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Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to...
2) Purity
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English
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"A magnum opus for our morally complex times from the author of Freedom Young Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled with $130,000 in student debt, that she's squatting with anarchists in Oakland, and that her relationship with her mother--her only family--is hazardous. But she doesn't have a clue who her father is, why her mother has always concealed her own real name, or how she can ever have...
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1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A Bolivian presidential candidate failing badly in the polls enlists the firepower of an elite American management team, led by the deeply damaged but still brilliant strategist 'Calamity' Jane Bodine. In self-imposed retirement following a scandal that earned her nickname and rocked her to her core, Jane is coaxed back into the game for the chance to beat her professional nemesis, the loathsome Pat Candy, now coaching the opposition.
4) Bolivia
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1999.
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English
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Describes the customs and beliefs connected to some of the special occasions celebrated in Bolivia, including Alasitas, Candelaria, and Phujllay. Includes recipes and related activities.
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2015.
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208 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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"Just as sixteen-year-old Andreo, skilled in death-defying ironman events in wilderness regions, is about to compete in rugged Bolivia, he and his friend Raul (another Bolivian adoptee) begin to suspect that their adoptive parents have unwittingly acquired them illegally. Plotting to use the upcoming race to pursue the truth, they veer on an epic journey to locate Andreo's birth parents, only to find themselves hazardously entangled with a gang of...
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[2009]
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1 videodisc (approximately 136 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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After the Cuban Revolution, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerging incognito in Bolivia, where he organizes a small group of Cuban comrades and Bolivian recruits to start the great Latin American Revolution. The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death.
9) Exile music
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[2020]
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413 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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"An atmospheric and meditative novel based on an unexplored slice of World War II history, following a young Jewish girl whose family flees refined and urbane Vienna for safe harbor in the mountains of Bolivia. As a young girl growing up in Vienna in the 1930s, Orly has an idyllic childhood filled with music. Her father plays the viola in the Philharmonic, her mother is a well-regarded opera singer, her beloved and charismatic older brother holds...
10) Valiant ladies
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2022.
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English
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In PotosÃ, a silver mining city in the new Spanish viceroyalty of Peru, two teen vigilantes set out to expose corruption and deliver justice after Kiki's brother is murdered and the prostitute he loved disappears. Includes author's note.
11) Into the jungle
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In this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of the "haunting, twisting thrill-ride" (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the jungle of Bolivia, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life.
12) Bolivia
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[2019]
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144 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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"This book details the history, culture, geography and government of Bolivia."--Provided by publisher.
14) Bolivia
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[2014]
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32 pages : colored illustrations, color map ; 25 cm.
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English
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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 Bolivia"--
15) Bolivia
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1999.
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111 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Examines the history, geography, people, economy, and culture of Bolivia.
19) Bolivia
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2004.
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112 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the topography, history, people, and art of Bolivia as well as the challenges the country is currently facing.
20) Bolivia
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[1988]
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128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Discusses the geography, history, people, culture, politics, daily life, and economy of Bolivia.
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