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🇨🇴 Rural Colombia

Fiction set in Colombia's countryside, where lush terrain harbors stories of resilience, violence, magical tradition, and the enduring pull of the land.
The Devil of the Provinces
by Juan Cárdenas • 2017
Broke, a biologist returns home to murders, a monster, and a city that demands his silence.
3.36
1k+
🕵️ Latin American Noir🏚️ Provincial Gothic🪦 Unsolved Murder
The Devil of the Provinces Summary
The Devil of the Provinces 87%
Broke, a biologist returns home to murders, a monster, and a city that demands his silence.
by Juan Cárdenas 2017
3.36
1k+ ratings
🕵️ Latin American Noir🏚️ Provincial Gothic🪦 Unsolved Murder
Don’t Come Back
by Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas • 2017
A nurse smuggles her mother's corpse across Colombia. Every family legend here is a survival story.
4.14
73
🇨🇴 Colombian History✈️ Immigrant Memoir🧬 Generational Trauma
Don’t Come Back Summary
Don’t Come Back 87%
A nurse smuggles her mother's corpse across Colombia. Every family legend here is a survival story.
by Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas 2017
4.14
73 ratings
🇨🇴 Colombian History✈️ Immigrant Memoir🧬 Generational Trauma
The Lies of the Land
by Steven Conn • 2023
Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.
3.98
148
🌾 Rural America📜 Agrarian Myths⏳ Nostalgia Politics
The Lies of the Land Summary
The Lies of the Land 87%
Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.
by Steven Conn 2023
3.98
148 ratings
🌾 Rural America📜 Agrarian Myths⏳ Nostalgia Politics
The Left Behind
by Robert Wuthnow • 2018
Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.
3.58
650
🏡 Rural America😤 Cultural Resentment🏙️ Urban Rural Divide
The Left Behind Summary
The Left Behind 86%
Rural America's anger is grief: not for lost jobs, but for communities where belonging meant duty.
by Robert Wuthnow 2018
3.58
650 ratings
🏡 Rural America😤 Cultural Resentment🏙️ Urban Rural Divide
The Sound of Things Falling
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez • 2014
After a Bogotá shooting, one professor traces the dead ex-pilot's hidden past into the drug war.
3.85
22k+
🏚️ Drug War Aftermath🩹 Trauma And Recovery🧬 Intergenerational Trauma
The Sound of Things Falling Summary
The Sound of Things Falling 86%
After a Bogotá shooting, one professor traces the dead ex-pilot's hidden past into the drug war.
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez 2014
3.85
22k+ ratings
🏚️ Drug War Aftermath🩹 Trauma And Recovery🧬 Intergenerational Trauma
Delirio
by Laura Restrepo • 2004
A man finds his wife lost in madness and digs into her family's violent past.
3.97
13k+
🌀 Fractured Narrative🏚️ Family Secrets🩸 Inherited Trauma
Delirio Summary
Delirio 86%
A man finds his wife lost in madness and digs into her family's violent past.
by Laura Restrepo 2004
3.97
13k+ ratings
🌀 Fractured Narrative🏚️ Family Secrets🩸 Inherited Trauma
The Unsettling of America
by Wendell Berry • 1977
America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.
4.33
7k+
🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy🌍 Land Ethics🚜 Farming Criticism
The Unsettling of America Summary
The Unsettling of America 86%
America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.
by Wendell Berry 1977
4.33
7k+ ratings
🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy🌍 Land Ethics🚜 Farming Criticism
Happier Than A Billionaire
by Nadine Hays Pisani • 2011
What two burnt-out chiropractors discovered in Costa Rica: bat caves, monkeys, and a weird dog lady.
3.89
2k+
🧳 Expat Memoirs🌎 Cultural Immersion⏬ Downshifting
Happier Than A Billionaire Summary
Happier Than A Billionaire 85%
What two burnt-out chiropractors discovered in Costa Rica: bat caves, monkeys, and a weird dog lady.
by Nadine Hays Pisani 2011
3.89
2k+ ratings
🧳 Expat Memoirs🌎 Cultural Immersion⏬ Downshifting
La Navidad en las montañas
by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano • 1871
On Christmas Eve, a weary captain finds a mountain village transformed by a priest's humble example.
