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1	I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala more books like this by Rigoberta Menchu, Elizabeth Burgos-Debray (Editor), Ann Wright (Translator) add to wishlist This book recounts the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Guatemalan peasant woman. Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Grave Secrets more books like this by Kathy Reichs add to wishlist Forensics expert Temperance Brennan travels to Guatemala City to help investigators solve decades-old political murders, but when four new murders occur, Temperance realizes that someone in the Guatemalan political community might not want the mystery solved. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 more books like this by Inga Clendinnen add to wishlist This is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire, and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial world. Dr Clendinnen explores the intensifying conflict between competing and increasingly divergent Spanish visions of Yucatan and its destructive ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.25! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of more books like this by Dennis Tedlock add to wishlist This is a translation of one of the most important texts in the native languages of the Americas, "Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life". This edition features with newly deciphered hieroglyphics that show the deep roots of the "Popol Vuh" in Mayan culture. see all copies from $3.29! new only from $9.59! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala more books like this by Daniel Wilkinson add to wishlist "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of whom died (or were "disappeared") at the hands of the U.S.-backed military government. Written by Daniel ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $20.80! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village more books like this by Martin Prechtel, Robert W Bly (Foreword by) add to wishlist This powerful memoir of an American who was adopted by a shaman and allowed to study the secrets of a Tzutujil Mayan village in deepest Guatemala "offers readers a privileged and rare glimpse into (the village's) complex and spiritually rich life" ("Rocky Mountain News"). 15,000. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $5.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Secrets of the Talking Jaguar: A Mayan Shaman's Journey to the Heart of the Indigenous Soul more books like this by Martin Prechtel, Robert W. Bly (Foreword by) add to wishlist An insider's view of the religion and way of life of a contemporary Mayan village, by a resident shaman. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Hummingbird House more books like this by Patricia Henley add to wishlist When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient -- a young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before on the bottom of a swamped wooden boat -- she knows it is time to go home. Because to care for the children of war, you have to cut off pieces of your heart. But traveling home leads her to Guatemala, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Barrilete: A Kite for the Day of the Dead more books like this by Elisa Amado, Joya Hairs (Photographer) add to wishlist Every year on November 2, the Day of the Dead, the villagers of Santiago Sacatepequez in Guatemala fly some of the biggest kites in the world in memory of their deceased loved ones. Juan has built a kite every year with his grandfather. Since his grandfather has died, Juan must now carry on the tradition alone. Beautiful photographs show Juan, ... see all copies from $34.95! new only from $49.99! \| first editions
10	The Rough Guide to Guatemala more books like this by Iain Stewart add to wishlist "The Rough Guide to Guatemala" is the essential companion to this astonishing country with detailed coverage of all the main attractions - from the volcanoes and crater lakes to the culturally-rich capital of Guatemala City. The full-colour introduction highlights the spectacular natural beauty of the beaches and wild-life reserves with stunning ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.37! \| SVS
11 view cover	Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village more books like this by Victor Montejo add to wishlist An account of a violent clash between Mayan people of Guatemala and the army. see all copies from $3.59! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya more books like this by Dennis Tedlock add to wishlist This study offers a glimpse into the magical and colourful world of the Maya. Unlike the usual academic renditions of primal myths, this book's presentation of the Maya's most important stories echoes the same creative way they are told today in the mountains, fields and town plazas of Central America. Dennis Trulock is the translator of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions
13 view cover	Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala more books like this by Stephen Schlesinger, Stephen Kinzer add to wishlist Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. First published in 1982, this book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. The authors make extensive use of U.S. ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $18.49! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Tattooed Soldier more books like this by Héctor Tobar add to wishlist This debut novel about life among the illegal immigrants of East Los Angeles portrays the haunted worlds of Guillermo Longoria, a veteran of the Guatemalan death squads, and Antonio Bernal, a Guatemalan refugee whose family was killed by Longoria. Both end up in Los Angeles and are brought together by a twist of fate even stranger than the forces ... see all copies from $4.29! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The People's Guide to Mexico more books like this by Carl Franz add to wishlist Now in its updated 13th edition, The People's Guide to Mexico still offers the ideal combination of basic travel information, entertaining stories, and friendly guidance about everything from driving in Mexico City to hanging a hammock to bartering at the local mercado. Features include: - Advice on planning your trip, where to go, and how to get ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.65! \| signed copies \| SVS
16 view cover	Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico more books like this by Ronald Wright add to wishlist "Cut Stones and Crossroads" and "On Fiji Island" are previous books by Ronald Wright, author of this book concerned with the Maya, who in the first millennium AD, created the most intellectually and artistically advanced civilization native to the Americas. Despite a mysterious collapse in the ninth century and Spanish invasion in the 16th century ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Long Night of White Chickens more books like this by Francisco Goldman add to wishlist Goldman's first novel, winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. This is the story of Roger Graetz, a half-Guatemalan boy raised in Boston, and Flor de Mayo, the Guatemalan orphan who is the family's maid. When Flor is murdered, Roger goes on a quest ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention more books like this by Richard H Immerman add to wishlist Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America today. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $26.81! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala more books like this by Victoria Sanford add to wishlist "Buried Secrets" chronicles the journey of Maya survivors of genocidal violence in Guatemala as they seek truth, justice, and community healing. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $14.96! \| SVS
20 view cover	Maya for Travelers and Students: A Guide to Language and Culture in Yucatan more books like this by Gary Loyd Bevington add to wishlist The Yucatan Peninsula draws many North American and European travelers each year to view the ruins of the pre-Columbian Classical Maya civilization and the abundant native flora and fauna. For these travelers, as well as armchair travelers and students, Gary Bevington has prepared the first general English-language introduction to Yucatec Maya, ... see all copies from $8.96! new only from $23.55! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Searching for Everado: A Story of Love, War, and the CIA in Guatemala more books like this by Jennifer K Harbury add to wishlist With the emotional power of the bestselling "Missing", this true story recounts the trials of Jennifer Harbury, an American woman who took on the United States government in an attempt to uncover the truth about the disappearance of her husband, Mayan guerrilla leader Everardo Bamaca Velasquez. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 more books like this by Piero Gleijeses add to wishlist The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S. intervention so decisive and so ruinous, charges Piero Gleijeses. Yet he shows that the intervention ... see all copies from $23.00! new only from $49.47!
23	To the Mountain and Back: The Mysteries of Guatemalan Highland Family Life more books like this by Jody Glittenberg add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $14.44! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	People of Corn: A Mayan Story more books like this by Mary-Joan Gerson (Designer), Cara Golembe (Illustrator), Carla Golembe (Illustrator) add to wishlist A Mayan creation story that depicts their belief that the first people on earth were actually made from corn. see all copies from $22.86! first editions
25 view cover	Hombres de maíz more books like this by Miguel Angel Asturias add to wishlist Con la colaboracin de escritores como Carlos Monsivis, Pura Lpez Colom y Franoise Prus, el escritor Arturo Azuela coordina un estudio de la novela de Yez, respaldado en una minuciosa investigacin sobre la historia de sus ediciones y consecuentes variantes, la recepcin crtica, el contexto histrico literario, la potica narrativa y la historia ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $6.90!

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