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When I Was Elena by Ellen Urbani Hiltebrand Publisher Comments When I Was Elena is an extraordinary account of a young American woman's sojourn in the guerrilla-infested mountains of Guatemala. Shattering the concept of a typical memoir, the author's personal story is interlaced, chapter-for-chapter, with tales told... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman Synopsis Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemalas leading human rights activist, was bludgeoned to death in his garage on a Sunday night in 1998, two days after the presentation of a groundbreaking church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu Publisher Comments Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global Interactions) by Daniel Wilkinson Publisher Comments new in paperback Silence on the Mountain is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's thirty-six-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of some 200,000 people, the vast majority of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Protestantism in Guatemala: Living in the New Jerusalem by Vir Garrard Burnett Publisher Comments Guatemala has undergone an unprecedented conversion to Protestantism since the 1970s, so that thirty percent of its people now belong to Protestant churches, more than in any other Latin American nation. To illuminate some of the causes of this... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll Publisher Comments This book is about a living legend, a young Guatemalan orphaned by government death squads who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was “the story of all poor Guatemalans.” Published in the autobiographical... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $4.63 Used - Hardcover
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Maya Cultural Activism in Guatemala (Critical Reflections on Latin America Series) by Edward Fischer Publisher Comments Editors Edward F. Fischer and R. McKenna Brown have brought together essays by virtually all the leading U.S. experts on contemporary Maya communities and the top Maya scholars working in Guatemala today. Supplementing scholarly analysis of Mayan... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll Publisher Comments This book is about a living legend, a young Guatemalan orphaned by government death squads who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was “the story of all poor Guatemalans.” Published in the autobiographical... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Searching for Everardo: A Story of Love, War, and the CIA in Guatemala by Jennifer K Harbury Synopsis Harvard-educated attorney Jennifer Harbury went to Guatemala to help refugees, and found herself drawn into a political drama that would test her beliefs, courage, and moral strength. She fell in love and married Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, better known as... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Journeys of Fear: Refugee Return and National Transformation in Guatemala by Liisa North Publisher Comments Edited and with contributions by Liisa North and Alan Simmons, this collection explores the participation of the oppressed and marginalised Guatemalan refugees, most of them indigenous Mayas who fled from the army's razed-earth campaign of the early... (read more) Your price: $95.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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California Series in Public Anthropology #08: Paradise in Ashes: A Guatemalan Journey of Courage, Terror, and Hope by Beatriz Manz Publisher Comments Paradise in Ashes is a deeply engaged and moving account of the violence and repression that defined the murderous Guatemalan civil war of the 1980s. In this compelling book, Beatriz Manz--an anthropologist who spent over two decades studying the Mayan... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Disappeared: A Journalist Silenced by June Carolyn Erlick Publisher Comments "Disappeared" paints a gripping and complicated portrait of Guatemalan journalist Irma Flaquer, a vibrant woman with a passionate vision, and of an emerging nation struggling against the strictures of Cold War politics and behind-the-scenes U.S... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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In Search of Providence (08 Edition) by Patricia Foxen Publisher Comments Traveling back and forth between the Guatemalan highlands and Providence, Rhode Island, the author followed the migration paths of a community of K'iche' Indians, often acting as a courier to bring news and photographs to families. As several said to the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Shattered Hope: The Guatemalan Revolution and the United States, 1944-1954 by Piero Gleijeses Publisher Comments The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution. In no other Central American country was U.S... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth by Dianna Ortiz Publisher Comments The searing memoir of an American nun, her torture in Guatemala, her campaign to reveal the truth, and her struggle to heal. In 1989, while working as a missionary in Guatemala, Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American Ursuline, was abducted by security... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Joseno: Another Mayan Voice Speaks from Guatemala by Ignac Bizarro Ujpan Publisher Comments The vivid life story of a Maya Indian during the last two tumultuous decades in Guatemala. A story alive with indigenous beliefs and practices, and a different perspective from that of Rigoberta Menchu.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? by Francisco Goldman Publisher Comments Acclaimed novelist Goldman tells the story of the murder of Bishop Juan Gerardi, Guatemalas leading human rights activist, who had been bludgeoned to death in 1998, after releasing a church-sponsored report implicating the military in the murders and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Rigoberta Menchu Controversy (01 Edition) by Arturo (ed.) Arias Publisher Comments Guatemalan indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu first came to international prominence following the 1983 publication of her memoir, I, Rigoberta Menchu, which chronicled in compelling detail the violence and misery that she and her people... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala by David Stoll Publisher Comments This book challenges how the human rights movement thinks about a country notorious for rightwing terrorism. David Stoll's reinterpretation of the civil war in Guatemala focuses on the Ixil Mayas of the Western highlands. Based on their testimony, he... (read more) Your price: $27.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Return of Guatemala's Refugees: Reweaving the Torn by Clark Taylor Publisher Comments On February 13, 1982, the Guatemalan army stormed into the remote northern Guatemalan village of Santa Maria Tzeja. The villagers had already fled in terror, but over the next six days seventeen of them, mostly women and children, were caught and... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $25.85 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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