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"Bel Canto is its own universe. A marvel of a book." —Washington Post Book World

New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's spellbinding novel about love and

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"South America, 1990. Ben Ronson, a British police officer, arrives in a mysterious forest to investigate a spate of killings of a local species called the Duendes. They are silent, vaguely humanoid creatures - with long limbs and black button eyes - that have a strange psychic effect on people, exposing them to their suppressed thoughts and fears. The crimes have taken place in a landscape known as the Delta and to reach it Ben has crossed the Zone,...

An overview of South American cookery, including information about the continent's holidays and festivals. Features simple recipes, menu planning, and information about low-fat cooking and vegetarian options.

Explains how the discoveries of Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci and the conquests of Vasco Nunez de Balboa, Francisco Pizarro, and Pedro de Valcivia created an empire for Spain.

In this folktale from the Andes, a clever guinea pig repeatedly outsmarts the fox that wants to eat him for dinner.

A Caribbean celebration of family and food - with a spicy twist! Faruq loves his grandmother, Ajee and her cooking! He hopes to be able to make cook-up rice just as good as Ajee's one day. But Ajee says that the kitchen is no place for a growing boy and insists that he study or play outdoors instead of learning to cook. So when Faruq's neighbor Mrs. Joseph offers to teach him to cook, Faruq jumps at the chance. Her kitchen fills with the smell of...

Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest--one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s--Nemonte Nenquimo had a singular upbringing.Two decades later, Nemonte has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism. She has spearheaded the alliance of indigenous nations across the Upper Amazon and led her people to a landmark victory against Big Oil, protecting over a half million acres of primary...

More than 5 years of behavioral research and field work has led to this extraordinary documentary that contains the most striking features of of hummingbirds. recordings in high-definition video in Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. Over 60 stunning species of hummingbirds, close-ups, action clips, the relationship with the flowers.