3.49
1k+
🎄 Christmas Classic📚 Latin American Classic🌿 Pastoral Fiction
La Navidad en las montañas Summary
La Navidad en las montañas 85%
On Christmas Eve, a weary captain finds a mountain village transformed by a priest's humble example.
by Ignacio Manuel Altamirano 1871
3.49
1k+ ratings
🎄 Christmas Classic📚 Latin American Classic🌿 Pastoral Fiction
Pedra de tartera
by Maria Barbal • 1985
The aunt expected housework; the hills demanded everything, and the war took what remained.
3.90
1k+
⚔️ Spanish Civil War Fiction🏔️ Rural Catalonia👩‍🌾 Rural Womanhood
Pedra de tartera Summary
Pedra de tartera 85%
The aunt expected housework; the hills demanded everything, and the war took what remained.
by Maria Barbal 1985
3.90
1k+ ratings
⚔️ Spanish Civil War Fiction🏔️ Rural Catalonia👩‍🌾 Rural Womanhood
Radical Cities
by Justin McGuirk • 2014
The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.
4.27
434
🏚️ Informal Settlements✊ Activist Architecture🌎 Latin American Cities
Radical Cities Summary
Radical Cities 85%
The slums and squatter towers of Latin America are the world's most daring urban experiments.
by Justin McGuirk 2014
4.27
434 ratings
🏚️ Informal Settlements✊ Activist Architecture🌎 Latin American Cities
The Longest Line on the Map
by Eric Rutkow • 2019
A century-long quest to link the Americas by road was stopped cold by a 250-mile jungle.
3.04
258
🛤️ Infrastructure History🤝 US-Latin American Relations🛣️ Road Building
The Longest Line on the Map Summary
The Longest Line on the Map 85%
A century-long quest to link the Americas by road was stopped cold by a 250-mile jungle.
by Eric Rutkow 2019
3.04
258 ratings
🛤️ Infrastructure History🤝 US-Latin American Relations🛣️ Road Building
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
by Luis Sepúlveda • 1995
An elderly widower in the Amazon must hunt a killer ocelot. His only comfort: romance novels.
3.94
32k+
🌴 Amazon Rainforest🌿 Literary Eco-Fiction🧘 Meditative Fiction
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories Summary
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories 85%
An elderly widower in the Amazon must hunt a killer ocelot. His only comfort: romance novels.
by Luis Sepúlveda 1995
3.94
32k+ ratings
🌴 Amazon Rainforest🌿 Literary Eco-Fiction🧘 Meditative Fiction
Mexico
by James A. Michener • 1992
An American journalist returns to Mexico for a bullfight and must reckon with his divided heritage.
3.75
6k+
🏛️ Multigenerational Saga🐂 Bullfighting🪞 Divided Identity
Mexico Summary
Mexico 85%
An American journalist returns to Mexico for a bullfight and must reckon with his divided heritage.
by James A. Michener 1992
3.75
6k+ ratings
🏛️ Multigenerational Saga🐂 Bullfighting🪞 Divided Identity
Harvest the Vote
by Jane Kleeb • 2020
Democrats lost rural America by walking away. A Nebraska organizer shows how to win it back.
3.82
214
🏘️ Rural Politics✊ Grassroots Organizing🏢 Corporate Power
Harvest the Vote Summary
Harvest the Vote 85%
Democrats lost rural America by walking away. A Nebraska organizer shows how to win it back.
by Jane Kleeb 2020
3.82
214 ratings
🏘️ Rural Politics✊ Grassroots Organizing🏢 Corporate Power
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez • 1967
A jungle town, seven generations, and a prophecy the last survivor reads only as everything ends.
4.12
1.1M+
🏠 Multi-Generational Saga🌎 Latin American Boom🔄 Circular Time
One Hundred Years of Solitude Summary
One Hundred Years of Solitude 85%
A jungle town, seven generations, and a prophecy the last survivor reads only as everything ends.
by Gabriel García Márquez 1967
4.12
1.1M+ ratings
🏠 Multi-Generational Saga🌎 Latin American Boom🔄 Circular Time
Las memorias de Mamá Blanca
by Teresa de la Parra • 1929
Six sisters, a dreamy mother, a Venezuelan hacienda: an old woman's memories of paradise lost.
