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Iowa Book List

Aldrich, Bess. Miss Bishop (1933)

Alex, Lynn Marie. Iowa’s archaeological past (2000)

Anderson, Wayne I. Iowa’s geological past: three billion years of change (1998)

Andrews, Clarence A. Christmas in Iowa (1978)

Andrews, Clarence A. Growing up in Iowa (1979)

Bataille, Gretchen M, et al, editors. Worlds between two rivers: perspectives on American Indians in Iowa (2000)

Bauer, Douglas. The book of famous Iowans: a novel (1997)

Bauer, Douglas. Prairie City, Iowa: three seasons at home (2008)

Bender, Sue. Plain and simple: a woman's journey to the Amish (1991)

Bergman, Marvin. Iowa history reader (2008)

Bissell, Richard. High water (1954) (the Mississippi)

Bissell, Richard. How many miles to Galena? Or, baked, hashed brown, or French fried? (1967)

Bissell, Richard. My life on the Mississippi, or, why I am not Mark Twain (1973)

Bissell, Richard. 7-1/2 cents (1953)

Bissell, Richard. A stretch on the river (1950) (the Mississippi)

Bodensteiner, Carol. Growing up country: memories of an Iowa farm girl (2008)

Boswell, Robert. Mystery ride (1993)

Bryson, Bill. The life and times of the Thunderbolt Kid (2006)

Burns, E. Bradford. Kinship with the land: regionalist thought in Iowa, 1894-1942 (1996)

Casey, John. An American romance (1977)

Chehak, Susan Taylor. Rampage (1998)

Conard, Rebecca. Places of quiet beauty: parks, preserves, and environmentalism (1997)

Conroy, Frank, editor. The eleventh draft: craft and the writing life from Iowa Writers' Workshop (1999)

Conroy, Frank, editor. The Iowa award: the best stories from twenty years (1991)

Dallas, Sandra. Alice's tulips (2000)

Dana, Robert, editor. A community of writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (1999)

Davis, Martha Moore. Sarah's seasons: an Amish diary and conversation (1997)

DeVries, Peter. I hear America swinging (1976)

Dick, Philip K. Ubik (1991)

Egenes, Linda. Visits with the Amish: impressions of the Plain life (2000)

Faldet, David S. Oneota flow: the Upper Iowa River and its people (2009)

Foster, Lance M. The Indians of Iowa (2009)

Garland, Hamlin. Boy life on the prairie (1899)

Gillhoff, Johannes. Letters of a German American farmer (2000)

Glaspell, Susan. Trifles (2009)

Grimes, Tom. The Workshop: seven decades of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop: forty-three stories, recollections, and essays on Iowa’s place in twentieth-century American literature (1999)

Hamilton, David, editor. Hard choices: an Iowa review reader (1996)

Hampl, Patricia. Spillville (1987)

Harker, Michael P. Harker’s barns: visions of an American icon (2003)

Harnack, Curtis. Gentlemen on the prairie (1985)

Harnack, Curtis. Limits of the land (1979)

Harnack, Curtis. Love and be silent (1963)

Harnack, Curtis. We have all gone away (1973)

Havighurst, Walter. Upper Mississippi: a wilderness saga (1937)

Hedges, Peter. An ocean in Iowa (1998)

Hedges, Peter. What's eating Gilbert Grape (1991)

Herbst, Josephine. Pity is not enough (1998)

Heynen, Jim. The boy’s house: stories (2001)

Heynen, Jim. The one-room schoolhouse: stories about the boys (1993)

Hofsommer, Don. Prairie oasis (1975)

Irelan, Patrick. Central standard: a time, a place, a family (2002)

Jack, Zachary Michael. Iowa: the definitive collection (2009)

Justice, Donald. A Donald Justice reader: selected poetry and prose (1991)

Kalish, Mildred Armstrong. Little heathens: hard times and high spirits on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression (2007)

Kantor, Mackinlay. Spirit Lake (1961)

Kinsella, W. P. The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986)

Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe (1982)

Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe Jackson comes to Iowa: stories (1993)

Klinkenborg, Verlyn. Making hay (1986) (in part)

Knopp, Lisa. Flight dreams: a life in the Midwestern landscape (1998)

