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"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 read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths...
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Simon & Schuster
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English
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In the wake of personal tragedy, two people meet on a humanitarian mission in Peru. Christine is a shy, unadventurous woman whose finace broke off the engagement only a week before the wedding, and Paul is a former emergency room doctor whose glamorous lifestyle, stellar reputation, and beautiful fiancee are cruelly snatched from him one fateful, snowy Christmas Eve. Deep in the Amazon jungle, against a backdrop of poverty and heartbreak, they must...
3) Excavation
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HarperTorch
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English
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A classic adventure from James Rollins, the author of The Doomsday Key, The Last Oracle, The Judas Strain, Black Order, and other pulse-pounding, New York Times bestselling thrillers, Excavation carries readers deep into the jungles of South America, and into the terrifying heart of dark mysteries that should never be unearthed
4) Evil star
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Gatekeepers volume 2
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Scholastic Press
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1st ed.
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Matt meets a second gatekeeper and works with him to try to stop the opening of a gate that is somehow related to the Nazca Lines in Peru.
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Alfaguara
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Español
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"Dos hombres puestos a prueba por la vida descubren el verdadero sentido del coraje y la lealtad. El héroe discreto narra la historia paralela de dos personajes: el ordenado y entrañable Felícito Yanaqué, un pequeño empresario de Piura, que es extorsionado; y de 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. Ambos...
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Bloomsbury
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First U. S. edition.
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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. On the sprawling, crumbling grounds of the old house, something is wrong; a statue moves, his grandfather's pines explode, and his brother accuses him of madness. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows...
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Thorndike Press large print basic
Gabriela Rose novels volume 1
Gabriella Rose volume Book 1
[A Gabriella Rose novel] volume 1
Gabriela Rose novels volume 1
Gabriella Rose volume Book 1
[A Gabriella Rose novel] volume 1
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English
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"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....
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Little, Brown and Company
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First edition.
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English
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After a bad breakup and the discovery that her father is quickly going blind, sixteen-year-old photographer Shana and her parents travel to Machu Picchu for an adventure, where Shana meets Quattro, a boy with secrets of his own.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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First American edition.
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English
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A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"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...
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Magic tree house. Original volume 34
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English
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"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to South America, where they must climb Machu Picchu to save a baby llama" -- Provided by publisher.
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University of Texas Press
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First edition.
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English
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"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 Redencion trilogy covering the time after Peru's civil war. Specifically,...
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Lily Moore mysteries volume 2
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Forge
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First edition.
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English
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Travel writer Lily Moore embarks on a visit to Peru with photographer Jesse Robb, where the suspicious falling death of a tourist prompts Lily to question the victim's traveling companion.
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