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This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel...
3) Evil star
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Gatekeepers volume 2
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English
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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.
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Michael Vey volume 2
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English
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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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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"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 strange...
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Greetings from somewhere volume 7
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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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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English
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At the outset of this adventure, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue a heavy American privateer through the Great South Sea. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America. Jack will survive a desperate open-boat journey and come face to face with his illegitimate black son; Stephen, caught up in the aftermath of...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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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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Addison Cooke volume 1
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English
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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.
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Español
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"La novela cuenta la historia paralela de dos personajes: el ordenado y entrañable Felícito Yanaqué, un pequeño empresario de Piura que es extorsionado, e 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. Viejos conocidos del mundo vargallosiano aparecen en estas páginas: el sargento Lituma y los inconquistables, don...
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Treasure hunters volume 5
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English
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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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Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2011.
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Español
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An intensely woven detective story. In a stage dominated by corruption, where prejudice and disparity constitute a country's social reality, truth becomes a confusing array of images in a hallucinatory game of mirrors. Through an ambiance that dazzles and captures our attention, this novel is a faithful reflection of the character of an era and a denunciation of the excesses of power.
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Lola Levine volume 5
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Lola Levine goes on a family vacation to Peru to visit her aunt Dolores"--
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Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2010.
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Español
Description
En esa novela el escritor Javier Garcés tiene los días contados. Un crítico mordaz, un escritor fracaso, un periodista envanecido, un editor ladrón y una mujer misteriosa son los enemigos que Javier quiere aniquilar antes de morir. Esta novela es la primera entrega de la trilogía, Morirás mañana.
In this novel the writer Javier Garcés doesn't have long to live. A scathing critic, a failed author, a conceited reporter, a thieving editor and...
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[Thea Stilton and ] volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
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When an archeologist friend of Paulina's disappears, the Thea Sisters go to Peru to look for him, where they face many dangers as they search for him and the legendary lost city filled with Inca gold that he was seeking.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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 himself against the two lazy sons who want him dead. Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying...
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