Kurtz, Carl. Iowa's wild places (1996)

Landau, Diana. Art of the state: Iowa (1998)

Lannoo, Michael. Okoboji wetlands: a lesson in natural history (1996)

Lynn, David Hayden. Wrestling with Gabriel: a novel (2002)

Maharidge, Dale. Denison, Iowa: searching for the soul of America through the secrets of a Midwest town (2005)

Manfred, Frederick. Green earth (1977)

Manfred, Frederick. Of lizards and angels: a saga of Siouxland (1992)

Martone, Michael, editor. A place of sense: essays in search of the Midwest (1988) (in part)

McNally, John. After the workshop: a novel (2010)

Millhiser, Marlys. Nella Waits (1974)

Mutel, Cornelia Fleischer. The emerald horizon: the history of nature in Iowa (2008)

Mutel, Cornelia F. Fragile giants: a natural history of the Loess Hills (1989)

Mutel, Cornelia Fleischer, editor. Land of the fragile giants: landscapes, environments, and peoples of the Loess Hills (1994)

Mutel, Cornelia F. A watershed year: anatomy of the Iowa floods of 2008 (2010)

Pelton, Beulah. We belong to the land (1984)

Quick, Herbert. Vandemark's folly (1922) (in part)

Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead (2004)

Robinson, Marilynne. Home (2008)

Runkel, Sylvan T. and Alvin F. Bull. Wildflowers of Iowa woodlands (2009)

Sayre, Robert F. Take the next exit: new views of the Iowa landscape (2000)

Scarth, Linda and Robert Scart, photographers; John Pearson, essay. Deep nature: photographs from Iowa (2009)

Schwieder, Dorothy, Thomas Morain and Lynn Nielsen. Iowa past to present: the people and the prairie (2003)

Schlicht, Dennis W., John C. Downey and Jeffrey C. Nekola. The butterflies of Iowa (2007)

Schmeal, Jacqueline Andre. Patchwork: Iowa quilts and quilters (2003)

Scot, Barbara J. Prairie reunion (1995)

Sherman, Althea R. and Marcia Myers Bonta. Birds of an Iowa dooryard (1996)

Smiley, Jane. A thousand acres (1991)

Stegner, Wallace. Remembering laughter (1937)

Stone, Larry A. Listen to the land (1999)

Strong, Phil. State Fair (1950)

Thompson, Janette R. Prairie, forest, and wetlands: the restoration of natural landscape communities in Iowa (1992)

Toth, Susan Allen. Blooming: a small town girlhood (1981)

Vermillion, Mary. Death by discount: a Mara Gilgannon mystery (2004)

Witter, Bret. Dewey: the small town library cat who touched the world (2008)

Woolston, Bill. Iowa’s fair (1975)

Young Bear, Ray A. Black Eagle Child: the facepaint narratives (1992)

Young Bear, Ray A. Remnants of the first earth (1996)

Ukraine Book List

Alexievich, Svetlana and Keith Gessen, editors. Voices from Chernobyl: the oral history of a nuclear disaster (2005)

Anatoli, A. Babi Yar: a documentary novel (1967)

Ansky, S. The Dybbuk and other writings (1992)

Antonych, Bohdan. Square of angels: selected poems (1977)

Appelfeld, Aron. All of whom I have loved (2007)

Appelfeld, Aron. The story of a life (2004) (in part)

Appleman-Jurman, Alicia. Alicia: my story (1988)

Bartov, Omer. Erased: vanishing traces of Jewish Galicia in present-day Ukraine (2007)

Bernstein, Michael. Conspirators (2004) (in part)

Bida, Konstantyn. Lesya Ukrainka: life and work (1968)

Bulgakov, Mikhail. The white guard (reprint 2008)

Chiger, Krystyna. The girl in the green sweater: a life in Holocaust’s shadow (2006)

Czaplicka, John, editor. Lviv: a city in the crosscurrents of culture (2005)

Dawson, Greg. Hiding in the spotlight: a musical prodigy’s story of survival, 1941-1946 (2009)

De Montalk, Stephanie. The fountain of tears (2006)

De Wet, Reza. The brothers (2006)

Drach, Ivan. Orchard lamps (1978)

Foer, Jonathan Safran. Everything is illuminated: a novel (2003)

