Catalog Search Results

A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.

Trained assassin Elena Kyler is on the run from a wealthy, psychopathic control freak who is also the father of her son. She will do whatever it takes to shield her child from his father's obsessive desire to mold the boy in his own ruthless image.

"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Colombia"--Provided by publisher.

Traces the rise of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar and his ultimate defeat--death in 1993, after a sixteen-month manhunt, at the hands of a Columbian Search Bloc team with help from the U.S.

"Urabá, Colombia, 1990: A violent strike at plantations across the banana zone leads to crops in flames, managers murdered, and the local economy teetering on the brink. In retaliation, the banana producers finance right-wing paramilitaries to cleanse the zone of guerrillas and their supposed collaborators. Through the intertwined lives of four characters—a banana worker making a play for power in the guerrillas, a decadent Colombian banana planter...

Young Miami lawyer Nick Rey's father is kidnapped while on business in Cartagena, Columbia. While Nick works to get his father back, he soon discovers that his deadliest enemies are not the kidnappers, but the partners of a law firm with somethig to hide.

"A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Román returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the...

"With its lush Amazon rainforest and rugged Pacific coastline, mouthwatering cuisine, and a fiesta around every corner, Colombia is a country unlike any other. Bogotá local Ocean Malandra shows you how to experience Colombia like a local."-- Amazon.

House of Beauty is a high-end salon in Bogota's exclusive Zona Rosa area, and Karen is one of its best beauticians. But there is more to her role than the best way to apply wax, or how to give the perfect massage. Her clients confide in her, and she knows all about them. Their breast implants, their weekends in Miami, their divorces and affairs. Karen has problems of her own. She's in trouble, and she needs money. More money than she can make at House...

For fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights, the unprepossessing and saturnine Forentino Ariza, one of the three central characters of this incomparable novel, waits to possess Fermina Daza, the young woman who once promised him her love and then, in a moment of blinding but ambiguous insight, refused him. To while away the long years of his vigil, he enters into six hundred and twenty-two liaisons and "countless fleeting adventures."...