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Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Argentina is a country of enormous potential and challenging problems. In recent decades, violence and military dictatorships have upset the political system, and economic instability has held in check efforts to develop the country's industries. This work provides a solid and engaging introduction to the persons, events, and factors that have helped shape the nation. Covering the entire sweep of Argentina's history from pre-Columbian times to 2001,...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
"When the Allies stormed Berlin in the last days of the Third Reich, Adolf Eichmann, the operational manager of the Final Solution, shed his SS uniform and vanished. Bringing him to justice would require a harrowing fifteen-year chase stretching from war-ravaged Europe to the shores of Argentina. Hunting Eichmann is the first complete narrative of this story, based on newly declassified documents and meticulous new research." "Alternating from Eichmann...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Recounts how, sixteen years after the end of World War II, a team of undercover Israeli agents captured the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, in a remote area of Argentina and brought him to trial in Israel for crimes committed during the Holocaust.
Series
Film Movement volume 10, film 12
Pub. Date
[2013], 2012.
Description
Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets Mara̕, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is "one about love."
Author
Series
Sweet Island Inn volume 4
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
She built the Sweet Island Inn. But can Toni Benson build a life of happiness for herself? Toni Benson's life has been a roller coaster. Years ago, the heartbreak caused by a cheating ex-husband left her in tatters. Then she discovered the run-down fixer-upper that would become the Sweet Island Inn. For a while, things were good. But when her brother Henry's tragic death sends her reeling all over again, she's back to square one. So she sets off on...
71) Argentina
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Describes the geography, history, culture, religion, and people of the environmentally diverse South American country of Argentina.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Falsely accused of being a war criminal, Bernie Gunther is off to Buenos Aires, courtesy of ODESSA. But Bernie doesn't have the luxury of lying low in his new home; he is pressured by local police into working on one case in which a young girl turns up gruesomely mutilated, and another in which the daughter of a wealthy German banker has gone missing. They seem to be connected.
77) Argentina
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
About Argentina
78) Argentina
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Striking. Musical. Colorful. Welcome to Argentina! Look inside to learn about the land, wildlife, cities, food, and history of this incredible country.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"New York, 1998. Santiago Larrea, a wealthy Argentine diplomat, is holding court alongside his wife, Lila, and their daughter, Paloma, a college student and budding jewelry designer, at their annual summer polo match and soiree. All seems perfect in the Larreas' world-until an unexpected party guest from Santiago's university days shakes his usually unflappable demeanor. The woman's cryptic comments spark Paloma's curiosity about her father's past,...
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