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Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fifteen thousand years before Europeans stepped foot in the Americas, people had already spread from tip to tip and coast to coast. Like all humans, these Native Americans sought to understand their place in the universe, the nature of their relationship with the divine, and the origin of the world into which their ancestors had emerged. The answers lay in their sacred stories. Author María García Esperón, illustrator Amanda Mijangos, and translator...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza are in love with each other, but due to his poor social status, Fermina decides to marry a wealthy doctor, Dr. Juvenal Urbino, instead. Florentino Seeks solace in the arms of many other women, but never can love any one, for his heart truly belongs to Fermina. Based on the bestselling novel by Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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American Library Association Youth Media Awards 2021
Libros en español para niños y niñas de 0-12 años / Books in Spanish for Children 0-12
¡Los lectores son líderes! (para niñx/a/os)
Libros en español para niños y niñas de 0-12 años / Books in Spanish for Children 0-12
¡Los lectores son líderes! (para niñx/a/os)
Description
"A picture biography of Julio C. Tello, considered to be the founder of modern Peruvian archaeology, that traces his life from an early interest in Peru's ancient cultures to his rise as the most distinguished Indigenous social scientist of the twentieth century. A map and an afterword with additional information, photograph, and source list are included."--
9) Bananas
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Absurd humor borders on insanity as a tester of strange gadgets quits his Manhattan job and flees to South America to eventually become leader of a mythical country.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Español
Description
In 1952, twenty-three year old medical student Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (later better known as Ernesto Che Guevara) just one semester away from graduation, decides to postpone his last semester to accompany his twenty-nine year old biochemist friend Alberto Granado on his four month, 8,000 km long dream motorcycle trip throughout South America starting from their home in Buenos Aires. Their quest is to see things they've only read about in books...
11) Up
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a famous archaeologist and entrusted with a sacred Incan relic, a Chicago construction worker helps an absentminded professor and his beautiful daughter find an ancient lost city before a group of evil treasure hunters find it first.
Language
English
Description
Traces the birth of the national park idea in the mid-1800s and follows its evolution for nearly 150 years. Using archival photographs, first-person accounts of historical characters, personal memories and analysis from more than 40 interviews, and what Burns believes is the most stunning cinematography in Florentine Films' history, the series chronicles the steady addition of new parks through the stories of the people who helped create them and...
17) At Highest Risk
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Quechua
Description
Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women's health care. Within the past decade, the Andean women in Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as they have for centuries, the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This HBO original centers on Charles Eastman Beach, a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor; Sitting Bull, the Lakota chief who refuses to submit to the U.S. government's Indian policy; and Senator Henry Dawes, one of the men responsible for the policy. This title has been repackaged.
19) The beguiled
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Clint Eastwood plays a wounded Union soldier hidden by a girls' academy in the South during the Civil War.
20) Dragonfly
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Joe, is a physician mourning the death of his wife Emily who died in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe feels obligated to check in on his wife's pediatric patients, fulfilling a promise he made before she left. Visiting the ward, Joe starts to believe that Emily is using the near-death experiences of her terminal patients to communicate with him, through images the children report seeing in their dreams,...
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