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The forces of change are converging on the Niaruna Indians, who live deep in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. From one direction, a group of evangelical missionaries establishes a camp on the outskirts of the Niaruna settlement. At the same time, civil authorities move in to sweep the Indians away--by whatever means necessary--so the tribal land can be sold off for profit. Into this violatile mix comes the half Cheyenne Lewis Moon, a self-proclaimed...
3) Excavation
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The South American jungle guards many secrets and a remarkable site nestled between two towering Andean peaks, hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Something is waiting here where the perilous journey ends, in a cold, shrouded heart of a breathtaking necropolis; something created by Man, yet not humanly possible. Something wondrous. Something terrifying.
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Doc Ford novels volume 6
Pub. Date
1999
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English
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Marine biologist Doc Ford craves the quiet life on Sanibel Island, collecting specimens and waxing philosophical with aging hippie pal Tomlinson, but his past connections with the CIA keep complicating matters. This time, it's the daughter of a dead war buddy who enlists Doc's help. Her mother, who has taken up with a con man, has disappeared, perhaps unwillingly. Doc follows the trail from Mexico to Panama, where the con man, a monument to evil,...
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Latin American trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Vintage International/Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1997
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363 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Set in an impoverished, violent, yet ravishingly beautiful country somewhere in South America. When the haughty Dona Constanza decides to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, the consequences are at once tragic, heroic, and outrageously funny.
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Latin American trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998
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xviii, 459 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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Cochadebajo de los Gatos is populated by eccentrics--and hundreds of tame black jaguars that love chocolate. The eccentrics have carved a wackily sane society out of the wilderness, but a traveling inquisition known as the New Albigensian Crusade, loosed by the corrupt Cardinal Guzman, threatens to destroy it.
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Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
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257 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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For ten years, Norma has been the voice of consolation for a people broken by violence. She hosts Lost City Radio, the most popular program in their nameless South American country, gripped in the aftermath of war. Every week, the Indians in the mountains and the poor from the barrios listen as she reads the names of those who have gone missing, those whom the furiously expanding city has swallowed. Loved ones are reunited and the lost are found....
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Kurt Austin navigates the Amazon jungle in search of a legend that could change the path of science — but secretive powers will do anything to stop him. From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments. Few believe the tribe exists — and even fewer suspect its deity may hold knowledge that can change the course of history. For National Underwater...
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