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Celestine series (James Redfield) volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Jackson Small has just been discharged from the British military after witnessing the violent battlefield death of his closest friend, Connolly. It was Connolly who introduced him to the fascinations of ancient civilizations, enticing him with stories of La Joya, the capital of a vanished Peruvian empire. Coping with his grief, Jackson sets off in search of the city, hidden in the cloud forest hanging between the Andes and Amazonia. He lets nothing...
Author
Series
Deep black volume 4
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
NSA operative Charlie Dean must infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the renegade general's second plot: a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas.
Author
Series
Lily Moore mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
cc2012
Language
English
Description
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 three traveling companions.
11) La casa verde
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Series
Punto de lectura volume 4/14
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
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English
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The unnamed hero takes on the Peruvian government, priests, guerrillas and drug dealers to find an ancient manuscript whose nine insights prophesy New Age spirituality. An adventure story replete with energy transfers and other psychic phenomena.
In the rain forests of Peru, an ancient manuscript has been discovered. Within its pages are 9 key insights into life itself -- insights each human being is predicted to grasp sequentially; one insight,...
14) Chasing the sun
Author
Publisher
New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Laura Lippman and Marisa de los Santos, a tense family drama about a husband's quest to save his wife, who has been kidnapped by terrorists in Lima, Peru in 1992. How far will he go to save their imperfect marriage?"--
15) Cinco esquinas
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Español
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La más reciente novela del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa.«Él había pensado que, después de todo, un periodista puede ser a veces útil. "Y también peligroso", concluyó. Tuvo el presentimiento de que nada bueno saldría de esta visita.»«La idea de esta novela comenzó con una imagen de dos señoras amigas que de pronto una noche, de una manera impensada para ambas, viven una situación erótica. Luego se fue convirtiendo en...
16) Cien cuyes
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Language
Español
Description
In a residential neighborhood of Lima overlooking the ocean, some well-to-do elderly people suffer the deterioration of their lives. Frasia, pressed by her economic needs, and who must work to raise her son Nico, has gradually become a vital companion to some of those older folks. If she could only manage to save up the money to buy ten guinea pigs, she could, as her uncle always told her, start a new life. Thus, every day she crosses the city by...
17) Sharpshooter
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a Grand Inquisition, Mother Maria Santa Hilda finds herself at odds when the daughter of a wealthy man mysteriously dies in her care. Despite the fact that it looks as though the girl committed suicide, she has her buried at the convent, a decision a powerful enemy will use against her. Her life at stake, the Abbess and her fellow sisters find themselves in a race against time to prove the true cause of the girl's death.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One day Enrique, a high-profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the editor of a notorious magazine that specializes in salacious exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine. Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front page. Meanwhile, Enrique's wife is in the midst of a passionate and secret affair with the wife of Enrique's lawyer and...
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"En 1962, La ciudad y los perros recibía el Premio Biblioteca Breve y unos meses más tarde era publicada tras sortear la censura franquista. Así comenzaba la andadura literaria de esta obra con la que Mario Vargas Llosa alcanzó el reconocimiento internacional y que hoy considerada una de las mejores novelas en español del siglo xx. Traducida a treinta idiomas, está ambientada en el Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado. Los protagonistas, un grupo...
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