3.78
784
🌸 Nostalgic Girlhood👯 Sisterhood Bonds🌾 Rural Latin America
Las memorias de Mamá Blanca Summary
Las memorias de Mamá Blanca 85%
Six sisters, a dreamy mother, a Venezuelan hacienda: an old woman's memories of paradise lost.
by Teresa de la Parra 1929
3.78
784 ratings
🌸 Nostalgic Girlhood👯 Sisterhood Bonds🌾 Rural Latin America
Soil and Sacrament
by Fred Bahnson • 2013
What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?
4.17
264
🛐 Faith And Farming🌻 Community Gardens🙏 Agrarian Spirituality
Soil and Sacrament Summary
Soil and Sacrament 85%
What if the holiest ground you'll ever touch is in a garden?
by Fred Bahnson 2013
4.17
264 ratings
🛐 Faith And Farming🌻 Community Gardens🙏 Agrarian Spirituality
Pastoral Song
by James Rebanks • 2020
The old ways fed birdsong and bellies. A farmer's argument for mending what cheap food broke.
4.42
8k+
🌱 Regenerative Agriculture🚜 Traditional Farming🪱 Soil Health
Pastoral Song Summary
Pastoral Song 85%
The old ways fed birdsong and bellies. A farmer's argument for mending what cheap food broke.
by James Rebanks 2020
4.42
8k+ ratings
🌱 Regenerative Agriculture🚜 Traditional Farming🪱 Soil Health
All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy • 1992
Riding into Mexico for open land, a teen cowboy finds love, prison, and the end of the West.
4.06
149k+
🏜️ Literary Western🤠 Cowboy Coming Of Age💔 Forbidden Class Romance
All the Pretty Horses Summary
All the Pretty Horses 85%
Riding into Mexico for open land, a teen cowboy finds love, prison, and the end of the West.
by Cormac McCarthy 1992
4.06
149k+ ratings
🏜️ Literary Western🤠 Cowboy Coming Of Age💔 Forbidden Class Romance
The Battle for Paradise
by Naomi Klein • 2018
After Maria, corporate profiteers and community visionaries race to shape Puerto Rico's future.
4.23
3k+
🌴 Caribbean Colonialism🌪️ Disaster Justice💰 Austerity Politics
The Battle for Paradise Summary
The Battle for Paradise 85%
After Maria, corporate profiteers and community visionaries race to shape Puerto Rico's future.
by Naomi Klein 2018
4.23
3k+ ratings
🌴 Caribbean Colonialism🌪️ Disaster Justice💰 Austerity Politics
The Politics of Resentment
by Katherine J. Cramer • 2016
Resentment toward cities and public employees, not ideology, drives rural small-government votes.
4.01
1k+
🌾 Rural Politics🛣️ Urban Rural Divide📋 Ethnography
The Politics of Resentment Summary
The Politics of Resentment 85%
Resentment toward cities and public employees, not ideology, drives rural small-government votes.
by Katherine J. Cramer 2016
4.01
1k+ ratings
🌾 Rural Politics🛣️ Urban Rural Divide📋 Ethnography
Folks, This Ain't Normal
by Joel Salatin • 2011
Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.
4.21
5k+
🌱 Sustainable Agriculture🏘️ Local Food Systems🌍 Soil Regeneration
Folks, This Ain't Normal Summary
Folks, This Ain't Normal 85%
Food that travels 1,500 miles, animals that never graze, costs hidden: a farmer's case for normal.
by Joel Salatin 2011
4.21
5k+ ratings
🌱 Sustainable Agriculture🏘️ Local Food Systems🌍 Soil Regeneration
Rural Versus Urban
by Suzanne Mettler • 2025
The real divide isn't ideology: it's rural versus urban, and it's endangering American democracy.
4.33
54
🌾 Rural Politics🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide💔 Affective Polarization
Rural Versus Urban Summary
Rural Versus Urban 85%
The real divide isn't ideology: it's rural versus urban, and it's endangering American democracy.
by Suzanne Mettler 2025
4.33
54 ratings
🌾 Rural Politics🏙️ Urban-Rural Divide💔 Affective Polarization
Central America's Forgotten History
by Aviva Chomsky • 2021
Central American migration isn't about poverty. It's the legacy of a century of US intervention.
