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"A global manhunt sweeps up a former federal agent when his childhood friend becomes the chief suspect in a terrorist rampage. His hazardous stint in U.S. law enforcement behind him, Valentine Pescatore has started over as a private investigator in Buenos Aires. Then he runs into a long-lost friend: Raymond Mercer, a charismatic, troubled singer who has converted to Islam. After a terrorist attack kills hundreds, suspicion falls on Raymond---and...
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Oregon files volume 7
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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Exploring a small island off the Washington State coast in 1941, five brothers make an astonishing discovery that is interrupted by the attack on Pearl Harbor and has ramifications for Cabrillo's present-day investigation into a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle.
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Universally misunderstood novels volume 3
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Travel plans go awry when St. James Christian Academy graduate Daisy Crispin and her best friend Claire journey to Buenos Aires for a pre-college, pampering vacation.
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When Lily Hayes arrives in Buenos Aires for a semester of studying abroad, she's enchanted by everything she encounters: the colorful surroundings, the street food, the elusive guy next door. Her studious roommate Katy is a bit of a bore, but Lily didn't come to Argentina to hang out with other Americans. Then five weeks later, Katy is found brutally murdered in their home and Lily is the prime suspect. But who is Lily? It depends on who's asking....
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Dr. Rebecca Temple has just returned to practice in an old converted house in the Kensington Market area of Toronto, six months after the death of her artist husband, when she's confronted with the violent murder of a patient she had earlier diagnosed as paranoid. Even as Rebecca struggles with guilt over the misdiagnosis which may have led to her patient's death, she becomes the killer's next target.
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Honor bound volume 2
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A spy story in Buenos Aires during World War II. It features Cletus Frade, a Spanish-speaking Marine Corps flier on assignment for the OSS. His mission is to prevent a German ship from rearming and resupplying U-boats in the South Atlantic.
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Master storyteller Andrew Kaplan presents an explosive, atmospheric thriller set in the early days of World War II, when the Nazis, with the help of their Argentinean collaborators, staked out territory in the South Atlantic An Argentine playboy races down the darkened alleys of Buenos Aires, a German on his tail. He darts into a steamy tango hall and begs one of the dancers for refuge, but his pursuer is unshakable. The German leaves with the scrap...
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"The charming Eduardo de Valfierno makes a very respectable living in Argentina fleecing the nouveau riche--they pay him to steal valuable pieces of art, and he sells them flawless forgeries instead. After meeting the beautiful Mrs. Hart on a con job, Eduardo takes a risk that forces him back to the city he loved and left: Paris. There he assembles his team for the theft that will enable them to leave the game forever: Mona Lisa. Based on the actual...
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Vera Kelly stories volume 1
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2018.
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"New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. An exhilarating page turner and perceptive...
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When Dr. Leo Liebenstein's wife disappears, she leaves behind a single, confounding clue: a woman who looks, talks, and behaves almost exactly like her and even audaciously claims to be her. While everyone else is fooled by this imposter, Leo knows better. Certain that his real wife is alive and in hiding, Leo embarks on a quixotic journey to reclaim his lost love. From the streets of New York to the southernmost reaches of Patagonia, Leo's quest...
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Honor bound volume 5
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August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.
14) Lights out!
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At the age of fifty-three, married Canadian engineer Carlton Smythe meets a mysterious woman in a Buenos Aires bar - and falls head over heels in love for the first time in his life. Desperate to find the funds to escape his loveless marriage to Cynthia and embark on a new life in Argentina with the beautiful Gina Ellanado, Smythe devises an audacious money-making scheme, brilliant in its simplicity and boldness. But to pull it off, he will need to...
15) The hostage
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Delta Force Major Charley Castillo is asked by the President to go to Buenos Aires to rescue the wife of the deputy chief who was kidnapped by terrorists after witnessing her husband's murder.
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An Entertainment Weekly Top 10 Romance Author
On her boss's orders…
For her entire life, pastry-chef Grace Blake has been the pinnacle of politeness. Yet less than a day into the contract with her enigmatic Argentinean boss, Cesar Navarro, all of her good manners-and her good sense!-have flown out of the window.
Cesar's got his sexy little spitfire of a chef right where he wants her-in his penthouse, at his command! He knows his staff should...
18) The linden tree
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2018.
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"In The Linden Tree, the narrator, who could be Aira himself (born the same year, in the same place, a writer who is now also living in Buenos Aires) writes down his childhood memories"--
19) Jack's run
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Kidnapped by drug czar Alonzo Asnar and held hostage in Argentina, Jack and his sister Joanne attempt a daring escape while their parents, aided by some old friends, set out to rescue them.
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Magdalene chronicles volume 3
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c2021.
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An old World War II diary filled with cryptic clues launches two friends on an adventure around the world... but their path is fraught with danger and deception... and the treasure they seek can change everything for good-or evil. Father Michael Dominic and his journalist friend Hana Sinclair are off to follow a tantalizing lead: a Nazi journal revealing a holy relic's hiding place. The pair believes the book could lead them to a sacred cloth Christ...
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