Franko, Ivan. Boa constrictor, and other stories (1957)

Franko, Ivan. Stories (1972)

Goberman, David. Carved memories: heritage in stone from the Russian Jewish Pale (2000)

Gogol, Nikolai. Arabesques (1835)

Gogol, Nikolai. The collected tales of Nikolai Gogol (1998) (in part)

Gogol, Nikolai. Evenings on a farm near Dikanka (1831)

Gogol, Nikolai. Mirgorod (1835)

Gogol, Nikolai. Taras Bulba: a tale of the Cossacks (1842)

Gogol, Nikolai. Village evenings near Dikanka; and, Mirgorod (Oxford 1994)

Gubarev, Vladimir. Sarcophagus: a tragedy (1987)

Hamm, Michael F. Kiev (1995)

Helbig, Adriana. Culture and customs of Ukraine (2009)

Hirsch, Marianne and Leo Spitzer. Ghosts of home: the afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish memory (2010)

Honchar, Oles. The cyclone (1972)

Honchar, Oles. The shore of love (1980)

Honchar, Oles. Short stories

Jabotinsky, Vladimir. The five: a novel of Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Odessa (2005)

King, Charles. Odessa: genius and death in a city of dreams (2011)

Kononenko, Natalie O., editor. The magic egg and other tales from Ukraine (1997)

Kornblatt, Joyce Reiser. The reason for wings: a novel (1999)

Kulish, Panteleimon. The black council (1977)

Kurkov, Andrei. Penguin lost (2004)

Lem, Stanislaw. Highcastle: a rememberance (1995)

Lemelman, Gusta. Mendel’s daughter (2006)

Lindheim, Ralph and George S. N. Luckyi. Towards an intellectual history of Ukraine: an anthology of Ukrainian thought from 1710 to 1995 (1996)

Luckyi, George. Panteleimon Kulish: a sketch of his life and times (1983)

Luckyj, George Stephen Nestor. Ukrainian literature in the Twentieth Century: a reader’s guide (1992)

Lvov, Arkady. The courtyard (1989)

Magocsi, Paul Robert. A history of Ukraine (1996)

Magocsi, Paul R. Ukraine: an illustrated history (2007)

Medvedev, Grigori. The truth about Chernobyl (1991)

Melnyk, Eugenie. My darling Elia (1999)

Milofsky, David. Eternal people (1998)

Mould, R. F. Chernobyl record: the definitive history of the Chernobyl catastrophe (2000)

Mycio, Mary. Wormwood forest: a natural history of Chernobyl (2005)

Petryna, Adriana. Life exposed: biological citizens after Chernobyl (2002)

Pohl, Frederick. Chernobyl: a novel (1987)

Prymak, Thomas M. Mykola Kostomarov: a biography (1996)

Read, Piers Paul. Ablaze, the story of Chernobyl (1993)

Reid, Anna. Borderland: a journey through the history of Ukraine (1997)

Rosenstone, Robert A. King of Odessa: a novel of Isaac Babel (2003)

Savage, Ania. Return to Ukraine (2000)

Stefanyk, Vasyl. The stone cross (reprint 1971)

Shevchenko, Taras. The poetical works of Taras Shevchenko: the Kobzar (reprint 1964)

Sten, Ephraim. 1111 days in my life plus four (2006)

Subtelny, Orest. Ukraine: a history (2009)

Suwyn, Barbara J. The magic egg and other tales from Ukraine (1997)

Sylvester, Roshanna P. Tales of old Odessa: crime and civility in a city of thieves (2005)

Tolstoy, Leo. The Sebastopol sketches (Penguin edition 1986)

Wilson, Andrew. The Ukrainians: unexpected nation (2000)

Wolff, Larry. The idea of Galicia: history and fantasy in Hapsburg political culture (2010) (in part)

Yakich, Mark. The importance of peeling potatoes in Ukraine (2008)

Yaroshinska, Alla. Chernobyl: the forbidden truth (1994)

Yekelchyk, Serhy. Ukraine: birth of a modern nation (2007)

Zabytko, Irene. The sky unwashed: a novel (2000)

Zabytko, Irene. When Luba leaves home: stories (2003)

Columbus, Mississippi

Tennessee Williams’s 100th birthday is celebrated in Columbus, Mississippi.

