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Chronicle of a death foretold
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Gabriel García Márquez
This mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and readers are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions gone terribly awry.
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw
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Mark Bowden
In a gripping, up-close account, acclaimed journalist Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down, " exposes the details of how U.S. military and intelligence operatives covertly led the mission to find and kill the world's most dangerous outlaw: Colombian cocaine cartel kingpin Pablo Escobar.
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Love in the time of cholera
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An old man and his childhood sweetheart are united for the first time resulting in the consummation of a n amor interruptus that spans half a century. This uplifting love story is set on the Columbian coast in the early 20th century '
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Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
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Mark Gonsalves, Keith Stansell, Mark Deakins (Read by)
On February 13, 2003, a plane carrying three American military contractors - Marc Gonsalves, Tom Howes, and Keith Stansell - crashed in the mountainous jungle of Colombia. Dazed and shaken, they awoke battered and covered in blood with automatic rifles pointing at their faces. As of that moment they belonged to the terrorist organization known as ...
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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
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Alan Weisman
In the late 1960s, a young Colombian named Paolo Lugari developed what would become one of the world's most celebrated examples of sustainable living. Featuring a new Afterword by the author, this anniversary edition describes how Gaviotas has progressed over the past decade.
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El amor en los tiempos del cólera
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Gabriel García Márquez
A novel about love, time, and an unusual triangular love affair. For 53 years, Florentino Ariza waits patiently for Fermina Daza, the woman who once loved him. While he waits, he becomes astonishingly successful with other women (he has 622 liaisons). She marries another man and lives a life of intense respectability. Finally, she is widowed, and ...
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Relato de un Naufrago
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Garcia Márquez writes about the kidnapping of several prominent Colombians by the kingpin of the Medellin cocaine cartel in 1990 and 1991, in an attempt to bargain his way out of being extradited to the United States for trial. Two of the hostages were killed. This is the original Spanish-language version of the text.
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News of a Kidnapping
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Edith Grossman (Translator)
Returning to his days as a reporter for "El Spectator", Gabriel Garcia Marquez chronicles, with consummate skill, the period in late 1990 when Colombian security forces mounted a nationwide manhunt for Pablo Escobar, the ruthless and elusive head of the Medellin drug cartel.
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Blow: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All
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Bruce Porter
A former drug dealer reveals how he and a friend helped Colombian drug lords establish a foothold in the U.S. while amassing a personal fortune.
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No One to Trust
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Iris Johansen
When a ruthless Columbian revolutionary (and highly skilled assassin) takes a dislike to the daughter of his former (and now deceased) major competitor, she must flee to the US with her son. But, with Rico Chavez's operatives lurking behind every corner, Elena turns to one Sean Galen--a handsome DEA agent--for protection. But will that be enough?
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The Accountant's Story: Inside the Violent World of the Medellin Cartel
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Roberto Escobar, David Fisher
Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Oliver Stone, "The Accountant's Story"--written by the surviving brother and chief accountant of infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar--tells the inside story of the Medelln Drug Cartel.
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Code of Honor
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Harold Coyle
A weak and corrupt government in Bogota, Colombia requests a small U. S. military presence to combat drug lords and growing insurgency. General Scott Dixon leads the U. S. troops against an elusive enemy in a political minefield and Captain Nancy Kozak struggles to survive a clash that pits resolve against prejudice, and honor against ambition.
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White Cargo
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Stuart Woods
After Wendell Catledge's family is brutally murdered at sea by Colombian drug lords, he launches a full-scale attack for vengeance.
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True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradis
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Terence McKenna
This account of an expedition to the Amazon Basin is of a search for the mythical hallucinogen of the Witoto, Oo-koo-he. In March 1971, Terence McKenna and a small gypsy-like band of friends set off for the Colombian Amazonas - the result of his theory that psilocybin is the missing link in the development of human consciousness and language. ...
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El Cartel de los Sapos
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Andres Lopez Lopez
Almost everything is known in the drug world and perhaps a lot of it has been written. What is not so well known is that the same drug lords are the authors of the destruction of their own organization. Get to know the entrails of it in "El Cartel de los Sapos."
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No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Written during Garcia Marquez's Paris years (1956-1957), but not published until 1961, the title story is about an aged colonel and his wife, impoverished and starving, who live precariously on credit, hope, and the exploits of a fighting cock they have inherited from their son, who was killed by the opposing political party. This volume also ...
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Two Wheels Through Terror: Diary of a South American Motorcycle Odyssey
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Glen Heggstad
Glen Heggstad, the self-proclaimed 'Striking Viking', is an adventure motorcyclist who seeks out and rides the most rugged places on the planet. He has been a Marine, a Hell's Angel, and a martial arts competitor, but no amount of training or experience was able to prepare him for what he became while riding to the southern tip of South America: a ...
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The story of a shipwrecked sailor.
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas, were swept into the Caribbean Sea. The sole survivor, Luis Alejandro Belasco, told the true version of the events to Marquez, causing great scandal at the time.
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Our Lady of the Assassins
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Fernando Vallejo, Paul Hammond (Translator)
A writer Fernando returns to Medellin after an absence of 30 years. He meets Alexis, 16 years old, a male prostitute and a hitman - a Medellin child - with whom he falls in love. But their tender love is doomed. Alexis needs no reason to kill: like an Angel of Death he opens fire on anybody who rubs him the wrong way. Fernando and Alexis are bound ...
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Love in the Time of Cholera: Great Books Edition
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garca-A Marquez
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love to the beautiful Fermina Daza, whom he lost to ...
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The Gods and Their Grand Design: The Eighth Wonder of the World
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Erich Von Daniken
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In Evil Hour
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Gabriel García Márquez
Garcia Marquez wrote this Hemingwayesque short novel in Paris, then revised it a few years later to enter it in a literary competition in Colombia. It won the prize, but upon its publication in 1962 by a Spanish firm it was heavily revised so that all its bawdy, colloquial energy disappeared. Published again in its original version in 1966, IN ...
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Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America
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Michael Taussig
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A King's Ransom
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James Grippando (Read by)
Nick Rey, a Florida lawyer, is shocked to learn that his father, Matthew, has been kidnapped while in Columbia on business. Then, Nick finds that his father had recently taken out a massive kidnapping-insurance policy--and now the authorities feel that Matthew might be trying to commit insurance fraud. Instead of trying to save Matthew, they start ...
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Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing
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Michael Taussig
Looks at the interaction between civilized and primitive people in Colombia, examines the role of the shaman, and discusses healing practices in the jungle.
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