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2010., Adult, Mongrel Media Call No: DVD 347.053 B212b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Juan 'Accidentes' Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. In 2007, on behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility. Can he beat the giant, or will the corporation get away with it? In the suspenseful documentary BANANAS!, filmmaker Fredrik Gertten sheds new light on the global politics of food."--Official film website.
![Bananas! [DVD] (2009). Directed by Fredrik Gertten](/Library/images/cover/noimage.png "Bananas! [DVD] (2009). Directed by Fredrik Gertten")
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c2012., General, Anansi Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Juliet Friesen is 10-years-old when her family moves to Nicaragua. It is 1984, the height of Nicaragua's post-revolutionary war, and the peace-activist Friesens have come to protest American involvement. In the midst of tumult, Juliet's family lives outside the boundaries of ordinary life. They've escaped, and the usual rules don't apply. When Juliet's younger brother becomes sick with cancer, their adventure ends abruptly. The Friesens return to Canada only to find that their lives beyond Nicaragua have become the war zone.
![The Juliet stories [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT74733.JPG "The Juliet stories [eBook]")
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-- Sir Gregor MacGregor and the most audacious fraud in history.2004, c2003., Da Capo Press Call No: SC 941.1 S616l Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Details the hoax concocted by Scottish soldier Sir Gregor MacGregor, in which he fabricates the country of Poyais on the Mosquito Coast in Central America. A group of Scottish immigrants then attempted to sail there.
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-- City of the Monkey God :2017., General, Grand Central Publishing Call No: 972.85 P928l Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Since the days of conquistador Hernn Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God - but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, they battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Douglas Preston is the author of 35 books, both fiction and nonfiction. Before becoming a writer he worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and was managing editor of CURATOR magazine. His first novel Relic launched the Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book is The Monster of Florence."--Provided by publisher.
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c1988., Adult, First Run/Icarus Films Call No: DVD 070.43 W927w Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Explores the ways that print and broadcast media coverage of the conflict in Nicaragua affects the public's perceptions and policy development in the United States and other countries.
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c2003., National Film Board of Canada Call No: DVD 070.43 W927wo Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The World Stopped Watching" is a sequel to the award winning "The World Is Watching", a cinema verit look at foreign news coverage of a climactic moment in the US-financed Contra war against Nicaragua's revolutionary government. Fourteen years later, filmmakers Peter Raymont and Harold Croks return to Nicaragua with two American journalists who were in the original film - and a Canadian journalist from La Presse - to discover what became of the first revolution to be conducted in the glare of the world media. They question the role and responsibility of journalists and their employers who first put Nicaragua under the microscope, and then rished off to the next hot spot.