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Author
Publisher
Enes Smith Productions
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"While on a spring break from college, Native American Tara Eagle was kidnapped in a foreign land. She and her friends struggle for survival, first against terrorists, and then against the army. Her relatives become frustrated, and then angry at the slow response from the United States Government. There are over five hundred Indian tribes recognized by Congress. In modern times a group of Indians used their sovereignty for something other than a casino....
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Series
Language
Español
Description
"Dos hombres puestos a prueba por la vida descubren el verdadero sentido del coraje y la lealtad. El héroe discreto narra la historia paralela de dos personajes: el ordenado y entrañable Felícito Yanaqué, un pequeño empresario de Piura, que es extorsionado; y de Ismael Carrera, un exitoso hombre de negocios, dueño de una aseguradora en Lima, quien urde una sorpresiva venganza contra sus dos hijos holgazanes que quisieron verlo muerto. Ambos...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"In 1859, ex-East India Company smuggler Merrick Tremayne is trapped at home in Cornwall after sustaining an injury that almost cost him his leg. . When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the...
Author
Series
Addison Cooke volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Lola Levine volume 5
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Lola is ecstatic to learn that their family will visit her favorite aunt in Peru, where she and Ben discover the wonderful adventures to be found in Lima while struggling to stay out of trouble.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 34
Language
English
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Description
"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to South America, where they must climb Machu Picchu to save a baby llama" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Gabriela Rose novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
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....
11) Temple
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
"Deep in the jungles of Peru the race of the century is under way to locate a legendary Incan idol. An artifact carved out of a strange kind of stone, the idol could be used as the basis for a terrigying new weapon. The U.S. Army wants it at any cost but they are not alone."--Jacket.
12) Cien cuyes
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"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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English
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"A young widow. A husband she thought she knew. On the picturesque Italian coast of Amalfi lies a chocolatier's destiny ... San Francisco, 1953: Heartbroken over the mysterious death of her husband, Celina Savoia, a second-generation chocolatière, resolves to take their young son to Italy's shimmering Amalfi coast to introduce him to his father's family. Just as she embarks on a magical, romantic life of making chocolate by the sea surrounded by...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 5
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books / Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2018
Language
Español
Description
La gran aventura espiritual que conquistó a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. Revelaciones clave para que podamos comprender el presente y enfrentarnos al futuro. Al principio solo era un pequeño volumen que su autor, James Redfield, publicó por su cuenta y riesgo. Pero muy pronto todos estaban hablando de Las nueve revelaciones como del libro que cambiaría nuestra visión acerca del destino humano. Una década más tarde, lleva vendidos...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
El ganador del Premio Alfaguara de novela y del Independent Foreign Fictos Prize vuelve con un apasionante crimen en la Lima de los años noventa. Cuatro amigos rememoran un acontecimiento sucedido en su adolescencia del que sólo ellos saben la verdad. ¿Cuál es su verdadera implicación en la muerte de su profesora? En unos años convulsos en la historia de Perú, este hecho criminal queda silenciado por los atentados y las bombas: unas muertes...
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventure volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The final leg of the Aldens' journey brings them to South America and to the Salt Flats in northern Argentina. But when they hit a dead end, they realize someone has tricked them in order to delay their plans! Returning to Buenos Aires, the Aldens connect with the Silvertons and are able to get back on track. But it is clear their rivals are closer than ever. The Aldens' final artifact is their most delicate yet, a rare orange orchid they must return...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
While in Machu Picchu, Peru, with their parents, eight-year-old twins Ethan and Ella cross a secret bridge and discover a mysterious stone sculpture.
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