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SOUTH AMERICA
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: 02/09/2016
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-35103-4
How did Antônio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, a hardworking young father, become the king of Rocinha, the largest slum in Rio; the head of a drug cartel; and perhaps Brazil’s most wanted criminal, known to all as “Nem”? Nemesis is the riveting account of his ruthless ascent in Rio’s terrifying underworld, his sway over its anarchic outlaw culture, and his accidental fall. Nem tried to bring...
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: 09/02/2014
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-807-06121-3
In The Right to Stay Home, journalist...
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Verso
On Sale: 06/10/2014
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 978-1-781-68280-7
Ever since the mid twentieth century, when the dream of modernist utopia went to Latin America to die, the continent has been a testing ground for exciting new conceptions of the...
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Verso
On Sale: 06/03/2014
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-1-781-68297-5
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Broadway Books
On Sale: 05/20/2014
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-770-43637-7
In 1963, Hunter S. Thompson, who would become America's bestselling "gonzo journalist," completed a year-long journey across South America, filing a series of dispatches for a now-defunct paper called the National Observer. In The Footloose American, award-winning travel writer Brian Kevin traverses the continent with Thompson's ghost as his guide and offers a ground-level exploration of twenty-first-century South American culture, politics, and ecology. By contrasting the author's own...
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: 05/13/2014
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-807-00167-7
Blending history with human drama, Chomsky explores what it means to be undocumented in a legal, social, economic, and historical context. She also unmasks how undocumented people live—how they work, what...
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage Canada
On Sale: 03/25/2014
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-81382-4
Six-year-old Carmen Aguirre fled to Canada with her family following General Augusto Pinochet’s violent 1973 coup in Chile. Five years later, when her mother and stepfather returned to South America as Chilean resistance members, Carmen and her sister went with them, quickly assuming double lives of their own. At 18, Carmen became a militant herself, plunging further into a world of...
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: 10/22/2013
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-612-19279-6
Inexplicably out of print for years, it tells the tale of the...
Format: Trade Paperback, 252 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: 08/27/2013
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-609-80513-5
Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 07/24/2012
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27824-1
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 06/12/2012
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-47362-2
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: 10/18/2011
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-590-51404-7
