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Early Childhood and Elementary | Young Adult | Adult Fiction | Adult Nonfiction | Poetry

Los Cazadores Invisibles / The Invisible Hunters

By Octavio Chow

Uncle Nacho's Hat / El Sombrero del Tío Nacho

By Harriet Rohmer and Mira Reisberg (Illustrator)

Nicaragua Way: A Novel

By Nina Serrano

Students of Revolution: Youth, Protest, and Coalition Building in Somoza-Era Nicaragua

By Claudia Rueda

Azul

By Ruben Dario

El Infinito en la Palma de la Mano

By Gioconda Belli

Family Album

By Claribel Alegria

The Inhabited Woman

By Gioconda Belli

La Mujer Habitada

By Gioconda Belli

The Scroll of Seduction: A Novel of Power, Madness, and Royalty

By Gioconda Belli

Adiós Muchachos: A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution

By Sergio Ramirez

Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism

By Jennifer Goett

Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War

By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War

By Gioconda Belli

The Gospel in Solentiname

By Ernesto Cardenal (Translator)

OUT OF PRINT

Nicaragua: Surviving the Legacy of U.S. Policy

By Paul Dix and Pamela Fitzpatrick

Sandino's Daughters Revisited: Feminism in Nicaragua

By Margaret Randall

Surviving the Americas: Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City

By Serena Cosgrove,  Leonard Joseph Bent, José Idiáquez, and Andrew Gorvetzian

The Doubtful Strait / El Estrecho Dudoso

By Ernesto Cardenal

The Origin of Species and Other Poems

By Ernesto Cardenal

Otredad - Otherness

By Claribel Alegria, Fred Whitehead (Editor)

Stories and Poems/Cuentos Y Poesías: A Dual-Language Book

By Rubén Darío

With a Star in My Hand: Rubén Darío, Poetry Hero

By Margarita Engle

Zero Hour and Other Documentary Poems

By Ernesto Cardenal

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