear strong, manly, and, ultimately, straight. And yet in the films and television he avidly watched, Betancourt saw glimmers of different possibilities. From the stars of telenovelas and the princes of Disney films to pop sensation Ricky Martin and teen heartthrobs in shows like Saved...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"La vida de Juanes es una canción, o mejor, son miles de canciones volando a toda velocidad en miles de millones de segundos, o en una sola historia. En estas líneas, escritas desde los más lejanos rincones de su memoria, sus recuerdos se hacen palabras e imágenes. Juanes, el hombre que ha vendido más de 20 millones de discos, que fue seleccionado por la revista Time como una de "las 100 personas más influyentes del mundo", que suma 26 premios...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the true story of a devoted man and his steadfast burro team, Alfa and Beto, who traveled into the remote villages of rural Colombia to bring treasured library books to eager young readers.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, LLC
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
La autora de La fruta del borrachero nos entrega una deslumbrante historia caleidoscópica que recupera el legado místico de su familia. A Ingrid Rojas Contreras la magia le corre por las venas. No era una niña fácil de sorprender: creció en medio de la violencia política de los años ochenta y noventa en Colombia, en una casa siempre atestada de gente que venía a que su madre le leyera el futuro. Su abuelo materno, Nono, era un curandero de...
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