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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
"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...
2) Evil star
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After defeating the Old Ones at Raven's Gate, Matt Freeman thought he could get on with his life. But far away in Peru a second gate is about to open. Only Matt has the power to stop the forces of darkness breaking through, but now they know all about him, and this time they're going to destroy him first.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
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 doctor whose glamorous lifestyle, stellar reputation, and beautiful fiancée are cruelly snatched from him one fateful, snowy Christmas Eve. Deep in the Amazon jungle, against a backdrop of poverty and heartbreak, they must...
4) Excavation
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English
Description
High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown....
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Michael Vey volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 610L
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.
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English
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A parable exploring the future of humankind relates the search in the forests of Peru for a mysterious ancient manuscript that reveals nine insights the human race is predicted to grasp as the world moves toward a new era of increased awareness and spirituality.
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Series
Black Knights Inc volume 8
Language
English
Description
After the death of his wife, ex-military operative Dan Currington, with nothing left to lose, volunteers for a mission no one else wants and arrives in Peru to capture the rogue CIA agent selling government secrets to the highest bidder and finds the stakes raised even higher when he encounters a woman from his past.
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Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
While in Machu Picchu, Peru, with their parents, eight-year-old twins Ethan and Ella cross a secret bridge and discover a mysterious stone sculpture.
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Series
Punto de lectura volume 4/1
Language
Español
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La ciudad y los perros, traducida a mas de treinta lenguas, esta ambientada en el Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado. Los protagonistas de la novela, un grupo de jovenes que se educan en una disciplina militar implacable y violenta, aprenden a sobrevivir en un ambiente en el que estan muy arraigados los prejuicios raciales y las diferencias entre clases sociales y economicas; donde todos se muestran como no son en realidad y la transgresion de las normas...
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English
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Acclaimed author Kate Wheeler collected numerous awards for her short stories before making a splash with this atmospheric first novel. It tells the parallel tales of two women who, suffocating in oppressive marriages, travel to faraway lands and are drawn to the intensity of forbidden love. Maggie Goodwin and her husband travel deep into the heart of Peru to establish a health clinic. They enlist the help of political revolutionary Vicente Cruz after...
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Samantha Sutton mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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Description
"There's nothing Samantha Sutton wants more than to become an adventure-seeking archaeologist like her brilliant Uncle Jay. Samantha's big dreams are finally coming true when Jay invites her along on a summer excavation of an ancient temple in the Peruvian Andes. But this adventure isn't exactly what she thought it would be with her nosy older brother, Evan, and Jay's colleagues monitoring her every move. And she has to deal with the local legend,...
15) Mejor el fuego
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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 fantasia, la violencia y el placer en la vida de un joven homosexual en la Lima de los anos 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, segun describe...
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"In June of 1964, in a small town in the highlands of Peru, Sister Mary Katherine, a young American nun, slips away from her convent with no money and no destination. Disoriented in a culture not her own and afraid of her love for an Irish priest with whom she has been working, she spends eight days on the run."--from back cover.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
Description
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...
19) Competence
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Series
Custard protocol volume 3
Language
English
Description
All alone in Singapore, proper Miss Primrose Tunstell must steal helium to save her airship, The Spotted Custard, in a scheme involving a lovesick werecat and a fake fishtail. When she uncovers rumors of a new kind of vampire, Prim and the Custard crew embark on a mission to Peru. There, they encounter airship pirates and strange atmospheric phenomena, and are mistaken for representatives of the Spanish Inquisition. Forced into extreme subterfuge...
20) Sharpshooter
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English
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Two years ago Gunner Ortez saved Sydney Sloan's life on a mission gone wrong. And ever since then, he's been watching her back. Now a hostage-rescue mission is about to blow the Elite Ops agents' lives apart once again. Working side by side back in the jungles of Peru, the heat between Sydney and Gunner is hotter than ever--and so are the threats to their lives. With the danger escalating, Sydney knows Gunner is her only hope at successfully completing...
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