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Post any books set in Costa Rica here.

Books set in Costa Rica:


Happier Than A Billionaire: Quitting My Job, Moving to Costa Rica
The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion
Anarcho Grow by T.A. Sedlak
Assault on Paradise: A Novel by Tatiana Lobo
Tropical Storm by Linda Kay Silva
Monkeys Are Made Of Chocolate: Exotic And Unseen Costa Rica by Jack Ewing
Cafe Tropicana by Belinda Jones
Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion by Oscar Arias
Calypso by Tatiana Lobo
Cuentos Ticos: Short Stories Of Costa Rica by Ricardo Fernandez Guardia
The Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide by Richard Garrigues
Moon Living Abroad in Costa Rica by Erin Van Rheenen
A Place in the Rain Forest: Settling the Costa Rican Frontier
Playa Perdida by Dan Schmidt
The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica by Sterling Evans
Burn Season by John Lantigua
Hostile Acts: U.S. Policy in Costa Rica in the 1980s by MARTHA S. HONEY
Gringos in Costa Rica: Stories by John Steinrucken
The Company They Kept by Lara Putnam
Scrafitto by Steve Scarborough
Tambor by Greta Newton
All the Way Home by Mary Suzanne Lopez
The Awakening of Absalom B Jones by J.F. Simpson
The Quetzal Skull by Margaret Gill
The Scent of Jade by Dee DeTarsio
Lucy's Money by Justin Henderson
The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Iván Molina
The Ticos: Culture and Social Change in Costa Rica by Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz

It's Every Monkey for Themselves: A True Story of Sex, Love and Lies in the Jungle

At the Bottom: A Woman's Life in Central America by Luisa Gonzalez

Jurassic Park and The Lost World by Michael Crichton

South of Normal by Norm Schriever

The Children of Mariplata: Stories from Costa Rica by Miguel Benavides

The Year of Fog by Michelle Richmond (partially set in Costa Rica)

Paradise Imperfect: An American Family Moves to the Costa Rican Mountains by Margot Page

As the author of two scholarly works on Costa Rica ("Don Pepe: A Political Biography of Jose Figueres of Costa Rica" and "Democracy in Costa Rica"), I used this background to write the spy novel, "The Old Spook," set for the main part in Costa Rica. It's about a fictional CIA operative who interacts with Costa Rican political figures in opposing Fidel Castro in Cuba and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. For your summer reading pleasure, the price has been reduced to just 99 cents from now until July 19. Available at Amazon.com.

More books set in Costa Rica:


The Ambushers by Donald Hamilton
Angel in the Full Moon by Don Easton (3rd Jack Taggart Mystery)
Cadence of the Moon by Óscar Núñez Olivas
Candyman's War by Michael Crump
Cocorí by Joaquín Gutiérrez
Contemporary Costa Rican Poetry by Carlos F. Monge
The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Steven Palmer
The Divide by Elizabeth Kay (1st book in The Divide series)
The Fire's Journey by Eunice Odio
Gato Negro by Ali Katz
Gina by Rodrigo Soto
The Lonely Men's Island by José León Sánchez
Marcos Ramírez by Carlos Luis Fallas
Midnight Rainbow by Linda Howard (1st book in Kely Sabin series)
Off The Map by Dorien Kelly
Poetry is fearless by Luis Chacon
Roastmaster by Janice Lierz (first book in Coffee Novel series)
Stories from Latin America : Historias de Latinoamérica by Genevieve Barlow
Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire--and How It All Came Crashing Down . . .

More books set in Costa Rica:


The Costa Rican Dream by Eric Ricaurte
The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem
The Honey Trap by Clive Egleton
The Laughing Falcon by William Deverell
The Monkey Thief by Aileen Kilgore Henderson
The Specialist: The Costa Rica Job by Charles Peterson Sheppard

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The Subversive Voice of Carmen Lyra: Selected Works by Carmen Lyra
There Never Was a Once Upon a Time by Carmen Naranjo
Two Weeks in Costa Rica by Matthew Houde
Unsaid Words Of My Life by Isaias Doleo
When New Flowers Bloomed: Short Stories by Women Writers from Costa Rica and Panama
Where Tapirs and Jaguars Once Roamed: Ever-Evolving Costa Rica by Jack Ewing
Years Like Brief Days by Fabián Dobles

I'm the editor/publisher of:
Tortuga Squad: Kids Saving Sea Turtles in Costa Rica
so I'm biased! But wanted to recommend this documentary picturebook set in Costa Rica to folks interested in sea turtles, wild animal conservation, and animal rescue stories involving kids.

It's an inspiring real-life story of a band of village kids on an island in Costa Rica who help with local sea turtle conservation efforts, including patrolling the beaches to help protect mother sea turtles, their nests of eggs, and eventually the tiny hatchling turtles from the dangers of predators (human and animal).

It's second in a series featuring kids involved in wild animal conservation projects around the world. First was Doyli to the Rescue: Saving Baby Monkeys in the Amazon (set in Peru).

Doyli to the Rescue: Saving Baby Monkeys in the Amazon

For teacher's guides, visit www.WAKABooks.org/teacher-guides

Thanks for your interest and the opportunity to post here. I look forward to any feedback on either of the first two titles in this emerging series!

The Krinar Captive by Anna Zaires

Murder in Costa Rica by L.D. Markham

Where There Was Fire

Saints of the Household - YA Poetry by Ari Tison

Where You Can Find Me