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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....
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Series
Magic tree house volume 34
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
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"The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to South America, where they must climb Machu Picchu to save a baby llama" -- Provided by publisher.
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Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
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"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...
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English
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After the death of his wife, ex-military operative Dan Currington, with nothing left to lose, volunteers for a mission no one else wants. He 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
Boxcar children great adventure volume 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
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In this all-new very special miniseries, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations--all around the world! The final leg of the Aldens' journey brings them to South America and to the Salt Flats in northern Argentina. But when they hit a dead end, they realize someone has tricked them in order to delay their plans! Returning to Buenos Aires, the Aldens connect with the Silvertons...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Enjoying days spent with animal friends near her home in the Amazon, young Zonia wonders what to do on a day when the rainforest calls out to her for help, in a lushly illustrated story that is complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
161 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Paulina gets a phone call from home telling her that a friend is missing, the Thea Sisters travel to Peru to help solve the mystery. There, the five mice climb the Andes Mountains in search of a missing archaeologist. Along the way, they stumble upon clues leading them to a mysterious hidden city. Will the Thea Sisters find Paulina's friend, and the treasure of the Secret City?" -- P. [4] of cover.
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Series
Treasure hunters volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hector is a bear with a problem. His best friend, Hummingbird, is just SO NOISY! Worse still, Hummingbird wont stop copying him. Whatever Hector does, Hummingbird wants to do it too really, really LOUDLY. Poor Hector. Will he ever find a bit of peace and quiet?" --
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 24 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Addison Cooke volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books/Puffin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Addison Cooke's uncle unearths ancient Incan secrets in Peru, he is kidnapped by a shadowy organization intent on stealing the treasure unless Addison and his friends can decipher the clues first.
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Series
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
3 audio discs (approximately 3 hr., 30 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story, set in 18th century Lima, Peru, about a rickety bridge which has spanned a deep gorge for ages which suddenly breaks and sends five people to their deaths.
15) Evil star
Author
Series
Gatekeepers volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
Author
Series
Newbery Medal award volume 1953
Pub. Date
1952
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.
17) Excavation
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Language
English
Description
A classic adventure from James Rollins, the author of The Doomsday Key, The Last Oracle, The Judas Strain, Black Order, and other pulse-pounding, New York Times bestselling thrillers, Excavation carries readers deep into the jungles of South America, and into the terrifying heart of dark mysteries that should never be unearthed
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Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Traveler of the Wind is set in the aftermath of the Shining Path years in Peru, bringing into perspective how violent histories can continue to haunt a person and a country, and the lengths to which individuals will go to seek redemption. The Spanish edition of the novel, La viajera del viento, was published by Planeta Peru in 2016. It is the last installment in Alonso Cueto's Redención trilogy covering the time after Peru's civil war. Specifically,...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : map ; 25 cm
Language
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. When the India Office recruits Merrick for an expedition to fetch quinine--essential for the treatment of malaria--from deep within Peru, he knows it's a terrible idea. Nearly every able-bodied expeditionary who's made the attempt has died, and he can barely walk. But Merrick is desperate to escape the strange...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A successful insurance company owner whose two lazy sons want him permanently out of the way crosses paths with a blackmail victim in Peru.
"The Discreet Hero, follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to intersect: neat, endearing Felícito Yanaqué, a small businessman in Piura, Peru, who finds himself the victim of blackmail; and Ismael Carrera, a successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who cooks up a plan to avenge...