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Dark series volume 22
Language
English
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Hunter of the undead and master executioner Zacarias De La Cruz returns to Peru where he finds betrayal, vengeance, and the consequences of his family's bloody legacy
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Harvard classics volume 29
Language
English
Description
Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary included Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the places he visits. A fascinating travel memoir the ideas that were later to evolve into Darwin's theory of natural selection find their naissance in Voyage of the Beagle.
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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,...
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Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
147 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In colonial South America, the doomed love of a 12-year-old girl and a priest thrice her age sent to exorcise her. She is a nobleman's daughter who has been bitten by a rabid dog. The authorities decide she is possessed by the devil and lock her up in a convent. By the author of Love in the Time of Cholera.
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English
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The curious call of an unseen bird lures a young European explorer deeper and deeper into the jungle, where he encounters the source of the siren song - a lovely, half-wild girl with mysterious powers. Thus begins the romance between Abel, a revolutionary hiding among an Indian tribe in the Venezuelan rainforest, and Rima, who speaks the languages of birds and longs to return to the land of her birth to be reunited with others of her kind. Written...
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Series
Dark series volume 18
Language
English
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"Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney. MaryAnn is human, but she knows all too well the overwhelmingly aggressive instincts of Carpathian males. And they're not exactly the kind of men she'd prefer to be bound to for life. A dedicated counselor for...
Author
Series
Dark series volume 23
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
370 p. : geneal. table ; 24 cm.
Language
English
13) South America
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Language
English
Description
"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to South America. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade"--
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English
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The ancient Inca civilization is known having a developed economy, but the people didn't use money. In fact, the society didn't have it. This is just one fact presented in this volume, which provides an in-depth look at the Inca economy. The title covers terrace farming, irrigation, livestock, and the role of mit'a labor in ancient Peru. Through the text's coverage of the government's distribution of goods and services, readers will understand why...
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Doc Ford novels volume 6
Language
English
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The Florida sleuth, Doc Ford, receives a call from the daughter of a dead CIA colleague, saying her mother is missing and asking for help. The search for the mother takes Ford to the Canal Zone in Panama where he encounters a deadly con man.
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English
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Description
For twenty thousand miles, Peter Matthiessen crisscrossed the South American wilderness, traveling from the Amazonian rain forests to Machu Picchu high in the Andes, down to the edge of the world at Tierra del Fuego and back. In the course of his journey he followed the trails of old explorers, encountered river bandits, wild tribesmen, and the evidence of ancient ruins, and discovered a fossilized snout of a giant unknown crocodilian hidden in the...
17) Missing
Series
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed political drama about a father's search for his missing son in Latin America
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Language
Español
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Una fábula de inspiración y transformación personal para descubrir nuestra verdadera libertad interior y el poder de elegir nuestro propósito de vida. La historia se desarrolla en una remota villa de la amazonia suramericana donde el bambú está presente en todo, el jefe de la comunidad, Huascar era un maestro ya anciano que luego de recorrer el mundo vivía en medio de la selva porque así lo había decidido. Tenía tres hijos, dos varones y...
19) Uruguay
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English
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This new, fully updated third edition of Bradt's Uruguay remains the only dedicated English-language guide to a country that's small yet bursting with character. Bradt's Uruguay provides in-depth coverage of the capital Montevideo, where the once-derelict colonial Old City is undergoing a historic resurgence, plus detailed information on the UNESCO-listed coastal city of Colonia del Sacramento, as well as Punta del Este, where the Buenos Aires glitterati...
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