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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
1440L
Language
English
Description
For fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights, the unprepossessing and saturnine Forentino Ariza, one of the three central characters of this incomparable novel, waits to possess Fermina Daza, the young woman who once promised him her love and then, in a moment of blinding but ambiguous insight, refused him. To while away the long years of his vigil, he enters into six hundred and twenty-two liaisons and "countless fleeting adventures."...
3) Encanto
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English
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The Madrigals live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has blessed every child in the family with a unique gift from super strength to the power to heal, every child except one, Mirabel. But when she discovers that the magic surrounding the Encanto is in danger, Mirabel decides that she, the only ordinary Madrigal, might just be her exceptional...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
A spunky young girl from Colombia loves playing with her canine best friend and resists boring school activities, especially learning English, until her family tells her that a special trip is planned to an English-speaking place.
8) Colombia
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"The culture of Colombia is presented to readers in a fresh and vibrant way in this meticulously updated guide. Readers are inspired to think about both the history and current events that have affected and are still affecting this nation as they explore the detailed main text. Additional information is presented in sidebars, which also include short biographies of Colombian citizens who are examples of global citizens. Their stories are sure to inspire...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
Español
Description
Florentino Ariza engages in hundreds of liaisons over the course of fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days while waiting to finally possess Fermina Daza, a woman who promised him her love but jilted him in favor of another...De jóvenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un médico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino está anonadado, pero es un romántico. Su carrera...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Román returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the...
11) Detour
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English
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Manhattan professionals Paul and Joanna Briedbart, unable to have children of their own, decide to adopt a baby from Columbia despite warnings about the dangers of entering the country, and soon find themselves in a desperate situation when Joanna and the infant are kidnapped and their lives depend on Paul's being able to deliver a shipment of cocaine to a New Jersey location within eighteen hours.
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English
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Ingrid Betancourt tells the story of her captivity in the Colombian jungle, sharing teachings of resilience, resistance, and faith. Born in Bogotá, raised in France, Betancourt at age 32 gave up a life of comfort and safety to return to Colombia to become a political leader in a country that was being slowly destroyed by terrorism, violence, fear, and hopelessness. In 2002, while a candidate in the Colombian presidential elections, she was abducted...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Retells the story of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family that lives in the mountains of Colombia in a charmed region called Encanto--a wondrous place whose magic becomes threatened and whose rescue depends on the only member of the Madrigal family who doesn't possess magical gifts."--
14) Amazona
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Pub. Date
2022
Lexile measure
HL 430L
Language
English
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Description
This socially conscious thriller from graphic novelist Canizales examines the injustices of his home country in a stark, distinctive style.
Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. Only nineteen years old, she comes to mourn her lost child, carrying a box in her arms. And she comes with another mission. Andrea has hidden a camera upon herself. If she can capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced...
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English
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In New York Ray Douglas, chief of the narcotics division, is too successful, too outspoken. When he criticizes the decisions of his superiors once too often he is summarily exiled to South America, his career broken, as liaison with the DEA there, a job that doesn't exist. Reporter Jane Fox, meanwhile begs her superiors to send her there. Colombia is a place of bombings, kidnappings and murderous traffickers richer than the government. Too dangerous
...17) Missing
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English
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Description
From the minds behind Searching comes Missing, a thrilling roller-coaster mystery that makes you wonder how well you know those closest to you. When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June's (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before...
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English
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"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980s and 1990s in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped...
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Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 6
Jack Ryan Universe volume 6
Jack Ryan novel volume 05
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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Jack Ryan Universe volume 6
Jack Ryan novel volume 05
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 44
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"When Colombian drug lords assassinate both the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI, their actions trigger a covert response from the American government--a response that goes horribly wrong... As the newly named Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, Jack Ryan should be privy to operations like the one in Colombia, but he's been left completely in the dark. With the help of field officer John Clark, Ryan intends to find out what's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
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Description
"Magic isn't real. And Valentina Mejía wishes her father would just accept it. Twelve-year-old Valentina wants to focus on drawing the real world around her and hopefully get into art school in Bogotá one day, but Papi has spent his life studying Colombia's legendary creatures and searching for proof of their existence. So when Papi hears that a patasola--a vampire woman with one leg--has been sighted in the Andes Mountains, Valentina and her younger...
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