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Everyman's library volume 235
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English
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Set on the Caribbean coast of South America, this love story brings together Fermina Daza, her distinguished husband, and a man who has secretly loved her for more than fifty years.
2) On the line
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English
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"Mateo Castillo is a rising star chef on the Manhattan culinary scene. But just as he's about to reap the rewards of his skill and hard work by being featured on a major TV cooking competition, Mateo collapses in his restaurant's kitchen and regains consciousness in a hospital emergency room. If it weren't for a security guard finding him in time, Mateo would have bled to death. The cause of his sudden illness is as mysterious as it is worrying, and...
3) Colombia
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Series
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Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Language
English
Description
Learn about Colombia.
4) Colombia
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Language
English
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Pack your bags! We're headed to Colombia. On this whirlwind tour, you'll learn all about the country's landscape, culture, people, and more. We'll explore Colombia's mountains and valleys, grasslands and forests, and swamps and deserts. We might even see an active volcano! We'll find the tallest palm trees in the world, take a bus ride on a brightly colored Chiva, and watch a soccer game. A special section introduces Colombia's capital, language,...
6) Colombia
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ABDO Publishing Company
Language
English
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Describes the geography, history, government, economy, nature, people, and culture of Colombia.
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Beach Lane Books
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"After amassing piles of books, Luis, a voracious reader, dreams up a way to share his collection with 'faraway villages.' He starts with two burros--one for himself, one for books--and heads off. Tough terrain and menacing bandits challenge him along the way, but at last he reaches a remote town, where he holds a story hour and loans titles to eager kids before returning home to his wife and reading late into the night."--Amazon.com.
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Series
Shop-til-u-drop collection volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Language
English
Description
Despite her negligible negotiating skills, gemologist Andie Adams is sent to Colombia to broker a deal on emeralds for her home shopping network. And the best part---she gets to go alone! But when her guide---and her Spanish---disappear and a taxi driver "kidnaps" her, can cute cohost Max get her out alive?
12) Eagle down
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Series
Shadow Squadron volume 3
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Language
English
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Sergeant Edgar Brighton of the Shadow Squadron is in Colombia, assisting on an anti-drug operation--but when he is captured and tortured by the rebels he must find a way to escape before they break him.
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St. Martin's Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.
"For the first time, legendary DEA operatives Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña tell the true story of how they helped put an end to one of the world's most infamous narcoterrorists. Colombian...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
Alzheimer's is the great global epidemic of our time, affecting millions worldwide. Jebelli, a neuroscientist, takes us behind the headlines and into his quest from nineteenth-century Germany and post-war England through America, India, China, Iceland, Sweden, and Colombia. Researchers are changing the way we think about the disease, but until a cure is found Jebelli provides an eye-opening guide to the threat one in three of us faces now.
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"Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north. How this...
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Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
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The film tells the story of a young indigenous Peruvian man who has lived his entire life, but for a few brief months, in a small farming village in the mountains above the Sacred Valley. Like everyone in his community, he has been raised as a farmer. And like many, he has been instilled with the belief that life in the city would be better than the life he leads. When Feliciano was young, his father would tell him, You are not going to be like...
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