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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale of magical landscapes and impossible quests in 19th-century Peru follows the experiences of a disabled former East India Company smuggler who reluctantly accepts a treacherous mission to fetch quinine from a tiny mission colony on the edge of the Amazon.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Just a week before their marriage, Christine's fiancé calls off the wedding, leaving her heartbroken. With hopes of helping her through a difficult time, Christine's best friend Jessica enrolls them both on a humanitarian mission in Peru, to work at an orphanage called El Girasol -- The Sunflower. While working at the orphanage Christine meets Paul Cook, a successful and charismatic American doctor who has fled the States after one fatal day took...
Author
Series
Celestine series (James Redfield) volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
236 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm
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
Lily Moore mystery volume 2
Language
English
Description
Travel writer Lily Moore has been persuaded by her closest friend, photographer Jesse Robb, to visit Peru with him. At Machu Picchu, they discover a woman clinging to life at the bottom of an ancient stone staircase. Just before the woman dies, she tells Lily the name of the man who pushed her. When the local police investigate, the forensic evidence they find doesn't match what Lily knows. Unable to accept the official ruling of accidental death,...
11) Fire storm
Author
Publisher
Orion Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1. edición.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Corporal Lituma, an officer of the Guardia Civil, is sent to a post in Naccos, the Andes. Once there, he will try to solve what happened to three missing men. His only aide is his young adjutant Carreño, a serrucho who has spent years in the lowland cities. The two are fearsomely isolated, distrusted by the villagers and the construction workers, certain that one day they will be attacked and slain by the shadowy Senderistas who have them surrounded....
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
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.
15) Red April
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Gabriela Rose novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lost something? Gabriela Rose knows how to get it back. As a recovery agent, she's hired by individuals and companies seeking lost treasures, stolen heirlooms, or missing assets of any kind. She's reliable, cool under pressure, and well trained in weapons of all types. But Gabriela's latest job isn't for some bamboozled billionaire, it's for her own family, whose home is going to be wiped off the map if they can't come up with a lot of money fast....
Author
Series
Black Knights Inc volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Dan "The Man" Currington is back in fighting form with a mission that takes him four thousand miles south of BKI headquarters, high in the Andes Mountains of Peru. He's hot on the trail of a rogue CIA agent selling classified government secrets to the highest bidder, when Penni DePaul arrives on the scene. Suddenly the stakes are higher, and keeping Penni safe becomes Dan's number one priority. A lot has changed since former Secret Service Agent...
Author
Series
Archaeological mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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