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Honduras Book List

Acker, Alison. Honduras: the making of a Banana Republic (1988)

Alvarado, Elvia. Don’t be afraid gringo: a Honduran woman speaks from the heart: the story of Elvia Alvarado (1987)

Amador, Ramon Amaya. Prision verde (1957)

Anderson, Thomas P. The war of the dispossessed: Honduras and El Salvador, 1969 (1981)

Andrews, E. Wyllys and William L. Fash, editors. Copán: the history of an ancient Maya kingdom (2005)

Binns, Jack R. The United States in Honduras, 1980-1981: an ambassador’s memoir (2000)

Bonta, Mark. Seven names for the Bellbird: conservation geography in Honduras (2003)

Carney, J. Guadalupe. To be a revolutionary: an autobiography (1985)

Euraque, Dario A. Reinterpreting the Banana Republic: region and state in Honduras, 1870-1972 (1996)

Fash, William L. Scribes, warriors, and kings: the city of Copán and the ancient Maya (1991)

Ford, Peter. Tekkin a walk: along the Miskito Coast (1992) (in part)

Gollin, James D. and Ron Mader. Adventures in nature Honduras (2001)

Hendon, Julia A. Houses in a landscape: memory and everyday life in Mesoamerica (2010)

Jackson, Everett Gee. Four trips to antiquity: adventures of an artist in Maya ruined cities (1991) (in part)

Jacobs, Mark. The liberation of Little Heaven and other stories (1999) (in part)

Keenagh, Peter. Mosquito coast: an account of a journey through the jungles of Honduras (1938)

Lapper, Richard. Honduras: state for sale (1985)

McGrath, Patrick. Port Mungo: a novel (2004) (in part)

Meyer, Harvey K. and Jessie H. Meyer. Historical dictionary of Honduras (1994)

Nazario, Sonia. Enrique’s journey (2006)

Paxman, Jeremy. Through the volcanoes (1987) (in part)

Quesada, Roberto. The big banana (1999)

Soluri, John. Banana cultures: agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States (2006)

Sosa, Roberto. The common grief (1994)

Sosa, Roberto. The difficult days (1983)

Sosa, Roberto. The return of the river: the selected poems of Roberto Sosa (2002)

Theroux, Paul. The Mosquito Coast: a novel (1982)

Tucker, Catherine M. Changing forests: collective action, common property, and coffee in Honduras (2010)

Belize

For information on Belizean author Zee Edgell, see http://www.zeeedgell.com/Welcome.html.

Belize Book List

Abraham, Iris, et al. Memories dreams and nightmares: a short story anthology by Belizean women writers (2004)

Arvigo, Rosita, Michael Balick and Laura Evans. Rainforest remedies: one hundred healing herbs of Belize (1993)

Arvigo, Rosita. Sastun: my apprenticeship with a Maya healer (1994)

Ball, Joseph W. Cahal Pech, the ancient Maya, and modern Belize: the story of an archaeological park (1993)

Barcott, Bruce. The last flight of the Scarlet Macaw: one woman’s fight to save the world’s most beautiful bird (2008)

Bolland, O. Nigel. Colonialism and resistance in Belize: essays in historical sociology (2003)

Bradley, Leo, et al, Michael D. Phillips, editor. Snapshots of Belize: an anthology of short fiction (1997)

Coe, Michael D. The Maya (8th edition) (1993)

Conrad, Jim. The Maya road (1992)

Conroy, Richard Timothy. Our man in Belize: a memoir (1997)

Edgell, Zee. Beka Lamb (1982)

Edgell, Zee. The festival of San Joaquin (1997)

Edgell, Zee. In times like these (1991)

Edgell, Zee. Time and the river (2007)

Ellis, Zolia. On heroes lizards and passion (1988)

Fisk, Erma J. Parrot's wood (1985)

Fry, Joan. How to cook a tapir: a memoir of Belize (2009)

