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1) Venezuela
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Venezuela"--Provided by publisher.
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2020.
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"In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by the Nazis, arrested in German-occupied Czechoslovakia for bathing in a stretch of river forbidden to Jews. He was transported to Auschwitz. Eighteen days later his prisoner number was entered into the morgue book. Of thirty-four Neumann family members, twenty-five were murdered by the Nazis. One of the survivors was Hans Neumann, who, to escape the German death net, traveled to Berlin and hid...
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"It is 1946 when Vera Frankel and her best friend Edith Ban arrive in Naples. Refugees from Hungary, they escaped from a train headed for Auschwitz and were hidden by farmers until the end of the war while the rest of their families perished. Now, they want to start new lives abroad, and armed with a letter of recommendation from an American general, Vera finds work at the United States embassy and falls in love with Captain Anton Wight. But as Vera...
4) Bruchko
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What happens when a nineteen-year-old boy leaves home and heads into the jungles to evangelize a murderous tribe of South American Indians? For Bruce Olson, it meant capture, disease, terror, loneliness, and torture. But what he discovered by trial and error has revolutionized then world of missions.
Bruchko, which has sold more than 300,000 copies worldwide, has been called "more fantastic and harrowing than anything Hollywood could concoct." Living...
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When Captain Kyle Mercer of the Army's elite Delta Force disappeared from his post in Afghanistan, a video released by his Taliban captors made international headlines. But circumstances were murky: Did Mercer desert before he was captured? Then a second video sent to Mercer's Army commanders leaves no doubt: the trained assassin and keeper of classified Army intelligence has willfully disappeared. When Mercer is spotted two years later in Caracas,...
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"For a century, the Panama Canal has served as the path between the seas. Control of this vital waterway is the difference between free trade and chaos in world markets. So when Panamanian President Rafael Botero asks for a show of support against the socialist opposition, his old friend President Jack Ryan can't turn down an invitation to visit the country, but what seems like an ordinary opportunity to preach the values of democracy quickly turns...
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On January 2, 1678, a fleet of French ships sank off the Venezuelan coast. This proved disastrous for French naval power in the region, and sparked the rise of a golden age of piracy.
Tracing the lives of fabled pirates like the Chevalier de Grammont, Nikolaas Van Hoorn, Thomas Paine, and Jean Comte d'Estrées, The Lost Fleet portrays a dark age, when the outcasts of European society formed a democracy of buccaneers, settling on a string of islands...
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"In 10 thrilling real-life adventure stories, pioneering whitewater explorer Wick Walker examines what lured a generation of incredibly daring pioneers into some of Earth's most wondrous yet forbidding river canyons: below Victoria Falls on the Zambezi, the Great Bend of the Tsangpo in Tibet, Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Yangtze, the flanks of Mount Everest, and more Loaded with great moments and personal stories, Wick details what these adventurers...
9) Venezuela
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Discusses the people, geography, religion, language, customs, daily life, and culture of Venezuela.
10) Venezuela
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Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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An overview of Venezuela that includes information on its geography, history, government, language, culture, and current issues.
12) Venezuela
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Children's Press
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Discusses the geography, climate, history, wildlife, economy, government, people, religion, and culture of Venezuela.
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1994
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English
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A Texas tycoon orders a halt to mining operations in his company's iron ore mine in Venezuela to avoid the destruction of rare, pre-Columbian artifacts. Opposing the stoppage is another executive who sees in the dispute an opportunity to wrest control of the company. A tale of ecology versus profit by the author of The Lair of the Fox.
14) Venezuela
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Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
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English
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Venezuela is one of the northernmost countries in South America and has both a Caribbean and an Atlantic coastline. Discovery of oil has made Venezuela one of the most fortunate of Latin American countries, although it is far from a rich nation.
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Gulliver Books
Pub. Date
c1997
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English
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Hubaldo's life as a fifth grader in a barrio in Venezuela centers around his love for the country's most popular sport, its teams, and its players. A fifth-grader introduces baseball as it is played in the barrios of Caracas, Venezuela. Join nine-year-old Hubaldo Romero Paez in Venezuela as he introduces his friends, his family, and his favorite sport-baseball. Complemented by a map and an English-Spanish baseball glossary, Hubaldo's story is an inviting...
18) Dona Barbara
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The University of Chicago Press
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2012.
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English
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Dona Barbara tells the tale of an epic struggle between two cousins for a cast estate and ranch in the Venezuelan llano, or prairie ... Published in 1929 and all but forgotten by Anglophone readers, Dona Barbara is one of the first examples of magical realism, laying the groundwork for later authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa.
In Venezuela, Do�na Barbara is a beautiful and mysterious woman with a ferocious power over...