In the years that follow the bombing of Guatemala City in 1954, young Max grows into manhood as he searches for his identity, his father, and his place in the struggles of his country

Product Description: Assault on Paradise vividly depicts the Conquistadores and the Church invading Central America, impoverishing one world to enrich another. In a fast-paced, bawdy, swashbuckling adventure in Central America of the early 1700s, Costa Rican novelist Tatiana Lobo lays bare the dark legacy of the Conquistadores and the Church...read more

Product Description: In 1973, the film director Miguel Littín fled Chile after a U.S.-supported military coup toppled the democratically elected socialist government of Salvador Allende. The new dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, instituted a reign of terror and turned Chile into a laboratory to test the poisonous prescriptions of the American economist Milton Friedman...read more

Chameleon is tired of his color changes being something the other animals envy, so he gets to work painting stripes on the lion and polka-dots on the elephant, but soon the animals learn changing their appearance causes problems they never expected.

Chameleon is tired of his color changes being something the other animals envy, so he gets to work painting stripes on the lion and polka-dots on the elephant, but soon the animals learn changing their appearance causes problems they never expected.

Product Description: A novel of love, treachery, and intrigue, Foreign Propery tells of a Mexican family's lost ancestral home and examines the historic relationship between Mexico and Texas. The story is set in San Antonio.

Product Description: In tiny Icamole, almost deserted village in Mexico’s desert north, the librarian, Lucio, is also the village’s only reader. Though it has not rained for a year in Icamole, when Lucio’s son Remigio draws the body of a thirteen-year-old girl from his well, floodgates open on dark possibility...read more

Product Description: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (1811-1888) was Argentina's leading writer, educator, and politician of the nineteenth century, and served as President from 1868 to 1874. Of his several autobiographies, the best-known Recollections of a Provincial Past is one of the indisputable classics of Spanish American literature, as well as one of the earliest autobiographies written in the Americas in Spanish...read more

Exploring the lasting psychological impact of Argentina's violent past on the next generation, this poignant novel follows Mercedes Beecham, a single mother living in London, and her inquisitive teenage daughter, Julia, as they struggle to deal with Mercedes's tortured past and a mysterious stalker who reawakens horrific old memories.

'Los que falsificaron la firma de Dios (1992), a chilling picture of internal politics in the Dominican Republic, became that country's best-selling ever work of fiction. Tracing the lives of three seminarians persecuted by Church and state, allegory andgallows humor portray political power gone awry. A lively translation, but no introduction'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/Explores the entanglement of religion, politics, and desire in the last 500 years of Caribbean history