Galvez, Carol Fonseca. Ping wink juk me, six Belizean plays (1999)

Garber, James F., editor. The ancient Maya of the Belize Valley: half a century of archaeological research (2004)

Guderjan, Thomas H. The nature of an ancient Maya city: resources, interaction, and power at Blue Creek, Belize (2007)

Hagerty, Timothy and Mary Parham. If di pin neva ben: folktales and legends of Belize (2000)

Hammond, Norman, editor. Cuello: an early Maya community in Belize (1991)

Heusner, Karla. Food for thought: chronicles of Belize (2004)

Koerner, Nancy R. Belize survivor: darker side of paradise (2007)

Kricher, John. A neotropical companion (1997)

Kunen, Julie L. Ancient Maya life in the Far West Bajo: social and environmental change in the wetlands of Belize (2004)

LeBard, George. A school for others: the history of the Belize High School of Agriculture (2010)

LeCount, Lisa J. and Jason Yaeger, editors. Classic Maya provincial politics: Xunantunich and its hinterlands (2010)

McGrath, Patrick. Port Mungo: a novel (2004) (in part)

McKillop, Heather. Salt: white gold of the ancient Maya (2002)

Mora, Pat and Domi. The night the moon fell: a Maya myth (2000)

Petrick, William. The five lost days (2008)

Phillips, Michael D., editor. Of words: an anthology of Belizean poetry (2006)

Prufer, Keith M. and James E. Brady, editors. Stone houses and earth lords: Maya religion in the cave context (2005)

Rabinowitz, Alan. Jaguar: one man's struggle to establish the world's first jaguar preserve (1987)

Rabinowitz, Alan. Jaguar: struggle and triumph in the jungles of Belize (1986)

Schueler, Donald G. The temple of the jaguar: travels in the Yucatan (1993) (in part)

Sharer, Robert and Loa Traxler. The ancient Maya (6th edition) (2005)

Sutherland, Anne. The making of Belize (1998)

Thomson, Peter. Belize: a concise history (2004)

Toledo Maya Cultural Council. Maya atlas: the struggle to preserve Maya land in southern Belize (1997)

Twigg, Alan. Understanding Belize: a historical guide (2006)

Vasquez, Ian. In the heat (2008)

Wilk, Richard P. Home cooking in the global village: Caribbean food from buccaneers to ecotourists (2006)

Wright, Ronald. Time among the Maya: travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico (1989)

Young, Colville N. Pataki full: seven Belizean short stories (1997)

Belarus Book List

Aleksievich, Svetlana. Voices from Chernobyl (2005)

Bely, Alexander. The Belarusian cookbook (2009)

Bykaŭ, Vasil. The ordeal (1972)

Chagall, Bella; Marc Chagall, illustrator. Burning light: a unique double portrait of Russia (1988)

Chagall, Marc. My life (1960)

Duffy, Peter. The Bielski brothers: the true story of three men who defied the Nazis, built a village in the forest, and saved 1,200 jews (2004)

Epstein, Barbara. The Minsk ghetto, 1941-1943: Jewish resistance and Soviet internationalism (2008)

Gimpelevich, Zina J. Vasil Bykaŭ: his life and works (2005)

Ignatieff, Michael. The Russian album (1987)

Karatkievich, Uladziir. The dark castle Olshansky (1983)

Kolas, Yakub. On life’s expanses: poems and prose (1983)

Kolas, Yakub. The voice of the land: selected poetry (1982)

Marples, David R. Belarus: from Soviet rule to nuclear catastrophe (1996)

Marsden, Phillip. The Bronski House: a journey back (1995)

Odrach, Theodore. Wave of terror (2008)

Richler, Nancy. Your mouth is lovely: a novel (2002)

Shatskikh, Aleksandra. Vitebsk: the life of art (2007)

Simon, Andrea. Bashert: a granddaughter’s Holocaust quest (2002)