4.06
518
🌎 Latin American History🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy🕵️ Cold War Interventions
Central America's Forgotten History Summary
Central America's Forgotten History 85%
Central American migration isn't about poverty. It's the legacy of a century of US intervention.
by Aviva Chomsky 2021
4.06
518 ratings
🌎 Latin American History🇺🇸 Us Foreign Policy🕵️ Cold War Interventions
Grass, Soil, Hope
by Courtney White • 2014
Carbon is not the enemy: the ranchers and farmers burying it to save the climate.
4.04
168
🌱 Regenerative Agriculture🪱 Soil Restoration🌬️ Carbon Sequestration
Grass, Soil, Hope Summary
Grass, Soil, Hope 85%
Carbon is not the enemy: the ranchers and farmers burying it to save the climate.
by Courtney White 2014
4.04
168 ratings
🌱 Regenerative Agriculture🪱 Soil Restoration🌬️ Carbon Sequestration
BOOM
by Tony Horwitz • 2014
From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.
3.89
713
🛢️ Energy Politics🏭 Oil Industry📰 Narrative Journalism
BOOM Summary
BOOM 85%
From oil sands to Gulf Coast: a pipeline route where roughnecks, strippers, and ranchers collide.
by Tony Horwitz 2014
3.89
713 ratings
🛢️ Energy Politics🏭 Oil Industry📰 Narrative Journalism
El camino
by Miguel Delibes • 1950
Last night in the valley, a boy relives the pranks and losses of his childhood.
4.13
15k+
🏡 Rural Childhood👫 Boyhood Adventures💔 First Crush
El camino Summary
El camino 85%
Last night in the valley, a boy relives the pranks and losses of his childhood.
by Miguel Delibes 1950
4.13
15k+ ratings
🏡 Rural Childhood👫 Boyhood Adventures💔 First Crush
Down and Delirious in Mexico City
by Daniel Hernandez • 2011
A Mexican-American writer goes home to a city that swallows him with punks, cults, and riots.
3.61
657
🏙️ Mexico City🎸 Youth Subcultures🙏 Popular Religion
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Summary
Down and Delirious in Mexico City 85%
A Mexican-American writer goes home to a city that swallows him with punks, cults, and riots.
by Daniel Hernandez 2011
3.61
657 ratings
🏙️ Mexico City🎸 Youth Subcultures🙏 Popular Religion
Crooked Plow
by Itamar Vieira Junior • 2019
A childhood accident mutes one sister, their silent language a refuge on a Brazilian plantation.
4.43
32k+
🏡 Family Saga👭 Sister Bond🤫 Silent Protagonist
Crooked Plow Summary
Crooked Plow 85%
A childhood accident mutes one sister, their silent language a refuge on a Brazilian plantation.
by Itamar Vieira Junior 2019
4.43
32k+ ratings
🏡 Family Saga👭 Sister Bond🤫 Silent Protagonist
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
by Vandana Shiva • 2015
Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.
3.96
436
🌱 Agroecology✊ Food Sovereignty🏭 Industrial Agriculture
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology Summary
Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology 85%
Agribusiness didn't end hunger. Small farms, producing 70% of food on 30% of land, feed us.
by Vandana Shiva 2015
3.96
436 ratings
🌱 Agroecology✊ Food Sovereignty🏭 Industrial Agriculture
My Invented Country
by Isabel Allende • 2003
When a coup forced her from Chile, nostalgia became a country she could carry on the page.
3.89
13k+
🏞️ Travel Memoir🛅 Exile Memoir🇨🇱 Chilean Culture
My Invented Country Summary
My Invented Country 84%
When a coup forced her from Chile, nostalgia became a country she could carry on the page.
by Isabel Allende 2003
3.89
13k+ ratings
🏞️ Travel Memoir🛅 Exile Memoir🇨🇱 Chilean Culture
Earth Democracy
by Vandana Shiva • 2005
The enclosure of common land never ended. It just moved to seeds, water, and biodiversity.
3.97
749
🍽️ Food Politics🌍 Anti-Globalization⚖️ Environmental Justice
Earth Democracy Summary
Earth Democracy 84%
The enclosure of common land never ended. It just moved to seeds, water, and biodiversity.
by Vandana Shiva 2005
3.97
749 ratings
🍽️ Food Politics🌍 Anti-Globalization⚖️ Environmental Justice
Brown Enough
by Christopher Rivas • 2022
The race conversation is Black and white. One actor discovered he belonged to neither.
