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ABC El Salvador *
By Holly Ayala and Elizabeth Gómez
Alfredito Flies Home
By Jorge Argueta, Luis Garay (Illustrator)
A Movie In My Pillow/Una Pelicula en Mi Almohada*
By Jorge Argueta, Elizabeth Gomez (Illustrator)
El Zipitio
By Jorge Argueta
Let's Go See Papa!
By Lawrence Schimel, Alba Marina Rivera (Illustrator)
Los Perros Magicos de Los Volcanes: Magic Dogs of the Volcanoes
By Manlio Argueta
Rene Has Two Last Names / Rene Tiene DOS Apellidos
By Rene Colato Lainez, Fabiola Graullera (Illustrator), Gabriela Baeza Ventura (Translator)
Talking with Mother Earth/Hablando Con Madre Tierra: Poems/Poemas
By Jorge Argueta, Lucia Angela Perez (Illustrator)
Waiting for Papa/Esperando a Papa
By Rene Colato Lainez, Anthony Accardo (Illustrator)
Xochitl And The Flowers/Xochitl, la Nina de las Flores
By Jorge Argueta, Carl Angel (Illustrator)
Emilio
By Julia Mercedes Castilla
Journey of the Sparrows
By Fran Leeper Buss, Daisy Cubias
Viaje A La Tierra Del Abuelo
By Mario Bencastro
El Salvador Monografia
By Roque Dalton
Esperanza en tiempos de oscuridad: Experiencia de un Salvadore-o Americano
By Randy Jurado Ertll
Everyday Revolutionaries: Gender, Violence, and Disillusionment in Postwar El Salvador
By Prof. Irina Carlota Silber
Hope in Times of Darkness: A Salvadoran American Experience
By Randy Jurado Ertll
The Massacre at El Mozote
By Mark Danner
Matanza
By Thomas Anderson
Miguel Marmol
By Roque Dalton
No Place to Hide: Gang, State, and Clandestine Violence in El Salvador
By Laura Pedraza Farina, Spring Miller, James L. Cavallaro
Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador
By Hector Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching, Rafael A. Lara-Martinez
The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed
By Robin Broad and John Cavanagh