Williams would have turned 100 this month, and towns and cities around the country are hosting fetes in his honor, but none more fittingly than Columbus, the playwright’s birthplace and his home until age 7.

Sweden

Richard Rogers finds “the sound of silence in [Stieg] Larsson land.”

There is also no doubt that this global literary success has had a knock-on effect for Sweden's appeal as a travel destination. ‘We get calls every week from people who have read the Larsson books,’ says Chris Graham, director of travel specialists Simply Sweden. ‘So many people have read them now and the films have been really popular back in the UK, so it's a great way to get people interested in the country.’

Belgium Book List

Arblaster, Paul. History of the Low Countries (2005)

Aronson, Theo. Defiant dynasty: the Coburgs or Belgium (1968)

Assouline, Pierre. Hergé: the man who created Tintin (2009)

Belkin, Kristin Lohse. Rubens (1998)

Bithell, Jethro. Life and writings of Maurice Maeterlinck (1972)

Black, Jeremy. The Battle of Waterloo (2010)

Blake, Robin and Ivan R. Dee. Anthony Van Dyck: a life, 1599-1641 (1999)

Blyth, Derek. Brussels for pleasure: seven walks through the historic city (2003)

Boon, Louis Paul. Summer in Termuren (2006)

Bronte, Charlotte. The professor (1857)

Bronte, Charlotte. Shirley (1849) (in part)

Bronte, Charlotte. Villette (1853)

Brown, Christopher, editor. Van Dyck: 1599-1641 (1999)

Cammaerts, Emile. Belgian poems (2009)

Cammaerts, Emile. The flower of grass (1944)

Chevalier, Tracy. The lady and the unicorn (2004)

Claus, Hugo. Desire (1997)

Claus, Hugo. The sorrow of Belgium (1990)

Coster, Charles de. The legend of the glorious adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere (1918)

De Vries, Andre. Brussels: a cultural and literary history (2003)

Dunnett, Dorothy. Niccolo rising (The House of Niccolo, 1) (1986)

Dunnett, Dorothy. The unicorn hunt (House of Niccolo, vol 5) (1993)

Dunnett, Dorothy. To lie with lions (House of Niccolo, Vol 6) (1995)

Eastlake, William. Castle keep (1965)

Elsschot, Willem. Cheese (2002)

Fox, Renee C. and Ivan R. Dee. In the Belgian chateau: the spirit and culture of a European society in an age of change (2008)

Freeling, Nicolas. The seacoast of Bohemia (1995)

Friedman, Carl. The shovel and the loom (1996)

Ghelderode, Michel de. Correspondence (1991)

Ghelderode, Michel de. Seven plays (1960-64)

Harline, Craig E. A Bishop's tale: Mathias Hovius among his flock in seventeenth-century Flanders (2000)

Harpman, Jacqueline. Orlanda (1999)

Hollinghurst, Alan. The folding star (1994)

Jacobson, Dan. All for love: a novel (2006)

Johnson, Pamela. H. Too dear for my possessing (1940)

Johnson, Pamela H. The unspeakable Skipton (1959)

Johnston, Jennifer. How many miles to Babylon (1974)

Keene, Carolyn. The secret in the old lace (1980)

Labio, Catherine, editor. Belgian memories (2002)

Leblanc, Georgette. Souvenirs: my life with Maeterlinck (1932)

Lilar, Suzanne.

Littlesugar, Amy. Willy and Max: a Holocaust story (2006)

Maeterlinck, Maurice. Magritte, Rene. The portable Magritte: with an essay (2002)

Martens, Maximilian P. J., editor. Bruges and the Renaissance: Memling to Pourbus (1998)

Matray, Maria. The liaison (1975)

McGuinness, Patrick. Maurice Maeterlinck and the making of modern theatre (2000)

Ostaijen, Paul van. Feasts of fear and agony (1976)

Pearson, Harry. A tall man in a low land (1998)

Rucker, Rudy. As above, so below: a novel of Peter Bruegel (2003)

Sarton, May. The bridge of years (1971)

Shaw, Philip. Waterloo and the Romantic imagination (2002)

Shreve, Anita. Resistance: a novel (1995)

Sia, Marian F. The fountain Arethuse: a novel set in the university town of Leuven (1997)

Simenon, Georges.