4.28
310
🤎 Mixed Race Identity🌎 Latinx Diaspora🎨 Colorism
Brown Enough Summary
Brown Enough 84%
The race conversation is Black and white. One actor discovered he belonged to neither.
by Christopher Rivas 2022
4.28
310 ratings
🤎 Mixed Race Identity🌎 Latinx Diaspora🎨 Colorism
We Will Be Jaguars
by Nemonte Nenquimo • 2024
Abused by missionaries, guided by a jaguar vision, she built the alliance that beat Big Oil.
4.50
11k+
🪶 Indigenous Resistance🛢️ Extractive Industries🌳 Amazon Conservation
We Will Be Jaguars Summary
We Will Be Jaguars 84%
Abused by missionaries, guided by a jaguar vision, she built the alliance that beat Big Oil.
by Nemonte Nenquimo 2024
4.50
11k+ ratings
🪶 Indigenous Resistance🛢️ Extractive Industries🌳 Amazon Conservation
Amexica
by Ed Vulliamy • 2010
Drugs north, guns south: the border is its own nation, and the cartels are its government.
3.86
649
🕴️ Organized Crime⚔️ Drug War💀 Narco Culture
Amexica Summary
Amexica 84%
Drugs north, guns south: the border is its own nation, and the cartels are its government.
by Ed Vulliamy 2010
3.86
649 ratings
🕴️ Organized Crime⚔️ Drug War💀 Narco Culture
River Town
by Peter Hessler • 2001
Fuling: no Americans in 50 years. Hessler arrived a teacher, and became Ho Wei.
4.28
14k+
🌾 Rural China📍 Memoir Of Place🗣️ Language Immersion
River Town Summary
River Town 84%
Fuling: no Americans in 50 years. Hessler arrived a teacher, and became Ho Wei.
by Peter Hessler 2001
4.28
14k+ ratings
🌾 Rural China📍 Memoir Of Place🗣️ Language Immersion
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal
by Joel Salatin • 2007
Government says raw milk and teenage farmhands are crimes. One sustainable farmer's legal war.
4.20
2k+
🧑‍🌾 Sustainable Agriculture🏘️ Local Food Systems🏭 Factory Farming Critique
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal Summary
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal 84%
Government says raw milk and teenage farmhands are crimes. One sustainable farmer's legal war.
by Joel Salatin 2007
4.20
2k+ ratings
🧑‍🌾 Sustainable Agriculture🏘️ Local Food Systems🏭 Factory Farming Critique
Wish You Well
by David Baldacci • 2000
Orphaned city kids land on a great-grandmother's Appalachian farm. The land demands everything.
4.06
33k+
🏔️ Appalachian Historical👧 Orphaned Siblings🌄 Land As Legacy
Wish You Well Summary
Wish You Well 84%
Orphaned city kids land on a great-grandmother's Appalachian farm. The land demands everything.
by David Baldacci 2000
4.06
33k+ ratings
🏔️ Appalachian Historical👧 Orphaned Siblings🌄 Land As Legacy
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
by Gabriel García Márquez • 1961
A veteran waits fifteen years for a pension. His wife starves. Only a rooster remains.
3.80
69k+
🕰️ Endless Waiting🏚️ Postwar Hardship😔 Quiet Desperation
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba Summary
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba 84%
A veteran waits fifteen years for a pension. His wife starves. Only a rooster remains.
by Gabriel García Márquez 1961
3.80
69k+ ratings
🕰️ Endless Waiting🏚️ Postwar Hardship😔 Quiet Desperation
Marching Powder
by Rusty Young • 2003
A prison where inmates buy cells and a British smuggler leads tours for backpackers.
4.31
31k+
⛓️ Prison Memoir🧳 Drug Smuggling💰 Prison Economy
Marching Powder Summary
Marching Powder 84%
A prison where inmates buy cells and a British smuggler leads tours for backpackers.
by Rusty Young 2003
4.31
31k+ ratings
⛓️ Prison Memoir🧳 Drug Smuggling💰 Prison Economy
Trespassing Across America
by Ken Ilgunas • 2016
He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.
