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1) Salvador
Author
Publisher
Aspen
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a recent divorceé who joins her parents on a humanitarian trip to El Salvador.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2000.
Language
English
Description
"The battleground is El Salvador. The hero is Nicolas Veras. His story begins at the funeral of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero. Along with thousands of others, Nicolas and his mother have crowded into the plaza of the capital's cathedral to pay homage. When gunfire erupts, pandemonium ensues. With bullets flying in all directions, his mother throws herself atop Nicolas to protect him, and is killed."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Castillo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Irene Madariaga Madariaga, mejor conocida como la Gata, huye de El Salvador con dirección a Denver, en Estados Unidos, donde espera encontrar a sus padres. La acompañan Diane, quien también va en busca de su propia familia, y Xóchitl, quien, durante el recorrido, encuentra un motivo para darle sentido a su vida. Esta es una historia de supervivencia y también del surgimiento de una amistad entre tres mujeres muy distintas entre sí pero unidas...
Author
Publisher
And Other Stories
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, traveling across the Atlantic with meager resources. She returns to a community riven with...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Clive Cussler, "The Grand Master of Adventure," sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack...
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In The Last Great Road Bum, Héctor Tobar turns the peripatetic true story of a naive son of Urbana, Illinois, who died fighting with guerrillas in El Salvador into the great American novel for our times. Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a 'road bum,' an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana,...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
" Itzel lives happily with her grandmother at the edge of the jungle. When the rains fail to come to water their crops, putting their livelihood at risk, her grandmother tells her that the giant snake is the one who announces the arrival of the rain. But many people don't believe in him anymore, so he has retreated to the place where the water is born. Itzel sets off alone to find the source of the river, determined to help her grandmother and summon...
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