Verhaeren, Emile. Afternoon (1917)

Verhaeren, Emile. The evening hours (1918)

Verhaeren, Emile. Five tales (1924)

Verhaeren, Emile. The plays of Emile Verhaeren: The dawn; The cloister; Philip II; Helen of Sparta (1916)

Verhaeren, Emile. Poems of Emile Verhaeren (1915)

Verhaeren, Emile. The sunlit hours (1916)

Vergara, Alexander. Rubens and his Spanish patrons (1999)

Verhulst, Dimitri. Problemski Hotel (2005)

Willinger, David and Daniel Gerould, editors. A Maeterlinck reader: plays, poems, short fiction, aphorisms, and essays (2011)

Woodward, Gerard. A curious earth (2007)

Zweig, Stefan. Emile Verhaeren (1970)

Delaware Book List

Ackerman, Jennifer. Notes from the shore (1995)

Canby, Henry Seidel. The age of confidence: life in the nineties (1934)

Canby, Henry Seidel. American memoir (1947)

Canby, Henry Seidel. The Brandywine (1941)

Canby, Henry Seidel. Family history (1945)

Canby, Henry Seidel. Our house (1919)

Castellani, Christopher. The saint of lost things (2005)

Coyne, Tom. A gentleman’s game: a novel (2001)

Dale, Frank. Delaware diary: episodes in the life of a river (1996)

Freda, Joseph. The patience of rivers: a novel (2003)

Gates, John D. The Du Pont family (1979)

Harding, John J. Marsh, meadow, mountain: natural places of the Delaware Valley (1986)

Jones, Jacqueline. Creek walking: Growing up in Delaware in the 1950s (2001)

Logan, Algernon Sydney. Amy Warren, a tale of the Bay Shore (1900)

Lunt, Dudley Cammett. Taylors gut in the Delaware state (1967)

Lunt, Dudley Cammett. Thousand acre marsh (1959)

Lunt, Dudley Cammett. The woods and the sea (1965)

Mosley, Leonard. Blood Relations: the rise and fall of the Duponts of Delaware (1980)

Munroe, John A. History of Delaware (2001)

Phelan, James. The company state (1978)

Shaughnessy, Jim. Delaware & Hudson: the history of an important railroad whose antecedent was canal network to transport coal (1997)

Snodgrass, W. D. Afterimages (1999)

Stutz, Bruce. Natural Lives, Modern times: people and places of the Delaware River (1998)

Travalini, Billie and Fleda Brown, editors. On the Mason-Dixon Line: an anthology of contemporary Delaware writers (2008)

Virden, Katharine. The thing in the night (1930)

Weslager, Clinton A. The Delaware Indians: a history (1989) (in part)

Williams, William H. Slavery and freedom in Delaware 1639-1865 (1996)

Syria Book List

Ali, Tariq. The book of Saladin (1998)

Al-Maghut, Muhammad. Fan of swords (1991)

Azrak, Michel G. Modern Syrian short stories (1988)

Azzam, A. R. Saladin (2009)

Ball, Warwick. Syria: a historical and architectural guide (2007)

Barnett, Glenn. Zenobia: empress of the east (1994)

Bell, Lady Gertrude. The desert and the sown: the Syrian adventures of the female Lawrence of Arabia (2001)

Borneman, John. Syrian episodes: sons, fathers, and an anthropologist in Aleppo (2007)

Burns, Ross. Damascus: a history (2005)

Burns, Ross. Monuments of Syria (2009)

Butcher, Kevin. Roman Syria and the Near East (2003)

Davis, Scott C. The road from Damascus: a journey through Syria (2000)

Degeorge, Gérard. Damascus (2004)

Douwes, Dick. The Ottomans in Syria: a history of justice and oppression (2000)

Elliott, Janice. Figures in the sand (1994)

Gelvin, James L. Divided loyalties: nationalism and mass politics in Syria at the close of empire (1998)

Gilman, Dorothy. Mrs. Pollifax unveiled (2000)

Highland, Frederick. Night falls on Damascus (2007)

Hodgson, Barbara. The lives of shadow: an illustrated novel (2004)

