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![]() Through the stories he shares, MacQuarrie raises such questions as, where did the people of South America come from? Did they create or import their cultures? What makes South America different from other continents-and what makes the cultures of the Andes different from other cultures in South America? Deeply observed and beautifully written, Life and Death in the Andes shows us this land as no one has before. He meets a man whose grandfather witnessed Butch Cassidy's last days in Bolivia and tracks down the ballet dancer who once hid the leader of the brutal Shining Path in her home. ![]() He introduces us to a Patagonian woman who is the last living speaker of her language, as he explores the disappearance and sometimes surprising resiliency of indigenous cultures throughout the Andes. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey through this unique region, bringing fresh insight and contemporary connections to such fabled characters as Charles Darwin, Pablo Escobar, Che Guevara, and many others. The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. ![]()
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Dreamland burning by jennifer latham5/31/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is good, because it also doesn’t give too much away and you’ll get to discover on your own just how compelling and unpredictable this story is. That description up there does not at all capture how completely absorbing this book is. Through intricately interwoven alternating perspectives, Jennifer Latham’s lightning-paced page-turner brings the Tulsa race riot of 1921 to blazing life and raises important question about the complex state of US race relations – both yesterday and today. ![]() In a country rife with violence against blacks and a hometown segregated by Jim Crow, Will must make hard choices on a painful journey towards self discovery and face his inner demons in order to do what’s right the night Tulsa burns. Nearly one hundred years earlier, a misguided violent encounter propels seventeen-year-old Will Tillman into a racial firestorm. When seventeen-year-old Rowan Chase finds a skeleton on her family’s property, she has no idea that investigating the brutal century-old murder will lead to a summer of painful discoveries about the past… and the present. ![]()
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Southern spirits book series5/31/2023 ![]() Verity isn't above questioning the living or the dead. There's a modern-day mystery afoot, one that hinges on a decades-old murder. He hires Verity to put an end to the disturbances.īut soon Verity learns there's more to the mysterious estate than floating specters, secret passageways, and hidden rooms. Only some of them are growing restless - and destructive. Ellis Wyatt is in possession of a stunning historic property haunted by some of Sugarland, Tennessee's finest former citizens. It leads to an offer she can't refuse from the town's bad boy, the brother of her ex and the last man she should ever partner with. When out-of-work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a ghost on her property, she's saddled with more than a supernatural sidekick - she gains the ability to see spirits. One simple mistake, for a girl who is about to lose her family home, releases the ghost of a long-dead gangster and opens Verity Long's eyes to a whole new world. ![]() From New York Times best-selling author Angie Fox, the first book in the new Southern Ghost Hunter mysteries. ![]() |