Skakun, Michael. On burning ground: a son’s memoir (1999)

Tec, Nechama. Defiance: the Bielski partisans (1993)

Zaprudnik, Jan. Historical dictionary of Belarus (1998)

Zissman, Harold. The warriors: my life as a Jewish Soviet partisan (2005)

Zunser, Miriam Shomer. Yesterday: a memoir of a Russian Jewish family (1978)

Saudi Arabia Book List

Abodehman, Ahmed. The belt: a novel (2002)

Aburish, Said K. A brutal friendship: the West and the Arab elite (1997)

Alawi, Amir Ahmad. Journey to the holy land: a pilgrim’s diary (2009)

Al-Ghadeer, Moneera. Desert voices: Bedouin women’s poetry in Saudi Arabia (2009)

Al-Hamad. Turki. Adama (2003)

Al-Hamad, Turki. Shumaisi (2005)

Al-Mohaimeed, Yousef. Munira’s bottle: a modern Arabic novel (2010)

Al-Mohaimeed, Yousef. Wolves of the crescent moon (2007)

Al-Rasheed, Madawi. A history of Saudi Arabia (2002)

Alireza, Marianne. At the drop of a veil (1973)

Al-Mohaimeed, Yousef. Wolves of the crescent moon (2007)

Alsanea, Rajaa. Girls of Riyadh: a novel (2007)

Arebi, Saddeka. Women and words in Saudi Arabia: the politics of literary discourse (1994)

Bagader, Abu Bakr, et al. Voices of change: short stores by Saudi Arabian women writers (1998)

Bell, Gertrude. Gertrude Bell: the Arabian diaries, 1913-1914 (2000)

Bennett, Clinton. In search of Muhammad (1998)

Bin Ladin, Carmen. Inside the Kingdom: my life in Saudi Arabia (2005)

Bird, Kai. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate: coming of age between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 (2010)

Bogary, Hamza. The sheltered quarter: a tale of a boyhood in Mecca (1991)

Bradley, John R. Saudi Arabia exposed: inside a Kingdom in crisis (2006)

Briley, John. The first stone: a novel (1997)

Bronson, Rachel. Thicker than oil: America’s uneasy partnership with Saudi Arabia (2006)

Burton, Richard. Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah (1964)

Buschow, Rosemarie. The prince and I (1979)

Caesar, Judith. Crossing borders: an American woman in the Middle East (1997)

Chandraratna, Bandula. An eye for an eye (2001)

Coll, Steve. The Bin Ladens: an Arabian family in the American century (2008)

Doughty, Charles Montagu. Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) (in part)

Doumato, Eleanor Abdella. Getting God’s ear: women, Islam, and healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf (2000)

Dunn, Ross E. The adventures of Ibn Battuta: a Muslim traveler of the 14th century (2005)

Emerick, Yahiya. The life and work of Muhammad (2002)

Emerson, Steven. The American house of Saud: the secret petrodollar connection (1985)

Fandy, Mamoun. Saudi Arabia and the politics of dissent (1999)

Ferraris, Zoe. Finding Nouf: a novel (2008)

Hammoudi, Abdellah. A season in Mecca: a narrative of a pilgrimage (2006)

Hegghammer, Thomas. Jihad in Saudi Arabia: violence and pan-Islamism since 1979 (2010)

Hertog, Steffen. Princes, brokers, and bureaucrats: oil and the state in Saudi Arabia (2010)

Holden, David. The house of Saud: the rise and rule of the most powerful dynasty in the Arab world (1982)

Kirk, Martha. Green sands: my five years in the Saudi desert (1994)

Lacey, Robert. Inside the Kingdom: kings, clerics, modernists, terrorists, and the struggle for Saudi Arabia (2009)

Lacey, Robert. The Kingdom (1981)

Lawrence, T. E. Seven pillars of wisdom (1922)

Lings, Martin. Muhammad: his life based on the earliest sources (1983)