Idibi, Ulfat. Sabriya: Damascus bitter sweet (1995)

Ignatius Aphram I Barsoum. The scattered pearls: a history of Syriac literature and sciences (2003)

Jayyusi, Lena, et al. On entering the sea: the erotic and other poetry of Nizar Qabbani (1996)

Joris, Lieve. The gates of Damascus (1996)

Keenan, Brigid. Damascus: hidden treasures of the old city (2001)

Kociejowski, Marius. Syria: through the writers’ eyes (2006)

Lawson, Fred H. Demystifying Syria (2010)

Lindisfarne, Nancy. Dancing in Damascus: stories (2000)

Malouf, Greg and Lucy Malouf. Saha: a chef’s journey through Lebanon and Syria (2007)

Middle East Watch. Syria unmasked (1991)

Minah, Hanna. Fragments of memory: a story of a Syrian family (2004)

Sabato, Haim. Aleppo tales (2003)

Saldana, Stephanie. The bread of angels: a journey to love and faith (2010)

Schami, Rafik. The calligrapher’s secret (2010)

Schami, Rafik. Damascus nights (1993)

Schami, Rafik. Damascus: taste of a city (2010)

Schami, Rafik. The dark side of love (2009)

Shannon, Jonathan Holt. Among the jasmine trees: music and modernity in contemporary Syria (2009)

Siris, Nihad. Ali Hassans Intrige (2008)

Stark, Freya. Letters from Syria (1943)

Tahhan, Samir, collector. Folktales from Syria (2004)

Tamer, Zakaria and Ibrahim Muhawi. Breaking knees: modern Arabic short stories from Syria (2008)

Thubron, Colin. Mirror to Damascus Tolan, John. Saint Francis and the sultan: the curious history of a Christian-Muslim encounter (2009)

Usamah ibn Munqidh. The book of contemplation: Islam and the Crusades (2008)

Guatemala Book List

Arias, Arturo. After the bombs (1990)

Arias, Arturo. Rattlesnake (2003)

Arias, Arturo. The Rigoberta Menchú controversy (2001)

Armstrong, Jeanette C. Whispering in shadows: a novel (2000) (in part)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. The bejeweled boy (1971)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. The cyclone (1967)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. Mulata (1982)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. El señor presidente (1964)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. The eyes of the interred (1973)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. The green pope (1971)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. Guatemalan sociology: the social problem of the Indian (1977)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. Men of maize: the Modernist epic of the Guatemalan Indians (1975)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. The mirror of Lida Sal: tales based on Mayan myths and Guatemalan legends (1997)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. Mulata (1967)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. Strong wind (1968)

Asturias, Miguel Angel. Week-end in Guatemala (1958)

Armstrong, Jeannette C. Whispering in shadows: a novel (2000)

Benz, Stephen Connely. Guatemalan journey (1996)

Black, George, Milton Jamail and Norma Stolz Chinchilla. Garrison Guatemala (1984)

Brazaitis, Mark. The river of lost voices: stories from Guatemala (1998)

Brosnahan, Tom. Lonely Planet LA Ruta Maya, Yucatan, Guatemala and Belize Burns, E. Bradford. Eadweard Muybridge in Guatemala, 1875: the photographer as social recorder (1986)

Canby, Peter. Heart of the sky: travel among the Maya (1994) (in part)

Carling, Amelia Lau. Sawdust carpets (2005)

Castaneda, Omar S. Cunuman (1987)

Clancy, Flora Simmons. The monuments of Piedras Negras, an ancient Maya city (2009)

Coe, Michael D. Breaking the Maya code (1999)

Cullather, Nick. Secret history: the CIA’s classified account of its operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 (2006)

Fergusson, Erna. Guatemala (1949)

Fried, Jonathan L. and others, editors. Guatemala in rebellion: unfinished history (1983)

Goldman, Francisco. The divine husband: a novel (2004) (in part)

Goldman, Francisco. The long night of white chickens (1992)

Gonzalez, Gaspar. Return of the Maya (1998)

González Palma, Luis. Poems of sorrow (1999)

Handy, Jim. Gift of the devil: a history of Guatemala (1984)

Harbury, Jennifer K. Searching for Everardo: a story of love, war, and the CIA in Guatemala (1997)

