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Set in 18th century Lima, Peru, a rickety bridge which has spanned a deep gorge for ages suddenly breaks, and five people plunge to their deaths. A priest who is deeply affected by the catastrophe decides to make an investigative study of the lives of the victims to determine if he can find some clue to God's intention in casting five dis-associated mortals into eternity at precisely the same moment.
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Punto de lectura volume 4/1
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2006
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444 pages ; 19 cm.
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Four cadets form a secret group to beat the confinement of their military academy. This sets off a chain of events that starts with a theft and ends in murder.
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Michael Vey volume 2
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Fifteen-year-old Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special electromagnetic powers, joins his techno-genius best friend and an alliance of other "electric" teenagers to battle powerful foes in the jungles of Peru, where Michael learns the Order of Elgen's plan to "restructure" the world.
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Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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In the mountains of Peru, friends Hector the bear and Hummingbird the hummingbird spend most of their time together, doing the same things, and Hector has had just about enough of it--or has he? Includes a list of animals hidden in the illustrations.
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2012
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Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
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326 pages ; 24 cm
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A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge...
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Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she's hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She's reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela's latest job isn't for some bamboozled billionaire, it's for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can't come up with a lot of money fast....
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Wise Media Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
140 pages
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Prequel to the Clearview mystery series Determined to pursue a free, adventurous life after a traumatic divorce Jean travels to exotic Lake Titicaca, Peru. The area is awash in mythology, tortured history, ufology and unexplained occult phenomenon. She discovers the dark side of being a 'tourist' and has to decipher what can and cannot be trusted in new relationships. Her future depends on it. While touring mysterious archeological sites, shamanic...
13) Cien cuyes
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2023]
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254 pages ; 24 cm.
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In a residential neighborhood of Lima overlooking the ocean, some well-to-do elderly people suffer the deterioration of their lives. Frasia, pressed by her economic needs, and who must work to raise her son Nico, has gradually become a vital companion to some of those older folks. If she could only manage to save up the money to buy ten guinea pigs, she could, as her uncle always told her, start a new life. Thus, every day she crosses the city by...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
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xiv, 317 p. ; 22 cm.
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In the midst of a Grand Inquisition, Mother Maria Santa Hilda finds herself at odds when the daughter of a wealthy man mysteriously dies in her care. Despite the fact that it looks as though the girl committed suicide, she has her buried at the convent, a decision a powerful enemy will use against her. Her life at stake, the Abbess and her fellow sisters find themselves in a race against time to prove the true cause of the girl's death.
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Addison Cooke volume 1
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2016, ©2016
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7 CDs (7 hrs. 50min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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After twelve-year-old Addison Cooke's uncle unearths ancient Incan secrets in Peru, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organization intent on stealing the treasure unless Addison and his friends can decipher the clues first.
16) The gold eaters
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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xiii, 367 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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"A sweeping, epic historical novel of exploration and invasion, of slaves and conquerors, and above all, an enduring love that must overcome the forging of an empire. Plucked from his small fishing village and captured by the conquistadors looking to plunder the gold of Peru, young Waman is the everyman thrown into extraordinary circumstances, caught up in history's throes. He finds himself at every major moment in the empire-building of the Spanish...
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B
Pub. Date
2022.
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541 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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"Years later, when the race to conquer the unknown reached its peak, the sailor Álvaro de Mendaña died during the journey, leaving his crew without a commander. Then his wife, Isabel Barreto, decides to take over and reconquer the places that her husband had discovered. From Pontevedra to the South Seas, Isabel faced the wind, tide, and prejudices of her time, but nothing could stop her ambition of writing her own future. With his unique ability...
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Cross Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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214 pages ; 23 cm
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A teenage girl describes how she met Matias the summer she was fourteen and was prepared to give up everything for him, how his secrets turned their innocent-seeming relationship into something much more painful, and the steps she had to take to overcome her emotional dependency to become the person she needed to be.
19) Excavation
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011
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404 p. ; 24 cm.
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A journey of discovery turns into a fight for survival when archaeologist Dr. Henry Conklin, his nephew and their exploratory party unearth a deadly scourge from the depths of an untouched set of ancient Incan ruins.
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
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Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
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