Books

Service Trip Planning and Preparation

Vacations with a Purpose: by Chris Eaton & Kim Hurst

Compassion: by Henri Nouwen
Short-Term Missions Workbook: From Mission Tourists to Global Citizens: by Tim Dearborn

Development/Poverty

Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: by Ronald Sider
Road to Hell: by Michael Maren
Lords of Poverty: by Graham Hancock
The Nature of Development: by Roger D. Stone
Where Women Stand: by Naomi Neft & Ann D. Levine
The State of the World Atlas: by Michael Kidron & Ronald Segal
Small is Beautiful: by E. F. Schumacher
The Human Rights Reader: edited by Micheline R. Ishay
Dilemmas in Development Assistance: by Tisch & Wallace
Development in Theory and Practice: by Jan Black
Eat the Rich: by Patrick O'Rourke
The Wealth & Poverty of Nations: by Landes
Walking with the Poor: by Bryant L. Myers
Dependency and Development in Latin America: by Fernando Cardaso and Enzo Faletto
Talons of the Eagle: by Peter H. Smith
Open Veins of Latin America: by Eduardo H. Galeano
Democracy in Latin America: edited by Roderic Ai Camp
Latin American Politics and Development: edited by Howard J. Wiarda & Harvey F. Kline
U.S.-Latin American Relations: by Michael J. Kryzanek
Americas: by Peter Winn 

Dominican Republic:

Why the Cocks Fight: by Michael Wucker
A Continent of Islands: Mark Kurlansky
Dominican Republic : Beyond the Lighthouse: by James Ferguson
Drown: by Junot Diaz
Hippocrene Insider's Guide to Dominican Republic: by Jack Tucker and Ursula Eberhard.
In the Time of Butterflies: by Julia Alvarez
Something to Declare: by Julia Alvarez
Feast of the Goat: by Mario Vargas Llosa

Guatemala

I, Rigoberta Menchu: edited by Elisabeth Burgos-Debray
Crossing Borders: by Rigoberta Menchu
Shattered Hope: by Piero Gleijeses
Bitter Fruit: by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer
Gift of the Devil: by Jim Handy
Rites: by Victor Perera
Silence on the Mountain: by daniel Wilkinson
Guatemala: Never Again: by RHEMI 

First Nations 

The Grieving Indian: by Arthur H.
The Bushman and the Spirits: by Barney Lacendre
Whiteman’s Gospel: by Craig Stephen Smith
The Conquering Indian: by Mark Ward Sr.
One Church, Many Tribes: by Richard Twiss

Other Authors and Poets to Check Out:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia)
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru)
Ruben Dario (Nicaragua)
Ernest Cardenal (Nicaragua)
Isabel Allende (Chile)
Paulo Coelho (Brazil)
Octavio Paz (Mexico)
Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)