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1) Chile
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Developed by literacy experts for students in grades three through seven, this book introduces young readers to the geography and culture of Chile"--Provided by publisher.
2) Chile
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Examines the geography, history, economy, society, people, and culture of Chile.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life.
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Butterfly Hill volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When her beloved country, Chile, is taken over by a militaristic, sadistic government, Celeste is sent to America for her safety and her parents must go into hiding before they "disappear."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets
Set at the end of the nineteenth century, Portrait in Sepia is a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family.
The protagonist, Aurora del Valle, suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollections...
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Sideways 3--Chile follows the further adventures of Miles Raymond (played by Paul Giamatti in the now cult movie Sideways) and, to a lesser extent, his friend Jack. It's now ten years later, and Miles is a successful author, but he's still searching for something; depression has him, once again, in its taloned grip. Offered a chance to travel to the antipodean country of Chile and visit their wine regions for a magazine assignment, Miles, his world...
8) 9 kilometers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--
9) The dreamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A fictionalized biography of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who grew up a painfully shy child, ridiculed by his overbearing father, but who became one of the most widely-read poets in the world.
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English
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"Discovering North of Chile by Car," is a travel story with more than 50 photos of a remote and fascinating region of Chile. You'll journey through beautiful landscapes, from Antofagasta up to the border with Bolivia and Peru, from the volcanoes of the Andes, the arid Atacama Desert, to the raging waves of the Pacific Ocean. You'll drive between lakes, salt deserts, geysers, rocky areas, canyons and small and isolated villages, full of charm and contrast....
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English
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Chile has been a very desirable place to work and live for people and families from different parts of the world.
Its stable economy and countless international trade agreements, combined with a modern and beautiful capital city like Santiago, makes it very attractive as a favorite destination to start a new life. Besides, its people are nice and warm.
But like any new place we move to, there are hundreds of issues to know beforehand .Having the...
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After seizing power in a violent coup, President Augusto Pinochet ordered the construction of the Carretera Austral, a highway across Chile's southern wilderness. Staggering over mountain passes, skirting around volcanoes and glaciers, and cutting across interminable stretches of dense rainforest, the ambitious project took the rest of the century to complete. In an absorbing account, Justin Walker explores this territory from one end to the other,...
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Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher
Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Museum-hop in Barrio Bellas Artes, kayak down the calm Rio Serrano, or marvel at the strikingly enigmatic moai of Easter Island; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Chile and Easter Island and begin your journey...
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The author of Say Her Name shares a deeply personal memoir of grieving the loss of his wife-and confronting the troubled city where she grew up. Five years after his wife's untimely death, Francisco Goldman decided to overcome his fear of driving in Mexico City. The widower and award-winning writer wanted to symbolize his love and enduring grief by fully embracing his late wife's childhood home and the city that came to mean so much to them.
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Beside a rain-swollen river in Patagonia, a man approached on a horse. His mount, a rusty red beauty, sported the short-trimmed mane and neatly squared-off tail of a well-kept horse. The man wore goatskin chaps, a woolen poncho, and the jaunty black beret typical of the region. This pair belonged to this place in a way I could only dream of. The man stared at us. We were up to our knees in mud and dwarfed by huge backpacks. It was apparent we had...
16) El viejo puerto
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Español
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Con este libro pongo fin a mis "ejercicios de memoria", una trilogía que se refiere a las experiencias vividas en tres etapas de mi vida. Si las dos primeras tenían una secuencia en el tiempo, El viejo Puerto vuelve atrás, se retrotrae a la infancia y gira en torno a una ciudad: Valparaíso.
Dividido en tres partes, la primera subraya la originalidad de esta ciudad, en un país cuyas ciudades suelen tender a una cierta uniformidad. La segunda...
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English
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Travel with the author to some fascinating and popular places as well as to interesting but less-traveled places in Southern South America. You will visit dozens of places through the author's adventures and misadventures in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and the Falkland Islands (also known as Islas Malvinas).
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Chile is a land of contrast and surprise, flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Andes to the east, the forbidding salt basins of the Atacama Desert to the north-with a verdant Central Valley and Cape Horn at its southern extremity. The Chilean people, too, are surprising: on one hand reserved, family-oriented, Catholic, and conservative; and on the other fun-loving, entrepreneurial, neoliberal, and modern. Their geographical isolation from...
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After working in more than 40 countries and having served with the British SAS, Richard Villar knows a thing or two about the world. Join him as he tells the story of his 25-day journey from Arica in Chile's north, through Bolivia, to Chile once more, and San Pedro de Atacama. He will have you laughing, he will have you thinking, he will have you wondering. Read how holding a horse's testicles brings good luck, the danger of being attacked with burundanga,...
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Français
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Laissez-vous guider au cœur du Chili
Vivre le monde est la première collection de guides qui s'adresse au désir grandissant des Français et des Européens de vivre à l'étranger.
Etudiants, ingénieurs, artistes, professeurs, les opportunités ne manquent pas à Santiago et dans le reste du pays, créant une véritable communauté internationale dans le pays. Le Chili, puissance économique et puissance culturelle, semble trouver un nouveau...
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