3.82
2k+
🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry✊ Environmental Activism🚶 Walking Journeys
Trespassing Across America Summary
Trespassing Across America 84%
He walked the Keystone XL pipeline illegally. The land and its people changed him.
by Ken Ilgunas 2016
3.82
2k+ ratings
🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry✊ Environmental Activism🚶 Walking Journeys
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia
by Elizabeth Catte • 2018
Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.
4.01
5k+
🌄 Appalachian Studies🏘️ Rural America🔍 Debunking Myths
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia Summary
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia 84%
Appalachia's story isn't moral failure. It's extraction, and resistance is the real tradition.
by Elizabeth Catte 2018
4.01
5k+ ratings
🌄 Appalachian Studies🏘️ Rural America🔍 Debunking Myths
Sowing Seeds in the Desert
by Masanobu Fukuoka • 2012
Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.
4.34
724
🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture🌳 Permaculture Philosophy🌱 Ecological Restoration
Sowing Seeds in the Desert Summary
Sowing Seeds in the Desert 84%
Our farms are making deserts. A hands-off method for restoring them with seeds and clay.
by Masanobu Fukuoka 2012
4.34
724 ratings
🧑‍🌾 Regenerative Agriculture🌳 Permaculture Philosophy🌱 Ecological Restoration
The Fight in the Fields
by Susan Ferriss • 1997
How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.
4.00
99
🏭 Labor History🌎 Chicano History🌾 Agricultural Labor
The Fight in the Fields Summary
The Fight in the Fields 84%
How a migrant farmworker built a movement so large that 40,000 people marched at his funeral.
by Susan Ferriss 1997
4.00
99 ratings
🏭 Labor History🌎 Chicano History🌾 Agricultural Labor
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse
by William Neuman • 2022
How a nation sitting on the world's largest oil reserves starved its own people.
4.13
1k+
🛢️ Petrostates🇻🇪 Venezuelan Politics⛓️ Resource Curse
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse Summary
Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse 84%
How a nation sitting on the world's largest oil reserves starved its own people.
by William Neuman 2022
4.13
1k+ ratings
🛢️ Petrostates🇻🇪 Venezuelan Politics⛓️ Resource Curse
Iberia
by James A. Michener • 1968
Orange blossoms on the shore, oxen in the tide, a nation that resists every outside force.
3.71
3k+
🇪🇸 Spanish Cultural History🧳 Iberian Travelogue⚡ Spain'S Dualities
Iberia Summary
Iberia 84%
Orange blossoms on the shore, oxen in the tide, a nation that resists every outside force.
by James A. Michener 1968
3.71
3k+ ratings
🇪🇸 Spanish Cultural History🧳 Iberian Travelogue⚡ Spain'S Dualities
Soil Not Oil
by Vandana Shiva • 2008
Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.
4.08
535
🏭 Industrial Agriculture⚖️ Environmental Justice🌾 Food Sovereignty
Soil Not Oil Summary
Soil Not Oil 84%
Biofuels starve people, carbon markets fake progress, the real climate solution is under your feet.
by Vandana Shiva 2008
4.08
535 ratings
🏭 Industrial Agriculture⚖️ Environmental Justice🌾 Food Sovereignty
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer
by Joel Salatin • 2010
Soil, animals, and bank account agree: the 'lunatic' farmer is the only sane one left.
4.26
462
🌱 Regenerative Agriculture🌍 Soil Health🐄 Grass-Based Farming
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer Summary
The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer 84%
Soil, animals, and bank account agree: the 'lunatic' farmer is the only sane one left.
by Joel Salatin 2010
4.26
462 ratings
🌱 Regenerative Agriculture🌍 Soil Health🐄 Grass-Based Farming
Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel García Márquez • 2004
At ninety, a lifelong bachelor discovers love while watching a fourteen-year-old girl sleep.
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📖 Literary Novella🌅 Love In Old Age💤 Unconsummated Love
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At ninety, a lifelong bachelor discovers love while watching a fourteen-year-old girl sleep.
by Gabriel García Márquez 2004
3.57
99k+ ratings
📖 Literary Novella🌅 Love In Old Age💤 Unconsummated Love
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