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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of Mr. Hosokawa, a powerful Japanese businessman. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gun-wielding terrorists breaks in through the air-conditioning vents and takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked,...
3) The relic
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Series
Pendergast novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Investigating a series of savage murders that disrupt a massive new exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, graduate student Margo Green finds a clue in a failed Amazonian expedition.
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Series
Language
English
Description
After thousands of battles over a thousand years of hunting the undead, Zacarias De La Cruz has completed his mission and is content to see his brothers are safe and settled with women, but with centuries of killing behind him, Zacarias finally has time to consider who he is--and who he has become--and seeks answers back in his native Peru.
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Language
English
Description
This compelling, centuries spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women, a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their family's past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a...
6) Blue Gold
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 2
Language
English
Description
Clive Cussler's New York Times bestselling Blue Gold, now available in ebook, is a heart-pounding thriller in the NUMA adventure series. Kurt Austin navigates the Amazon jungle in search of a legend that could change the path of science—but secretive powers will do anything to stop him.
From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments....
From deep within the Venezuelan rain forest emanates the legend of a white goddess and a mysterious tribe with startling technical accomplishments....
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Series
Dark series volume 18
Language
English
Formats
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Manolito de la Cruz, a Carpathian man close to turning into a vampire, lures MaryAnn Delaney, a counselor for battered women, to South America to seduce her, sensing that she is to be his life mate.
8) Courageous
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Language
English
Description
When Special Forces Officer Winslow Grange returns home to Texas, he must employ all of his training to help a former associate from South America while trying to avoid Peg Larson, the daughter of his ranch foreman who is a distraction he cannot afford.
10) Fevered star
Author
Series
Between earth and sky volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"The great city of Tova is shattered. The sun is held within the smothering grip of the Crow God's eclipse, but a comet that marks the death of a ruler and heralds the rise of a new order is imminent. The Meridian: a land where magic has been codified and the worship of gods suppressed. How do you live when legends come to life, and the faith you had is rewarded? As sea captain Xiala is swept up in the chaos and currents of change, she finds an unexpected...
11) Evil star
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Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Having locked the Raven's gate, fourteen-year-old Matt travels to Peru where he meets the second of the five gatekeepers and works with him to try to stop the opening of a second gate somehow related to the Nazca Lines.
12) María
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Series
Language
Español
Description
La novela María de Jorge Isaacs es considerada como la obra cumbre de la literatura colombiana romántica. Por su temática y estructura tiene la influencia de la corriente romántica francesa. Sin embargo, el idilio entre María y Efraín se inserta en un marco totalmente nuevo: la naturaleza del Valle del Cauca.
La trama central de la novela es el infortunado romance entre dos jóvenes. Efraín, hijo de un rico hacendado de la región del Cauca,...
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Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the sudden deaths of rare whales sends National Underwater Marine Agency crew leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where he and his crew stumble upon a white goddess legend and an eco-extortionist set on controlling the world's fresh-water supply.
16) She thief
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Demi--a master pickpocket working for the gang leader Fay--steals a ring, his partner in crime, Baz, soon finds herself alone and betrayed as police and the Barrio's crime boss close in on Fay and her den of child thieves.
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Language
English
Description
An action-packed adventure set in the unforgiving and uncharted Amazon from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell.
Neil Mallory thought life was interesting as a bush pilot, flying mail and supplies around the Amazon rain forest. Then, after a bad crash, his life was saved by Capt. Sam Hannah, who all but hijacked him as a junior partner in what could barely be called a business. Only then...
Neil Mallory thought life was interesting as a bush pilot, flying mail and supplies around the Amazon rain forest. Then, after a bad crash, his life was saved by Capt. Sam Hannah, who all but hijacked him as a junior partner in what could barely be called a business. Only then...
18) Infinite ground
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
""Stunning--a totally original, surreal mystery shot through with hints of the best of Cesar Aira, Vladimir Nabokov, Angela Carter, and Julio Cortazar. Smart, clever, and honest. I doubt you've read anything quite like it." --Jeff VanderMeer, author of The Southern Reachtrilogy During a sweltering South American summer, a family convenes for dinner at a restaurant. Midway through the meal, Carlos gets up from the table and disappears. An experienced,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award–winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals, witches, giants, and ordinary people in supernatural settings provide remarkable insights into regional values and culture. The first of the stories, "A Tale of Three Tails," tells of an age when the rat had a tail like a horse, the rabbit had...
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Español
Description
Este libro está dedicado en honor a todos los indígenas kichwas del Oriente Ecuatoriano que derramaron su sangre por defender sus territorios y sus derechos durante la conquista blanca, que con el pretexto de encontrar la ciudad perdida de la canela y el dorado arrasaron con todo lo que se encontraron a su paso. En este encuentro los nativos kichwas fueron esclavizados, torturados, sus mujeres violadas, muchos asesinados y finalmente expulsados...
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