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1) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Paul Cook is a successful ER doctor, but one night he loses two patients in one evening and his taste for medicine. Dental hygienist Christine Hollister is preparing for her wedding when her supposedly perfect fiance, Martin, tells her a week before the big day that he can't go through with it. Heartbroken, Christine allows her best friend, Jessica, to talk her into a group trip to Peru for charity work. Christine reluctantly agrees, and once there...
Author
Series
Celestine prophecy volume 1
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The journey of a man in Peru as he joins in the search for the 9th insight, part of a manuscript reported to hold the key to life on Earth, as well as an explanation of how man is finally ready to attain his fullest potential, both spiritually and emotionally.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 2
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder's second novel, won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. The novel opens in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy-a tiny footbridge in Peru breaks, and five travelers hurtle to their deaths. Most townspeople think to themselves with secret joy, "Within 10 minutes myself...." But for Brother Juniper, a humble Franciscan friar who witnesses the catastrophe, the question is inescapable: Why those...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
189 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this exquisite collection, Alarc, n takes the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people, personalizing the shifting realities of our own contemporary world.
Author
Series
Deep black volume 4
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NSA operative Charlie Dean must infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the renegade general's second plot: a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas.
Author
Publisher
Anagrama
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
301 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
El juez Guido Pazos se ha enfrentado a la corrupcion en el Peru de Vladimiro Montesinos. Cuando Guido es asesinado, su novia Gabriela decide tomar venganza. Para hacerlo debe convocar a los fantasmas de su ninez. En el proceso, Gabriela descubre su zona de penumbra y de violencia interior. Su vida se convierte en una busqueda delirante de los confines de la moral. Al rastrear a los autores de la muerte de Guido, se sumerge en aquello que siempre habia...
9) Undiscovered
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Pubishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
183 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning Peruvian journalist and writer delivers her autobiographical novel that explores colonialism through one woman's family ties to both the colonized and colonizer. Alone in a museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener confronts her complicated family heritage. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, spoils of European colonialism, many stolen from her homeland of Peru. As she peers at countless sculptures of Indigenous faces,...
Author
Series
Custard protocol volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accidentally abandoned! All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, the Spotted Custard, in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fish tail. When she uncovers rumors of a new kind of vampire, Prim and the Custard crew embark on a mission to Peru. There, they encounter airship pirates and strange atmospheric phenomena, and are mistaken for representatives of the Spanish Inquisition. Forced...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1990s, during the turbulent and deeply corrupt years of Alberto Fujimori's presidency, two wealthy couples of Lima's high society become embroiled in a disturbing vortex of erotic adventures and politically driven blackmail. One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposes. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business...
12) Cinco esquinas
Author
Publisher
Debols!llo/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"La idea de esta novela comenz�o con una imagen de dos se�noras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situaci�on er�otica. Luego se fue convirtiendo en una historia policial, casi un thriller, y el thriller se fue transformando en una especie de mural de la sociedad peruana en los �ultimos meses o semanas de la dictadura de Fujimori y Montesinos. Megust�o la idea de que la historia se llamase Cinco...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 10
Publisher
Mercury Ink, Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
xi, 338 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After saving Tara and Jack--and losing a few of their own--in a dramatic battle in the Peruvian jungle against the Chasqui, the Electroclan has returned to the US to regroup. But their downtime is brief, as Abi, who was abducted from outside her college dorm, is still missing. Piecing together what few clues they have from video footage of the abduction, as well as some additional information from Grace, they determine that Abi is being held somewhere...
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