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2) Rosa Raposa
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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A wily fox outwits Jaguar in three tricksters tales set in the jungles of South America.
4) Excavation
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
High in the Andes, Dr. Henry Conklin discovers a 500-year-old mummy that should not be there. While deep in the South American jungle, Conklin's nephew, Sam, stumbles upon a remarkable site nestled between two towering peaks, a place hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. Ingenious traps have been laid to ensnare the careless and unsuspecting, and wealth beyond imagining could be the reward for those with the courage to face the terrible unknown....
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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,...
7) She thief
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English
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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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Bringing together his novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel, John Hornor Jacobs turns his imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H.P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. In My Heart Struck Sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the...
Author
Series
Dark series volume 23
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Buried alive in a volcano in the Carpathian mountains for hundreds of years, Dax discovers that Mitro, the evil vampire he has been hunting for centuries, is still alive.
Author
Series
Dark series volume 18
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Vampire Manolito De La Cruz has caught the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney, an all-too-human female whod never surrender herself to an aggressive and brutish Carpathian male. But maybe MaryAnn doesnt have a choice.
12) Exposure
Author
Series
Paul Faustino novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Description
Paul Faustino, South America's best soccer journalist, reports on the series of events that hurl Otello from the heights of being a beloved and successful soccer star, happily married to the pop singer Desdemona, into a downward spiral, in this novel loosely based on Shakespeare's play, Othello.
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English
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Hispanic Heritage Month - Children
Indigineous Peoples
Native American Heritage Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Indigineous Peoples
Native American Heritage Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
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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 an illustrated story that's complemented by back matter about the Asháninka community.
Author
Series
Dark series volume 21
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Dominic of the Dragonseeker Carpathians is on a desperate mission, in the very heart of enemy territory. Solange Sangria is one of the last of the jaguar people. She has long been fighting to save women who are able to shift from the hands of the man who slaughtered her family and everyone she loved-her own father. They are two warriors who have lived their lives alone. Now, a the end of their time, they find each other, a complication neither saw...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Little Monkey loves to fly on Papa's back through the high, green trees of the rain forest. And Papa shows Little Monkey how to stay safe: Hold tight! Hide! Keep still! But one day, Little Monkey slips and falls. Suddenly she's alone, without Papa to protect her. Luckily, [she] is smart and quick and remembers everything Papa has taught her..."--Front jacket flap.
Author
Series
Dark series volume 22
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
As brutal as the undead he hunted, Zacarias De La Cruz was a master executioner. Now his stark and savage journey has ended. For his brothers, Zacarias had walked to the edge of madness, but with centuries as a killing machine now left to the past and without a hunt to define him, Zacarias wonders, for the first time in his life, who he really is. The answer awaits him back home, in Peru, in the betrayal of a woman who is readying her trap, in the...
18) Do or die
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Former Navy SEAL Ian Dunn has been tasked by a mysterious government agency with rescuing two kidnapped children believed to have been taken prisoner in a South American embassy. Leading the mission alongside Phoebe Kruger, the new hire at the prestigious law firm where Dunn is a longtime client, Dunn will embark on a race against time while simultaneously dealing with an equally pressing danger -- he's being hunted by the mob for a job gone bust....
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Language
Español
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Description
Explora las maravillas de la Amazonía con Zonia, una niña asháninka, cuyas alegres aventuras en la selva se interrumpen un día por un misterioso y desconcertante descubrimiento. La selva es el hogar de Zonia. Es su jardín y su patio, su vecindario y su parque. Cada mañana, la selva llama a Zonia. Cada mañana, ella responde: le dice "hola" a la familia de perezosos, saluda al oso hormiguero, da una carrera con el veloz jaguar... Una mañana,...
20) Passport
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Teenage Sophia lives with her family in South America where her parents serve as foreign diplomats, but as she explores her own boundaries around honesty and deception she discovers the true nature of her parents' work.
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