Harrison, Peter, et al. The lords of Tikal: rulers of an ancient Maya city (1999)

Hart, Thomas. The ancient spirituality of the modern Maya (2008)

Hecht, Ann. Textiles from Guatemala (2001)

Henley, Patricia. Hummingbird house (1999) (in part)

Hiltebrand, Ellen Urbani. When I was Elena (2006)

Huxley, Aldous. Beyond the Mexique Bay (1934) (in part)

Jonas, Susanne and Marrack Goulding. Of centaurs and doves: Guatemala’s peace process (2000)

Jones, Grant D. The conquest of the last Maya kingdom (1998)

Labastille, Anne. Mama poc: an ecologist’s account of the extinction of a species (1990)

La Farge, Oliver. Sparks fly upward: a novel (1931)

Lovell, W. George. A beauty that hurts: life and death in Guatemala (2000)

Lyon, Sarah. Coffee and community: Maya farmers and fair-trade markets (2011)

Mahler, Richard. Guatemala: adventures in nature (1999)

Manz, Beatriz. Paradise in ashes: a Guatemalan journey of courage, terror, and hope (2004)

Maslow, Jonathan Evan. Bird of life, bird of death: a naturalist’s journey through a land of political turmoil (1986)

Menchu, Rigoberta. I, Rigoberta Menchu: an Indian woman in Guatemala (1984)

Monterroso, Augusto. Complete works and other stories (1995)

Murray, Yxta Maya. The queen jade: a novel (2005)

Nelson, Diane M. Reckoning: the ends of war in Guatemala (2009)

Niles, Blair. Maria Paluna: a novel (1934)

Paschke, Barbara and David Volpendesta. Clamor of innocence: Central American short stories (1988)

Perera, Victor. Rites: a Guatemalan boyhood (1986)

Perera, Victor. Unfinished conquest: the Guatemalan tragedy (1993)

Pieper, Jim. Guatemala’s folk saints: Maximon/San Simon, Rey Pascual, Judas, Lucifer, and others (2002)

Popol vuh: the sacred book of the ancient Quiché Maya (1950)

Prechtel, Martin. Long life, honey in the heart: a story of initiation and eloquence from the shores of a Mayan lake (1999)

Primack, Richard B. Timber, tourists, and temples: conservation and development in the Maya forest of Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico (1998)

Recinos, Adrian. Popol vuh: the sacred book of the ancient Quiche Maya (1960)

Reichs, Kathy. Grave secrets (2002)

Restall, Matthew, Lisa Sousa and Kevin Terraciano. Mesoamerican voices: native language writings from colonial Mexico, Yucatan, and Guatemala (2005)

Rey Rosa, Rodrigo. The beggar’s knife (1985)

Rey Rosa, Rodrigo. Dust on her tongue (1992)

Rodríguez Macal, Virgilio. Carazamba (2000)

Rousso, Kathryn. Maguey journey: discovering textiles in Guatemala (2010)

Ruano, Isabel de los Angeles. Café express (2002)

Salazar, Oswaldo. From the darkness (2007)

Saxon, Dan. To save her life: disappearance, deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala (2007)

Schlesinger, Stephen C. Bitter fruit: the story of the American coup in Guatemala (2005)

Serrano, Marcela. Antigua and my life before: a novel (2000)

Sexton, James D. and Ignacio Bizarro Ujpán. Heart of heaven, heart of earth, and other Mayan folktales (1999)

Shapiro, Michael. Guatemala: a journey through the land of the Maya (2008)

Solórzano, Carlos. Crossroads, and other plays (1993)

Solórzano, Carlos. The hands of God (1968)

Tedlock, Barbara. Time and the highland Maya (1992)

Unger, David. Life in the damn tropics (2002)

Watt, Donley. The journey of Hector Rabinal: a novel (1994)

Wilkinson, Daniel. Silence on the mountain: stories of terror, betrayal and forgetting in Guatemala (2002)

Woodward, Ralph Lee. A short history of Guatemala (2008)

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

Zimmerman, Marc and Raúl Rojas, editors. Voices from the silence: Guatemalan literature of resistence (1998)

Costa Rica Book List

Albán, Laureano. Autumn’s legacy (1982)

