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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It has been said, 'Seek not your destiny for it is seeking you.'" So begins this new and powerful novel from Richard Paul Evans, #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box, The Walk series, and more.
In the wake of personal tragedy, two people meet on a humanitarian mission in Peru. Christine is a shy, unadventurous woman whose fiancé broke off the engagement only a week before the wedding, and Paul is a former emergency room...
In the wake of personal tragedy, two people meet on a humanitarian mission in Peru. Christine is a shy, unadventurous woman whose fiancé broke off the engagement only a week before the wedding, and Paul is a former emergency room...
Author
Series
Celestine series (James Redfield) volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Language
English
Formats
Description
The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
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. Lush illustrations are complemented by back matter about the Ashaninka community.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires{u2014}which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings.
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....
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest--until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 2
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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.
9) The Ugly One
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"At the height of the Incan empire, a girl called the Ugly One because of a disfiguring scar on her face, seeks to have the scar removed and instead finds a life path as a shaman"
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Traveler of the Wind is set in the aftermath of the Shining Path years in Peru, bringing into perspective how violent histories can continue to haunt a person and a country, and the lengths to which individuals will go to seek redemption. The Spanish edition of the novel, La viajera del viento, was published by Planeta Peru in 2016. It is the last installment in Alonso Cueto's Redención trilogy covering the time after Peru's civil war. Specifically,...
12) Mejor el fuego
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Uno se da cuenta de que las cosas son distintas por la manera en que acaricias y te acarician. Mejor el fuego recrea los avatares de la fantas̕a, la violencia y el placer en la vida de un joven homosexual en la Lima de los ąos noventa. Una historia donde el sexo, el miedo, la belleza, la crueldad y el amor son atributos de una memoria que los hace indistinguibles: esquirlas adheridas a un cuerpo en trance de revelaciones, asumido, seg͠n describe...
13) Cien cuyes
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
“En un barrio residencial de Lima con vista al mar, unos ancianos acomodados sufren el deterioro de sus vidas. Frasia, presionada por sus necesidades económicas, y que debe trabajar para criar a su hijo Nico, se ha convertido poco a poco en una compañera vital. a algunos de esos viejos. Si pudiera juntar el dinero para comprar diez cuyes, podría, como siempre le decía su tío, comenzar una nueva vida. Así, todos los días cruza la ciudad en...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary mate- rial, 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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Seix Barral
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"All families keep secrets, but some hide truths so dark that when they come to light they rot everything. Jimmy believes that his existence is perfect: he is about to enter college, his father is the administrator of Brooklyn Cathedral and His mother is a happy housewife. However, when his grandmother falls ill and he decides to travel to Peru to take care of her, contact with his father's old Lima friends will open a window into a past that he did...
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