Central America category: 775 books
by Eduardo Oconitrillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 28, 2015
El régimen de facto de Federico Tinoco, legalizado después por elecciones y reconocido por la Asamblea Constituyente, fue denominado por el pueblo con el nombre de Los Tinoco. Se designaba así al Presidente y a su hermano Joaquín, Ministro de Guerra, mano derecha suya en particular y del Gobierno...
by Collectif
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Viaje a la Huasteca es el fruto de más de medio siglo de investigaciones sobre la région. Guy Stresser-Péan llegó a México en 1936 como investigador, aunque en realidad quería ir a África. Llegó convencido por Paul Rivet, uno de los etnólogos más representativos de Francia, y entró en una...
Nuevos documentos de 1948
Los proscriptos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 29, 2017
La autora seleccionó documentos fundamentales que han estado proscritos de la historia oficial de Costa Rica. Nuestro país ha vivido bajo la égida del lado victorioso de la guerra civil, es hora de replantear nuestra historia y conocer de primera mano la visión y experiencias de los vencidos,...
The Gospel of Trees
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
In an “eye-opening memoir” (People) “as beautiful as it is discomfiting” (The New Yorker), award-winning writer Apricot Irving untangles her youth on a missionary compound in Haiti.
Apricot Irving grew up as a missionary’s daughter in Haiti. Her father was an agronomist, a man who...
Jungleland
A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
"I began to daydream about the jungle...."
On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba,...
Enrique's Journey
The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
An astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an author interview, and more—the definitive edition of a classic of contemporary America
Based...
by Lebawit Lily Girma
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
With turquoise waters, dreamlike islands, and pristine rainforests, Belize is a sensory feast: dive in with Moon Belize. Inside you'll find:
Flexible, strategic itineraries from one week of highlights to a three-week adventure through the whole country, with tips for outdoor adventurers, archeology...
by Nadine Hays Pisani
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2011
TWO PLANE TICKETS, NO PLAN, ONE DREAM
Happier Than A Billionaire shares one couple's celebration of risking it all for the dream of living a happier life.
In this humorous and witty account, Nadine Pisani shares what it is like to follow her dream of quitting her...
by Jasmina Nevada
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Based on a true story. Two señoritas return to a tropical location in search of land or a house to buy or rent, to escape the wintry conditions in their own country. However, all does not go to plan, and they face unexpected events, which they could not have envisaged.
Perfect Phrases in Spanish for Confident Travel to Mexico : The No Faux-Pas Phrasebook for the Perfect Trip: The No Faux-Pas Phrasebook for the Perfect Trip
The No Faux-Pas Phrasebook for the Perfect Trip
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
More than your average phrasebook, this portable title shows you how to be a well-mannered visitor and speak the local language in the correct context
Any phrasebook can give you a line listing of essential phrases. But if you use a phrase or term without knowing the correct way to use it,...
by Nadine Hays Pisani
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Happier Than A Billionaire: The Sequel continues the journey of one couple’s adventures in Costa Rica.
Follow the author and her husband as they move to the beach to build their dream home. Although the seafood is fresh and the sunsets are golden, it doesn’t take long for Nadine to find...
by Tiki Travel
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Belize Travel Guide - Tiki Travel
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by Graham Greene
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
This eyewitness account of religious and political persecution in 1930s Mexico inspired the British novelist’s “masterpiece,” The Power and the Glory (John Updike).
In 1938, Graham Greene, a burgeoning convert to Roman Catholicism, was commissioned to expose the anticlerical purges in...
In the Shadow of the Carmens
Afield with a Naturalist in the Northern Mexican Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Just across the Rio Grande from West Texas in the state of Coahuila, México, the mountain ranges of the Maderas del Carmen rise majestically. Often called magical or mystical, they have stirred imagination for centuries. Stories of bandits, Indians, ghosts, incredible flora and fauna, cool forests,...