Albán, Laureano. The endless voyage (1983)

Allen, William. Green Phoenix: restoring the tropical forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica (2001)

Beletsky, Les. Costa Rica (2005)

Biesanz, Mavis Hiltunen. The Ticos: culture and social change in Costa Rica (1999)

Cardona-Hine, Alvaro. A history of light: a memoir (1997)

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Duncan, Quince. The best short stories of Quince Duncan (1995)

Evans, Sterling. The green republic: a conservation history of Costa Rica (1999)

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Franke, Joseph. Costa Rica’s national parks and preserves: a visitor’s guide (1993)

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Lawson, Barrett. A bird-finding guide to Costa Rica (2009)

Leitinger, Ilse Abshagen, editor. The Costa Rican women’s movement (1997)

Lobo, Tatiana. Assault on paradise: a novel (1998)

Luetchford, Peter. Fair trade and a global commodity: coffee in Costa Rica (2008)

Lyra, Carmen. The subversive voice of Carmen Lyra: selected works (2000) (Elizabeth Rose Horan, editor)

Miller, Jeffrey C., Daniel H. Janzen and Winifred Hallwachs. 100 butterflies and moths: portraits from the tropical forests of Costa Rica (2007)

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Palmer, Steven, Iván Molina, et al. The Costa Rica reader: history, culture, politics (2004)

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Quilter, Jeffrey. Cobble circles and standing stones: archaeology at the Rivas Site, Costa Rica (2004)

Ras, Barbara and Oscar Arias. Costa Rica: a traveler’s literary companion (1994)

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Wallace, David Rains. The Quetzal and the Macaw: the story of Costa Rica’s national parks (1992)

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Anderson, Sherwood. Windy McPherson's son (1916)

Angle, Paul M. Bloody Williamson: a chapter in American lawlessness (1952)

Bellow, Saul. The adventures of Augie March (1953)

Bellow, Saul. Dangling man (1944)

Bellow, Saul. The dean’s December (1982) (in part)

Bellow, Saul. Humboldt’s gift (1975)

Berger, Philip. Highland Park: American suburb at its best (1983)

Bergland, Martha. A farm under a lake: a novel (1989)

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Bradbury, Ray. Dandelion wine (1957)

Bradbury, Ray. Farewell summer (2006)

Bradbury, Ray. From the dust returned: a family remembrance (2001)

Bradbury, Ray. Something wicked this way comes (1999)

Bradley, Mary. Old Chicago (1933)

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Cavanaugh, Tom R. Bannerstone House: a Frank Lloyd Wright house, Springfield, Illinois (1970)

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DeMuth, James. Small town Chicago (1980)

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Dubkin, Leonard. My secret places: one man’s love affair with nature in the city (1972)

Dubkin, Leonard. The natural history of a yard (1955)

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Masters, Edgar Lee. Illinois poems (1941)

Masters, Edgar Lee. The Sangamon (1942)

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Maxwell, William. The folded leaf (1945)

Maxwell, William. So long, see you tomorrow (1980)

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Paretsky, Sara. Guardian angel (1992)

Paretsky, Sara. Hard time (1999)

Paretsky, Sara. Indemnity only (1982)

Paretsky, Sara. Tunnel vision (1994)

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Peck, Richard. The river between us (2005)

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Sandburg, Carl. Always the young strangers (1953)

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Sinclair, April. I left my back door open: a novel (1999)

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Sinclair, Upton. The jungle (1906)

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Smiley, Jane. Barn blind (1980)

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Terkel, Studs. Division Street: America (1966)

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Thompson, Jean. Wild blue yonder: a novel (2002)

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Wilder, Thornton. The eighth day (1967)

Wille, Lois, et al. Forever open, clear, and free: the historic struggle for Chicago's lakefront (1972)

Woiwode, Larry. Beyond the bedroom wall (1975) (in part)

Wright, Frank Lloyd. An American architecture (1955)

Wright, Frank Lloyd. An autobiography (1932)

Wright, Frank Lloyd. Frank Lloyd Wright: his living voice (selected by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer) (1987)

Wright, Richard. Lawd today (1963)

Wright, Richard. Native son (1940)

Wright, Richard. The outsider (1953)

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