Mack, John E. A prince of our disorder: the life of T. E. Lawrence (1976) (in part)

Mackey, Sandra. The Saudis: inside the desert kingdom (1987)

Mantel, Hilary. Eight months on Ghazzah Street (2003)

McLoughlin, Leslie. Ibn Saud: founder of a kingdom (1993)

Murawiec, Laurent. Princes of darkness: the Saudi assault on the West (2005)

Nasrallah, Ibrahim. Prairies of fever: a novel (1993)

Notestine, Patrick (Tom). Paramedic to the Prince: an American paramedic’s account of life inside the mysterious world of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2009)

Parker, Ann and Avon Neal. Hajj paintings: folk art of the great pilgrimage (1995)

Peters, F. E. The Hajj: the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and the holy places (1994)

Peters, F. E. Mecca: a literary history of the Muslim Holy Land (1994)

Peterson, J. E. Historical dictionary of Saudi Arabia (2003)

Posner, Gerald L. Secrets of the kingdom: the inside story of the Saudi-U.S. connection (2005)

Sander, Nestor. Ibn Saud: king by conquest (2001)

Sasson, Jean. Princess: a true story of life behind the veil in Saudi Arabia (1992)

Thesiger, Wilfred. Arabian sands (1959) (in part)

Trofimov, Yaroslav. The siege of Mecca: the forgotten uprising in Islam’s holiest shrine and the birth of al-Qaeda (2007)

Unger, Craig. House of Bush, house of Saud: the secret relationship between the world’s two most powerful dynasties (2004)

Vassiliev, Alexei. The history of Saudi Arabia (2000)

Vitalis, Robert. America’s kingdom: mythmaking on the Saudi oil frontier (2007)

Weston, Mark. Prophets and princes: Saudi Arabia from Muhammad to the present (2008)

Wolfe, Michael. The Hadj: an American’s pilgrimage to Mecca (1993)

Wolfe, Michael. One thousand roads to Mecca: ten centuries of travelers writing about the Muslim pilgrimage (1997)

Claremont, California

Carolyn Kellogg talks with Jonathan Lethem, who’s just exchanged the “New York literary scene for a teaching gig at Pomona College.”

‘Apart from being very happy in Claremont, I'm excited to be in Southern California, such a charged, allegorical place for me,’ Lethem says. While he hasn't been here long enough to develop, as he puts it, ‘a personal myth of my relationship to the place,’ he has to admit, ‘I've been thinking about it at a distance for a long time.’

New York City, New York

Teju Cole talks about his first novel, Open City.

Julius, the novel's main character, walks around New York for days observing his surroundings. The central conflict of the book, Cole explains, is what happens to a mind that takes things in — and one that's sensitive to what's going on around it.

Tibet

Colin Thubron describes Tibet's "pilgrims’ trail.”

On these quiet shores I camped with a party of British trekkers who had come, like me, without faith, to a land sanctified by others. The nights around the lake are filled with portents for those who lie awake. The shooting stars are Hindu sky gods descending to bathe in the waters. An Indian pilgrim told me her night was disrupted by strange cries and flashing lights.

Kentucky

“Wendell Berry joins retired coal miners and residents in Kentucky Rising Capitol sit-in.”

‘This is not something we’re doing for pleasure,’ said Berry, who has been active in the movement to abolish mountaintop removal mining for years. ‘We’re doing it because it’s the next thing to do after all our attempts to attract serious attention to these problems have failed.’

Small World Books, Venice, California

The Los Angeles Times chooses Small World Books as its “bookstore of the week.”

Today the spray paint is gone; graffiti offerings can be found instead among the art books. The bookstore, which is about 2,000 square feet, has a good selection of contemporary fiction and nonfiction, as well as travel books, cultural studies, mysteries, science fiction, young adult and art books. Last year the store moved some bookshelves to create space to hang art; it's now one of the anchors of the Venice Art Crawl, which happens on the third Thursday of every month.