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1) Ecuador
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers--even for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope to learn the secrets that she has held onto so tightly their whole lives. Instead, Orquídea is transformed,...
Publisher
Rough Guides
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The definitive travel guide to this captivating country. In-depth coverage of Ecuador's incomparable wildlife, vibrant indigenous cultures, and awe-inspiring scenery takes you to the most rewarding spots from the Amazon rain forest to the heights of the Andes to glorious, laid-back beach resorts and stunning color photography brings the land to life on the pages. Discover Ecuador's highlights, with expert advice on exploring the best colonial cities,...
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English
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Inheriting a cocoa plantation in Vinces, Ecuador, that someone will kill for, Puri, after her husband is murdered, assumes his identity to search for the truth of her father's legacy and learn the identity of the enemy who stands in her way of claiming her birthright.
8) Cockfight
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Cockfight is the debut short story collection by Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero. Over thirteen stories, Cockfight explores the brutality and everyday violence contained in the structures of home, family, gender, and class in twenty-first-century Latin America"--
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Una novela que inevitablemente evoca la obra de Cortázar, Antunes, Joyce o Bolaño, con quienes ha sido comparado, posicionándolo en Estados Unidos como la gran revelación literaria latinoamericana de los últimos años. Después de casi diez años como expatriado en San Francisco, donde andaba hecho el artista, Antonio cree que puede regresar a su Guayaquil natal y salvar al Ecuador de la pobreza y la injusticia. Leopoldo le ha llamado para que...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Los Montoya están acostumbrados a una vida sin explicaciones. Han aprendido a no preguntar por qué la despensa nunca está vacía, o por qué su matriarca nunca abandona su casa en Cuatro Ríos, ni siquiera para las graduaciones, bodas o bautizos. Pero cuando Orquídea Divina los invita a su funeral y a recibir su herencia, todos esperan descubrir los secretos que tan celosamente ha guardado durante toda su vida. Sin embargo, en lugar de eso, Orquídea...
Author
Publisher
B&H Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe svagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. Incredibly, prayerfully, Elisabeth took her toddler daughter, snakebite kit, Bible, and journal...and, with fellow missionary Rachel Saint, lived in the jungle with the Stone-Age people who killed their loved ones. Compelled by their friendship and forgiveness, many in the tribe came to faith in Jesus....
Publisher
Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
The anchor of a popular news show flies to a small town in Ecuador to cover a story about a serial child killer. He saves a man after the town tries to lynch him. The man offers information about the case in exchange for a story about his innocence.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in public education, Elio forged ahead on a journey as indebted...
15) Tree of Dreams
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Coco Hidden has grown up in her mother's chocolate shop in Colorado, along with her friend Leo de la Cueva, but recently things have not been going well; the shop is failing, and Leo is hanging out with the other boys, and barely wants to talk to her--but when they both win a culinary contest, the two children and their mothers find themselves on a trip to the Amazon in Ecuador, where Coco hopes to find the rare ceiba tree, and where...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Go undercover with a film crew on a perilous journey to the untouched wilderness of biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest. Meet some of the most incredible creatures, from agile pygmy marmosets and boisterous howler monkeys to solitary pumas and mesmerizing leaf-cutter ants, as the wild secrets of the jungle are revealed.
18) End of the spear
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Nate Saint is a pilot and Christian missionary who, with his family, lives and works in the jungles of the Amazon River Basin in South America. Nate is fascinated by tales he's heard of the Waodani, a violent and aggressive tribe living nearby, and with a group of fellow Christians takes it upon himself to teach them the importance of compassion and forgiveness. However, the leader of the Waodanis, Mincayani, does not trust the white visitors, and...
19) Crude: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Graphic Mundi, an imprint of The Pennsylvania State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In Crude, Ecuadorian lawyer and activist Pablo Fajardo gives a firsthand account of Texaco s involvement in the Amazon as well as the ensuing legal battles between the oil company, the Ecuadorian government, and the region s inhabitants. As a teenager, Fajardo worked in the Amazonian oil fields, where he witnessed the consequences of Texaco/Chevron s indifference to the environment and to the inhabitants of the Amazon. Fajardo mobilized with his...
Author
Publisher
B & H Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Elisabeth Elliot was a young missionary in Ecuador when members of a violent Amazonian tribe savagely speared her husband Jim and his four colleagues. And yet, she stayed in the jungle with her young daughter to minister to the very people who had thrown the spears, demonstrating the power of Christ's forgiveness. The courageous, no-nonsense Elisabeth went on to write dozens of books, host a long-running radio show, and speak at conferences all over...
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