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1) The cobra
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Deveraux used to run Special Ops for the CIA, before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now the President has asked the man they call the Cobra to do anything he requires to destroy the cocaine industry. No rules, no questions asked. Just do it.
3) Amazona
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Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2022.
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95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. She comes to mourn her child-and to capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Valentina wants to focus on drawing the real world around her and hopefully get into art school in Bogotá one day, but Papi has spent his life studying Colombia’s legendary creatures and searching for proof of their existence. So when Papi hears that a patasola—a vampire woman with one leg—has been sighted in the Andes, Valentina and her younger brother Julián get dragged along on another magical creature hunt.
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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In Bogotá, Columbia, young José eagerly anticipates Saturday, when he can visit the library started by José Alberto Guti?rrez, a garbage collector, and take a book home to enjoy all week. Includes note about Guti?rrez's life and Bogotá.
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Punto de lectura volume 362/3
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2012,©2012
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259 pages. ; 20 cm.
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"Tan pronto conoce a Ricardo Laverde, el joven Antonio Yammara comprende que en el pasado de su nuevo amigo hay un secreto, o quizá varios. Su atracción por la misteriosa vida de Laverde, nacida al hilo de sus encuentros en un billar, se transforma en verdadera obsesión el día en que éste es asesinado. Convencido de que resolver el enigma de Laverde le señalará un camino en su encrucijada vital, Yammara emprende una investigación que se remonta...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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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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"Encanto tells the tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in thefamily with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal--every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that...
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Un espléndido e inspirador álbum ilustrado acerca de la vida de José Alberto Gutiérrez, un recolector de basura de Bogotá, Colombia, que creó una biblioteca a partir de un libro que rescató de la basura mientras realizaba su ruta. En la ciudad de Bogotá, en el barrio La Nueva Gloria, viven dos Josés. Uno es un niño que sueña con los sábados, día en que él y otros niños del barrio visitan el Paraíso, la biblioteca. El otro José es...
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Publisher
Ediciones Ekaré
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Description
Todos los domingos el niño y su padre van a vender su cosecha. El mercado bulle con sonidos, colores y personajes: Patrocinio, el musico, o Toto, un monito ladron que no se sabe de donde viene. De pronto ¡aparece un toro furioso! Nadie contaba con que Toto se transformase en el heroe de la jornada.
When a boy and his father go to the Sunday market in Miraflores, Colombia, to sell their produce one week, the busy marketplace is disrupted by a mischievous...
11) Escombros
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Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 24 cm.
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"En Escombros, libro que entronca directamente con una de las obras m?s emblem?ticas y reconocidas del autor, El desbarrancadero, Fernando Vallejo narra la llegada de la noche del mundo, ese tiempo que va desde la agon?a de su compa?ero, el escen?grafo mexicano David Ant?n ?que coincide con el terremoto que asol? Ciudad de M?xico en 2018? y su muerte, y el momento actual, marcado por una pandemia que mantiene en vilo a todo el planeta. La historia...
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On the eve of his ninetieth birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit, he has purchased hundreds of women, and asks a madam for her assistance. The fourteen-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he...
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 24 cm
Description
No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogotá billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope. Asking Antonio to find him somewhere private to play it, they go to a...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
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"An ambitious debut novel by an original young writer, We Eat Our Own blurs the lines between life and art with the story of a film director's unthinkable experiment in the Amazon. When a nameless, struggling actor in 1970s New York gets the call that an enigmatic director wants him for an art film set in the Amazon, he doesn't hesitate: he flies to South America, no questions asked. He quickly realizes he's made a mistake. He's replacing another...
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