colombia

Text and illustrations present detailed information on the geography, history and government, economy, people, cultural life and society of traditional and modern Columbia.

Thirteen-year-old Calepino, an African slave in the seventeenth-century Caribbean city of Cartagena, works as a translator for a Jesuit priest who tends to newly-arrived slaves and, after working for a Jewish doctor in a leper colony and helping an Angolan boy and his mother escape, he realizes his true calling.

A poor Colombian teenager agrees to become a "drug mule" in hopes of securing a better life for her family and unborn child.

A love story that ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates.

Ismail, a retired teacher living in a small Colombian village, soon finds himself caught up in drug wars and violence after guerrillas abduct his wife and threaten the town.

Anxious to recover the sunken treasure of a famous pirate ship, two teenagers enlist the help of a trained dolphin and determine to carry out their hunt despite the ghost stories and mysterious underwater noises surrounding the Bell Reef.

After her mother's death, seventeen-year-old Camila Draper travels to Colombia to attend a ceremony honoring her late grandfather and, while trying to learn more about her mother's family, discovers some disturbing truths.

No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with the life of ex-pilot Ricardo Laverde begins by casual acquaintance in a seedy Bogota? billiard hall and grows until the day Ricardo receives a cassette tape in an unmarked envelope.

Two thirteen-year-old boys, blood brothers and best friends, get drawn into a dangerous, violent world on the streets of a troubled Columbian city.

Contains twenty-six short stories by the 1982 Nobel Laureate appearing in the order in which they were originally published in Spanish.